I check mine too often. I need to check, say once a month. How often do you check? How often do you evaluate a possible change?
Once a week. I consider changes every time I check my stock portfolio. I have an investment counselor and I call him probably once a month. He usually convinces me to hold fast.
if it's stock, you'd better check them every few days! I don't care about the current price of gold, I"ve only got about 10k's worth, and god forbid that I ever need to sell it. It's "disaster money only". the rest of my 'investments' are cash flow, weekly room houses, and I don't care much about the value of those, either, as long as the money keeps flowing in from the rentals. Do you know how to read the IBD? have you read its publisher's book. HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN STOCK's. CONFESSIONS OF A STOCK OPERATOR is very good, as are Peter Lynch's books.
I check my stocks about once every two or three months. Sometimes will sneak a peak if I have heard the market indexes have really gained or lost a lot. I keep my stocks for at least a year so it is no big thing to me. I think all the stocks except 1 that I currently hold I have held for 3 years, and that 1 I have held for over a year.
Not really. I just throw extra money into my portfolio about once or twice a year so I look for about 2-4 weeks before I make the buy as to where I want to put it, and after that, it stays put until something better comes along, but since I only look about once or twice a year, I could be missing all sorts of betters. LOL. For as long as I have to go until I can retire, I figure surely it is not likely to lose money by then as I do not buy high dollar shares like Apple or google, or try to get in on things like fracking. I look for low cost shares in companies that have been around and are likely to stay around awhile so I can get as many shares as possible. In 40 years, they are bound to go up or go under and if they go under, it isn't like this was anything other than disposable money anyway.
Never. I let my broker deal with those complications. She's been with me since about 95 and has managed my portfolio well. Funny thing....I've never met her face to face. My wife on the other hand summarizes our investments and net worth on a monthly basis. She gives me the bottom line without going into any of the boring details.
