How often do you buy/sell stocks

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Re: How often do you buy/sell stocks

@queer

i think everyone has a different idea. in my case, every month the retirement accounts automatically buy some index funds and ETFs. for my personal account, i buy individual stocks - i try to buy and hold long term, hardly ever sell - so 3-4 purchases every 3-4 months. it is tedious work keeping track of individual companies so i follow a handful and usually just add to them.

used to buy stocks every time i had cash in the account but when the market crashed in 2008-2009 and everything was dirt cheap, i didnt have much money to buy. now i try to keep some cash buffer in the account in case some crazy dips happen in the market, but no major dips yet.

what stocks are you keen on?

Haven’t really looked in a while. I bought up Sprint a few months ago and that despite falling recently (rose due to the tmus merger) is going good. I just end up making a watchlist of stocks I’m either looking at, and a few I just want to know about (like fb,twitter, etc.).