Latest responses to “If You Truly Invest For The Long Term, Then Stop Checking Your Stock Prices All The Time” Copyright 2013, MoneyBlueBook.com 435110 2008-10-24T11:17:06-07:00 Dick Chaney I took a sh*t on your portfolio... 435100 2008-02-25T18:47:49-08:00 Dividends4Life Excellent read! Thanks for sharing it. Best Wishes, D4L 435070 2008-02-05T03:23:45-08:00 Raymond Thanks Ciaran, Those stock ticker widgets were truly hypnotic - sort of addictive even...like crack for investors. Hard to turn away because you just wanted to keep checking every chance you had. 435080 2008-02-05T02:49:53-08:00 CiaranFromChance Nice post Ray. I have a lot of similar experiences to you from back in the bubble days. I used to work at ML and loved my quotron, little flashing red arrows, little flashing green arrows. It was reason enough to come into work in the morning, ha. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. Stumbled it;) 435090 2008-02-02T17:35:24-08:00 Mrs. Micah For some reason I haven't really had this impulse much. I think part of me is a little worried at how much it might have dropped (though I put the money in after was already down a bit). But mostly it's not having a real context for this. I think "sure, it's gone down but what I care most about is that it's up in 40 years." I don't have any real way to evaluate this drop in terms of what kind of effect it'll have on those returns. I don't think anyone does. 435060 2008-02-02T02:55:06-08:00 Early Retirement Extreme I like to stare at ticker symbols but I've found that the only benefit of excessive is to develop an uncanny effect to select a good intra-day entry point which is worth maybe 0.5%. So in general it's a complete waste of time beyond finding out that there's a large group of traders that will sell or buy on any kinds of news. The funny thing is that when I check my monthly statements, I find that the stock prices don't move that much. Quite a doh! moment of "time wasting". PS: I used to watch level II info too. That's really bad ;P