QUOTE(Icehart @ May 17 2013, 10:32 AM)
Investors need to eliminate negative emotions? On what basis?
I already mention the greed emotion mah.
One see an investment grade stock go up, if one succumb to greed, one will chase.
Or one is holding an investment stock but the stock move like AhPek.
Despite sitting on a 30% gain over say 3 years, one can succumb to negative emotions involving greed again.
They reason 30%... mana cukup macha!
They want more.
So instead of holding on to this slow mo AhPek, they switch to a young one.
Needless to say, 8 out 10 times, such a switch will see the AhPek stock wake up.
Is like AhPek knows.

Or is purposely moving slowly just because you have it.
The minute you sell, it moves boom, boom up.

Emotions.. exists whether you are trader or not.
Trust me...
There are many things that traders and investors are so alike.
The phrase 'It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! ' come from a book based on a trader called Livermore.
What's the investor version? 'Buy and hold for the longer term'.