Originally Posted by lewdog:
Anyone want to post how much their account value is down this week?!
Hell, I won't lie. I'm down just a little over 2.5 grand this week. I quit making stupid trades and listening to people on reddit, stocktwits, and random joes making youtube videos about 6 months ago. I moved all of my funds into slow growth etf's and funds. It wasn't pretty or flashy. My account didn't spike up or down very much each day, but it was a slooow and steady climb up.
Then...about 3 weeks ago I was talking with a buddy of mine I hadn't talked to in a few months. Turns out, he and his wife have been having fun playing the stock market. A few ideas get kicked around, we ended up talking more each day about stocks, and before you know it I abandoned my plan to swear off day trading and jumped into meme stocks.
I'm not good at it. I proved that to myself last year. I'm not upset that I've lost about 15% of my portfolio, I'm mad that I didn't have the self control to say no. This shit is like the casino. I'm going to see where these last 20 shares of GME go tomorrow, then I'm done with this shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lewdog:
Anyone want to post how much their account value is down this week?!
LOL,NO!
But I was up about 50K from Nov-FEB. The last two weeks down about 20K. Ouch! I've consolidated into my prime stocks getting ready to EXPLODE after this shit storm. [Reply]
One of the single biggest mistakes individual stock investors make is holding on to a stock too long because they've convinced themselves the stock is a "good" stock or that it's going to do big things....simply for no other reason than because they bought it and convince themselves they're right. [Reply]