It is because you have bought into the propaganda that the stock market is the cornerstone of the economy and thus the best metric for wealth and success.
But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Stocks are just actively tradeable securities that “ represent” real business entities. Thus, the main beneficiaries of the stock market and the securities economy is the entities that can “ issue” stocks and financial securities in general.
The financial market allows for government, banks, and listed corporations to raise capital above their objective metrics driven my profitability and capital structure and management.
From the get go therefore, the financial economy is inherently weighted to the side of securities “ issuers”.
These issuers are thus incentivized to promote their “ notes” to you through the media in order to safeguard their status despite the inherent marginal value of their paper:
In plain English: They get the power to create money out of thin air!
Financial securities and the securities economy is not as valuable as it appears to be. The whole thing is an artificial construct being promoted by banks, corporations, and governments to keep you in the matrix.
What matters in reality, and what “ ought” to make you prosperous is the purchasing power extracted from your labor and productivity. That is, a dynamic economy is inherently deflationary where the price system gradually fall and living standards gradually rise.
This standard forces securities issuers to compete with the “ Natural money” and falling prices. Which entail a much higher yield on securities holdings aka DIVIDENDS!
A sound stock market is driven by corporations that produce higher cash yield to their stock holders as opposed to higher volatility on securities. Basically, you ought to be purchasing a security for its yield NOT for the prospect of future price volatility.
Most people are not professional investors, and, most professional investors are mediocre at best. The securities economy is subservient to the real good and service producing economy which in itself is the standard metric for wealth and prosperity.
So, you fail at investing because the economy is upside down with government distortion of the pricing mechanism, artificially low and manipulated interest rates, fake booms and subsequent busts, and various promoters and pseudo innovators playing on the financialized economy to extract wealth out of the naive masses.
Fundamentally, unless a company issue dividend or produces cash flow, it is a speculative gamble unworthy of your attention. Now, some people are successful gamblers even earn a living doing it. But, you will never hear of a poor casino operator!
The financial economy has thus become a casino operation selling worthless tokens while the real economy is in the dumps. And that is why you are failing at investing.
Your real investment ought to be in your professional skill sets , values , and character.
The stock market is a scam!
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