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Risk is best defined as whatever could keep a person from their own goals, so stock-market volatility is a risk for a day trader and not for someone retiring in fifty years.

Drawn from what Morgan Housel said

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stock market Equities as a whole: what returns have been, whether prices carry information, and what attention does to them.

investing Putting money into markets on purpose: what a portfolio is for, whether active management earns its cost, and what money is actually a means to.

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What Morgan Housel actually said

  1. Morgan Housel Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money
    I think broadly it's anything that's going to prevent you from achieving the goals that you want that's a a very basic answer but I think that's what it is and the reason that's important is because take volatility in the stock market is that risk well it could be if you're a day trader then yes if the market goes down tomorrow that's a risk for you if you're in if you're going to retire in 50 years it's not whatsoever

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