1. Plan the trade, and trade the plan.
2. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
3. When in doubt, get out.
4. Don't trade on hope.
5. It was always the sitting that made me the most money (Jesse Livermore)
6. If it ain't going up, it's going down.
7. Conversely, if it ain't going down, it's...
No. Like I said, I'm not a trend follower, but I think it means If you're following an uptrend, the current bar has to break below the prior TWO bars before getting out of your position.
Check out the weekly on the SPY. Broke a weekly low for the first time this year, as you said. I'm more of a scalper not a trend trader, but I've heard trend traders say follow the trend until you see a 3-bar break. So far, no 3-bar break.
https://www.spiceworks.com/finance/accounting/articles/financial-transaction-tax-gains-in-america-and-europe-despite-obstacles/
A number of interesting tidbits there.
Ahh, that is the question for investors! Haha. Since BRKA is valued at $750B and their stock holdings are $300B and their cash is I think $150B, that pretty much means that investors are valuing BRKA's private companies (those companies that don't trade publicly) at around $300B...
I think newwurldmn kind of nailed it here. Railroads and housing sales are doing really well, and BRK owns the largest ones in the field. Car dealerships too.
Also on the list (at the link) is other real estate companies, electric companies (electricity prices are skyrocketing), other oil...
I'll post the link here again to BRK's list of privately owned companies:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway#Operating_subsidiaries
I'm starting to understand now. BRK is worth $750B, which includes class A+B shares. His Apple stock, which they say is half of his stock portfolio, is worth $150B. So his entire stock portfolio is $300B. He also has $125B in cash.
So stocks and cash combined is $425B.
So the company is...