PLTR
Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A Common Stock
stock NASDAQ

Have 255 shares in a brokerage acct with DCA of $40. Originally had 285 but sold 35 shares at $85 to fund a vacation. I also have 200 shares in a Roth IRA that I bought at $131. Brings my current total to 455 shares. I still DCA but smaller amounts in the brokerage acct. I don't plan to sell any for the next 7 - 10 yrs. I worked as a DoD contractor and the private sector for small, med, and large cap IT companies over the last 35 yrs so PLTR is in a good spot unless they do something to piss the DoD or Fed Govt off. In some ways, this reminds me of the original GPS technology developed by the DoD but exponentially larger in reach. I think $190 by the end of 2025, $450 by the end of 2026, and $1,100 by 2027. I would love to see a stock split around 2027 but doubt it will happen.

You're overthinking things considering you lost money during a massive bull run. You have smooth brains making money hand over fist by just buying what's trending like PLTR, HOOD, NVDA, COIN, etc. Sometimes it's good to just go with the flow instead of trying to outsmart the market.

That ended up being a nothing burger. It barely made a scratch in PLTR or NVDA before recovering fully.

I'm also staying away from PLTR. Can't stand Thiel

People in this sub, r/investing, and r/stockmarket all want to have their cake and eat it too.
They want to make investment gains while simultaneously also feeling good about their politics. This is why everyone talks endlessly about shorting Tesla, because they want to make money in a way that also validates their politics.
When the pandemic occurred and stocks crashed back in March/April of 2020, people on here (and even major so-called financial media like "The Economist") were all dooming about "how low can it go?"
Meanwhile, I knew that Trump is one of the most vain and openly corrupt individuals to grace modern political office and that he would do everything to make sure he isn't remembered as the "Second Great Depression President." I bought in just a few weeks before stocks hit their pandemic low and when they rebounded, I paid off (almost all) my undergraduate student loans. I didn't buy in during the April crash this year, but it was pretty clear similarly that Trump wouldn't allow the market to nosedive. You'd never get the sense of that if you were on this sub because people were more interested in the political schadenfreude of seeing their hated enemy in the White House destroy the economy than actually speculate on possible opportunities.
You can make money in this administration because Trump telegraphs his possible moves in a way that prior Presidents don't. I bought PLTR the day after the Nov election results because I knew that Thiel, the disgusting fascist ghoul, would have an inevitably major place in the admin (by that time, the stock already was up 200% and it's been up \~150% since the election).
This place is just r/politics but for stocks.

I bought PLTR at $22 and when it dropped to $6 i loaded up more.. sold at $130

This is excellent advice.
In trading, the easiest and largest gains are made by traders who have a large pile of cash to deploy in the depths of a large stock market crash. That’s where the largest opportunities lie.
It was in those conditions, first in early 2009 with AAPL, and second with PLTR in 2020, where I wound up making incredible gains through long-term investing.
At one point, my trading gave me 60% of my net worth. These days, it’s vastly lower, since PLTR went parabolic.
Looking back, it’s very clear that long-term investing, alone, can make average people, with an average corporate job, multimillionaires, just by investing in SPY. If they study how to (try to) find diamonds in the rough, such as PLTR, or have a large pile of capital to deploy on LEAPS calls in the depths of a large market crash on the fundamentally strongest companies, they can make a killing. This requires a lot of skill and some luck.
Trading is much harder than long-term investing. I specialize in tech and pharma/biotech, but lately only tech because of Trump. XLK, an ETF comprised of large-cap tech, has already run up massively. It can’t keep going forever because, if for no other reason, it’ll be limited by earnings and guidance at some point. The higher that a market is priced, the more risk you take on by trying to ride it higher.
When there’s a downturn, retail traders will lose a great deal of money (many trade long call options, which will get destroyed) and, within a few years, the older faces will be replaced by newer ones as the jaded traders give up and go on to marry and start families, work in corporate jobs, have children, and take out a mortgage loan to buy a house. The new twenty-two-year-olds will ask the same questions, have the same experiences, and, within a few years, repeat the same cycle. It’s the very, very few traders who manage to succeed after a decade who are worth listening to. But those who do aren’t generally interested in YouTube or teaching. They want to live their lives.
Speaking only for myself, I like trading and trying to help others, but I have practical constraints, such as parents in their late eighties with health problems. They’re my priority. When I post on Reddit, even with my unexpectedly popular post here that somehow went viral, it never ceases to amaze me that a minority of commenters go to great lengths to attack me, presumably because they assume that if they can’t make a living by trading, no one can; we’re all liars selling something. But the truth is that any income that we could generate from selling courses or mentoring would be trivial compared to what we already make from investing and trading, so there’s no incentive to do it. This is why you should be highly skeptical of anyone selling anything on YouTube.
Nothing that I’ve ever seen on YouTube or read on Reddit has helped to turn me into a successful trader. It came from many years of experimentation and suffering.
I think that 99.99% of people who aspire to trade would do far better to work in a corporate job, DCA into QQQ for thirty years, and go and live their lives. People have very unrealistic ideas about what’s possible and how long it’ll take. Bear markets are real. Market crashes are devastating. Sometimes there can be years of flatlining where SPY won’t make you anything at all.
I like to tell people that trading can help you to buy some nice things here and there, but it’s long-term investing that will make you wealthy. Income from trading is highly inconsistent, and we all have years where we lose money. If aspiring traders really understood what it means to be a full-time trader over the course of a decade, I think most wouldn’t even try. It’s nothing like the fantasies peddled on YouTube.
I feel very fortunate to be where I am. I worked hard for it. There was a period where I lost nearly $1.1 million. But I persevered, got through the nightmare, and broke through. It helps to get lucky here and there, too.
Neither money, nor trading, are all they’re cracked up to be. The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, but life never stops throwing up problems at you.
If there’s a fast path to wealth, I haven’t found it. This is why, even after having made $1.4 million in 2024, I get excited to make $134.50 in a 3.33-minute scalp and go to Starbucks. The latter is spending money. The former is for retirement.
I wish you good luck.

Bad mouthing PLTR was 90% of Reddit 3 years ago

Peak wsb at least for me was when PLTR ipo'd back in 2020 and of course game store rally. Obviously those cultist took it way to seriously and became an embarrassment but you gotta admit jan- march 2021 was fucking insane lol

Has to be GRRR for me.. Made a nice 100% on PLTR.. Sold ASTS at $20 and tried to buy lower.. Missed RKLB.

I've read the Ross Cameron book and liked it, but no way will it give you enough info to day trade on margins. It does well describing the psyche of trading. I'd look to set goals by percent. With $100k portfolio 1% is $1,000. Try to beat the S&P by less than a percentage point instead of $100 per day. Crazy part is i started several months ago buying quantum computing stocks that lose millions of dollars per year but have billions in the bank, and they're all up 20-30%. RGTI, QBIT, QUBT, IONQ plus PLTR, RXRX. None are profitable but neither was Amazon for many years.

Don’t feel bad I bought shares back in 2021/22 @$28, $19 & $9 sold in 2024@ $2. This week I bought options at $0.30 sold at $0.70 now they’re worth $1.07 back in 2022 OPen and PLTR were my biggest holding PLTR made up for all my Open losses.

This is a truly degenerate move to gamble on a dying meme stock company. I could understand moderate bets on companies like RKLB or PLTR back in the day due to solid business model, but "investing" in OPEN is even a stretch in WSB standards. Anyways, I'm in with 100 Jan 2026 3 calls at 0.54.

Yeah just look at NVDA from last July till just the last 2 months price just bounced around after the massive run! People who bought at the top either bought it and just held or the other wanted it to keep running and it has swings of flat to up 20 to down 30 from after the split. You know some of those people sold because they weren’t making money and figure party was over! Now the party started again but we won’t see that crazy straight up like when ran to 1200. In hoping PLTR runs to 170-180 and pulls back to these levels even a little lower is ok and we start to build again. It just needs to keep its foot on the gas for adding customers, contracts and increase rev and EPS

Ran into a friend who was meeting with various companies for AI related projects in early 2023. Mentioned big names like Google, Microsoft , Amazon and then one he mentioned that I had heard of but was a bit more obscure was PLTR. Did some more research and then made them a core holding. Now it’s my biggest holding today.

It’s true - but in crisis high pe/growth stocks like NVIDIA, PLTR, COIN probably get hit the hardest which sucks

I’m up 1400% on PLTR and haven’t sold. I would be kicking myself if I sold at 15%.

I just rebalanced to a 60/40 equity/cash from 70/30. Lightened up on risk assets like Nvidia, PLTR, RKLB, etc.

Most of my stock purchases have been of reddit. Just reading, researching and seeing what people say and avoiding the scammers
It’s a great community full of knowledgeable people
Rklb @ $4
Asts @ $3
Nbis @ $25
Missed PLTR at @ 25 cause I didn’t have money to buy it
My latest been RILY @ $3.50 - it’s on the up now, 3-5x next couple years

On the topic of inflated P/E ratios compared to historical norms, its really just concentrated in Tech and Mag 7.
NVDA, TSLA, AVGO, PLTR, MSFT, META all have exceptionally high P/E and influential market caps for the SP500, but they are all positioning to ride the AI wave.
Assets like real estate can't remain artificially inflated as long as stocks can.
And if you feel like the market is overvalued, you would want to establish positions against Tech...during the boon of Artifical Intelligence. There's a reason why the valuations are high right now.
I could only imagine betting against Apple with their 33 P/E, but even they can do stock buybacks to keep the stock afloat for many years.