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SSKILLZ1

07/18/25 11:42 AM

#125282 RE: hweb2 #125277

I'm one who hasn't found 2025 that easy to be honest. granted I know why I have had a terrible year and when I say this I'm down 1.5% YTD in my real portfolio. It is not like I have been destroyed, but heck I have made so many mistakes this year, I have had some bad dd, terrible timing in/out of the market, heavily invested in perhaps the worst sector this year, get out of a heavily weighted position in the financial sector before the sector take off, that lots of mistakes in 2025 for me, it may not go down on a return front, but in reality I think this will be the worst year I ever had in terms of the sheer number of blowups, mistakes, horrible timing, etc. And even with all of what I just said I have a good chance to end positive by the end of the year, hence it can't be that difficult. Yes if your not in the momo stock ls it is hard to keep up with some of those from a return standpoint, but you can make money if you don't decide to back up the truck with tactical errors like I have done in 2025. Having said that the VMI/VMIR are down so it hasn't been as bright for smaller market cap situations as a whole either. Having said that I disagree with wade this isn't impossible to make money, you just can't keep making a lot of mistakes, now if I can tell myself to stop doing that, that would be a plus. LOL. All is just my opinion, and I could always be wrong though.
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gilead23

07/18/25 11:47 AM

#125283 RE: hweb2 #125277

FWIW thanks for all you've done over the years. I started on the RB board when I was in my 20's, and your thinking was very influential. Fast forward, and I'm in my 50's. I've turned $3000 into more money than I need although not yet more than I can spend, and I've been retired for 3 years. You, and others on this board were a big piece of that success.
I haven't been all that active either. I'm more than happy to earn over 4% in one of the most grossly overvalued markets in history.
What I have been doing is writing a bunch of software tools to try to spend less time to get the same results. At some point every game gets old, and TBH I liked looking under rocks. I'm not a fan of the current hype driven story chasing market. I just don't enjoy it.
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abh3vt

07/18/25 1:43 PM

#125294 RE: hweb2 #125277

Hweb, congrats on living life on YOUR terms. You've earned a well deserved semi-retirement with all of your great picks and trades through the years. You and I go way back to at least the Raging Bull days; maybe even Silicon Investor? Anybody remember Prodigy (it was a joint IBM/Sears online community)? They had a few good stock trading boards that I first started frequenting back in the early 90s; that was how I got hooked. I've been trading pretty much full-time since 1995. I will miss your frequent posts my friend. Glad to hear that you'll be lurking, at least.