Diary of investor

well, was looking for a few days what to buy. husband suggested the 'ship' stocks. once came out with minus from them, tried to look more carefully at them. well...... in the morning the bads news come - the profit decreases because of high oil prices. what happened - started to think - the price goes down, it is a good stock, should try to buy. maybe should have been waited for a day or two to see the trend direction and the market reaction - now have over 2percent losses. hope untill christmas it will turn into plus...

Some time ago i registered at The Motley Fool (rather strange name for trader's site)and since then they send me the promotional message "small cap growth". as i understand, their idea is to pick up the companies with small capitalization and big potential for growth. actually never read such kind of emails, call them spam and delete. this evening is different. looking for ideas what to buy, so decided to read. title - "Is It Time to Sell?". much writing about hidden gems , do not know what is this, never mind. there were a few goods things. the main thing - not to sell. never. the author says: "Consider this approach instead: Sell your stocks when you want to buy a house or furniture. Sell when you have too much in stocks and you want to buy some bonds, gold, or collectibles. Sell if you have too much in any one stock. But sell a stock, or the market, on valuation at you own peril." . interesting. there were a few examples that most of the stocks inc

have not written for ages. it is summer and have no time for sitting and analysing. just checking my porfolio sometimes. even do not read news - select them all in my inbox and check them as read. a few weeks ago everything was fine - plus 5percent, the last few days seems things getting worse - at the moment - 3,83percent.. trying to see what it means to be long term investor / trader. it is a pity to see up and down and think that if i sold, bought back, then i would have earned, etc.....