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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Q: Within the five economic sectors you advise for investing, should we also spread out our funds over some percentage of value, growth and small stocks?
A: If you take account of your own financial and personal circumstances and temperament, and if you invest as we advise (diversifying across most if not all of the five main economic sectors, while confining your investments mainly to well-established companies), you will almost automatically buy some growth stocks and some value stocks; you will also near automatically buy some small-company stocks and some big-company stocks.
However, the economic-sector diversification and overall investment quality of your portfolio are far more important than the relative amounts you invest in value, growth and small stocks.
In any event, it’s impossible to come up with a one-size-fits-all answer when talking about the best balance among value stocks, more aggressive small stocks and growth stocks (some of which can fall into more than one category)....
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