Topic: Wealth Management

Stock investment tips: Don’t miss our 2 urgent “sell” recommendations

Tonight at 6 p.m., we’ll issue 2 urgent “sell” recommendations in our Successful Investor Email/Telephone Hotlines. If you’re holding these 2 companies, we think it’s crucial that you sell them immediately to take profits—and avoid the potential for big losses—in your investment portfolio.

Read on to learn how you can be among the first to get full details on these stocks with no cost and no obligation.

3 stock investment tips for deciding when to sell

Investors often ask us when they should sell a weak stock from their portfolio and replace it with something new.

The answer is different for every stock. The general rule: you should be eager to sell speculative stocks with poor prospects. But you should be reluctant to sell high-quality stocks that have a well-established business with a history of profit and, better yet, dividends. That’s because these stocks should make up the bulk of your portfolio.

Here are 3 stock investment tips for why you might want to sell a prosperous, well-established dividend-paying stock.

  1. The company’s outlook has deteriorated. It has taken on major projects that appear headed for failure. Or, it shows signs of bad management or lasting external difficulties that will cut into earnings. Or it has borrowed heavily, perhaps to make itself unattractive to companies that might have wanted to bid for it.
  2. The market outlook has deteriorated. You would, of course, sell if you knew the market was headed for a broad setback that could go on for a year or two, or possibly longer. However, market declines like these are rare and hard to predict. At any given time, somebody is predicting that a market decline like this or worse is just around the corner. Most of these predictions turn out wrong.

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  1. Your circumstances have changed. You need cash now more than you need future growth or dividends. Or you have retired or lost your job, and you need to cut your investment risk by selling some stocks. This is usually your soundest reason for selling a high-quality stock.

Our stock investment tips: Always keep in mind that selling costs money. You have to pay brokerage commissions. You also lose money to the bid-ask spread. You may have to pay taxes on gains in investments you hold outside your RRSP. To avoid these costs, invest mainly in well-established stocks that you might want to hold on to more or less indefinitely.

Stock investment tips: Protect your portfolio by selling these 2 stocks right away!

As I mentioned, in tonight’s Successful Investor Email/Telephone Hotlines (which we send out to Successful Investor subscribers at 6 p.m.), we name 2 companies that we think you should sell right away to take profits—and avoid the potential for big losses.

I want you to be among the first to get these urgent sell recommendations. That’s why I’m sending this information out as soon as possible—tonight at 6 p.m.—so you’ll have plenty of time to place your sell order before the markets open Monday morning.

But to get tonight’s Successful Investor Hotline, and full details on these 2 stocks, you must take a FREE trial to The Successful Investor right away. When you do, you’ll get one free month of The Successful Investor and 6 Special Reports—all with no cost or obligation.

Best of all, we’ll email you tonight’s Hotline at 6 p.m. (including full details on our 2 latest sells). If you order after 6 p.m., you’ll be able to immediately view the Hotline in our Hotline archives on tsinetwork.ca. Don’t miss out! Click here to start your free trial to The Successful Investor right away.

Comments

  • I’m a TSI subscriber. If the recommendation to sell is urgent why are you withholding the information until after market close??

    Or is this just yet another marketing gimmick to get more subscribers?

    Honestly I’m getting a bit tired of all the TSI marketing hype in my inbox.

  • Hi John,

    Good question — thanks for commenting. We aim to provide long-term investing advice, not day-trading recommendations. We don’t want you to feel you have to stay glued to your computer all day. That’s why we only reveal changes in our advice in our hotlines and newsletters.

    That way, all subscribers get equal access.

    Our marketing effort is a key part of our business plan. We take pride in offering high-quality, easy-to-read, moneymaking advice at the lowest possible price. I think we do a pretty good job on that, although we constantly try to improve. If we market less, we’ll have to raise prices to maintain the quality of the service.

    Pat McKeough

  • Russell 

    I agree with John and complained a little while ago. The reply was that this is how things are done today!!

    I was a subscriber to Successful Investor for many years, but recently moved to Wealth Advisor as I now prefer less risk. Why do I not learn which two stocks to sell. I could be holding these from a past recommendation!

  • Hi Russel,

    We cover a large number of stocks in our various services, and they all require continuous research and updating by our high-paid, professional staff. If you have a wide-ranging portfolio, you may want to join our Inner Circle and receive all our services. Note that Inner Circle membership is only open on a “space-available” basis.

    Pat McKeough

  • Michael 

    Pat I appreciate all your reports etc. I hold EUropean Gold fields and am concerned re recent goings on, the stock is down dramatically recently, Should I still hold? Last I saw you had it as a buy Please comment

  • Michael,

    We’ll update our advice in the next issue of Stock Pickers Digest, which goes out at the end of this week.

    Pat McKeough

  • Chris 

    Pat

    I am in Inner Circle member – I looked through tonight’s three newsletters and saw two sell recommendations – are these the two you are talking about?

    By the way – I see you creeping to the same hype style as Motley Fool – please stay a little Canadian and why I like your service – hate digging through all the hype on the Fool just to get to 2 sentences that matter.

  • Chris,

    We talked about the two “sells” in the Successful Investor Hotline that went out on the evening April 15.

    As for avoiding our “hype” (or advertising for our other products and services, as we prefer to refer to it!), that’s easy to do. We put virtually all our ads on the free portion of TSINetwork.ca, which is open to non-subcribers and the public in general. The areas where you’ll find paid material are virtually ad-free. Confine your browsing of TSINetwork.ca to the newsletters you’ve paid for and you’ll rarely see an ad.

    Pat McKeough

  • Russell 

    Pat you beg the question. If I bought these two stocks on your recommendation in the past, why can you not tell me now just because I no longer subscribe to that publication, but changed to Wealth Advisor?

    If you are concerned that many investors will get free advice, then send me a personal note. I am sure your high paid staff will have a record of my subscriptions to validate my statements!

    Once again you appear to be using aggressive marketing tactics to obtain new clients, in the abscence of which if your prices increase, so what. If you give full value for money then your sales will increase!

    I am sure that with your surname you have heard the expression, ” a sprat to catch a mackerel. “

  • Hello again. For our publishing activities, we follow the customary practice of the periodical publishing business. That is, when you subscribe to a publication for a period of time, you get all the publications that we issue in the period, along with associated services. If you let your subscription expire, you don’t get any more issues, much less services, until you buy a new subscription.

    I’m sure you can see that if we continued to provide a portion of the service for free, after the subscriber quit paying for it, more subscribers would quit paying for it.

    I must admit I hadn’t heard the expression, “a sprat to catch a mackerel.” But I’m familiar with the concept.

    Our ‘sprats’ are the free reports and access to our archives of our newsletters. We offer these “sprats” free of charge to all investors and the public in general, expired subscribers included. However, we don’t provide free followup to expired subscribers on stocks we recommended when they were paying customers.

    Pat McKeough

  • Craig 

    I too find it frustrating to get to the meat of the subject in the inner circle.
    Not simple like I thought it would be.
    Will cancel shortly unless something changes.
    Craig

  • Dear Craig,

    It takes time to learn how to navigate any website. In coming weeks, we plan an update to our site that will make it much easier to search the site for information on particular stocks.

    Pat McKeough

  • Pat

    I’ve been a member of the Inner Circle for almost two years and although I beleive that for the most part this a very valueable investing tool. I too think there is a bit too much advertising directed to me when I am already a member.
    After going through all the reports I still cannot find the two urgent sells. Am I missing something, either way I would like to know what these are..thanks

  • Hi Alan,

    The “two sells“ appear at the beginning of the Successful Investor Hotline that went out on the evening April 15. As for avoiding the ads, simply confine your browsing of TSINetwork.ca to the newsletters you’ve paid for and you’ll rarely see an ad.

    Pat McKeough

  • i just subscribed to inner circle 10 days ago ,i too am frustrated ( eg Alan and Craig above) with having to navigate all over and dodge advertising when i already am a subscriber . I subscribe to a number of publications and this is not what i have come to expect as a paying subscriber. please take the “Apple” approach and think of the end user.thank you

  • Lyle,

    As I said to Craig a little earlier, it takes time to learn how to navigate any website. In coming weeks, we plan a site update that will make it much easier for Inner Circle members to search the site for information on stocks we’ve analyzed. I hope you appreciate that Apple has been on the Internet since it started in the mid-1990s, and has spent tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars on making its website easy to use. It will take us a while to catch up.

    Pat McKeough

  • Tomas 

    Pat:

    I agree with all of the above concerns. It should be a lot easier for all subscribers to get the information without having to go through all the advertising. We are subscribers already, I really do not need any more adds to read. I have not been able to get my e-mail so what are the two companies you talked about? This info should be easily available to see on the members web page; I can’t find it.

    Tom

  • Hi Tom,

    The “two sells“ appear at the beginning of the Successful Investor Hotline that went out on the evening April 15. As for avoiding our ads, simply confine your browsing of TSINetwork.ca to the newsletters you’ve paid for and you’ll rarely see an ad. If you’re having trouble with your email, or with navigating the TSINetwork.ca site, please contact our circulation department.

    Pat McKeough

  • Dear Darrell,

    The “two sells“ appear at the beginning of the Successful Investor Hotline that went out on the evening April 15. If you’re having trouble with your email, or with navigating the TSINetwork.ca site, please contact our circulation department.

    Pat McKeough

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