Do Not Panic

The best advice when investing in stocks is never ever panic. Let the stock market or your individual stock do what it wants, but do not panic no matter what happens. That is how you lose money on the stock market. I was at lunch the other day and a lady said she was worried about the stock market and so she sold all her shares. This is exactly how you lose money on the stock market.

I have been through a number of bear markets and individual stocks that tanked, but overall my portfolio has done well over the years. Maybe I left it late to sell stocks that have tanked, but still over all I did well and my dividend income has only gone up.

More to the point maybe is my son's portfolio which is relatively small. He has investments in some 15 stocks. So far he has two duds in stocks, Reitmans and TransAlta. His portfolio was increasing in value and in dividend income. When problems occurred in Reitmans and TransAlta the increase in dividends and value paused and then continued even though he still kept these stocks.

On my other blog I wrote yesterday about Artis REIT (TSX-AX.UN, OTC-ARESF)... learn more. Tomorrow, I will write about Atlantic Power Corp (TSX-ATP, NYSE-AT)... learn more on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 around 5 pm.

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