That's better than Warren Buffet or any other investor in the world.
Yeah, and if I had billions, I wouldn't be investing the way I do now. As Cramer says, when you do personal investing of your own funds, you're small, light, and can move around quickly. When you have a huge fund, and bought millions into a stock, when you sell, people know about it and it greatly affects the profit margin because they're dumping their stocks while being a big fund, they can only move them slowly.
Biggest stocks I made off on in the last year were DDD (3D Printing) and FB (Facebook). WHZ was making me almost 20% a year purely on dividends. My REITs were making me about 15% a year purely on dividends but because the real estate market went up they went up about 30% on face value too.
Only stock I majorly lost money on in the last 10 years was a lithium battery company, Valence, though that stock made me quite a bit of money over the course of about 7 years. It never really went up but I played the volatiilty cause every few weeks it changed value by about 30%. The last time it changed abruptly---I bought it expecting it to skyrocket again. No-it went bankrupt. So there I was with a stock, waiting for it to skyrocket, and then reading the fine print on the company in the news, I decided I had to pull out, the risk was too high. Having kids greatly affected my mindset too because my mindset now is if I very very badly screw up, it screws them too. So I pulled out on that one losing about 40%, though during the other times I invested on it, I made off about 10-30% a trade every few weeks to months off of it.
Though in the next week it did go completley kaplooey and off the market--> to a value of zero so I guess I can't complain. That's what you get when you do a high risk-high yield stock.
In the big sum of that stock's history with my I was an overwhelming profiter from it. That's what you get when you do a high risk-high yield stock.
I've occasionally, like once a year mention my investments somewhere on SDN. I did at one point, on other threads outside of psychiatry in SDN try to discuss investing with other doctors but I wasn't getting any intelligent responses as a whole to the point where I thought it was worth it. Over 5 years ago, I was mentioning that gold and silver were solid investments, and I was getting comments back to the effect of "only way gold is going to go up is if the world ends." I mentioned this is not how that investment works. Yeah, there's a doom factor but the doom factor is based on the country not doing as well, not banking on the world going zombie apocalypse. When I noticed the majority of the people on the forum not getting it, I knew I wasn't going to really gain anything by talking to them about it.
A nurse I've been working with has been the only source I've been able to consistently talk investments with and get good data. I used to have a patient that was a major hedge fund manager but I told him I could never ever ever take investing information from him despite that he offered, even offered to have me come over his house and start a friendship after he was no longer my patient. (Nuts the guy brings in dozens of millions a year---nuts).
The next big things IMHO could be 1-3D printing (but the cat's already out of the bag, it could plummet) 2-marijuana stocks (very high risk and possibly even illegal to invest in though there are marijuana companes on the OTC and Nasdaq) and 3-possibly forexing on the European union cause our own economy has a gun to it's head with this government shut-down and Europe is allegedly improving, though I've been told don't get into Forex, and so far I don't have enough knowledge to jump into it.
