Investment BS Thread - Stocks/Futures/Mutual Funds/Bonds/Commodities/Options/ETFs/401ks/Etc

Bwahaha!

 

Who else takes their financial advice from 4chan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCaHjSlED0

 

I do all my risk taking with scratch offs and just invest long in my 401k the returns with the scratch offs are better for me than picking individual stocks

 

Pretty good advice here.

 

My accounts so bad now. Overall from when I started I’m positive, but wow compared to a month or two ago

 

Reallocating my money ahead of the Fed hike has saved me from losing an additional 10% on my portfolio so far. My mock portfolio is showing me what would have happened if I held, so far it is now down 13% (will be over 15% by EOD I would imagine). Somehow I am still just barely up all-time. The bond market has gone belly up, suddenly everyone is demanding a higher yield for junk or CCC rated. The news cycle is filled with doozies. Maybe once some of these companies have P/E ratios of 5 instead of 105, and their market caps no longer have a stranglehold on the indices, I'll buy back in. We are about halfway there. The financial squeeze that the Fed wanted has finally kicked in. There will be more pain ahead for cash-burning companies. I love all the whining by the White House. Takes credit for the market going up but blamed JP on the way down, now the stupid rumors of him getting fired are only making it worse. ZIRP is over, fundamentals will matter again in the near future. Watching ROKU fall from 75 to 27 a share in a couple of months is probably the biggest loser in my watch list. The additional pain is likely from tax-loss harvesting. What will it do next month? Good question but by then I will be on the trigger again (mandatory 30 day wait).

One thing I find interesting is that the economy is very strong, indicating we are simply approaching a bear market and not a recession, but why is the yield curve nosediving? Still trying to figure out the disconnect. The Fed should not be directly manipulating interest rates, even though they can.

 

Markets seem to be happy today.

 

I need about a 20% gain to get to where I was a few months ago lol. This might be the start though.

 

This sure was relevant today. Hope nobody sold on Christmas Eve, you’d have missed today’s 5% gains!

 

Im good

 

yep, 5% portfolio gain. thank goodness I needed it. I'm down way to much from my high point a few months ago.

 

What a rally! Let's see how tomorrow goes. Holy volatility Batman. My mock portfolio still down 11%. Long way to go. At least oil made a big comeback(for now)!

 

I've reduced my 401k contributions considerably, moving a considerable amount of money from my bank account to tdameritrade, and hoping once funds are settled to buy a good bit into the stocks I already own to reduce my avg cost (think that's correct term).

once my bank account recovers to where it was, note i still have rainy day funds, I'll switch back to heavily investing in 401k.

is now the time to buy with the market being so low, i know you can't time it, so I'm assuming my best bet is to get my cost average as low as possible while market is low?

just wanting opinions/insight.

 

What is your goal?

I think the answer would be very different if you’re looking to buy some high flyers and then sell the shares at a huge profit; or if you want to buy high yield dividend stocks and hold forever while they pay you.

I think for example 1 above, probably not a good time but who knows, this is always a speculation. For example 2, it might be the best possible time to lock in these high yields.

Or you can mess with options and shorts with this volitility, but I know little about that so can’t help much.

 

options are a blur to me I know nothing of it.

I would say I'm in to hold for at least a year or longer if promising.

 

I am really curious if stocks like Amazon and Apple will be higher in a year than they are now. I could see them going down or trading sideways. That would suck, a year later, to have nothing more. That’s why I’d recommend dividend payers, but you never know.

What stocks are you looking at?

 

Don’t laugh at my beginner days with penny stock tries lol. My account is still very well off surprisingly. From when I first started a couple years ago. I’m young also 27 so plenty of wait time.

Top photo is a watch list which is from yesterday

Bottom 2 are day change and total change

 

Dude you have balls posting your actual results lol. I don’t want to show people that. Well not the recent ones.

I like your watch list, I have some of those, AAPL, KO. I’ll look into the rest after work.

I’ll post my holdings below. If I equal weighted my portfolio, I’d be at about 5% dividend yield. I overweight some things though that I like better. Hoping for a little growth with the income. I’m not much older than you, but probably a different strategy than most my age. The stars are dividend aristocrats (just for my knowledge, this is a screenshot of my Spreadsheet).


WMT got cut off somehow

 

another nutty day! Wow lol

 

I might have to start a position in F. I like the predictable, almost no growth, but a steady 8% dividend. It’s like a bond that pays you quarterly and about quadruple what an actual bond would pay.