Originally Posted by lewdog:
NIO off and running. Personally my strategy is as follows.
I am swing trading stocks, holding a few days to a few months depending on how they move. My goal in this extended market is to find stocks on breakout and get 10-20% gains and limit losses to 5-10%. This allows me to only have to be only right 50% of the time and still make profit and grow my account size.
NIO is up 20% for me in a few weeks. I will sell 50% of my position this morning and put the rest of the shares with a stop market loss at Friday's high of $59. This will guarantee me a nice profit and avoid downside risk and capital loss, which I need to make more trades on stocks breaking out.
This book has revamped my thinking on individual stock investing. I recommend it highly.
Long term investing in my 401k and IRAs is a much different story. I simply rebalance 1-2x per year and don't do any of this.
I'm beginning to rethink my shit as well.
I bought 1000 shares of plug a couple months ago around $11 and sold at $14. Now only own like 150 shares when I could've have (in theory $30+k in my holdings.
Same with NAIL. Kept playing with it. Still have 600 shares but could've kept it at my $9 buy in price instead of taking the quick gains.
There's others as well. But I've probably lost out on like $100k just by taking profits too early.
Rethinking to just STOP being so eager to profit and it's working out REALLY well for me just over the last month.
I've gained $10k just because NIO, TSLA and PLUG have broken out this week. Before I would've sold pre breakout.
Originally Posted by wutamess:
I'm beginning to rethink my shit as well.
I bought 1000 shares of plug a couple months ago around $11 and sold at $14. Now only own like 150 shares when I could've have (in theory $30+k in my holdings.
Same with NAIL. Kept playing with it. Still have 600 shares but could've kept it at my $9 buy in price instead of taking the quick gains.
There's others as well. But I've probably lost out on like $100k just by taking profits too early.
Rethinking to just STOP being so eager to profit and it's working out REALLY well for me just over the last month.
I've gained $10k just because NIO, TSLA and PLUG have broken out this week. Before I would've sold pre breakout.
HODL for me.
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Stock ADHD is a real thing. I have it too.LOL. My recent failures have come from using a 5% trailing stop loss on my runners and getting taken out just to have to buy back in higher on a stock I want to still be in. PACD went up like 12% then dipped back 6%. Took me out and ended the day higher and then went up another 4% after market.:-)
I have several that are well over 100% gains and they make me nervous. Plug,BLNK,BEEM,TSLA,NIO,SBE have no reason to fail so why use a ****ing Stop loss. If they correct just hang on and they come right back. [Reply]
I guess I'm gonna have to open me a WeBull account. Looks like it starts trading at 4AM where Etrade only allows you to start at 6AM.
ZOM and BNGO went way up before I had a chance to grab me some. ZOM ended up 98% yesterday. I got some BNGO a week ago but only 40 shares and I wanted to grab 200 more yesterday. [Reply]
Bought some Deere (DE). Missed (probably most) of the good run, but with the runup in commodity prices and government dollars, I'm guessing the next couple quarters are going to be decent. The risk is inputs (China/Covid) are higher crunching margins, but based on the bids I got - they passed it on.
Moreover, I have a landlord in the cornbelt that thinks everything's fucking gravy, so I'm guessing sales are going to be there. Please note that I fully understand anecdotes aren't acceptable alternatives to due diligence. But I'm still salty about this particular landlord so you get to hear about it.
Plus it's a bit of a (criminally small) hedge for me. If I'd have just kept my last sprayer and bought $400K of Deere stock, I'd be a lot better off. :-) Enough of that.
Anyway, might be worth a look if you're interested. [Reply]
I bought a little bit of this a month ago to keep on my radar. Supposedly the only rare Earth miner in the US and it's metals are going to be and already are in high demand mainly because of the EV revolution.
Warning: Biden administration mentioned . This video is about a stock , not politics!
