Investing and Volatility

If you want no volatility in your investments, that is you want your investments to increase only steadily, then you should invest in GICs or Savings Accounts. Both trust companies and Credit Unions give higher interest rates than banks. You may lose spending power to inflation, but that is the cost of this sort of investing.

If you are interested in investing with some volatility so you keep and increase your spending power, you are better off using the stock market. I prefer individual stocks, but other prefer ETF (Exchange Trading Funds) or Mutual Funds. ETFs or Mutual funds can follow an index or give you basket of certain types of stocks, like only the aristocrats. That is not a bad choice, but I prefer to buy a part of a company.

When investing, you need to ignore the volatility and trust that you have invested in good stocks. I have been thought a lot of bear markets. In bear markets, always some of my stocks do badly and some cut or suspend their dividends. However, other companies keep their dividends flat and some even increase their dividends. In all the years I have invested, my overall dividends have gone up.

Yes, you will make some mistakes. Also, sometimes a once good company will take a bad turn. When that happens to me, I take a serious look at the company. I have given up on some companies because I do not see any recovery anytime soon. Other companies, I have held on to because I think problems are temporary and mostly this has worked out well for me.

You make the best decision that you can. Sometimes you will make mistakes. The thing is to learn from your mistakes. So, you have a basket of stocks and one turns out to be a dud. So, what. Do not forget you only can lose your invested money on a stock. The sky is the limit on what you can gain on any stock.

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