Fix Broken Trades With the Repair Strategy

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Fix Broken Trades With the Repair Strategy

By JUSTIN KUEPPER, Updated December 24, 2023
Reviewed by SOMER ANDERSON
Fact checked by YARILET PEREZ

Investors who have suffered a substantial loss in a stock position have been limited to three options:
"sell and take a loss," "hold and hope," or "double down."

The "hold and hope" strategy requires that the stock return to your purchase price, which may take a long time, if it happens at all. The "double down" strategy requires that you throw good money after bad in hopes that the stock will perform well.

Fortunately, there is a fourth strategy that can help you "repair" your stock by reducing your break-even point without taking any additional risk. This article will explore that strategy and how you can use it to recover from your losses.
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Robert Morse said:
IMO, this is a terrible idea. We all need to learn to take losses and move on. The only way to minimize these losses to by tax harvesting. Pair off a gain with a loss.
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"reducing your break-even point without taking any additional risk" sounds very good for me.
All such long term investments should always strive to optimize (improve) the BreakEvenPoint(s) of the position.
 
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Buying 1:selling 2 is generally a debit but can be a credit. If a debit, you increase your risk and investment and limit upside. If a credit, you limit upside even more with little protection on the downside. This type of strategy teaches bad habits that do not build wealth.

Quanto said:
"reducing your break-even point without taking any additional risk" sounds very good for me.
All such long term investments should always strive to optimize (improve) the BreakEvenPoint(s) of the position.
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Robert Morse said:
Buying 1:selling 2 is generally a debit but can be a credit. If a debit, you increase your risk and investment and limit upside. If a credit, you limit upside even more with little protection on the downside. This type of strategy teaches bad habits that do not build wealth.
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As I understand it, the strategy is primarily about getting quick out of the current huge unrealized loss, nothing more. Ie. reaching B/E.
 
Most of my responses come from the experience I have from being in the business from 1981. I’ve done sales, trading, market making and floor executions as a broker. I also have some knowledge, but not great, of USA tax laws. You have not said where you reside, and I have no idea what the result is of losses and gains where you might pay taxes. It seems like you are doing a lot of research to help you trade in the future. That is smart. I’m going to guess you have no live account or it is not very active. That might be wrong, but it comes across that way. There is only so much you can learn from google searches, watching mentors trade and reading article. At some point you need to do real trading to get a better feel for what works in real live trading.

Quanto said:
As I understand it, the strategy is primarily about getting quick out of the current huge unrealized loss, nothing more. Ie. reaching B/E.
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Robert Morse said:
Most of my responses come from the experience I have from being in the business from 1981. I’ve done sales, trading, market making and floor executions as a broker. I also have some knowledge, but not great, of USA tax laws. You have not said where you reside, and I have no idea what the result is of losses and gains where you might pay taxes. It seems like you are doing a lot of research to help you trade in the future. That is smart. I’m going to guess you have no live account or it is not very active. That might be wrong, but it comes across that way. There is only so much you can learn from google searches, watching mentors trade and reading article. At some point you need to do real trading to get a better feel for what works in real live trading.
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Robert, we better should just focus on the presented strategy itself in this topic , not some taxes or my trading habits or the color(s) of my socks or whatever irrelevant stuff.... :) Thx.
 
Bad_Badness said:
o_O In other words, put out head in the sand if we don't like the answer. The strategy is a bad idea, he says why, humbly, and how to find a better solution. :rolleyes:
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Luckily it's was not developed by me :) It's the work of the folks at investopedia, see there.
So it's not my duty to defend it. Either love it or hate it.
I for myself liked the idea, though I haven't studied/tested it fully yet (much other work here...).
 
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An outsider looking in.

You would know the answers, if you had activated these trades.

Des was right (sometimes he gets it right), you do not have a basic comprehension of things like taxes or trading. Yes, I use investopedia too...As an add on to my knowledge. It is a great place for beginning investors/traders.

To put down/dis Robert Morse (who is only trying to help new traders) is a mistake!! If anyone should be respected on these forums, it is him.

Saying taxes do not come into play tells us some things about you.

1. Either you are from out of the US or
2. You have not traded enough to understand how important tax gain/loss gleaning is throughout the year!!

I don't want to battle with you dude. Just listen and learn...Take your time.
 
No Problem. I'm no longer interested is assisting you in learning the terms and possible P/L from different strategies you read online. You think that is learning trading. It's not. I've done my best to patriciate in most of the threads you started, I will not forward because it does not seem like you listen to advice. Good luck to you-Bob

Quanto said:
Robert, we better should just focus on the presented strategy itself in this topic , not some taxes or my trading habits or the color(s) of my socks or whatever irrelevant stuff.... :) Thx.
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