Have you ever felt a thrill from purchasing a new investment? You begin with high hopes for the future, but as time draws on, the peaks and valleys that your investment undergoes as a result of normal market movements make you uncomfortable. Occasionally, your discomfort leads you to sell you investment simply to regain a […]
Negative events in the media may cause people to react emotionally and lose sight of their investment strategy. In the past three decades alone, there have been a number of events that may have kept investors on the sidelines. When you look at the big picture, over the last 30 calendar years, the S&P/TSX Composite […]
Trying to time the market may cause an investor to miss out on long-term growth. Let’s take a look at the impact of missing the best one % of days over 30 years while investing $10,000 in S&P/TSX Composite Price Index (“TSX”) As history of the markets has demonstrated, during previous bear markets, Canadian equities […]
The Rise and Fall of Emotional Investing
Have you ever felt a thrill from purchasing a new investment? You begin with high hopes for the future, but as time draws on, the peaks and valleys that your investment undergoes as a result of normal market movements make you uncomfortable. Occasionally, your discomfort leads you to sell you investment simply to regain a […]