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Max HumberPersonal Finance with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3802-8_6

6. Invest

Max Humber1 
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Invest in your future, don’t dilute your finances.

—Kendrick Lamar

I am not an authority on investing. So, I can’t (and won’t) tell you which stocks you should pick or how you should structure your personal investment portfolio. I can, however, give you an awesome mechanism for setting up asset allocations and adhering to a routine of continuous rebalancing.

Rebalancing1 your investment portfolio against target allocations is a good idea because it keeps risk in check and forces you to remove the emotion from your investment decisions.

When your portfolio is up, it’s really hard to sell, and when you ...

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