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4thgenhorn

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  1. All I know about puts is they cost a lot more than calls. I’ve sold puts, but in hind sight that was a lot of risk for small reward. Let me know how you model a reasonable trade as I’m always interested in learning.
  2. I paid off my house last year. Let me tell you, awesome feeling. I highly recommend it to anyone. I don’t like the idea of market timing at all. I’ve never done it with much success except maybe 1-2% of my portfolio. I’m ballz deep 95% equities, the rest bonds and 6 months cash. I’m young enough to welcome any pullback, especially with no mortgage. Just gets me to buy more, which I did in last week, and will do more this month, and next, etc. last buys were NVDA...small pop so far this week, and I wrote $175 August calls for $4.50ish (closed today $162ish). Seems a pretty rich return for a few months time.
  3. So I’ve been getting all sorts of calls last few months from computers telling me my ID has been hacked; it’s probably a scam. Also wife was part of the experian data breach. I’ve had 2-3 other companies in last year say data has been breached. So wondering if it’s time to start paying an ID theft protection service Co. anyone using a service that they recommend? Good or bad? Also thinking about freezing credit. I won’t need any credit for the foreseeable future so wondering if this is the right thing to do. Anyone with experience here also? Good or bad?
  4. I coached two seasons. Get as many assistant coaches as you can to keep all the kids actively fielding grounders and playing catch, while you work with batters. Also, it a must to have a dedicated parent at first base keeping kids attention there. Occasionally the throw to first is actually accurate, and the kid better be looking. Lastly make sure to emphasize not walking into the batter. Crazy how clueless 5 year olds with bats are, just swinging away.
  5. BTW, this thread got me thinking, what are actual practical measures to use over time to maintain ideal weight? Do any of you regularly get body fat measured? Another approach, simple tape measure of chest waist, legs, arms, etc? Shirtless photos like a beotch? Clearly weight alone is insufficient, especially if lifting for strength gains.
  6. 6’2” and 200, plus minus 5 lbs depending on my turd schedule. My waist is same 34 it’s been since high school two decades ago. But the chart says I’m fat. Also strongest I’ve ever been...do you even lift bro? I could prob drop 3-5 lbs and be at my ideal weight in my opinion.
  7. You are prob right. However I’ve had very bad experiences early on in my trading career buying out of the money calls. So I moved to selling puts and calls a number of years ago. It’s only on a small percentage of my portfolio and I only do a handful of these a year. However, I view it as real life learning that I can apply the rest of my life. Hopefully I can get better over the decades; you’ve helped me this week for sure! Also I don’t view missing out on a huge upside as a big loss, of course it will annoy. Instead I view it as defining a sell strategy for a profit which is a good problem to have. Otherwise I don’t have a sell strategy, just hold to infinity? I’m really bad at locking in gains when they happen, sometimes letting an equity round trip to a buy point or worse. Another thing coming to mind with all your Greek definitions is to incorporate the options view into picking the equity to buy. If options maket are showing a really highly priced beta on an equity, probably a good equity to think about buying outright.
  8. Thanks JJ, much appreciated. I like Ike the idea of collecting theta as you say. Fortunate to not need home runs, just consistent base hits.
  9. JJ, appreciate the thoughts. What do you mean by a 20 delta? Help me with the definition As as I said I’m not a pro, just picking what I view as reasonable 2 month return. And I like collecting the time decay. This example fits what I’m typically looking for in terms of percentages. What would be a 20 delta on VTI? I’ve not sold covered on ETF, but would love to as I can write many more.
  10. It’s been a good week so I wrote covered calls today on DIS. $145 August 16, $2.25 per contract. This trade is in the range of what I’ve been looking for: ~7% return over today’s value for 70 days. I’m a total novice so I manually input these values into excel to find what I’m looking for. I would love to hear if people automate their models with real-time inputs, or if they use tools. This is something I’ve had in back of mind for years, but not seriously investigated.
  11. Pools can be a pain in the ass.
  12. Bought some NVDA today. I didn’t catch the bottom, but hopefully can get a few day rally. I’d like to write some covered calls if it can pop 3-5%. Fingers crossed today isn’t a pump fake...
  13. I totally understand why some people let others do the investing. If it’s not your passion or you don’t have the time, then by all means go for it. I’ve always enjoyed it personally. Definitely find it more interesting than straight gambling or sports betting. I’ve done fine, no idea if I’ve outperformed over the long haul. Probably could have made a career in WS if my path had been slightly different and I felt like leaving Texas. Anyways looking to buy more soon, like Friday’s pay day
  14. There were idyllic to me. Was at UT for the 2nd half.
  15. Unfortunately yes. What’s interesting is how all the analysts in unison lowered price targets. If there is ever is price reversal based on all the negativity, then I guess that could be a sign of a bottom. Like today’s action. I’m probably too cowardly or too wise to double down though.
  16. Bought my 3 yr old daughter a purple Eukelele this past weekend. Challenge of course is I don’t play Eukelele. So I picked up a basics book and will try to learn a few cords. Never know, could be next Taylor Swift.
  17. Gotta tune into new X-men film. Hopefully at least some hot spandex uniform for Gene Gray.
  18. Went ahead and put some $ to work today in VTI. Given how poorly I typically time my buys, it will prob be down big tomorrow. So, I took one for the team to give you all a better cost. You are welcome!
  19. I think Danys flipping was really driven by the loss of her Dragon right before. She thinks of them as her children after all. They could have done more to build pressure on the turn, but then maybe not a surprise? I enjoyed the episode overall. Sure they could have done more, it they are really wrapping it up quick now. Only one episode left for Sansa to show her Tatas. Fingers crossed.
  20. Anyone going to try to sell today or tomorrow and perhaps buy back in lower? I’ve never successfully done something like that, but curious if anyone out there is nimble enough. If so, what rules would you use. I was 5 min away from deploying my loose cash last week. Very thankful I did not. Soon I’ll be looking at one of: AMZN DIS PAYPAL or simply VTI and forget it.
  21. Looks like during your bulking phases you also stop logging weight regularly. Maybe small tweak of continuous weighting’s, even if it’s bad news, will help during those periods to get you back on track.
  22. So question for OVER training. If you hit a muscle group and take it too failure with low rep high weight, how many days until hitting that group again? I read recently only do that group once a week; that’s if your goal is gaining muscle mass, not talking about a weight loss goal. In the past I probably hit same group to failure at least twice a week...wondering if I’ve been over training.
  23. 10 - my boy will be accepted to UTD, but not UTA. I tell him to transfer after 2 years. He disobeys me and I drink even more. 20 - it gets hot as f@ck. Battery powered self driving cars are everywhere. US adopts pollution tax; everything that pollutes costs a lot more. Paper cup of water is $10, plastic bottle of water is $10,000. Wind powered kWh is cheap; gasoline gallon of energy costs $50,000 cause you are ruining the world A-hole. 30 - 2049, aliens land on earth; we shoot them and they blow us all up. RIP
  24. Enjoyed the episode, but a few I think I liked more, although shorter sequences. Recall Jon Snows first battle with a WW and discovers his sword is awesome and the kids got turned by the NK and they ate the lady. Badass. Also the battle at the wall vs. the wildlings was pretty strong and well done. This was pretty good for an epic zombie battle, if that’s your thing. The dragon battling was a bit weak. Love Arya and the kill stroke. My beef is the intensity wasn’t there cause Bran was at stake at that moment. As others have said, he’s been pretty pointless except for Snows origin. He was even left out a whole season. The Dothraki charge could make sense in that it was kinda cool visually for the director, and how do you fit all the open plains horsemen behind Winterfell walls? id like episode six to end with Sansa submitting to Tyrion given he’s “the best of em all”
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