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Well, that was an interesting 2 weeks. Lots of high flying stocks went down. PLTR maybe has found a level of support, but I am not so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes down to $70.

AI and ANET didn't do well with earnings and was a complete dud of a trade. I have unwound my trades there and used the losses against some previous gains. SMCI has also dropped way more than I expected and I may take some losses there as well.

There aren't any good places to invest at the moment and I may just hold onto cash for now.
 
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Lag seven continues to underperform.

PM and T keep flying and both hit another 52 week high. VZ having another solid day. For now, the defensive stocks are in favor, but for how long? I might up my modest exposure in tech, but just on the margins
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I still have small exposure to the 7 but still have my cash. Mexico and Canada tariffs comes tomorrow but might not be 25%. Less than 25% maybe the market pops up. I brought some of the dividend stocks at 5-6% which will be able to weather the storm.


T2K 100% stocks. Markets always recovers.
 
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rurahrah000 said:
Well, that was an interesting 2 weeks. Lots of high flying stocks went down. PLTR maybe has found a level of support, but I am not so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes down to $70.

AI and ANET didn't do well with earnings and was a complete dud of a trade. I have unwound my trades there and used the losses against some previous gains. SMCI has also dropped way more than I expected and I may take some losses there as well.

There aren't any good places to invest at the moment and I may just hold onto cash for now.
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Any thoughts on HOOD at below $50? Definitely watching PLTR to restart that position. BBAI broke under $5. I believe you mentioned it getting $4'ish.
 
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I can't help myself.... whenever i see big down days I need to buy some. Just added to VTI and SPY. No clue if this is the beginning of a major downward shift, it would make sense based on the past two 20%+ years... but if the market is down 2%, I'm going to buy some.
 
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gmay8 said:
I can't help myself.... whenever i see big down days I need to buy some. Just added to VTI and SPY. No clue if this is the beginning of a major downward shift, it would make sense based on the past two 20%+ years... but if the market is down 2%, I'm going to buy some.
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I added to our brokerage account - which is 6 ETFs. Can't go wrong with buying the dip. As for stocks, I will check some out during extended.
 
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Any thoughts on HOOD at below $50? Definitely watching PLTR to restart that position. BBAI broke under $5. I believe you mentioned it getting $4'ish.
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I bought HOOD today around $50. Haven’t decided if it’s short or long term play. If the market keeps tanking probably becomes long.
 
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I bought HOOD today around $50. Haven’t decided if it’s short or long term play. If the market keeps tanking probably becomes long.
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Ended up around $47. Probably a good time to start buying.

Update - bought some HOOD just before extended closed.
 
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How much liquid do you guys keep in your accounts? I put an equally divided amount into JPST, SHV and WMPXX - but am trying to decide whether to increase it
 
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How much liquid do you guys keep in your accounts? I put an equally divided amount into JPST, SHV and WMPXX - but am trying to decide whether to increase it
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Very little cash in our retirement and overflow brokerage accounts which are funds and ETFs (just buy and hold). My personal/fun account (for stocks) currently has a lot of cash (30-35%) but this fluctuates quite a bit depending on my company equity vesting schedule.

Stay calm and carry on! :)
 
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Very little cash in our retirement and overflow brokerage accounts which are funds and ETFs (just buy and hold). My personal/fun account (for stocks) currently has a lot of cash (30-35%) but this fluctuates quite a bit depending on my company equity vesting schedule.

Stay calm and carry on! :)
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What percentage of your liquid assets are in the retirement account? I would assume 80-90% of your liquid assets.
 
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How much liquid do you guys keep in your accounts? I put an equally divided amount into JPST, SHV and WMPXX - but am trying to decide whether to increase it
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Right now, I’m about 50% in cash but I sold most of my techs a few weeks ago at their highs. I also moved to 5-6% dividends stocks that were close to their 52 week low. Before I decided the market was falling I was in maybe 80% in stocks. It was easy to sell stocks in my IRA but I probably would have sold more to be 70-80% cash but the taxable account has profits at 35-40% which I don’t want to report as taxable profits. Actually, it’s my mom account that I manage but I’m the beneficiary and she’s 94, so I’m hoping a step up in cost at some point.
 
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I’m 100% in cash after I sold everything at ATH.
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I wish I could be 100% cash but the taxable account prevent me. Also, a couple of years ago, I was out of the market 80% in cash when the market took the 20% nose dive, it recovered so fast, which was unusual, that I wasn’t able to catch most of the increase. T2K still taunt me about not getting back in fast enough. 50% is conservative so if it move up then I’m still in.
 
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I wish I could be 100% cash but the taxable account prevent me. Also, a couple of years ago, I was out of the market 80% in cash when the market took the 20% nose dive, it recovered so fast, which was unusual, that I wasn’t able to catch most of the increase. T2K still taunt me about not getting back in fast enough. 50% is conservative so if it move up then I’m still in.
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For my personal trading account I’m usually 20-30% in cash on average. I always start off the year telling myself to get down to 10% cash on dips but I never seem to do it so I guess that’s my comfort level.
 
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For my personal trading account I’m usually 20-30% in cash on average. I always start off the year telling myself to get down to 10% cash on dips but I never seem to do it so I guess that’s my comfort level.
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I count all my liquid assets as my trading account. There’s some cash in bank accounts but I say that tradable since I can move it to the brokerage if needed like after the 2008 Great Recession.
 
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What percentage of your liquid assets are in the retirement account? I would assume 80-90% of your liquid assets.
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Liquid assets (based on last month):

Cash = 10% (mostly online savings, not in investment accounts)
Retirement IRAs/401ks = 60%
Retirement Brokerage = 22% (via our excessive savings)
Personal Account and Crypto = 8% (this fluctuates quite a bit)

Yeah, so if you take all retirement accounts, little over 80%. This will likely change a bit since I have 4 large equity vests this week and next which hit my personal account. And my annual bonus hitting on Friday which mostly goes into retirement brokerage.
 
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rutgersdave said:
T2K still taunt me about not getting back in fast enough. 50% is conservative so if it move up then I’m still in.
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AMZN -17.7% from ATH
META -13.3%
NFLX -9%
MSFT -17.8%
NVDA -24%
GOOG -18.8%
TSLA -45%

Which to buy and at what price point o wait till they turn up? I don’t own any NFLX, NVDA, OR TSLA. Anyone jumping in?
 
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AMZN -17.7% from ATH
META -13.3%
NFLX -9%
MSFT -17.8%
NVDA -24%
GOOG -18.8%
TSLA -45%

Which to buy and at what price point o wait till they turn up? I don’t own any NFLX, NVDA, OR TSLA. Anyone jumping in?
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Are you only buying because they are down by a lot? Most of them are just giving back the Trump bump.
 
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rutgersdave said:
AMZN -17.7% from ATH
META -13.3%
NFLX -9%
MSFT -17.8%
NVDA -24%
GOOG -18.8%
TSLA -45%

Which to buy and at what price point o wait till they turn up? I don’t own any NFLX, NVDA, OR TSLA. Anyone jumping in?
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Hmm. I would say NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN are the first 3 buys. MSFT, META, and then NFLX. NFLX is the undisputed winner of streaming, but they are only down 10%.

Finally bought GS at $571.
 
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I can't help myself.... whenever i see big down days I need to buy some. Just added to VTI and SPY. No clue if this is the beginning of a major downward shift, it would make sense based on the past two 20%+ years... but if the market is down 2%, I'm going to buy some.
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Looks like we're back at it today
 
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Are you only buying because they are down by a lot? Most of them are just giving back the Trump bump.
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No because I would own NVDA and TSLA if it was just how far down. GOOG appears to bottom and chart wise looks good. I don’t know maybe wait till they turn upward. I have bought in the past and they have gone further down. I would be ahead of T2K because I sold at a higher price and buying at a lower price and they always in the past come back. T2K just hold.
 
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Hmm. I would say NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN are the first 3 buys. MSFT, META, and then NFLX. NFLX is the undisputed winner of streaming, but they are only down 10%.

Finally bought GS at $571.
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I say GOOG, META, and NFLX. META and NFLX has to come down a little more. I’ll look at GS, chart looks good.

I just saw article most undervalue moat stock, 1) UNH, 2) GOOG.
 
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No because I would own NVDA and TSLA if it was just how far down. GOOG appears to bottom and chart wise looks good. I don’t know maybe wait till they turn upward. I have bought in the past and they have gone further down. I would be ahead of T2K because I sold at a higher price and buying at a lower price and they always in the past come back. T2K just hold.
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TSLA ran up purely due to the election results. No one should be surprised that it came back down. NVDA has a lot of headwinds. Seems like all the juice has been squeezed for the short term
 
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