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Showing posts with label market fluctuations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label market fluctuations. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Market share price volatility and relationship to your buying price. How long after holding can you expect the market share price to be ALWAYS ABOVE your buying price, using various assumptions.

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  It is not uncommon to see a share price of a stock rises 50% and falls its equivalent 1/3rd in a year (52 weeks period).    Assuming, you ...
Sunday, 29 March 2020

Wild Week

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Whitney Tilson’s email to  investors  discussing the wild week 1) What a wild week! The sharpest, fastest bear market in history – the S...
Thursday, 16 January 2020

Stay in Touch with the Market: Opportunities and Dangers

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Some investors buy and hold for the long term, stashing their securities in the proverbial vault for years. While such a strategy may have ...
Tuesday, 30 October 2018

Warren Buffett: Volatility in the Market

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Market Volatility What should you do? If you own a farm or an apartment, you do not get a quote on them every day or every week. T...
Thursday, 27 September 2018

It is important to have a long-term investment horizon when getting started in stocks.

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Time is on Your Side Just as compound interest can dramatically grow your wealth over time, the longer you invest in stocks, the better o...

Volatility of the Stock Market

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One way of reducing the risk of investing in individual stocks is by holding a larger number of stocks in a portfolio. However, even a p...

Volatility of Single Stocks

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Volatility of Single Stocks Individual stocks tend to have highly volatile prices. The returns you might receive on any single stock ma...
Friday, 17 August 2018

Small losses versus Big losses. They are different stories.

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Small Losses Small hits or losses are alright, so long as they aren't persistent or don't last forever.   That said, we cannot ta...
Friday, 13 October 2017

CONCEPT OF "RISK"

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The opposite of risk is safety. Are good bonds less risky than good preferred stocks? Are good bonds and good preferred stocks less ris...

The concept of risk. Risk = Loss of VALUE

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We should apply the concept of risk solely to a loss of value which either (a) is realized through actual sale or (b) is ascertained...
Monday, 8 May 2017

Market Fluctuations as a Guide to Investment Decisions (2) - Timing or Pricing

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Stock Brokers and the Investment Services As a matter of business practice (or perhaps of thorough-going conviction), the stock brokers a...

Market Fluctuations as a Guide to Investment Decisions (1) - Timing or Pricing

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Common stocks, even of investment grade, are subject to recurrent and wide fluctuations in their prices. Should the intelligent investo...

A sound mental approach towards stock fluctuations (5): Market Declines and Unsuccessful Stock Investments

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Market declines and unsuccessful stock investments In the case of market declines and unsuccessful stock investments, there is a vital...

A sound mental approach towards stock fluctuations (4): Advancing, Bull or Rising Market

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Advancing or Rising Market The investor is  neither a smart investor nor a richer one  when he  buys in an advancing market  and the  m...

A sound mental approach towards stock fluctuations (2) Measuring Investment Results

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Price Changes as Measuring Investment Results The success of your investment program in common stocks must  depend in great part   o...

A sound mental approach towards stock fluctuations (1)

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Intelligent investment is more a matter of  mental approach  than it is of technique. A  sound mental approach towards stock fluctuati...
Friday, 17 March 2017

Benjamin Graham's teachings on Market Fluctuations and your investing

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Market Fluctuations              Fluctuations of Common Stock Prices Since common stocks are subject to wide price swings, the inves...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

MARKET FLUCTUATIONS OF INVESTOR'S PORTFOLIO

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Note carefully what Graham is saying here.  It is not just possible, but probable, that most of the stocks you own will gain at least 50...
Monday, 7 March 2016

Time is your friend. Time smooths out volatility.

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Historically, time smooths out volatility. The longer you stay in the market, the more likely you are to see your investment do what it s...
Monday, 19 January 2015

A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability.

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One thing badly needed by investors - and a quality they rarely seem to have - is a sense of financial history.  In nine companies out of te...