When will you sell a stock? Recently, a reader asked me when I will totally sell off a stock from my stock portfolio. Totally selling off a stock can also be termed as “Divestment”. It has been a long time since I divested anything from my stock portfolio. Looking back at some of my old posts, below are some of the stocks that I have divested.

• Goodbye M1
• Goodbye Sheng Siong
• Goodbye Cambridge Industrial Trust
• Goodbye StarHub
• Goodbye Keppel REIT
• Goodbye Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust
• Goodbye SoilBuild Business Space REIT
• Goodbye Suntec REIT
• Goodbye Kingsmen Creatives
• Goodbye The Hour Glass
• Goodbye Frasers Commercial Trust
• NeraTel – An Abandoned Child

That is a total of 12 stocks that I have divested over 13 years of stock investing. I do not buy and sell stocks everyday as that will define one as a “trader”, not a stock investor. Below are some of the reasons I may divest a stock....