Sentences with phrase «at market lows»

This sometimes results in buying at market highs and selling at market lows.

But if you take that as a sign of low integrity, you can wind up selling solid investments at market lows.

For example, during the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, women were less susceptible than men to snap judgments and selling their stocks at market lows.

The activist opportunity set is always going to be best at market lows: It was excellent in the early 2000s, and very good in 2009.

For example, if it starts at a market low, the results will not reflect the usual experience.

If you take that as a sign of low integrity, you can wind up selling sound investments at market lows.

Not only would it be starting ahead of schedule, he argues, but even at the market lows of a year ago the stock valuations were never as low as they typically get at turning points in secular market trends.

As you can see, even on a relatively modest portfolio worth about $ 63,000, you'd pay almost $ 10,000 less in taxes by converting at market lows now versus 1998.

An investor in the distribution stage of their life cycle is forced to liquidate holdings at a market low.

However, a portfolio allowed to drift with market returns guarantees that asset classes will be overweighted at market peaks and underweighted at market lows — a formula for poor performance.

So at the market low, instead of buying equities at the best «sale» prices in five years, investors moved their money into bond funds, making the classic mistake of having bought high and sold low.

A machine also can not talk an active investor out of return - chasing, such as an over-allocation to equities at market highs or loss aversion with an under - allocation at market lows — at least not yet anyway.

Trouble is, if you fail to execute this strategy at just the right time, or if you buy bonds just when the bond market is retreating, you could easily end on the losing side of both asset classes, selling at a market low and buying back in at a market high.

You can choose an allocation that's exactly perfect for your withdrawal rate and expected retirement length, but if you can't stick to your allocation — specifically, if you bail out of stocks at a market low or go all - in on stocks at a market peak — you're in for trouble.

If you take that as a sign of low integrity, you can wind up selling solid investments at market lows.

Most of that was buying a house at 23 with profits made on day trading, at a market low.

3) Long - term, it's crash - proof IF you have the self - discipline not to panic - sell at market lows.

Assuming I'm following correctly, this is dollar cost averaging - essentially, we should all admit to ourselves that we don't understand macroeconomic cycles, and just focus on investing in real estate in the moment, if it makes sense to buy it in that moment, rather than say «I'm at a market high - I shouldn't buy» or «I'm at a market low, I should buy everything.»