For those that trade individual stocks, how do you keep your emotions out? I decided not to buy Wayfair last month due to past volatility (was looking for short term gains) and now kicking myself.

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Can’t help you with that but I can relate. I’m an index guy. I preach not to time the market but when it started going up in March, I held on to the excess cash I had. Then almost jumped in 1st week of April but did not.

At least I did not sell my shares. Back when I started investing 10 years ago, I used to sell significant amount of portfolio every time the market started pulling back a bit (call it ptsd from 2008 crisis) and ended up selling closer to the bottom a couple times only to realize they were short pullbacks in a decade long bill market. Lol. You live and learn.

It is important that we develop investment commandments and stick to them. Still learning... The market humbles you.

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Thanks. That's a great perspective: the market humbles you. I'll continue learning and work on my strategy. And I know I shouldn't try to time the market, but I can't help feeling dumb when I don't listen to my intuition. I'm sure my intuition has served me, but in this case, it simply wasn't meant to be.

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I think the key is to learn and move on. The longer you kick yourself for a mistake, the higher chance you are missing the next potential opportunity. Invest with your gut with small amounts first and continue to test out your strategy. I’ve been swing trading with 2-3 very volatile stocks and found that there’s a general price range that the stocks are always inside of. Whenever it gets to the lower end, I buy. Whenever it gets to the high end, I sell. I’ve been doing this since early April and cumulated about ~11% return on roughly 20% of my portfolio. That’s the extent of my risk appetite for swing trading and the rest are in index. I see it as a nice cherry on the top as my index is rising steadily

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Do you buys and sell the stocks or trade options?

Good call out. I only buy and sell stocks. Wayyy too much of a novice to trade options.

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DITTO I kicked myself in the bought also! Glad I’m not in this one alone.

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