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Comfort Zone Investing: Do you have a winning investor personality?

Being a good to great investor doesn't take large brains, though they certainly help. The math is already done for investors at Web sites, giving the ratios and data that help form an investment decision. Most of the time the difference between winning and losing in the stock market has to do with personality quirks and emotional make-up rather than intelligence. Take the following quiz to see if you've got what it takes to be a winning investor in the stock market.

1. Do you have patience?
This is the rarest of all attributes on Wall Street. That's why it's rewarded the most. Investors who can withstand the temporary (hopefully) blows of a bad quarter from a good company will find that, over time, they will make money.

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