Beginner exit strategy on stocks?

Eyeful

aroominyork said:

Eyeful said:

4. You are supposed to learn share fundamentals, before investing not after.

Have you ever heard that in life you can only learn a certain amount from theory - the rest you learn from experience.

I have great respect for experience, having been and taught engineering.
You learn theory before practice, otherwise someone may end up badly injured or dead.
There are also those who do not learn from experience but keep making making the same mistakes.

LHW99

I have invested in a few single shares, but mostly in funds / IT's. I tend to start checking more often if something has doubled in value, but otherwise if I'm happy with what a company does / plans to do and the debt load doesn't seem to be increasing beyond what I regard as acceptable I leave things alone.

Bostonerimus1

EasyToAssemble01 said:

Hoenir said: For a good read on individual stock selection I can highly recommend 

The Smart Money Method: How to pick stocks like a hedge fund pro by Stephen Clapham. 

Great, thanks for the recommend. I'll look into that.

Maybe temper this by learning about what happened to Long Term Capital Management, although that's more to do with bonds. Similar, if less dramatic, lessons can be learnt from Woodford.