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Limit orders and the nitty gritty of buying and selling stocks

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 29, 2025April 29, 2025
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

If you had put in a market order to buy 1000 shares that evening, the order would have been executed the following morning at whatever asking price existed at that time. It could have been $80.99. You would be paying $1 per share more that the close the previous afternoon.

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Buying a stock – dating, not fully wedded

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Clearly it is not a moaty Warren Buffett enterprise. But, over the next five years or so it has the potential to become one.

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Selling a stock – goodbye old friend

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 27, 2022March 28, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Stocks in highly cyclical industries have to be treated quite differently than other industries or sectors because of the cycles.

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Buying tactics for common stocks

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 21, 2021April 7, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

We give up on trying to attain perfection or ascertain when the bottom has been reached

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