by Recyclersteve » Sat Oct 19, 2024 2:17 am
Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:Saabman wrote:And a long way to go to catch up with Au......
And Au is still waaaaaay undervalued.
TOTALLY AGREE with this. That said, don’t expect it to fly to $50 in 2-3 days.
Now I have to admit that I made a stupid mistake trading SLV (the silver ETF) in the stock market on Friday.
I placed an order to SHORT SLV (betting silver would go down) back on October 4th. I meant for the order to be just for that one day, but was rushing and made the order Good Til Cancelled (good for up to 180 days). Sure enough the order filled on 10/18. OOPS!
At Friday’s close I was down $280 on 400 shares. I came nowhere close to “shooting my wad” and have wiggled my way out of LITERALLY THOUSANDS of losses before- some in the neighborhood of $10-20k. So I’m not overly concerned and have room to short more shares probably 2-3 more times before becoming more concerned.
I’m not a fan of cutting losses when they are small because that’s a great way to lose money on 60-75% of your trades. I say this as someone with tons of experience- see my resume below.
Still, it was a dumb mistake.
Former stock broker w/ ~20 yrs. at one company. Spoke with 100k+ people and traded a lot (long, short, options, margin, extended hours, etc.).
NOTE: ANY stocks I discuss, no matter how compelling, carry risk- often
substantial. If not prepared to buy it multiple times in modest amounts without going overboard (assuming nothing really wrong with the company), you need to learn more about the market and managing risk. Also, please research covered calls (options) and selling short as well.