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  1. Seriously how am I , a Juliard trained day trader , supposed to have fun on my vacation when the markets keep preventing me from doing so. Just been on the sidelines all day . Still on the sidelines ... I’m not going to try and pick anything right now. Is this panick selling ?
  2. So when does the smart money invest ? Because I’m being a giant pussy right now and refusing to buy because wtf.
  3. I saw it. Loved the movie.
  4. I have an elementary understanding of puts and calls. I know most people lose money with them and that has always scared me away from really looking into it. It’s an all or nothing bet correct? I would love a small tutorial reply from one of y’all who do them if you have time over the next few weeks. So if I wanted to do a put of amazon right now at 1500 and bet it goes to 1400 I would put up the value of 1 share that I would lose completely if the put doesn’t occur in the time frame I specify? Would my account also need to have in it 150k ? You buy 1 share but get the spread as if you own 100? If it does hit 1400 then I get the gain of 100 dollars x 100 shares? See the types of questions I ask? That would be the level of a tutorial I would need . If you make a put bet do you stand to gain more money by calling it in a faster time frame? Say in 1 month vs 3 months ? Why not just make a. Put bet right now for 5 years on amazon going to 1200? Or even better make a call bet of amazon out 5 years to 2000?
  5. Always. This is my money for my retirement. Since I went almost all cash in January this year my plan has always been to dabble some once the downward movement starts and to invest it all again once the recession hits. Maybe it is a good plan maybe it isn’t . I didn’t feel good watching from the sidelines from April to September. But it sure has felt good since then.
  6. Should be a crazy ride .
  7. Never been more excited than to have bought amzn at 1504 yesterday at end of day and sell it this morning at breakfast at 1504. My wife is already super upset with me because I am glued to my phone all day watching the market . I never get to do this due to my job but we are at her folks house for the next week in Mexico. I’m having the time of my life . She is not. I’m looking at buying amzn at 1400 ish today or tomorrow if it gets there. Should coincide with the s and p hitting 2460. Apparently that is the next floor. Then down to 2250. Because all of these guys are right on and can predict the market with ease. Still exciting to be able to trade a little while we find a bottom.
  8. I’m on vacation and just watching the markets and some stocks on my vanguard account. The Dow’s 350 point gain was gone in less than 60 seconds real time. How the hell do I compete with that . And this is after the Fed did what most were expecting . Not too hawkish. Not too dovish. Am I playing in a casino with my retirement right now? I guess I’ll stick to some small trades like I have been doing . Thank god I didn’t buy earlier today thinking I would miss the party. Buy the rumor sell the news I guess
  9. Thanks for this . I was most likely selling today due to traveling anyway but this nudged me to do it a bit sooner . Sold amzn ridiculously at 1563 of all prices . May rebuy just before close .
  10. Dabbled a little today in the last hour of trading. I can’t bring myself to trade options. Just buying low and hoping to sell a little higher. I’m hoping to eventually put everything I have in the market but I decided now is not that time so I’ll continue to trade 10-20 % of my brokerage account and looking to sell 3-5 % higher . I have been trading once or twice a month for the past 3 months. Not being greedy. So far I’m at about 6 percent return for the year ( on my entire brokerage account) with most of that return in the past 3 months since I started trading at what I hope are bottoms. Been lucky so far and hit on all of my 4 trades. If I miss on a trade I’ll just dollar cost average of it does fall more. Spy dia qqq and amazon are the stocks I am trading . Bought some amazon today at 1519. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day and I’ll sell.
  11. The last demon I encountered dropped a +5 long sword and the Wand of Orcus.
  12. So when a market tests a bottom for a second time in a month what does that mean?
  13. I dabbled with crypto in Nov and Dec 2017 and made a small profit then got out asap. Im curious to see how cryptos will fare when we actually have a recession. Im betting many of those invested now waiting for the next big run up will have to pull their money for 1 reason or another. Couple that with Tether (google how it basically propped up Bitcoin for most of 2017; it's unwinding that prop up now) and the fact that the tech can infinitely copy each other and I think we still have a ways to go before bottom. I still look at my crypto apps at least weekly if just to educate myself on what a back half of a bubble looks like. My coinbase account is open with the money I made and will probably start looking to reinvest when the world is neck deep in the next recession. Probably ETH , hopefully at around 5-10 dollars a coin. Maybe XRP if it dips below 5 cents. Just patiently waiting cash in hand right now in all markets. I got time.
  14. He is being pumped full of vanc levo and zosyn right about now. Depending on cultures most likely one of those for about 8 weeks will get him where he needs to go. Good luck to the guy . 71 million is a nice consolation.
  15. TV movie? This was iconic 80s. The chick having her second lizard kid scarred 8 year old me for life.
  16. Who the fuck goes for it on 4th and 6 from the 7 yard line. Why can’t coaches be this stupid when they play us. Take the fucking points
  17. "Because I could get uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why. "
  18. HouTex, I don’t agree with who you voted for but you don’t strike me as a troll. You seemed pretty excited to vote for Cruz. I have a lot of republican friends who are Reagan republicans and are really torn this election cycle. Let’s see how Texas votes tomorrow . Curious how quickly this state is changing.
  19. Came here to post this exact same thought. Almost word for word. You can smell the fear the republicans have right now. Math doesn’t lie.
  20. So my wife and I were talking. The rural counties, early voting and mail in votes should all be counted by 730 or so. Where does Beto need to be sitting % wise in order to have a chance ? Obviously he will be down before the larger counties are close to being done counting their votes. We were thinking if he is down by less than 10% right at the closing of the polls he should have a decent shot to pull it off. Did I read earlier in this thread that about 78% of the voting population are located in the top 15 most populated counties in Texas? Has there been any analysis posted looking at this ?
  21. Found this funnier than I should have
  22. Voted for the first time in a mid term today. Here is my snap shot. i am in Denton county which is traditionally republican. I was amazed how many under 30 something’s were voting this morning . I’d say There were about 40 % minority voters and about 70 % women in the 15 or so minutes I was there. Busier than I thought it would be. Probably about 50-70 people were either voting or in line. Voted straight ticket dem. Let’s see how close we can get this
  23. I’m not sure I understand what is considered good or bad. It seems to me both google and amzn at least had earnings as good as Facebook but without Facebooks baggage yet the markets plunged with the former and for some reason sparked a rally after Facebook released their earnings. Was the marker just tired of selling when Facebook released earnings or was there something fundamentally better in their earnings than google and amzn?
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