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Long Term is a Green Banana
posted 11.27.2007 at 3:04 p.m. by steve
Lately we have been pondering much amidst the market turmoil in the month of November. It is clear that emotions are running high for investors everywhere, and we would be lying if I said we are not concerned as well. The financial engineers of Wall Street and their creative financing structures are denting earnings, credit availability and investor sentiment.
What does it mean to be a long term investor???
What typically happens following a bad month in the stock market???
Why not just take a step back and sit this market out for a while???
Those are the types of questions that come to mind when investors become emotional. However, knowledge from the studies of behavioral finance has proven time and again that if you can eliminate emotion from investing, you will succeed.
Attached you will find our thoughts on these questions in a piece titled, “ Long-Term is a Green Banana." Please don’t hesitate to give us a call if you have any questions, or would like to schedule a time to review your portfolios.
“Troubles never seem bigger than the present, even though those of yesterday were just as big.”