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If you are a long term investor, you do not need to spend your days worrying about what the market will do tomorrow.

You do not need to sit in front of a screen asking why the market went up today or why it went down yesterday.

And that is a wonderful kind of freedom.

Most people approach the market like a daily contest. They watch every movement. Every headline. Every prediction. Their emotions rise and fall with the numbers on the screen.

But the truth is simple.

The market is noisy in the short term. It reacts to fear, excitement, rumors, and sometimes pure speculation.

Trying to understand every daily move is like trying to explain every wave in the ocean.
You will exhaust yourself and learn very little.

Long term investors live differently.

They spend their time studying businesses. They ask simple but powerful questions.

Is this a good company? Does it solve a real problem? Does it earn good returns? Is management trustworthy? Will this business still matter ten or twenty years from now?

Once those questions are answered well, the daily noise loses its power.

You stop reacting to every market swing.
You stop chasing every hot idea.
You stop feeling the need to predict tomorrow.

Instead, you focus on owning good businesses and giving them time to grow.

That patience is where the real reward lies.
The beauty of long term investing is that it frees your mind.

You are no longer a slave to the market’s mood. You become a partner in businesses that compound quietly over time.

And in the end, the quiet compounding does far more for your wealth than daily predictions ever will.
 
At some point when do we sell, for example even warren buffet stocks Berkshire has been doing bad for over year now, he is retiring, people are losing faith, what should they do because stocks will not keep going up and up. it must sell off or go bankrupts at some point