My strategy was to hopefully see
some nice gains in the stocks since they had all been trending positively, and to see some additional gains due to dividends that were paid on the stocks.
Not exact matches
While the
stock market is up about 10 percent for the year — which is a
nice gain for
stocks in just eight months — the money people have made
in stocks is puny compared with what's been made
in bitcoin.
The Dow has hit 15,000 and
stocks are posting,
in general,
nice gains which gets all the pundits talking about if it's time to get out of the
stock market or if we will continue to see a solid uptick
in the market.
After you've had a
nice run
in a
stock it is prudent to either (1) sell a portion of the
stock, or (2) write some calls against it so that if it gives back some of its recent
gain you can capture some profit from the call premium.
As we all know, the
stock market really has been a raging bull over the past years producing some quite
nice book
gains in my portfolio as well.
X For the year through March 8, Fidelity Investments» Will Danoff and John Roth have deftly ridden such
stocks to a
nice 6.48 %
gain in the fund they manage: $ 28.5 billion Fidelity Advisor New Insights Fund (FNIAX).
If you abide by this theory, you would sell your
stocks in late April or early May (hopefully realizing
nice gains) and sit largely
in cash until the fall where you would buy back into the
stock market.
It is
nice to get dividends and reinvest them, but overall the main
gain comes from the
stocks going up
in value.
If you invest
in a
nice mix of
stocks, bonds and other accounts, you maximize your chances of coming out ahead, creating
gains, and making your money last to your expectations, and then some.