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Originally Posted by plsureking
how do you do your analysis? on the toilet? you only trade the large caps everybody else buys?
first one i listed - LUMN - did $13B revenue. my guess is they will get bought in the next year or two because of their shift to AI infrastructure. it will beat earnings in a month and i'll have a nice profit if i want to sell cuz i bought it low.
you could have even asked AI instead of guessing and writing some stupid shit...
Lumen Technologies (LUMN) holds numerous contracts, with a significant focus on providing network and IT services to U.S. government agencies and establishing AI-focused partnerships with private companies like Palantir and Corning.
my trades pulled a 40% average return in 25. i'm about to take profit on about 20% of my holdings in the next 30 days during the rebound. then i'll buy the next dip and do it again...
your analysis is garbage (or too safe) 
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Your strategy is quite similar to my own.
Last year I liquidated my 401K stocks on January 18th. I then bought a good portion back in April, but I also bought some other things like CORZ in May for $8.50 or so and sold it in Oct for $18.74 or so.
At least once a year I look for a CORZ to make a nice chunk of change on, but don't put my entire nest egg into it.
I was up 48% before liquidating.
I also do swing trades where I buy a lot of a certain stock after it takes a shit on Monday and then hold it until Friday when it added a significant amount of value. Sell... rinse and repeat.
In 2024 my beauty stock was CRWD when they jacked up the airlines for the summer travel kickoff. I was sitting in an airport waiting for my rescheduled flight watching their stock go from $380 to $218 or something around there. While on my trip I bought around $222 and then sometime later... I think around Nov or Dec I sold it for $412 or around there.
I usually use a stock like this both inside my 401K and in my regular brokerage accounts. On the regular I put $50K on something like this. Sometimes I'll do less with options call or put. My goal is to put up a small amount like $25K - $50K with options and then have it pay me $200K. Which pays a good portion of my taxes so I can then be close to having those done.
But what happens if it busts? I've never truly busted. Like $50K turns into $5K or less. But I have had things happens where a second company scandal or an undisclosed something happens where my put or call is on the wrong side. Just quickly sell. Don't wait and hope. There is no hope! Just sell for $30K+ and move on to the next one. But that is very rare and the most I've eaten was perhaps $20K... but it wasn't $20K I needed to pay bills or anything. Never put that kind of money on the line.