Short Piece by Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management about possible reasons and triggers to sell some of your investments.

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/