OT: Stock and Investment Thread

BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine

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Jtung230, RUinpinehurst, RUrahrah, I’m inM moved to cash so it really wasn’t a secret the market was overpriced and Trump talking about tariffs.

You came to this thread afraid there was going to be negative talk about ————-. You going to ban me or have me deported? Lol
Let's see some receipts Buffet. Ban? Deport-lol divaDave? Nah I hope you keep posting--you're fun to laugh at.
 

tom1944

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I make my monthly contribution next Wednesday and was set to redo my purchase to 100% selection into the total stock fund rather than the 3 different selections I usually make to take advantage of the low prices.

Maybe by Wednesday I will just continue my normal purchase history.
 

Barnaby&Neill

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Sadly we may have to go through this **** again in 90 days. Lets hope not

I think the route in treasuries basically called the administration’s bluff here.

This move at least (hopefully) stabilizes rates. In 90 days maybe the market behave more orderly and administration can play tough again, or some low hanging fruit agreements are reached to diminish the impact in 90 days.

Question is: has leverage been lost now that the administration blinked in the face of (self-made) pressure.
 

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I hope that anyone who has a stop loss somewhere in their portfolio removed it before the tariff announcement.
 

RUAldo

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This is stupid. There needs to a serious bipartisan investigation into these actions. The amount of money some traders lost by selling a few days ago is unacceptable. No single person should have this much power to manipulate the market on a daily basis.
It’s really unbelievable when you think about the chain of events and the rhetoric leading up to the 90-day pause.
 
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ashokan

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This is stupid. There needs to a serious bipartisan investigation into these actions. The amount of money some traders lost by selling a few days ago is unacceptable. No single person should have this much power to manipulate the market on a daily basis.

Hard to feel sorry for anyone with bruises from a market that's been juiced on PEDs for a long time. Most of the monopoly dollars went to the top. When rough patches were hit the taxpayers got the stimulus bills. US should have has a recession already ( the recession stats were there in 2022 but ignored).

Yellin was pulling "emergency" funds out to keep the pump going while phony stats were anesthesia . Funny money from invisible USAID fountains spent 1.5 trillion for NGOs to do their dirty work. There was always going to be a time to pay the piper and better now than when the exponential "law of big numbers" kicked in.

The party isn't over but the beer wont be free anymore

Best insight without all the statistical fog

"That ruckus you hear in the capital markets is the sickening howl of the Fugazy Economy meeting its extinction. Fugazy means fake, unreal, dishonest, misaligned to what societies need to thrive. Fugazy means mis-using the time-value of things that purport to be wealth to multiply fake wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of the many. The pernicious effects of that system are visible all across the ruined landscape of our country, a nation of broken cities, failed towns, and a demoralized populace...

The aim of the tariffs is straightforward: the end of a trade regime that punishes and cripples American production...That process starts with deploying real capital — as opposed to Fugazy capital — to re-start businesses and industries. That will take money away from hedge funds and other rackets that exist to play games with evermore abstract layers of things that only pretend to represent money. As that occurs, a lot of pretend money will vanish. Don’t be too shocked by this. That’s what happens when a society bends back toward reality: you start sorting out the real money from the fake money."

 

T2Kplus20

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Guys - Was in another all-day meeting. LOL!

I don't know what else to say. I hope folks took my advice on why you can never get out of the market when an artificial crash like this happens. We are at the mercy of President Trump and his tariff plans. Things looked bad, but we were literally 1 tweet away from getting your faces ripped off by the rebound rally. He may change his mind and we return to lows. I have no idea. Nobody does right now. But unless you are in retirement and need the money, you have to weather the storm and buy.

Still working, so I will make fun of @rutgersdave and @jtung230 later.
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