General Stock Ideas

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Thanks. I only have a small position, which went from $1000 to 2000. With an OTC microcap you can't expect pristine financials, but I wasn't aware that their product had those negatives you mentioned. With these small positions, I tend to not do a ton of research, and mainly go by the chart and general 'story'. The company does appear to be extremely energetic, and is great at marketing, which is half the battle.

The only other individual stocks I have are Generac (GNRC) and Grow Generation (GRWG), which have been going gangbusters, plus IPIX and another small biotech called Kazia (KZIA), which Bladerunner is following. I also have a sizable group of individual REITS. Mainly I'm in a large group of sector ETFs (link below) for the more aggressive allocation, but the bulk of the stock exposure comes from broad index ETFs (total stock market, S+P 500, QQQ), and these are balanced by the bonds, gold/silver, cash. This diverse approach has been doing great, and without the usual sleep disrupting angst.

Last year I had a large number of individual stocks, but swapped those for the broad index ETFs since the results are better/steadier, and the ETFs will allow you to quickly bail out should the economy/markets really start to unravel. Also, dozens of individual stocks are just too much to follow, and performance-wise, it's tough to beat the indexes. The sector ETFs are my favorites though, you just identify the best long term sectors and hang on.


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I'll check out EMAN. I'm usually not that big on hardware and semiconductor stocks, but EMAN really took off in 2020. The previous 10 years it was consistently flat/down though. Historically with hardware stocks there is the problem of their technology being 'leapfrogged', plus commoditization can occur which erodes the profitability. I remember Peter Lynch and Buffett avoided the semis/hardware stocks, the technology is ever changing and difficult to understand.