IFB186: Portfolio Makeover, Lithium Battery Stocks, Active Bond Trading

Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show we discuss: * How to adjust your portfolio if you are unhappy with its performance* How to view learning and the compounding effect* The potential of Lithium and the battery industry* Bond ETFs versus active bond investing For more insight like this into investing and stock selection for beginners, visit stockmarketpdf.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Tunein Transcript Announcer (00:02): I love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quick. They actually got me into reading stats for anything you’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern with step-by-step premium investing guidance for beginners. Your path to financial freedom starts now. Dave (00:32): All right, folks, we’ll welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast. Tonight. We have episode 186. We’re going to return to answering a great list of questions. We’ve got three fantastic ones that we’re going to go ahead and answer for you guys tonight. So I’m going to go ahead and read the first one and then Andrew and I will do our usual give and take. So here we go. Ben here from the UK London, first off great podcast from yourself and Dave top stuff. And it’s my daily routine of listening to and from work every day. My question is about a new investor. Basically, I’ve jumped the gun, so to speak. I’ve begun investing as I’ve been learning, only to realize that I have not done anywhere near enough research on the companies. I have kept my portfolio diverse, but I have basically just bought a lot of companies that have been hit hard because of COVID locally; within the timeframe that I’ve been investing around a month or so, my portfolio is up around six to 8% mainly because of Tesla LOL, but I’d say that it was around a 50, 50 split on the companies either in green or red. Dave (01:35): So what I’m wondering is would you think on Keepa keeping the portfolio short term, hoping they’ll arise and then economy co COVID sorts itself out or sell, take the 68% and go straight back to the drawing boards? My thought was to hold out, not invest any more money, keep warning, listening to your podcasts, reading, et cetera, then hopefully. So making any profit,