You are losing money because of when you buy them.
If you’re serious about investing, read this post carefully and save it.
You spend a week on a company, everything checks out, and you get that little rush of finally finding something good. So you buy it that same night, at whatever price it happens to be sitting at.
That’s the whole problem right there.
Research tells you what to own. It tells you nothing about what to pay. 2 completely different skills, and almost nobody works on the second one.
Think about when you actually get excited about a stock. It’s usually after it has already run. The chart looks great, people are posting about it, it’s everywhere. That’s when you’re most likely to buy it, and it’s exactly the worst price to buy it at.
Then it pulls back 12% like every stock does, and suddenly you’re questioning the whole thesis. You sell, then it recovers without you, and the annoying part is your research was fine. You were right about the company, you just paid too much for it.
So here’s what I do instead.
Same research, same excitement, and then I do nothing. It goes on a watchlist and I just watch it for a while. Where did buyers show up last time it dropped? How does it normally pull back, 5% or 15%? What price would make me feel calm putting real money in?
I decide all of that before I own it, because once you own something you stop thinking clearly about it.
If it’s trending up, I wait for the dip that always comes. Price drifts back toward the 50 day or some old high that should hold, volume dries up on the way down, and then I want to see buyers actually step back in before I do anything. A strong green day, volume coming back, something that tells me the selling is done.
If it’s stuck in a range it’s easier. Buy near the bottom of it and stop overthinking.
Honestly the hardest part is just the waiting. You will watch something run without you and it will feel awful lol. That’s going to happen.
But then one day it drops right into your zone, everything lines up, and you buy it feeling completely calm. Size feels right, you have room to breathe, and when it goes red for a day you do not even care because you didn’t overpay for it.
That feeling is the whole point.
Once you get it a few times, buying something the second you like it starts to feel insane.
That’s the exact strategy I use, and it’s how I was able to buy the bottom on PYPL, MELI, ICE, SPGI, and a lot of other great companies.
All of them were shared exclusively inside The Assembly, my private community of 3,600+ investors.
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