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The 5 Best Stocks for 2021: Will They Succeed in 2022?

 

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You thought 2020 was bad?

2021 was actually a harder year to be in the markets for experienced investors.

Let’s go back to the beginning and explore why.

 

2020 saw the coronavirus emergency

 

The lockdowns caused widespread fear. How could businesses survive this when many couldn’t even open?

We saw drawdowns of around 35% in March 2020. We saw investors with portfolios of $1 million lose $300k on paper.

The human mind often responds badly to fear. Especially if it is not experienced or trained in dealing with it.

There were 3 possibilities:

In the case of that million-dollar portfolio, the worst choice was to crystallise and make the loss permanent.

A better choice was to hold on. Many of those investors are almost back to where they were before 2020.

But an even better choice was to buy the fear. Although few could predict the level of monetary support that would follow, many stocks doubled from their March 2020 price into 2021.

 

 

Someone with a $1 million portfolio could now see that move towards $2 million.

In this way, 2020 was an opportunity for investors.

 

2021 has been much harder

 

The opportunity of many stocks being on a massive sale has passed. 2021 has seen volatility and hazardous uncertainty as investors ask:

Today, we’re going to look at which companies have done well since March 2020. But also those companies that could prevail beyond the highly uncertain outlook of 2021…and into 2022…

 

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