Update: July 20, 2020 Briggs & Stratton filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization and sold assets to KPS Capital Partners. So yeah 🙁

Average Down or Walk Away

One of my brilliant ideas but I still like the company even though it is now real iffy at best. Note that Club Car is the company they have the battery deal with. I don’t know why I said Cub Cart but it is Club Car. Maybe I want to see little cub bears playing golf.

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For me this was a swing trade I had been holding, even though it was being traded by day traders this morning. And I had my exit price set too high. And greed stopped me from changing my exit price even though common sense was to lower it. It crashed down before hitting the exit price.

Continue reading Stock Talk, I screwed up this morning on the stock JILL

& yeah, my camera stopped working again and so using the webcam … damn.  Just make me look even worse than I really look.  I need to change the settings on the webcam or something.  I was playing with them the other day and made them worse.

I am still in the process of testing the waters and learning so I have not bought and sold a huge number of stocks. Some of these were day trades. Some were busted day trades that became swing trades. Some were bought as swing trades. Only one of these stocks, I sold at a loss.

When I said VXRT was my first purchase I meant attempted day trade back a few months ago and successful swing trade. I had bought some investment & swing trade stocks before that. Also, that was before it popped up to the current level.

Continue reading Talking Stocks, Stocks that I have bought and sold, not currently holding

I did not trade anything today and I am glad that I did not. I am sure there was money to be made by some but I was equally sure the trades would not work for me. I did not feel I could do a successful day trade & I did not feel the stocks would work as a swing trade at those prices.