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0 pointsActorNightly1mo ago0 comments

Once the supreme court decision about Trump went out, I took all of my investments and put into a savings account.

When a dip happens, I simply take 10% of the money, buy the dip, then sell when the price hits pre dip.

So far Ive netted significantly more than any of my peers that actually do investing.

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generic920341mo ago

You have explained well how you are determining the point to sell. But how do you determine that "the dip" is now?

Anytime it dips due to some announcement, I buy (usually big cap stuff like AMZN, or index like VOO). Then I sell when the price goes back to what it was prior to announcement

ghtbircshotbe1mo ago

Obvious problem - stock market could keep going down. Obvious improvement - stop limit sell orders. Obvious flaw in the story - many common stocks like Google have doubled in the past year.

raffraffraff1mo ago

So if you had a pension mostly in all world indexed funds, you'd switch them over to "boring" investments like cash.

4gotunameagain1mo ago

Interesting. Do you buy indexes, or ?

ActorNightlyOP1mo ago

Mostly VOO and others. But I do buy big cap stock as well.

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0 pointsActorNightly1mo ago0 comments

Once the supreme court decision about Trump went out, I took all of my investments and put into a savings account.

When a dip happens, I simply take 10% of the money, buy the dip, then sell when the price hits pre dip.

So far Ive netted significantly more than any of my peers that actually do investing.

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generic920341mo ago

You have explained well how you are determining the point to sell. But how do you determine that "the dip" is now?

ActorNightlyOP1mo ago

Anytime it dips due to some announcement, I buy (usually big cap stuff like AMZN, or index like VOO). Then I sell when the price goes back to what it was prior to announcement

ghtbircshotbe1mo ago

Obvious problem - stock market could keep going down. Obvious improvement - stop limit sell orders. Obvious flaw in the story - many common stocks like Google have doubled in the past year.

raffraffraff1mo ago

So if you had a pension mostly in all world indexed funds, you'd switch them over to "boring" investments like cash.

4gotunameagain1mo ago

Interesting. Do you buy indexes, or ?

ActorNightlyOP1mo ago

Mostly VOO and others. But I do buy big cap stock as well.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse