# @thejoserafaelhernandez on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-09-18T15:04:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jose Hernandez (@thejoserafaelhernandez) — https://gondola.cc/thejoserafaelhernandez

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Something many investors don’t realize until it’s too late…👇🏼
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Compounding works both ways.
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When you think about compound interest, you tend to think about the “positive” side of it
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But as you hopefully should know by now, stocks and the market in general don’t only go up 
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The bad news is, losses are an inevitable part of investing 
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The good news is, if you’re smart about how you go about your investing, the reward greatly outweighs the risk 
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But what a lot of people don’t realize is that successful investing isn’t about “making as much money as you can as quickly as possible”
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Successful investing is about seeing consistent growth over the long term while avoiding massive losses that can set you back, or even ruin you 
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The issue with the “get rich quick” mentality in the stock market is that it forces you to take massive amounts of risk 
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And with massive amounts of risk can come massive amounts of losses
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As shown in the chart above, the bigger % loss you take, the harder it is to “dig yourself out of the hole”
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The concept of taking risk while reducing the odds of devastating losses is known as “risk management”
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There are all sorts of risk management strategies you can follow but the simplest are:
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1) Diversification (not having all your eggs in one basket)
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2) Knowing & sticking to your risk tolerance (your personal comfort with risk)
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3) Keeping a long term mindset 
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4) Only invest in what you understand 
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5) know the risk that comes with individual stocks
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The larger your investments grow over time, the more important it becomes to pay close attention to the risk you’re taking with your portfolio 
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Because while the gains can be larger, so can the losses
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This is why it’s so important not to get caught up in the social media hype train and to take risk responsibly in your investments 
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If you found this post helpful, leave a ❤️
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& follow for more daily investing content like this 🤝
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