10 rights, 6 wrongs

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Revisiting 6 rights, 2 wrongs a previous post that I have written in year 2016, this is an update 2+ years since.


What do we see?

That I have learnt my lesson!

Now 10 rights, 6 wrong. Overall gain for equity portfolio = 8.09%

It would have been 12 rights have I not sold my YZJ holdings a couple weeks ago (@ $1.25, ugh!) and M1 still on board (took up the offer to release at $2.06).


I have no multi-bagger. My overall gain is modest... so nothing to brag about here. No expert at stock picking.

I relent to the fact that I can only control what I can control, which are position sizing and stop losses.

In my early days when I bought stocks via recommendations from some bloggers, they all flopped. That is a painful and valuable lesson. Do your OWN due diligence, don't be lazy!


It is very difficult to build a strong portfolio that can weather the storm. (What we witnessed in December is probably just a small downpour.) It takes one decision at a time, one action at a time, consistency and discipline.

Final note with a quote:

"It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong." 
- George Soros


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Comments

  1. CreateWealth888802/02/2019, 18:12

    You are still young. You have plenty of time ahead to pick up multibaggers

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  2. Rainbow12/03/2019, 23:18

    Hi Temperament, thanks for your compliment. However, my returns here are not CAGR, they are just my current paper losses/ gains snapshot. I didn't really do the maths for CAGR.

    Now that everything's quite inflated in their share price (bull run has been for too long), it's not easy to get multi-baggers just like what you've said. Unless we witness another Lehmen lvl crash.

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