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Biggest mistakes on the stock market

Lately I've been reading more and more that we're welcoming new people to the community. And people who are new to the investment world.

It's really great that the topic of shares is finally not such a niche topic in Germany.

In the same breath, an appeal to new investors: We're in a bubble here and the majority only post their huge profits here. Don't let this put you off or unsettle you. You will make mistakes at the beginning and feel insecure. The best way to counter this is to read up and form your own opinion rather than blindly picking stocks.

Hence my idea, my biggest mistakes to date 🤠

$ASML (-1,03%) Sold at €900 because I got scared of heights.

$WMT (-0,01%) Sold at €50 because I didn't believe in the business model.

At the $GME (+1,92%) went in with a lever and of course everything was liquidated 😀 .

Oh, I could tell you a few more stories. 😃

Have a nice Sunday.

28 Comentários

Aktien365@Aktien365

Mine was Walgreen Boots, among others. Once a dividend aristocrat, blindly bought the dip three times until it was €7,000 and then sold it for €3,500 because it was delisted and the stock was no longer tradable.

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@Aktien365 we are all the same somewhere 😃

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Krush82@Krush82

23H

I would say my biggest mistake in the stock market so far was to have started investing so late.....

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Aspirin A.@AspirinAndi

My biggest mistake at the beginning was trusting finfluencers and buying shares without doing my own research. Thanks to a masked PayPal man, I bought at around €150 and sold after ages at €50. Loss just under 1000€. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Fortunately, I learned from this and have never bought blindly since.

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Olli@Olli68

My biggest mistake was that, despite Tenbagger, I continued to believe everything the Haffa brothers said and held on to it until it was written off. I have never fallen in love with a share since.

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alphawolf@alphawolf

$MF6 Bought at €3.50, added even more at €2.91, and then went bankrupt

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userc811746a6d9041b6@userc811746a6d9041b6

I can easily keep up, I sold Siemens Energy at €60, bought some Hims at €2.99 and sold everything between €5 and €20....Mic Drop 🎤

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@userc811746a6d9041b6 ouch that hurts :/

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Basti92@BavarianLion

Sold Northrop Grumman last year after the bad earnings with minus 20%! I still don't know why I did that, it was a stupid emotional act ☹️

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@BavarianLion Emotion-driven actions aren't usually that great, but we're not robots anyway 🤖

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Paul@paul_finesse_

Back then I had Mullen Automotive (I don't even know if they still exist), I had a relatively large amount of money in it and the share was also liquidated, so to speak, because they did around 3 reverse splits within 2 years and the price plummeted by a good 90% from then on. The end of the story: my shares were all eaten up by the splits until there was nothing left.

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BartS@Weissach

I made similar mistakes to yours and others! As long as you learn from them, it's not a bad thing.

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@Weissach exakt!

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Antonius@Antonius1

two of my very first "investments" were:
i blindly bought the "dip" in beyond meat & oatly at around €1000 each without doing any research and hoped/speculated on a recovery, because everyone knows and uses these well-known big brands and vegan is in vogue. the price will recover at some point and return to old highs.
In the end, both sold at around -90% each.

It was a good learning experience and I'm glad that it happened right at the beginning, because I adjusted my investment strategy and my expectations as a result. 👍🏼

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@Antonius1 Very good, the most important thing is that you have learned from this.
To what extent have you adapted your strategy, what have you changed?

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Brother L.@Brateeee

Palantir sells at 20€ (90 pieces)

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Mike1990@Mike1990

Siemens Energy 400 shares sold at 30 euros

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Brother L.@Brateeee

@Mike1990 autsch

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TradingHase@TradingHase

I initially sold Rheinmetall at around € 980 🙈

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mco@mco

Very true, also started with "blind" stock picking. That can go well, but then it's pure luck.
Or you buy $WDI and after the crash several more times after 🤦‍♂️

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@mco ouch, wirecard has cost some people well

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Demas@Demas

21H

My biggest mistake was: $BYND and $INRG and $WCLD

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DieEnte7@DieEnte7

20H

You could make an endless list 🤪. The most spectacular was probably my failure at $ENPH, bought at €55 in 2020, didn't sell any at >€300, bought more at €170 instead and sold again at €45 around six months ago. I was also involved in the First Republic disaster, but "only" with €200. Personally, that wasn't quite as annoying because I was aware that it could end disastrously.

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Fatboy2050@Fatboy2050

19H

Thank you very much. Such tips are very helpful for beginners like me.
Should I actually set a stop/loss for all securities? And if so, where can you usually place it sensibly?

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

18H

@Fatboy2050 welcome. 🙏
Personally, I don't work with stops/losses because I find them unnecessary for long-term investing.
It's probably different for traders and very volatile stocks. @Multibagger may be able to tell you more about this

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SemiGrowth@SemiGrowth

$NVDA sold at 180 (pre-split, i.e. at today's price of 18)

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ShindyDeanMartin@ShindyDeanMartin

@SemiGrowth ouch. My condolences

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SemiGrowth@SemiGrowth

@ShindyDeanMartin Above all, it was my first investment and from today's perspective I got in with quite a lot (>10% of my portfolio). I believed in the story and understood it very deeply and early on. But my mistake was to look at fundamental estimates. I actually hit the exact low of €12 when I bought. Well, at least I didn't have a loss, but "only" a lost profit.

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