How often do you check your investments?

Tolteca87

A lot does depend if your portfolio is set to reinvest dividends automatically or if you need to decide what to do with them. This can have a big effect. I set up online access to my main SIPP during Lockdown 1 and found I'd had some big returns of capital on stock and the divs on ITs I bought in the 90's were now very substantial. I reinvested that in April and am now very happy with most of those ITs and stocks and as I locked in some great yields on top of the existing holdings now get to play with some nice chunks of change almost every month.

CFrog

I have a spreadsheet for monitoring both my and OH's ISAs and SIPPs that I update on a monthly basis.  I will check the status our HL accounts on a daily basis.

Vet

usually during weekdays, once a day!

HouseTargaryen

It's like when you get your first car, or fall in love with a new person. You look at them a lot. Then as time goes on you're still happy they're there, but sporadic checking of the oil/pulse/value satisfies you. 

dunroving

I'm now 3 years into retirement, on a modest defined benefits pension. I also have a fair bit in S&S ISAs and SIPPs (Fidelity and Hargreaves Lansdown).

When I was working, I only looked at my investments occasionally (every few months), and mainly because I had another lump to invest. As I was "in it for the long haul", I figured the ups and downs would cancel each other out and all I wanted was to make sure I was invested in a range of funds.

Now I am in draw-down phase, except I haven't drawn down anything (other than my 25% TFLS when I first retired, to pay off the mortgage)! Up until this past January, I looked over my investments only about once a month, and in fact in February 2019 started a once-a-month update, but just of the total balance in each account (2 ISAs, 2 SIPPs). 

This past February, I really started taking notice regularly, when the Covid crash hit. I created a detailed spreadsheet of each fund I was in, how much, and performance over 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years and 10 years. Early May, I decided to re-distribute my investments to (a) reduce the total number of funds from 15 to 9, and (b) move out of funds I just had bits and pieces in, and/or that I thought were not good bets for the near- to mid-term. These included an India fund, two small cap funds, and a couple of UK "opportunities" type funds. I also, for example, moved money from a Fidelity global index fund into the Vanguard global index fund (similarly, from M&G bond fund into the Fidelity bond fund), so instead of having two global funds, I only had one.

Since mid-year, I have checked my accounts at least once every day, but mainly out of interest, just to see what the total balance is doing from day to day. I wouldn't make any changes based on this, just trying to understand what I've got. Interestingly, my Fidelity ISA holdings have regained lost ground to pre-Covid levels, and my SIPP has regained and added 13%.

Every month, I repeat the process of recording the 1-month, 3-month, etc. performance of every fund, just for understanding. Interestingly, most of the funds I divested from were a good decision, except the India fund, which would have regained 27% from when I divested, and, and also the UK small-cap fund (which would have regained 33% from when I divested). C'est la vie, overall I'm happy with the performance of what I retained, and I'm happier tracking a smaller number of diverse funds.

chockydavid1983

Normally once a month. Occasionally if there's news of a crash / correction in the news, I'll check how much it's gone down in case of a really good opportunity to find some extra cash from somewhere to quickly invest - usually not as much of a drop as the media are making out though

agent69

Daily when the markets are going up, not so often when they are going down.

Sailtheworld

Every day at least. Don't know why because I hardly ever buy or sell anything.

ianthy

I glance the AJ Bell app plus Vanguard site once a week and then check fully at the end of each month. 

bermudianmark

Every morning before work