Trustnet Magazine 93 March 2023 | Page 36

YOUR PORTFOLIO
Practice portfolios

Investing is not a one-way street and while a practice portfolio can show someone how much money they could have made , it can also demonstrate how much they could have lost

stocks or funds you may not even wish to hold , simply to understand how they react under certain conditions ,” he explains . “ You may want to include a range of different investment products to get accustomed to how they behave . “ Picking investments with different risk profiles lets you monitor the ups and downs and get a feel for how comfortable you are with volatility .”
More harm than good Of course , investing is not a one-way street and while a practice portfolio can show someone how much money they could have made , it can also demonstrate how much they could have lost , potentially putting them off markets forever . Morgan says this was a concern following the collapse in speculative shares in 2021 and 2022 . However , he notes that while some
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