Short Piece by Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management about possible reasons and triggers to sell some of your investments.
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Summary
you have two opportunities to be right and two opportunities to be wrong on every trade or investment — when you buy and when you sell.
Rebalancing back to target allocation weights is the simplest way to sell a little of what’s been working and buy a little of what hasn’t.
There are better opportunities available.
Targets have been met.
Your rules tell you to sell.
Circumstances have changed.
Now go read for yourself:
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/08/when-to-sell-your-investments/