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There have been many articles written about the rules of investing in the financial<\/strong> markets and the basics of them all center<\/strong> around 5 important concepts: <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Sell losing positions quickly <\/li>\n
  2. Let winners continue to win – until they don’t any more. <\/li>\n
  3. Never take on more risk<\/strong> than you can afford to lose. <\/li>\n
  4. Always protect your capital<\/strong> investment by minimizing losses. <\/li>\n
  5. Buy low and sell high.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The “risk<\/strong>” of loss<\/strong> of investment capital<\/strong> at the current time<\/strong> is outweighed by the potential for return<\/strong>.  – very true if you look<\/strong> at the last<\/strong> month<\/strong> or even the last<\/strong> 4 months\u2026 <\/p>\n

    I am not sure how low it will go but the news<\/strong> is not good and the outlooks worse.  Just thoughts from the trenches.  – WD0AJG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There have been many articles written about the rules of investing in the financial markets and the basics of them all center around 5 important concepts: <\/p>\n

    Sell losing positions quickly Let winners continue to win – until they don’t any more. Never take on more risk than you can afford to lose. Always protect your capital investment by minimizing losses. Buy low and sell high. <\/p>\n

    The “risk” of loss of investment capital at the current time is outweighed by the potential for return.  – very true if you look at the last month or even the last 4 months\u2026 <\/p>\n

    I am not sure how low it will go but the news is not good and the outlooks worse.  Just thoughts from the trenches.  <\/p>\n

    “And Now the Rest of the Story – “Collected Wisdom in investing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nCollected Wisdom in investing - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/collected-wisdom-in-investing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collected Wisdom in investing - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There have been many articles written about the rules of investing in the financial markets and the basics of them all center around 5 important concepts: Sell losing positions quickly Let winners continue to win – until they don’t any more. 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