May 27 - Rookie Trader Journal 2021 - Continuous Losses

How to recover from stock market losses? How to recover my money lost? How to win my trading losses back? 

For the past month, I keep losing money in the stock market. 

I didn't lose everything though. Just the money I can afford to lose. 

Even so, what can I do?

1. Change my mindset to making money and “NOT recovering”. It is a very common trap and you should not fall into it. ~ https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-recover-a-loss-in-a-share-market

2. The best way to recover after losing money in the stock market is to invest again. Don't "stick your head in the sand and put your money under the mattress, because you'll never recover that way". ~ https://money.usnews.com/investing/investing-101/articles/how-to-recover-after-loss-in-the-stock-market

3. Do not be in a hurry to recover the money immediately but wait for the market to give you the opportunity.  ~ https://www.motilaloswal.com/blog-details/How-to-go-back-to-equities-after-you-have-lost-money/1390

4. Take some time to diagnose what went wrong. Assess your stock market loss so that you can make changes. ~ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.savagelaw.us/blog/amp/how-to-recover-from-a-major-stock-market-loss/


 How's my purchasing power today?

  • I can buy 4 stocks.   
Any stocks in my Yahoo Finance watchlist to buy? 
  • ONCY Buy at $2.89?

 Any tips from TraderTV Live?
  • Nothing. 
Question to self: How to track medical biotech stocks, meme stocks, and penny stocks?


Which stock in hand can I sell?
  • ADVM. Bought $4. Stop $3.47. Target $4.5. 
  • METX. Bought $1.60. Stop $1.53. Target $1.90.
  • RKT. Bought $18.3. 
  • JOB. Bought $0.55. Sell $0.59. Sold partially.



Crypto

See you tomorrow. 

~ Rookie Trader 

PS: I would like to thank the following...


What did I learn?
  • Buy on dip from late April to early May 2021.
  • "Sell in May and go away" is an investment adage warning investors to divest their stock holdings in May and wait to reinvest in November. From 1950 to around 2013, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted lower returns during the May to October period, compared with the November to April period. ~ https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sell-in-may-and-go-away.asp
  • Since 1950, September has been the worst month of the year for stocks on average. And when August is a particularly strong month, September is an especially bad month for stocks.~ https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-outlook-september-worst-month-year-lpl-strategy-buy-2020-8-1029549498
  • Supertrend strategy doesn't work after an uptrend. 
  • New strategy. Fibonacci Pivot Point Resistance and Support.
  • Queue GTD for every buys ansellsll. 
  • 10% strategy is not efficient. 5% profit is faster to reach. Hence Change to >$100 target strategy instead. 
  • Buy quickly once I identify a stock to buy.
  • Missed SEAC spike 3 times within a week. Dropped to negative immediately after the spike. Lesson - Queue up to sell using GTD. Forget about using alerts.
  • Premarket moves are irrelevant and distracting. Stop tracking them. 
  • Buying at the market close is not a good idea. Too many premature supertrend false alarms. Stop trading the closing hour. 
  • Sell immediately if price spikes on news.
  • Missed the NFT STOCKS!!!!! Pay attention next tito I follow the trend.
  • Follow most-watched stocks on yahoo finance coz they are more volatile. 
  • I missed many buy signals in the travel industry. So please Monitor all related big movers every day.  
  • Remove emotion from the equation.
  • Sell. Don't hold. Don't be greedy. 
  • Sell when the target is hit. Don't hold. 
  • I need a cut-loss strategy.
  • If I don't sell, I will have no capital to buy. 
  • Stop thinking that I should have held the stock that rose 100% times up after selling. Remember SEAC. Locking the profits at hand is better than risking the opposite direction. 


















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