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As we close 2020, just want to say thanks to all of you guys in here.  This year was my first real foray into the stock market. I've always been a set and forget guy, but I had a chance with a small 401K from a previous job to play around with.  I also opened a small brokerage account as well just to do something with excess savings. 

I learned some hard lessons this year (CYDY), but those lessons were about when to buy and when to sell and when to be patient. But you guys took a literal noob at this and set me on a positive path going forward.

Now that I've dug out of my poor CYDY buy (inexperience, but a valuable lesson), I'm in the green overall on both accounts and have actually grown the brokerage account about 35%.  All thanks to you guys.

So, once again, you are all appreciated. Have a great 2021!

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Lacey said:
The answer is probably average in.  Buy 25% or so now and fill it in in jan and feb.  keep in mind I normally don’t follow my own advice.
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That's what I'm doing with ARKG. Added some this week, plan to add a bit more every few weeks weeks over the next few months. 

 
ChiefD said:
As we close 2020, just want to say thanks to all of you guys in here.  This year was my first real foray into the stock market. I've always been a set and forget guy, but I had a chance with a small 401K from a previous job to play around with.  I also opened a small brokerage account as well just to do something with excess savings. 

I learned some hard lessons this year (CYDY), but those lessons were about when to buy and when to sell and when to be patient. But you guys took a literal noob at this and set me on a positive path going forward.

Now that I've dug out of my poor CYDY buy (inexperience, but a valuable lesson), I'm in the green overall on both accounts and have actually grown the brokerage account about 35%.  All thanks to you guys.

So, once again, you are all appreciated. Have a great 2021!

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Similar story, same sentiments. Cheers  :banned:

 
Been a helluva a year, that's for sure.  I lost 50% of my PA value in two week's time back in March.  Just paralyzed with all sorts of emotions that overwhelmed me and I just refused to log in to my accounts for fear of what would await me.  When I finally did log in, I felt like a person returning to their home to inspect the damage from a hurricane after being forced to evict.  It was ugly, there were a TON Of repairs that needed to be done, but not all was lost.

With an hour left in the final trading day of the year, I'm going to finish the year up nearly 100%.  Not from the bottom; from the start of 2020.  Most of it - but not all - thanks to BEEM, but also being patient, not panicking and just grinding it out every day.  

Not many threads on this board are worth a daily click anymore.  This is the exception.  Best wishes in 2021 all y'all. 

 
General Malaise said:
Been a helluva a year, that's for sure.  I lost 50% of my PA value in two week's time back in March.  Just paralyzed with all sorts of emotions that overwhelmed me and I just refused to log in to my accounts for fear of what would await me.  When I finally did log in, I felt like a person returning to their home to inspect the damage from a hurricane after being forced to evict.  It was ugly, there were a TON Of repairs that needed to be done, but not all was lost.

With an hour left in the final trading day of the year, I'm going to finish the year up nearly 100%.  Not from the bottom; from the start of 2020.  Most of it - but not all - thanks to BEEM, but also being patient, not panicking and just grinding it out every day.  

Not many threads on this board are worth a daily click anymore.  This is the exception.  Best wishes in 2021 all y'all. 
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I literally put a note on my office wall back in April - “panicking is not a strategy”. Helped me a lot when the waters got rough. 
 

Hopefully everybody had a killer year on stocks and 2021 we can all go out again and spend this money. 

 
Capella said:
I literally put a note on my office wall back in April - “panicking is not a strategy”. Helped me a lot when the waters got rough. 
 

Hopefully everybody had a killer year on stocks and 2021 we can all go out again and spend this money. 
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A book that I highly recommend to all of us:  Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin LeFevre (a book about Jesse Livermore)

One of the lessons:

2. Learn how to sit tight

After a wild and lengthy rollercoaster ride as a speculator, Livermore believes he has found the secret to his success. It’s obvious he’s excited by this discovery, which he eagerly shares:

“After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: it never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

“It is no trick at all to be right on the market,” he adds. “I’ve known many [traders] who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level that should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine; that is, they made no real money out of it. [Traders] who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make the big money.”
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So when I made the call of the year on TVIX, and then cashed out up 41% instead of hanging on for the 25-bagger, that was sub-optimal? Thanks!  :bag:

 
Thanks everyone- great 2020 - here’s to an even better 2021. Best thread on the innerwebs, hands down.

Seems everyone and their mother is getting cats and dogs (moreso dogs). I think Chewy will eventually be a $250 stock. As my last trade of the year, started an opening position at 89.91. 
 

GLTA

 
General Malaise said:
Been a helluva a year, that's for sure.  I lost 50% of my PA value in two week's time back in March.  Just paralyzed with all sorts of emotions that overwhelmed me and I just refused to log in to my accounts for fear of what would await me.  When I finally did log in, I felt like a person returning to their home to inspect the damage from a hurricane after being forced to evict.  It was ugly, there were a TON Of repairs that needed to be done, but not all was lost.

With an hour left in the final trading day of the year, I'm going to finish the year up nearly 100%.  Not from the bottom; from the start of 2020.  Most of it - but not all - thanks to BEEM, but also being patient, not panicking and just grinding it out every day.  

Not many threads on this board are worth a daily click anymore.  This is the exception.  Best wishes in 2021 all y'all. 
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So, so, happy to read this.

 
I love and appreciate this thread too, but I think I learned the opposite lesson from the rest of the newbs: I should just set it and forget it! 

I spent a lot of time reading the thread and articles, but was only up 16% for the year, and 41% from the year low. Pretty much exactly what the S+P did, and the S+P didn't obsessively check how it was doing six times a day. Edited to add : actually, the S+P rose 70% from it's low, so I badly underperformed the market. :wall:

I bought late and sold early on every good idea you guys had! 

I'll probably stick with it because I enjoy the rush, but this is apparently not my thing. 

 
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randall146 said:
I love and appreciate this thread too, but I think I learned the opposite lesson from the rest of the newbs: I should just set it and forget it! 

I spent a lot of time reading the thread and articles, but was only up 16% for the year, and 41% from the year low. Pretty much exactly what the S+P did, and the S+P didn't obsessively check how it was doing six times a day. Edited to add : actually, the S+P rose 70% from it's low, so I badly underperformed the market. :wall:

I bought late and sold early on every good idea you guys had! 

I'll probably stick with it because I enjoy the rush, but this is apparently not my thing. 
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Don’t feel too bad, I don’t think people doubling up on the year is the norm (at least I hope not or I’ll feel extra horrible 😂). 
 

When you guys calculate your returns on the year or from the bottom do you include contributions in there or somehow exclude them?

Also for anyone who has more or less doubled up, did you have a high % in a stock that was a 10 bagger, just kill it across the board on 40 different stocks this year, day trade the heck out of it, or something else? 

 
Capella said:
I literally put a note on my office wall back in April - “panicking is not a strategy”. Helped me a lot when the waters got rough. 
 

Hopefully everybody had a killer year on stocks and 2021 we can all go out again and spend this money. 
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Absolutely correct. I can’t remember how many times I mentioned stocks I owned (long term ones not speculative) that went up 10%+ in a day and I had a few that went up 40%. No way to time that perfectly. I was worried in March, but I didn’t panic. If I sold anything it was reinvested into another stock. I remember a lot of folks really panicking and jumping out and unfortunately, you don’t see them in here which makes you think they didn’t get back in and that’s tough. I’m fairly certain I won’t have another 100%+ net worth jump again, but this year was a game changer. Like having a 7 year 10% return run in one year.

 
stbugs said:
Absolutely correct. I can’t remember how many times I mentioned stocks I owned (long term ones not speculative) that went up 10%+ in a day and I had a few that went up 40%. No way to time that perfectly. I was worried in March, but I didn’t panic. If I sold anything it was reinvested into another stock. I remember a lot of folks really panicking and jumping out and unfortunately, you don’t see them in here which makes you think they didn’t get back in and that’s tough. I’m fairly certain I won’t have another 100%+ net worth jump again, but this year was a game changer. Like having a 7 year 10% return run in one year.
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My plan for 2021 is to just buy what you buy.

 
ChiefD said:
My plan for 2021 is to just buy what you buy.
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Lol. Wouldn’t shock me if I don’t do anywhere close to as well! Definitely looking now at a 5 year plan after having a great 2020 (investing wise). Honestly not going to worry as much about 2021 returns as much as making sure set for the 5 year run. That said I’m sure I’ll be checking daily.

 
ConstruxBoy said:
Happy Birthday good buddy! Have a great year and keep up the Bezos jokes. I enjoy them. 
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:lol:   I assume you got that from Facebook where I'm using a bogus birthday.  Just trying to mess with the good folks at google.

But thanks for the well wishes and happy New Year to you.  I hope everyone has a great 2021 and may your Amazon stock keep pace with utility companies this year.

 
Big League Chew said:
Thoughts about Jan 20th and the influence on the market?
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Is that when the run off in Georgia is? If so, big impact. If the Democrats get control of the Senate the market won’t like that at all. Gridlock is best.

Actually, that looks like 1/5. Inauguration is 1/20. Don’t think that matters at all. That’s not new news. The run offs are far more important than officially taking office.

 
As I start 2021, here are my current holdings:

  • AAPL: 40 shares ($126.31 cost basis)
  • ABNA: 13 shares ($146.82 cost basis)
  • BA: 46 shares ($144.37 cost basis)
  • DIS: 47 shares ($122.38 cost basis)
  • DNKG: 50 shares ($30.00 cost basis)
  • FB: 10 shares ($259.91 cost basis)
  • GS: 25 shares ($206.60 cost basis)
  • SBUX: 11 shares ($73.95 cost basis)
  • SNOW: 5 shares ($245.00 cost basis)
  • TGT: 25 shares ($113.87 cost basis)
  • UAL: 75 shares ($23.76 cost basis)
  • UBER: 25 shares ($38.50 cost basis)
I also participate in my company's stock purchasing plan. That stock has done well and currently own about 525 shares.

On January 1st of last year, I owned only shares in my company stock. Through some friends of mine and this thread, I became much more interested and decided to take a leap. I got in at possibly the worst possible time, in Jan/Feb, right before the pandemic hit, but was able to find some good buying opportunities.

I probably won't be able to be as aggressive this year, but do want to keep adding.

If anyone has any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for helping me make 2020 a successful financial year. Here's hoping for more of the same in 2021 as we begin to put the pandemic behind us (hopefully).

 
Current holdings starting 2021...

ARKG - $103.57

ARKK - $133.24

AVGO - $355.04

HAACU - $11.81

KALA - $7.46

PLTR - $25.14 -  My largest holding by far (started at $18 and averaged up from there)

TRUFF - $.2489 - My newest

My goal is to hold longer and make less trades.

 
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Todem said:
Yes....CCL is on my hit list and the only airline I will dip into is DAL. 

For everyone. This is my master buy list for next week and no surprises here except a few I have not listed yet. I wanted to research them a lot harder.

AMZN

AAPL

GOOGL

NFLX

FB

INTC

HD

CSCO

EXC

LMT

MSFT

PFE

PG

TGT

CAT

PM

MCD

YUM

DOW

BRK'B

DEO

GIS

JPM

PFE

UTX

EMR

VZ

T

GCV

PEO

ADX

Here are some high fliers we will take positions in:

NXPI

CYBR

Here is the stressed travel, leisure and gambling casino/paramutual stocks we are going in on:

GLPI - Already have a 50% position going all in next Re-Test 

WYNN

DAL

CCL

CHDN

FUN

Already fully in:

BA - at the freaking lows baby.

Let’s do this!!!! I expect next week to be a blood bath Re-Test. 
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Anyone with some free time on their hands - would be awesome to figure out the % gain on todem's master list since 3/27 - assuming you bought equal parts of each - my guess is it has beaten the S&P by at least 5 points.

I still own many of these - one of the best surprises has been GCV - I'm up 37% in share value since I bought it in mid-April, and on top of that, it pays an 8% dividend - 8 PERCENT! (to be shouted to the tune of "A MINUS 8" - the cranky book publisher board member from Elf). Owning this in my IRA has been a godsend - reinvesting those sweet 8% quarterly dividends.

 
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NajehHejan said:
Anyone with some free time on their hands - would be awesome to figure out the % gain on todem's master list since 3/27 - assuming you bought equal parts of each - my guess is it has beaten the S&P by at least 5 points.

I still own many of these - one of the best surprises has been GCV - I'm up 37% in share value since I bought it in mid-April, and on top of that, it pays an 8% dividend - 8 PERCENT! (to be shouted to the tune of "A MINUS 8" - the cranky book publisher board member from Elf). Owning this in my IRA has been a godsend - reinvesting those sweet 8% quarterly dividends.
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He really nailed it, I made it good amount on BA and continued adding AAPL and AMZN as well. Should have followed on more. 

 
NajehHejan said:
Anyone with some free time on their hands - would be awesome to figure out the % gain on todem's master list since 3/27 - assuming you bought equal parts of each - my guess is it has beaten the S&P by at least 5 points.

I still own many of these - one of the best surprises has been GCV - I'm up 37% in share value since I bought it in mid-April, and on top of that, it pays an 8% dividend - 8 PERCENT! (to be shouted to the tune of "A MINUS 8" - the cranky book publisher board member from Elf). Owning this in my IRA has been a godsend - reinvesting those sweet 8% quarterly dividends.
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Just being invested and/or putting cash into stocks was a great move in March. Most of the tech type stocks we mentioned in here were up even more. My IRA is my biggest account by a lot and it's the easiest to check returns on since my taxable accounts have had investments/payments. It's up 191% since the March bottom, which for me was 3/16-3/18.

 
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