Biggest Investing Mistakes of the Year & How to Avoid Them

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0:42PNC Bank, National Association, member FDIC. Let's talk about what do you think the biggest investing mistake of the year was? For me, it was two things. Number one, anyone who missed out on that April run. I don't know if you're ever going to have a better opportunity. Like when I go back and look, because that Friday I did a good day New York shot to them. And they were like, what stocks were bad to invest in? I'm like, all the qualities were great buys at that time. For the first time in a long, maybe since COVID, did you have such a chance to almost have a guaranteed win? So I think any capital that you did not deploy in April, when we were screaming to buy is probably the biggest mistake of the year.

1:34I have that exact thing in my notes. I said, not taking advantage of the downtrends. I started in January, though, when people felt, oh my gosh, what is happening? NVIDIA's not real. Here comes DeepSeek. It's not real. The whole AI thing isn't real. We saw all of these companies drop. That was the first one. In April, it got compounded with the quote-unquote liberation day. And then we had a class and it was like, it goes back to the original question of like, stick to the plan. Because I remember in April, we had the class. I'm like, look, let's just stick to the plan, right? Let's find some indexes to invest in.

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3:29Let's watch it happen. Those are up 300%. And then you got the companies that were inside those ETFs that were going to lead it. The AMDs of the world, the NVIDIAs of the world, Micron, so the world. And so now you got the ETF running and you got the individual equities. I actually did a leverage ETF was the first time I did that in a semiconductors because I believed in space so much. That's up over 900%. Sticking to that plan, but taking advantage of opportunities. What do we do in November? Right. There was a 5 % pullback last month. People were scared. Oh, my gosh. This AI thing. And it's only 5%.

4:00It was a 5 % pullback. Another opportunity. Another opportunity. Somebody shout out to somebody in the chat. They said, yeah, XOXL was at$8. It was at$8. Yeah. I bought a$28 call. So imagine what that looks like. So it's about taking advantage of those moments. When you see those moments happening, it's like, oh, you waited, you waited, you waited, you waited. Here it is. What are you doing? You got the script. Stick to it. And the second mistake, if I can give one, for every investor and trader, I think you need to hunt for what the next sector is that is going to rise outside of quantum. Like all of your investing prowess.

4:38we have the gentleman from BlackRock come on and he kind of gave you like the three-tier plan. If you're not spending all your time figuring out which company is going to boom next in 27, you are going to be sadly mistaken because now we're getting into a space. I don't know if we'll ever go back to when value investing is ever needed or popular again. You need to hunt for the next company that will have a meteoric rise, that are sustainable, that will be life-changing to the economy. And also, too, they're going to be a company that is currently dominating their sector now in terms of market share and mind share.

5:17So when we think of this chip race, we think of NVIDIA, when we think of smartphone, we think of Apple. You need to search high and low for the next company that is about to break out in 27 or 28 for a long period of time. Yeah. Shout out to the chat. Yes, XLU, spot a ticket. ETF did split two to one. XLK also split two to one. So yeah, so if you had one share that now turns into two shares. If you had 10 shares, then you have 20. And that goes as well for options contracts. If you had 10, now you have 20. So those two to one splits should just be mindful. I know it was kind of weird when you open your brokerage account and you had an option and the contracts doubled, but the money's like you're down more than you ever thought.

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