May Mailbag: When to Add to Winners, Movie Villain Clichés, Short Selling, and More

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🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Should you add a new stock to your portfolio or double down on one of your winners? Why are corporations always the evil villains in the movies? Should your experience as a customer influence your investing decisions? Plus, an optimistic view on the future of Twitter. All this and more as Fools jump in on the May mailbag episode.

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:07.0	And welcome back to this week's Rule Breaker Investing Podcast.
0:13.9	I'm David Gardner, and it is Mailbag Week.
0:16.2	It is the final Wednesday of this month.
0:18.6	Therefore, we go to the Mailbag.
0:22.0	And the only reason we have a Mail bag is because you fill it up and thank you for your good questions this week.
0:27.0	A reminder we're always RBI at fool.com or at rBI podcast on Twitter. You can tweet or email questions and I'll already be getting
0:36.7	ready for next month's mailbag. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We still have May to go.
0:42.3	You know May's been a remarkable month in the Washington, D.C. area.
0:46.0	18 of the first 23 days of May featured rain and the average afternoon high was 15 degrees cooler than it was last May, May of 2015.
0:58.6	So we are just having our first day of sun as I tape on May 24th in quite a long time. In fact for the first
1:06.3	time the temperature will go over 80 degrees here in the Washington DC area
1:10.4	for the entire month of May, truly remarkable.
1:14.0	All right, well with that said, a cool and rainy month.
1:16.2	Let's go for some cool and rainy mail.
1:19.7	Let's start it off with at small cap Danny. Dan Schmidty dropped this simple note he said all else
1:25.2	equal would you rather start a new position or add to a winner would you rather
1:31.7	start a new position or add to a winner?
1:35.0	Well, first of all, Dan, let me just say,
1:38.0	good job that you're asking that question.
1:40.0	Sounds to me like you have some money that you're ready to invest and you're actively thinking
1:44.2	about where to put it best.
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