The Mentality of the Stock Market If playing the stock market were an easy game, everyone would be rich. Whether an investor to chooses invest very actively, or long term, it is a game of mentality. During a economics course in college a professor will fill the board with algebraic expressions & economic gibberish, intended to explain exactly how the financial markets work. And if every investor were 100% rational; everything learned in financial economics would be true. The fact of the matter remains, very few people are rational when it comes to their finances. Anyone who purchase s