The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes

Acknowledgments

The little book series is an unstoppable force, and it is with honor I add my point of view to this unique collection. Investment myth debunking is both a hobby and a professional requirement for me. My view is it’s one of the easier ways investors can start putting a serious dent in their error rate fast and start seeing better investing results. Yet, too few people even know they should question what they (and most people) believe to be true. Hence, a Little Book on Market Myths seems an appropriate next campaign in my war on investing mythology.

As always I must thank Lara Hoffmans, who has done the yeoman’s work on this and my last six books. I get the fun part of conceptualizing, styling and editing, and she gets the drudge work of making sure the book happens.

Lara has another full-time job at my firm, and backing her up while she’s focused on books for me is a very talented crew of writers, including Todd Bliman (manager of the group), Elisabeth Dellinger, Naj Srinivas and Amanda Williams. She couldn’t do what she does if they weren’t as good as they are. Amanda once again did double duty in editing for both content and pernicious typos. Backing up them and lending their own copyediting expertise are the rest of the Content team, including Mary Holdener, Emily Whitney and Jake Gamble.

Once again, Jessica Wolfe and Danielle Lynch provided all the data and graphics, overseen by Matt Schrader, who heads our research analytics team. In a data-driven book about ...