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Jeff Santoro

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106 total appearances

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Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I think that's unfair to us as investors because it assumes that we could see the future.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

So with Sea Limited, as I mentioned, the fundamentals like the lack of profitability and intense competition were actually reasonable grounds to sell at the time.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

We just didn't know what the future was going to hold.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I look through that list.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

First, solar to me is a different story.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

So that was sold in 2012.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

And I think it's important to remember that the environment back then for the solar industry and 2012 solar accounted for less than 1% of total energy production in the United States.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

So I think we can cut ourselves some slack with that one.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

The missing piece there wasn't patience.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I think it was imagination.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I don't know that

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

We were able to understand how drastically the costs of production would plummet, how legislation would eventually help and fuel the industry.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

And another one that jumped out to me is Chipotle.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

So the 2020-12 sell of that stock was actually not a full sell, but a trim.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

And I think there's a great lesson here.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

Sometimes trimming a stock rather than selling the whole

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

Position can let you act on a valuation concern without selling completely out and then missing the rest of the ride so that nuance I think actually paid off and rule breakers actually added back to the position in 2016 and those shares are up 275 percent since that buy and that's beating the market by 70 points

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I am a big fan of frameworks.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

I have to give Jason credit.

Motley Fool Money
The Pitfalls of Selling Stocks (and How to Avoid Them)

He summarized a lot of what I was gonna say in his last answer.