• November 8, 2023

Don’t Hit That Sell Button Until 2024

When you see a slew of losses in your brokerage account, it’s easy to get an itchy trigger finger for that sell button. There’s not much that’s certain about the market, but I’m positive that stocks go up and down every day.

Sometimes, there’s a good reason why a stock spikes­—the rollout of a blockbuster new product—or it crashes after a dividend cut. Most of the time, it’s nothing more than investor emotions du jour that sends a stock climbing or falling. And because of how market dynamics...