You Said You’d Go Long Term So Stop Being Emotional

Of course you are most likely online all the time now that most stock trading platforms can already be accessed on mobile gadgets. It would be tough to avoid influencing your investing decisions with your emotions especially during these times when you see “red” numbers in your portfolio.

Again, I would like to address the attitude of new and young investors. You should accept the fact that you are not like the experienced investors and the hardcore active/day traders. Stop feeling like a veteran when you barely even crossed over your first year of investing.

When you start to feel and act like an “expert”, that’s the time when you have to be ready for some shooting meteor-like impact when the bear season comes. Do not forget what you believed in from the beginning! Long-term! Long-term! Long-term!

Control Your Emotions

1. Investing should be a habit, not an immediate emotional response. This goes out more to employed individuals who have recently learned about investing in the stock market.

That is why you chose a simpler “automatic” investing plan (cost-averaging strategy) so that you can concentrate more on your job, your family, and your other activities in life. Put your emotions instead in these areas.

2. From the start, your investing plan should have included your specific goals and objectives. And most of them should have been long-term. Long-term means five years or more.

Don’t get enchanted too much by the numbers in your current portfolio. Otherwise you will find yourself too obsessed with the up and down movement of the market everyday.

Remember to stick to your specific long-term goals and you’ll feel healthier.

3. Invest like a robot. Master your emotions using your recent market correction experience as a reference on how you should react to future market volatility. (Volatility refers to the crazy Twerky-like movement of the market.)

Most robots in movies that we watch do not panic easily. They just do what they have to do. In a way, you can imitate them. 😉

Always remember that when the market corrects, or worst, crashes, you should just continue what you are doing for your God, your family, and your career.  Continue learning and investing with a more steady approach and strategy.

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P.S. 2. The OFW UsapangPiso Forum will be webcasting a special talk on how OFW’s can invest in other countries other than the Philippines and their respective countries of work featuring Mr. Jess Uy, a financial consultant based in Singapore. The webcast will start at 3PM (Philippine time) on August 31, 2013. To watch the livestreaming event, go this Ustream link of OFW UsapangPiso Event Feeds Channel. You may also register at our Anymeeting webinar platform through this online form.

 

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