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The problem with tracking stocks you’ve sold

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 22, 2024November 5, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

The professional money managers would have been further ahead to simply pick stocks from their portfolios at random to sell, rather than making the ‘human’ sell decisions they actually made. They should have used darts rather than their brains.

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What it means to not lose money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences

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Conventional diversification makes no sense

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 10, 2022October 10, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere

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Cut your losses is confused advice

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 26, 2022June 26, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Your baggage is what you already own, and it gets in the way of excellence.

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