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The Truth About Averaging Down: Building a Successful Investment Portfolio
… averaging down and the many related risks.
5 Answers to FAQ questions investors ask about averaging down.
Learn the risks of the averaging down strategy.
Learn when averaging down can work.
Investors learn to buy dips but avoid averaging down.
How investors deal with an investment the market devalues.
Averaging up vs averaging down.
The …
Change Is The Investment Growth Catalyst That Moves Markets
… always, or forever. Thus, money-making investors can buy rising winners but quickly sell when they are wrong. Besides, they never make the wealth-damaging mistake of averaging down but sell losers and mistakes to move on.
What Makes the Market Go Up and Down?
The forces of supply and demand drive markets. For example …
Smart Diversification: Optimizing Investment Portfolios for Better Results
… of short selling
9 Short selling facts
If you must look at options
Investing academics hold court
Yes to dips but no to averaging down
Buy high sell low!
Janet Yellen told me!
Show me the numbers
Time to invest or time for an advisor?
Investing strategy option danger
Mortals see immortal debt
Retirement …
Avoiding Costly Investing Mistakes: Choose a Strategy with Better Returns
… and avoid common and costly investing mistakes that hinder portfolio and wealth growth. Explore six major pitfalls—investing based on news without research, holding losing stocks, and averaging down on underperforming investments—and you’ll gain valuable insights into more thoughtful investment strategies. Understanding and avoiding these common errors will help you make informed decisions …
Read MoreHow To Make the Right Long-Term Investment Choices for Success
… Lesson 7
Avoid 6 investing sins to eliminate errors that hurt investors and fail to take advantage of active investing opportunities. Those errors include using only news, no research, loser holdings, turnarounds, averaging down, not learning or paying attention.
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Investment impatience destroys wealth Lesson 8
Investment impatience destroys wealth in every market. Patient investors
Contents and Layout
… White Top Investor lessons by subject.
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Analysis – the world of infinite facts and opinions
Analysts Reports – experts yes, objective maybe
Annual Reports – facts and management pitch
Averaging Down – a strategy to avoid
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Basic Investing – single and multiple investing lessons
Basic Numbers – understand financial statements
Basic Time – the time commitment of investors
Blog – all …
Optimism and unrealistic investor expectations
… where you want to go. Put the past where it belongs, in the past.
Do not chase losses with more money. Never, ever under any circumstances average down. That increases the amount of dead money and it freezes any upside potential. Averaging down also means you take on an unknown opportunity cost.
Share: Optimism and …
Investor homework grows profits
… favor.
The situation is favorable when our current homework or earlier research indicates a specific company is a buy. Then, should the price dip, we can confidently buy. If we already own the company, buying more is simply averaging down. That is not something I recommend.
Get the odds to tip in your favor
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Distracted investing misses profits
… as a turnaround play.
Averaging down sinks investor performance
Investing misses, write-offs, bad math and distracted investing all combine in the most common of investing sins, averaging down. This really bad but very common strategy can seriously harm your portfolio.
Averaging down means you buy more shares in a loser. Naturally if you keep …
Speculation failures improve investing
… that approach works, you neutralize even more money than the initial investment in the speculation. That is putting good money after bad. Stocks take time to recover. Averaging down means you have even more under-performing capital tied up for a long time. Combined, these factors harm your overall portfolio performance.
Better to sell out …