Review & Monitoring
Monitoring Frequency
Definition
How often the portfolio is reviewed against its targets and metrics.
Why it matters
Too frequent and it encourages reactive decisions. Too infrequent and drift and problems go undetected.
What most investors miss
The gap between what the term means and how it is usually applied.
They check prices daily but review allocation quarterly. Price-checking is not portfolio review. Review requires looking at the full picture not just the latest number.
How to read it
Set a monitoring frequency that matches the portfolio's investment horizon. Long-term portfolios benefit from weekly or monthly review not daily.
Multi-account lens
How this term reads differently across brokers and accounts.
A consistent monitoring frequency is easier to maintain when all account data is in one place. Account-hopping raises the friction of review and reduces its regularity.
Related terms
Terms that connect to monitoring frequency.
Portfolio Review
A structured process of reading the portfolio at regular intervals to understand what changed and what deserves attention.
Alert Threshold
A predefined level of change in value allocation or a single position that triggers a portfolio review or action.
Data Lag
The delay between when a transaction or price change occurs and when it is reflected in the portfolio tracking system.
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