{"id":1421,"date":"2026-08-26T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:36:43","slug":"part-2-sometimes-you-have-to-cut-your-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/part-2-sometimes-you-have-to-cut-your-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: Sometimes You Have to Cut Your Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the hardest things for a football coach to do is admit that something isn\u2019t working.<\/div>\n

You\u2019ve spent time developing the player. You\u2019ve invested money in him. You\u2019ve told everyone he\u2019s part of the plan. And now, with the regular season approaching, you\u2019re looking at your roster and thinking, \u201cWell\u2026this isn\u2019t exactly how we drew it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s happening right now in professional football, as teams make those final roster cuts before the season begins. Coaches have to make some very difficult decisions because sometimes the player they hoped would work out simply isn\u2019t the right fit. \u00a0And at the high school level, teams have already gotten their first game under their belts. One game isn\u2019t enough to rewrite the entire season, but it can tell you something. Maybe a position isn\u2019t working the way you expected. Maybe the offense needs an adjustment. Maybe a player needs to move into a different role.<\/p>\n

Investors know that feeling all too well.<\/p>\n

You buy a stock because you believe in the company, watch it fall, and then convince yourself that selling would mean admitting you were wrong. So you hold it a little longer. Then a little longer again. Before you know it, you\u2019ve spent three years waiting for an investment to become the investment you thought it was going to be. \u00a0The Bengals\u2019 experience with Trey Hendrickson is an interesting example. Hendrickson was an outstanding player for Cincinnati, but the team spent considerable time trying to figure out the right answer around his contract and future with the organization. Looking back, you can make a pretty good argument that Cincinnati might have been better served recognizing the situation earlier and getting something in return while they could.<\/p>\n

Investing works the same way.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the problem isn\u2019t your overall financial strategy. It\u2019s one position. You can have a well-diversified portfolio and still have one stock that has become a problem. Maybe the company\u2019s fundamentals have changed. Maybe you no longer understand why you own it. Maybe it simply doesn\u2019t fit your goals anymore. \u00a0That doesn\u2019t mean you throw out the entire portfolio. Sometimes you just need to make the uncomfortable decision to move on. \u00a0And that\u2019s not admitting failure. It\u2019s recognizing that something isn\u2019t working and giving yourself the opportunity to make a better decision.<\/p>\n

Football teams adjust. Investors should, too. The goal isn\u2019t to be right about every player or every stock. It\u2019s to recognize when something isn\u2019t working, make the adjustment, and get back to building the best team you can with the information you have today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest things for a football coach to do is admit that something isn\u2019t working. You\u2019ve spent time developing the player. You\u2019ve invested money in him. You\u2019ve told everyone he\u2019s part of the plan. And now, with the regular season approaching, you\u2019re looking at your roster and thinking, \u201cWell\u2026this isn\u2019t exactly how we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinergywealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}