Category: Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned: Patience is a virtue

Another title for this post could have been, “When a win doesn’t feel like a win.” Let me explain… Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting on one day trade, and closely tracking TOPS for a squeeze. It had a lot of volume (127M) with a float of 117M. As it has been explained to me, this […]

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Bloody Tuesday, and Trading with fear and frustration

Trading stocks is like racing cars. It requires a combination of skill, ability to assess risk-and-reward, and the ability to suppress fear. And no matter how good you are, there’s always the possibility that once the race starts, something outside of your control can happen that could end or severely damage your outcome. And at […]

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Lessons Learned: Surviving a Direct Offering

In the world of volatile COVID-19 and penny stocks, there’s always some obscure company (or a once-strong company that’s now buried in the ashes) that suddenly finds life and starts trending. It might run fast and furious, or it might climb over the course of a few days. After a while, you get used to […]

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