There is a point at which transitioning your investments away from opportunity and risk to reduced opportunity but safer investments makes sense.

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You may be already wondering what this question is
doing on a website that provides help with investing and
investments. But, there is a point at which transitioning
your investments away from opportunity and risk to
reduced opportunity but safer investments makes sense.

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We wrote recently about the silent warning from Warren
Buffett in that he is finding few attractive investments
these days and as a result is stockpiling cash. In a more-
immediate timeframe, Jim Cramer, the former hedge
fund manager-turned TV investment personality, always
notes that you do not have a profit when investing in
stocks until you take a profit! The Motley Fool recently
published an article on the same theme.

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When Is the Time to Stop Investing?
The article by The Motley Fool is entitled, Once You’ve
Won the Game, Quit Playing.

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Despite the stock market's history of wealth creation over
the long run, on a day-by-day basis it can be quite
volatile. Heck, there are occasionally even decade-long
periods when the market winds up below where it was
when it started.

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If you still have time before you need to get at your
money, you can deal with that volatility. In fact, with time
on your side, a drastically down market can be a great
time to go value hunting for cheap stocks.

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While that risk is real, currently, we're still benefiting
from the longest bull market in history. If you've been
invested through it, you might be looking at your
portfolio today and realize that you're ahead of where you
need to be at this stage in your life in order to meet your
ultimate retirement goals. If so, congratulations, you've
won the game. For at least part of your money, it's time
to quit playing.

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You do not need to take all of your money out of the
market and you should not be just holding cash. But, as
we have written, there are ways to invest without losing
any money.

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Taking advantage of long term treasuries, AAA corporate
bonds, and a ladder of CDs insured by Federal Deposit
Insurance at your bank(s) can be a good idea. Just as you
will balance your stock portfolio, you can balance the
maturity dates on bonds and treasuries so that money is
always coming available as you need it.

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What Do You Lose if You Stop Investing?
If you stop investing in strong companies with the
prospects for continued growth, you will lose money by
pulling out.

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But, if Trump’s trade war with China worsens and throws
the world into a recession, it could take ten or twenty
years of steady growth to come back to where we are
today. If you have not invested in stocks with strong
intrinsic value, they may never recover from a financial
downturn and market crash.

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What Do You Gain if You Stop Investing?
If you have already won, as noted by The Fool, you will
gain a good night’s sleep every night as you worry and
fret less about your investments.

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As we noted at the beginning, we are not talking about
getting out of every investment and holding cash.
Rather, we are talking about taking some money off the
table and following Cramer’s advice about not having a
profit until you take a profit.

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There are still conservative dividend stocks that are
excellent growth prospects at any time and likely to
continue to keep paying dividends for decades to come.

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