Stock market dealing

I just edumificated my home help a bit. She's making money!

You need 3 main things
1) A "Catalyst" like a trump tweet,, something in the financial press, maybe just a swing in sentiment
___1a) you need to know a few relevant names, like Korea for overnight plays, active banks, which names are associated with AI build-out, like GEV, CAT, AMAT, ALAB, Dell, HP, SMC, many others. Hot names of the moment, are like memory makers Micron, Sandisk, Samsung, SK Hynix

2) Find a setup Something like a pullback on a rise, or a break above a previous Level. Some learning needed here.
Learn about the Indicator "VWAP", because everyone uses it - it's a self fulfilling thing. (Volume Weighted Average Price). And Volume, which a decent platform should give you.

3) Execution. Know how your platform works, so you can use preset orders, limit orders, stop losses. You ALWAYS PLAN - need to know where to get out if your plan doesn't work, and where to set a "Take profit" if it does. You need a 2:1 or more, ideally 3:1 or 4:1 potential gain. (profit:loss) Then you can afford some fails. Your Take profit" may depend on something else, like the oil or bitcoin price.

Then it's easy. Always go WITH the trend, and never enter unless you have several of the ducks in a row.
Never enter "because it looks like it's doing well". It will instantly turn on you. Sod, is alive and well. If you must enter, use 50p.

Plenty more of course, but that will keep you solvent, if you only use a small amount of your "pot" on a play.
2% they say. Open to interpretation.
Always look back and see why you lost, if you did. It's probably, mostly, your fault.
"Practice in a Simulator", stops you losing any money at all.....
 
I've just seen a " lesson" which deals with where many people go wrong. NB "coming in" means falling:

It starts at about 3 minutes in, with the dark guy Neal doing a pre-explanation. These guys are both highly successful professional traders
(ask if translations are necessary - platforms differ).

Worth listening to the guest at time 03:02 ET who speaks of $LPTH. Shows the sort of thing to watch out for.
 
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S&P 500 isn't buying any spacex for a set period after launch. It will be 0.01% when they do or if they do so I'm not bothered...

All seems madness to me. I can't see it ending well
Pip pip!

"George Steer and Peter Wells in New York
Published YESTERDAY
Updated 06:59

Elon Musk’s SpaceX shed $400bn in market value on Monday in a fresh bout of volatility for the rockets and AI company following its record-breaking Wall Street debut.

SpaceX shares ended Monday down 16.4 per cent at $154.60, leaving them 31.5 per cent below the high struck after the group’s $86bn initial public offering on June 11. The shares were listed at $135"

FT.com
 
I never bought any spacex although if you hold for years it could be ok..
Maybe.
I'll watch with interest.
I recently bought £200 in Rathbones..
Continental is also doing ok for me so I'll hold.
 
SpaceX could indeed be the big company which owns everything and everybody, in years to come.
Elon has the best "AI Stack", which means capacity, basically. He's building the world's largest Data Centre, in Texas. He's out in front in several areas.
It could be a real monopoly. If he can buy the competition, use space (if it helps, which I'm not sure about but he IS clever), he'll be unassailable.
Google and Anthropic appear to be the competition. He could buy the latter, eventually.
His Grok isn't bad, but at the moment Claude is ahead. It's remarkable, but it does get a lot wrong.
Claude is pretty good with stock market trading already. There isn't an active Agent just yet, but the first to get one going will have a money factory.
Elon's weapon may become financial. If he has enough money, he could take all the available cash which something like Anthropic would want to get its hands on. "Don't invest in Anthropic, invest in Musk and get a better return".?

People on South Korea are keen to borrow money to buy the stocks (AI chips, loosely) made there. The market there dropped 10% a couple of days ago. That's huge. It went partly back yesterday, and today Micron (memory chips) in the USA returned excellent results and their shares ballooned.

SO now Hong Kong and south Korea will probably follow
It's 1:20 . in an hour, Hong Kong will open and Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor will go nuts like it did yesterday.
What one does is place a pending order at price which will be hit when it rises. Yesterday it was at the yellow dashed line.

168 --> 192 is a pretty decent rise, at 5x.

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I'm off to bed , and I'll see what happens when the price hits the dashed red line. Maybe 209 this time?
 
Did it work? Yes but.
I put the trigger too high, so some of the gain happened before the trade started.
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Blue would have been better than Green
Still, it stopped at 197.4, out on the trailing stop, by the grey.
Therefore about 197.4/194 = 1.7 % instead of 197.4/192.5 = 2.5%
It's leveraged, so 1.7x 5 = 8.5% up, on 10k, which is ok for snoring.
 
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There's a strange "rotation" going on. The big chip mfrs like NVIDIA and AMD are out of favour, as are the AI owners.
The thought appears to be that they're circulating money rather than really making it.

Meanwhile the so called "picks and shovels" cos, who make the stuff that goes into the chips and data centres, are doing well.
Micron's results certainly buoyed the market, which means it's fragile, something small and bad could fracture it all. My plan is to wait until mu holdings are rosy , and get out, but I've said that before.
 
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