More Positions Closed - what am I doing?

In February, I closed two more positions. After increasing price recovery from my inittial investment, and my 5% trailing stop loss risk mitigation strategy, I exited both Ford (F) and Mediwound (MDWD)

Ford Position - A long history.

I have been buying and selling positions in F since at least 2016. This sale makes my third cycle of being completely out for a while.

My initial reasoning for entering Ford was just playing contrarian and chasing some high dividends at the time. Companies like Ford had a long history of always paying their dividends, never cutting, and usually raising them.

Ford Positions -

Date	Trade	Share Price	Gain/(Loss)	APY	Notes
Oct 2016	Buy	11.8	N/A		Held 71 days
Jan 2017	Sell all	13.22	12%	96%
Apr 2017	Buy	11.42	N/A
Sep 2017	Sell all	11.63	4%	11%	w/Dividends
Feb 2018	Buy	10.72	N/A
Feb 2021	Sell All	11.38	17%	5.66%	w/Dividends

Unfortunately, when COVID hit, F was one of the companies that had to cut their dividend to ensure operations. This, along with the market conditions really pushed the stock price down. I was able to collect the dividends until they were cut and it really helped add to my gains.

I am not sure if I am interested in trading F considering it no longer offers a dividend to mitigate risk, and help hold onto positions longer. Granted my APY on some of these trades is not ideal. I like to trade some of these older more stable companies that tend to have cycles and sector movements. When I think I can make 5-10% share price return in the next 6-18 months and have dividend income I like the risk/reward.

Mediwound Trade

I got into Mediwound while the were working to get FDA approval for a product. I knew at the time there was a high risk/reward depending on approval status - and I did not at the time have a good risk mitigation plan in place. At the time, my strategy was to mitigate risk by only investing half a normal positon.

Mediwound (MDWD) Positions -

Date	Trade	Share Price	Gain/(Loss)	Notes
Jul 2017	Buy	6.68	N/A	60% of total position
Oct 2017	Buy	4.9	N/A	40% of total position
Oct 2017	Sell	5.55		16% position
Feb 2021	Sell all	5.63		84% of position
Feb 2021	Loss		(6.8%)

Not great performance - while I lost a small amount in these trades, and I had that money idle for 4 years, I would have been better off taking my losses earlier and putting the money to work elsewhere for a positive return. I still have hopes they can turn it around, and am sure now that I have given up they will have a monster product release and take off.

3 positions closed. MDWD, F and SLV

Those were my sells in the month of Feb when you add in my prior post about SLV I hope to be a bit more active this year if I can manage to keep up on both the research and posting. Its been a great start to the year but there is a lot of unknown yet. I could be interesting, but I am sure most of you prefer the world of crypto and defi with returns in the thousands of percents, not teens!

sincerely, @cluelessinvestor - aka a random nobody on the internet spewing nonsense

This post NOT financial advise, it contains my personal opinion and experience and is intended for educational purposes. Perform your own research and analysis prior to making investment decisions.

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