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Originally Posted by SaucyJim
If a single recommendation lost you 25% of your portfolio, the position sizing was completely out of whack. My cost basis on any position cannot (by my rule) exceed 4% of my investable assets at the time of the trade. The only positions I hold that exceed this percentage do so because of growth and dividend reinvestments. Once the position exceeds 6%, I place a 10% trailing stop to eventually bring the position back in line and provide me dry powder for my next investment. Using this technique, in a very-worst-case scenario, any single position cannot hurt my overall portfolio by more than 4%.
Oh yeah. Fidelity all the way. Self-directed and their trading interface is miles ahead of Schwab’s, where part of my HSA funds are housed.
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It had to do with interest rates. My portfolio is diversified . I had bond funds.