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long-term investing
Articles on long-term investing - plain-English guides from the MoatMint knowledge base.
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The Disposition Effect: Why Selling Your Winners Too Early Is a Costly MistakeThe disposition effect is the documented tendency to sell winning investments too early and hold losing ones too long. It is a well-studied cognitive bias, and it tends to feel like good sense, which is what makes it expensive. Selling a stock the moment it shPortfolio Strategy · 6 min readWhat Is a Buy and Hold Strategy? Why It Works and How to Run OneA buy and hold strategy means buying shares in good businesses and holding them for years, through the market's ups and downs, instead of trading in and out. Own businesses worth owning, then give them time to compound. The buying is easy. The discipline to kePortfolio Strategy · 6 min readHow to Find the Best Stocks to Buy and HoldThe best stocks to buy and hold are not the ones trending this week. They are durable, profitable businesses you can own through good years and bad ones, and keep owning while their earnings compound. No fixed list stays best for long, so the useful skill is kQuality & Compounders · 6 min readDiversification vs Concentration: How Many Stocks Should You Own?Diversification is not overrated for most investors. Spreading your money across many holdings is the most reliable way to cut risk, and for the average investor it should be the default. But it can be overdone. Past a point, adding more stocks stops lowering Portfolio Strategy · 7 min readWhat Is a Stock Rating?A stock rating condenses a company's fundamentals and its stock's behavior into a single score, so you can compare many companies at a glance.
Ratings come in two kinds: analyst ratings written by people, and quantitative ratings built by a model. MoatMint's iQuality & Compounders · 5 min read