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ronk

07/16/15 7:55 PM

#575 RE: pennyplayer777 #573

I read your posts. I understand and I don't have nearly as much cheese in this one as you. This has to be a rough time for folks that have been in this for months if not years. I stumbled on this ticker scanning stocks at a 52 wk low a few months back and it is a speculative play.

I'm determined to change my own trading behavior and see a story unfold, suffer the red, and envision a good trade which may take months. Put it this way.. and this is off topic for Actinium but relevant to behavior in general.. when no one was talking about the Net flix stock split recently, I decided I would play the split until it happened. I got in early and when it spiked after the announcement and then started dropping, I bailed. Made an ok trade... I didn't follow my initial trade plan to see the split through and bailed early and left thousands on the table because I got jumpy about my principle. That thing was killing it the past week and I bailed and used some principle to buy back into ATNM. Oh well.. I Didn't follow my plan and got emotional. Hard not to with money. Everyone has their threshold and should trade accordingly but I know me personally, need to remember my trading plan when taking a position. I just think an acquisition is probable and it being at a very low price point, while really really really stressful for some is someone else's excellent entry point and the less shares on the table held by long investors at this point could mean a bigger return, eventually. Again, everyone has their threshold.

That was long winded but I'm trying to manage my own emotional response as well. I'm down. Puts me in a bad mood but I do want to accrue more shares here. Was cursing some drivers out on the commute home.