Subjective situations welcome

  • Jeroen@lemmings.world
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    12 hours ago

    Why do you look at your investments? What do you do with the information? I don’t want to predict the market and I can’t. Looking at it is more likely to make you panic buy/sell than make you do anything useful. But I’m curious why you don’t agree with the advice.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s a conscious effort to not panic. But once that investment goes up as far as i think it will. (I set that point before I even buy) then I sell and buy something those that is low and ride that up. If I don’t watch them, that stock could go WAY down before I realize I’ve lost anything.

      If it’s gone down I have to figure out if I think it’s coming back. Then decide, cut my losses or hold out until it comes back

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        9 hours ago

        Okay so individual stocks then. But the advice is for index funds I think. But good on you if it works. I wouldn’t try to predict individual stocks personally, too much stress and probably won’t do it better than randomly guessing.