5 Potential Investing Blunders

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Investing Mistake #1: Staying entirely out of the stock market for fear of another leg down.

This is the granddaddy of them all. I believe the biggest mistake you could make is to give up entirely on the long-term growth
you can only get by investing in stocks.

Unfortunately, that’s what happens in bear markets. As they wear on, they wear on investors’ nerves, too. People grow more and
more pessimistic, sell more and more stocks — and eventually decide to abandon equities “forever.”

That’s usually just about at the bottom, which I think we probably already saw in March. If you’ve sworn off stocks because
of recent losses, I encourage you to rethink your position and avoid this potentially fatal error.

NEXT: Mistake #2: Ignoring higher yields