Another Rough Day For Stocks

The market was down again today. The key is not to panic when your investments go down. As Jim Cramer says "no one ever made a dime panicking." I know it's rough when you see lots of red, but over any twenty year period, no asset class has outperformed high quality dividend paying stocks. Another note, If you read Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Grahm, the premier value investor, he constantly says throughout the book that the more stocks go down, the more attractive they become. I highly recommend purchasing this book.

Stocks stop going down at zero. Go over your portfolio and make sure you own high quality companies that will continue to be profitable. Buying low and selling high is one of the hardest things to do but you have to be able to not panic, remain focused on high quality companies, and consider adding to your high quality positions as they go down and sell into strength.