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  • Selling off stocks when they’re down on 2010/07/12 by Alex, [FAQ] Hatena Bookmark

    Question: Based on the advice in your newsletter back in April, I switched to 100% S Fund @ 19.0601 per share. Currently the share price of the S Fund is 16.5461 per share. My question is this: would I not lose a lot by selling off the S fund shares now at a lower price [...]

  • Locking in losses on 2010/01/06 by Alex, [FAQ] Hatena Bookmark

    I regularly receive emails from people who tell me that they have been following some investment methodology, such as buy and hold, have recently lost a lot of money, have found our newsletters, want to follow our newsletter, but are afraid. (Boy, was that a mouthful. ) They are afraid that by switching out of [...]

  • Focus on return and risk, not price; losses are locked in as they occur on 2009/07/10 by Alex, [FAQ] Hatena Bookmark

    Question: If I reallocate my current holdings per your advice (possibly twice per month), won’t I be hurting myself by selling off the shares I have purchased at lower prices?  For instance, if I hypothetically have an average share price of $13 for a large number of shares in the C fund which I’ve invested [...]

  • Accumulating shares and paper losses on 2009/03/03 by Alex, [FAQ] Hatena Bookmark

    Question. I am confused about the use of the terrm “shares” within TSP literature. As stock prices drop, I often hear people say that their TSP losses are merely “paper losses” because they are accumulating shares. Is this correct? Response. What a great question. There is so much confusion on this issue. So many people [...]