Beginning an Investment Journey...

[Boggo]

...stocks with good financials and sound businesses will carry on, the SP will inevitably go up and down and that has to be planned for...selling for a short term loss when investing for the long term is so so often the wrong decision.

You should know better Boggo...having a lend no..

I do know better SC, that obviously works for you but I think it is a very broad, generic and a potentially misleading statement to make in a thread with a heading associated with 'beginning'.

If someone was to start out with that approach and their first 'investment' was HHL then they would be in more trouble than the first settlers at the moment.

Protection of capital is the first priority that should be hammered home especially in a thread associated with 'beginning'.

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