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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Tips from the Pros: Common Investing Mistakes [Watch (HLS stream): Tips from the Pros: Common Investing Mistakes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/v6S0bJYO.m3u8) (1:00)  _Published 2015-01-09. Sometimes the biggest mistake an investor can make is a result of impatience and bad timing._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:58 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Common Credit Mistakes](/video/t3wblCrz/) ### Common Credit Mistakes [The Most Common Investing Mistake](/video/Wndr3imq/) ### The Most Common Investing Mistake [The Single Most Common Money Mistake](/video/mAfTpDsJ/) ### The Single Most Common Money Mistake --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] The biggest mistake when people make when it comes to investing is selling the asset when the market is down. Instead of waiting for the market to come back and having that asset return it's value and continue to grow, people get very. Fearful and react with emotion, and and sell out when the market's low. Big mistake. Think long term. Think about where the market will be over the next 5 years. Over the next ten years. And not where the market will be tomorrow, or in three months. Nobody knows. Not even God knows where the market will be over the next three months. But there's a very good chance that if you look at the history of the stock market over the last 200 years, that in the next 20 to 30 years, again there's a good chance that even this market will be at much higher levels of from where it is today. 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