Man, that is a weird combo of stocks. How did you screen for those? I avoided therapeutics and biotechs like the plague during COVID.
Went heavy into tech initially and then slowly rotated back into industrials, mid caps, energy etc.
Had my eye on LSPD but I never got in. I was really grateful to get into JKS and OSTK during their runs.
Sounds absolutely stupid, but some of my best picks were from random Motley Fool stuff. Click on this shit knowing it's mostly trash and people trying to plug their own holdings, but it does give exposure to shit you'd never think of. Then I skim their trending and financials. I don't put too much into it as stocks are like 80% momentum, 20% fundamentals.
I'm kicking myself for not holding, but I got into IIPR at $30 years ago and bailed at $45 when weed stocks were rollercoastering all over the place. Its now at $150. That was during the early weed craze and ONE article I saw plugged it saying it's a good risk as its not a producer. At the time, I bailed at $45 and it paid like a $1 dividend. Now it's $150 and pays $4. My worst 20/20 hindsight kicking myself stock I can remember lately.
Trivago was a Motley Fool Value Pick (recent article), and Aimmune was from a Yahoo article that popped up in Jan saying Nestle bought a slice of the company, so I jumped in later. I didn't make a ton on it as it sunk during Covid, but made money after it got bought out.
The EV stuff is me just finally jumping in after watching them for a year or two. I remember seeing NIO go from $5 to $1.50 and KNDI dropped to around $2.50. Fisker I took the plunge since it's IPO-ish timing, it barely budged and my bro (just by luck) brought it up. So I took a dip.
Historically I've made money in markets going all the way back to the dot com crase in 1999, but I'm no Buffet. I'd say I'm modestly up in 20 years. But lately happy I rebounded hard since covid sunk everyone's portfolios and had to waste a good 6 months just to flatline back to pre-covid levels. What a waste of time. I didn't have tech so my shit had to slowly creep back. But freed up some money in the summer and have done a slew a hit and run gainers. I've never been a trader like this but in this crazy covid/momentum sentiment, it's working.
I've had bad picks. A bunch of -50% losses and around 2005 I lost close to $10,000 on a stock that dropped 90% and then got halted for good. Couldn't even dump it for 10 cents on the dollar. Fuck you Prism Brands Trust Fund. I trusted it was some kind of Taco Bell/KFC Yum Brands steady eddie. What a shitshow.
Unfortunately, I didn't catch the giant tech rebound. But congrats on anyone who got on board.
I'm tempted to get back into Grocery Outlet. It seems to ride a $35 to $45 band. Now at $37. Got in shortly after it IPOed last summer and sold at $44. It's never broke $50. The second it creeps to $45-ish it comes back down to the $30s. Not the kind of stock to day flip, but it's been predictable.
ManofOne January 9th will be NIO day.
