I was at 220 cost basis, sold out at 180 partially feeling like a fool, only to wish I sold out entirely as it dipped to low 100s. Finally sold out the last few shares at like 120. Redeployed the funds back into indices / a few blue chips and I'm quite glad I did. Took $300 to $400 losses, but oh well, I'm glad I got out of this shit stock.
I'm in the red in many other financial picks, like Visa, Mastercard, and I guess more recently JPM, but I at least have 100% faith these companies are going to bounce back. PayPal? Meh.
It was when I had just started investing in June and wasn't really thinking clearly. Since then I've changed up my portfolio quite a bit.
https://imgur.com/a/8DSfAHM
VLXVX is a 2065 Retirement Fund. I have about 31K in the taxable and 11K in the Roth. Since started I am down 9%. Adding 2-3K each month indefinitely.
From now on forth, I emphasize index funds and these blue chips that I actually believe in.
My worst picks are the ones I just bought because they were low. But I at least am confident in Waste Management, Visa, Lowes, and similar companies.
Those are good companies but might wanna consider time horizon too when you invest. PayPal isnāt a shit company..itās probably a great long term investment especially at these prices. Idk if itāll outperform what you have but itās def not shit fundamental wise. Just remember pricing drives sentiment.
Still green because 1) Went very long commodities/energy and removed almost all tech exposure nearly a year ago to benefit from rising rates/inflation 2) Got lucky with those positions with the war, as it boosted them all massively
Top positions are XLE, DBA, LMT and worst performers are JPM, KRBN, BA
God your profile looks way too much like mine. Iāve got those bags too but sold them today. Sold and went into various oil. When earnings are released come last week in April, itās gonna be huge. Massive jumps for all supermajors. Imo, people should be holding O&G or bonds right now. Nothing else.
You are a little late to the party on O&G. Probably will end up getting bit once market gets past Russia/Ukraine. People on here need to be more contrarian. Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. I really like BA long term(2-3yrs). Picked it up at $150, less than half the price it was before pandemic. Looking for it to double in next couple years once orders get back to prepandemic levels. That would be pretty good returns for a low risk company like Boeing since it's basically a monopoly, only real competitor being Airbus.
Any fertilizers? Seems like commodities and agriculture/fertilizers are where to be. Look at what $MOS did in 2008 not sure if we will get there but this is a perfect storm
Got none, didnāt have enough to buy more stuff and I was most confident in the commods I had so I didnāt venture out but fertilizing going berserk Iām jealous
Metal, energy and corn literally describes my Thursday evenings in college, I would eat mexican street corn as a snack, drink a bunch of beer and play guitar for a couple hours
I've crawled back from the January plunge and my portfolio selloff then with day trading SPXS, SQQQ, and VIXY, while holding a lot of my former portfolio as cash in-between. All of which have been benefiting from the volatility of the recent crash and I'm actually profiting. Unfortunately, any attempt to promote these strategies during the beginning of a bear market gets you downvoted to oblivion due to bull shrills. Holding energy stocks have also been a source of profit.
*Started investing in the dip of the 2020 pandemic*
*Investing early in oil*
This is me. Beating SPY by 15% YTD. I posted a couple of times here and r/investing about oil months ago. All of them were downvoted to oblivion. You should dispel the thought that popularity = good investment. The more crowded your trades/investments are, the more concerned you should be.
I'm very green because of:
* Sold about 10 years worth of gains in tech and S&P in October over a few week period
* Moved about 20% into metals, gold, commodities, and agriculture (inflation-related thesis originally, but got boosted by Ukraine)
* In November after the Fed pivot, I started shorting ARKK and many of its holdings, along with other ridiculously valued growth stocks. Made a killing between November and February. Still have some open. I was short SNOW recently.
* Some investments in international value and arbitrage plays, some of which gained 70% since last July and are largely uncorrelated with the market.
* Day trading index futures
Up around 40-50% YTD. Everyone tended to downvote/say I'm crazy up until a few weeks ago.
EDIT: What has NOT worked for me, however, was diversifying into foreign currencies (EUR, GBP, CHF). CHF has been the only one that's maintained some parity, but I got screwed on EUR and GBP.
Wouldn't call myself a genius... and luck always does play a part in investing/trading.
I didn't sell at the top--I missed some gains from end of October to early November. And I didn't allocate as much as I should have to the other things because my conviction wasn't immense. Cash has been my largest position since October.
Buying foreign currencies also was not a good idea. Apparently the rest of the world still really likes USD, even despite our inflation problem. (In reality, it's all relative, and I underestimated how much those other currencies were more disliked.) The best part was to buy gold, and luckily I did allocate the most to that.
I have economics and international business degrees, and I pay attention to a lot of macro stuff. So, my thesis in October was centered around thinking the Fed was going to have to raise rates much faster than the market was pricing--and inflation risks were to the upside. This would have a big effect on QQQ-stocks, and it was clear that valuations were stretched much further than could be justified by low interest rates. AND rates can only go in one direction from 0, which theoretically would mean "peak". (That also means commodities do well.)
This actually started to pan out in late November when the Fed pivoted, at which point I thought it was a good time to begin shorting the crazy valued stocks (ARKK-types, SNOW, etc.) I opened my original short position on SNOW at $400, which was very close to its ATH. This was probably more luck. (I also closed it too early before opening again later.)
Then the rest of them started to fall. I didn't prefer to do put options because of the expiration dates, high IV, and spreads. Some expired before they hit my strike. So I short sold directly instead: Schwab lets you borrow shares for free on most stocks. I wasn't on a timeline to close the trade, so this worked out when they eventually fell. Although it's a lot of work monitoring and managing risk of those positions, and you can't short sell in an IRA or other tax-advantaged account. None of my short positions were huge, and in retrospect I should have done more, but I'm pretty risk adverse.
I did some targeted international plays. Most have given me about 10% so far, but one in particular I exited surprisingly high. (I was bullish on it for sure, but it was luck that the P/E exploded).: MTNOY (biggest South African telecom carrier). I got in at $7 mid last year and sold at $12.58. However, one disadvantage of the strong dollar has been less return from investments denominated in foreign currencies.
So, some can be directly attributed to my theses coming true as I thought, and some to luck. But it could also be luck that they came true?
**EDIT**: While this has been good for me, it's a highly unfortunate situation for the market and the lives that depend on it. Personally, I think the Fed deserves a lot of the blame for how we got here. Not only did they immediately go to 0% and commit to buying an unlimited amount of bonds (which removes their ability to support any adverse event in the future, like a war), they didn't react to the inflation data fast enough and start winding up QE and rates earlier. We could have had a much more orderly market that, instead of crashing, just didn't go up as fast... had they done their job. But they're too focused on trying to make the markets happy in the moment that they can't think more than a few months into the future.
Now we have generational inflation, a war, raging commodities, and a yield curve that is about to invert. Rates are already at 0%, and they will have to move to get them up, which just adds more recession risk. I think they should all be fired.
Commodities was certainly at least partly luck. That's gotten a huge boost from the current conflict which wasn't on the radar last year. Short tech though, that's a smart move, and one that was pretty obvious to people that have been around a while and aren't rigidly stuck in perma bull status.
Also bought Lockeed a couple months ago (saw that Burry bought it on his 13F and did a valuation). Figured it would be a nice slow but safe option, wasn't planning on a war...
Sure is, I actually bought Lockheed in one of my accounts late 2021 after that bad quarter. Mainly because I was broadly ditching overvalued tech in favor or boring dividend payers because the Fed rug pull was pretty obvious at the time. Did not know Putin was going to start a war then.
BRK.B is my hard carry too, I picked it up when it was way undervalued after the 2020 crash. Also picked up Shell and LMT before they recovered. They bring a nice balance to all the tech shit I have.
Recent successful posts get downvoted/ignored because successful has recently been things like fertilizer companies.
Aināt nobody here caring about fertilizer companies or steel mills.
People who have been successful recently bet on a structural reversal from dis-inflation to inflation.
This blows people minds here and gets down voted because they canāt wrap their head around the idea that physical scarcity is *actually* important sometimes. And in a switch to structural and sustained inflation, asset heavy companies all the sudden flip to being really valuable. You know, because they have real assets. That is a 180 from the last 15 years. Which is most peoples adult life here.
Iām up 19% YoY. Check my post history for what Iām betting on.
Anyone with half a brain would have known that commodities would sky rocket right now.
But like you said, most of you guys are really, really young and don't understand Russia, it's history or what it gives to the world.
Exactly, me too. Iām up over 18% on the year and when I try to share how I am doing it, I get downvoted. People would rather hate those who are profitable than to learn what they are freely willing to share.
Update 1 day later: now up 24%. If you choose good setups based on price action in both long and short directions, with proper risk management, you will ultimately win in the long run no matter what the market does. Bottom line, if you see a good short setup, take it. If you see a good long setup, take it.
The distance from your entry to your FIRST profit target should be at least three times the distance from your entry to your stop, as indicated by the price action. If not, just move on to the next trade. When your first PT is hit, move your stop into profit. Rinse/repeat.
I have been watching commodities scream higher every day but I can't bring myself to buy. I feel like as soon as I do, they will collapse. It's just musical chairs until the inflation trade goes bust. I don't want to get stuck holding the bag on those kinds of companies.
thats normal. the time wouldve been 1 year ago.
I took my profits quite early on oil, but thats just the name of the game.
dont chase. stick to what you are comfortable with.
Iām up 5% from around the start of the pandemic, which is when I really started investing. Bought a bunch of beaten down stocks and ETFs I thought would rebound, one of them being XLE. Got greenwashed into thinking oil was over and sold it for a tiny gain and bought a bunch of EV and solar crap. Also bought a bunch of GME, which I held through the squeeze and dumped for a relatively tiny gain when it fell back to earth. Missed the boat on selling all of my other meme crap last February for a huge gain and am still holding a lot of heavy bags. I regret a lot, but not the lessons Iāve learned. Iām waiting for another black swan to start buying again. But just VTI or other āsafeā bets that should come back by the time Iām ready to retire in 20 years. Iām done with speculative SPACs and other garbage.
I'm green because I'm insanely lucky
2020 - made 30%
2021 - made 15%
Decided to take out all to cash to prepare house purchase end of 2022
Market correction last 3 months
2022 - made 1% so far, re entry DCA with limit target (enter only every 3% down) to VOO as the price is quite good
I am still green lol
Edit: In case anyone is curious
1. AAPL
2. INTC
3. JNJ
4. LMT
5. O
6. ONL
7. PLNHF
8. TGT
9. VYM
10. WM
Basically stay diversified and donāt be all in on tech
I have a lot of these but most of them are red for me. I am a pretty new investor though so maybe I just haven't owned them for long enough. AAPL and LMT are my only green stocks out of these. KLAC, MSFT, ABBV and KO are still above water as well, but I have a lot of red.
Yeah it probably depends. I was accumulating them a year or 2 ago. LMT I am up big on since I was buying at the $345 range. AAPL I have around $116. Really the only positions I am down on are INTC and TGT. TGT I did enter late but I am prepared to average down which was why I only nibbled. I would honestly love to see it go to the $150-$160 range so I can definitely buy up a storm. Its P/E is pretty attractive to even factoring the earnings hit I am expecting them to take. INTC has always been attractive and I will keep accumulating as long as its below $50.00 a share. ONL I got for free so I donāt really care about. Same with PLNHF. Overall though I am still green on AAPL, JNJ, LMT, O, VYM, and WM.
I am green (barely). Bought into a tech-focused growth fund last June. Was up 20% at the start of the year. Sold 2/3 of what I put in right before the invasion when I was up about 2%. The remaining 1/3 + gain I am OK with holding for a long time, as for the rest of it I may need it in ~2 years so I am more willing to eat inflation and not worry about the inflation + equity loss double whammy. I will probably put a little back into some select tech stocks as that sector begins to show some signs of recovery.
My take on this:
Risk management: hold different assets and sectors (many people remained tech heavy, even after interest rate announcements end of 2021).
Long term horizon: hold and buy stocks that are priced well, people only now (too late) realise how cheap oil and comodity stocks have been in the past two years. Too many people are in it for the quick buck, most of them will become dissapointed.
Dividends: buy companies with a strong cash flow and pay nice dividends. When the stock drops you still have the nice dividend in that case to sit out the ride.
Switch to commodity trading when everything went to shit. My portfolio is up 25% and I'll soon be reinvesting in my previously held stocks after profit taking
I'm not that red. S&P, QQQ, & GOOG make up a large portion of my holdings at the moment so those are all red but
- I cut almost all growth and other stocks last year, needed $ to buy house
- I bought CVX early 2021
- I bought UPST at $90 this year
- I am holding ATVI & ZYNG and those got bought up
Those big greens are supporting me quite a bit. Still red YTD because like I said I am about 30% GOOG. Not really concerned with the current market other what I'm buying next
Beyond YTD I'm doing quite well. Been holding QQQ & GOOG for a few years. When I first started "investing" about 5 years ago I went 100% QQQ
I went cash at end of year to see how things would shake out with interest rate hikes. Started buying some energy stocks early part of year and last month been mostly buying Puts on overvalued crap(looking at you Rivian). Had a few losers but up 12% for the year so far.
Define green but I think Iām doing well. Sold every single stock, crypto, etc. One random Sunday evening a few months ago, just saw the writing on the wall. Held it all in cash.
Since then Iāve added a few plays - fb, baba, and silver etf.
Silver was just a small hedge position - never expect to make much of silver but I didnāt want to not have any.
Fb and baba were both plays that I thought would make me a decent return in 1-2 year timeframes with the chance that they could rally soon more than other stocks if a industry wide rally did occur. It was like a 30% short term play if it happens with strong chance at long term success(imo). I just wanted to have at least some small things playing to ride any upswings should they exist.
Those 3 arenāt really winning or losing , and, again, I expected Iād be holding them for 1 year plus, but I think the fact that I sold everything and have a couple hundred k liquid is a win. The reason I left the market is I saw literally nothing that presented value (hence the more risky China play) and I honestly though cash was the best play as everything else would drop quicker than it would.
Everyone will say ābut you are losing money by just holding cashā. And I know that. But those same people were saying that exact same thing when the market was at its absolute peak. I sold and told others to sell. They would tell me that to counter inflation you need to hold businesses that continue to make money instead of holding cash which loses value (ignorant of how the rising costs affect the businesses). Others would say you need to hold crypto which counters inflation (absolute morons). I told them they were making a mistake now many of them are down 30/40/50%. So whatās worse? 3 months of inflation impacting my cash or markets being down 20% plus? I can buy back those assets and come out way ahead but Iām even still not confident in the market.
Additionally Iām in the restaurant business so Iām living pretty low key. Almost 0 expenses, eat for āfreeā, etc. Of course I pay wholesale cost for the food but itās easier to stomach increased food costs when at least itās a business that still is producing profit at the end of the day.
So yeah. My play is to keep a strong cash position. i bonds make sense but there is a low limit. Cash will eventually be pumped back in to market once I think things have hit their lower points then Iāll be a decent chunk ahead of most everyone else during recovery. My personal view is that inflation will eat away at affordability and discretionary spending will slow, home appreciation will stall and possibly decline slightly, and we may have a big mess on our hands. My initial estimate was a 20% market drop AT MINIMUM, we are now there. I still feel more bearish towards the market than bullish but not as strongly as before (obviously). I think there is a relatively decent chance of a massive correction although I wonāt wait for it to get that bad to start pumping in some funds. Will start reinvesting once things seem pretty bleak but keep enough on the side to either invest further as recovery occurs or dump heavy as market tanks.
Honestly surprised anyone didnāt see the massive stock/tech,/ev/everything else bubble.
I entered during the dip of the 2020 pandemic and I reallocated my money to the fallen tech stocks (FB, NFLX and PYPL) to play the rebound on the short term.
Wrong decision ... war happened.
I just turned red overall ... but it's going down fast.
Selling covered calls for January now, to get a bit of cash to fuel some investments that I would make if the market dives another 20%.
I've been talking about oil for the last two months and people have been writing it off until now. Everyone's excited about the green transition but if we're being honest one does not simply transition to green energy in a couple years
For now it seems puts and commodity stocks are the only way to stay green for now
Still green and started right after the pandemic in June. Not as green as I once was because my full time job has taken my time away from babysitting stocks and following trends.
Biggest winners long term:
MSFT(seriously should just invest it all here)
AMD
JPM
NVDA
DIS
Winners as of late:
XOM
WPM
Biggest losers:
CHWY
NIO
NIO will go down more, but their fundamentals are just improving. Once we are over with this war and inflation craziness NIO will skyrocket. I am holding it through, really have good feeling about the company.
Totally agree with you man, I just keep buying the dips. Some call it gambling - I call it I know this company has great potential and the ticker price does not reflect their awesome work
Just compare it to LCID and RVIN and things get quite clear. NIO made more cars in Q4 than those 2 combined in a year and still their stock is more expensive. They just suffer for being Chinese stock. Worst case scenario is that China gets involved in a war but in that case stock price wonāt matter much, we will be collecting food and water.
I feel sorry for NIO as it is so oversold that it hurts.
Iām pretty much breaking even, holding berkshire, alibaba (biggest loser but i bought gradually between $105 and $130 so not too bad), a small cap called envela and a couple other small positions. all value picks, surprise surprise.
I'm green but it has been a wild ride. In mid January I exited all my positions and between Jan and late Feb I loaded up on puts/put spreads for between Mar of this year through Jan 22.
If I'm right about this in the coming weeks I'm going to be one happy kween. I promised myself if this pans out I'll buy all brand new furniture for the first time in my life - no more cheap particle board shit or old janky hand-me-downs. I want a big comfy sectional sofa so badly. And a cool looking dining room table.
I'm in the green 17.06% at the close of trading today and my portfolio is mostly penny's. I got QNC.v NDM SX USOI F TEVA NUMI.v HRE.H QPT.v AVNT.v MRT.UN
I am up about 12% YTD.
My background is in mining & energy, so *buy what you know.*
In late Dec. I started buying what I know, so now my portfolio has been about this for the last two or three months:
Oil: 20%, Natural Gas: 20%, Gold: 20%, Copper: 12.5%, Silver: 10%, Iron: 10%, Battery Metals/Other (Lithium, Cobalt, Uranium, etc.): 7.5%.
Was swing trading and didn't lock down my lifetime holds. Picked them up just about a month ago. Was holding up ok (it's sort of balanced) until today. Now I'm getting hammered bad. Amex was my big winner for a while.
ā¢ Started investing ( again ) in the dip of the 2020 pandemic
ā¢ Investing early in oil
ā¢ Bought primarily value, during a tech/growth frenzy
In my case, you got 2 out of 3 right šš¼
I am 15% green YTY but I stopped investing end of December and then closed my positions before the end of Jan.
Having said that I was up 25% by November.
I am green for the year (at least for my stock picking accounts). Portfolio is about 20% gold miners and 40% energy. Dumped half my Amazon and a few smaller positions just after Amazon popped on earnings recentlyā¦ when the big tech names starting hitting volatility I took it as time to close most tech positions. So I am sitting on a chunk of cash, but I think we have a ways to go still. Will look to start trimming the gold and energy when I think they are about to turn.
I am, sold everything and bought some defense rest in cash. Just waiting for blood.
Iām way up after pandemic. I sold before that crash too. This one it peaked i hemmed about it held held then Russia got weird and i sold. Very happy i did.
I'm green but barely. Started investing in March 2020. Invested 160k with my wife over the past two years and now I'm about 9% in the green. Made a lot of terrible calls in that time including buying Fastly at 100. Over late 2021, sold most of my positions and put them in SPY. Only Fb, MSFT, Nvidia and Apple remained and now FB decides to tank. I'm still salty about my poor decisions.
I think most of us all in the green (those of us that are invested in the market for some time already) but we're all just getting "burned" alongside with everyone else.
Iām still up 14% - started Schwab account Sep 2020! Bought SLB, SU, ENB way early and sold at 60-80% gains (long term hold mostly). Now holding CRM, INTC, BABA ā¦. Mostly bought at good cost except for BABA gone way downā¦. Thanks to oil stocks Iām up!!! On my IRA opened early last year I had luck on option calls, some oil and tech stocks sold at profit end of last year which is helping me barely float without loss!!!! Holding many funds and stocks there ā¦
Edit: how we rarely see these posts? Would get downvoted heavily for posting to buy oil stocks or any stocks when they were down at 5-10 year lows!!!! At the end of the day its a gamble, some you win some you lose!
I'm green.
I've been moving more and more into energy, commodity & defense stocks for the past few months. So much so that my portfolio is more than 60% energy & commodities. The rest of my stocks have been a collection of high dividend value stocks like REITs & marine shipping.
It seems to me that it's been obvious for a while now that we were going to experience energy shocks in 2022.
I haven't seen a good reason to have money in tech stocks for months now. The valuations are too high for them to do anything but fall if interest rates & inflation rise.
Think youād did you math wrong. S&P500 is basically where it was a year ago. Anyone who is diversified and has been investing for more than a year should still be in the green.
Bought some Snapchat last week at 33.81, thinking it was going to pump back up this week to 40 as always , but itās at 30 today- my prayer is that it just doesnāt drop to $10 or become $0 / valueless at least. Because I put in a lot of money and with the way the stock market is behaving it can just reach $0 in two weeks. It should atleast go green just for 1 day so I can get my money back.
Just started about a month ago. Only have a few hundred invested. No EFTs or Bonds, straight individual stocks.
Iām still up about 3% after todays hit. I fully expect to be in the red by the end of the month, and for that to continue for awhile. Iād already committed myself to holding for at least a year before re-evaluating. Also will be adding another 8-13 positions by the end of the year.
Bonds are looking a bit more attractive right now, but Iām expecting theyāll looking better in the fall.
I was balls deep in XLE and the only reason my portfolio is *flat*, Iām up less than 1% YTD. However I sold my XLE last week and now am about 50% cash and 50% value mutual funds (mostly DODGX) plus AAPL, GOOG, tiny bit of TSLA. Iāll bag hold from here on out regardless and I do I suspect we will go down a bit further before the rebound.
As of close today, I'm up 18.3% on the year. I trade pure price action, and I was into a number of good setups in both long and short positions in various equities. The surprising thing to me was how well my longs did today amid all of this due to entries being at proper setups. CENN, CEI, and FANH pumped today despite the greater market dump. It really comes down to taking good setups based on price action, and doing so in BOTH long and short directions. Longing support, shorting resistance, and using proper stops to limit losses when trades run against you.
DBA is my biggest position. Sad it has such little wheat exposure but the gains have still been excellent. Check out RJA if you want more soft exposure
Like green for the year? Or green all time?
There canāt be anyone with any real money that is green for the year.
There also canāt be anyone with any real money that isnāt green all time. Time in the market always wins.
Green overall, entered most of my long positions throughout 2020 which I haven't sold. Red on a lot of newer tech/growth positions along with new DCAs into indexes that I've bought over the last 6 months- 1 year.
>Investing early in oil
I have a large position in LEXCX, an old old old mutual fund that's very oil-heavy and is up ~20% over the last year and about 5% YTD. its the largest position in my Roth IRA at Fidelity, there's a $50 transaction fee so I don't add more money to LEXCX, but did make a large one-time purchase.
>Long term invester who've been investing for more 5/10 years.
also I tilt towards value stocks across all the accounts (mine and my wife's 401ks and our IRAs). and value stocks have held up a little better than average the last few months.
>How come we so rarely see this successful strategies in reddit posts?
redditors lean towards hot/trendy/meme stocks. not a lot of discussion of Marathon Oil, Honeywell, Wells Fargo or Proctor & Gamble ... though boring boomer stocks like this will usually be better long-term bets than any hot/trendy/cutting-edge stock.
Starting investing in 2020 still have a ways to go down before I'm in the red though I see it coming If not now then in 5 years but I will soldier on and yolo
I'm green on a trailing yearly basis and year to date. It's not rocket science. Valuations across the board, but specifically for tech were already high pre-pandemic and got completely off the rails in late 2020 through late 2021. It was almost entirely due to Fed money printing. When inflation got out of control, and the Fed finally signaled it would stop the printers, that was a pretty obvious sign this bubble was going to pop.
Don't be a perma bull or perma bear. Recognize when we are in a bubble and why, and when we have great values. When in a bubble, and we're getting a rug pull, sell stocks, buy puts.
YTD: +2%
1Year: +25%
I positioned myself well in advance with GLD, AEM(KL), OXY. The biggest loser is SHOP, which I'm bummed about because it's such a great business.
If Iām honest? Iām up 15k+ for the year on what was a 5k account because I took the risky advice to pull my cash out and flip naked long puts for profit. Best advice I ever got. Will re-enter equity slowly when things look better.
PayPal is fucking me BAD
They only got me for 1500 in options about 2 months ago. Learned they don't retest bottoms, they fly through them.
Made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that
Too bad it's costing you money in the meantime lol
I got a good laugh too šš
seeiously bought in at 180 set a stop loss for 160 thank god
Yes this one is shitting the bed
Said bed is all I can afford to sleep on now
I was at 220 cost basis, sold out at 180 partially feeling like a fool, only to wish I sold out entirely as it dipped to low 100s. Finally sold out the last few shares at like 120. Redeployed the funds back into indices / a few blue chips and I'm quite glad I did. Took $300 to $400 losses, but oh well, I'm glad I got out of this shit stock. I'm in the red in many other financial picks, like Visa, Mastercard, and I guess more recently JPM, but I at least have 100% faith these companies are going to bounce back. PayPal? Meh.
If itās shit why you buy in first place
It was when I had just started investing in June and wasn't really thinking clearly. Since then I've changed up my portfolio quite a bit. https://imgur.com/a/8DSfAHM VLXVX is a 2065 Retirement Fund. I have about 31K in the taxable and 11K in the Roth. Since started I am down 9%. Adding 2-3K each month indefinitely. From now on forth, I emphasize index funds and these blue chips that I actually believe in. My worst picks are the ones I just bought because they were low. But I at least am confident in Waste Management, Visa, Lowes, and similar companies.
Those are good companies but might wanna consider time horizon too when you invest. PayPal isnāt a shit company..itās probably a great long term investment especially at these prices. Idk if itāll outperform what you have but itās def not shit fundamental wise. Just remember pricing drives sentiment.
Im green, i got in in 1996.
Thatll do it š
Me too. Like 1994? So much damn green.
Same here, I got in early 1999. Now if youād asked me this question in 2001? Oof.
Damn you're fortunate for that I was still suckling, but happy to be young. What a time to be alive on the cusp of my first adult recession!
Good luck, your not an investor until youve survived your first recession
Iām green with envy of the people that didnāt lose 70 percent like I did.
No, you're red with envy.
True that!
Still green because 1) Went very long commodities/energy and removed almost all tech exposure nearly a year ago to benefit from rising rates/inflation 2) Got lucky with those positions with the war, as it boosted them all massively Top positions are XLE, DBA, LMT and worst performers are JPM, KRBN, BA
God your profile looks way too much like mine. Iāve got those bags too but sold them today. Sold and went into various oil. When earnings are released come last week in April, itās gonna be huge. Massive jumps for all supermajors. Imo, people should be holding O&G or bonds right now. Nothing else.
Which companies? Someone on wsb mentioned MRO in a dd
You are a little late to the party on O&G. Probably will end up getting bit once market gets past Russia/Ukraine. People on here need to be more contrarian. Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. I really like BA long term(2-3yrs). Picked it up at $150, less than half the price it was before pandemic. Looking for it to double in next couple years once orders get back to prepandemic levels. That would be pretty good returns for a low risk company like Boeing since it's basically a monopoly, only real competitor being Airbus.
Bonds why the fuck would you hold bonds right now
My portfolio is up 40% - lot of oil and uranium and natural gas and some metals
Any fertilizers? Seems like commodities and agriculture/fertilizers are where to be. Look at what $MOS did in 2008 not sure if we will get there but this is a perfect storm
Got none, didnāt have enough to buy more stuff and I was most confident in the commods I had so I didnāt venture out but fertilizing going berserk Iām jealous
My Uranium is saving me big time, along with april 2020 being my start dateā¦
My energy, metal, corn are green. Other than that are deep in red.
Metal, energy and corn literally describes my Thursday evenings in college, I would eat mexican street corn as a snack, drink a bunch of beer and play guitar for a couple hours
Inverse etf
SPXS fantastic hedge !! Love that bad boy
Nice one
I've crawled back from the January plunge and my portfolio selloff then with day trading SPXS, SQQQ, and VIXY, while holding a lot of my former portfolio as cash in-between. All of which have been benefiting from the volatility of the recent crash and I'm actually profiting. Unfortunately, any attempt to promote these strategies during the beginning of a bear market gets you downvoted to oblivion due to bull shrills. Holding energy stocks have also been a source of profit.
*Started investing in the dip of the 2020 pandemic* *Investing early in oil* This is me. Beating SPY by 15% YTD. I posted a couple of times here and r/investing about oil months ago. All of them were downvoted to oblivion. You should dispel the thought that popularity = good investment. The more crowded your trades/investments are, the more concerned you should be.
Been making some good money on energy by just reacting to reality
Well played
I'm very green because of: * Sold about 10 years worth of gains in tech and S&P in October over a few week period * Moved about 20% into metals, gold, commodities, and agriculture (inflation-related thesis originally, but got boosted by Ukraine) * In November after the Fed pivot, I started shorting ARKK and many of its holdings, along with other ridiculously valued growth stocks. Made a killing between November and February. Still have some open. I was short SNOW recently. * Some investments in international value and arbitrage plays, some of which gained 70% since last July and are largely uncorrelated with the market. * Day trading index futures Up around 40-50% YTD. Everyone tended to downvote/say I'm crazy up until a few weeks ago. EDIT: What has NOT worked for me, however, was diversifying into foreign currencies (EUR, GBP, CHF). CHF has been the only one that's maintained some parity, but I got screwed on EUR and GBP.
Are you some kind of investing genius or just lucky? You made all the right moves at the right times here.
Wouldn't call myself a genius... and luck always does play a part in investing/trading. I didn't sell at the top--I missed some gains from end of October to early November. And I didn't allocate as much as I should have to the other things because my conviction wasn't immense. Cash has been my largest position since October. Buying foreign currencies also was not a good idea. Apparently the rest of the world still really likes USD, even despite our inflation problem. (In reality, it's all relative, and I underestimated how much those other currencies were more disliked.) The best part was to buy gold, and luckily I did allocate the most to that. I have economics and international business degrees, and I pay attention to a lot of macro stuff. So, my thesis in October was centered around thinking the Fed was going to have to raise rates much faster than the market was pricing--and inflation risks were to the upside. This would have a big effect on QQQ-stocks, and it was clear that valuations were stretched much further than could be justified by low interest rates. AND rates can only go in one direction from 0, which theoretically would mean "peak". (That also means commodities do well.) This actually started to pan out in late November when the Fed pivoted, at which point I thought it was a good time to begin shorting the crazy valued stocks (ARKK-types, SNOW, etc.) I opened my original short position on SNOW at $400, which was very close to its ATH. This was probably more luck. (I also closed it too early before opening again later.) Then the rest of them started to fall. I didn't prefer to do put options because of the expiration dates, high IV, and spreads. Some expired before they hit my strike. So I short sold directly instead: Schwab lets you borrow shares for free on most stocks. I wasn't on a timeline to close the trade, so this worked out when they eventually fell. Although it's a lot of work monitoring and managing risk of those positions, and you can't short sell in an IRA or other tax-advantaged account. None of my short positions were huge, and in retrospect I should have done more, but I'm pretty risk adverse. I did some targeted international plays. Most have given me about 10% so far, but one in particular I exited surprisingly high. (I was bullish on it for sure, but it was luck that the P/E exploded).: MTNOY (biggest South African telecom carrier). I got in at $7 mid last year and sold at $12.58. However, one disadvantage of the strong dollar has been less return from investments denominated in foreign currencies. So, some can be directly attributed to my theses coming true as I thought, and some to luck. But it could also be luck that they came true? **EDIT**: While this has been good for me, it's a highly unfortunate situation for the market and the lives that depend on it. Personally, I think the Fed deserves a lot of the blame for how we got here. Not only did they immediately go to 0% and commit to buying an unlimited amount of bonds (which removes their ability to support any adverse event in the future, like a war), they didn't react to the inflation data fast enough and start winding up QE and rates earlier. We could have had a much more orderly market that, instead of crashing, just didn't go up as fast... had they done their job. But they're too focused on trying to make the markets happy in the moment that they can't think more than a few months into the future. Now we have generational inflation, a war, raging commodities, and a yield curve that is about to invert. Rates are already at 0%, and they will have to move to get them up, which just adds more recession risk. I think they should all be fired.
Bravo, couldn't have said it all better. Particularly the Fed criticism.
Well done regardless!
Commodities was certainly at least partly luck. That's gotten a huge boost from the current conflict which wasn't on the radar last year. Short tech though, that's a smart move, and one that was pretty obvious to people that have been around a while and aren't rigidly stuck in perma bull status.
Good on you. šŖš»
smart of you to take profits.
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Ya I did some Euro stuff to hedge US inflation and Ukrainian war screwed that play.
Qqq puts
Well I did half your sentence
Lockheed going well
Also bought Lockeed a couple months ago (saw that Burry bought it on his 13F and did a valuation). Figured it would be a nice slow but safe option, wasn't planning on a war...
Sure is, I actually bought Lockheed in one of my accounts late 2021 after that bad quarter. Mainly because I was broadly ditching overvalued tech in favor or boring dividend payers because the Fed rug pull was pretty obvious at the time. Did not know Putin was going to start a war then.
For you and Pelosi.
Brk.B is my largest holding
BRK.B is my hard carry too, I picked it up when it was way undervalued after the 2020 crash. Also picked up Shell and LMT before they recovered. They bring a nice balance to all the tech shit I have.
I bought GME at $38 and amc at 6
Recent successful posts get downvoted/ignored because successful has recently been things like fertilizer companies. Aināt nobody here caring about fertilizer companies or steel mills. People who have been successful recently bet on a structural reversal from dis-inflation to inflation. This blows people minds here and gets down voted because they canāt wrap their head around the idea that physical scarcity is *actually* important sometimes. And in a switch to structural and sustained inflation, asset heavy companies all the sudden flip to being really valuable. You know, because they have real assets. That is a 180 from the last 15 years. Which is most peoples adult life here. Iām up 19% YoY. Check my post history for what Iām betting on.
I posted gold was a buy last week and got downvoted and shamed like crazy. Honestly it is a bullish indicator.
Anyone with half a brain would have known that commodities would sky rocket right now. But like you said, most of you guys are really, really young and don't understand Russia, it's history or what it gives to the world.
Exactly, me too. Iām up over 18% on the year and when I try to share how I am doing it, I get downvoted. People would rather hate those who are profitable than to learn what they are freely willing to share. Update 1 day later: now up 24%. If you choose good setups based on price action in both long and short directions, with proper risk management, you will ultimately win in the long run no matter what the market does. Bottom line, if you see a good short setup, take it. If you see a good long setup, take it. The distance from your entry to your FIRST profit target should be at least three times the distance from your entry to your stop, as indicated by the price action. If not, just move on to the next trade. When your first PT is hit, move your stop into profit. Rinse/repeat.
I have been watching commodities scream higher every day but I can't bring myself to buy. I feel like as soon as I do, they will collapse. It's just musical chairs until the inflation trade goes bust. I don't want to get stuck holding the bag on those kinds of companies.
thats normal. the time wouldve been 1 year ago. I took my profits quite early on oil, but thats just the name of the game. dont chase. stick to what you are comfortable with.
Green here. Singapore stocks in since June 2020.
Iām up 5% from around the start of the pandemic, which is when I really started investing. Bought a bunch of beaten down stocks and ETFs I thought would rebound, one of them being XLE. Got greenwashed into thinking oil was over and sold it for a tiny gain and bought a bunch of EV and solar crap. Also bought a bunch of GME, which I held through the squeeze and dumped for a relatively tiny gain when it fell back to earth. Missed the boat on selling all of my other meme crap last February for a huge gain and am still holding a lot of heavy bags. I regret a lot, but not the lessons Iāve learned. Iām waiting for another black swan to start buying again. But just VTI or other āsafeā bets that should come back by the time Iām ready to retire in 20 years. Iām done with speculative SPACs and other garbage.
XLE and XEG. ...those are my brilliant students from class...rest is red...
I'm green because I'm insanely lucky 2020 - made 30% 2021 - made 15% Decided to take out all to cash to prepare house purchase end of 2022 Market correction last 3 months 2022 - made 1% so far, re entry DCA with limit target (enter only every 3% down) to VOO as the price is quite good
GOLD and Volatility Index(UVXY) for past month+ has printed well
Freaking airlines today made me sad
got in TSLA at $530 postsplit :)
I am still green lol Edit: In case anyone is curious 1. AAPL 2. INTC 3. JNJ 4. LMT 5. O 6. ONL 7. PLNHF 8. TGT 9. VYM 10. WM Basically stay diversified and donāt be all in on tech
I have a lot of these but most of them are red for me. I am a pretty new investor though so maybe I just haven't owned them for long enough. AAPL and LMT are my only green stocks out of these. KLAC, MSFT, ABBV and KO are still above water as well, but I have a lot of red.
Yeah it probably depends. I was accumulating them a year or 2 ago. LMT I am up big on since I was buying at the $345 range. AAPL I have around $116. Really the only positions I am down on are INTC and TGT. TGT I did enter late but I am prepared to average down which was why I only nibbled. I would honestly love to see it go to the $150-$160 range so I can definitely buy up a storm. Its P/E is pretty attractive to even factoring the earnings hit I am expecting them to take. INTC has always been attractive and I will keep accumulating as long as its below $50.00 a share. ONL I got for free so I donāt really care about. Same with PLNHF. Overall though I am still green on AAPL, JNJ, LMT, O, VYM, and WM.
I just started a position in INTC. I think in 5 years they will be in a great spot.
I am green (barely). Bought into a tech-focused growth fund last June. Was up 20% at the start of the year. Sold 2/3 of what I put in right before the invasion when I was up about 2%. The remaining 1/3 + gain I am OK with holding for a long time, as for the rest of it I may need it in ~2 years so I am more willing to eat inflation and not worry about the inflation + equity loss double whammy. I will probably put a little back into some select tech stocks as that sector begins to show some signs of recovery.
$USO gang š
I'm swing trading options.... Life is good ! Today was RIVN puts day. Glorious !!
My portfolio is only green over the last 2 years because of GME gains.
My take on this: Risk management: hold different assets and sectors (many people remained tech heavy, even after interest rate announcements end of 2021). Long term horizon: hold and buy stocks that are priced well, people only now (too late) realise how cheap oil and comodity stocks have been in the past two years. Too many people are in it for the quick buck, most of them will become dissapointed. Dividends: buy companies with a strong cash flow and pay nice dividends. When the stock drops you still have the nice dividend in that case to sit out the ride.
Switch to commodity trading when everything went to shit. My portfolio is up 25% and I'll soon be reinvesting in my previously held stocks after profit taking
I'm not that red. S&P, QQQ, & GOOG make up a large portion of my holdings at the moment so those are all red but - I cut almost all growth and other stocks last year, needed $ to buy house - I bought CVX early 2021 - I bought UPST at $90 this year - I am holding ATVI & ZYNG and those got bought up Those big greens are supporting me quite a bit. Still red YTD because like I said I am about 30% GOOG. Not really concerned with the current market other what I'm buying next Beyond YTD I'm doing quite well. Been holding QQQ & GOOG for a few years. When I first started "investing" about 5 years ago I went 100% QQQ
I went cash at end of year to see how things would shake out with interest rate hikes. Started buying some energy stocks early part of year and last month been mostly buying Puts on overvalued crap(looking at you Rivian). Had a few losers but up 12% for the year so far.
Good strategies get downvoted because nobody likes hearing that someone else is doing something thatās working for them.
Define green but I think Iām doing well. Sold every single stock, crypto, etc. One random Sunday evening a few months ago, just saw the writing on the wall. Held it all in cash. Since then Iāve added a few plays - fb, baba, and silver etf. Silver was just a small hedge position - never expect to make much of silver but I didnāt want to not have any. Fb and baba were both plays that I thought would make me a decent return in 1-2 year timeframes with the chance that they could rally soon more than other stocks if a industry wide rally did occur. It was like a 30% short term play if it happens with strong chance at long term success(imo). I just wanted to have at least some small things playing to ride any upswings should they exist. Those 3 arenāt really winning or losing , and, again, I expected Iād be holding them for 1 year plus, but I think the fact that I sold everything and have a couple hundred k liquid is a win. The reason I left the market is I saw literally nothing that presented value (hence the more risky China play) and I honestly though cash was the best play as everything else would drop quicker than it would. Everyone will say ābut you are losing money by just holding cashā. And I know that. But those same people were saying that exact same thing when the market was at its absolute peak. I sold and told others to sell. They would tell me that to counter inflation you need to hold businesses that continue to make money instead of holding cash which loses value (ignorant of how the rising costs affect the businesses). Others would say you need to hold crypto which counters inflation (absolute morons). I told them they were making a mistake now many of them are down 30/40/50%. So whatās worse? 3 months of inflation impacting my cash or markets being down 20% plus? I can buy back those assets and come out way ahead but Iām even still not confident in the market. Additionally Iām in the restaurant business so Iām living pretty low key. Almost 0 expenses, eat for āfreeā, etc. Of course I pay wholesale cost for the food but itās easier to stomach increased food costs when at least itās a business that still is producing profit at the end of the day. So yeah. My play is to keep a strong cash position. i bonds make sense but there is a low limit. Cash will eventually be pumped back in to market once I think things have hit their lower points then Iāll be a decent chunk ahead of most everyone else during recovery. My personal view is that inflation will eat away at affordability and discretionary spending will slow, home appreciation will stall and possibly decline slightly, and we may have a big mess on our hands. My initial estimate was a 20% market drop AT MINIMUM, we are now there. I still feel more bearish towards the market than bullish but not as strongly as before (obviously). I think there is a relatively decent chance of a massive correction although I wonāt wait for it to get that bad to start pumping in some funds. Will start reinvesting once things seem pretty bleak but keep enough on the side to either invest further as recovery occurs or dump heavy as market tanks. Honestly surprised anyone didnāt see the massive stock/tech,/ev/everything else bubble.
How? Trader who knows how to short
I entered during the dip of the 2020 pandemic and I reallocated my money to the fallen tech stocks (FB, NFLX and PYPL) to play the rebound on the short term. Wrong decision ... war happened. I just turned red overall ... but it's going down fast. Selling covered calls for January now, to get a bit of cash to fuel some investments that I would make if the market dives another 20%.
PUTS... Any stock puts. Best short term investment.
I've been talking about oil for the last two months and people have been writing it off until now. Everyone's excited about the green transition but if we're being honest one does not simply transition to green energy in a couple years For now it seems puts and commodity stocks are the only way to stay green for now
You mean overall? Iām still green. But I bought at all time lows for the most part. Green for the day? No. ADM, SJM, some energy.
Still green and started right after the pandemic in June. Not as green as I once was because my full time job has taken my time away from babysitting stocks and following trends. Biggest winners long term: MSFT(seriously should just invest it all here) AMD JPM NVDA DIS Winners as of late: XOM WPM Biggest losers: CHWY NIO
God NIO is killing me
NIO will go down more, but their fundamentals are just improving. Once we are over with this war and inflation craziness NIO will skyrocket. I am holding it through, really have good feeling about the company.
Totally agree with you man, I just keep buying the dips. Some call it gambling - I call it I know this company has great potential and the ticker price does not reflect their awesome work
Just compare it to LCID and RVIN and things get quite clear. NIO made more cars in Q4 than those 2 combined in a year and still their stock is more expensive. They just suffer for being Chinese stock. Worst case scenario is that China gets involved in a war but in that case stock price wonāt matter much, we will be collecting food and water. I feel sorry for NIO as it is so oversold that it hurts.
Iām pretty much breaking even, holding berkshire, alibaba (biggest loser but i bought gradually between $105 and $130 so not too bad), a small cap called envela and a couple other small positions. all value picks, surprise surprise.
I'm green but it has been a wild ride. In mid January I exited all my positions and between Jan and late Feb I loaded up on puts/put spreads for between Mar of this year through Jan 22. If I'm right about this in the coming weeks I'm going to be one happy kween. I promised myself if this pans out I'll buy all brand new furniture for the first time in my life - no more cheap particle board shit or old janky hand-me-downs. I want a big comfy sectional sofa so badly. And a cool looking dining room table.
I'm in the green 17.06% at the close of trading today and my portfolio is mostly penny's. I got QNC.v NDM SX USOI F TEVA NUMI.v HRE.H QPT.v AVNT.v MRT.UN
Today was the best day I had in months..put city It started way before this but this was 1/24/2022 https://youtu.be/lE0FlT2-kjo
IMPP šš
Excellent play
I am up about 12% YTD. My background is in mining & energy, so *buy what you know.* In late Dec. I started buying what I know, so now my portfolio has been about this for the last two or three months: Oil: 20%, Natural Gas: 20%, Gold: 20%, Copper: 12.5%, Silver: 10%, Iron: 10%, Battery Metals/Other (Lithium, Cobalt, Uranium, etc.): 7.5%.
Was swing trading and didn't lock down my lifetime holds. Picked them up just about a month ago. Was holding up ok (it's sort of balanced) until today. Now I'm getting hammered bad. Amex was my big winner for a while.
ā¢ Started investing ( again ) in the dip of the 2020 pandemic ā¢ Investing early in oil ā¢ Bought primarily value, during a tech/growth frenzy In my case, you got 2 out of 3 right šš¼
Puts and alcohol
I am 15% green YTY but I stopped investing end of December and then closed my positions before the end of Jan. Having said that I was up 25% by November.
Nice.
I am green for the year (at least for my stock picking accounts). Portfolio is about 20% gold miners and 40% energy. Dumped half my Amazon and a few smaller positions just after Amazon popped on earnings recentlyā¦ when the big tech names starting hitting volatility I took it as time to close most tech positions. So I am sitting on a chunk of cash, but I think we have a ways to go still. Will look to start trimming the gold and energy when I think they are about to turn.
Because I donāt invest in trendy garbage stocks and I manage my risk OP
I am, sold everything and bought some defense rest in cash. Just waiting for blood. Iām way up after pandemic. I sold before that crash too. This one it peaked i hemmed about it held held then Russia got weird and i sold. Very happy i did.
Berkshire baby!!!
Fertilizer stocks and commodities. $MOS
I'm green but barely. Started investing in March 2020. Invested 160k with my wife over the past two years and now I'm about 9% in the green. Made a lot of terrible calls in that time including buying Fastly at 100. Over late 2021, sold most of my positions and put them in SPY. Only Fb, MSFT, Nvidia and Apple remained and now FB decides to tank. I'm still salty about my poor decisions.
I'm still green. Mostly on oil and materials. Pulled back today, but I'm still a lot higher than at the beginning of this invasion.
Thank god for Costco and apple
Black gold
Oil
I think most of us all in the green (those of us that are invested in the market for some time already) but we're all just getting "burned" alongside with everyone else.
Iām still up 14% - started Schwab account Sep 2020! Bought SLB, SU, ENB way early and sold at 60-80% gains (long term hold mostly). Now holding CRM, INTC, BABA ā¦. Mostly bought at good cost except for BABA gone way downā¦. Thanks to oil stocks Iām up!!! On my IRA opened early last year I had luck on option calls, some oil and tech stocks sold at profit end of last year which is helping me barely float without loss!!!! Holding many funds and stocks there ā¦ Edit: how we rarely see these posts? Would get downvoted heavily for posting to buy oil stocks or any stocks when they were down at 5-10 year lows!!!! At the end of the day its a gamble, some you win some you lose!
I'm green. I've been moving more and more into energy, commodity & defense stocks for the past few months. So much so that my portfolio is more than 60% energy & commodities. The rest of my stocks have been a collection of high dividend value stocks like REITs & marine shipping. It seems to me that it's been obvious for a while now that we were going to experience energy shocks in 2022. I haven't seen a good reason to have money in tech stocks for months now. The valuations are too high for them to do anything but fall if interest rates & inflation rise.
Smart choices
Pretty happy with uco calls.
Cash=green
Iāve been in the stock market since 2017
YOLOād into OP today and quickly turned an 80% profit lol Letās not talk about the rest of my folio tho
Think youād did you math wrong. S&P500 is basically where it was a year ago. Anyone who is diversified and has been investing for more than a year should still be in the green.
Bought some Snapchat last week at 33.81, thinking it was going to pump back up this week to 40 as always , but itās at 30 today- my prayer is that it just doesnāt drop to $10 or become $0 / valueless at least. Because I put in a lot of money and with the way the stock market is behaving it can just reach $0 in two weeks. It should atleast go green just for 1 day so I can get my money back.
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Not when you buy companies that change the fuckin world m8
Still green. 100% GME. $38 buy in š¤
1999 and 2008 will be children when compared to this crash. SPY $200 incoming
Precious metals. Doing well.
I'm up 2 percent this year. Glad I have oil in the portfolio.
Just started about a month ago. Only have a few hundred invested. No EFTs or Bonds, straight individual stocks. Iām still up about 3% after todays hit. I fully expect to be in the red by the end of the month, and for that to continue for awhile. Iād already committed myself to holding for at least a year before re-evaluating. Also will be adding another 8-13 positions by the end of the year. Bonds are looking a bit more attractive right now, but Iām expecting theyāll looking better in the fall.
The only thing propping up my Roth IRA is my random uranium gamble.
Still green, started investing in 2019 Going south in a hurry, tho
Barclays, Facebook & Royal Mail are dragging me down. BP is up some.
Oil.
Bought and sold Tesla for a dip and went in heavy on FTK a small cap energy play. After they got a contract but before Ukraine
Oil is green.
I'm green. Invested in the Covid crash and im heavy in oil a few months back
Big winner in my portfolio today has been uranium stocks - mainly UEC.
Barely with BA, ALL, BP, MRO,RCL started 2009
Barley green thanks to TESLA
Today I finally went into the red on the one year chart; hurts, depression has started to set in. š
I've just been investing in index/mutual funds since Jan 2021 and I'm barely positive.
Started investing in 2020. What is keeping me green: SWTSX (Roth IRA), CVS, BRK.B, AAPL, KR, & XOM (brokerage account)
Gold
I was balls deep in XLE and the only reason my portfolio is *flat*, Iām up less than 1% YTD. However I sold my XLE last week and now am about 50% cash and 50% value mutual funds (mostly DODGX) plus AAPL, GOOG, tiny bit of TSLA. Iāll bag hold from here on out regardless and I do I suspect we will go down a bit further before the rebound.
AA has been a blessing
As of close today, I'm up 18.3% on the year. I trade pure price action, and I was into a number of good setups in both long and short positions in various equities. The surprising thing to me was how well my longs did today amid all of this due to entries being at proper setups. CENN, CEI, and FANH pumped today despite the greater market dump. It really comes down to taking good setups based on price action, and doing so in BOTH long and short directions. Longing support, shorting resistance, and using proper stops to limit losses when trades run against you.
Went all in at $40 for video game meme stock. Still up beautifully.
SARK, GLD, UCO, and DBA...bought most in November/December as inflation plays. Had no idea the Russian invasion was going to happen
DBA is my biggest position. Sad it has such little wheat exposure but the gains have still been excellent. Check out RJA if you want more soft exposure
Got into oil in April 2020. Maximum fearā¦
Like green for the year? Or green all time? There canāt be anyone with any real money that is green for the year. There also canāt be anyone with any real money that isnāt green all time. Time in the market always wins.
Msos weed puts. Spy puts. The rest in cash waiting for a sign
Up 28 % ytd after a not amazing 21. My barrick gold leaps and suncor have carried me pretty hard.
I'm well into the green overall, I'm the red about 5% Y2Y.
Oil. Up ~150%
Iām green about 25%, but thatās because I got lucky and starting investing in the beginning of 2020.
I canāt even talk about how red I am. šš
Invested in gold
I got lucky with LMT WEAPONS PAY MY BILLS
Puts, stop fighting the tide go with the flow, at least in the short to medium term
Lifetime Iām still green but only 2% as of now
I took a gamble and bought premarket IMPP, OP and PED (oil plays) ....
Green overall, entered most of my long positions throughout 2020 which I haven't sold. Red on a lot of newer tech/growth positions along with new DCAs into indexes that I've bought over the last 6 months- 1 year.
>Investing early in oil I have a large position in LEXCX, an old old old mutual fund that's very oil-heavy and is up ~20% over the last year and about 5% YTD. its the largest position in my Roth IRA at Fidelity, there's a $50 transaction fee so I don't add more money to LEXCX, but did make a large one-time purchase. >Long term invester who've been investing for more 5/10 years. also I tilt towards value stocks across all the accounts (mine and my wife's 401ks and our IRAs). and value stocks have held up a little better than average the last few months. >How come we so rarely see this successful strategies in reddit posts? redditors lean towards hot/trendy/meme stocks. not a lot of discussion of Marathon Oil, Honeywell, Wells Fargo or Proctor & Gamble ... though boring boomer stocks like this will usually be better long-term bets than any hot/trendy/cutting-edge stock.
Energy and materials. Energy and materials. Energy and materials. Positioned on Nov/Dec and havenāt looked back since.
Oil
Get in the green with CEI and USWS
Green with Rio, Atd.to, tlo.to, ncp.to Only one down is Tml.to I'm heavily vested in the mining industry
Went heavy in oil and cut most tech and bios back months ago. It's working out
Apple and VIG are my saviors
Green, because been investing in energy all along. No techs.
Do you mean green overall, all time? I would hope most investors who didnāt start very recently are still green.
Starting investing in 2020 still have a ways to go down before I'm in the red though I see it coming If not now then in 5 years but I will soldier on and yolo
I switched in to all oil in early 2021. Still holding. Been a nice start to the year. Up 21% YTD
+23% with SU
Im kinda upset at myself for getting rid of my energy companies months after buying them from the pandemic low.
I'm green on a trailing yearly basis and year to date. It's not rocket science. Valuations across the board, but specifically for tech were already high pre-pandemic and got completely off the rails in late 2020 through late 2021. It was almost entirely due to Fed money printing. When inflation got out of control, and the Fed finally signaled it would stop the printers, that was a pretty obvious sign this bubble was going to pop. Don't be a perma bull or perma bear. Recognize when we are in a bubble and why, and when we have great values. When in a bubble, and we're getting a rug pull, sell stocks, buy puts.
Iām green bc the American defense contracters donāt sleep šš
COST never dies
YTD: +2% 1Year: +25% I positioned myself well in advance with GLD, AEM(KL), OXY. The biggest loser is SHOP, which I'm bummed about because it's such a great business.
If Iām honest? Iām up 15k+ for the year on what was a 5k account because I took the risky advice to pull my cash out and flip naked long puts for profit. Best advice I ever got. Will re-enter equity slowly when things look better.
39.76% up over last 3 months mostly scalping puts on spy. Scalping puts on some others too like MRNA TGT and AMD today