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gordonliddy said:
Crazy. Yeah was a tense evening, for those of us of the sort to be all in and to let it ride. Meanwhile the Dow is up half a percent this morning.

Nonetheless, I went ahead and picked up an entry position in Global X's RYLD fund.
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Interesting, I've been watching my Russell 2000 fund for signs of life but it hasn't moved much in a while.

I think that small cap is really the place to be picking sector specific ETFs, as the companies are inherently less diversified than the F500 lot, so with Russell 2000 it feels like it's not enough for just one sector to be booming to see it move the needle
 
thujone said:
with Russell 2000 it feels like it's not enough for just one sector to be booming to see it move the needle
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You're not kidding. It's like when someone repeats the maxim, "No one can beat the market on a long term basis," my response is, "I beat the market nearly all of the time." Because the market carries a lot of dead weight companies that meet the index requirements. But that's not saying much. Don't the flashier indexes....carry a lot of sluggish stuff like airlines? Dinosaur car companies. Tech companies that haven't seen radical growth in fifteen years.

You just surf the indexes and learn not to pick the grandpa companies. Beating the indices is a cake walk.

Now that Global X fund that I mentioned pays a 12.5% yield. Or else why would I bother? Should be a sustainable profit model.
 
So I was finally bored enough today that I bothered to look up inflation.

Holy cow! Turns out inflation basically was fine until a few months into the Wuhan Flu quarantine. ...it's almost as if shutting the country down, and they paying people to do nothing violated the fundamental principles that kept the kleptocracy nominally operational?

Who would have thought?
 
Wonder what BlackBerry $BB is up to (used to be $RIM Research In Motion). Seems like a potential sleeper play at $1.66B market cap if they come out with something that is even somewhat disruptive. Haven't looked into it at all yet but just remembered them after watching the history of cell phone development
 
I still have 6 or so original BlackBerry smartphones, lol. The first smartphone which ended up getting destroyed by Apple in 2007

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I am scared to invest my stocks into any fund where the yeild% seems to good to be true. Bernie Madoff, his bs has scared me, to the point that I am scared of trusting anyone or any company with my money. Any suggestions on safe funds with a decent yeild%, but not too risky?
 
gordonliddy said:
Make a list of companies that have good yields and report back here. We'll help you separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Thoughts on $IEP?

Also, a chinese shipping ADR $OROVY does pay like 20% div but the stock price reflects that + some when divs are issue - I have noticed you can kind of play swings on it but you're not catching the dividends at those points still coming out ahead of the 20% div though.
 
Electrum1 said:
Wonder what BlackBerry $BB is up to (used to be $RIM Research In Motion). Seems like a potential sleeper play at $1.66B market cap if they come out with something that is even somewhat disruptive. Haven't looked into it at all yet but just remembered them after watching the history of cell phone development
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Last I heard they pivoted out of phones and hardware and into security and software. I know when I was selling Fords they were using BB's QNX system but were shifting to Google operating system as of last year maybe 2 years ago. Don't know much more
 
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