Glad I was able to show some of it - here's the rest of the day, 94% up - actually over 100% because one avoids some of the dips.
That means x2 on the day. Then some of it was x5 leveraged, so wound up with some silly multiple like x7. 700%.
Monday is
I also took Fanny and Freddie again ( FNMA and FMCC) so could dump some on those (BTCT, above was limited) and those came up 24%, today.
Some UK banks are doing ok. HSBC is up 20% in the last couple of months and they give 5.6% dividend. That might appeal as a "safe" stock. The dividend can be good too depending on your tax position.
From Last time(s) there was a rally into trump/presidents getting in, followed by some profit taking. Next week will be choppy.
Thing to watch there are Industrials, Energy and Banks. (XLE,XLF and XLI) If they start to sell off, probably banks first, the rest of the market is likely to follow. Banks have just gone up, based on results.
Most of my savings are not on a quick stock trading platforms, but stocks and shares investment platforms in Funds(OEICS) . Those are pathetically slow to do what you tell them. They make money by using your money in the time which used to be for "settling", They still claim things take time, which they don't of course. That's a gripe. ANyway they do at least sell smartly, (you need to know their deadlines etc) and you're better off having the money out of the market than holding through an extended sell, if you have somewhere else to put it. If you PHONE the platform , usually they will switch you from one fund to another sooner after the sale has happened.. As shown above there are reliable places to get something near a couple of percent a month.
Some of the OEICS, such as Baillie Gifford America B, can go up a couple of percent a day. Whoopy doo, but they can dump faster - to be avoided.
The markets usually deflate into February, so the plan is to sell as best a time I can get, then use the better bonds and being highly selective on equity funds,, until picking some dips.
Not really expecting great dips n the best places, which I think may well be RObotics particularly,( and also some health and Biometrics stock). (XBI). BUt RObots are applications for AI which can actually be monetised.
ChatCPT type AI is all very lovely but doesn't save you many people .
But if you have a factory full of physical robots, which you can control sensibly, there's money to be saved. Amurrican people are expensive to employ, especially after you've deported all the cheap ones, and you've created demand by tariffing imports.
So Robotics is my sector for 25. Biometrics is harder to nail,but the human-like robots potentially have a greater markup.
The thing about fancy software, once you've written it, is that the second copy is free.
Those running for safety - medium term, will go for gold as usual, but platinum is looking cheap by comparison, so should get a look in.
Everybody is buying Crypto (BItcoin, ignore the rest except for XPM). Its growth rate may well be ok, but you can't leverage it, or use options, so you can do better in the right equities.
But for day trading, when you can get 700% in a day, it's quite handy. I do have some cash in Blockchain ETFs, which have done ok. Good for a bit of diversity.
SO I have to find Robotics and Biometrics stocks. The biggies - Apple, NVidia... are in there, but there are lesser known ones, like Richtech Robotics,....... WHat it takes is exceptional people...
Imagine walking up to a machine and telling it "FOur 5051 Aluminium bars, 301.5mm long and 25.4mm diameter, sharp edges broken, " and going to the next machine while it gets on with your order. Then you hear it "What else would you like"....
"We have the technology", but it'll cost yo more than $6,000,000.
