--- title: How Often Should You Check Your Investment Portfolio? 72% of Young Singaporeans Look Every Week description: Trust's new study finds 72% of young Singaporean investors check weekly. How often should you check your investment portfolio? Research says less often. image: https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/hubfs/Key%20Visual-png.png --- [Skip to content](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/how-often-check-investment-portfolio#main-content) [![Full_COlour](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Full_COlour.png?width=456&height=80&name=Full_COlour.png)](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/) - [Retirement Marketspace](https://retirementmarketspace.thefinancialcoconut.com/) - [Events](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/events) Show submenu for Events - [For Investors](https://tfcmysterymeetup.com/) - [For Business Owners & Creators](https://ipcreatorunite.peatix.com/) - [For Salaried Workers](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/thought-leadership-series) - [TFC Events](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/events) - [Shows](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/tfc-shows) Show submenu for Shows - [Wise and Shine](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/wise-and-shine) - [The Business Show](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/tfc-business-show) - [Chills with TFC](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/chills-with-tfc) - [Blog](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog) Show submenu for Blog - [Work Smart](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/worksmart) - [Invest](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/invest) - [Retire Well](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/retire-well) - [Business](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/business) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Retirement Marketspace](https://retirementmarketspace.thefinancialcoconut.com/) - [Events](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/events) Show submenu for Events - [For Investors](https://tfcmysterymeetup.com/) - [For Business Owners & Creators](https://ipcreatorunite.peatix.com/) - [For Salaried Workers](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/thought-leadership-series) - [TFC Events](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/events) - [Shows](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/tfc-shows) Show submenu for Shows - [Wise and Shine](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/wise-and-shine) - [The Business Show](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/tfc-business-show) - [Chills with TFC](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/chills-with-tfc) - [Blog](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog) Show submenu for Blog - [Work Smart](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/worksmart) - [Invest](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/invest) - [Retire Well](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/retire-well) - [Business](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/business) - [Contact us](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/contact-us) [Contact us](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/contact-us) Aug 14, 2026, 7:30:00 AM # How Often Should You Check Your Investment Portfolio? 72% of Young Singaporeans Look Every Week ![Picture of The Financial Coconut](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Square%20(2)-3.png?width=50&name=Square%20(2)-3.png) [The Financial Coconut](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/author/the-financial-coconut) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/how-often-check-investment-portfolio) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/how-often-check-investment-portfolio) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/how-often-check-investment-portfolio) [Share this page](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/how-often-check-investment-portfolio) [![Follow The Financial Coconut](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/46975693/interactive-182431637553.png)](https://cta-service-cms2.hubspot.com/web-interactives/public/v1/track/redirect?encryptedPayload=AVxigLL2CjCe42iR2RH2MpVX0Ej%2BKJQ%2F3A0Z7pXnUs35To%2Bo6nbKcpBVq9I98X5NUungVEwfs5YCKuM%2FaP97VxIITkTlihT57%2F%2F4XDW9rT3VR4MatSLDi%2BMU5mbQqihfX3LRRz83ij8K19OiD8UXy8sdct4t0Q%3D%3D&webInteractiveContentId=182431637553&portalId=46975693)   There is no rule saying you must check your investment portfolio every week. Decades of research suggests you should not. Once a quarter is enough for most long-term investors. Checking more often does not lift returns. It just gives you more chances to do something you regret. ![](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Key%20Visual-png.png?width=2429&height=974&name=Key%20Visual-png.png) ## The Trust survey Trust's Everyday Investor Report surveyed 1,050 Singapore residents aged 18 to 40 between May and June 2026. The cheerful findings came first: 51% are actively investing, and 74% of active investors aged 18 to 24 started by age 20. Then there is the number nobody picked up. Among active investors, 88% check their portfolios at least monthly. And 72% check every week. Trust calls this consistent engagement. That is one reading. There is another. ## Why checking often can make you a worse investor Barber and Odean tracked 66,465 US households at a discount broker from 1991 to 1996. Those who traded the most earned 11.4% a year. The market returned 17.9%. A related Odean study found the shares these investors bought went on to underperform the ones they had just sold. One caveat: this is US data from the 1990s, when trading cost far more. Cheap brokerage removes part of that penalty, not the behavioural part. Thaler, Tversky, Kahneman and Schwartz showed that part in 1997. People who saw their results less often held more of the riskier, higher-returning asset. People who got constant updates saw more small losses, felt them more sharply, and retreated to safety. They called it myopic loss aversion. Frequent checking does not give you better information. It gives you more chances to feel bad. ## Is that not just regular investing? The Trust data deserves a fair hearing here. The same study found 65% of active investors invest on a regular schedule using dollar-cost averaging. Another 65% transacted in the past month. Those numbers fit together. Put S$500 into an ETF on the first of every month and you transact monthly, none of it impulsive. So monthly transactions are not the warning sign. Weekly checking is. It serves no purpose in an automated plan. You already made the decision. Checking weekly puts it back on the table. As Wei Dai of Dimensional Fund Advisors put it [on Chills with TFC](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/chillswithtfc-260), disciplined investing tends to beat outguessing the market. A weekly scroll is an invitation to outguess. ## So how often should you check your investment portfolio? - **Quarterly.** Are your contributions going through? Has your allocation drifted from target? - **Annually.** Rebalance if needed, review CPF and SRS contributions, and check if your goals have changed. - **When life changes.** A new job, a flat, a child, a redundancy. These matter more than a bad fortnight in the market. - **Not after a headline.** If an alert makes you open your brokerage app, close it. ## FAQ 1. **How often should I check my investment portfolio in Singapore?** Quarterly is enough for most long-term investors, with a fuller review yearly. Weekly checking has not been shown to improve returns. 2. **Is it bad to check my portfolio every day?** Looking is not the problem. Acting on what you see usually is. Frequent updates make investors likelier to sell during normal dips. 3. **Does this apply if I dollar-cost average?** A monthly contribution is a transaction, not a reaction. The risk is that checking often tempts you to skip contributions in a downturn, which defeats the strategy. ## The boring answer is usually the right one Trust makes a real point. Starting is the hard part, and 33% of respondents have never invested. But once you start, the skill changes. It stops being about doing something and becomes about doing very little, for years. We have written about [surviving the boring middle](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/blog/long-road-to-financial-freedom) before, because almost nobody prepares for it. Check less. Contribute more. For more considered conversations on holding a portfolio well, [head to Chills with TFC](https://www.thefinancialcoconut.com/chills-with-tfc). #### References **Trust study** - Trust Bank, [Newsroom](https://trustbank.sg/newsroom/) - Trust Bank, [The Everyday Investor Report 2026](https://trustbank.sg/newsroom/the-everyday-investor-report-2026.pdf) **Research on trading and checking frequency** - The Journal of Finance, [Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-1082.00226) - American Economic Association, [Do Investors Trade Too Much?](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.89.5.1279) - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, [The Effect of Myopia and Loss Aversion on Risk Taking: An Experimental Test](https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/112/2/647/1870948) Let us know what you think about this topic, and what do you want to hear next. 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