# The Most Damaging Trading Belief

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Hey friend,

The Fed’s meeting minutes yesterday showed a split on whether to cut interest rates in July.

That’s good news, in the sense that it shows that keeping rates steady is far from a consensus opinion.

This morning, we got the latest weekly jobless claims numbers, which showed it falling unexpectedly.

Let’s see how the markets have been moving.

## The Daily Direction

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**Note:** All indexes closed higher yesterday and opened higher today as well, keeping all directions firmly in the green.

## The Daily Nugget

**_The most damaging trading belief is that markets are perfectly efficient._**

Every business school graduate has had Efficient Market Theory drilled into their heads by professors who’ve never traded a single stock in their lives.

If you weren’t aware…

The idea behind Efficient Markets Theory is that  all information out there in the markets has already been priced in…

Meaning there’s simply no “edge” to be exploited.

The best you can do is diversify and wait it out. There’s no point in trading.

Now, don’t get us wrong…

Diversifying is great – especially when it comes to your long-term accounts.

But believing that markets are perfectly efficient and there’s no point in trading is just leaving money on the table.

It ignores the basic nature of human psychology.

It ignores the objective track records of top traders who’ve absolutely crushed the markets year after year.

And it ignores the existence of corporate insiders who are legally allowed to trade their own company stock – despite being high-ranking executives at these companies.

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The kind that could signal gains like 771% in 2 months… 157% in 2 weeks… and 321% in 2 days.

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