Comments on: My Portfolio Dropped 8% – How’d Yours Hold Up? http://www.mmhabits.com/my-portfolio-dropped-8-percent/ To Achieve... To Succeeed... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Marxen http://www.mmhabits.com/my-portfolio-dropped-8-percent/comment-page-1/#comment-1184 Jim Marxen Fri, 09 May 2008 02:54:36 +0000 http://www.mmhabits.com/?p=177#comment-1184 You haven't lost a thing unless you had to sell those assets. Your 8% drop is just a paper lost. History proves that the stock market has had 3 good years for every bad year. Even most of the recessions in the last twenty years have not lasted long. I agree with most of the replies, as long as you are saving, when the market is down, you will receive more shares of the investment (stocks/mutual funds/index funds/etc) for the same amount invested. You haven’t lost a thing unless you had to sell those assets. Your 8% drop is just a paper lost. History proves that the stock market has had 3 good years for every bad year. Even most of the recessions in the last twenty years have not lasted long. I agree with most of the replies, as long as you are saving, when the market is down, you will receive more shares of the investment (stocks/mutual funds/index funds/etc) for the same amount invested.

]]> By: ideal4investors http://www.mmhabits.com/my-portfolio-dropped-8-percent/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 ideal4investors Wed, 07 May 2008 00:04:26 +0000 http://www.mmhabits.com/?p=177#comment-1168 As long as you are not down 8% next quarter and the quarter after that. I have the traditional investments in stocks, mutual funds, money market, etc. and I have a self-direct IRA that I use for more creative investing, like real estate. I find that this helps me achieve much more diversification. As long as you are not down 8% next quarter and the quarter after that. I have the traditional investments in stocks, mutual funds, money market, etc. and I have a self-direct IRA that I use for more creative investing, like real estate. I find that this helps me achieve much more diversification.

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]]> By: Ryan http://www.mmhabits.com/my-portfolio-dropped-8-percent/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Ryan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:47:29 +0000 http://www.mmhabits.com/?p=177#comment-1130 quote: I think I read somewhere that within a given year, the majority of your success falls within a few good days That's exactly right, and why it is impossible to try to time the market. Nobody can predict those days that make or break your year, so the best thing is to think long-term. quote: I think I read somewhere that within a given year, the majority of your success falls within a few good days

That’s exactly right, and why it is impossible to try to time the market. Nobody can predict those days that make or break your year, so the best thing is to think long-term.

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