40 Questionable Financial Decisions People Have Made and Shared Online for Us to Learn From

This next story is worthy of a wince. That’s got to hurt, realizing that the company stock that you just sold off has gone up a lot in value. To be fair, though, the market is volatile, and there’s a chance that the stocks went up 500%, and then a week later, they dropped back to the original cost. If this person hadn’t sold those shares, there’s still a chance you wouldn’t have ended up with all that money anyway.

Anyway, this is why it’s probably not healthy to monitor the performance of your stocks on a day-to-day basis. You will absolutely start to obsess about things that you could have done differently. And that’s not going to do anything but make you sad.