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2 hours ago, Superhero said:

It's been nice holding GOOG, AAPL and AMZN the past few days.

Portfolio recovered the $70K, and now up another $150K. All paper money until I retire.

Golden visas keep going up, so now is a good time to get in while you can. 

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Golden visas keep going up, so now is a good time to get in while you can. 

 

Got my papers 10 years ago so don't need a golden visa. Unless you mean bringing in my super model girlfriend from one of the Baltic countries.

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3 minutes ago, Superhero said:

 

Got my papers 10 years ago so don't need a golden visa. Unless you mean bringing in my super model girlfriend from one of the Baltic countries.

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Finally moved my brokerage account over to Robin Hood. Even sent the IRA as well. Both are getting a 2% bump as a result of their promo. Leaving the current 401k at Fidelity until I’m fully vested in my equity and options in mid November/early December.  The margin rates at RH were too good and will help expedite FIRE’ing into semi retirement.

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something something Happy Belated Paycheck Monday to all who celebrate. I will drag this thread to the new year, across the finish line, with all my strength.

Got 3 weeks of PTO approved. Still going to have extra at end of the year I need to use or lose. Last post above mentioned the switch I made with some accounts bringing them to RobinHood. Had plenty of margin to cover an existing loan that was at 14.75% and replaced it with 5.75%. So this was a nice week so far.

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On 1/20/2025 at 1:45 PM, 52-80 said:

more discipline sticking primarily to short vol trades.

my target is to beat the total returns of my friend Asadullah, who works in securities.

 

the great irony is my vol positions are negative for the year but my portfolio is having the best performance in yeras

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9 hours ago, 52-80 said:

the great irony is my vol positions are negative for the year but my portfolio is having the best performance in yeras

were they a single equity position or index based?

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13 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

were they a single equity position or index based?

3 different instruments all derived from SP500 index. The losses have been basically cost of insurance for going net long vol while market melts up. Overall portfolio performance isnt even from market gain or hitting home runs in single equities... its from swing trading EUR/USD futures.  

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Happy Paycheck Tuesday to all who celebrate! May your tacos be birria and your beers cold.

Opened up a 1000 share position in both YSPY and TQQY cause I hear about fun things late.  I'll most likely reinvest weekly dividends until new year or 4/15, then begin feeding them into SPYI and QQQI. Tripling down on our ATH "shaky" economy and shutdown worries. Not too many goals left to consider and just cruising into heart of football season and holidays in a nice position.

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15 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Happy Paycheck Tuesday to all who celebrate! May your tacos be birria and your beers cold.

Opened up a 1000 share position in both YSPY and TQQY cause I hear about fun things late.  I'll most likely reinvest weekly dividends until new year or 4/15, then begin feeding them into SPYI and QQQI. Tripling down on our ATH "shaky" economy and shutdown worries. Not too many goals left to consider and just cruising into heart of football season and holidays in a nice position.

I feel like some (most? all?) of the ultra high yield funds are an attempt to catch a falling knife. I know that some here or on Reddit go crazy about the YieldMax funds like UTLY because there's a 80% yield but the fund is also down 47% over the last 12 months. Maybe that is still an overall positive but whats the risk that the fund won't drop another 50% tomorrow. 

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I’m up in 6 of the 9 YM funds I use. I don’t add any more money into them, I will never sell them cause they are income. I take the distros and place into mid yield funds  where the NAV is much more stable (BTCI, QQQI and SPYI) and then put those distros into growth ETFs like SCHG.
 

ULTY itself is a unique example and looking at YTD overlooks the changes the fund has made. Yieldmax has its big winners and big losers, you have far better chances making consistent money in the funds that follow multiple funds or an index rather than a single underlying.

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On 12/31/2024 at 4:04 PM, bborange said:

1.  Max most of my 401K in the first 3 months of the year then lower take out percentage through the year to get full max contribution from employer.

2.  Get 6 plus gain in market

3.  Save 75K plus in cash by lowering expenses

4.  Last day of work at worst December 31st 2025 for retirement. 

After 3 quarters this year and everything better than my goals.   Very good year in my last year of work.  

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Nice.  Love it when a plan comes together.  I will know how I did in about 30 days.  Everything so far has been to plan but I am really antsy about my private stock.  Time to cash that fucker out.

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22 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Hope everyone had a Happy Paycheck humpday. Already mid-October, which means get your travel squared away for the holidays NOW.

I'm buying $20 of BTCN for each of my family members.

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When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

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4 minutes ago, Superhero said:

When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

I count it between 0 and 75% (its an variable in my spreadsheet). The 75% being abiut what it is on a pay-for basis. 

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17 minutes ago, Superhero said:

When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

No. I suspect that it will end up being means tested or taxed enough to become a negligible amount. 

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13 minutes ago, Superhero said:

When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

No, I don't plan on being eligible either. Will not be working full-time ever again after April unless I find some new passion in life. Will be using a mix of distribution income and geoarbitrage, to grow investments and have income to live day to day abroad. My investments bring $1500 /week without lifting a finger. Will keep my place here in Austin while always staying informed of the options. 

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4 hours ago, Superhero said:

When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

yes.

Why? Because old people vote. 

Also if you look at this graph

Population pyramid for the United States in 2020.

I was 50 in 2020. The 45-54 bands are smaller than the 55-64 bands. 

As the boomers die off there will be more workers per retiree than there are now

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Posted
4 hours ago, Superhero said:

When you guys are planning for retirement, are you counting on social security income?

I'm planning on retire in 12 years, and not counting on social security to be solvent. Getting anything would be like a cherry on top.

Yes.  I’m going to wait until 70, but they will cut a LOT of other shit before they let SS go belly up.  As @blacklab said, you lose the olds, you lose the election 

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Sb have you looked where the crossover point is if you wait till 70?

It's 82.

So if you die before 82 you leave money on the table, even longer if you can afford to just invest it when you get it. 

I'm taking it the day I turn 62, I'm not sure I'll live to 82.

 

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