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Update May 2026

At the end of the game I liquidated $ENI (+1,38%) and in these 2 months I made €186 gross from it, almost a 10%, for me it was the first time I "traded" going to take advantage of the news to predict the market trend, I got some things wrong but I understood others, the news is all too unpredictable so if you want to make a short duration buy, better not to be greedy, in the end it's all extra money that you basically didn't plan to get, so it's all gained, in the first Eni trade I told myself to come out with a +10% but when I got to that percentage I wanted more and ended up selling for less (a 5-6% gain).

After the first sale of Eni I had placed in the portfolio $STLAM (-2,45%) e $NWL (-0,03%) , after the second trade of Eni I brokered Newlat (which is actually called Newprinces now) which had fallen in the meantime and added $BMPS (-1,61%) .

For the month of May, on the other hand, my new entry was . $TRN (+0,69%) , I had been watching it since the beginning of the year and I always put off buying it and ended up watching a continuously rising price, so what to do? Nothing, I made my first entry and if it goes down there is no problem, in fact maybe, you go and buy again, welcome Terna.

What movements did you guys make in May?

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7 Comentários

ETFBAAS@etfbaas

1Semana

Welcome on board 🫡

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Jerax1981@Jerax1981

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I think trading, selling a stock held for 2 months and making 10% is madness. You would make more money just by investing in classic ETFs that would have made you more.

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Kurama@Kurama01

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@Jerax1981 basic you are right, a low return for trading but I did not hold it for two consecutive months, I bought it the first time in mid-March and then sold it before mid-April, here I made the bulk of the gain, on my second purchase at the end of April I sold it back at just above par by getting it a little bit wrong, I considered two months as I traded within this time window but the return I made in just under a month. As mentioned in the post, if I had sold when prefixed it would have gone much differently, I would have made almost double, but the past is the past.

The reason I decided to put the money there was because of the predictability of the rise, with the U.S. attack and the beginning of the cross-strait blockade, the consequences were pretty much obvious, pretty much free money, and so it was, although I moved poorly I still made something out of it, having said that, was the game worth the candle? I mean, I didn't make much out of it, but it was still a testing ground for me, I wanted to be an active investor in easy mode.

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Jerax1981@Jerax1981

1Semana

@Kurama01 more than anything else it's not worth the candle. because you have to pay capital gains on those transactions as well.
From the way you write it seems to me that you make somewhat random purchases (see Terna).
On that basis, I would invest in ETFs if I were you. Then if you don't know what they are, it reinforces what I said earlier, and that is that not being very well versed in trading you risk doing yourself a lot of harm.

Let's be clear, it's your money and do what you want...but advice from a fool like me I would listen to who has gone your way, made mistakes and if I went back I wouldn't do what you are doing anymore :)

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Milan@Milan_S

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@Jerax1981 what ETF makes you 100% a year consisntently? I am technically down by 0.5% but i am doing 4% realized gains after tax every month for the past 10 months by doing what he does (though i only invest in bigger european stocks and safe ones so not like iren or hrms or such) ETF also gets taxed as badly as stock so im not sure what you mean with that?

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Jerax1981@Jerax1981

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@Milan_S Which stock guarantees you a 100% guaranteed annual return?

Are you down 0.5% on your ETF investment? Which ETF did you invest in? A sector-specific one? Because if you’d invested in any ETF tracking a market-cap-weighted index, you’d be well in the black.

iShares Core MSCI World +10% YTD
iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets +24% YTD
iShares Core S&P 500 +11% YTD
iShares Core EURO STOXX 600 +9% YTD

And these are just the most important ones, because if you’d invested, for example, in a factor-based ETF, you’d be doing even better

iShares Edge MSCI World Value Factor +33% YTD

You talk to me about ‘safe’ European companies, but which ‘safe’ companies guarantee you a 100% guaranteed return? What do you think of Ferrari? Is it safe? Yet since the start of the year it’s down 10%, and if you’d bought at the peak in October 2025, you’d be down 35%.

Wasn’t Novo Nordisk safe? It’s now down more than 40%
Adidas down 30%
Dassault Systèmes down 32%
Stellantis down 70%
Volkswagen down 21%

So how do you go about choosing a big, safe European company?
Furthermore, it is assumed that if you buy stocks for trading purposes, you should sell them as soon as you have reached your price target. With ETFs, you never trade – or if you do, it’s absurd – so it goes without saying that if you buy ETFs, you do so for the long term; if you buy a stock for trading, it implies that you will sell it in the short to medium term.

I’ve been buying ETFs for four years and have never sold them (except for two when I changed strategy), so I certainly don’t trade in ETFs.

If you buy stocks to sell them when they’ve risen by 10%, you’re obliged to pay tax on that, so your profit is practically zero.

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Milan@Milan_S

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@Jerax1981 no u read it half i invest in companies i believe will not lose value and raise (when they hit a speed bump) take stellantis, bought it for 6 sold it for 7 and bought it again for 6.3 and i could sell it again for a nice profit, this in just 2 months and i did it with 3 stocks at the same time consisntently so etf's to me sure seem safe but the returns are way less. i am aware if i traded with 100k+ that i would most likely do 30% etf's, 20% fonds and 30% long term stock or something because what i am doing now is not viable for 6 figures. Past 2 months i even had a 8% and 9% after taxes return thats a whole year for some ETF's.

What etf did i invest in? The emerging market msci one it's not performing good enough to me. Also invested in JPEG a week ago because i would like to see if it's as good as my friend says it is.

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