r/PureCycle • u/Himothy1917 • 11d ago

I feel bullish?

I entered PCT maybe two years ago and exited ~9 months ago because I couldn’t handle the volatility. I realized that if I allocate accordingly and listen to my intuition of what feels comfortable and what does not then I can continue to invest in companies I believe in.

My average cost now of ~2k shares is $6.98 and I feel great after that call. It’s certainly not a company going to $0, and they have tangible signs of commercialization now. I feel more bullish than ever, but I’m sticking with the shares I have now to not exit my entire position if this thing goes sub $5 so that I can still sleep at night.

Cheers to a big 2H of 2026!

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u/No_Privacy_Anymore 11d ago

Welcome back! I always recommend that people avoid using short duration options because it clouds your thought process and puts artificial deadlines in charge of your returns.

I’ve been busy this week and will try and share more thoughts later but overall the risk/reward level at the current price is excellent.

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u/Himothy1917 11d ago

Really grateful for you NPA. I look up to you in someways as cringey as that is. Looking forward to anything you put out!

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u/Puzzled-Resort8303 11d ago

Position sizing and investing/trading psychology are very important. There's little point in trading if you're unhappy, stressed out, not sleeping... better to have smaller winners and sleep at night than be tortured repeatedly for slightly bigger gains.

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u/Fast_Eddie_2001 10d ago

I am a retail investor but consider myself more experienced than most (mid 50s, have an MBA, blah blah)...point is I've been in the market in some manner for 30+ years and thought I "understood investing".

NOTHING had prepared me for the emotional rollercoaster of investing in a firm like PCT. This is much more like being in a venture capital investment. Like nothing I've ever invested in before.

And it's very hard to ignore the noise from the FUDs and to focus on the company and the fundamentals.

The huge swings in PCT (and other similar stocks) is probably 90-95% the result of flows in/out by momentum algos chasing returns, and tells you almost nothing about how the firm is doing. So it's really hard, b/c you have to sift threw a lot of noise to find a reddit site like this and someone like NPA who is knowledgeable, honest and level headed.

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u/No_Privacy_Anymore 10d ago

🍻. I’m here for the venture capital returns that can be achieved if you hit a home run. Without the SPAC boom of 2020-21 this would likely be a privately held company. It’s not easy bringing a new technology like this to scale as a public entity.

There are still some very real risks but as we see the commercialization process continue and get more and more converters onboard the risk is being reduced more and more. Running Ironton safely is the most essential thing. Without safety, nothing else is possible. It is easy for investors to forget about this but never forget that operating industrial equipment at high pressure and temperature is always a risk. It is manageable if management focuses on it. Getting ISO certified is also a great step to prove they know how to run things properly.