$Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$ Ok I'm sharing this post with my tiger friends because I have a couple of very important ideas to disclose. I brought into VG at around $15, and soon after due to law suits it plummeted to around half that. Now whenever I pull the trigger on a new stock, I write a 1 to 2 page memo to self on why I'm buying it, I tend to start with small amounts initially and add over time. i was adding as it dropped when it got really low, I tripped down. Why? Well I had underestimated the impacts of potential law suits. But I also believe it's crazy cheap even if they loose the law suits. Incidentally, last week I sold half my position to bank the profits I have made On its recovery. Still own 3x more than I started with. but the only reason I sold was to reduce my potential margin calls. Let's face it, this year is going to be insanely volatile, so I need to reduce the possibility of a margin call. And I also banked profits. I started with around $500 in VG, it harved in value. I put in $1500 more as it went down and at lows, it has come back. my $2000 in went to around $3,500 so I sold $1500.
I'm just rounding stuff guys to simplify. And I would not have sold anything because I believe it will go back to $15 this year. But inhave too much margin in play. And in my humble opinion, this year is going to be the year of pump and dump. Fake news to pump, and more fake news to dump.
So lesson one is, write down the reasons you are buying a stock, if the stock drops significantly, but your reasons for buying are still intact... buy more and keep buying as it keeps dropping. because you understand that it's a short term thing that will correct.
Lesson two. I mentioned that this will be the year of pump and dump. It will be based on fake news. So here I would like to call out a news feed on tiger trade called Stock Track. I really want to block them. Today they produced two articles about $Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ and $IREN Ltd(IREN)$ that is at best fake news, perhaps incompetence. market manipulation? Whatever it is, it's not a source to be trusted.
So the first article was why rklb "plummeted" over 10% today. there reasoning was the loss of the MSR contract Being dumped by congress. Wait we are in February 2026, We knew this in November last year! FAKE news! And no mention of the mars communication orbiter contract, the reaction wheel contract with amazon, hypersonic testing ramps, oh I could exhaust you with the billions in the pipeline going forward. But no, Stock track is some bot at best regurgitation old news. It's a rubbish source of information.
Next minute they put up another post about IREN, again plummeting today because of bitcoin. Fracktards! Yes IREN is a bitcoin miner right now, made a ton of money mining bitcoin. Used the proceeds from bitcoin mining to buy land, build all the infrastructure to have a serious data center moat. Bit coin price has no impact on IREN going forward, because that income will be replaced with Ai compute.
I will call out everything that is compete and utter nonsense, stock track is in my humble opinion... a waste of a read. I would encourage tiger trade to remove all feeds that talk utter garbage.
We need reliable sources of information, to make informed decisions. And on that note, I will go full circle. If you want to be a successful investor going forward. Do your own research. Trust you, discount everything, but search for information and people you can trust. Real people. Not ai generated bs.
I've ranted enough. I hope this rant informs your investment decisions though, happy trading
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