[MidWestIA]

ok I'll tell you - stop loss orders at a % you want

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by buzzy

There's always a December run-up, followed by profit taking in January. Just wait for the next entry point.

January is usually an up month. I often wait until April to sell.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Sully2023

I wish you were around the last time the market took a dive so you could have warned me to pull my money from the market.

I’m a long term investor, finally recouping most of my losses from the last market correction.

What’s that saying - buy when people are selling and sell when people are buying.

No one can predict human behavior.

Especially their wife's behavior (or husband's).

[Robbb]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

He we to a rubber chicken lunch and invested all his life savings because a trusted adviser told him so

What could go wrong with that.

[Signguy]

Because it is tasty and delicious

The reason why we need Halal food

[Fastskiguy]

Interesting development in the market just one day after the original post. Seems like people are in a selling mood today!

[coralway]

Don’t care what the tea leaves say. I have been in AAPL since June 1986 and nothing on Gods green earth will ever convince me to sell.

[Fastskiguy]

Originally Posted by coralway

Don’t care what the tea leaves say. I have been in AAPL since June 1986 and nothing on Gods green earth will ever convince me to sell.

The capital gains must be a factor as well.

[spinner1001]

Originally Posted by coralway

Don’t care what the tea leaves say. I have been in AAPL since June 1986 and nothing on Gods green earth will ever convince me to sell.

Run, Forrest, Run.

https://youtu.be/LZK5VRuUfEY?si=jxxMFZrXgEGYTqSI

[Caymus]

Originally Posted by Fastskiguy

Interesting development in the market just one day after the original post. Seems like people are in a selling mood today!

People didn't like Fedex's forecast.

[rsmurano]

Originally Posted by coralway

Don’t care what the tea leaves say. I have been in AAPL since June 1986 and nothing on Gods green earth will ever convince me to sell.

I’ve been in and out of aapl at least a dozen times during the past 20+ years. With all of the splits, it has done very well. At the end of 2022, I bought aapl when it went down into the $120’s, rode it into the $170’s then sold.
With aapl, a lot of my go to funds/etfs have aapl as a major stakeholder so at so point you have to look at how much aapl do I want to hold. I’m sure I’ll own it many times more in the future.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by Sully2023

I wish you were around the last time the market took a dive so you could have warned me to pull my money from the market.

I’m a long term investor, finally recouping most of my losses from the last market correction.

What’s that saying - buy when people are selling and sell when people are buying.

No one can predict human behavior.

I dumped all my mutual funds last year when I anticipated a big drop and parked the money in a money market fund, then a month later moved it all back to a broad spectrum mutual fund. By doing this I missed a 2000 point drop, then rode the market back up to its current high. This added about 5% to my total I wouldn’t have otherwise had. But it is hard to know when to do that, and if you do it wrong, you can lose a lot of money.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by coralway

Don’t care what the tea leaves say. I have been in AAPL since June 1986 and nothing on Gods green earth will ever convince me to sell.

I feel the same about my BRK/A which I bought at about $3,000/share in the 1980s. BRK's portfolio is now about 50% AAPL. I also bought some AAPL a few years back at about 1/10th its current price and have no plans on selling any of it.

[Justputt]

I was in the wrong place in the 80s, missed the boat in 2008, etc., and what I finally learned is to pay the fee and have Fidelity manage the accounts because they watch everything all the time and much closer than I ever could. Even allowing for the minor fee, I still do better letting them handle it. Lastly, I don't want to spend my retirement WORKING on investments. I'd rather work on spending them down.

[justjim]

OP, Along with our financial adviser we maintain a diverse portfolio. The market can turn (and does) so best to leave it to the “pros” IMHO.