**OFFICIAL** Trading and Investing Thread: Part XVI -- BAG HOLDING EDITION

[kusok]

No one got any thoughts on plays I've been posting?

NYCB they announced AH today that they are posting earnings tomorrow before market open... So there is absolutely 0 chance for anyone to hedge with options before earnings are announced... pretty scummy move if you ask me. To me, this doesn't mean they have good news, but perhaps they pulled off a miracle at the last minute. They have NEVER announced earnings this late where they put up earnings in May. I've managed to stay pretty resigned to the fact odds aren't great that the shares drop below $2 by next week, but a man can dream.

No one thought of this because when you post NYCB the readers eyes automatically scroll down to the next post.

[kusok]

The last 10 months sure were fun looks like it’s downhill from here

Some red days and weeks in bull market are required. No crash is possible with like 4 trillion in stock buybacks. Relax. Besides, buying cheap is supposed to be the fun part.

[Elias373]

$SBUX

Cuckbux shat the bed. Go Woke Go Broke.

[Abzu]

Sold puts, bought calls on INTC and I picked up a big pack of LEG shares at ~$11.50 in the first 48 seconds after market opened lol

You bought out of money and probably short term. That’s called lotto. For a reason. You crazey boyo?

Yeah, true but even if he didn't buy short exp and far OTM it would still be better to sell puts on it, he owns shares already.

I too liked it at $5

Hopeful we will get another chance to buy it at $5, together, <3

[stockbruh]

BITO giving out another fat dividend this time 1.68$ per share, so far this year they’ve averaged out a 1$ every month

[RobParks2M]

Rip puts.

[stockbruh]

Rip puts.

How much did you lose?

[RobParks2M]

How much did you lose?

A little over $1500 assuming nothing crazy happens in the next 16 days. I got most of those puts around $3-5 each. At least 2/3 of them expire 5/17 I didn’t think market was going to like their added expenses, lower interest income, and higher interest expense on top of bad guidance for the year. I guess market was thrilled they aren’t going under yet and I’m sure shorts had to cover as they had like 10% short interest.

[Elias373]

AMZN running

[friesbruh]

bought SMCI dip, feels good mang

[kusok]

$SBUX

Cuckbux shat the bed. Go Woke Go Broke.

Does anyone need to see earnings to know Starbucks is going to be crap?

[stockbruh]

Caravan mooning after earnings, there’s hope for my PLTR calls

[bsmit107]

Just loaded up on WULF and dipped my toe in NVDA.

Looking for a swing, Ill take 5-10%.....hopefully these dont turn into long term holds.

[GeneralSerpant]

So how many people in here are keeping tabs on ai outside of short term?

Asking for friend.

[SipNPiz]

Apple has enough cash to build a moon base or invent time travel so of course it makes sense to buy back $100B in their own stock

[GeneralSerpant]

Apple has enough cash to build a moon base or invent time travel so of course it makes sense to buy back $100B in their own stock

Apple and google are playing the long game with ai.

[MinisterOfLust]

When will SOFI bag holders get a break...

[friesbruh]

started trading on april 1st n havent done anything complicated @ all just some limit buy/sells to make a quarter here or there

account's up 4.1% MoM, that good bad average or expected? saw the S&P was like -2.5% in that time.

basically i look at the earnings calendars, try to get a handle on co. performance last 1-3mo n if theres meat on the bone aka undervalued i buy n if i think its overvalued & has nowhere to go but down i dont. or the market dips to overreaction but i think it'll rebound like SMCI did then thats a buy.

[GeneralSerpant]

started trading on april 1st n havent done anything complicated @ all just some limit buy/sells to make a quarter here or there

account's up 4.1% MoM, that good bad average or expected? saw the S&P was like -2.5% in that time.

basically i look at the earnings calendars, try to get a handle on co. performance last 1-3mo n if theres meat on the bone aka undervalued i buy n if i think its overvalued & has nowhere to go but down i dont. or the market dips to overreaction but i think it'll rebound like SMCI did then thats a buy.

That's where I was at, but I averaged up on NVDA before the super micro crash.

[Abzu]

That is why I sell puts on it lol AAPL is not going anywhere and it will remain in the top 5 U.S. companies for the foreseeable future.



I bet APPL gets bought up soon and any further downside will be minimal.



That.



I'm buying calls on APPL pretty soon lol.

Sorry for not posting that itt

[RobParks2M]

When will SOFI bag holders get a break...

Just sell puts and buy shares. Who cares what the short term share price is. Look how fast their book value is growing and their greater than 20% growth in services. Profitability is finally here and that doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. Getting in below $8 feels like getting in on the ground floor with a great CEO like Noto at the helm.

[bsmit107]

Just loaded up on WULF and dipped my toe in NVDA.

Looking for a swing, Ill take 5-10%.....hopefully these dont turn into long term holds.

Out of NVDA...quick 5% gain...thanks jobs report. Still in WULF.

I've got 90% of my money in ETF's and about a month ago, decided to keep $3-$4k free at all times to play with/swing/scalp and just help my account grow quicker. So far in the last 4 weeks I've "realized" gains of $1600......50 bucks here, 150 there, got a nice bump with Google before earning and cashed in for about $500. It ain't much, but it's building and I'm learning and if I stay consistent, in 10 years if I keep it up I'll be glad I did.

I had a really good conversation with a work buddy who trades options and swing trades mainly and he's been doing it for at least a decade. He was basically telling me .....Consistently Making $50-$100 a trade adds up man, just stay consistent and keep emotion out of it, have a plan and any trade that you came out of positive is a good trade, don't be mad you sold too early and only made $100 instead of holding and making $200....and that really shifted my mentality about my trading plan......I feel like I would only gamble, looking for that one that was "going to be a 10 bagger" with the hopes of turning $500 into $5k and in reality I would just end up losing money.

The plan now is just to continue adding $250/week to the account, keep buying the same ETF's every month, keeping 90% of funds in them and continue to swing trade here and there while researching and learning.

For this specific account....basically a self managed account for my Daughter/our future life/etc, which I started 2 years ago (outside of retirement savings/401k/Roth's) .....currently sits at about $40k and my goal is to at least double it by the time I'm 40 (and my daughter is 3)....which is 2 years off. All things remaining the same (job, income, expenses, etc) my contributions alone over the next 104 months will be $26k....so I just need to make about $14-15k.

Apologies for the long post, but outside of my friends having 401k's, they cant even hold a conversation about this stuff. lol

[friesbruh]

Out of NVDA...quick 5% gain...thanks jobs report. Still in WULF.

I've got 90% of my money in ETF's and about a month ago, decided to keep $3-$4k free at all times to play with/swing/scalp and just help my account grow quicker. So far in the last 4 weeks I've "realized" gains of $1600......50 bucks here, 150 there, got a nice bump with Google before earning and cashed in for about $500. It ain't much, but it's building and I'm learning and if I stay consistent, in 10 years if I keep it up I'll be glad I did.

I had a really good conversation with a work buddy who trades options and swing trades mainly and he's been doing it for at least a decade. He was basically telling me .....Consistently Making $50-$100 a trade adds up man, just stay consistent and keep emotion out of it, have a plan and any trade that you came out of positive is a good trade, don't be mad you sold too early and only made $100 instead of holding and making $200....and that really shifted my mentality about my trading plan......I feel like I would only gamble, looking for that one that was "going to be a 10 bagger" with the hopes of turning $500 into $5k and in reality I would just end up losing money.

The plan now is just to continue adding $250/week to the account, keep buying the same ETF's every month, keeping 90% of funds in them and continue to swing trade here and there while researching and learning.

For this specific account....basically a self managed account for my Daughter/our future life/etc, which I started 2 years ago (outside of retirement savings/401k/Roth's) .....currently sits at about $40k and my goal is to at least double it by the time I'm 40 (and my daughter is 3)....which is 2 years off. All things remaining the same (job, income, expenses, etc) my contributions alone over the next 104 months will be $26k....so I just need to make about $14-15k.

Apologies for the long post, but outside of my friends having 401k's, they cant even hold a conversation about this stuff. lol

makes me wonder how much your boddy has in his account or is worth

[stockbruh]

Nice to finally have a Green Day, was anything red today?

[_zman]

Nice to finally have a Green Day, was anything red today?

OXY. I have a little AXP, and it was red today. Damn, I was making no money on that and it's up 50% in 6 months.

[GeneralSerpant]

PLTR broke $23

[stockbruh]

PLTR broke $23

CEO did interview Friday where he said they’re growing 70 percent in the commercial sector 😮‍💨 we’re going to 30$+ next week

[GeneralSerpant]

CEO did interview Friday where he said they’re growing 70 percent in the commercial sector ������‍������ we’re going to 30$+ next week

Hopefully they will expand their boot camp operations, but otherwise it's nice that they are jumping on Oracle's cloud infrastructure.

[Abzu]

Fvrr

[GeneralSerpant]

Was not expecting Soundhound to ride the Palantir hype.