Losses

Jeffrey Saut at Raymond Jaymes wrote.... 

What determines your stock market performance is not how you manage your winners, but how you manage your losers. Indeed, everyone knows how to win, but few know how to lose! Yet the secret to making money in the market is knowing how to lose; or how to control your losses.

Listen to the pros:

“I’m always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don’t focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.” – Paul Tudor Jones

“The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.” – William O’Neil

One investor’s two rules of investing: 1) Never Lose Money 2) Never forget rule No. 1 – Warren Buffett Losses


I know I need to better abide by my sell rules regardless of what I think.