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What advice have you heard or tried that was just flat-out wrong?
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When you start investing, just put your money in and just don’t worry about it. It’ll grow. Just keep adding to it. You’ll get there.
Probably some of the dumber advice i’ve received.
You have to look at your Stocks. You have to look at your 401(k). You have to look at your investments.
Unless you like to wake up one day and discover you don’t have enough money. Then go ahead and follow that advice of just set and forget it.
The only one that might make sense with is if you’re putting your money into the S&P.
Even then, I still would pay attention to what it’s doing.
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.
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
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.