The biggest secret of investing in stocks is that stock market success is exactly like the bamboo tree.
Didn't get it? Don't worry the following illustration will help you all to understand it well.
Like all other plants and trees, the Chinese bamboo tree requires nurturing
through water, fertile soil, and also with enough sunshine to ensure that
it will grow. If you try to plant a bamboo tree and you make sure you give
it enough water, the right soil, and also enough exposure to sunlight, you
will NEVER see any visible growth in the first year.
And if you continue to nurture the bamboo tree, after the second year,
nothing will grow above the ground. And if you choose to continue on for
the third and fourth year, you will see nothing too. Finally, in the fifth
year, something amazing will happen. The bamboo tree that you planted will
grow to 80 feet tall in just six weeks!
Why is that so? For the first four years, nothing had happened, but in the
fifth year, the bamboo tree grows to 80 feet tall in just a short six
weeks. Does this mean that within the first four years, nothing has happened
to the tree? Nope, not at all, in fact, the bamboo tree is growing,
UNDERGROUND, but you can't see it.
The metaphor of a bamboo tree explains the best of what is happening to
most people in the world on investing and stock markets. For the first few
years, no matter where you invest you may have poured in the necessary time
and effort into your goals and projects, but nothing seems to be happening.
Stop watching the screen again and again because you are speculating and
patience is needed during investing.
And this is exactly like the bamboo tree. In the first few years, nothing
seems to grow from the ground even with you fully nurture the tree, giving
it enough water, provide it with suitable soil, and make sure it has
enough sunshine.
At this point, most people would have given up. This is why 95 % of the
people lose here because they don't put in the necessary efforts and don't
have enough patience. They quit when they don't see desired results, in this
case, book losses. Later, they realize, they wish they could have held a
little more and would have made fortunes.
7It's all about consistency, patience, and extreme thirst for knowledge which
can bring incredible amounts of success for you. So, keep learning and keep
growing.