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To: weathersystems who wrote (18997)	7/31/2025 12:25:01 PM
From: SeeksQuality	1 Recommendation of 22058

Re: I’m finding it harder to hold those names with the same conviction. One thing I sometimes do in that situation is to downsize the position. I try to always invest within my risk tolerance, so even when risk ramps up I'm usually not in trouble, but there are still times that I decide I need to take a 4% position to a 3% position or that a 2.5% position needs to have a hard cap at 2%. Sometimes take losses on that, but often the trim is shares that I added on recently and have re-thought at a negligible gain or loss. And yeah, after multiple rounds of losing trades it becomes hard for me to think rationally about a company. Plenty of other fish in the sea, so I delete them from my watchlist and move on. Healthcare going through a tough spell. The entire insurance sector (not just UNH) is under siege, many companies down 50% or more. Pharma is threatened but I believe that threat has already been priced in. The problem with insurance companies is that they are facing hits on both ends, the government reducing payments and the patients increasing usage. And they don't really have any way to control either one.

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