INVESTING LESSON - Give your Portfolio Some Breathing Space

InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest Dec 04, 2021 - 03:12 PM GMT

Investing is accumulating positions in good corporations for the long-run and not trying to swing trade as some appear to be doing. My primary tools for monitoring my portfolio are Excel spread sheets that I only tend to update prior to posting an article that contains the list of AI tech stocks as I am used to not constantly looking at the state of my portfolio i.e. in years past I would update the prices usually once every couple of months or so given that it is a manual exercise.

Folks, you need to give both your portfolio and yourselves some breathing space, peace of mind as staring at the your stock tracker app's blinking red and green is going to drive you nuts! Don't use trackers, don't use app's. Just use a spread sheet and update your holdings manually once in a while then get on with the rest of your life, don't let your portfolio rule your life!

About 1/3rd of my holdings (excluding cash on account) are in legacy stocks which I update and review perhaps 2 or 3 times a year at which time I amend price alerts or place limit orders and add comments for future reference.

About 1/3rd of my portfolio is in High Risk stocks which if it were left upto me I would look at perhaps twice per year. but since it is a public portfolio I will update it on a quarterly basis.

That leaves about 1/3rd in AI stocks, that I update the status of about 4 or 5 times a month given that they feature in my posts.

And then I have my buy and sell lists, a list of stocks that I want to buy or sell with quantity and target price to trade at that tend to be accompanied by limit orders, or other instructions or price alerts if the current price is some distance way.

What I don't do is sit staring at an app every few minutes on the state of my portfolio which acts to distance oneself from ones holdings to some degree and so ones portfolio is not on ones mind.

The price of having a public portfolio is that when a price moves one gets flashed a message as was the case with AVIR's price plunge, in the past I would not have been aware at all what the stock is doing and it would have gone through several spikes up and down along the the way towards either triggering a price alert or some other corporate message popping up in my in box. Take it from me it is not good for you or your portfolio to monitor stocks on a daily basis that you don't intend on buying or selling any time soon.

Yes do keep a close eye on those stocks one wants to accumulate, but it is a big mistake to obsesses over every price gyration, in fact my selling of the tech stocks to the extent I did could in some part be down to monitoring the AI stocks too closely, where in years past I would have updated the list perhaps once every couple of months or so.. There is a big difference in perception of the stocks one holds when one is not focused on them all of the time. The best strategy really is to invest and forget. Today, in my mind without looking at any spreadsheet I know what every AI stock is trading at (not good). High risk stocks, 4 pop up in my mind CRSR, AVIR, Coinbase, and WDC, the rest are a blur, even the chinese tech giants are fast fading away into the background. Legacy portfolio I have to think for a good minute and up pops HSBC, banks are cheap, maybe it's time I should start looking into buying banks? huge cash flows ,huge earnings growth, and very low PE ratios, typically less than 12. And pay high dividends. Plus they get bailed out when they screw things up.

This analysis is an excerpt from my recent extensive analysis - AI Tech Stocks Portfolio Updated Buying Levels and Zones as Financial Crisis 2.0 Continues Brewing

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The China Syndrome
Stock Market Begins it's Year End Seasonal Santa Rally
Stock Market Trend Forecast Current State
INVESTING LESSON - BUYING VALUE
Peloton 35% CRASH a Lesson of What Happens When One Over Pays for a Loss Making Growth Stock
INVESTING LESSON - Give your Portfolio Some Breathing Space
How Stagflation Effects Stocks
INTEL Bargain - 15.5% Discount Sale
Why Intel stock price dropped 15%?
FACEBOOK - 10% DIscount
IBM - 20% Discount
Amazon - 5% Discount
APPLE 4% Discount
AMD $136 on Route to $200
TSMC - $117
Microsoft $336
Google $2980, PE 28.7, EC 30.
Nvidia Leaves planet Earth - $299, PE of 106
Heads Up on NEW Potential Tech Stocks
AI Stocks Portfolio Updated Buying Levels
AI Stocks Buying Plan B
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Crypto's 20% Discount Event
Bitcoin Trend
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