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Week 5 - I'm back!!! Finally hahha - Part 1 of 2

Hi guys! I'm back after quite a long hiatus. Been avoiding the internet for a while. Kind of overwhelmed by all the communication - I'm a bit of a hermit you see. Anyway, in the past few weeks I have been trying to learn and get into investing. It is a really tough topic to get into, especially if you are going into securities and derivatives. 

Having said that, I've been wondering how it would be possible to develop a learning community or rather a community of practice with regard to investments. I would imagine that it would be quite difficult on the following grounds. Firstly, there is no such thing as a sure-fire investment - all investments come with an innate risk, no matter how small. Benjamin Graham, one of the invest gurus of the 20th century argued that investment is less about learning how to grow money, than learning how to keep it. Consequently, with risk tolerance differing from person to person, and the fact that any investment has the chance of going sour, I would imagine that individuals could feel cheated or slighted if they follow the advice of a member of a community and made a loss. 

Building on this, is the idea of tangible loss. In investment, it's not like other communities of practice where you might be working towards something intangible, or a product that if undeveloped would not accrue a loss for the community and individual members. Rather, in this scenario, a bad buy could result, especially if leveraged with margin accounts, in the wiping of an individual's life savings. In turn, common investment etiquette would argue that individuals should not ask or provide opinions on their investments per se. 

Now these two issues alone represent quite a challenge to set up an investment CoP. Stay tuned for my next post where I look over some possible rules to implement to stave these challenges off. 

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