Stock Picking and Tax Loss Harvesting Mistakes

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I haven’t been particularly excited to share my investing mistakes with you, but I’ve made a couple of them in the not-too-distant past

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Our new semi-retired life gave me a reason to covet a few other individual stocks.

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This may not be classic “stock picking” behavior, as I chose them not based on any chart, analysis, or belief about their future, but rather for a specific shareholder perk that these particular stocks offered.

Misadventures in Stock Picking and Tax Loss Harvesting

Travel was expected to be a big part of my early retirement, and cruising is a nifty way to get from one part of the world to another when you’ve got the time.

The parent companies of the major cruise lines offer additional onboard credit as a perk to their shareholders, so I had been watching the ticker symbols for a while.

Carnival Corporation Carnival includes the namesake Carnival Cruise Line, and a number of others you may have heard of

In addition to their namesake Royal Caribbean cruises, RCL also owns the brands Celebrity, Silversea, and Azamura.

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