Americans favor coffee to stock market investing

Americans favor coffee to stock market investing

Do Americans favour coffee over stock market investing?

Updated June 2023

More Americans drink coffee than invest in the markets and yet many of these individuals are stunned that the market is going higher when real jobs are not as easy to find, rents and cost of everyday necessities keep rising.  61% of Americans drink coffee daily compared to the only 48% that invest in the markets. These remarkable facts were published in a  recent article; the article states that if the $1200 that the average American spends on coffee were invested in the market in 2009, it would have grown to $3600. It’s strange that Americans favour coffee for stock market investing, but let’s try to identify the reason for this.

So what gives?

Well, we could give you the long answer, but the short answer is probably the best route to follow the KISS principle.    Mass psychology states that when the masses are fearful or cautious that opportunity is usually in the air, and that is what is taking place now.

Why do investors favour drinking coffee over investing in the stock market

The masses are uncertain; they feel that the markets should crash as the economy is far from healthy. They fail to understand that markets climb a wall of worry and fall a cliff of joy, and that is exactly what is taking place now.

The average Joe complains and whines about how high the market has gone, how it is too high to get into, and how the stock market is destined to collapse as the entire economic landscape looks miserable right now. If the markets operated on that type of logic, then all these average Joe’s would be millionaires, but it turns out they are not, and that is why they are called “average”, for they fail to think out of the box.

The masses are always on the wrong side of the market. To win, you need to break free from the mass mindset.  This means that you do not base your investment decisions on your gut instinct. Instead, you pay attention to what the masses are doing.

Masses worried about investing in the stock market, prefer coffee

The masses are nervous now, and that means the markets will continue to trend higher.  When the masses join the bullish club and turn euphoric, then it will be time to bail out.  For now, it’s not the time to sell and the fact that more Americans enjoy a cup of Java indicates clearly that the markets are destined to soar higher.

Don’t follow the masses as they sit and whine about what they would have done and if they could go back in time. The truth is that if given the same opportunities, they would react in the same manner.  They let fear do the talking and sell when they should be buying and buy when they should be selling stocks. If you want to win in the markets, you have to control your emotions or be controlled by them. It is impossible for an emotional trader to win in the markets.

Our favourite saying at the Tactical Investor is, take control of your emotions or be controlled by them.

Published on: December 17, 2015. Updated Over the Years, with the Latest Update in June 2023

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