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Common Investor Mistakes
Gauging Risk
Buy & Hold Tragedy
Bear Markets
Buy & Hold Tragedy

Avoiding losses, especially catastrophic losses is the most important thing you can do to secure your financial security. There are always opportunities to make money in the stock market, but once you lose your investment, it makes it that much harder to recover.

This is why it is so important you partner with someone with the experience and the resources to watch your investments around the clock.

The table below demonstrates how difficult it is to recover from large losses. Don't let this happen to you.


Mathematics of Advances & Declines
If the decline is
It takes the following to break even
-10%
+12.5%
-25%
+33%
-33%
+50%
-50%
+100%
-75%
+300%
-90%
+900%
 
 


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