As said before,
several stock positions will become «productive» in 2018.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, a
position trader who rides the profit in uptrending
stocks for many months can trade in much thinner
stocks because they can scale out of
positions over the course of
several days or weeks.
I usually don't buy so many different
stocks at once in such small amounts but as I mentioned I had quite a few free trades set to expire and this was reason enough for me to initiate small
positions in
several companies that I have been watching.
The market correction has made
several stocks on my watch list dip into ridiculously cheap territory and I plan on initiating 1/4 to 1/2
positions later this week.
If this bull market has a long future ahead of it — which I strongly doubt, but which we do have to allow — there will likely be
several appropriate points to establish a speculative
position at controlled risk (speculative, because my view is that the long - term investment merit of
stocks is quite weak here).
Morgan owns
several shares of Alimentation Couche - Tard (TSX: ATD.A), a chain of convenience stores but his largest
stock positions are shares in Storage Vault (TSX.V: SVI), which owns, rents and operates self - storage and portable storage space, and Enbridge (TSX: ENB), a gas distribution company.
• Trimmed JNJ and PEP each back to 9 % of the portfolio to get them under the 10 % - max guideline • With the proceeds, added to existing
positions in AT&T (T) and Microsoft (MSFT) • With the remaining proceeds, started a new
position in Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Thus, this package of trades served
several strategic goals at the same time: • It corrected the over-sized
positions by getting them back under 10 % of the portfolio • It allowed me to increase my stakes in two high - quality dividend growth companies • It allowed me to add a new
position, bringing me closer to my target of 20 - 25
stocks overall.
Actually I have
several positions long various
stock indexes... but with trailing stops... if they continue their upward thrust, I will go along for the ride... and if they turned down... see ya... and at some point might have a signal to go short.
The market correction has made
several stocks on my watch list dip into ridiculously cheap territory and I plan on initiating 1/4 to 1/2
positions later this week.
Positions are sold or reduced when
stocks become more expensive relative to other
stocks based on
several growth factors.
If the underlying
stock is part of your core long - term holdings then, yes, you can mostly ignore earnings dates because you plan to hold the
position across
several reporting cycles.
Ben shares some ideas on options for investors who are sitting on large gains in their portfolio, with a focus on
position sizing (rebalance when something gets larger than your targeted asset allocation), avoiding concentration in a single
stock (specifically employer granted
stocks), the benefits of diversification, and «reverse dollar cost averaging», whereby you gradually reduce your stake in highly valued equity by regular sales over a course of
several months.
In
stocks Bridgewater tends to make relatively small, but numerous equities investments, sometimes having
several hundred equity
positions.
There are many
stock screeners (my favorite is finviz.com) that can help you filter
several of these parameters, such as change in institutional interest, volume increases, and cash
positions.