Question. What is your biggest challenge / struggle with investing?
Added 2021-11-05 04:22:03 +0000 UTCI’d love to hear about your journey in the comments below.
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Knowing when to cut my losses & sell. I’ve gone down 45% waiting for a stock to come back (yes, FOMO buying gets me there). So buying at the right time is another problem, keep buying more Tesla now but afraid it will put me back in FOMO buying & it will then turn downward. Separating mental from emotional buying/selling hard as a new investor
Heather
2021-11-08 16:00:23 +0000 UTCI really like this idea as well! :-)
Marco Wenninger
2021-11-08 14:14:01 +0000 UTCI recently retired, and now that I have time, have been focused on investing. I've had investments in stock baskets over the years so now it's a matter of pairing down to a manageable portfolio on companies I know/evaluate. The big challenge is whether to hold or cut bait on those that are down with little hope of recovery on the horizon.
Terrence Greene
2021-11-06 14:03:18 +0000 UTCGetting sucked into momentum and believing in a cause
Don Chao
2021-11-06 13:24:50 +0000 UTCraising more cash to take advantage of opportunities.
justin low
2021-11-06 02:19:36 +0000 UTCAnd when you finally buy the dip, it keeps going down!
Eric Hebert
2021-11-05 23:55:08 +0000 UTClack of time. I need to quit my day job so I can focus on investment research
Eric Hebert
2021-11-05 23:54:00 +0000 UTCa complete guide, step by step, how to research and pick any company. basically a checklist we can use to look at any company and determine whether this is a good, mediocre or bad investment. and not just financials, growth potential (opinion) and other ideas could be added in. i could really do with some sort of structured framework to enable me to gather all relevant information to start a position. brian feroldi (not sure if you know of him) has a framework but i would like to see your version of this tom. thanks MFer
chris mcdonough
2021-11-05 23:09:30 +0000 UTCMy biggest investing problem is locating enough stocks that have higher implied volatility to run the wheel strategy on, which I don’t care if I get assigned on because I wouldn’t mind owning them. Would you be willing to do a video on a few underlyings that have IV% above 80 with a solid business model / DCF and more than 20% upside?
Luke Muntner
2021-11-05 22:29:48 +0000 UTCWishing I would have started sooner. Wishing I had more to invest!
Cole Jacobsen
2021-11-05 22:26:44 +0000 UTCStarting from little knowledge of investing, but slowing learning on a daily basis. 1% daily change is my motto and I presume my investments will follow, in a positive way. Your videos are informative. Thank you.
JANET A
2021-11-05 20:34:55 +0000 UTChaving too many positions.
Jay Jay
2021-11-05 17:51:06 +0000 UTCI'm not good at selling, e.g. held ZM for too long and lost the sell window when at 450. I'm also questioning myself if I should be spending the number of hours I spend following the markets, studying particular stocks, or simply move to a simpler strategy of ETFs + 10 growth stocks that I understand 100%.
John Ostrowski
2021-11-05 17:49:08 +0000 UTCFor me it probably buying a winning stock when I didn't buy it before hand. Conviction want high enough it didn't have free cash to invest. Stock was at $100 now it's at $150 but it's probably going to $200 for an example. I find a mental block often thinking it will fall back down and I'll buy then... stock keeps going up..!
Zach
2021-11-05 17:15:14 +0000 UTCDisliking taxes enough to not want to sell what i know I should.
Chris27208
2021-11-05 17:07:45 +0000 UTCAccess to research data.. how do we find this data?
William Findley
2021-11-05 16:43:11 +0000 UTCI think my biggest challenge is not knowing how to do a proper valuation to come up with a target price, which has caused me to become over-reliant on others valuation. This of course in turn affects my conviction in the stock as I have no independent way of valuing a company. And yes, I will watch the DCF video again...
Char Striker
2021-11-05 16:16:29 +0000 UTCIt makes me feel so much better knowing I'm not the only one doing this. I think it's the relief I feel when I see green for the first time, after a long time of seeing red, that makes me happy at breaking even, instead of staying in for the long run.
Iggs
2021-11-05 16:09:08 +0000 UTCPATIENCE!!!!!!! I keep selling for small profits and then losing 3x the profits I could've made. Or when I'm down big and the price comes back to where I'm almost break-even ill sell so it doesn't go back down to bag holding prices and then it goes above my average... then even more... then even more and I've lost on potential profits.
Ethan Watkins-Gerren
2021-11-05 15:36:25 +0000 UTCAlso, simplifying my portfolios. I get caught up in having diversity and end up overwhelmed with too many stocks.
Stephen Gibbs
2021-11-05 14:24:06 +0000 UTCI’m starting to think growth comes with patience.
Stephen Gibbs
2021-11-05 14:22:30 +0000 UTCPatience and DD. I want to find someone to follow blindly, but that guy tells me I’m an idiot if I don’t do my own research 😂😂😂. I think I’ll stick with him and work away from following blindly.
Stephen Gibbs
2021-11-05 14:22:06 +0000 UTCI am new to investing, I have 1.5 experience so far. My biggest regret was not selling all my holdings back in February, my portfolio was running on over 110% gain, I did not sell a single stock. Today my portfolio is around 10% gain. That was a massive missed opportunity.
E tinos
2021-11-05 13:41:47 +0000 UTCHaving patience, lack of money.
Capt. Chuck
2021-11-05 13:36:31 +0000 UTCProbably offsetting emotions on short term trades
E tinos
2021-11-05 13:32:21 +0000 UTCWanting to change long term strategy when the stocks go down and l get interested in other stocks. I have to keep reminding myself it was a decade long decision.
Rav
2021-11-05 13:06:17 +0000 UTCUsed to have many issues with investing when I was trying to play the markets, but when I decided to just play the long game a few years ago, it made it pretty simple, buy high conviction stocks like Tesla & Palantir and just sit on them for years, makes investing simple and I made a hella of a lot more money this way.
Alain Donais
2021-11-05 12:41:59 +0000 UTCFomo
Eimantas Didzbalis
2021-11-05 12:41:15 +0000 UTCHow to find the new 10-100 Baggers!
William Rilling
2021-11-05 12:24:59 +0000 UTCLetting go of greed. I had to paint 15% on the wall of my trading room to hold me accountable to sell when I needed to.
Brett Bosserman
2021-11-05 12:18:11 +0000 UTCI have been knocking it out of the park with Tom's help forsure. My biggest issues are taking profits too soon. Not letting my runners run. For that fact, not using Stop losses correctly either. Timing is everything, mines off, lol.
Lynn
2021-11-05 10:26:37 +0000 UTCDoing my own research how to analyse in depth. Better understanding dcfs
Ali Dadfar
2021-11-05 09:05:06 +0000 UTC- Time to perform due diligences - Difficulty to adapt what I hear (e.g your videos) to my own case. Example: should I invest in lots of companies with my limited investment, leading to small amounts but very spread, or concentrate bigger amount (e.g never less than 500$) on less stocks - Lack of confidence / knowledge on how to prepare an exit strategy by fear of losing the ATH or getting over it and exit too late
Thomas Masson
2021-11-05 09:03:41 +0000 UTCSelf-Control. Had I mastered that, I would already be retired by now.
CC
2021-11-05 08:51:36 +0000 UTCHard time with the timeframe of my investments and how I plan my investments. One part long. One part swing. At the same time I don't know what to long, what to swing...🤔
Johan Reynols
2021-11-05 08:36:50 +0000 UTCInvestment risk management. I know about trading risk management, but I need convincing and educating on investment risk management . For example is diversification really so important? The less aircraft engines you have, the less potential for failure!
Philip Ireland
2021-11-05 06:01:59 +0000 UTCMy biggest problem is knowing when to sell. I often hold on to a big gainer too long only to watch profits dwindle, like what I have done with $AMGN lately. No matter how painful it might be to watch a stock continue to go up without me I need to learn to trim profits on the way up.
James Baum
2021-11-05 06:00:55 +0000 UTCFinding the time to regularly invest into myself regarding stock market knowledge. Having two kids and a wife with own business, there is always something else to do...
AB
2021-11-05 05:54:14 +0000 UTCTaking profits from well performing companies. But if I don’t, Then new investment in other companies is slow. My portfolio is therefore tight and not diverse.
Philip Ireland
2021-11-05 05:53:51 +0000 UTCIn terms of what I struggle with most, I think it's figuring out how to integrate my ethical framework with my investing framework. The choices are rarely simple. In terms of what has impacted my returns the most, it's finding the energy to put into investing. I'm sole caretaker for my mom, and it's a very challenging job that doesn't leave me with a lot of bandwidth for anything else. I mostly ignored my investments for several years, but have forced myself to expend more effort recently. I started investing in individual stocks in 2008, and have done fairly well, beating the S&P and NASDAQ over that time, but I think I could have done better if I didn't have that dark period.
Mike Ramsey
2021-11-05 05:51:02 +0000 UTCPosition sizing based on risk
Peter Hollero
2021-11-05 05:45:23 +0000 UTCFear of buying when a stock is overvalued based on historic metrics such as P/E, P/S, FPE ratios. E.g., Sold Apple stock at $138 because historic P/E ratio is only 9-16 and now it’s a 26. Fear of joining in is too powerful. Always sitting on too much cash.
PaulB
2021-11-05 05:30:55 +0000 UTCTrying to figure out which companies to invest in. There are so many good choices it is difficult to narrow down my choices even after I do a deep dive into them!
Michael Wu
2021-11-05 05:29:10 +0000 UTCNew to investing, about 2 years, and not having experienced a recession.
Konstantinos Gialitakis
2021-11-05 05:12:41 +0000 UTCFinding new opportunities. And doing the deep research. I feel like I do not check the company enough before I buy
SvenVisuals
2021-11-05 05:09:26 +0000 UTCFear of loss leading to inaction.
Bikram Kashyap
2021-11-05 05:08:45 +0000 UTCToo conservative on investing as we work too hard for our $$
Kenw K
2021-11-05 05:05:06 +0000 UTCStill learning about evaluation. Not enough experience. But probably mainly discipline. Discipline to pace my growth, discipline to follow rules, discipline to stay convicted, discipline not to fomo.
C L
2021-11-05 05:04:44 +0000 UTCHaving enough conviction and timing when to deploy more cash. Currently, only 50% of my cash is invested, 20% in Physical gold, 1% Crypto, the rest is mostly stock but some small amount in Options.
Tom Deschenes
2021-11-05 05:00:31 +0000 UTCAlways trying to time the market, missed the recent rally because I was waiting for a larger dip.
Alex Stec
2021-11-05 04:45:26 +0000 UTCPortfolio balance
I’ll be right back
2021-11-05 04:44:23 +0000 UTCFinding winners before ATHs.
Sarah
2021-11-05 04:44:17 +0000 UTCSelling at the worst possible time, when market is dropping
bl tay
2021-11-05 04:37:02 +0000 UTCEmotions and recovering from large losses.
gehau
2021-11-05 04:34:52 +0000 UTCI’m sitting in the background, so far you are doing well for me and my family, thx Tom
Rob
2021-11-05 04:30:41 +0000 UTCnot being able to control myself from FOMO
Tung Pham
2021-11-05 04:30:22 +0000 UTCExit strategies / when to sell
Steven Zhang
2021-11-05 04:30:08 +0000 UTCBuying growth or waiting on potential growth to be recognizing by the market Trimming winners as they go up just to see them go up some more, do you buy back after you missed 20, 30 or 40% or wait for a dip
Ali Z
2021-11-05 04:28:53 +0000 UTCEmmanuel, share some
Mohamed Al Hasan
2021-11-05 04:27:54 +0000 UTCPutting money in regularly
Bidenhasdementia
2021-11-05 04:27:34 +0000 UTCKnowing when to say “enough, I’m happy with the profits”
Mohamed Al Hasan
2021-11-05 04:27:14 +0000 UTCRebuilding from scratch. I was a degenerate gambler and lost a lot of my portfolio. Now that I know what I’m doing, I have to take less plays, wait longer, secure profits quicker. Whereas, I can share some good ideas with others and they run with it with more leverage and day trading ability.
Emmanuel Rivera
2021-11-05 04:25:23 +0000 UTCI get impatient while making decisions.. I always say to myself that i will wait for a lower value but end up buying at market value.. Thanks for asking 😊👍
ketan darbastwar
2021-11-05 04:24:41 +0000 UTCHaving time to do proper due diligence myself (busy work, kids etc.)
Filip Kielar
2021-11-05 04:23:42 +0000 UTCSticking to a pre-planned exit strategy on my high conviction stocks.
Hector
2021-11-05 04:23:40 +0000 UTC
