Should You Sell Stocks Now?
Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast
Taylor Schulte, CFP®
4.7 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Should You Sell Stocks Now?
After 9 years of stock market gains, many of you are wondering if now is a good time to sell your stocks.
We know this because the blog post we wrote on the topic received a ton of attention. So, today, we are tackling that question.
A few things to think about before deciding if now is the time to sell your stocks.
- How does this fit into your time horizon and long-term financial goals?
- If you're investing for a time period of fewer than 10 years, are you taking too much risk by investing in stocks?
- Will you be able to get the long-term investment returns you need by selling stocks now?
- This and more in today's episode.
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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, or other professional services.
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| 0:00.0 | On any given day, there's a 50% roughly, 50% chance that you'll be right and a 50% change. |
| 0:07.0 | You'll be wrong. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome to Stay Wealthy San Diego, a show for successful professionals doing all the right things with their money and are ready to take their financial plan to the next level. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm certified financial planner Taylor |
| 0:21.7 | Schulte, and I'm here to teach you advanced financial planning strategies in plain English. |
| 0:28.4 | This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon |
| 0:33.2 | as a basis for investment decisions. This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, |
| 0:37.9 | or other professional services. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to Stay Wealthy, San Diego. If you've been a listener of the show, you know that I |
| 0:48.6 | mentioned we would be making some changes and improvements starting this month. One of those changes is bringing on |
| 0:56.0 | fellow certified financial planner John Luskin to co-host with me. Hello, podcast people. |
| 1:02.8 | John and I, we work closely together. He's a super sharp guy, and I think you will really enjoy |
| 1:08.4 | and benefit from his perspective on all things financial planning. |
| 1:13.5 | John does a lot of writing for our firm blog. Maybe you've come across some of his blog posts, |
| 1:17.9 | but these blog posts actually typically begin as a question from a client or a potential client |
| 1:24.5 | or someone random that just threw a really good question at us, |
| 1:28.1 | those questions end up becoming a blog post. |
| 1:30.2 | And one blog post in particular that's been getting a ton of traction on our blog, not surprisingly, |
| 1:36.9 | is a blog post titled, Should I Sell Stocks Now? |
| 1:42.2 | And because of all the traction it's getting, we thought we would start by diving |
| 1:46.1 | into this topic a little bit more today. The stock market has been screaming upwards for nine |
| 1:51.5 | years now. And I think just about everybody's asked themselves this question, is it time to get out |
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