Breaking Up With a Stock

Andrew Jeffery  Feb 12, 2008 10:30 am

Breaking Up With a Stock
 
You always knew this day would come.
 

 
Like love, investing requires you to be dedicated. But knowing when to cut your losses may be the most important requirement of all. Note the eerily similar relationship between man and woman, and man and stock pick.



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02-12-2008, 11:53 am
I always do the Post It break up by placing a trailing stop. Set it and forget it. The only difference is how much wiggle room I will let it have before we break up.

If it has been good to me, it has a bit more wiggle than on a first da
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02-12-2008, 11:58 am
Rick, you're such a romantic! The women must absolutely swoon around you. :>)
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02-12-2008, 12:13 pm
Michael, these women can be very deceiving. Specially the steamy and hot ones. And boy, they are flirtatious.
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