Official Investing Thread

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Joe Louis, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. bro

    bro Your Mother’s Favorite Shitposter
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  2. brolift

    brolift 2sweet
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  3. Marty Kaan

    Marty Kaan By any means necessary
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    Gen AI wasn't the focus in our latest GLM two weeks ago. We are still investing in the capability but it isn't sucking the air out of the room like it was a few months back.
     
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  4. user15000

    user15000 Well-Known Member

    As cute as your jealousy?
     
  5. FelipeG

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    Is there not a crypto thread otb for user?
     
  6. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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  7. burnttatertot

    burnttatertot butt tuck zoomies
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    can I get a wave update?
     
  8. IrishLAX2

    IrishLAX2 So you’re telling me there’s a chance
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    What in the world
     
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  9. DuffandMuff

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    Laughing at all the idiots who pulled the emergency switch and are sitting on a bunch of cash in Japan.
     
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  10. LSUTigers1986

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    Nice comeback but Nikkei is not positive on the week. UndefinedMystic needs a percentage lesson such as if you fall 50%, you need a 100% gain to get back to get back to even.
     
  11. IV

    IV Freedom is the right of all sentient beings
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    Can you explain how that jives with the graph?
     
  12. teel

    teel Schiano Man
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    PLTR earnings obviously saved everything
     
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  13. LSUTigers1986

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    The chart above is a one day chart showing Tuesdays rebound. Need to add Monday in there and you see it’s still below Fridays close (35,909)

    https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/^N225/history/

    Edit: pretty sure the twitter poster did the “well it was down 8% Monday but up 11% on Tuesday so we’re positive on the week.”
     
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  14. Joystick Izzy

    Joystick Izzy Well-Known Member
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  15. brolift

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    Berkshire having more T-Bills than the Fed seems significant. Is it actually significant?
     
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  16. Bert Handsome

    Bert Handsome I'm sorry, the card says Moops
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    Great way of putting this Monday morning "three tech stocks in a trench coat"

     
  17. Sportfan

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    My goodness

     
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  18. scissors

    scissors Very Sharp Member
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    Bought 30 shares of VTI at open just for funsies. Currently up $60.

    :mulletsmug:
     
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  19. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    We back!
     
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  20. Sportfan

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    Good progress

     
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  21. Sportfan

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    Good not great. 50bps cut still expected next month.

     
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  22. Bert Handsome

    Bert Handsome I'm sorry, the card says Moops
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    I've heard it opined that high rates are actually contributing to inflationary pressures, at least in certain segments of the economy. Basically boomers easing out of stocks at ath and landing in 6% on their cash has them :rain:

    Either way, I think the goal should be to settle in at normal rates and yield curve as a matter of fairness for the next generation of home buyers.

    Fed doesn't need to panic about the stock market although they probably will with the election. Price stability and full employment is the mandate
     
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  23. Sportfan

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    Why do people keep saying the fed and the election? The Biden admin has left them alone completely. Powell aint factoring that in one bit.
     
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  24. Lyrtch

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    What does this mean
     
  25. Bert Handsome

    Bert Handsome I'm sorry, the card says Moops
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    That they might feel inclined to want to steady things to stay out of the conversation. I don't know, wasn't trying to say anything that compelling. Fed is always under a bit more scrutiny with short term moves leading up to elections.
     
  26. teel

    teel Schiano Man
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    Coworker a few months ago was annoyingly going on and on about ASTS, perhaps he was onto something here
     
  27. The Milkman

    The Milkman Send lawyers, guns and money, shit has hit the fan
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    I rode it from 4 to 18. Wish i would have held on
     
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  28. —

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    This whole thing is chugging, pre market I thought for a second we would be able to get some discounts today, but that apparently is wrong!

    I am expecting at least one or two market scares before election day that will surely be blamed on COMRADE KAMALA but who knows, thats just a gut feeling based on 0 evidence.
     
  29. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    Once the first rate cut happens I expect somewhat of a pull back and profit taking. Maybe not though.

    I never sell. Only buy.
     
  30. TDintheCorner

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    Wait...we can sell these things?!
     
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  31. —

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    Same. But averaging up everyday is annoying. THANKS BIDEN
     
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  32. Sportfan

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  33. Baseballman86

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    New job, time to reconfigure the retirement contributions. Help me out with what makes the most sense.

    my previous place worked out to where I contributed 6% and they'd give me 7%. I had actually ticked up to 11%, just adding over the years as I got raises.

    new job is giving me 5% and I just have to contribute 2%. No additional max for further contributions.

    am I correct for assuming that the proper order here would be to do 2% to 401K, then max wife and my Roth IRAs, then only up the 401K % if we still have extra?
     
  34. Mr. Bean

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    Without knowing how much you actually make and how much extra you could contribute to your 401k, I would handle the exact same way. I would also auto-contribute and auto-invest to your Roth IRA thru your employers broker for ease of mind
     
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  35. FrankReynolds

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    What are the fees on your 401k? That's a huge determining factor. Also assuming you aren't going to hit the income limits for a Roth IRA
     
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  36. Hatfield

    Hatfield Charlie don’t surf
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    100% COOK
     
  37. Baseballman86

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    I'm not sure yet. I get access after day 90. Our HHI this year actually will cross the Roth threshold by 5K or so, but I assumed backdoor was an option
     
  38. Baseballman86

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    Well that's a given. These are all just backup plans
     
  39. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    Do you currently have a traditional IRA?
     
  40. jcb-r

    jcb-r Well-Known Member
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    My preferred order of operations:

    1) Contribute to 401k up to employer match
    2) Max out Roth IRA (backdoor if you're over income limits)
    3) Max out HSA
    4) If you have excess capital left, either go back and max out your 401k or dump it into taxable brokerage. If my 401k investment menu sucked or fees were high (or I just wanted more control over where my money was invested), I'd probably lean towards taxable brokerage
     
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  41. Baseballman86

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    Yes but it's got about 0.01% of what my 401K has. I've never continually invested into it, just throw extra at it when it comes in.
     
  42. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    That's going to be a problem if you have to go the backdoor Roth route.
     
  43. Baseballman86

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    Does it stop me from doing it or would I just owe taxes on the full IRA balance? If the latter, I'm not too worried because the balance is so low
     
  44. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    yeah can just convert it
     
  45. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    It's done pro-rata, so the amount you are converting to a Roth is what gets taxed. You could just convert the full balance and be done with it if you want it in the Roth or if your new employer plan allows for IRA to 401(k) rollovers you could just do that and avoid a tax hit.
     
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  46. Bo Pelinis

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    The good thing about maxing 401(k)/403(b)/HSA is if you’re bumping up against Roth IRA income limits you can make a big AGI dent with the standard deduction and using all of those pretax.
     
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  47. Ralph

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    I typically find myself taking the slightly less-wise route of:
    1a) Contribute to 401k way past employer match
    1b) Max out HSA
    2) Screw around and enjoy those sweet tax savings while living all the way up to the rest of my means while still feeling good about saving for retirement because who knows I could be dead by then anyway.
     
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