the market: stocks, bonds, options, whatever

[thujone]

i heard it from a guy who overheard it from another guy who was talking about it at the yacht club buffet

 

[thujone]

META had an embolism today, $600 down to $550

 

[Electrum1]

It's like $400M for both cases they lost. Doesn't seem like much for them

 

[thujone]

AI spend is already causing cash flow problems, looks like the layoffs there might get even worse

 

[thujone]

slowly building back the trading account, made it the whole week without loss

at this rate it's gonna take a few more weeks but big risks are off the table for now

feeling good about it as this was a rough week in the markets, Friday was the only day I felt comfortable letting positions ride to milk some theta.

seeing some painful looking loss porn on WSB, let's see what crazy shit next week brings

 

[Electrum1]

Big nasdaq and silver bounce

 

[thujone]

S&P as well... I had a feeling it could happen based on the VIX but went short anyway

but i also hedged with long calls and that huge move more than covered the loss on the short

smoke a cigarette for me

 

[thujone]

pattern day trading rule is apparently gone as per SEC

don't need $25k in the account anymore

big rally this week, tech pumped back up

 

[Electrum1]

Using an algorithm to pop off a bunch of $10 trades every 0.002 seconds to skim $.00000002 per trade now

 

[thujone]

easy there flash boy

 

[4DQSAR]

The, err. The Motley Fool is a website devoted to stocks, shares, derivatives, government bonds and so forth. If you want to talk up the value of something like that, it''s going to work far better on that site compared to this one - a HR site.

 

[thujone]

not being broke also reduces harm...

 

[Electrum1]

Just invest in companies with growth so you don't have to live near people like that

 

[thujone]

i'm doing the monk mode thing, living amongst da poors while trading my way to authentic poverty

 

[voxmystic]

My VUG split 6:1 today. I know that by itself that doesn't guarantee anything, but I'm hopeful!

 

[voxmystic]

I'll resurrect an old thread...

My VUG split 6:1 yesterday. I'm hoping for an "Apple moment".

 

[thujone]

I was just reading that BlackRock is warning about being too overweight on S&P 500

MSN

looks like Trump got into it again today with Iran

tech has been on a tear this week

 

[Electrum1]

Dog food has had a bad week

 

[thujone]

Dog food has had a bad week

what happened?

if it's a bad quarter then you could sell covered calls

 

[Electrum1]

Lol idk I was just joking about that trade I made where I sold FRPT on the bounce to $60. Should've held a couple weeks but whatever. It's almost back to 60 after a bad week