Re: KTCC...made it thru the end of the quarter with no negative announcements...
doesnt matter if you went positive or not really.. just matters that your portfolio went up a bunch over the last few months after taking a big hit. While you only hear about traders who made tons of money the past few months in some crazy names going up 500% in one day in this market... believe me, there are plenty who sold out somewhere not too far from the bottom, and have not got back in and are still 25 - 40% off their highs. You just won't hear from them unless/until the market drops 25% from current levels.
I sold tons of stocks near the bottom. Fortunately I bought other more conservative stocks... and then started buying more speculative plays after the market moved higher. But I definitely would have done much better if I just kept all the cheapo shite. But who cares, thats water under the bridge. Shoulda woulda coulda is all bullshite in investing.
I forget when this was, but I bought thousands of shares of Apple (before Jobs came back) when they were trading under ten. Maybe $6 bucks. And they probably split a bunch of times since then. I sold for $8.50 or something like that. Split adjusted, relative to todays prices, probably sold at well under fifty cents. But I never was gonna hold long term anyway (as a strict super balance sheet value investor at that time) so who cares.
Not sure why I wrote that, but gotta enter some orders.
best.