Suggestions for a speculative punt?

Thrugelmir

Cus said:

One difficulty I have with some of my AIM investments is adapting psychologically.  So far I have been lucky with 3 of my new investments in the last 6 months so what I have done is to take profits out to return my original stake once the price had doubled/trebled.
The daft thing is that now I kind of don't want the price to rise as quickly as it has been as I will be annoyed with myself for cutting the size.  Yet at the same time realising how ridiculous that is as I would be making less money on my remaining investment.  Weird?

Aim can be a tricky market to navigate. Takes very little for a share price to move (up or down)  considerably as liquidity is generally restricted. Holding cost free investments is a satisfying position to find oneself in. 

Old_Lifer

Once  I have  finally decided to buy shares in a small company  which I think will eventually be successful from a number of others  I have been following for some time, I will make an initial purchase of shares and as long as the share price remains low I will do a series of top-ups on dips in the share price.  Lack of news will often cause a share price to drift lower.   Once I have built-up a sizeable holding and am happy with the number of shares I hold I will stop buying and concentrate on  gradually building -up a holding in another company.   Selling a few shares after a sharp rise in order to lock-in the gain is a sensible thing to do.  I often do this myself but I never regret doing so.

If you have sold enough of your shares to return your original investment, you could try telling yourself   'Hey, I've  just got all my money back  and still have most of my shares, so they have cost me nothing !!'  All your shares have a cost of course but it might make you feel better !

adindas

ACTC (ArcLight Clean Transition Corp)

"Boom"  jumping +106.73% in just one day. If you got there earlier, beginning of December at around NAV value of US$10 you would have seen 2.5X gain in just about a month. The magic propelling power of Defenitive Agreement with good Company in SPAC stock. DA  merger with Proterra an EV company. Expect to see another 50% after the merger date is announced and another 50% after business combination.

adindas

Watch out this news

Exclusive: Apple held talks with EV startup Canoo (GOEV) in 2020

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22225026/apple-canoo-acquisition-investment-electric-car-goev?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

When the cooperation between Canoo (GOEV)materialise and Apple car is realised. It is easy to see 2-3X in less than a month.

csgohan4

Old_Lifer said:

Once  I have  finally decided to buy shares in a small company  which I think will eventually be successful from a number of others  I have been following for some time, I will make an initial purchase of shares and as long as the share price remains low I will do a series of top-ups on dips in the share price.  Lack of news will often cause a share price to drift lower.   Once I have built-up a sizeable holding and am happy with the number of shares I hold I will stop buying and concentrate on  gradually building -up a holding in another company.   Selling a few shares after a sharp rise in order to lock-in the gain is a sensible thing to do.  I often do this myself but I never regret doing so.

If you have sold enough of your shares to return your original investment, you could try telling yourself   'Hey, I've  just got all my money back  and still have most of my shares, so they have cost me nothing !!'  All your shares have a cost of course but it might make you feel better !

By sizable, would you say 10k would be reasonable?  if you dumped that in on SBE at the start you would be sitting on 45 k by now

Old_Lifer

The following is just how I do things, others will have their own way of doing things.

Having finally decided to buy shares in a company and having watched the share price for some time, I invest £1000 at what appears to me to be a low point. Shares in a small company may remain low for years but will still move up and down with news or lack of it.     I will  make all my future top-ups following dips in the share price but will not buy when it is going up.  As long as the share price remains  low overall I will continue with top-ups.    As to what I would regard as a sizeable number of shares, this will vary from company to company.     With a company like PHE,  where before the start of last year the shares could be bought for well under 1p,   a top-up of  £1000 would buy a lot of shares   and as I have made a string of top-ups below or not much above 0.50p  my average is  around  0.52p  and I hold well over 2 million shares in the company.     Patience is probably the key  and as long as I remain confident in the future of a company I will continue to hold shares.

adindas

csgohan4 said:

For anyone that needs reminding this is a speculative thread and are at risk of losing money, EQT now down from the highs of 3. Always do your own research

Good reminder. Keep in mind in majority of cases (if not all), people in here are not professional financial advisers and therefore should not be considered as a financial advice. I fully belive that people are aware that no single post in this thread shall be considered as recommendation to buy/hold/sell share.

But there is nothing to prevent us to share knowledge, information each other but it is important everyone will need to do his/her own due diligence to suit personal  risk/reward expectation.

Having said that, I myself never afraid of the share plunged even 30%+, especially for volatile penny stocks where the price could easily be moved by price manipulators, as long as there has not been any fundamental change where my initial thesis has been proven wrong or invalid.

adindas

csgohan4 said:

Old_Lifer said:

Once  I have  finally decided to buy shares in a small company  which I think will eventually be successful from a number of others  I have been following for some time, I will make an initial purchase of shares and as long as the share price remains low I will do a series of top-ups on dips in the share price.  Lack of news will often cause a share price to drift lower.   Once I have built-up a sizeable holding and am happy with the number of shares I hold I will stop buying and concentrate on  gradually building -up a holding in another company.   Selling a few shares after a sharp rise in order to lock-in the gain is a sensible thing to do.  I often do this myself but I never regret doing so.

If you have sold enough of your shares to return your original investment, you could try telling yourself   'Hey, I've  just got all my money back  and still have most of my shares, so they have cost me nothing !!'  All your shares have a cost of course but it might make you feel better !

By sizable, would you say 10k would be reasonable?  if you dumped that in on SBE at the start you would be sitting on 45 k by now

In my personal opinion, It is very important, to never put your egg on one basket. Never rely on a single share. If I have 10k I will spread that into several shares that I believe will grow/perform well. Also in the meanwhile, do not hesitate to bag profit and then reinvest that profit where you believe your money could work harder.

adindas

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest plans ‘ARKX’ space exploration ETF to tap the growing industry

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/cathie-woods-ark-invest-plans-space-exploration-etf-arkx.html

I might be wrong, but I believe these space related stocks will see an instant boost due to highly possible inclusion to this ETF. If my memory serves well, some of these stocks (if not all) have been discussed in this thread.

SPCE, SRAC, NPA, VGAC.

Fortunately, I already own all of these stocks  . I might consider adding my position using DCA when they are making a dip later. Please do your own DDs before taking action. Also keep in mind this is just a speculative, ARK Invest have not mentioned which stocks to be included in ARKX ETF.

I personally hardly ever buy the stock when they are around long time high, however good the stocks are. So I will wait until it cools down and moving sideways, before considering to add my position. I will also combine it with DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) in case of missing the bottom.

IMHO the best way to beat the market significantly is by spearheading particular growth stocks (not dinosaurs’ stocks) before they become hot and come into attention of hedge funds and institutional investors.  The exception for dinosaurs’ stock is only when they are making a significant dip for non-fundamental reason such as sentimental disruption from activists, unproportional market punishment for missing the target. These stocks could later be sold when they are bounding back at long time high to bag profit.

Note: Another addition and discussion in Benzinga $MAXR $UFO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpy6FUV8nPk

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