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Added some to my APPL and AMZN, selling more puts hoping to pick up more DGI. A lot of stocks on my crash shopping list but we aren't anywhere near there yet, and hopefully we won't be.

Just bought a few shares each of UPS, ITW, and TXN for my son's education savings account.

Bought some VLO, CVX and ABBV for my sons account. Too many stock on my buy list, but cant buy them all lol

Added ABBV, OZK, NKE

Bought a little CCL, VLO and UPS. Spread out 5k between the 3 names.

Added NVDA, AAL, SYF, OZK, LMT, T, ABBV

Nasdaq is down 10% this month. Last time it was down 11% in November 2008

(10-24-2018, 03:01 PM)vbin Wrote: [ -> ]Nasdaq is down 10% this month. Last time it was down 11% in November 2008

Is it OK to cry some stock market tears among forum friends?    I've been pretty fortunate through most of this actually, but quite a few of my stocks have been hammered bad the past few days.   Today was particularly painful.  ATT and UPS earnings started my day of wrong.   I own a lot of ATT or a couple bucks down would matter.  I am really regretting my recent oil plays.  I am OK with owning CVX, XOM and MRO  but my timing could not have been worse.  I caught the top and then oil prices dropped immediately.  I'll be staring at those losses for a long time.  I won't sell anything, but I won't lie it's tempting to move the funds to something in another sector with more promise in the near term.  I was lucky enough to have cash to average down in a lot of positions.  We'll see if I did it too soon in the near future. I knew it was not a good time to jump into falling chip stocks. I got that small thing right. If AMZN or APPL miss earnings I am going to shut the computer off.

 Everyone hang in there.  There will be more months like this but hopefully not this year. 

(10-24-2018, 04:56 PM)fenders53 Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-24-2018, 03:01 PM)vbin Wrote: [ -> ]Nasdaq is down 10% this month. Last time it was down 11% in November 2008

Is it OK to cry some stock market tears among forum friends?    I've been pretty fortunate through most of this actually, but quite a few of my stocks have been hammered bad the past few days.   Today was particularly painful.  ATT and UPS earnings started my day of wrong.   I own a lot of ATT or a couple bucks down would matter.  I am really regretting my recent oil plays.  I am OK with owning CVX, XOM and MRO  but my timing could not have been worse.  I caught the top and then oil prices dropped immediately.  I'll be staring at those losses for a long time.  I won't sell anything, but I won't lie it's tempting to move the funds to something in another sector with more promise in the near term.  I was lucky enough to have cash to average down in a lot of positions.  We'll see if I did it too soon in the near future.  I knew it was not a good time to jump into falling chip stocks.  I got that small thing right.  If AMZN or APPL miss earnings I am going to shut the computer off.

 Everyone hang in there.  There will be more months like this but hopefully not this year. 

I could not be happier actually! These are great buying opportunities

Im only sad I don't have more cash to throw in to the fire. A 10 percent drop in prices gives an instant yield boost

(10-24-2018, 04:56 PM)fenders53 Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-24-2018, 03:01 PM)vbin Wrote: [ -> ]Nasdaq is down 10% this month. Last time it was down 11% in November 2008

Is it OK to cry some stock market tears among forum friends?    I've been pretty fortunate through most of this actually, but quite a few of my stocks have been hammered bad the past few days.   Today was particularly painful.  ATT and UPS earnings started my day of wrong.   I own a lot of ATT or a couple bucks down would matter.  I am really regretting my recent oil plays.  I am OK with owning CVX, XOM and MRO  but my timing could not have been worse.  I caught the top and then oil prices dropped immediately.  I'll be staring at those losses for a long time.  I won't sell anything, but I won't lie it's tempting to move the funds to something in another sector with more promise in the near term.  I was lucky enough to have cash to average down in a lot of positions.  We'll see if I did it too soon in the near future. I knew it was not a good time to jump into falling chip stocks. I got that small thing right. If AMZN or APPL miss earnings I am going to shut the computer off.

 Everyone hang in there.  There will be more months like this but hopefully not this year. 

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I have a feeling this might not be over yet, then again I'm terrible at predicting these things.
Only things I'm considering selling are two stocks that I hold for covered call positions. One of those I let go last week, let's see what happens with the other. The remaining one is WFC so I might actually just hold onto it and enjoy the dividend.

The money released from the first sale will be used to buy something next week. Let's see what I end up finding.

I was hurt FAR worse in past recessions.  I had a ton of cash to invest this time, but it was blind luck due to transferring accounts and having trouble finding good value two months ago.  Having a little patience is the only thing I can give myself any credit for.  And I agree this is likely far from over for a lot of stocks if some issues don't get sorted out soon.