Going All In On A Stock...

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Welcome back to another YouTube video.

[00:00:01]Today, I'm going to be talking about going all in on a stock. And this is going to be a very interesting video for you to watch because obviously, if you know me as a YouTube channel that covers stocks and I have been for the last 5 years or so, I've been buying individual stocks. That's just my personal way of investing. It's you could say individual stock picking.

[00:00:29]That's what it is. Instead of going into ETFs, I've solely done that because I believe I can get better returns. Obviously, that's not guaranteed and a lot of people do lose out to the S&P 500 over us the the over 5 years, 10 years.

[00:00:46]The longer it goes on because it does get harder.

[00:00:49]And it's very controversial. And a lot of people don't do it because of that reasons for that. A lot of people just don't beat the market, which is so fair.

[00:00:58]But I believe I can. And I'm not saying I will. But so far, I've done well. So far, I've beaten the market longevity-wise.

[00:01:07]The while it goes on, I don't know if that's going to happen. We'll have to see with that. But before we get into the video and you do want to get a free fractional share worth up to £100, then just click the link in the description or use my code Ben on the promo code section to get yourself that free fractional share worth up to £100 on 212. So, I have been buying individual stocks. And yes, some have done bad, some of them well.

[00:01:32]And the ones that have been highly convict had a higher conviction on, I Let's have a look now. For example, AMD up 339% on AMD. I had a larger position in that because I did more research into it. Had a stronger belief that my thesis with AMD was quite strong. So, I put more money into it. Same with Palantir. I didn't put as much in because I didn't have as much money at the time. So, I had a small position in it, but at the time that was a lot of money to me to have in it in Palantir. Probably had about 7K I put into Palantir.

[00:02:10]And that was a lot of money at the time for me. So, far as as you can see, I've put 20 grand in.

[00:02:16]I've very got a high conviction that I believe SoFi's going to do well.

[00:02:22]Same with Oscar's fairly big over position. I put about 10 grand in.

[00:02:27]But you can tell where I've got less of a conviction because obviously I put less money in. And then I've got some losers, obviously Fubo.

[00:02:33]Down 68%, but you can tell it was a lower conviction play because it was a higher risk. And it's the risk reward because I put less money in and you can tell that.

[00:02:43]Um Grab has been an interesting one cuz obviously I have actually put in fair bit in, just a bit less than Oscar at the time. Yet I'm down on it. So, Grab isn't doing how it would to be honest. But And that's just the way it is. You do get some losers.

[00:03:00]That's just the reality and I'm glad I can share my journey with you with that and show you the ones that are doing well, the ones aren't doing well. And I just wanted to talk about how going all in, I could sell this now and go all in on a stock on an individual stock. But the problem is with that is yes, I could have all the conviction in the world and I could believe this is going to happen but blah blah, let's say.

[00:03:27]For instance, I could have gone all in on AMD because I believed that AI was going to go somewhere and they were going to need to obviously buy the GPUs, CPUs.

[00:03:37]But then what happens if that wasn't the case? What happens if AI just ends up being something that people just didn't want to go ahead with and the market just never did go down that way. Then I would have obviously lost a fair bit of money probably or it just wouldn't have gone obviously to plan.

[00:03:56]And it's the same with other individual stocks. Like I know a lot of people have done really well with individual stocks and it's really good. But then the problem is, let's say you've made you've you've got 200k now and it's all in that individual stock. You sell it and you move on to the next one and you go all in and it goes up 100% so now you're on like 400 grand and you sell out that and then you go into another individual stock and you go all in cuz a lot of people do this and it is quite scary cuz they think oh well if it's happened this and they've done a lot of research to be fair like people will do a lot of research but sometimes even with all the research in the world things just don't go to plan. Things can just happen where people don't want to use that software anymore. People don't want to do this or that and that's why it's important to have other stocks I personally believe not financial advice this is what I do.

[00:04:48]That's why I've got four five solid stocks that I believe in and put money in cuz if one does bad at least I've got others to help it out.

[00:05:00]So I just wanted to say and do a video on this because a lot of people will get carried away in bull runs. People will think they can do it and there'll be one annoyingly one loser that will happen and that's why going all in all in on a stock can be obviously very very risky and doing it back to back you like some people do it once and then once they've done it and they've made their money they will obviously split it up into more multiple stocks which is the wise thing to do but some people will just keep going into one individual stock and build it up and build it up and then there'll be one where it just doesn't go right.

[00:05:43]Because for some reason someone didn't want to maybe buy that product or it just it wasn't as good as what people thought with their thesis regardless of if you had it unlocked and you thought you did lots of research.

[00:05:58]So, it's the same with AMD like I say, like people AMD might have not done this well because for example like I say, AI just wasn't where people thought it would go and they don't want to go down that route anymore the world.

[00:06:13]But, I believe in the AI story. I do think well, AI is just going to be so important. You can see it happening now. So, that's why I'm in AMD and the demand is just through the roof.

[00:06:25]So, the money is flowing into that.

[00:06:27]And same with SoFi going all in on SoFi, I wouldn't do that because yes, it's undervalued in my opinion, but what happens if there is a recession or rate hikes go even higher than SoFi gets destroyed.

[00:06:47]And also, you never know they could over leverage themselves SoFi and then go bankrupt and disappear. And then you've lost all your money. Regard like that especially with banks. Banks is a bit more complicated in that sense. So, that's why you got to be more careful.

[00:07:02]But, I've got a high high position in SoFi, but then I've got a big position in AMD and Palantir and Oscar too. So, it's all calculated and and that's my plan. But, yeah, I just wanted to make a video on this because I just want people to like also just you might be in an individual stock and you might be doing really well, but it's just something to think about and just really yeah, just have a little thought about that. So, yeah, anyway, hopefully you're enjoying these videos. Hopefully, you're enjoying the frequent uploads.

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