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Keeping Your Emotions
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by Gene Walden
In times like these, with the economy in a tailspin, and the stock market in the tank, investing requires an extra dose of patience, perseverance and perspective.
It takes patience to ride out the bear market, perseverance to continue to invest even through a difficult economy, and perspective to see the long-term picture and realize that recessions and bear markets are just part of the natural economic cycle. Slumping economies and bear markets of the past have always turned around — and there is no reason to believe that this time will be any different.
The key to successful investing is to keep your emotions in check through good times and bad. Volatile markets can wreak havoc on your emotions. But those emotions — fear, greed, impatience and unrealistic expectations — are often the greatest obstacles... MORE
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