In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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In the short-term, due to long-term contracts and other arrangements, the impact of falling oil prices is minimal for most major pipeline companies.
However, a sustained period of depressed oil prices could result in lower volumes being transported....
We see our three-part Successful Investor approach as the best foundation for building an investment portfolio that expands your prospects for growth and keeps your risk exposure in check. As you probably know, it has three key parts:
- Invest mainly in well-established, profitable, dividend-paying stocks;
- spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors;
- downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
I’ve written about aspects of it many times in our newsletters....
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In doing research for my latest quarterly letter to clients, I was struck once again by today’s lop-sided view of the long-term market outlook. You’ll find lots of references to how far and how fast the market has gone up in the past eight years, compared to the long-term averages....
The REIT first sold units to the public and began trading on the Toronto Venture Exchange at $5.00 in July 2012.
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The 76 bonds in the portfolio have an average term-to-maturity of 9.7 years....
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The company’s revenues have risen steadily over the last five years, despite a rising U.S....
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