3139: Want to Be a Better Investor? Stop Staring at Your Portfolio by Vitaliy Katsenelson on Building Wealth

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3139: Vitaliy Katsenelson argues that obsessively monitoring your portfolio can lead to emotional decision-making and worse investment outcomes. Instead, he urges investors to zoom out, think long term, and treat investing more like watching paint dry, boring, but ultimately rewarding. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://contrarianedge.com/want-to-be-a-better-investor-stop-staring-at-your-portfolio/ Quotes to ponder: "Most of the mistakes I’ve made as an investor happened when I got too close to the action." "Stocks are not pieces of paper that wiggle up and down on a computer screen. They are partial ownerships of businesses." "Watching your portfolio too closely is like watching paint dry, it makes time slow down and tempts you to act when you shouldn’t." Episode references: Fooled by Randomness: https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/0812975219 Meditations: https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0812968255 The Intelligent Investor: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Value-Investing/dp/0060555661 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:42.4	Stop staring at your portfolio by Vitaly Katzenelson of contrarianedge.com.
1:49.7	Investors are prone to two opposing but equally debilitating fears, the fear of missing out
1:55.6	when times are good and the fear of loss when markets are volatile.
2:00.2	These two fears have a zero-sum relationship with
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