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How to manage your stock portfolio?

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Omkar Raut
How to manage your stock portfolio?

Your objective from the stock investment is to make gains, right? However, most investors are unable to do it for one or the other reason. One of the reasons for failure is that most investors are unaware of stock portfolio management. They make a random investment with no planning and tracking. In this article, we talk about how you can manage your portfolio.


Creating a stock portfolio


There are so many stocks listed on the exchanges. How do you select the best investment options among all the listed companies? If you randomly pick stocks in your portfolio, your success chances are less. 

Create your stock portfolio based on your risk profile and investment horizon. Also, take care of diversification. You must have a diversified stock portfolio to minimize your risk and maximize your gains. 


What is portfolio management?


Before we talk about how to manage your portfolio, let us understand - stock portfolio management. It involves building and overseeing a selection of stocks that will meet the long-term financial goals and risk tolerance of an investor. 


You can opt for active portfolio management. It requires you strategically buy and sell stocks to beat the broader market. You can also opt for passive portfolio management, where you invest in index funds that give you low but steady returns. These will be portfolios for you in the long run.


How to manage your portfolio?


As an investor, the first thing is to choose the best investment options and then do portfolio management. You must be wondering how to do it. Below are steps to manage your stock portfolio:


  • Identify your investment objectives: You need to identify your investment objective - capital appreciation or stable returns. It will help you pick the right stocks.


  • Understand the risk of stock investment: You must figure out how much returns you expect from the market. To achieve it, what will be the risk level? Are you comfortable with the required risk?


  • Create a stock portfolio: Start analyzing different stocks based on your risk profile and investment objective.


  • Implement portfolio: Once you have shortlisted the stocks, you must start the implementation. Start buying the stocks you think will help you achieve your goals.


  • Revisiting your portfolio: Once in a while, you should evaluate your portfolio and regularly evaluate its efficiency.


  • Rebalancing your stock portfolio: You created a portfolio based on many factors - different variables to create your investment equation. The equation can get disturbed (changed) as variables (stocks) deliver different returns. Hence, it is crucial to balance your portfolio regularly.


Conclusion


Create an appropriate portfolio for yourself. If you are unable to do it on your own, take help from technology. "Technology has come a long way in the last few years, and today investors can use it to invest in the stock market.Sumit Chanda, CEO, Jarvis Invest.


Once your portfolio is created, regularly monitor it and rebalance it. If you want to be a successful investor, you have to learn to manage your stock portfolio. If you only invest without any plan and management, you may not get the desired success.




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