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Barry Ritholtz explains how not to make 'stupid investing mistakes'

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Barry Ritholtz's new book, "How Not to Invest," is a playbook on the theme that steering clear of errors is much more important than scoring wins.

The biggest single pitfall is our tendency to interfere with the markets’ compounding, he says.

The more active you are, the more transactions you engage in, creates opportunities to be wrong.

Kerry Hannon is a career and retirement strategist and the author of 14 books.

Hannon: This is the golden age of investing. We can do things people dreamed about 25 years ago . With the indexes, you get diversification especially if you invest in a bunch of different indexes. You are guaranteed to find the Nvidias , the Apples , the Amazons.

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