Why the Getswift Ltd Share Price Popped 10% Yesterday

The universe is trolling me…

a woman

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With many people sitting on impressive gains, Getswift Ltd (ASX:GSW) certainly is a company that has captured investors' imaginations, and made some significant profits for some (including a couple of my colleagues). I'm very happy for those winners, who may be wondering if they should take some profits. Meanwhile, those who bought around $3 in the last couple of weeks, may be feeling a little uncomfortable, but are hoping that the stock will continue its voyage up and to the right.

Yesterday, my colleague shared this screenshot with the team:

Traders Investors might well be wondering why the price moved so much yesterday. While there are a number of possibilities, I can't help wondering if the reality is that the universe is trolling me.

You see, just the day prior I wrote this short missive on why the company had fallen 23% over a couple of weeks. Murphy's Law therefore dictates that the stock would pop the next day. Of course it would. I even said I would not be buying or holding the stock until I see some revenue growth! 

Universe: 1

Claude: 0

Clearly, my penchant for revenues has seen me sitting on the sidelines. If you had bought Getswift shares around the time I published my article on Wednesday, and sold yesterday, you could have made 10% in a day. That's an annualised return of around 2,229,314,236,904%.

Now, if you can reliably trade stocks and make 10% a day, you should probably do that.

However, if you're keen for some buy-to-hold investments the stocks below may interest you…

Claude Walker is a Motley Fool investment advisor. He does not own shares in the companies mentioned in this article. You can follow Claude on Twitter @claudedwalker. The Motley Fool's purpose is to educate, amuse and enrich investors. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691).

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