Investors who embrace index funds and those who create portfolios of individual stocks face many of the same emotional and behavioural challenges. It can be difficult to stay the course when your investments are fluctuating in value and the market prognosticators are hitting you with bad news from every angle.
It's difficult to ignore the noise.
An indexer might have an "easier" time of it given that they might only pay attention to the broader economic or total market sentiment. And when we invest in exchange-traded funds, we are often buying the total or