To add to my above post, the issue with NFLX was also that I didn't know the company very well. My due diligence was a tiny fraction of what I did for AMD before I invested in it.
Thereby another big lesson learned - The type of DD done mostly by retail is from a bird's eye view and they depend on the perceptions and opinions of analysts. I mean most of us wouldn't buy land or houses or other major investments without really getting our hands dirty, but with stocks we seem more than happy to.
That lack of real in-depth knowledge causes us to panic when we see huge price movements.
Thereby another big lesson learned - The type of DD done mostly by retail is from a bird's eye view and they depend on the perceptions and opinions of analysts. I mean most of us wouldn't buy land or houses or other major investments without really getting our hands dirty, but with stocks we seem more than happy to.
That lack of real in-depth knowledge causes us to panic when we see huge price movements.