{"id":340,"date":"2019-05-09T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2019-05-09T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T07:53:05","slug":"a-trip-through-some-dot-com-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/a-trip-through-some-dot-com-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"A TRIP Through Some &#8216;dot-com&#8217; Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of nice trades on what we used to call &#8216;dot com&#8217; stocks back in the day. You know, when the internet was the new hotness and you could buy anything with dot com in the name and make a killing. That all went pear shaped of course, then the real internet revolution came along. Now almost any stock could be considered a dot com if we go by the definition that they need a website to earn the label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s trades are proper internet plays though. Businesses who are based entirely online and who couldn&#8217;t have existed twenty years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up, every traveller&#8217;s friend, Trip Advisor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip.jpg\" alt=\"Day trading the Trip Advisor stock\" class=\"wp-image-342\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-trip-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock took a trip south (sorry) from the open, and looked so weak and was subject to such selling pressure that the early entry was a no-brainer. Like a visitor to a bad hotel, I was out at the first sign of trouble. In the end there was more to be had, but I was gone with a four-figure profit  in the bag and looking for the next trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next trade happened to be dating giant Match:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1.jpg\" alt=\"Day trading match.com\" class=\"wp-image-344\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8-5-19-mtch-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This came along a bit later in the morning, but I&#8217;m glad I was still around to take it. After some faffing about earlier, traders clearly fell in love with the stock and started to pile in. We took a rapid ride up, and when the relationship started to look a little rocky I called an end to it and came out better off to the tune of $1,450.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two simple trades netting almost two and a half grand between them. As always, there were plenty of other opportunities to be had.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nice trades on what we used to call &#8216;dot com&#8217; stocks back in the day. You know, when the internet was the new hotness and you could buy anything with dot com in the name and make a killing. That all went pear shaped of course, then the real internet revolution came &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/a-trip-through-some-dot-com-trades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A TRIP Through Some &#8216;dot-com&#8217; Trades&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}