Friday, 8 June 2018
Investors's Mistakes And What We Can Learn From Them
Read? 5 Great Investors' Worst Mistakes (And What They Teach Us)
Read? Here Are Some of the Most Epic Mistakes by Famous Investors: Michael Batnick
What we can learn from these investors' mistakes?
Position sizing, stop losses or cut losses, don't risk more than 10% of your capital on any single stock and not more than 20 or 30% on any sector; do your homework before investing, etc
Investing lessons are learnt from mistakes!
How come we seldom come across investment articles about "mistakes" of selling way too early and missing multi bagger yield on investment cost and multi baggers capital gains?
Hmm ... taking profits off the table is never wrong.
Where got mistakes?
No lesson learnt from selling way too early and missing those big fat gains?
So it is like that?
CW,
ReplyDeleteThose investment mistakes we hear are those where we have capitulated and taken the loss. We have closure and moved on.
You don't hear about "mistakes" in selling too early for the same reason we don't hear about HUGE paper losses we are still hanging on to ;)
Don't ask; don't tell.
LOL!
Lesson learnt *hands up*
ReplyDeleteDoes uncle8888 have a post on 'how to not sell too early'?
Those starfishes lim kopi all heard from the Horse and taking home illustrated diagrams.
DeleteSunday, 29 August 2010
Read? What did I share with a guy called Noobz on our first meeting?