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CHANGE the Way You Think About Profit and Loss

InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest Dec 21, 2022 - 11:05 PM GMT

By: Nadeem_Walayat

InvestorEducation

From the comments section many patrons appear eager to trim holdings. However, this is a dangerous game and mindset to have one of selling on a few percent gain on fears that that smaller profit will evaporate into a loss.

Think about it?

If you follow this investing mindset what kind of portfolio will you end up with?

You will have a portfolio where you have sold all of your winners and are only left holding losers!

This is probably down to the way humans are hardwired to avoid pain, i.e. eat the food now rather than it be stolen or lost in the future.


My solution is to aim to have a target holding to aim for i.e. to be 100% invested, thus the further below 100% the more uncomfortable I am in wanting to sell (take profits) because I don't hold enough exposure. This is one of the reasons why I have held onto my approx 50% exposure to IBM for the duration of the bear market as every time IBM outperforms I get comments asking shall I sell my IBM, where my response has been I'm not selling any IBM because I don't hold enough! And similar for others that are sub 100%. And don't even think of saying "but you could have sold at $135 and bought back at under $120", yes in HINDSIGHT! AFTER THE FACT!

Conversely the mechanism for SELLING is OVER EXPOSURE! i.e. when a stock is cheap such as TSM trading to below $70 I am far more inclined to ADD rather than to SELL! Which is what some patrons were asking at the time, i.e. Shall I sell TSM to buy AMD etc... Where my response is I don't sell ANYTHING at a LOSS! I would much rather the stock to go to ZERO than SELL and for ever by jumping from one stock trading near it's lows to another! What is that going to result in? SELLING EVERYTHING NEAR THE LOWS! Yes there is no sure fire bet, and all stock prices oscillate around earnings and fair value between extremes of over valued and under valued, but I would much rather lose it all then SELL a stock for a loss as I wrote several years ago when constructing the High Risk Portfolio, a case of HERO or ZERO, 0 or X10. no inbetweens!

Anyway my mechanism to deal with the human conditioning to sell for a small profit on fears of the profit turning into a loss is OVER EXPOSURE! To invest beyond 100% of target and thus I have leeway to either

1. Trim holdings on a rally so as to increase cash on account for further opps down the road.

2. To allow me to evaluate my maximum exposure at a later date, for instance I have decided to increase my target exposure to KLAC by about 15% which drops my over exposure from 135% down to 120%, all without having to wait for a dip to buy more exposure.

This is why I don't use stop losses when investing, as if I had they would have kicked me out of everything near the lows! Lam Research at sat $330. AMAT at say $80, TSM at $60 and so on.

Another solution to the trimming problem is that I trade futures and options, TRADE being the operative word, thus let investments ride whilst I spin my wheels on futures and options on the likes of the S&P.

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