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Thursday, March 28, 2024

The $25,000 Virtual Portfolio – Halfway to $100K!

Here we go again!

After a very wild ride tracking our VERY aggressive virtual portfolio, we closed out the first half with $53,942 - up 115% for the first half of the year and, since we put $11,630 back in the bank above $25,000 from last year's $10,000 virtual portfolio, that brings us to a grand total of $65,722 - up 555% from the $10K we started with last year.  Our goal in this small, aggressive virtual portfolio is $100K but forget the extra $15,722 - as I said last week, that's our starting basis with a nice profit so we put that back into nice, safe, conservative investments (like our Income Virtual Portfolio) and that leaves us $50,000 to play with.  

Our first week of trades has already been very interesting.  Make sure you to read the original post and the update if you haven’t already to get an idea of what we are trying to learn by following this "hyper-aggressive" virtual portfolio model - especially last quarter's lesson on taking those profits off the table and working on those losers.  Our "biggest loser" of last quarter was, of course, FAS and those Aug $23 calls hit $5 last week (we are already out), which is $40,000!  Anytime you can roll and DD a position in a $25,000 virtual portfolio that eventually cashes out for $40,000 - you will probably come out well...

The problem is mainly in learning how to stick with a position like that and that requires a lot of conviction because there were dozens of opportunities to panic out with a loss and that's why we practice this kind of trading - you need to get the experience in playing these out over time so that you can learn to BELIEVE in the strategy and, even then, it should only be used in places where you REALLY have a very good reason to believe a stock or ETF will, eventually, come back sharply enough to make all the work pay off - because it's a LOT of work!

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