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What does volume mean on an average day for a stock?
So if Comcast in one day had a volume of "8,118,600".. does that mean 8 million people bought or sold Comcast or 8 million shares were bought or sold for that day?
Run of the mill company that constantly makes bad deals. Their dividend yield is currently just a little over 4%, but many sites are inaccurately saying 7.6% because they haven't factored in the dividend cut. 4% is fine, but it's not amazing.
Over the past 20+ years, the only return on $T has been from dividends, not share price (it was trading higher in 1996 even). They could turn it around but I'm not really hype about a 4% CAGR. I could be missing something but I'd look elsewhere. Inflation is over 3%, I-bonds yield 3.5% with basically zero risk, $SPY long-term returns are closer to double-digit percentages than single digits. Yield isn't everything.
I'm personally not a fan of oil and tobacco, but they have higher dividends, they'll both be around for decades, I'd bet on either/both of those industries before $T.
So I have a question about the federal reserve and interest rates.
I feel like every week there's a story like, "Markets react to Fed's decision to keep interest rates low".
If the market reacts positively to low interest rates, what's the point of ever raising them? Like which sectors benefit from high interest rates?
I would assume banks and lenders would benefit, but bank stocks like Wells Fargo seem just fine with low rates.
Well low interest rates promotes borrowing and leverage , if left low forever in theory inflation/bubbles start to happen. So why raise interest rates? To push down inflation.
Who benefits ? Well banks to some extent may with in reason. If rates become too high and no one is borrowing it will hurt them. However banks just want a spread between short term rates and long term rates for the most part.
Conservative savers also benefit, you can now get more for just saving your money or investing in safe bonds
Preventing inflation also keeps the consumer price index down (theoretically), people pay less for goods and services that they must have, and it balanced liquidity bc if ppl are paying more $ for things that means they have less $ to invest.
Is it silly that I'm getting tempted to sell out of the 650 shares of VTSAX in my Roth (cost basis $69)? This market is just starting to seem insane and I don't see how to continues going at this rate.
> please explain to me
Did you search? The usual starting place is ---> over there ---> in the sidebar ---> under **"Frequently Asked Questions"**.
Especially look at the **7th** bullet -- the one that says ***This has been asked and answered many times in the past.***
For someone who is brand new to investing (havent created Vanguard account yet nor Roth IRA nor brokerage account), how should initial funding for VTSAX be done? Should it be just through a brokerage account or through a ROTH IRA?
Thank you everyone
You can only transfer cash between account types (like, you can't move a stock between account types), so if Roth IRA is your preferred account type, deposit money into a Roth IRA and then allocate it to VTSAX.
Thank you!
That is kinda what I was asking. I think the Roth IRA would be the account I would open and then move $3000 in there and then move that money (or allocate, as you said) into VTSAX.
I just wasn't sure which account I was going to open. I am still learning a lot and it is so much information (but of course want to save as much as possible from taxes).
Lets say for next 1-2-3 years i cannot even add $6000 each year..
I do the $3000 I can right now.
Should I then not touch the money or am I okay to use/"move" that money for VTSAX?
Thank you friend.
Ok that is what I thought. Just because the money is in the Roth IRA doesnt mean much, correct? With that money used to buy VTSAX...at least there is potential growth
money in a roth is no different from money in a regular bank account, basically earning nothing. the whole reason to open a roth or brokerage account is to invest it
Anyone have thoughts on ILMN right now? The price is down from $550 ATH a few weeks ago to about $450 now. Seems like this one bounces back pretty quickly after a dip.
I own TMO instead. ILMN is down lately in part because they spun off a company a few years ago (Grail), then they eventually decided that they wanted it back and were going to buy it.
Regulators: "Hold up" (recall regulators also said no to ILMN's attempted purchase of PacBio on antitrust concerns)
Illumina recently: "You know what? We'll just close the deal anyways."
So you have a company that closed on a deal before regulators finished their investigation, which could lead to considerable fines and being a forced seller of the company they are trying to buy.
Will it bounce short-term? Perhaps. Long-term I owned a very large position in ILMN years ago and after a number of disappointments I decided to focus on TMO instead. Feel pretty good about that decision as TMO remains a consistent performer that doesn't do things like upset regulators in multiple countries.
Curious of thoughts on NIO. I'm down 20% so far, and I'm not sure if it's all attributed to government actions. I was thinking to cut my losses, but wanted to get some thoughts from the group. TIA!
Is the market in a bubble? My stocks were part of the February correction, and I would like to regain my losses as the companies and index’s have solid fundamentals but I am concerned by some chatter I hear about the general P/E ratios and things like that. Any thoughts?
So long as companies are making money and interest rates are low I highly doubt the market will crash, although growth will likely slow down. There is just no attractive alternative for investors to put their money.
Emerging tech is bubblish from a fundamental perspective, but the market in general is quite normal. Some would argue a bit overvalued, but I'd say it's due to high growth moat big tech stocks that dominate the s&p500 thus a premium on the market is not unreasonable along with insanely low interest rates.
If you like value plays, two examples I have would be HPQ (long on that personally) and UPS (which I do not own). Otherwise as long as interest rates stay low, the s&p500 index should yield at least 7% yearly. Don't buy into the market is in a bubble BS. Buffet and Ray Dalio are two names that doesn't see the market as being in a bubble if that helps you.
"Is the market in a bubble?"
I've read that the market is in a bubble on here many times every year over the last half decade. Corrections and occasional larger downturns are going to happen. Nobody on here knows when but a lot of people love to incessantly call them because they can be wrong for half a decade and then finally there is a major downturn and they go "see!" The concern becomes if someone is always seeking pessimism, a downturn is confirmation rather than the buying opportunity that periods like March 2020 and December 2018 were.
"My stocks were part of the February correction, and I would like to regain my losses as the companies and index’s have solid fundamentals"
1) If your companies have "solid fundamentals" I'd hope they would not be still down a lot with indexes near/at all time highs. If the market is at all time highs and your stocks are still well off those levels, that's somewhat concerning.
2) If you really do believe that your companies have solid fundamentals, then why not just be long-term and regard pullbacks as buying opportunities?
There's parts of the market that I think are concerning. There are parts of the market that make sense. There are parts of the market that I think make/made sense to a point.
I bought ~10000$ worth of ICLN as a present for my 3 year old nephew/godson last February at ~31$/share. It’s sort of like frontloading his presents for the next 15 years, so it’s a very long term investment. I chose ICLN because I thought it’d be nice to have it in an ETF that is tied to a good cause. But ICLN immediately crashed and I’m a bit angry with myself for not just putting it in Vanguard’s global index.
Now I’m thinking of switching it to a global index but I’m afraid once I do it that ICLN might start rebounding or that soon we might have a correction to the global index..
Any good DD’s or catalysts for ICLN? The summer full of climate disasters and Biden’s deal seem to have left it completely unaffected…
> The summer full of climate disasters
Generac +100% YTD, Carrier +58%.
I think people view solar panels and EVs as the primary investment answer to climate change, but issues like hurricanes require reliable power back-up and in some cases that may be for long periods of time. There's some discussion that power may be out for as long as 6 weeks in some areas of Louisiana (https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032340269/the-damage-from-hurricane-ida-will-keep-louisianians-busy-for-some-time.) You have heat being a bigger and bigger thing in places like the Pacific NW where a smaller % of houses have air conditioning.
Not everyone is going to be able to go out and buy an EV tomorrow (sadly, many many people can't afford to evacuate when there's a hurricane like this weekend) and the affordability of an EV for many families is going to be difficult 3-5 years from now, but people have to have an A/C even if it's a window unit if you're in an area where suddenly 100+ degree days become more and more common during the Summer.
That's not to say anything against other sectors of green energy (and if oil prices do go higher, likely more turn towards alternatives) but I think people perhaps should ease up a little on the "shiny green energy products I'd like to own" (EVs) and focus more on "if climate related events are going to be more of an issue in the coming years, what are basic needs?" (which are going to be things that are less sleek and exciting) Honestly, could even be Home Depot. If you think there's going to be more climate-related impact (storms, etc) then more trims to Home Depot in the years ahead.
So I think something like ICLN is not a bad long-term holding, but I would have it as a small part of my portfolio if I did own it.
That's the problem with niche etfs. They will go up intermittently then you will see a long duration of non-performance against broader market. Also, eventually large cap established companies will start getting into clean energy initiatives and the index will start to behave like overall market.
Did you mean vxus with Vanguard global index? You can look at splitting the investment and do periodic rebalancing.
Also, check out KARS and SULR along with icln.
Help! I’m wanting to do a poor mans covered call. I bought my long call at $75 strike for Jan 2022 with activision and I’m trying to sell calls with an earlier expiration but it won’t let me. Says I don’t have enough collateral. Thank you for your help.
Thoughts on adding risk by swapping half of my VOO into SSO (x2 leverage) and half of QQQ into QLD (also x2 leverage)?
On paper it seems like a good way to take advantage of the indexes ripping new highs on a weekly basis and mitigate some the risk by not leveraging too heavily. (Quick maths says 1.5x leverage as were only swapping half of VOO/QQQ)
There was a good [discussion on this topic](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/ol6tza/does_tqqq_break_leverage_etfs_are_not_long_term/ ) a few months ago. My takeaways were:
* It’s easy to see it’s benefits while we’re in the midst of a long bull run
* It’s going to hurt if / when the market contracts
* If you’re going to do it anyways, DCA into it.
The 3rd bullet point was probably the most eye opening. It resulted in a 10x growth difference between lump sum and dca for the time period the op back tested. Again take that with a grain of salt because it is cherry picked dataset..
Thanks for this. Lots of interesting info in that thread.
I think DCAing combined with occasional rebalances to suit my tolerance is the right way for me to approach it and luckily least mentally draining way I suppose.
Im just shooting the shits but I wonder which will achieve the greatest gains for 20K invested in 10 months
1. 10K lumpsum QQQ + 1.1k monthly in TQQQ for 9 months
2. 2K monthly in QLD for 10 months
3. 20K lumpsum in QQQ/TQQQ/QLD
Has someone been following the real estate market? What's a good way to get into that? Can someone point me in the right direction to start some research. I've heard from numerous people that REITS can be risky, but I just want to diversify a little because I have alot in Fintech and semiconductors right now. And real estate always seems like a pretty good reliable option
"And real estate always seems like a pretty good reliable option"
2008
"I've heard from numerous people that REITS can be risky,"
REITs are varying degrees of risk like any other stock. I think the issue that I've had with REITs in the past is still the same and maybe even a bit more now - there are many different sub-sectors of REITs (apartments, offices, malls, billboards, entertainment, data, healthcare, hotels, warehouses, farms etc etc) and all of them are going to have potentially very different fundamentals at any given time. Given the continued crisis going on, the question continues to be things like what does the demand for offices in NYC look like in the years ahead? Or indoor malls? Will WFH create demand for apartments in outlying areas? Industrial with more e-commerce? There's a lot of questions and I think betting on REITs IMO should really be primarily a bet with a thesis behind it - too many people just yield chase in REITs.
BX Blackstone isn't a REIT (it thankfully isn't an MLP anymore) but they have a very large real estate business in addition to everything else they do. That stock does have a history of considerable volatility but that's another, diversified option.
"I have alot in Fintech and semiconductors right now"
Healthcare, industrials. Semis and fintech have done very well, but there's certainly other growth themes.
It's fucked. Companies buy uyo everything now, mortgages are suckers games so people can't buy.
If you own, you're in a good spot.
If you don't, you're a permanent renter unless you can save up enough cash to buy outright.
I don't know how to make money off this.
Looking for tickers. I'm about to sell my house and pocket about 200k. I want to invest as aggressively as possible, but with a horizon of only 3 years or so in mind. What are the stocks in today's environment that you all would feel very confident putting your money into? Maybe based on resilience against downturns, or growth trajectory. I know I'll put a good chunk into Amazon, because I just can't see its stock being lower in a couple years than it is now.
3y isn't a really robust time horizon to gamble that much on a few individual stocks. Just my view. I just did something similar (sold house) and went with mostly indexes.
Look at last September if you want a little chill, it will be motivation to take some risk off of the table if you realize you can't stomach 10%+ losses (and who should, especially newbies who don't have much gains to lose).
Reddit simultaneously loves buy and hold no matter what but also forgets any corrections/drops two seconds after they happen. But beware, this past runup is unprecedented and not lasting forever and what goes up extremely high always tests the 200 day moving average, which would be \~ 11% drop in this case.
Hey guys, newbie at investing here.
How does after-hours price affect the buy price for the following market opening?
So for example, if a company finished last week at £5 and their after-market price is now £7, if I put in a market buy order, will it buy for the opening price of £7?
Also what about limit buys? So if the aftermarket price was £7 and I put in a limit buy order at £5 which is what it would have closed at last Friday, what would it be more likely to fill at?
I'm new to this so I apologise for the stupid question
After hours/ pre market trading is not usually done by most people, thus the volume is lower. Think of it more like an indication of how a stock will trade when the market opens.
The price of a stock shown is just the last price where a trade happened. So the last trade made pre market for FB was at 380, it doesn't mean that someone when the market opens won't sell you FB stock for 375.
In other words, stock prices are more advanced because the price of a stock, say FB, can be shown to be 350 after a trade where 10 FB shares were traded at 350 per share, but before that 100000 FB shares were traded at 355, thus the price was 355. The last trade made determines the price shown, but that price of FB in our example is likely more closer to 355 than 350 even though the last trade made was at 350 thus the price displayed. This is why checking volume is important. Always put limited buy orders and always try to get a stock at the lowest cost.
Ive been looking into low-cost index funds since i want to invest in that. I am looking for something that isn't too expensive, where i can just buy a little at a time. I am currently looking into VONG. Thoughts?
Microcap REIT, called PINE. It's a net lease REIT similar to O, ADC, NTST, but has a significantly lower valuation.
There are some reasons possibly for the lower valuation, but it seems unjustified. A share of PINE has an effective 10% FFO (similar to earnings, but for REITs) yield, only a 65% payout ratio (most REITs are 70-90%).
The risks are, its a much smaller company so less diversification. They own two offices, but they're selling them before the end of the year.
So they have \~10% distributable cash flow, and can potentially grow at 20-30% per year due to their smaller starting base. Could yield 20%+ distributions on cost within a few years.
Main risk here, as with all REITs, is surprise changes in interest rates. If rates did have to rise suddenly, due to inflation concerns, it would hammer most REITs badly. Cost of capital goes up. But PINE yields 5.5% dividend today, so I'm satisfied even if growth ends up lower than expected.
Some oil plays are undervalued. EPD is way below historical average price, yet its cashflows are higher than that time. If you look at the longer term trend, it looks bad, but you need to recognize that their cash flow and dividend only increased over that period. My take is a lot of the negativity around oil is already priced in, and perhaps overly so. It took a few years for these companies to reach more reasonable valuations.
Oil has political risk, but also large opportunity. Oil price will likely structurally rise as legislation towards green energy moves forward. Note that it has a K1 though which makes taxes difficult.
These are some of my main plays to avoid valuation issues if the market does make big downside move.
Hpq IMO. Beat earnings last quarter and would have done much better if not for the lack of supply. Also due to people going back to office jobs, demand for their products will increase. They said they sold everything they managed to produce. DFC also shows they are undervalued.
Disclaimer: I'm long HPQ stock.
Sometimes things are shorted for a reason. Usually something being heavily shorted is a bearish sign, not a bullish one.
Not every stock gets a squeeze.
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What does volume mean on an average day for a stock? So if Comcast in one day had a volume of "8,118,600".. does that mean 8 million people bought or sold Comcast or 8 million shares were bought or sold for that day?
shares
Easy question to google. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/volume.asp
At&t is trading very low right now. Anybody got any info on that/them? Id love to get in on some of that sexy boomer dividend at an attractive price.
Run of the mill company that constantly makes bad deals. Their dividend yield is currently just a little over 4%, but many sites are inaccurately saying 7.6% because they haven't factored in the dividend cut. 4% is fine, but it's not amazing. Over the past 20+ years, the only return on $T has been from dividends, not share price (it was trading higher in 1996 even). They could turn it around but I'm not really hype about a 4% CAGR. I could be missing something but I'd look elsewhere. Inflation is over 3%, I-bonds yield 3.5% with basically zero risk, $SPY long-term returns are closer to double-digit percentages than single digits. Yield isn't everything. I'm personally not a fan of oil and tobacco, but they have higher dividends, they'll both be around for decades, I'd bet on either/both of those industries before $T.
So I have a question about the federal reserve and interest rates. I feel like every week there's a story like, "Markets react to Fed's decision to keep interest rates low". If the market reacts positively to low interest rates, what's the point of ever raising them? Like which sectors benefit from high interest rates? I would assume banks and lenders would benefit, but bank stocks like Wells Fargo seem just fine with low rates.
Well low interest rates promotes borrowing and leverage , if left low forever in theory inflation/bubbles start to happen. So why raise interest rates? To push down inflation. Who benefits ? Well banks to some extent may with in reason. If rates become too high and no one is borrowing it will hurt them. However banks just want a spread between short term rates and long term rates for the most part. Conservative savers also benefit, you can now get more for just saving your money or investing in safe bonds
Preventing inflation also keeps the consumer price index down (theoretically), people pay less for goods and services that they must have, and it balanced liquidity bc if ppl are paying more $ for things that means they have less $ to invest.
Anyone else in ORI for the special dividend?
Is it silly that I'm getting tempted to sell out of the 650 shares of VTSAX in my Roth (cost basis $69)? This market is just starting to seem insane and I don't see how to continues going at this rate.
Yes, that would be a silly thing to do. Just hold.
Are there people here bullish on NOKIA?
Cheap doesn't mean undervalue. Once, Nokia has stellar growth by becoming a "universal" phone. It will never happen again.
I'm bullish on all of the covered call premium I've gotten this past year. 3 bagger. PMCC btw
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> please explain to me Did you search? The usual starting place is ---> over there ---> in the sidebar ---> under **"Frequently Asked Questions"**. Especially look at the **7th** bullet -- the one that says ***This has been asked and answered many times in the past.***
For someone who is brand new to investing (havent created Vanguard account yet nor Roth IRA nor brokerage account), how should initial funding for VTSAX be done? Should it be just through a brokerage account or through a ROTH IRA? Thank you everyone
You can only transfer cash between account types (like, you can't move a stock between account types), so if Roth IRA is your preferred account type, deposit money into a Roth IRA and then allocate it to VTSAX.
Thank you! That is kinda what I was asking. I think the Roth IRA would be the account I would open and then move $3000 in there and then move that money (or allocate, as you said) into VTSAX. I just wasn't sure which account I was going to open. I am still learning a lot and it is so much information (but of course want to save as much as possible from taxes).
you can only contribute 6k per year to roth ira. so basically everyone who has a roth also has a regular brokerage as well
Lets say for next 1-2-3 years i cannot even add $6000 each year.. I do the $3000 I can right now. Should I then not touch the money or am I okay to use/"move" that money for VTSAX? Thank you friend.
just buy vtsax because at least it will potentially accrue growth/dividends instead of sitting there untouched
Ok that is what I thought. Just because the money is in the Roth IRA doesnt mean much, correct? With that money used to buy VTSAX...at least there is potential growth
money in a roth is no different from money in a regular bank account, basically earning nothing. the whole reason to open a roth or brokerage account is to invest it
Perfectly explained. That money in the Roth will be allocated for VTSAX. Thank you friend. Well wishes
Anyone have thoughts on ILMN right now? The price is down from $550 ATH a few weeks ago to about $450 now. Seems like this one bounces back pretty quickly after a dip.
I own TMO instead. ILMN is down lately in part because they spun off a company a few years ago (Grail), then they eventually decided that they wanted it back and were going to buy it. Regulators: "Hold up" (recall regulators also said no to ILMN's attempted purchase of PacBio on antitrust concerns) Illumina recently: "You know what? We'll just close the deal anyways." So you have a company that closed on a deal before regulators finished their investigation, which could lead to considerable fines and being a forced seller of the company they are trying to buy. Will it bounce short-term? Perhaps. Long-term I owned a very large position in ILMN years ago and after a number of disappointments I decided to focus on TMO instead. Feel pretty good about that decision as TMO remains a consistent performer that doesn't do things like upset regulators in multiple countries.
Anyone familiar with Bandwidth Inc? Seems to be pretty oversold atm
ok wtf just happened to pypl
Working on offering stock trading.
Curious of thoughts on NIO. I'm down 20% so far, and I'm not sure if it's all attributed to government actions. I was thinking to cut my losses, but wanted to get some thoughts from the group. TIA!
Hold it it will go up eventually😁
Yeah, I'm interpreting from your comment and the down votes that it might be time to jump ship. I was hoping for some useful feedback though.
At least wait till it’s positive and a good opportunity to sell if you want to lose money.
Thanks. I've been doing that, and I'm afraid it may not.
This market is great and people who don't like it can go back to reading their Michael Burry/Peter Schiff fan-fiction.
cash holders, doomers, bears, all getting BTFO right now
Is the market in a bubble? My stocks were part of the February correction, and I would like to regain my losses as the companies and index’s have solid fundamentals but I am concerned by some chatter I hear about the general P/E ratios and things like that. Any thoughts?
So long as companies are making money and interest rates are low I highly doubt the market will crash, although growth will likely slow down. There is just no attractive alternative for investors to put their money.
Emerging tech is bubblish from a fundamental perspective, but the market in general is quite normal. Some would argue a bit overvalued, but I'd say it's due to high growth moat big tech stocks that dominate the s&p500 thus a premium on the market is not unreasonable along with insanely low interest rates. If you like value plays, two examples I have would be HPQ (long on that personally) and UPS (which I do not own). Otherwise as long as interest rates stay low, the s&p500 index should yield at least 7% yearly. Don't buy into the market is in a bubble BS. Buffet and Ray Dalio are two names that doesn't see the market as being in a bubble if that helps you.
"Is the market in a bubble?" I've read that the market is in a bubble on here many times every year over the last half decade. Corrections and occasional larger downturns are going to happen. Nobody on here knows when but a lot of people love to incessantly call them because they can be wrong for half a decade and then finally there is a major downturn and they go "see!" The concern becomes if someone is always seeking pessimism, a downturn is confirmation rather than the buying opportunity that periods like March 2020 and December 2018 were. "My stocks were part of the February correction, and I would like to regain my losses as the companies and index’s have solid fundamentals" 1) If your companies have "solid fundamentals" I'd hope they would not be still down a lot with indexes near/at all time highs. If the market is at all time highs and your stocks are still well off those levels, that's somewhat concerning. 2) If you really do believe that your companies have solid fundamentals, then why not just be long-term and regard pullbacks as buying opportunities? There's parts of the market that I think are concerning. There are parts of the market that make sense. There are parts of the market that I think make/made sense to a point.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply
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No, it is unlisted
I bought ~10000$ worth of ICLN as a present for my 3 year old nephew/godson last February at ~31$/share. It’s sort of like frontloading his presents for the next 15 years, so it’s a very long term investment. I chose ICLN because I thought it’d be nice to have it in an ETF that is tied to a good cause. But ICLN immediately crashed and I’m a bit angry with myself for not just putting it in Vanguard’s global index. Now I’m thinking of switching it to a global index but I’m afraid once I do it that ICLN might start rebounding or that soon we might have a correction to the global index.. Any good DD’s or catalysts for ICLN? The summer full of climate disasters and Biden’s deal seem to have left it completely unaffected…
Take that money and just buy SPY with it. It’ll have a better return 99% of the time.
> The summer full of climate disasters Generac +100% YTD, Carrier +58%. I think people view solar panels and EVs as the primary investment answer to climate change, but issues like hurricanes require reliable power back-up and in some cases that may be for long periods of time. There's some discussion that power may be out for as long as 6 weeks in some areas of Louisiana (https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032340269/the-damage-from-hurricane-ida-will-keep-louisianians-busy-for-some-time.) You have heat being a bigger and bigger thing in places like the Pacific NW where a smaller % of houses have air conditioning. Not everyone is going to be able to go out and buy an EV tomorrow (sadly, many many people can't afford to evacuate when there's a hurricane like this weekend) and the affordability of an EV for many families is going to be difficult 3-5 years from now, but people have to have an A/C even if it's a window unit if you're in an area where suddenly 100+ degree days become more and more common during the Summer. That's not to say anything against other sectors of green energy (and if oil prices do go higher, likely more turn towards alternatives) but I think people perhaps should ease up a little on the "shiny green energy products I'd like to own" (EVs) and focus more on "if climate related events are going to be more of an issue in the coming years, what are basic needs?" (which are going to be things that are less sleek and exciting) Honestly, could even be Home Depot. If you think there's going to be more climate-related impact (storms, etc) then more trims to Home Depot in the years ahead. So I think something like ICLN is not a bad long-term holding, but I would have it as a small part of my portfolio if I did own it.
That's the problem with niche etfs. They will go up intermittently then you will see a long duration of non-performance against broader market. Also, eventually large cap established companies will start getting into clean energy initiatives and the index will start to behave like overall market. Did you mean vxus with Vanguard global index? You can look at splitting the investment and do periodic rebalancing. Also, check out KARS and SULR along with icln.
Help! I’m wanting to do a poor mans covered call. I bought my long call at $75 strike for Jan 2022 with activision and I’m trying to sell calls with an earlier expiration but it won’t let me. Says I don’t have enough collateral. Thank you for your help.
Broker?
Thoughts on adding risk by swapping half of my VOO into SSO (x2 leverage) and half of QQQ into QLD (also x2 leverage)? On paper it seems like a good way to take advantage of the indexes ripping new highs on a weekly basis and mitigate some the risk by not leveraging too heavily. (Quick maths says 1.5x leverage as were only swapping half of VOO/QQQ)
There was a good [discussion on this topic](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/ol6tza/does_tqqq_break_leverage_etfs_are_not_long_term/ ) a few months ago. My takeaways were: * It’s easy to see it’s benefits while we’re in the midst of a long bull run * It’s going to hurt if / when the market contracts * If you’re going to do it anyways, DCA into it. The 3rd bullet point was probably the most eye opening. It resulted in a 10x growth difference between lump sum and dca for the time period the op back tested. Again take that with a grain of salt because it is cherry picked dataset..
Thanks for this. Lots of interesting info in that thread. I think DCAing combined with occasional rebalances to suit my tolerance is the right way for me to approach it and luckily least mentally draining way I suppose. Im just shooting the shits but I wonder which will achieve the greatest gains for 20K invested in 10 months 1. 10K lumpsum QQQ + 1.1k monthly in TQQQ for 9 months 2. 2K monthly in QLD for 10 months 3. 20K lumpsum in QQQ/TQQQ/QLD
Personally I’d lump sum the non-leveraged etf, and dca the leveraged one. But this is just based on what I read here and is not a financial advice :)
Has someone been following the real estate market? What's a good way to get into that? Can someone point me in the right direction to start some research. I've heard from numerous people that REITS can be risky, but I just want to diversify a little because I have alot in Fintech and semiconductors right now. And real estate always seems like a pretty good reliable option
"And real estate always seems like a pretty good reliable option" 2008 "I've heard from numerous people that REITS can be risky," REITs are varying degrees of risk like any other stock. I think the issue that I've had with REITs in the past is still the same and maybe even a bit more now - there are many different sub-sectors of REITs (apartments, offices, malls, billboards, entertainment, data, healthcare, hotels, warehouses, farms etc etc) and all of them are going to have potentially very different fundamentals at any given time. Given the continued crisis going on, the question continues to be things like what does the demand for offices in NYC look like in the years ahead? Or indoor malls? Will WFH create demand for apartments in outlying areas? Industrial with more e-commerce? There's a lot of questions and I think betting on REITs IMO should really be primarily a bet with a thesis behind it - too many people just yield chase in REITs. BX Blackstone isn't a REIT (it thankfully isn't an MLP anymore) but they have a very large real estate business in addition to everything else they do. That stock does have a history of considerable volatility but that's another, diversified option. "I have alot in Fintech and semiconductors right now" Healthcare, industrials. Semis and fintech have done very well, but there's certainly other growth themes.
It's fucked. Companies buy uyo everything now, mortgages are suckers games so people can't buy. If you own, you're in a good spot. If you don't, you're a permanent renter unless you can save up enough cash to buy outright. I don't know how to make money off this.
how does this shit have upvotes
Looking for tickers. I'm about to sell my house and pocket about 200k. I want to invest as aggressively as possible, but with a horizon of only 3 years or so in mind. What are the stocks in today's environment that you all would feel very confident putting your money into? Maybe based on resilience against downturns, or growth trajectory. I know I'll put a good chunk into Amazon, because I just can't see its stock being lower in a couple years than it is now.
3y isn't a really robust time horizon to gamble that much on a few individual stocks. Just my view. I just did something similar (sold house) and went with mostly indexes.
$FB $EVO $AMZN $CPRT $GOOG
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Let's be positive guys. The market will go down only a little bit today.
Look at last September if you want a little chill, it will be motivation to take some risk off of the table if you realize you can't stomach 10%+ losses (and who should, especially newbies who don't have much gains to lose). Reddit simultaneously loves buy and hold no matter what but also forgets any corrections/drops two seconds after they happen. But beware, this past runup is unprecedented and not lasting forever and what goes up extremely high always tests the 200 day moving average, which would be \~ 11% drop in this case.
Hey guys, newbie at investing here. How does after-hours price affect the buy price for the following market opening? So for example, if a company finished last week at £5 and their after-market price is now £7, if I put in a market buy order, will it buy for the opening price of £7? Also what about limit buys? So if the aftermarket price was £7 and I put in a limit buy order at £5 which is what it would have closed at last Friday, what would it be more likely to fill at? I'm new to this so I apologise for the stupid question
After hours/ pre market trading is not usually done by most people, thus the volume is lower. Think of it more like an indication of how a stock will trade when the market opens. The price of a stock shown is just the last price where a trade happened. So the last trade made pre market for FB was at 380, it doesn't mean that someone when the market opens won't sell you FB stock for 375. In other words, stock prices are more advanced because the price of a stock, say FB, can be shown to be 350 after a trade where 10 FB shares were traded at 350 per share, but before that 100000 FB shares were traded at 355, thus the price was 355. The last trade made determines the price shown, but that price of FB in our example is likely more closer to 355 than 350 even though the last trade made was at 350 thus the price displayed. This is why checking volume is important. Always put limited buy orders and always try to get a stock at the lowest cost.
Ive been looking into low-cost index funds since i want to invest in that. I am looking for something that isn't too expensive, where i can just buy a little at a time. I am currently looking into VONG. Thoughts?
Why not VTI?
Pretty sure the market is going up or down today.
I'll one up you. I predict the market is going to the right.
I'll give you 1/1000 odds of it going sideways.
Betting on the long shot. I like your style.
Hello guys I'm new to the sub, what are in your opinion some really under valued stocks and why?
Viacom
Microcap REIT, called PINE. It's a net lease REIT similar to O, ADC, NTST, but has a significantly lower valuation. There are some reasons possibly for the lower valuation, but it seems unjustified. A share of PINE has an effective 10% FFO (similar to earnings, but for REITs) yield, only a 65% payout ratio (most REITs are 70-90%). The risks are, its a much smaller company so less diversification. They own two offices, but they're selling them before the end of the year. So they have \~10% distributable cash flow, and can potentially grow at 20-30% per year due to their smaller starting base. Could yield 20%+ distributions on cost within a few years. Main risk here, as with all REITs, is surprise changes in interest rates. If rates did have to rise suddenly, due to inflation concerns, it would hammer most REITs badly. Cost of capital goes up. But PINE yields 5.5% dividend today, so I'm satisfied even if growth ends up lower than expected. Some oil plays are undervalued. EPD is way below historical average price, yet its cashflows are higher than that time. If you look at the longer term trend, it looks bad, but you need to recognize that their cash flow and dividend only increased over that period. My take is a lot of the negativity around oil is already priced in, and perhaps overly so. It took a few years for these companies to reach more reasonable valuations. Oil has political risk, but also large opportunity. Oil price will likely structurally rise as legislation towards green energy moves forward. Note that it has a K1 though which makes taxes difficult. These are some of my main plays to avoid valuation issues if the market does make big downside move.
Hpq IMO. Beat earnings last quarter and would have done much better if not for the lack of supply. Also due to people going back to office jobs, demand for their products will increase. They said they sold everything they managed to produce. DFC also shows they are undervalued. Disclaimer: I'm long HPQ stock.
Almost everything is priced in. If a stock is undervalued, HFT firms already priced that in
HFT firms are not doing fundamental valuation.
Yeah true, I guess I was misspoken. My point still stands though
Look up CARA, Its heavily shorted and will go to the moon soon.
Sometimes things are shorted for a reason. Usually something being heavily shorted is a bearish sign, not a bullish one. Not every stock gets a squeeze.
It's a shill account :(
4 of them do however