Sentences with phrase «individual stock side»

On the individual stock side, we sold Bitauto ($ BITA) and LifeLock ($ LOCK) for decent share price gains of 36.7 % and 13.8 % respectively.

Not exact matches

The other side of the debate would argue that individuals who don't know how to select a sector's best stock are better off investing in the index as a whole to at least gain some form of exposure.

Of course, there is always someone on the other side of each transaction; in general, these are financial institutions and professional investors, who are ready to take advantage of the mistakes that individual traders make in choosing a stock to sell and another stock to buy.

We still have two short positions in our model ETF trading portfolio, but the majority weighting of our swing trades (combining ETF and individual stock positions) remains on the long side of the market.

The lack of substantial bullish follow - through in leading individual stocks in recent weeks, the absence of leadership in most ETFs (other than international ETFs), and the bearish pattern on the weekly chart of the S&P 500 Index (below) are all valid reasons to avoid the long side of the market now.

If you're building up the equity side of your portfolio entirely based on individual stocks instead of funds, it's a good idea to try to spread your holdings fairly evenly among 30 or more individual stocks, so you're not unduly impacted if serious misfortune happens to particularly impact one or two individual holdings (such as what happened to Nortel in the 2000s).

[Side note: the Born To Sell screener has an «Only ETFs» check box that saves you time in finding ETFs to write calls against by removing individual stocks from the results table.

For disclosure, just like how I'm a stock picker on the equities side of my portfolio — I also buy individual bonds, coupons and GICs in my fixed income portfolio.

Along this 0 % to 100 % line, your individual stocks, equity mutual funds, and stock ETF assets would be assigned to the left hand side of this line or from 0 % to up 70 %.

Instead of looking at individual stocks, now I might be focusing on asset classes, making sure I'm diversifying with 12 or 14 different asset classes — small companies, value companies, domestic, US, international, even on the bond side making sure I'm spreading that risk out into all different types of bonds.

On the flip side, you can choose to sell individual stocks, funds, or Pies.

I've never joined the debate about individual stocks vs. index funds because I've never chosen one side or another.

We leave it to others to examine whether the damage is greater on the long side or the short side, and whether the damage is more or less severe based on the actual valuation levels of the individual stocks in these portfolios.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Assuming it's behavioral and not risk, do you have a sense that the other side is individual stock pickers or other professionals that are stupid?

Kahneman makes essentially the same point I made in this thread on June 11 when he says in his book, «Of course, there is always someone on the other side of each transaction; in general, these are financial institutions and professional investors, who are ready to take advantage of the mistakes that individual traders make in choosing a stock to sell and another stock to buy.»