It's down double-digits today but still up 117% since I bought it.
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It was growing steady until this week.Ĭan't pay enough attention to attempt to do anything about it this week.ĭon't read too much into that I jumped into an Ebola-hype stock, eagerly awaiting the moment to bail ( hence asking how to make a "sell" floor for a stock! I don't want to set it wrong and end up accidentally setting a ceiling and bailing on it too early). I also have some AAPL (contrary to what I said earlier). I have also shorted the S&P (that feels like being a traitor). I shorted JPM (feels weird shorting the biggest US bank), and I've made some money with that one. Recently, I've been loosing a lot (like everyone), except for my shorts. I'm gonna sit on that one, through the Christmas season.
I also bought BABA, after the slide after it's IPO. I bought some penny stocks- they've done pretty poorly, but I am not paying enough attention to work that game. I was wrong- I made money on it (got out right at the peak- I will probably get in again later). I bought TSLA expecting to loose, but just felt like owning it. I also invested in a marijuana start-up (yeah, I know it's a contradiction), and an Ebola vaccine manufacturer. One of my big funds is a Christian socially responsible fund. I bought a few things I would not in real life. It's still a strategy that I think I can do pretty well with, but not until the market settles down a bit. The only difference between this and real life for me is that I picked more aggressive funds and managers. Each purchase of mine represents several hundred different individual stocks.
Which I do not intend to trade very often. So, 80% of my money is spread around in funds and ETF's. I wanted instead to focus on picking the people and fund managers who were best at picking stocks. My initial approach was to avoid picking individual stocks. (Don't think I can legitimately call them "strategies"). We are most of us investing a decent amount of time into this, so it would be nice to get something out of it. We don't have to share our entire portfolios, but I'd like to see more sharing of specific stock "plays," with reasoning and a time-horizon given, so we can all watch and learn from each other.
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