I woke up at 6:15am this morning. One of the first few things I saw on the web shook me. Investor Bill Brewster wrote in his Twitter account that his cousin-in-law – a 20 year-old young man in the US – recently committed suicide after he seemed to have racked up huge losses (US$730,000) through the trading of options, which are inherently highly-leveraged financial instruments. A young life gone. Just like this. I’ve never met or known Bill and his family before this, but words can’t express how sorry I am to learn about the tragedy. This painful incident reinforces the belief that Jeremy and myself share on the importance of promoting financial literacy. We started The Good Investors with the simple goal to help people develop sound, lasting investing principles, and avoid the pitfalls. Bill’s cousin-in-law is why we do what we do at The Good Investors.  In one of my earliest articles for The Good Investors, ...