Do you want to know a secret?A big part of the financial services industry has a vested interest in convincing you that the key to a successful investment experience is staying busy.Thumb through an investment magazine and you find any number of ads for trading software, courses in options trading, chart packs and newsletters that promise individual alerts on hundreds of companies.Now some people seem to actually enjoy poring over price trends and fundamental analysis or watching moving averages on stock charts. But most of the population simply have better things to do with their time.Where you stand in the debate about staying "busy" by thinking like a trader often depends on whether you see investment as the means to an end or as an end in itself!

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