RE: Duration of buying opportunity getting kind of ridiculous4 Mar 2022 21:44
Thanks for your answer Scott, very interesting and gives a bit more context regarding your buying.
I believe you have been investing a lot longer than I have, and TXP was a first major success for me back in 2019. I made the mistake many first timers make and kept adding, and did the round trip back to below where I started. Since then I have only briefly been in profit with TXP - we are talking nearly 3 years now. I am glad I found the likes of I3E, and remember well selling some here to buy there at 8p. I felt mortified when the tables reversed a month or so later (I3E did a placing at 11p), but since then the investments have all progressed well and I have greatly diversified in O&G and benefitted from the sector rise rather than one company, I think it is fair to say that TXP has not really benefitted from the sector rise this year.
In contrast to you, and many here I have a very small sum in terms of net wealth, its no where near enough to retire on even though im not young, it is fair to say I am quite behind. Hence I have my entire pot in about 20 stocks, most are like TXP, in fact they are all AIM stocks. I believe it is possible to improve my situation over the next few years and actually work harder and longer at investing each day than I do in my day job. I'm hoping one of these AIM stocks can finish my mortgage off and free me up to to focus on adding and developing my pension further. I'm not in the get rich quick club as I have made all those mistakes already. This year seems to be going well so far, and I'm quite well up. Not being greedy, taking profits regularly and being very risk averse. If I had more cash to add, I wouldn't add it to TXP currently, I would stick to I3E or JSE at the moment, but once TXP starts taking more revenue, ill start to go all in. I am in O&G: CHAR, SAVE, JSE, I3E, SQZ, EDR & MATD (sometimes!). Had to sell JLP last week, but its a great long term investment. Being in front of the screen all day, my timeframe is much finer, I can be back in before it moves. Oh, ill mention ATM too, that's a good one. Best of luck all, lets get Dartron's mortgage paid off please Paul!