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Anon1751565407

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Interesting that Google gets very little mention except partnering with Apple despite having a great past 3 months with Gemini 3 proving to be exceptional (I can still picture the goofy “superwoke?” and historically inaccurate images Gemini was coming up with just a couple of years ago🤣. Google’s TTM PE is now finally back over 30 though…but Waymo is much much much much much safer than Tesla robotaxi.
MSFT stock fatigue seems very real as they’ve allowed Google to get back into the top spot in the longterm AI game.
 
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Rutgers Chris

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Anon1751565407 said:
Interesting that Google gets very little mention except partnering with Apple despite having a great past 3 months with Gemini 3 proving to be exceptional (I can still picture the goofy “superwoke?” and historically inaccurate images Gemini was coming up with just a couple of years ago🤣. Google’s TTM PE is now finally back over 30 though…but Waymo is much much much much much safer than Tesla robotaxi.
MSFT stock fatigue seems very real as they’ve allowed Google to get back into the top spot in the longterm AI game.
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Waymos are at their safest when stationary…
 
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Jtung230

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curious, what is everyone’s largest single stock exposure (no fund or ETFs) and what is the % to your overall stock portfolio?

for me, it’s a tie between Google and Amazon. Both are at 3.6% of the equity portfolio. Also should add that I only own 10 individual stocks and the rest in funds.
 
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Jtung230 said:
curious, what is everyone’s largest single stock exposure (no fund or ETFs) and what is the % to your overall stock portfolio?

for me, it’s a tie between Google and Amazon. Both are at 3.6% of the equity portfolio. Also should add that I only own 10 individual stocks and the rest in funds.
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Taking my retirement accounts off the table, by far my largest position is GLD future contracts via Coinbase. I currently have exposure to 50 ounces of gold, but trade in and out quite a bit. Gold has been a money tree all damn year. :)

As for actual stocks, with the modest AI pullback, my largest positions are HOOD, RDDT, and then GOOGL. I bought the first two during the tariff crash and are currently around 6% each of my personal account. GOOGL around 5%.
 
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RU05

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Jtung230 said:
curious, what is everyone’s largest single stock exposure (no fund or ETFs) and what is the % to your overall stock portfolio?

for me, it’s a tie between Google and Amazon. Both are at 3.6% of the equity portfolio. Also should add that I only own 10 individual stocks and the rest in funds.
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NRG has grown into my largest position. About 7%.

META 2nd at around 4%.

After that UBER and AMZN at around 3%.

I'd like to work towards a more concentrated portfolio, but I can't stop myself from buying new names.
 
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RU05 said:
NRG has grown into my largest position. About 7%.

META 2nd at around 4%.

After that UBER and AMZN at around 3%.

I'd like to work towards a more concentrated portfolio, but I can't stop myself from buying new names.
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I limit my custom basket to 30 stocks, so if one goes in, one must come out. However, I normally do hold a few others outside the basket for short-term trades.
 
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I seem to have bought COPJ at a bit of a top, leveraged ETF so I was down 10% quick, it is bouncing and I'm almost back to even. The 1 year chart still looks amazing.

What I didn't notice when buying though is a 12% Div. Not sure how much that fluctuates, (I could look this up, but....) maybe it's just a one time big out pay, but that is juicy, especially for an ETF with high beta and on a strong upwards trend.

Edit: ya once a year Div. The reason I was down 12% apparently. Div more then doubled yoy from $2.14 per share to $4.54. 2023 was just .45.

So the junior miners are currently raking it in. Market is either skeptical it keeps up, or slow to realize it.
 
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RU206

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Jtung230 said:
curious, what is everyone’s largest single stock exposure (no fund or ETFs) and what is the % to your overall stock portfolio?

for me, it’s a tie between Google and Amazon. Both are at 3.6% of the equity portfolio. Also should add that I only own 10 individual stocks and the rest in funds.
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MSFT.
 
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T2Kplus20

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RU05 said:
I haven't. Looks like I can though.
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Every trade is better with leverage! What could go wrong? :)
But seriously, one huge benefit with futures is the taxes, especially for trading:

How Futures Contracts Are Taxed in the U.S.
Futures traders benefit from a more favorable tax treatment than equity traders under Section 1256 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). 1256 states that any futures contract traded on a U.S. exchange, foreign currency contract, dealer equities option, dealer securities futures contract, or nonequity options contract are taxed at 60% of the long-term capital gains rates and short-term capital gains tax rates at 40%—regardless of how long the trade was opened for.

Section 1256 contracts are also marked to market at the end of each year; traders can report all realized and unrealized gains and losses, and they are exempt from wash-sale rules.
 
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T2Kplus20

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GLD to the f'ing MOON!!! New ATH.

However, gold, silver, platinum, etc. all look very extended from a TA perspective. Modest pullback coming? I put in a tight stop loss for half my GLD future contracts at $4480 (which I bet it will hit overnight). Not going all out, but will wait to add back on consolidation.

@RUinPinehurst (forgot, where you the big goldbug in this thread over the years?).
 
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Silver hit $70, seems like yesterday it was at $35. Gold and Silver with crazy years this year. Will it slow down in 2026???
 
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Anon1751565407

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Postman_1 said:
Silver hit $70, seems like yesterday it was at $35. Gold and Silver with crazy years this year. Will it slow down in 2026???
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Silver is much more an industrial metal than a monetary metal these days. Follow the Yellowbrick Rd. by the ounce (Oz).
That said, gold at over 100X silver seemed to really ignite the silver bulls.
 
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Rutgers Chris

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I know someone who is very, very rich these days
GIF by Margaux Resources Ltd.
 
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