I round tripped 8 figures last cycle. A few things I learned:

- It’s almost always better to sell too early and miss out on gains, then to hold too long and round trip the bag. This is because eventually, almost everything trends to zero, so even your “early sell” is likely going to make you look like a genius in a few months/years

- If you ever take a PnL screenshot of how much you’re up, sell. You don’t have to sell your entire position, but it’s usually an excellent time to at least trim 20-50% of it.

- Most people on this app have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Often the loudest and most confident voices know the least, while the quiet and self questioning ones are full of wisdom.

- You can’t borrow conviction. If you buy something because someone else did or told you it was “a hidden gem”, you’re almost guaranteed to fumble the bag. They’ll dump on your head while you’re still anxiously waiting for their next tweet or YouTube video to tell you what to do.

Writing weekly long-form posts here: zeneca33.substack.com

Thank you for sharing the experience, so we all can learn.

We all work with the same basic operating system of our - sometimes gullible - minds. Learning helps, but our psychology and "group think" can still make us be less successful.

Did most of my mistakes last cycle, but still managed to make some bad decisions.