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When Portfolio Monitoring Becomes Hazardous to Health
By Stocks N Savings  •  February 6, 2015
At my work desk, I have four 17-inch PC monitors for use.  There is plenty of desktop real estate which I can pull up data tables, charts and watch the global stock markets dance in unison.  At one corner of my massive canvas, I have a tiny window that displays the real-time prices of my S-Reit holdings. Lately, I came to the realization that this tiny window is actually doing me more harm than good.  It made me consciously aware of the intraday price movements of my S-Reits.  Bad idea.  Really.  I get a skipped heartbeat whenever the price ticks down and the number turns red.  I get a ridiculous whisker of joy when the price ticks up and the number turns green. I know that I have bought those counters for the long run.  I am an investor, not a trader.  I am not scalping for slivers of price ......
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By Stocks N Savings
SS is a wage slave in his early forties. He works in the information technology industry. (Technically, his employer has been operating a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform long before the world has heard about the Internet.)
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