Investing Fails: I Never Want to Repeat These 3 Embarrassingly Bad Moves

All investors make mistakes from time to time, and I'm no exception. I've lost money and missed opportunities to maximize my savings growth on multiple occasions. I'm not proud of it, but I've learned a lot as a result of these costly errors.

Here are three I never plan to repeat -- and hopefully you won't either.

I opened my first retirement account when I was 20 years old, but there were several years I didn't contribute much, if anything, to it. I didn't have a ton of cash to spare back then, and retirement seemed pretty far away, so I didn't think skipping a few years would make a difference.

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