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(20-10-2014, 01:34 PM)kichialo Wrote: (19-10-2014, 10:01 PM)Temperament Wrote: "It's not quite so easy as buying a few shares that pay a decent dividend and then just getting on with life. Unless you can watch your stockholding decline by 50 per cent without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the sharemarket".
Let's take a survey. How many of you here had live through at least once a 40 to 50 % portfolio decline and survive?
Start with me.
i had. This recent GFC was the most shocking to me even after living through some others 30 to 40 % declines.
I had. It was the AFC and its aftermath. One cannot help but be hardened after facing 50% portfolio decline for years on stretch. In comparison the GFC was like a blip.
Agree GFC recovery was a surprise in terms of time.
But your stock Portfolio in terms of your % of total assets and absolute amount of $$$ invested would carry more weight(degree of fear?) then how many % the market has tanked.
i think the absolute amount $$$ invested makes your heart jitters & flutters more. Further more not necessary the market has tanked 50% so is your portfolio. Thank your lucky star, your skill or thank your GOD if your portfolio show a loss of only 20 to 30 %.
You should make money when the market recovers.
And we all who had experienced 50 % market tanked of our portfolios most probably were at different crisis years. That's why each of us will choose a different extreme market bear year of fear.
WB:-
1) Rule # 1, do not lose money.
2) Rule # 2, refer to # 1.
3) Not until you can manage your emotions, you can manage your money.
Truism of Investments.
A) Buying a security is buying RISK not Return
B) You can control RISK (to a certain level, hopefully only.) But definitely not the outcome of the Return.
NB:-
My signature is meant for psychoing myself. No offence to anyone. i am trying not to lose money unnecessary anymore.