Official Investing Thread

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

  1. BP

    BP Bout to Regulate.
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    His rich asshole buddies have to be making a killing with all this prescribed chaos
     
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  2. Josey Wales

    Josey Wales Well-Known Member
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    But there are laws against that!
     
  3. DuffandMuff

    DuffandMuff Well-Known Member
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    Many mega yacht orders have been placed today.
     
  4. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    was waiting to tax loss harvest until Friday so missed out on that

    even I didn't think he'd cave this fast
     
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  5. TDintheCorner

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    I had like another 5% to go before I could finally TLH out of SWPPX. So close...
     
  6. The Hebrew Husker

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    Wait a second…
     
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  7. One Two

    One Two Hot Dog Vibes
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  8. NothingIsOT

    NothingIsOT Prom pic
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    Well that was easy money selling those out of the money puts :laugh:
     
  9. afb

    afb Spoiler Alert: Pawnee, IN may not be on a map.
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    Florida State SeminolesBig Ten Conference

    so now that he has reduced tariffs for every country but china, would you like to update us?
     
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  10. Baseballman86

    Baseballman86 Well-Known Member
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    I've trying to move over my entire 401K from a previous employer to a new one and have been terrified to get the check with all this volatility, so I just haven't.

    I'm going to end up leaving it there for years at this rate, but I can't imagine having withdrawn hundreds of thousands from the market and watched these last couple weeks unfold while waiting to redeposit
     
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  11. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    What wager would you like to place that these are permanent?
     
  12. afb

    afb Spoiler Alert: Pawnee, IN may not be on a map.
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    Florida State SeminolesBig Ten Conference

    none

    which is our point

    which you apparently are still not getting
     
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  13. The Banks

    The Banks TMB's Alaskan
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    Permanent? No one thinks that. 1 week? 1 month? 1 year? 2030?
     
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  14. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    Your point is that “no one knows!” He’s a pretty easy psychological read. You should say YOU don’t know especially making a statement that was factually incorrect. You can make some easy money off of his charade if you wanted to
     
  15. afb

    afb Spoiler Alert: Pawnee, IN may not be on a map.
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    no one knows for a fact what he is going to do day to day , which has been my point this whole time

    I think you've misinterpreted something
     
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  16. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    This all started from me saying he’s using tariffs as negation tactics. You still want to claim that’s not the case or did you not understand that from the jump?
     
  17. Bo Pelinis

    Donor TMB OG
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    To what end? There's no negotiation. Nothing happened.
     
  18. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    what concessions did he get

    trump stated in his press conference he pulled back because of market fears
     
  19. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    explicitly cited the bond market over night as why he bailed
     
  20. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    Asked by ITV’s Robert Peston whether the 10% tariffs were here to stay, and whether the 25% car tariff could be negotiated down, Starmer said: “Look, I don’t know. We are negotiating and we hope to improve the situation.”
     
  21. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    It’s obvious the reason as to why he did what he did today. That still doesn’t change the fact of what his plans behind the tariffs are, beneficial or not
     
  22. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    so you're on a 3 day melty because some people laughed at you saying this was about getting concessions from foreign countries that he has yet to get?
     
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  23. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    Pointing out what his mindset is doesn’t equate to me justifying any of his actions. HTH
     
  24. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    first time message boarding I guess
     
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  25. Stone Cold Steve Austin

    Stone Cold Steve Austin Tickler Extraordinaire
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    CDeez NUTZ
     
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  26. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    I was tagged, bud. Merely continuing the convo with whoever pleases. There’s no melty
     
  27. Bo Pelinis

    Donor TMB OG
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    Pretending there are negotiations to justify a lunatic deciding to just do things doesn't mean they're negotiations. You need an end goal and there isn't one. You need to come to a resolution on the end goal and there wasn't any.

    He's a dog chasing cars.
     
  28. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    you post like riner is largely the problem
     
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  29. Josey Wales

    Josey Wales Well-Known Member
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    I did pull the trigger this AM so that’s good. But
    my FA suggested I go in at 3x which was all my cash on hand I could afford to buy in. Felt pretty smuggy about saying let’s wait until next week up until the 90 day pause.
     
  30. beist

    beist Hyperbolist
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    I've given up on trying to apply any sense of fair/unfair to this world, but it's still wild to me that high level elected officials are able to own stocks, let alone trade them like this. Interns at Deloitte have more restrictions than this.
     
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  31. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    Idk what that means. Take a breath, I’m sure you’ll get over riner soon enough
     
  32. The Banks

    The Banks TMB's Alaskan
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    Zimbabwe removed the tariffs on the 43M of goods that they import from the US. A huge win for our big boy.
     
  33. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    aggressively adversarial but can't post straight forward about anything

    hth
     
  34. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
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    What was confusing about anything I’ve said? I’ll be happy to clarify anything
     
  35. Gallant Knight

    Gallant Knight Fat Neck
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    Found the one person whose opinion Trump respects

     
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  36. Sportfan

    Sportfan From Six to Dumptime
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    I mean I’m up piles today too and no one here believes this madness is anywhere near over.
     
  37. The Blackfish

    The Blackfish The Fish in Black
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    Alabama Crimson TideIndianapolis ColtsBook Club

    I missed out on HUNDREDS of dollars due to my purchase not hitting until close. I’ll never financially recover from this
     
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  38. beist

    beist Hyperbolist
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    I un-lost a lot of money today. Too bad it wasn't a 91 day pause, that would have been even better.
     
  39. Struggler

    Struggler Well-Known Member
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    Where’s the other 25% of our 401k’s Trump set on fire?
    Every Trumper I know gets the same question “Where’s your stupid hat?” until my 401k is made whole. Had hopes of retiring in 2033 at 55.
     
  40. Sam Elliott

    Sam Elliott Job title: Assistant Bouncer at the Double Deuce
    Florida State SeminolesChicago BullsGreen Bay PackersTampa Bay LightningManchester United

    Feels great to get back 10% of everything I lost in the last month, :blech:
     
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  41. The Banks

    The Banks TMB's Alaskan
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    19th best day on the Dow of all time

    8th best on the S&P 500
     
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  42. Sportfan

    Sportfan From Six to Dumptime
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    kind of stunning tbh there have been that many better single days
     
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  43. The Banks

    The Banks TMB's Alaskan
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    Of the top 20, 1 was two days after Black Monday in 1987, 2 were during the housing collapse in 2008, 3 were in Covid, todays, and then the other 13 were during the Great Depression.
     
  44. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    Keeping great company!
     
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  45. Bert Handsome

    Bert Handsome I'm sorry I'm late, I didn't want to come
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  46. emma

    emma per aspera, ad astra
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    got a question from someone who doesn't dabble in this world and is, for the most part, financially illiterate

    could the layperson have made a killing today timing stocks and trading just right (based off of Trump's morning foreshadowing/announcement) or is it purely those in the know?
     
  47. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    Not really
     
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  48. NothingIsOT

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    Yes you could make good money being lucky.

    But you’ll typically get buzzed sawed if you try to time it even if you have the correct thesis.
     
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  49. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    I had a chunk waiting to be invested that I'd been hemming and hawing about that I threw in when it was announced but could easily lose today's gains tomorrow
     
  50. Frankie Carbone

    Frankie Carbone eh che se dice
    Florida State SeminolesNew York YankeesNew York KnicksOrlando CityLazioUnited States Men's National Soccer Team

    “Liberation Day” was put on a tee for option trading but not an easy thing for someone to understand if you’re not already in the game

    Swing trading from those lows last week is “fairly” easy
     
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