Comments on: Tracking Garmin (GRMN) http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/ A blog about trading, finances, success and life itself Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:18:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chrisperruna.com » Blog Archive » Should we Accumulate Shares? http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-14944 chrisperruna.com » Blog Archive » Should we Accumulate Shares? Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:48:36 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-14944 [...] – 82.32, the former high flyer is down $40 as it approaches the 200-d m.a. for the first time since early 2007. A base here is a [...] [...] – 82.32, the former high flyer is down $40 as it approaches the 200-d m.a. for the first time since early 2007. A base here is a [...]

]]> By: proof1st http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-13326 proof1st Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:10:58 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-13326 A good post but the biggest question remains unanswered: when would you sell? Profits are easy to make in hindsight but this ignores all the decisions that need to be in the trenches while managing positions. Once your target was hit you would have rode it all the way back down without raising the stop? Since you call it a "homerun" if you kept it till now does that mean you sell now? If you only sell when the 200dma gets pierced you may get nailed many times before you find your homerun. (Unless you only buy trending stocks that have returned to the 200dma for a good stop.) Its a tough call between overtrading and watching profits disappear! A good post but the biggest question remains unanswered: when would you sell? Profits are easy to make in hindsight but this ignores all the decisions that need to be in the trenches while managing positions.

Once your target was hit you would have rode it all the way back down without raising the stop? Since you call it a “homerun” if you kept it till now does that mean you sell now?

If you only sell when the 200dma gets pierced you may get nailed many times before you find your homerun. (Unless you only buy trending stocks that have returned to the 200dma for a good stop.)

Its a tough call between overtrading and watching profits disappear!

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-13301 Chris Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:57:18 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-13301 Ragin', I'm in a league already but I think I can handle another. I see the info on your site so I will let you know. Dan, What you say is true as well but I do like to keep the commissions down as well as any chance for slippage and the like. Risk rises and profits are eaten away when I over-trade. Ragin’,
I’m in a league already but I think I can handle another. I see the info on your site so I will let you know.

Dan,
What you say is true as well but I do like to keep the commissions down as well as any chance for slippage and the like. Risk rises and profits are eaten away when I over-trade.

]]> By: Dan http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-13299 Dan Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:30:46 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-13299 "My profits from February could have increased another 4 times had I stayed in the position patiently." True. But could you have made the same amount of money doing short term trades in the meantime? Keeping the money active in other stocks instead of a stock that fizzled for a while? “My profits from February could have increased another 4 times had I stayed in the position patiently.”

True. But could you have made the same amount of money doing short term trades in the meantime? Keeping the money active in other stocks instead of a stock that fizzled for a while?

]]> By: Ragin' Cajun http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-13298 Ragin' Cajun Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:03:18 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-13298 Chris, What's your email address, I would like you to join our fantasy football league. Chris,

What’s your email address, I would like you to join our fantasy football league.

]]> By: Ragin' Cajun http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/comment-page-1/#comment-13292 Ragin' Cajun Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:40:13 +0000 http://www.chrisperruna.com/2007/08/03/tracking-garmin-grmn/#comment-13292 Great post! Your blog is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Great post! Your blog is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

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