Earnings season starts today with Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo announcing Q1 results and Stock Pals has some easy tips for you to help you succeed
1. Never buy before earnings calls, this is gambling. Statistically, you have less of a chance to make money than if you went to a casino and put it all on red. At least in casino you get a 50/50 chance. In earnings calls, you typically have to have 2 positive outcomes (each of which has a 50/50 chance) and thats earnings that beat forecasts AND guiidance that is positive into the next quarter.
2. If you didnt follow advice in #1, you're probably wondering if you should "average down". Never average down into anything. Averaging down is not a trading or an investment strategy, its a mental crutch for traders to cope with a badly executed entry. If you entered too high and are watching your stock skiing downhill, the correct strategy is to exit the trade, eat the loss, reassess what the correct entry point should be and then reenter it there. Mathematically, this saves you more money as opposed to riding down your original entry to the bottom (let alone adding to the position on the way down)
Averaging down is going double or nothing after you just got wiped out at the roulette table, its a gambling reaction
Another name for "averaging down" should be "throwing good money after the bad"
Another name for "averaging down" should be "sunken cost fallacy"
"Averaging down" can still fail even if you had unlimited money to keep buying in, and unlimited time to wait for the stock to rebound
Never average down. Accept that you misjudged your entry point, and figure out where the correct entry is.
Trade safe in this earnings season and good luck. Remember, dont trade alone, trade with pals. Stock Pals.
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