Is it better to buy individual stocks or ETFs | Rookie Trader Journal 14 Jun 2021

If my stock picks lose as much as it wins, then is it better to buy ETFs?

"When deciding whether to pick stocks or select an ETF, look at the risk and the potential return that can be achieved. Stock-picking offers an advantage over ETFs when there is a wide dispersion of returns from the mean. And with stock-picking, you have the ability to gain an advantage using your knowledge of the industry or the stock.
ETFs offer advantages over stocks in two situations. First, when the return from stocks in the sector has a narrow dispersion around the mean, an ETF might be the best choice. Second, if you are unable to gain an advantage through knowledge of the company, an ETF is your best choice." ~ https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/buying-stock-or-etf.asp

How's my purchasing power today?

• I can buy 0 stock using Moomoo. 

Any stocks in my Moomoo watchlist to buy? 

Any tips from TraderTV Live?

How to track medical biotech stocks, meme stocks, and penny stocks? Moomoo 

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.
• AAPL. Bought $125. Target $138. Stop at the dead fork. 
• VISA. Bought $233.27. Target $256. Stop at the dead fork.  
• VLDR. Bought $11.65. Target $12.82.

See you tomorrow. 

~ Rookie Trader 

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

• For the charts... https://finance.yahoo.com/
• For the analysis... https://tradertv.live/
• For the screener... Finviz.com

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What did I learn?

• Don't be influenced by news. Follow the indicator signal instead.
• Buy Market price when I see a signal. Don't buy at a Limit price. 
• 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
• Queue GTD for every buys and sells. 
• 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.
• 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.
• How to recover from stock market losses? How to recover my money lost? How to win my trading losses back? 
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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/