Cramer: Never buy a stock all at once — you'll almost definitely get burned

Jim Cramer doubles down on his key investing rule of never buying a desired stock all in one go.

[blkhemi]

I bought one share of tesla on my robinhood app today... I feel like an elitist 1%'er. I might start playing golf

[tbonebeats]

This is solid advice. It solved a lot of issues I was having.

[olinzodd]

Unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way also.
I didn't know what I was doing and owned some bitcoin when it was at 20k several years ago.
Instead of selling it, I held on and sold it for a much lesser price later on.
I don't know why I didn't sell it, just froze or something (was worth like 130k at the time). So now I'm poor again :-)
But, I learned a lesson, sell when an asset reaches it's probable peak (don't know if that does me any good now, but at least I know it).
Anyway, thanks for the videos, I am actually 'slowly' learning :-)

[garry]

From the research I've done the conclusion I've come to is to buy your long term stocks all at once and hold them until you retire. Then you can sell out slowly as you need money to pay the bills and you could very possibly have to pay ZERO capital gains taxes!!

[everettcalhoun]

When I first started buying stocks I would buy a stock when it was a buy with a stop loss of 10% and would lose 90% of my positions with that risk management style, now I buy when they go from a sell to a hold and only buy half the position and if it goes down 10% I buy the other half. If it goes down another 10% I will sell but rarely does that occur. I can only remember one telecom company that I was forced to sell at a loss the rest I have sold at a profit or they haven't retraced far enough for me to sell. It's tough to sell a stock that is on a lower left upper right track on a yearly chart.