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inferno said:
This market is insane. My friend is up over a million USD on Tesla leaps that he bought last year. I thought I did well but that is nuts. He lives abroad so zero CGT lol
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Aye, When it reaches those sorts of numbers, I'd be pulling at least 50% or close to the original stake out and start enjoying the rewards. All too easy to glare at glee at the numbers rolling up and then losing your shirt overnight!
 
I ditched all my low performing stocks and piled more into psychedelics (ATAI & CYBN). Has been a good week.

Will definitely be skimming some off if this continues, although there's plenty of pumping potential to go.
 
darkgen said:
Aye, When it reaches those sorts of numbers, I'd be pulling at least 50% or close to the original stake out and start enjoying the rewards. All too easy to glare at glee at the numbers rolling up and then losing your shirt overnight!
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Definitely profit has dropped a lot today! Option swings are wild.
 
booyaka said:
don't believe everything you read on the internet.

There will be just as many loosing trades/stocks as winners.

But people only tell you about the winners...
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Fair point. I'm still fairly new, It's very hard to know who's advice to take. I've gradually invested about £10k in ETF's and some handpicked stocks since August and I'm 4.5% up. Seeing people with big gains really makes me feel like I'm missing something when I should probably just be a bit more patient :D
 
lookitsjonno said:
Fair point. I'm still fairly new, It's very hard to know who's advice to take. I've gradually invested about £10k in ETF's and some handpicked stocks since August and I'm 4.5% up. Seeing people with big gains really makes me feel like I'm missing something when I should probably just be a bit more patient :D
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Take no ones advice.... Do your own research... Invest how you wish to based on your attitude to risk / reason for investing / timeframe etc etc.

If you wish advice - take it professionally.

Sounds like a solid start.... Remember it's not a sprint....

Time in the markets is better than "timing" the markets.
 
lookitsjonno said:
Where do you guys find these golden nuggets
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Wall street bets :P
Just kidding some of my stock that did 100% are so small a market cap I don't think you could mention them on WSB

but seriously wall street bets has some really good stock tips, the only problem is you need to be able to filter out the crap yourself.
somehow I just seem able to do it.

I don't go big though, I'll buy like 50-100 quid one day, maybe some more a few days later depending on the price, then when I'm up about 50-100% double down and pray to our lord and saviour Jesus Christ that he should take the wheel as I slowly add more.
With Palantir it was obvious, the media were bashing it, no one understands what they do even to this day, I went crazy in on that one, held for like a year and paid of big, I sold a lot in the last couple of days, and it's still 41% of my profile :D I'm hoping it drops 10-20$ tbh so I can buy back in with the profits I took out.

It's known what the capabilities are pretty much, I'd be very surprised if they weren't involved in Israel's pager attacks
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The media and other investors had their heads in the sand, it was an obvious massive gainer to anyone who bothered to research and try to understand the company.
You could see the deals they did with massive global corporations, and you could see these global corporations weren't ending the deals.
You could see USA military contracts being warded that needed stupid levels of military clearance other companies just don't have.
You could see the hospital contracts and the hospitals released data on just how much more efficient they were with Palantir.
you could see PLTR were hiring the most qualified coders around on fat wages and that it's very hard to get recruited by them.
people are just lazy I guess, also people are hesitant to suggest stocks to other people even if they have 100% faith so...


IMO It's not too late for KRKN, PLTR, HOOD, RKLB
but you better realise they could go big red, you need to hold them for a long time probably 1-3 years

I'm massive green on those and still holding, although I ditched about 33% of each stock this morning.
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I'll prob still be hanging on to these in 10 years time. kraken robotics will likely be a decent sized military contractor by then.

cdprojekt is probably worth a look too, although the stock price has been wailing around like a dead fish for ages now, and there's likely nothing that will bump the stock any time soon.


Flying taxis will probably be a thing in the next 2 years, they could be one to get in on.
sometimes on WSB you see stuff like
then about a week later you see stuff like
and the stocks up 44% in the last 7 days


there's 4 or more stocks all new companies trying to do the flying car/taxi thing, only 1-2 of them will probably make it.

and I'm known as LOLarknor on this forum to a few for my bizarre autistic takes so don't take my advice :)
 
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lookitsjonno said:
@arknor looks like you'll be up a bit more with the RKLB results tonight ;)
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Yea I don't own a whole lot of it though, but seems like a no brainer to hold some shares for the long term

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Rocket Lab Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results, Posts 55% Year-on-Year Growth and Guides to Record Revenue in Q4

Rocket Lab today shared the financial results for fiscal third quarter, ended September 30, 2024.
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Don't go YOLOing on stocks because you read something on the internet though.

Unl;ess you know what your doing most of your portfolio should be ETFs, most people maybe do 10% in stocks
 
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I think if you spread the risk around single stocks are fine,like you say don’t YOLO on one stock and only put in what you can afford to lose.

I have 1% to 5% max per stock in ISA but have broken that rule on one stock. It’s now 50% of ISA (up 100%)and tbh I should be cashing some out but probably stupidly think it’s still got some legs! LUNR could make or break my ISA but it’s my long punt/high risk and had to DCA it down when I was sitting at a 60% loss at one time. Single stocks can definitely be spicier!

Have other small punt stocks but all low £ amount in them. I have been burned before on small cap stocks (NBROWN being worst - being taken private) but other single stocks have massively eased the pain (Netflix I love you even if I left you too early!) Swings and roundabouts.

So you will definitely have some painful hits on single stocks.

I have another Invest account which I have experimented with quicker trades. Some in/out in minutes, others take days/weeks but NEVER to cash out down and see where it settles. Mostly small amounts, Left some % increases on table for some stocks but others was the better move taking the quick profit.

20% cashed out and 5% unrealised gains on that one albeit only on a 1k amount in that account.
 
413x said:
Do You have any bad stocks? :D
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Just Intel -17% but it's 22.58% of my portfolio (just added some more the other week even)
I sold NIO and Panasonic in the last week or so both at a loss, but it was so small it didn't matter, like 5-% and 7-% I think

I spent around a year with my portfolio going in the -10% - +10% range.

It's not like I bought them and they suddenly skyrocketed, you just need to have the faith in a company to keep holding it, and know why your holding it.
Rather than to take the greens because 20%+ is enough and you want to find a new stock.
 
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