Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

Tram said:
I don't name my investments, I am bit funny that way. I don't want to jinx what I buy, as I normally buy the same shares.

I can talk about strategies but I don't like to give too much information about what I buy how much etc..
All of my friends ( apart from one, he is not part of the other group) don't even know I buy shares.
The less people know the better off you are.

It does not really bother me what people think about me etc... I always laugh if off inside, this such a superpower to have.

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Apologies for using you as an example , guess i just want to know what others are investing in , apart from their long term world indices ,when i hear a phrase sometimes like i picked up some cheap shares yesterday and made a few k , i t gets my goat :p , i watch a channel called trading fraternity and he bans people for this , i do trust most of the names on here but i sneakily check back history sometimes :)
 
Just going to repeat this as I am very curious and it's a new page

how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
 
moon man said:
how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
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I don't care about missing additional upside earnings. I just buy and immediately set a limit sale price of about 5% higher. Eg. Several days ago I did this with PLTR but set the sale price to +6% - it reached my sale price within 24 hours.
 
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moon man said:
Just going to repeat this as I am very curious and it's a new page

how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
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If you stay in waiting for the very peak you'll miss and be caught in the correction. Coreweave dropped 20% or more soon after the last peak.
 
Just accept it happens. I bought Palantir at 33, sold at 92 after it had peaked at 125 and then dropped. Within days it was back up and now sitting at 120-130. It is what it is. Took 170% profit and was happy with that.
 
ShadowMan said:
Just accept it happens. I bought Palantir at 33, sold at 92 after it had peaked at 125 and then dropped. Within days it was back up and now sitting at 120-130. It is what it is. Took 170% profit and was happy with that.
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This.

Don't let fomo get hold of you, that's when you start chasing losses and create problems for yourself.
 
moon man said:
Just going to repeat this as I am very curious and it's a new page

how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
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Before you even purchase you need to have your exit strategy based on your analysis and expected alpha. If you think a stock is under valued by 50% based on fundamentals and growth then you can commit to selling at say +40%. Your work is done at that point, based on analysis many months or years prior. The possible future price from your sell target requires complete reevaluation. If the stock is up 40% from your initial purchase and you predicted it would max out at 50% based on your analysis, then nothing has changed. You can start the process again as maybe new information is available. Conversely, maybe the stock is seeing significant growth due to short term hype and copy traders that caught word from YouTube or OCUK forums.


You cannot predict peaks and troughs so it is pointless thinking about what ifs based on arbitrary peak stock value . All you can do is find companies that are undervalued based on future returns a d you need to have a strategy that is based on hard numbers, not feelings related to peek returns
 
moon man said:
Just going to repeat this as I am very curious and it's a new page

how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
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It annoys me, because there were a few lately that I was thinking of buying or selling but never did. I few days later i still about and get a bit peed off.
 
moon man said:
Just going to repeat this as I am very curious and it's a new page

how do you guys cope with the ones that got away ? i used some short term money to skim on Coreweave , if i had left it in it would be 16k up , more importantly i need to learn when to sell , i seem to be good at what to buy its knowing when to sell , they say take your slice and don't look back edit as i said made 1k last week in real money
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Have to let it go.

Could be worse. Could be the crypto guy from south Wales who is consumed by his loss of billions?

I missed Out on RR and tesla. I still don't know why I didn't buy both.
 
Investment banks literally told people not to buy RR. Still not sure on the maths on that one but factors did change, vast increase in military spending not seen in a generation but it was already a given RR had good prospects in multiple connected sectors. They just need to provide the quality, that makes them unique and price can go anywhere. I dont know they arent too expensive but hard to sell any when I didnt get enough, failure to buy on recent lows but I was distracted :/ The ideal is to sell every peak, buy every trough but who can do that its a good name to hold.

+ABDN I had them on IPO years ago, terrible merger but regular buy now I reckon might easily be correct.

Buy FTSE every month if you find a similar consideration on multiple companies in that index, everything in the uk is cheap comparatively (sterling isnt strong) and Trump isnt selling USA very well right now. I think NVDA visit to UK could be more then hype, we might actually be important to them as a trusted trading partner if it is also about security etc. Would be good if we had excess of energy e.g. RR SMR
 
Firstgroup PLC continue to be my best single company investment ever.

In at 45p around 4.5 years ago and sitting up at 219p today up 13% today alone.

Great set of results today and also another share buy back announced....

Holding just under 12,000 shares so done very very well. Financials looks strong so will continue to hold.
 
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