How Many Shares Should You Buy When Trading Stocks
Swing Trading the Stock Market
Ryan Mallory
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🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
How many shares should you buy when it comes to trading stocks? I go over it all, including the fallacy that you should buy cheap stocks because you can have more shares. Stocks with a low share price often leads to more risk and more losses as a result.
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| 0:33.9 | Learn to trade stock successfully. Learn to profit consistently. I'm Ryan Mallory and on my weekly |
| 0:40.6 | podcast, I'm going to teach you the ends and outs of a complex, ever-changing stock market. |
| 0:47.5 | You will learn to trade better, trade smarter, and profit bigger. Now, let's go trade. |
| 0:56.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:57.2 | This is Ryan Mallory with a share planner, swing trading podcast coming at you with my 11th episode in this podcast channel. |
| 1:06.2 | So the topic for today is going to be about the number of shares that you buy when it comes to trading and why it doesn't even matter. |
| 1:15.5 | How many shares you can pie does not matter. |
| 1:20.1 | I know, I know we all want to have thousands and thousands of shares of a particular stock in our portfolio. |
| 1:27.1 | It makes us feel big |
| 1:28.8 | league like we have a major stake invested in the company. If we have a lot of shares allocated to us |
| 1:34.5 | on a trade, somehow we trick ourselves into thinking that we are going to make more money too. |
| 1:42.4 | Instead, the exact opposite is true about the number of shares we buy. That's right. |
| 1:47.3 | If we are buying a stock in El Chippo Incorporated because we can buy 100,000 shares at a penny |
| 1:53.7 | a share, we are truly fooling ourselves into thinking that somehow having more shares allocated |
| 1:58.4 | to the portfolio at a cheap price will make us more prosperous |
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