How many stocks in a portfolio?

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(02-18-2020, 03:47 PM)Main Street Stock Investor Wrote: One of the benefits of holding 60+ stocks across various sectors is that at any given time there will be opportunities to sell some shares at a profit when they are overvalued and to buy others when they are undervalued. When done properly, this produces different results than holding an index ETF or index mutual fund. I also profitably trade partial positions of index ETF's several times a quarter.

Retired now, but had the same number of stocks when I was working and managed the portfolio on weekends and during my lunch break.

This is a huge advantage of owning stocks in every sector.  There is almost always something out of favor that needs to be purchased.  As long as you can make the time to keep yourself current on why a stock is moving before you jump in (or trim).