I don’t get it. I can watch my mutual fund portfolio drop by thousands, even tens of thousands, as the market tanks/corrects and I don’t blink. But when I put just one thousand into a single stock and it drops a couple hundred it drives me crazy. Am I just not cut out for individual stocks or is this normal?

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Why are you in individual stocks to begin with? The main benefit people get out of it is fun/adrenaline—if it’s stressing you out, then put the money into a mutual fund.

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That’s probably because there’s no guarantee that an individual stock would recover whereas the mutual fund will always eventually recover and keep growing. Assuming it’s an index fund.

Maybe you should hold onto the stock for longer or just start with blue chips

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