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Meta Description: Thanks to a key European acquisition and new fleet of planes, FedEx maintains its position as one of our best stocks to buy in the U.S.

To know how to trade stocks successfully, you need to know the right time to sell stocks. Here’s our advice.

Home renovations spurred by an improved real estate market help keep Stanley Black and Decker one on our best stocks to buy in the U.S.

Our portfolio advice: when you find the best stocks to invest in, and the shares begin to rise, avoid the temptation to sell them too soon.

Worrying about things that are out of your control can lead to untimely buy or sell decisions that seriously reduce your long-term profits.

With one big contract lost, cuts in energy spending and older-generation rigs, Hercules Offshore faces a sharp decline in earnings.

Shrugging off a slow first quarter, Goodyear sees a good year ahead, thanks to falling costs of rubber and oil and a good labour deal

One of the costliest mistakes you can make as an investor is to sell your best stocks too soon. This mistake comes in two main varieties:

1. Routinely re-balancing your portfolio—that is, selling stocks you own that have gone up, and using the proceeds to buy more of stocks that have gone down.
2. Selling your best stock selections for small gains—taking a 25% or 50% profit on a stock when it’s just starting out on a rise that could ultimately produce a 250% or 500% gain.

The recent rise in the U.S. dollar tempts many investors to make this mistake, one way or the other or both....

Switching to a discount broker makes sense for many investors. It’s sure to cut your per-trade commission costs. But high per-trade brokerage commissions are rarely if ever the sole reason for poor investment results. If you are unhappy with your results, you should check to see if you are making one or more of these four main investing mistakes:

1. Buying and selling too often
2. Buying too many low-quality investments
3. Failing to diversify, or
4. Buying too many stocks in the broker/media limelight.

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Here’s the text of the quarterly letter I recently sent to our Portfolio Management clients: “We’ve been managing investment portfolios for 15 years, and doing a good job of it, judging by our investment performance, the clients we have attracted, and the funds they have entrusted to our care. Many of our clients credit our performance to our stock-picking ability. Stock-picking enters into it, of course. But I’d say our results also owe a great deal to our use of what I call the “Successful Investor method”. I call it that because it’s based on what I’ve learned over the years from people who have actually succeeded as investors. (For the same reason, I chose “Successful Investor” as the name for our organization and our flagship newsletter.)...