Patience Pays Off on Buying The Dip

I recently bought the dip on mainly software stocks in early February 2026.   After I started buying, the stocks kept dipping, results in many of my purchases going negative.   This was disappointing.   It is now the end of February and most of the stocks are recovering, with one, HUBS,  even going positive for every purchase.

It appears that patience has paid off, at this point.   I thought many of these stocks were oversold  (down 50-80%) on the threat of AI, which I think is being overestimated for decimating many jobs and businesses.

I will scale out of some shares and hold some shares for bigger gains, in the hope that these stocks will continue to recover instead of reversing and dipping again.  My worst buy the dip stock was TEAM, which dipped over 25% from when I started buying despite already being down about 60%.  ACN is the second worst.

Disclosure:  The stocks I bought on the dip were:  MSFT, TSLA, NOW, CRM, TEAM, ADBE, ACN, NFLX, UNH, and PYPL.  The ETFs I bought on the dip were:  VOO, RSP, MGK, and SCHD.

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