With your investments are you an investor or a trader.
If you follow the Warren Buffet school of thought, you are an investor. You buy and hold.
A trader buys on bad news, when a stock plummets and sells on good news and grabs the profit.
I tend to fall into the former category, but should probably consider some activity in the latter category.
It typically does not pay for the small investor being married to a stock. Unlike Buffet we can not control in journey of a business with our investment.