Interest on top of interest
Trading for me has become like a hobby now, I’m on this boat until it sinks lmao. Today I sold off my ROBO shares because I want to jump back in BZUN, and I really shouldn’t have left in the first place. It’s legit asf.
I sold one share of SHOP just before the dip and got into Costco since it doesn’t seem to be affected by AMZN. Sold TMUS on a brief peak and bought Microsoft on a dip, then hopped right back to TMUS when that dipped lmao!
Got recked by SHOP today, RIGHT before I bought AMZN and was gonna sell. Damn.
Well good news is that I sold some of my shares before the freak out, so I didn’t take that much of a hit. I hate selling dips but I was going to get rid of SHOP anyway, it’s overpriced and no dividends. I used that opportunity to jump back into AAPL since I think 152 is a good buy (I wanted 150, but this will do)
Good thing I jumped outta TEVA too, down -13.81% holy shit. Nice avoid there.
Jumped in CAT at the perfect time, it has a very positive outlook under this administration.
EDIT: Okay I’m gonna sell Facebook and T-Mobile man. FB is just overpriced too, and they have been in the news a lot lately. I ALSO heard Mark is gonna sell off a huge chunk of stock soon. I got in about $171; waaaaaaay too much. T-Mobile is not growing at the pace that satisfies my needs. Replacing these two with Coca-Cola, a great stock that’s still recovering from a dip months back. Now is the time to get in, I can get it around a $30 dollar discount!
Netflix was on fire today. I sold at $189, but it got all the way up to 194!!! Damn son, I should have held out. Now I gotta wait until the next dip.
FB and T-Mobile went up today, but I don’t regret selling. FB is really overpriced right now, and another dip is coming I know it. That’s when I’ll jump in, and T-Mobile well burn in hell lol it never grows. Used the money to get back into NVDA and BABA on their dips, very excellent! I also added COKE, much safer than EFX long term. Sold Microsoft on a peak, but I plan on jumping back in!
All around I made $50 bucks today sitting on my ass
I got out of NFLX because I heard there’s gonna be a price hike.
Costco dip! I got after hours trading…hmm.
Not bad today +23.38, I’m loving this ride. NVDA is better than AMD, sorry Ken. AMD is too volatile for my taste. Also, Google hit $1000 for the first time today.
Paypal and Square continue to make me money. Really underrated, quiet stocks.
Health stocks are up. Amazon cleaned house last week, SOOOO glad I jumped in!
Added to my shares in FB and Netflix
McDs has been hot lately
Defense stocks are starting to rise again
Added Home Depot
I’m very diversified. My gaming shares dropped, but this is a minor correction. ESports will make me a shit ton of money, like them or hate them.
Speaking of search engines, sold my shares WWE for small profit after holding it for a year and used the fund to get in BAIDU, China’s Google equivalent. In it for a long ass term.
Anyways, back to work.
AMD has been doing its thing the past week or so, my target this time around is $15, if it gets to 15, but cant hold above it, sell, if it breaks down below 14, sell. im just hoping i dont get knocked out of it before earnings.
Good call on BAIDU, I made a morning trade it for Wynn Resorts + cash. I hate casino stocks, it’s like having your money right in the casino lol.
GM is outperforming Ford right now, I need more shares in this stock while it’s hot.
No expendable $$ atm so going to just sit tight for awhile. So that Lowe’s position i have, with all the recent calamity happening, it has risen 8% value so far. On one hand, I feel like an asshole making $$ off people’s misery but on the other hand fuck it $$ is $$. Going to hold till next Spring and make a call then.
Speaking of Chinese stocks, my next goal is to get in on Alibaba Group(BABA) for long-term holds. Better get on it while the price is still ‘affordable’ for my broke-ass and before it balloons into Amazon/Alphabet/Priceline price level.
Things I’ve regret: not finding the Motley Fool’s Rule Breaker Investing podcast ( https://www.fool.com/podcasts/rule-breaker-investing) sooner. Finished listening this year’s podcast episodes where he reviewed his stock recommendation on previous year and goddamn man, solid advice overall. Granted most of his recommendation are long-term (3~5 years minimum) hold, it still amazes how so many of his pick beats the S&P 500.
BABA is trending a nice dip too, so now is the time to get in. It has made me quite a bit of money; I jumped in and sold high on many occasions. I def plan on adding to my position for this stock before it really blows up. I am thinking possibly around 5 to 10 shares.
Another thing I am looking at is the Seaboard Corporation, there’s not many stocks where I would literally say “buy it and hold on until you die” but yeah man. SEB has the highest share price of any company traded on an American stock exchange, and it’s super-super diversified by itself. The only thing that concerns me is that its earnings can fluctuate greatly due to the hogging of prices on pork products, but for a buy and hold it’s a no brainer. For somebody like me, this might be possible considering I am rent/utilities free for the next couple of years.
EXCELLENT CALL on Baidu, it jumped up 3% today. Tons of money was just flooring in, and I loved this bull rush. Ironically, it costed me WYNN, which ALSO jumped up 3% wow. I might jump back into WYNN even though I hate casino stocks, I mean for me I just love the diversification. Another 30 dollars racked in today for just sitting on my ass.
Sold off the Home Depot for 2 Microsoft shares. It’s a no brainier, twice the dividends plus it’s like immune to huge dips. My portfolio is getting a little tech heavy again so might pick up Pepsi along the way.
You guys are talking foreign language to me…I really need to get in on that stock stuff.
Ephidel, i saw your post that you made $50 & then $30 sitting on your ass haha…An estimate how much do you make daily? How much is your starting? I have about 3k playmoney not doing jack shit in my spending money account, is that enough to start?
I’d say I’m averaging around $7-10 extra bucks per day on normal days, and it’s really thanks to my diversification in the market. Highest I have lost so far is around $25 bucks one day, but I have no fear at all about that because my money is sitting on some really great companies and blue chips. My total return on the year is close to $200, and I have only been in the market for 1 month so that’s stellar to me.
I have around 4K in the market right now, so I can assure you 3K is totally enough to jump in. I have a desk job, so nobody bothers me when I’m looking at graph charts and doing my work. By this, I can keep a keen eye on the market and do swing trading, or I can buy stocks whenever hot news comes out. If there’s a dip, I can get the hell out possibly fast enough to save extra $$$
Those days I made $30 and $50 were REALLY good days lol
i started with 4k in 2015, from gains and just adding weekly from paychecks im in the 20ks now. i dont do options yet, so im pretty conservative. im only up about 2k this year so far.
2K is a VERY good return for the year, most of it must come from swing trading AMD so much lol.
You should try to swing trade Ford too Ken (if you haven’t yet). In fact, the ex-dividend day is on the 20th. I plan on buying a shit ton of Ford shares tomorrow.
yea not going to lie, most of it is from amd lol, last year i made most of it from TWLO and LABU. there is always “hot stocks of the year” every year you can ride or swing trade. this year there was a ton because this has been the best bullish year in a while, off the top of my head nvda, baba, amzn, aaoi, atvi, amd, visa, etc.
right now im in amd waiting on earnings, and my long term holds are opk(in at $6.50 average), T(in at $33 average), and i recently added GE(in at $25), only extra funds i have laying around are for a rainy day type sell off, you should always have like 5-10% cash free in case some big ass sell off comes in the market that has nothing to actually do with the fundamentals of companies you are watching.
Speaking of earnings, Paypal announced theirs and the stock jumped 3.28%–so I missed out on that. I sold it today to put more shares into Ford, but I wouldn’t say that was a complete miss because I bought 115 shares of Ford and it’s up 33% right now. In fact, I sold a bunch of my positions to get as many Ford shares as I can (ex-dividend day is tomorrow). I dropped Paypal, Square, EA, TTWO, GLAD, MAIN, and PEP.
Ford is a gold mine: great dividends, swings, buy and holds, dip buys, rally sells, it’s all their man. I fucking love this stock.
On AMD: their new threadripper CPU lineup are getting glowing reviews from pc magazines. With holidays around the corner and with the recent bitcoin craze, it will just propel AMD to new highs imo.
I might jump back into SHOP too, Citron’s report scare was overblown and it’s currently trending just under $100. That’s a steal to me.
Gonna redo my portfolio, I’m satisfied with the money I made and now it’s time to move on. I want to focus on capturing some of these dividend monsters, and since I can watch graphs at work I need something a bit more than buy and holding strategies.
Gonna start with buying 80 shares of MAIN. Monthly dividend and OK growth? No brainer. Extra $15 bucks a month is nothing to sneeze at.
Ford swing trading is also good. I got in before ex-dividend day so that’s just more money coming my way.
APLE and GLAD could be future holds, both are monthly dividends without too much volatility.
Whatever else that goes on sale, I’ll jump in. For instance, SHOP is trending back up from $92. That’s when I should of jumped in.
