New Investors Should Avoid These Common Mistakes When Markets Are At A High

Investing in equities has never been much simpler than this.

Online brokerages allow participating in the equity markets sitting from your home or office. You can open a trading account by filling a single application form which would include opening or integrating your bank account and the demat account.

Once registered, you may buy or sell from among hundreds of stocks listed on either the National Stock Exchange or the Bombay Stock Exchange.

But, you need to decide your approach- whether you want to invest for long-term. More than that, you got to learn from the mistakes that seasoned investor had done earlier. Here are few of them to take note of and learn from them to avoid burning your fingers when the tide hits the shore.

Herd mentality

A booming stock market brings out the herd mentality in most investors. The flavor of the recent upswing is the mid-cap category of stocks and even new investors are lapping them up with no or less homework.