by the time you do that, the window of opportunity might have closed already.

all the above articles are kinda right, but you only realised that after you've bought/sold the stock...which is kinda late, and you'll keep on repeating the mistake until you get some discipline, and this time to learn varies from person to person. For me, I'm still learning to be disciplined, and have made countless mistakes.

Also, general advice of buy low sell high raises too many questions already like what is low, what is high, how to determine low, high, etc?

So the simplest advice that works is to minimise losses in whatever stock you decided in buying, i.e. always set how much you're ready to lose before buying, can be in %, can be in dollars or cents, it all just depends on your risk appetite.

One should hold a good stock for at least 10 years. Only sell when the market has gone crazy, like pushing up the P/E to 30. After that look to buy it again when it is below the intrinsic value. If possible, hold the good stock forever, if the company doesn't change it's fundamental that may decrease it's earnings performance.

Hold it until it reaches the TP or Fully Valued. These values appear regularly in the biz section of major newspaper or investment periodicals. You just need to keep an eye out for it.

Xuzen

when to sell stock is a very big question for me.

I have finally found out a very simple formula to my selling.

I will let BANK NEGARA tell me when to sell.
- If bank negara raise interest rate, means they forecast that economy will/has stabilise and hence need to control inflation. Tis is a q for me to sell.

As of now, I will hold on to ALL my stock until Bank Negara decide to raise the interest rate.

But what will you do with the cash if you sell all of your stock while the economy is still presumably going quite well? As you said, rising interest rates are an attempt to control inflation. If your assets are predominately in cash or cash equivalents, wouldn't you not only forgo gains from investment but also take a hit from inflation?

i think your reason is more likely because your stocks are leveraged, higher interest rate would translate in to higher cost of borrowing..

lowering your ABP & proft?

When do you buy stocks - when you have the money.
When do you sell stocks - when you need the money.

Read it from somewhere. Might not be true for everyone.

YUP ... when you have money only you buy stock... but the money i invested in i treated them as my asset already... which i will not simply sell it even if i had hard times..... like you don sell you house if you need money.... I will look for other alternatives.....

yes, it's partly true.
When interest goes up, i will sell part, maybe 20% of my portfolio.

Take my money, put in bond fund