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Bmrboy

12/02/20 8:12 PM

#80618 RE: blindman28 #80617

blindman: RSCF

Don't beat yourself up. I've been through everything you are currently going through and more. The focus shouldn't be making millions and instant success. Hard work and consistency pays off. If the story is good, stay with it. Take half off the table when you make 100% or develop some kind of rule to where it protects you from losing your entire investment. Diversify - don't bet on one home run. There are tons of opportunities like this out there waiting to be discovered.

I used to let this stuff consume me to the point where I wasn't fun to be around. Life isn't about the fortunes we make. Enjoy investing, don't stress about the losers, and make sure you spend time making memories with your family and loved ones. This can all be taken away from us at any moment.

littlefish

12/02/20 9:35 PM

#80621 RE: blindman28 #80617

Blindman28: First, lose the mindset of ‘I had this one!’. The longer you invest, the more you will repeat the just misses. It will happen again but eventually you will get lucky. Second, before that happens ask yourself why you bought and why you sold.

I personally looked at it and liked the idea even with the stinky revs mentioned compared to market cap and liked the semi fiscally responsible cost structure they’ve tried to maintain. However, I waited for the last Q to see if revs were accelerating and if margins were improving before deciding given how little revs they do and how big the market cap. When I saw GMs were relatively flattish (although 70%+ is strong, we are talking a lot less than a million rev run rate per Q) I decided not to jump.

Did you jump in because you thought it would be great at moving, say, Pfizer’s vaccine? Did Moderna’s vaccine success make you hesitate and sell? Did the last Q showing only $600k+ revs deter you too? The last 2 would have left me cautious.

Some got lucky with the timing of patent release along with U.K. approval of the drug and likelihood for quick transport (such as air) being more critical for Pfizer’s distribution to work well. Then you have the fluff daytraders all around juicing something with that small of a market cap.

Figure out what works and doesn’t work over time. Don’t leverage yourself while you’re still feeling like there is a learning curve and you remain relatively new IMO.

I sold Amazon in 1999 if that helps :p. I have many other big misses but that was certainly a big one. Back then it would have been pure luck to sit on it and I didn’t have the experiences I now have. As I look at it today, I still would sell it because it isn’t in my wheelhouse of what I feel comfortable with and have done well with over time so while I regret the potential outcome and what it could have meant in life (more time with family etc), it would have been nothing more than luck since it did not/does not fit my investment style.

At 30, you are doing well to start working on investing now and saving. 300% in one day on a company is nothing more than pure luck. Hopefully you didn’t lose on it and can consider it a win. But again, try to figure out why you buy and sell something and if that logic works over time or needs tweeking.


Good luck, the micro caps mentioned around here are usually a decent place to cut your teeth on figuring out what companies to look into (although I personally rarely get my best ideas from here anymore).

All IMO only.

PS- I’m still relatively new at this in my 50s (started around your starting age). It usually takes a fair amount of time unless you get super lucky or have good income you can plow into investing over time IMO. I’ve had neither for the most part but have done fairly well anyway over time.

BTuna

12/02/20 11:52 PM

#80622 RE: blindman28 #80617

Re Blindman

Your emotions about this situation are the problem, not the outcome. Trust me! I made my first +100% trade when I was 14 years old. I've been following many of the posters here since the early 2000's when I started listening to Bobwins on this old site called RagingBull. Bought a .19 cent stock once and sold for $4.15. Bought a house with that money, bought a truck, and bought a motorcycle. This was all before I was 22 years old. Lost my house when the housing bubble crashed, still got the bike and the truck. Stopped trading full time, drifted around life for years.

Finally, about 7 years ago I rediscovered my passion for horticulture and have been working long hours in one of the largest greenhouses in the world. I'm a management level horticulturist now, and the pay still isn't great and I still haven't bought a house again and I'm 37 years old. But you know what? I'm happy, more happy than when I had more $$ than a 20 year old should have.

The destination you desire isn't as satisfying as the JOURNEY.

Listen to these guys, this is solid advice given here. You need consistency, not the home run. Home runs are for play money, not your big holdings. Don't treat the market like a casino, the house (almost) always wins.

SuperDrive

12/03/20 6:11 AM

#80625 RE: blindman28 #80617

The secret of wealth building is consistency. Nobody can be consistent hitting homeruns. If you try to you'll be kicked out of the field. Period.
My philosophy is to be happy at the end of the trading day if i simply didn't loose money.
You're running a marathon here not a sprint. I've been trading since 2007 and I often remind myself that if I had just bought the DOW index in 2009 and waited 11 years without trading anything it would have been a five bagger. Needless to say I made much less money than that in these 11 years. Compounding is the key, not homeruns. You need to control greed and emotions. They are the main destroyers of wealth. Getting rich is a slow process. As long as you don't internalize this concept, you'll be on the loosing side.

Good luck and remember that life is short and is so much more that staring all day at a bid and an ask.

RNsidersbuying

12/03/20 9:12 AM

#80639 RE: blindman28 #80617

Half one's poke is a bit much to invest in super-high-risk stocks, yes? If you had invested say 5% of your poke...would you have been less afraid to hold and would you have been happy with the result?

For me, not about what I make in each trade, it's about what I LEARN...there'll always be another RSCF.

See NBIO...trading at a less than $5M cap

nsomniyak

12/03/20 9:27 PM

#80673 RE: blindman28 #80617

You can't go back in time and get a re-do - all you can do is learn from it.

If it makes you feel any better - been there and done that. Many of the posters here have a similar story to tell. We have survived and you will too.