$General Mills(GIS.US)$ $The Kraft Heinz(KHC.US)$ $Campbell Soup(CPB.US)$
General Mills Inc missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Tuesday, as the Cheerios cereal maker grappled with soaring prices of raw materials and higher costs of freight and labor.
Shares of the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company were down about 4% in premarket trade.
Prolonged supply chain disruptions and a shortage of truck drivers in the United States have forced packaged food makers to incur higher costs, adding to spiraling prices of ingredients like wheat, corn and edible oils that have already crimped margins across the sector.
To ease some of the cost pressures, General Mills, like peers Kraft Heinz Co and Campbell Soup Co, has bumped up prices of its products.
However, heightened inflation and supply costs in the quarter outstripped General Mills' efforts to raise product prices, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Harmening said. The company said it has taken further pricing actions that will go into effect in the current quarter, adding it expects more price increases in the back half of the year.

I started using Moomoo just to check out the world of stocks, not wanting to spend any own money as I was too scared and I not little ideas of how to pick good stocks. The free APPL $Apple(AAPL.US)$ stock given by Moomoo was a great encourager to try buying at least cheap stocks to see how it all works since even if I lose I can just sell off my precious 1 share of $Apple(AAPL.US)$ at $145 which was the price when I received the stock. I started to then build up my portfolio and adding more stocks like $NIO Inc(NIO.US)$  $Kaixin Holdings(KXIN.US)$ and other biotech Pharma stocks some actually did really well as I bought them at the bottom and did cost averaging as it went down like $Axsome Therapeutics(AXSM.US)$ which I achieved at least 39% profit😁😁. other stocks I picked up didn’t do quite so well today but had potential to fly the moon before the recent slump. I learning that this roller coaster 🎢 ride will have its ups and downs so I will hang on to see that high in due time! anyways it been a great learning experience with Moomoo without which I will still be standing outside in the world of investing. thank you Moomoo
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As an investor, sometimes doing alot of research can be a two-edged sword. For one, there are too many info from different analysts differing in opinions. Two, the earnings results does not necessarily drive the stock price upwards. Hence, I tend to procrastinate on whether to buy now or later and to sell now or later. At times i regretted not selling at the high price and selling too fast, then the stock price shoot up 10x more.
1) Most of my trades are at losses due to the wrong timing of buying and selling because of my procrastination.
2) I think I should listen more to my gut feeling and sell or buy the stocks which prove to be right.
3) Holding on to $Apple(AAPL.US)$  and wait for appreciation. Selling $BlackBerry(BB.US)$ at the right time.
Moomoo has so many good and useful features which makes trading a learning journey as well as a community of like-minded investors who can share their thoughts and comments. That's what makes trading at Moomoo a memorable and special experience. Thanks Moomoo.

What happened after FED's meeting?
We are currently having a sector rotation from tech growth stocks into value stocks after Wednesday's Fed policy of 3 rate hikes in 2022 instead of 2 and also speed up tapering and ending it a few months earlier than expected.
The initial taper plan was $10B for treasury securities and $5B for MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities) but now it has doubled the speed of tapering to $20B for treasury securities and $10B for MBS and tapering to end by March 2022. Which shortly after, rate hikes should come in progressively.
The reason for the fed turning hawkish and a quick shift to taper at a quicker pace and more rate hikes was due to inflation at a 40 year high. They also did not expect inflation to rise above 2% in 2021 and kept mentioning about higher inflation rate being transitory. Current inflation is at 6.8% based on the YOY report.
How did this affect the market on Thursday?
When tapering is sped up, liquidity will be tightened in the market. There will not be as much free cash to be pumped into the market to let prices rally like we have seen the last 2 years.
Interest rate hikes will also dampen valuation on growth stocks as growth stocks are priced in more to future earnings expectations. If rates rise, it will hurt those expectations. Investors will start to see bonds and value stocks that thrive in high-interest rate environments a better asset class thus making it more appealing against higher-risk growth stocks.
Small-cap stocks usually also suffer because they tend to loan more money to fund the growth of the company thus making them more sensitive towards the rate hikes.
Thus we saw the $NASDAQ 100 Index(.NDX.US)$ and $iShares Russell 2000 ETF(IWM.US)$ mostly small-cap and tech stocks falling much sharper than $Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$ yesterday which consist mainly of value stocks.
What to do now? Should I exit my growth holdings?
That being said, inflation and rate hikes over the long run still don't pose a huge threat to growth stocks. It is usually short-term when the rotation happens towards value stocks. So take this opportunity to find good entry points into the stocks which are undergoing the selloff.
As always, trade safe & invest wise!
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I started on my trading journey this year and I regret not starting earlier! But I guess it's better late than never right?
My first stock purchase was $POP MART(09992.HK)$ and also the very first stock I managed to sell and make a profit.
Unfortunately, I'm making quite a large margin of losses right now as I reentered at the 'wrong' time.
Fortunate to have gotten 1 free $Apple(AAPL.US)$ stock from Moomoo but also regretted not buying more when I first started.
It seems like a journey of regret, loss and missed opportunities, but more importantly, I was taught the value of patience, good planning and timing.
Profits come and go as with losses, and what I've learnt is that patience is virtue.
What a roller coaster ride but it has been an interesting journey.
At the end of the day, there's no best price but the most suitable price, depending on time of entry and exit.
Hoping for less losses and more profits in 2022 as I continue to learn and grow!

First and foremost, I would like to thank to the 50+ supporters and participants who have voted for an example , and because of your loves and likes, we shall go through an example in today's discussion.
So here we go!
Step 1. Identify the number of stocks that we are willingly to trade.
We will select 8 as the number of stocks that we are willing to trade.
Step 2. Identify the list of favourite stocks that we can afford to trade with.
We will select $Apple(AAPL.US)$ , $Bank of America(BAC.US)$ , $Coca-Cola(KO.US)$ and  $Moody's(MCO.US)$ as our favorite stocks. The price is 179.45, 44.52, 56.28 and 397.75 as of 10 Dec 2021 in USD.
This is 50% of the total number of stocks we have selected in Step 1.
Step 3. Identify the budget that we going to spend on our portfolio.
We will be investing USD $12,000 on our SI portfolio.
Step 4. Look thru the SI we are familiar with in the SI feature.
We have found the following SI that we are familiar with.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Soros Capital Management LLC.
Dimensional Fund Advisors L.P.
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited.
Also, in the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. top 8 holdings list, it has all the favourite stocks that we want.
$Apple(AAPL.US)$ *, 179.45, 46.77%
$Bank of America(BAC.US)$ *, 44.52, 13.21%
$American Express(AXP.US)$ , 167.03, 7.44%
$Coca-Cola(KO.US)$ *, 56.28, 6.61%
$The Kraft Heinz(KHC.US)$ , 34.15, 3.27%
$Moody's(MCO.US)$ *, 397.75, 2.88%
$BYD COMPANY(01211.HK)$ , 289.8, 2.45%
$Verizon(VZ.US)$ , 50.19, 2.34%
Total: 84.97% of SI portfolio
Cost: 1219.17
* favourite stocks as in step 2, and the first number is the stock price as of 10 Dec 2021 while the second number represent the stock weightage in the portfolio.
Thus, we shall select Berkshire Hathaway Inc portfolio to be cloned.
Step 5. Check if SI have at least 8 consecutive years of quarterly 13F filings.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Yes )
Soros Capital Management LLC. (No)
Dimensional Fund Advisors L.P. (Yes )
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited. (Yes )
Step 6. Look out for any restatements (for both buys and sells) issued by SI.
A quick check shows that there is no restatement for the past 5 years from Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Step 7. Using our magic formula.
Using the magic formula:
[ (Stock weightage in SI portfolio / Total weightage of trimmed SI portfolio) x our budget (Step 3) ] / current Stock price. Each result will be round down to the nearest integer.
We will buy the following number of stocks
$Apple(AAPL.US)$ , 36 stocks
$Bank of America(BAC.US)$ , 41 stocks
$American Express(AXP.US)$ , 6 stocks
$Coca-Cola(KO.US)$ , 16 stocks
$The Kraft Heinz(KHC.US)$ , 13 stocks
$Moody's(MCO.US)$ , 1 stocks
$BYD COMPANY(01211.HK)$ , 1 stocks
$Verizon(VZ.US)$ , 6 stocks
Step 8. Begin our cloning via trading.
Now, we shall place our trades in the $Futu Holdings Ltd(FUTU.US)$ MooMoo apps to clone the SI portfolio and turn it to become our SI portfolio.
$Apple(AAPL.US)$ , 36 stocks @ USD 179.45
$Bank of America(BAC.US)$ , 41 stocks @ USD 44.52
$American Express(AXP.US)$ , 6 stocks @ USD 167.03
$Coca-Cola(KO.US)$ , 16 stocks @ USD 56.28
$The Kraft Heinz(KHC.US)$ , 13 stocks @ USD 34.15
$Moody's(MCO.US)$ , 1 stocks @ USD 397.75
$BYD COMPANY(01211.HK)$ , 1 stocks @ USD 289.8
$Verizon(VZ.US)$ , 6 stocks @ USD 50.19
That's all for the example. Please give a like to show your support, and do vote if you will be cloning any SI portfolio in the next 3 months.