billdauterive Posted March 9, 2023 Report Share Posted March 9, 2023 3 hours ago, dmattinson said: If you want to play with some shares, sell enough to get your original investment back and then let the rest ride. Its essentially free money and you can weather many ups and downs without sweating it or watching it too much. I do this a lot too. Personally it really helps me psychologically. 3 hours ago, dmattinson said: If you want to see if it goes up a little more, set a trailing stop loss sale trigger (I generally set them to about 10%). This way, it rides the increases in the price of the share and sets new sale price every time it goes up. If it loses 10% from the high price it sets, it triggers a sale. Gives a little tolerance to let the declines happen and acts as a monitored sell trigger if it goes down too much at once. Its nice if it has very little fluctuation and continues to go up...setting new stop loss trigger every time that happens. This is also a good idea. I use it from time to time as well to help psychologically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted March 9, 2023 Report Share Posted March 9, 2023 2 hours ago, mac66 said: RCI is still in massive debt but it seems like they're handling it okay. They are breaking sales records so far in 1st quarter 2023 and it's projects that through the rest of the year. They are still going forward with their Nassau Beach project, kind of CoCo Cay resort except in Nassau. This is my view as well (hence why I will always be keeping a minimum of 100 shares for a long time), but only time will tell if was a good observation or a bad one. 2 hours ago, mac66 said: Maybe at least wait until the first quarter earnings come out and see if that drives the stock up or down. Be very careful playing the quarterly earnings game. Sometimes blow out numbers lead to large drops or terrible numbers lead to large gains (seemingly without reason). I've been burned way too many times in the past, and I still haven't fully learned my lesson... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac66 Posted March 16, 2023 Report Share Posted March 16, 2023 I decided to hold for now. If RCI stocks go back up over $70 I will probably sell. If it goes down below $40 I'll probably buy another 100 shares Then there's this Royal Caribbean (RCL) Upgraded to Buy: Here's What You Should Know https://finance.yahoo.com/news/royal-caribbean-rcl-upgraded-buy-160004360.html ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmattinson Posted March 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2023 I'm looking at my TDA account and just pulled details on $RCL - its a mix over the analyst ratings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChessE4 Posted March 16, 2023 Report Share Posted March 16, 2023 2 hours ago, mac66 said: I decided to hold for now. If RCI stocks go back up over $70 I will probably sell. Then there's this Royal Caribbean (RCL) Upgraded to Buy: Here's What You Should Know https://finance.yahoo.com/news/royal-caribbean-rcl-upgraded-buy-160004360.html Yeah, if you believe in cruising, then you expect earnings to rise. I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac66 Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 RCL stock was at $71.88 today. I think it's time to sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmattinson Posted May 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2023 3 hours ago, mac66 said: RCL stock was at $71.88 today. I think it's time to sell. It was over $73 at multiple parts of the day. Set your trailing stop loss in case it goes up more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac66 Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 Closed at $75.61 on Friday. Didn't get around to selling but I'll be on the phone with my broker first thing Monday morning. For what I paid for stock last August It would take me 42 7+ night cruises to recoup the difference. Not likely to ever sail that many times in the future particularly with the prices going up, up, up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmattinson Posted May 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 It went as high as $75.99 on Friday. Congrats on the profits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridian Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 Man. Painful conversation. I put in a buy order for 1000+ shares at $30.00 a while back as I felt it had to rise given the demand I had experienced first hand and believed in the cruise industry as a whole. It dropped to like $30.05 so never triggered and never has been that low again and clearly not even close now. Should have just bought but wanted to get it 30 or under and thought it would come back and it kept rising and rising dammit Costly in hindsight. The other lesson I also learnt is never try for round numbers. It will either not go there as is the case here or go way below. Congratulations to those that got in. My CCL and NCL shares have done nothing like the RCL ones would have. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 5 hours ago, Meridian said: The other lesson I also learnt is never try for round numbers. It will either not go there as is the case here or go way below. Very good lesson to learn. One thing I'll sometimes do is use a random number generator to get the cents portion of the price so that I'm not stuck on a whole number (i.e. random number of 58 means my order would then be for $30.58 or $29.58 in your example) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 On 3/9/2023 at 10:56 AM, billdauterive said: I've stated my current positions before, but personally I'm looking at the $80s being my probable next level of some profit taking. And if it crashes back into the $40s, you better believe I'm buying more (barring some new information). Sticking to my guns... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac66 Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 RCL was up over $78 for a minute today. I sold at $77.36 so I made about $4400 today. Rolled some of the profit over into buying Carnival and Norwegian stock. We'll see if they eventually make it up out of the basement. Shouldn't take much to double my money on CCL stock. I originally bought at $7 and change. Bought another 100 shares today at $10 and change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmattinson Posted December 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2023 Who held on to their RCL shares? Nice returns for those that didn't give in when it was in the $70's DoomSlayer and WAAAYTOOO 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted December 22, 2023 Report Share Posted December 22, 2023 Yup. I have 235 shares picked up over the depths of COVID and will hang on to 200 shares (sometimes depending on cost per day the DB and I book separate cabins if we're chasing points.... which at 200 shares means we both get the onboard credit in our cabins. I will likely sell the 35 extra shares but the 200 are not going anywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last2Know Posted December 22, 2023 Report Share Posted December 22, 2023 19 hours ago, dmattinson said: Who held on to their RCL shares? Nice returns for those that didn't give in when it was in the $70's I held. Let see if the price holds today. Looks to be down a little bit in the pre-market trading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdauterive Posted December 23, 2023 Report Share Posted December 23, 2023 On 12/21/2023 at 11:45 AM, dmattinson said: Who held on to their RCL shares? Nice returns for those that didn't give in when it was in the $70's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last2Know Posted December 31, 2023 Report Share Posted December 31, 2023 Santa rally was good. Let's see what happens after the New Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cakemeister Posted December 31, 2023 Report Share Posted December 31, 2023 I held, but since I only have shares to get OBC, I'm not ever selling unless they stop the benefit. Honestly, I don't even watch the stock market since I only own three stocks: 100 shares of RCL and CCL, plus my employer. My cost basis is $76.31, pretty high compared to some, but again I don't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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