RE: Barnacle!13 Apr 2023 11:56
I think age can also influence risk profile! I am late 60’s so more cautious now than 20 years ago when I piled in big time into the dot.com boom and was very lucky to get out in early 2000 with gains intact. 12 years ago I went quite large in The Falklands and on a little pharma research company called SAR. I didn’t sell RKH when it peaked so missed out (although it is beginning to look promising again now) but learnt my lesson and sold a big chunk of SAR at its peak in 2021. A lot of success is down to timing of sale, not being too greedy and being lucky. I doubled my holding in PRD on Tuesday so now have a good holding that I am confident will do very well; the mood music is very encouraging.
Overall now at my age my philosophy is have a very structured investment portfolio split approximately 15 to 20% cash, 70% in safe stuff high yielding shares and investment trusts and 10 to 15% in high risk fun money! I have around 10 shares in the latter category and they are a lot of fun and each of the 10, including PRD, could be extremely rewarding and certainly always fun looking out for those red RNS dots!