How to Respond When Your Investments Are Losing MoneyPlenty of investors have bought great companies and seen dips in price.

ByPhil Town

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In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Phil Town discusses possible strategies you can use after taking losses on your investments.

The efficient-market hypothesis, a common and well-held principle in finance, assumes that asset prices reflect all available information, meaning that price drops in concert with a fall in value. In Town's experience, this is not to be believed. In his words, the value of a stock is not equal to its dollar value.

Even investing maestro Warren Buffet says that you should not buy a company unless you're comfortable with it going down 50 percent. In fact, it can actually help if a target stock's price falls, because the true value of the company does not change with its pricetag.

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Phil Town is an Investment Advisor, Hedge Fund Manager, 2x New York Times Best-Selling Author of Rule #1 & Payback Time, and Ex-Grand Canyon River Rafting Guide. Rule #1 Investing is Warren Buffett style investing, teaching you how to buy businesses on sale, with little risk and 15 percent returns. In fact, Rule #1 investing is practically immune to the ups and downs of the stock market.

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