I gotta ask some of you a question. Its been nearly 2 years since Black Monday. Literally close to 10k posts in this thread since then. After all this time and info, I still see some of you doing the same shit the same way you have always done. Making the same trades, on the same types of stocks. Is there a point where you go "maybe I should change my strategy and try what some of the other guys are doing?"
Not that any of us dont grab some dogs, we all do <cough, VZ, cough>. You realize the trade is shit and you cut your losses before they pile up and move on to the next trade. But as I am looking at my portfolio for year end balancing I start thinking to myself of some of the names some of us have brought forward with recommendations and the rational behind it. Not all these stocks are s3xy or making 1000% returns, but they just constantly produce alpha year after year after year.
I look at something like ABBV. I think only
Blazin
and myself are in it. Its not a meme stock nor will it give you 100% return in a year. But damn if it doesnt give me 30% in stock appreciation plus close to a 7.5% dividend yield at my cost basis. All it does is print money. It got yacked about a month ago and was down a good 15% a month or two ago. I know Blaz and I both added to it. It bounced and is up about 30% from that dip.
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Buy quality, hold it for the long ride, let your winners run and cut your losers short. If even one of you turn it around in 2022 then the time I spent typing this was worth it.
ps.. And fuck margin.