You have to buy in increments, can’t get exactly the bottom. Brought some META $597 and NVDA $107 today.
Place buy order $220 TSLA, NFLX $842, and AMZN $186.
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Place buy order $220 TSLA, NFLX $842, and AMZN $186.
I need to set some limit orders later tonight. Out this week and won't have much time available during trading hours. CMG is high on my list.
Whatever amount of money you're willing to allocate for anything you can split it up into 1/2s, 1/3s, 1/4s, 1/5s or what have you. You don't have to buy a position all at once, nor sell a position all at once.
Frankly, if I ever happen to get in on the bottom it's plain luck rather than anything else. I look at charts, technicals, patterns etc.. but still there's no way to know fo sure where the bottom will eventually be or the top for that matter. Part of why it's probably prudent not to shoot your shot all at once. Retail level don't even have to pay commissions anymore like the old days either. So you can split it up as much or as little as you like.
Honestly, I probably end up doing better when I don't pick the absolute bottom because I'll have ended up accumulating more shares than I would have if I did. Main thing is I usually only start buying after there's a nice cushion/drop first and I use charts to help with potential buying (and selling areas).
Whatever amount of money you're willing to allocate for anything you can split it up into 1/2s, 1/3s, 1/4s, 1/5s or what have you. You don't have to buy a position all at once, nor sell a position all at once.
In my younger days, I would buy or sell large number of shares and not incremental. I would get mad even though I made money selling because the stock might keep on going up. Same with a buy, stock would go down further and I would be pissed even though I made a good buy. Now, I feel I win mentally and emotionally when I do it in increments.
Your ideas similar to mine.
In my younger days, I would buy or sell large number of shares and not incremental. I would get mad even though I made money selling because the stock might keep on going up. Same with a buy, stock would go down further and I would be pissed even though I made a good buy. Now, I feel I win mentally and emotionally when I do it in increments.
Your ideas similar to mine.
I've been holding more cash than I would have liked since late 2023 from a business sale. Plus annual bonuses just paid 2/28, so going to try and keep taking bites as things keep falling.
Link said she’s buying CMG down 25% and trading at 25 times EBIDTA. Not cheap she said but less than the 38 times it has traded at historically. Thinks they have pricing power to offset tariffs.
I’m still waiting though.
I hoping for more of a get lucky strategy. Blindly time the bottom. lol. This may not end well.
The markets going to break Trump. None of the other countries are bending. Trump will claim victory when the market go further down even thought he’ll get nothing of substance.
WOW, today is really crazy, I might get TSLA at $220
S&P down 8% another 2% to bring it to 10% and Trump will cry uncle.
WOW, today is really crazy, I might get TSLA at $220
S&P down 8% another 2% to bring it to 10% and Trump will cry uncle.
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Ok, brought some CMG , down 30% ATH and new position at CAVA $79.8 Added to my BDX
This is a day you take advantage of other people emotions.
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I don’t if it going any lower but first buy increment. I have to look at the chart to see next level and all the analyst still saying buy. I somewhat believe the TSLA BS about robots and Autodrive. Been buying a lot of new positions, CAVA, CMG, TSLA, NVDA, NFLX. Still have close to 50% cash since I sold the taxable gains on my mom account, afraid there might be no more gain with this drop.
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Literally no reason to buy. Sales down, margins down, less tax credit due to less sales, crypto MTM will be ugly. Even if they get Robotaxi, it’s not going to justify the valuation.
Carful of the internet - sites going down.
X (down 4x already) with 10 billion requests in an hour (Tesla and Rumble also down)
Its not small hacking op (its not Russia either).
Investing.com -- Elon Musk, the CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter), reported today that the platform experienced multiple outages due to a massive cyberattack. According to Musk, the attack was significantly larger and more coordinated than the daily cyber threats the platform usually faces.
"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against ?. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …" - must wrote in a post.
X (down 4x already) with 10 billion requests in an hour (Tesla and Rumble also down)
Its not small hacking op (its not Russia either).
Investing.com -- Elon Musk, the CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter), reported today that the platform experienced multiple outages due to a massive cyberattack. According to Musk, the attack was significantly larger and more coordinated than the daily cyber threats the platform usually faces.
"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against ?. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …" - must wrote in a post.
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There is no reason to crush the markets with uncertainty. The POTUS is a massive train-wreck regardless of when the market turns green. The market always goes up (eventually) at which point he will surely do a victory lap. In the meantime, the way in which he approached the tariffs, Ukraine, DOGE, etc. the guy is truly a maniac. All of his objectives could have been accomplished with a steady hand and diplomacy. I would ordinarily be buying and know I should be but I don’t trust Trump. If this was COVID Part 2 I would be all over the dips/decline.
I know but how far can it go down. All the analyst still backing it up. I’ll make these long term investments until I get a profit.
I hate that we betrayed Ukraine.
It is very obvious that Trump and his inner circle want to change the world in a meaningful way. They are using tariffs, etc to bring the world to its knees. He is betting that the world economy is weaker than the US economy and we will be the last person standing. I am not certain if that will come to fruition, but I expect a big downturn at some point.
This ain’t it. From your last post, I knew you were waiting longer before jumping in.
Think about what you just wrote. We had a stable economy and a booming stock market. Who the F wants to bring the world to its knees. Thats insanity!
Good buy. I need some CMG. Was able to add to my custom stock basket via iPhone. Yeah for technology!
May want to consider SHAK as well.
I actually don’t like food/restaurant stocks but CAVA can easily expand with more stores and CMG is down big. Don’t want SHAK, I went there once hamburger too expensive.
That was T2K since he thinks stocks always go up. I think too early to call but it will be coming,
Funny because I would ordinarily buy these dips hard and have cash in hand, but Trump is all over the f’in place. For example, he announced the strategic reserve and blurted out a bunch of coins. So then I buy COIN/HOOD. A week later he creates the reserve but, at least for now, it’s only going to include the crap the Gov’t confiscated/owns.
Unemployment is going to spike thanks to DOGE and slowing economy and private sector won’t hire thanks to tariffs and uncertainty. He’s creating a vicious cycle.
I don’t personally think we needed to make wholesale changes, but clearly enough of the electorate didn’t feel that way. We are breaking alliances with our close allies. There is definitely a big push to change the world order.
If we had a stable economy then Trump would not have won in an electoral landslide. Clearly not enough people are benefiting from this economic boom that some of us were experiencing.
No one wants to wait 2-3 years and. I one can predict what will happen if poor people are struggling for 2-3 more years.
Most recently, years 2000 - 2010 = a "Lost Decade" with an annualized return of - 0.95. It happens. And did following a burst bubble. I think we still have a way to go to reach a reset. Diversification is our friend. Don't fight the rip current. If you are in the growth years and actively contributing to your holdings, look at what may be coming as a buying opportunity. Maybe not at a great discount. But time is your friend. If you are nearing or in retirement, you likely (hopefully) are positioned to take your 3% annual withdrawal, and sleep soundly. Well, as soundly as your can, given the state of "things" beyond your portfolio.
I was in Rutgers Graduate School and tried to buy BMY when it dropped but could never get thru to your broker. I got hurt a little but didn’t have a lot of money early in my career.
Yea and Hegseth discontinued any offensive cyber retaliation against Russia
SHAK is to Gen Z like CMG is to Millennials. They have plans to go from 500 to 1500 US stores. Amazing business!
More likely 2-3 months if that. This is an artificial drop just like COVID. Stay calm and keep buying. You will be rewarded.
Trump won because Biden is literally senile (anyone see him since the inauguration?) and his replacement was more fake and unlikeable than Hillary.
But I would argue that the less you see the POTUS, the more stable the market is. Usually for most POTUS you only see them during state of the Union type/planned addresses, or when something terrible like a terror attack or war. Or they are rolling a big plan like Obamacare. Besides Trump, you didn’t hear from any POTUS daily or weekly. Trump is in front of a camera or tweeting daily, and the topics are things that can scare a market. It would be good for the market if he could cut back his camera/tweet time.
Don't let portfolio losses get the best of you, folks. Keep it in perspective. Keep the politics in check, at least in this thread. Take that "discussion" to the CE board. The market was overdue for a reset. Trump's initiatives only served as a catalyst to quicken the inevitable result. Now we must contend with the length of the impact. Better days ahead. I hope sooner than later.