10 Beginner Investment Mistakes (words of wisdom from Investopedia)
The idea of making your money work for you through investments is appealing. It is also one of the ways to accumulate wealth. However, if you are a beginner investor, be warned that investments are not a free lunch. You could lose all the money you have invested, making you worse off than you were before you started. To prevent this, here are ten mistakes to avoid:
Agree if proper research has not been done, but that is the premise of value investing, spotting value that others do not see. Ben Graham and Warren Buffet were quite good at it