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2 days agoSuze Orman's Blunt Truth: "Don't Trade, Invest" - Why Portfolio Busyness Kills Long-Term Gains
Drifting off course feels like staying busy, so portfolios underperform while appearing active and work-like.
The key to selling underperforming holdings at a loss and using those losses to cancel out capital gains on a dollar-for-dollar basis is to bring one's capital gains level down as close as possible to zero. Additionally, it's possible to use $3,000 of capital losses per year to offset other ordinary income, so there's the potential here with such a strategy to actually lower one's overall tax burden by selling the right securities at the correct time.