Weekly Buzz: Will the stock market make a "year-end rally"?

• Milk The Cow :

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• Milk The Cow : Maybe yes ?
  
  Sometime I maybe a bit more bias toward the company I like & give it a slightly more bullish TP on my range.
  However, this can be a mistake made by most investors as they don't know when to take profits (greedy).
  On the bright side, the stock may go even bullish than u think = overvalued = u may be able to take profits at the peak of the price (once in a life time).

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• HopeAlways : High-running emotions with any stock or company can quickly lead an investor astray. Both greed and elation can lead us into risky moves, while fear can paralyze decision making or encourage us to sell when we should not. Unfortunately, we cannot turn off our emotions or even ignore them completely. What we can do is to take steps to limit the number of emotionally driven decisions we make with any stock.

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• Syuee : No, I am certainly not emotionally tied to any stock.
  
  One shouldn’t be emotionally tied to any stock because it means that they have become emotional about their investing.
  
  When we are obsessed with a particular stock, an idea, person or a thing, we usually don’t make rational decisions. It’s just human nature.
  
  Emotional investing can lead one to hold onto stocks for far too long, without booking profits progressively for reinvestment.
  
  The stock market requires unemotional detachment, in order to make good and swift decisions.
  
  We have to know when to hold a stock, when to sell a stock, otherwise, we cannot achieve profitability.
  
  When opportunity hits, it is important to rebalance our portfolio, without bias.
  
  Never fall in love with our stocks, and remember to part it ( profit-taking ), when the time is right. We can always re-invest again.
  
  We should be well-aware that a stock is just an inanimate object and it cannot love us back, isn’t it ?
  
  Fall in love with pet animals, genuine people, not sexy stocks …
  
  Trade safe and invest wisely.
  
  #NoEmotions
  #NoPain

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• lastnite24 : as much as I try not to be emotionally tied to a stock or company I am. these days I try to make sure there is a reason for being attached to any stock (only if there seems to be numbers behind the stock).
  
  I try not to name stocks that I am fixated with because I don't want to be responsible for anyone else's results (I buy in at a much different price from what you might and it can make a huge difference). I was in on didi between 1.80 and 2.00 approximately. Why? I read the Wikipedia on where they operate and their website. It may be a dumb investment but luckin coffee went back to 10 so I don't see why not. Also it has actual number behind it (apparently they are on the ground and big in mexico as their doordash).
  
  I used to be fixated on other stocks in the past for lesser things. but these days they have to have more going on, and numbers to back up the ideas

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• HopeAlways Syuee : Emotional control is one of the most important factors in successful investing and investors should keep feelings out of their investing decisions.

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• Syuee HopeAlways : Being too emotionally tied to any stock / company can also lead to an over-concentration and a lack of portfolio diversification.
  
  Becoming too emotionally tied to any stock / company can also result in irrationally clinging to an asset longer than one should.
  
  Thus, it would be best to take the emotions out of investing.

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• MooMamaLlama : I can't help myself I'm human
  
  The more I research a particular stock or industry, I often lean one way more than the other. If I like it that's when I buy or wait to see what the movement is like/to get good entry point) If I don't like it I won't dismiss it completely but I'm definitely not going to focus on it, with time or financially.
  
  I'm not a perfect trader. I get impatient, upset, or over excited, but I'm getting better at controlling that
  I was inspired by my grandpa to watch markets but never taught how to trade so I'm realising being emotional about a trade isn't ALWAYS about the stock!
  Its often about the outcome of a strategy (or hasty decision!), good or bad being a reflection of my learning and growing as a trader.  If I've been accumulating or waiting on something and miss the best buy or TP price, I get annoyed. Not necessarily at the stock, but at myself. If I see something I really believe in, falter I can get irrationally upset. Not always at the price but often at the management or big money that are driving the price, or at myself for wasting time or money on something I was wrong about.
  
  We will naturally become tied to something in one way or another if we are putting time and money into it. Maybe not always  to an irrational point but the more we invest in something financially the more we have to lose. The more time we invest in something the more vindicating or upsetting it is personally when the things happen
  
  When does buying the dips for better DCA turn into clinging onto a stock?
  When does letting go easily become cutting too early causing unnecessary loss?
  When does diversification become spreading oneself too thin?
  Where does doing solid up to date daily research become obsessive?
  
  We all have our own definitions of these things and more, and we need to balance them according to our own portfolio, time horizon, risk tolerance....and our behavioural tendencies

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• MooMamaLlama :

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• MooMamaLlama : thank you @Popular on moomoofor choosing my topic this week!

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