RE: Carnarvon reaction to results12 Jan 2022 15:30
@wyn
If you sell a stock and it bounces up 30-40%, would you view that as a 'loss'? I would guess not, as you will focus on your returns from what is invested. Trying to calculate potential missed gains would be a nightmare and you'd need a database and daily stock prices to try to ascertain that.
I accept that my money has been tied up in ADV for about 8 months and for the last few it's been reasonably static. However, overall I'm up about 55-60%, which is a very nice return IMO. That doesn't take into account the expected gains post results (on the assumption that the 95% occurs). If this doubles to circa 8p, then I'll have about a 200% overall uplift in 9 months. I bet there's very few traders who'd make that.
I also have a substantial holding in TM1 (average price of 2.06p as I was in pre-IPO with a discount so money was tied up for a few months there too). This is now trading circa 4p, so just under a 100% gain since debut end of Nov. There's a lot of good news to come with them too and I expect the SP to be around 8-10p end of this year. So, that will give me a 300-400% uplift in roughly 12 months.
I know that there will be periods where ADV and TM1 (just as 2 examples) will trade sideways or drop a bit, but I feel longer terms investors will make more returns on holding and stock picking, rather than playing the market but trying to predict the SP movements.
I hope you do well with your strategy, but it's not for me. That's not to say that I don't try to time my sells/buys when I decide to trade - I will take a few days sometimes and wait for a price which I feel is good.