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Has anyone consistently made good returns by buying the dip and sell when price goes up for years

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Aug 4, 2026 · 22:45

I'm curious if anyone here has actually done this successfully over several years.

The strategy I'm thinking about is pretty simple:

* Wait for a high quality with **good foundation company (e.g. NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, Apple)** to drop 3–10%. Then you analyze the company's financial, gather news/rumours about their big deals, projects, big employee/researcher join their company.
* Buy the dip.
* Hold until it recovers 3–10%.
* Sell the entire position.
* Wait for the next opportunity in another quality stock.
* Repeat throughout the year.

For example

* NVIDIA drops 5%, so I buy with 100k.
* A few weeks or a month later it's up 5%, so I sell.
* Later, Google drops 4%, I buy.
* It rebounds 8–10%, so I sell.
* Then I move on to the next opportunity.

I know this sounds like swing trading or a mean reversion strategy, but I'm wondering if anyone has actually done this consistently

and is it woth the risk tho??