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A HERETIC QUESTIONS BUY & HOLD DOGMA, AND OFFERS ASSISTANCE WITH SELLING
Donald CassidyFounder and President,
Retirement Investing Institutepure investor education with NO sales agenda
303-988-2296www . R-I-I . org
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A “LITTLE SECRET” :
BUY & HOLD
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RANDOM WALK
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NO REASON FOR OUR JOBS
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ACTUAL REALITY:
THINGS CHANGE
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PRICES TREND
(TO EXCESSES)
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THE NEED TO SELL
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WHAT WE DO… ELSEWHERE
Trade-In the Problem CarSell the House and Move
Quit the JobBurn/Donate the Leisure Suits
Change Majors/CollegesElect a new Government
Separate/Divorce
… but HOLD the bad stock!
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AGENDA
• Why It’s Important
• What the Problems Are
• What to DO
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WHY SELLING WELL IS CRUCIAL
•Things Change!
•Limit our Losses
•Capture Unreasonable Gains
•Perform in Range-Bound Market
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Cassidy’s RULE OF 3-4-5-6
STOCKS RARELY RISE, IN A ROW, MORE THAN…
3 Years
4 Months
5 Weeks
6 Trading Sessions
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WHY TO SELL
• Humans Make Imperfect Choices!
• Avoid Losses
• Capture Unexpected Windfalls
• Planned Target is Reached
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TRIGGERS FOR SELL ACTION
• Fundamental Analysis
• Technical Analysis
• Behavioural Analysis
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FUNDAMENTAL SIGNALS TO SELL
• Overall Market High
• Adverse Valuation Change for Stock
– Price/valuation metrics get too high
– Corporate fundamentals deteriorate
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TECHNICAL-ANALYSIS SIGNALS TO SELL
• Best: Price Up Too Far, Too Fast– Volume/Price Crescendo/Spike– MACD (moving average convergence/divergence)
• Less Good: Price Pattern Breaks Down– Breaks below channel– Breaks below support level– Breaks Moving Average(s) (real late)
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Chart-Visible Reversal Clues
Unsustainable Slope +/-
Acceleration +/-
Volume Spikes
Volume Crescendos(yes, technical analysis; sorry!)
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FOUR BEHAVIOURALSIGNS TO WATCH…
* Mutual-Fund Net Flowswww. IFIC .Ca
(www. ICI . Org)
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Current Flows and Recent Performance
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A GREAT Contrary Timing Indicator (www .ICI .org)
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NOT CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS
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BEHAVIOURAL SIGNALS TO SELL
• Feeling Real Good (over-confident)
• Stock Market is Broad-Public News
• Market Headlines off the Business Page
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MORE BEHAVIORAL SIGNS TO SELL
• Market is conversation topic socially and at work
• Market is subject of humor, advertising, TV/movie plots
• People Quitting their Day Jobs
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Don’t Over-stay!
Our comfort is ways greatest when danger of loss is highest.
( We perceive risk180 degrees backwards.)
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FALLACIES in B&H•Even zealots blink at the bottom!
•Pretends commissions/taxes are the main problem
•Assumes BUY decision was perfect
•Pretends no inflated price is too high
•Hopes bad companies will mend
•Ignores market’s emotional extremes
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DETERRENTS TO OVERCOME
•Long-term Trend IS up
•Fits non-judgmental culture
•Want to avoid mistakes (closure
ends hope)
•Intuitive contradiction of selling on good news!
•Scary market, or company factors?
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BEHAVIOURAL FINANCEINSIGHTS:
Endowment Effect
Cognitive Dissonance
Disloyalty and Closure Avoidances
Decision Stress Avoidance
Comfort Seeking / Perfectionism
Vividness of Evidence/Social Proof
Reinforcement
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BEHAVIOURS NOT TO IGNORE
•“It’s Different this time!”
•Other Rationalizations
•Celebration Behaviour
•Loud Media Drumbeat
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Good Selling: To-DOs
•Have a sell plan when buying
•Spend Equal Thinking Time
•Use an A-A discipline
•ASSUME change!
•Give up on being perfect
•Watch Behavioural Signs of Highs
•Sell on first to speak: fundamentals OR technical analysis
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SELLING: OPERATIONAL LEVEL
•Date, don’t marry, your darlings
•Graciously accept unreasonable returns
•Sell volume crescendos, spikes (Internet compression effect!)
•Believe the cockroach theory!
•Keep a notebook on yourself
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STOP AND LIMIT ORDERS
* Enter target sells using P-S-T
* Your cost not a valid factor
* Stops not at arbitrary percent down
* Use chart patterns to set stops
* Avoid the bad odds of EPS time!- admittedly, more practical for smaller portfolios
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Good Selling: DON’Ts List
•Don’t let Taxes rule thinking
•Don’t view sale as permanent verdict–Don’t confuse stock with company
•Don’t Fixate on meaningless numbers
•Don’t Rationalize
•Don’t reach for one more day or point
•Don’t sell @ open unless the bad news is corporate cancer or scandal
•Don’t lower or pull your stops
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The ACID-TEST Question !!
W Y B I T
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Thanks for Your Kind Invitation !
Don Cassidy
Retirement Investing Institute pure investor education with NO sales agenda
www . R-I-I . org USA + 303-988-2296