The one's that got away - Sort of.

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(01-30-2022, 07:53 AM)cemanuel Wrote: Sold an absolute pile of growth in fall 2018 because I was switching to DGI. Lot of companies where prices have really popped like AMD, NVDA, AMAT, etc.

But the cream of the crop is TWLO. I did a lot of short-term trading my first few months in the market in early to mid-2017. Was pretty successful with it. Three that were reliable for multiple trades were MU, GPRO and TWLO. MU was RSI-based and I traded around a long position. It was one I sold in late 2018. I called GPRO my 7-11 stock - buy over 11, sell when it dropped into the 7's. Rinse, wash, repeat - quit doing it when I quit doing that sort of trading.

Then there was TWLO. When I first got into the market in early 2017 it had a very nice price pattern working. Basically I'd buy in the low/mid 20's - thinking 23/24 range and sell in the low 30's. Did this maybe 3 times with nice returns about ever 6 weeks. Made my last sale at, I figure, around $31 and it never came back down. Even with the pullback, where is it today?

TWLO is also responsible for changing me from doing all-in/all-out to trading around a core position for a company I liked which I did with MU. I actually never did a whole lot of that but MU was so reliable - sell when the RSI topped 60, buy when it was under 40.

I use that strategy a lot for growth stocks.  It's a lot less painful to not be sitting there holding nothing while it launches.  MSFT got me on this one, and there were a few others.  I also like to trim and add some of my long held boring stocks, even stocks like JNJ and UTEs.  They are highly unlikely to launch and a lot of years you may only get a 5% return,  but if a third of the position makes a few trips from the bottom of the range per year, you have a much better overall return.  

GNRC was a different animal.  Not a brand new company and it was crazy overvalued at 450.  My shares had more than doubled in under a year and IMO my entry wasn't dirt cheap.  I sold tranches from 420-440.  I think it touched 500 a month later.  I am getting back in around 280 via option sell.  It's still overvalued, but if I get a chance to add lower I will trim on the next pop.