The economic system is changing and it now takes a broader understanding to secure a livelihood.

It's crippling to have to avoid all failures, and insisting in doing so can't be a winning strategy. It may guarantee you against losess, but it's likely to guarantee you against gain as well. 

In the conventional view, associating up the increasingly restive herd jostling for a place at the pool's edge guarantee a scarcity of winners and the abundance of losers, an imbalance that insures unhappiness and frustration. 

People have been pursuing research based investing strategies since the first market opened for business. Research is an objective, research is all about numbers. It is rare to find an analyst and financial advisor that doesn't make you dump the most undervalued to chase the most overvalued stocks. By the time investors realised that, they already lost half or more of their money.

Manipulation and crafted information. 

How many people do you hear today saying that syndicated manipulators, financial advisors and analyst, rich and powerful speculators should not be allowed to use false data and crafted information to mislead millions of middle class investors? I called it financial fraud and it's a crime. Evidently we need to see enforcement of the law to act what is owed to the people. 

But, to mystify the law changed, more people need to speak out. There's no intellectual argument. There can be no debate when all the evidence is on one side and there's zero evidence on the other side. So we have to shift our odds.

Shift the odds in your favor. 

The checklist does not confer knowledge and intellect. If you want to tilt the odds in your favour, you need to know where your checklist comes from and how it works. The deeper the knowledge, the more unmanageable it is to acquire. There are no guarantees, all we can manage is to shift the odds in our favour through our own efforts and learn to recognize opportunities. 

Anyone can watch over a checklist l, but only the person with an understanding of the situation can "solve" new problems and "create" new value. These two skills are fundamental in the emerging economies.

Know what you want.

The economies are undergoing tremendous transformation that will hold out our entire lives. We can bemoan what will be lost and demand that the present remain unchanged. But technology and life do not stand still; they advance, evolve and adapt.

You have a simple choice to make. 

To tilt the odds in our favour, we need to understand these subjects;

1. Knowledge, strength, talents and weakness.
2. The emerging economic system and their transformation. 
3. The shifting nature of long and short trade investing.
4. Lifelong learning is essential. 
5. Technology advances and evolution. 

Recognise what you want, what's your hope and don't kid yourself. There's no closed book in economics, just;

"Scared money never wins."