Not exact matches
Unless you can watch your stock holding
decline 50 % without becoming
panic stricken, you should not be
in the
market.
The sudden and sharp
declines in equity
markets over the last couple of sessions is still being attributed to higher interest rate expectations although the move appears to have been exacerbated by a combination of automated trading and
panic selling.
Buffett counsels that you should not be
in the stock
market unless you can «watch your stock holding
decline by 50 % without becoming
panic - stricken.»
When we next experience a
panic in the stock
market, these high - quality bonds are not likely to see a significant
decline in value.
The ensuing few days left investors
in a
panic, with stock
market declines that rivaled the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and September 11th.
And what I'm talking about is taking huge risks like putting all of your money into a couple of stocks and one of them winds up going into bankruptcy, or we have a big
market decline, You are over invested
in stocks, you
panic when the
market goes down, you lock
in your losses and you've given up money that you will never get back.
While stock
markets have remained relatively stable
in the wake of Trump's victory, Heath says investors who sold their stocks following the sharp
market declines after the Brexit
panic in June — when Britain unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union
in June — paid a dear price when
markets rebounded days later.
Or perhaps more fairly, the conventional concern is that individual investors are too emotional to stick to a «roller coaster» plan involving mostly stocks and will
panic sell during
market declines, resulting
in lower actual returns than if they had followed a more «balanced» plan.
«Unless you can watch your stock picking
decline by 50 % without becoming
panic stricken, you should not be
in the stock
market.»
Blockbusting, or
panic peddling, is a practice
in which some real estate brokers, exploiting fears of change
in the racial composition of the neighborhood and potential
decline in property values, encourage owners to put their homes on the
market.