November 27, 2020 

 

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Get Irked's Speculation in Play - November 27, 2020

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The Week’s Biggest Winner & Loser

Carnival Cruiselines (CCL)

Another vaccine means normalcy is that much closer, and when normalcy is closer, that means the cruiseline stocks pop, and no company is more speculative than Carnival Cruiselines (CCL) with its unstable balance sheet and billions in debt. CCL popped +24.24% this week to earn the spot of the Week’s Biggest Winner.

Tradeweb Markets (TW)

It’s another week where the “Biggest Loser” is just the position that gained the least. In this case, it’s Tradeweb Markets (TW) which only popped +0.89% this week. For some reason, Tradeweb, a digital marketplace creator, seems to trade contrary to the market, outperforming in bear moves and underperforming in bull moves.

Portfolio Allocation

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Positions

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Target Position Size

Get Irked - Speculation in Play - Current Holdings - November 27, 2020

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Portfolio Breakdown

Get Irked - Year-to-Date Performance - Investments in Play vs. Speculation in Play - 2020 Year-to-Date Performance

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Year-to-Date Performance

Current Position Performance

Pinterest (PINS)

+783.98%*

1st Buy: 5/16/2019 @ $25.72
Current Per-Share: -($58.79)*

AMD (AMD)

+571.81%*

1st Buy: 1/10/2019 @ $19.54
Current Per-Share: (-$5.14)*

Yeti (YETI)

+537.07%*

1st Buy: 2/26/2019 @ $23.23
Current Per-Share: (-$142.16)*

Virgin Galactic (SPCE)

+247.55%*

1st Buy: 10/31/2019 @ $9.87
Current Per-Share: (-$0.15)*

Grow Gen. (GRWG)

+211.57%*

1st Buy: 10/30/2020 @ $16.04
Current Per-Share: (-$0.19)*

Twitter (TWTR)

+201.94%*

1st Buy: 10/30/2019 @ $29.79
Current Per-Share: (-$45.02)*

Carnival Cruise (CCL)

+198.22%*

1st Buy: 3/12/2020 @ $17.25
Current Per-Share: (-1.01)*

Plug Power (PLUG)

+193.78%*

1st Buy: 10/30/2020 @ $14.28
Current Per-Share: (-$0.28)*

Airlines ETF (JETS)

+193.35%*

1st Buy: 5/14/2020 @ $11.30
Current Per-Share: (-$3.72)*

Tradeweb Mkts (TW)

+178.60%

1st Buy: 4/8/2019 @ $39.22
Current Per-Share: $21.47

General Electric (GE)

+73.37%

1st Buy: 3/6/2020 @ $9.40
Current Per-Share: $6.00

Chevron (CVX)

+53.78%

1st Buy: 3/12/2020 @ $76.94
Current Per-Share: $59.38

Revolve Group (RVLV)

+22.84%

1st Buy: 6/13/2019 @ $39.06
Current Per-Share: $19.29

12/31 SPY Put Spreads

-76.19%

Cost: $2.4993
Current Value: $0.595

* Indicates a position where the capital investment was sold.
Profit % for * positions = Current Gross Profit / Original Capital Investment

Super-Speculative Basket

Airlines ETF

JETS

Carnival Cruise

CCL

Virgin Galactic

SPCE

What is the Super-Speculative Basket?

The Super Speculative Basket (“Super-Spec”) is made up of a handful of stocks so incredibly volatile that I’m uncomfortable giving any of them full allocations even in my Speculation in Play portfolio, instead dividing a single allocation among all of them.

Currently, my Super-Spec stocks are as follows: the Airlines ETF (JETS), Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL), and Virgin Galactic (SPCE). They are listed as a single allocation in the portfolio breakdown chart each week. 

This Week’s Moves

General Electric (GE): Profit-Taking

The week kicked off with more positive vaccine trials which means “It’s Big Bull Rally Time!” General Electric (GE) popped deeper into the $10-11 range, triggering a sell order I had in place at $10.22 on Monday.

The sale locked in +84.48% in gains on some shares I bought for $5.54 back on May 13 and lowered my per-share cost -5.06% from $6.32 to $6.00. My next buy target is $5.92 and my next sell target is slightly over $12.

GE closed the week at $10.40, up +1.76% from where I sold Monday.

Grow Generation (GRWG): Capital Investment Pulled

Well, that double happened fast! Less than a month after I opened a small position in Grow Generation (GRWG), the stock doubled from my opening price, and, as always, my discipline dictates I have to take half off the table when that happens, even when I think the stock has much further to go as I do here.

On Monday, GRWG crossed through my sell target at $32.26, selling half of the shares I bought back on October 30 for $16.04, a double and a total profit gain of +101.12% in just over three weeks. From here, I’m letting the rest of my position run because, well, it was free, but I do have a price target back at $17.90 which represents a 50% retracement from GRWG’s epic run this year.

GRWG closed the week at $35.59, up +10.32% from where I sold Monday.

Plug Power (PLUG): Capital Investment Pulled

Despite being from two completely different sectors, it seems as though all the speculative growth stocks are correlated as Plug Power (PLUG) powered higher on no news Tuesday, triggering a sell order at $28.56 which, like Grow Generation above, took out half of my position as it, too, had doubled taking just one day longer than Grow Generation did.

Trading discipline locked in +101.98% in gains, selling shares I bought less than four weeks ago for $14.14 on October 30 for $28.56 on Tuesday. From here, I have no sell targets as I let the rest ride with a buy target at $15.88, a past point of support/resistance and slightly above a key spot on Fibonnacci Retracement tables.

PLUG closed the week at $26.24, down -8.12% from where I sold Tuesday.

Want Further Clarification?

As always, if you have questions about any of my positions or have positions of your own that you’re curious about – feel free to leave a comment below!

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