Finance Thread - What stocks are you in, etc.

WTF. You keeping money in this casino? At this point, besides inflation protected assets like real estate, I'm not sure how much I trust the USD. I'm wondering now if I should consider putting money in Euro or JPY denominated accts.

Both are at pretty significant historic lows vs the USD (for now)

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Yeah, I’m still in the market casino. I'm a long-term player. Come hell or high water in the long term the market goes up.

Trevor Milton is a POS. Pardons and the presidency for sale are now the norm.

As to the USD. Yeah, I 100% hear ya! Dear Leader isn't doing the economy any favors. Putting money in other currencies is probably a good idea.

Besides this tariff mess, the US Debt bomb (Currently 36.6 Trillion) scares the shit outta me.

Recent contributors to the Debt:
  • Bush + 6 Trillion - Iraq/Afghanistan
  • Obama + 9 Trillion - 2008 Stimulus / Bailouts
  • Trump + 7.8 Trillion - Tax Cuts / Military Spending
  • Biden + 5 Trillion - COVID Recovery
  • Trump 2.0 Going to add what? + ??? More Tax Cuts for the wealthy and Corporations / more Military Spending / trade war, etc. ...
  • Tariffs as taxes on the little people... etc.

Anyway, I'm still buying on the drop today.

Added SOFI @ 9.62
Added AMZN @ 166.82
Added NVDA @ 93.56
 
I recall IRM had a security breach recently. Another nervous issue is that they're a paper shredding company, I don't think anyone uses paper anymore
 
Vicinity said:
245 but I could only afford one :roll:

I also picked up IRM. Still on its discount hopefully
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What drew you to IRM? Why do you think that it's a good buy? I realize they do data storage, document storage and other services besides shredding.

It's down only 1% on the year but 26.5% YTD (Which is basically where everything is right now, so, not an outlier there.)
 
Trunk Monkey said:
What drew you to IRM? Why do you think that it's a good buy? I realize they do data storage, document storage and other services besides shredding.

It's down only 1% on the year but 26.5% YTD (Which is basically where everything is right now, so, not an outlier there.)
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Upside ..

184% gain over 5 years at current price, was 384% all time high.
4% quarterly dividends
Overall analyst recommended as Buy and probability of beating the SP500 over the next 3 months - low exposure to Tarrifs

Compared to $ADSK - I'd say it's way more attractive.

Downside ..

126 PE ratio .. that's higher than $TSLA 🤭

Personal side ..

I see these trucks frequently here in the SF Bay area - Tech companies / Hospitals / Financial Institutions / etc.

What do you say @Vicinity ?? 🤔
 
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gunn said:
WTF. You keeping money in this casino? At this point, besides inflation protected assets like real estate, I'm not sure how much I trust the USD. I'm wondering now if I should consider putting money in Euro or JPY denominated accts.
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I've got some Canadian dollars I could trade you for 🤭 .. and some Monopoly money.

My "Fun Money" portfolio has been liquidated to 75% Cash and now I am tracking my realized gains so it's not a huge surprise on this year's taxes.

My pull out game has been good so far. There are very few adrenaline inducing activities to compare with a 15 minute pump and dump session. 😉

Risk < Reward.
 
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Trunk Monkey said:
What drew you to IRM? Why do you think that it's a good buy? I realize they do data storage, document storage and other services besides shredding.
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Workplace provided us shredding bins and one of my project admins advocated for it. It was up steadily every time I checked it until I saw that it had the breach event. The account Im using is a bit more for entertainment and learning, so an expensive stock with a steady trickle wasn't as appealing to play with. Hopefully they should be on their toes now and learn some things, they dont have an excuse to have it happen again
 
... and the carnage continues.

Who voted for this anyway? Cough, cough. Anybody found any cheaper eggs anywhere? Asking for a friend.

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Down 18% since Thursday. Down another 2.5% tonight with no bottom in sight. Hope everyone enjoys paying another $3,800 per year for EVERYTHING.

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I thought these things were small hiccups in the long term. 🤔

About 25% of my portfolio in positions are down 20-30% .. probably more than 50% since end of 2024.

I haven't recieved my 3 month statement for my 401k yet - I have a LOT more invested in that than I do anywhere else. I might be more upset when I see that paper. 😬
 
I'm happy to be out of the market. This is looking like '87; a few days drop, then Black Monday.

How exactly is this lowering egg prices?
 
dDUBb said:
I thought these things were small hiccups in the long term. 🤔

About 25% of my portfolio in positions are down 20-30% .. probably more than 50% since end of 2024.

I haven't received my 3 month statement for my 401k yet - I have a LOT more invested in that than I do anywhere else. I might be more upset when I see that paper. 😬
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You're right. Loooong term they are. My portfolio is also down 31% as of Friday, will probably drop another 4% today.

Looking for bargains today.

Some early buys today in my investing group by others in AMZN, PYPL and NVDA.
 
Grog6 said:
How exactly is this lowering egg prices?
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What is everybody's obsession with eggs lately ? The last time I bought eggs was to throw at somebodies house .. 🤭 Wife does the grocery shopping so I wouldn't know.

Before this, it was gas prices .. has your gas gone down in price ? Because "Biden did that", according to the stickers I used to see on the pumps. 🤣
 
dDUBb said:
What is everybody's obsession with eggs lately ? The last time I bought eggs was to throw at somebodies house .. 🤭 Wife does the grocery shopping so I wouldn't know.

Before this, it was gas prices .. has your gas gone down in price ? Because "Biden did that", according to the stickers I used to see on the pumps. 🤣
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Everyone's joking about the price of eggs because certain media outlets and politicians made a big deal about it before the election as a campaign point. Like you said, same for gas. Yeah, you don't hear much about gas or eggs from them since the election ...
 
Ok . I was going to say .. maybe it would make sense to plant some eggs and grow your own chickens. 😉
 
dDUBb said:
HOLY SHIT !!! 😆
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I know! It's crazy, my account is up 18.5% today. That's just insane. (Of course it was DOWN about that much over the past three trading days.)

As big of a move as it is, it's just a return to normal. My only regret is that I didn't do some buying on Monday.
 
Trunk Monkey said:
As big of a move as it is, it's just a return to normal. My only regret is that I didn't do some buying on Monday.
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Yeah I wouldn't expect it to skyrocket just yet .. more like a return to pre liberation day / market correction / AI bubble deflation territory. The 90 day pause is just more time for negotiations ( except for China 🤣 )

I burned through my settled funds early this morning on a few same day trades; but this may put me into a swing trading mode ( Buy Thursday, Sell Friday sort of pattern ) .. 🤔
 
dDUBb said:
Yeah I wouldn't expect it to skyrocket just yet .. more like a return to pre liberation day / market correction / AI bubble deflation territory. The 90 day pause is just more time for negotiations ( except for China 🤣 )

I burned through my settled funds early this morning on a few same day trades; but this may put me into a swing trading mode ( Buy Thursday, Sell Friday sort of pattern ) .. 🤔
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If you’re a swing trader it’s best to be out of the market on Friday. Who knows what might happen over any given weekend.
 
Trunk Monkey said:
If you’re a swing trader it’s best to be out of the market on Friday. Who knows what might happen over any given weekend.
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I'm still playing with a few different strategies. I already got flagged for making over 100k worth of trades in one day with unsettled funds when i had only 10k. 🤣

Some of the trends I see have the stocks drop on Tuesday / rise into Wednesday / drop on Thursday / biggest rise on Friday end of day .. and then Monday another slight rise in the early hours before the drop .. if only the patterns would stay consistent.

If I could commit to one brand, I would use the profits to buy more on the low points to increase shares .. sell All high and buy more shares low. Adding more volume to the fund without the rest losing value - otherwise if you're only just buying low to add more shares it only effectively changes your dollar cost average.

If you saw some of the trades I've made in the last month you'd think I lost my mind.

I have a few benchmarks I'm using for my own personal reference - one of them is my original $TSLA investment that I sold last month at $275 ( close enough to todays current value, 6 weeeks ago ) is right now worth what it was when it hit peak at $480. If I were to jump back into $tTSLA right now I would be able to purchase more shares than I had originally sold. I don't want to say too much without saying too much. 😉
 
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