After watching large-cap tech stocks zoom higher over recent months, don’t you wish you could jump in your time machine and buy these stocks last year?
Or even a handful of months ago, as investors bailed out on tech stocks after values had fallen by 50%, 70%, or more.
Let’s use this as a lesson to buy stocks that investors currently hate…
- The Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) lost 38%.
- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) dropped by 39%.
- Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) fell by 45%.
- Tesla Inc. (TSLA) lost 75%.
- Meta Platforms Inc. (META) dropped by 75%.
- NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) fell by 69%.
And yet, these are the same large-cap stocks that investors love this year.
There are a couple of essential points to understand. Most of the 2022 bear market losses had occurred by May. Absolute lows were hit in October and November. Prices didn’t start a serious recovery until January. As a result, the stock market felt ugly for eight to nine long months.
Percentage changes can be funny. The most a stock can lose is 100%, but there is no upside for a stock that goes to zero. From a 50% loss, it takes a 100% gain to return to the previous high. It takes a 300% gain to recover from a…
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