The dividends are definitely nice with VZ, but it seems they are forecasting flat earnings in 2017 and I think the competition from Sprint and T-Mobile is just getting more fierce putting pressure on margins (especially wireless, as was seen in 4Q results)

Any thoughts on Opiant (OPNT), the developer or narcan? At this day of opioid plague, you'd think they are positioned well for future growth?

If you go cash, what the heck do you do with it? While there's no apparent downturn it just seems crazy to cash on gains, pay the tax and sit on pile of cash. What am I missing here?

I'm light on bonds, so should move some money from stock to bonds. Any recommendations?

I bought some CNNRF, but I think these stocks are still a big gamble at best. It's been going up and down several tens of percentage points on almost daily basis, but it's a gamble I'm willing to take hoping growth will stabilize in the future

Exxon and Chevron certainly has nice dividend returns, but I'm not sure I'm that hot on energy/oil right now. With that, any suggestions on solid dividend payers with potential for growth in share price?

Some helpful threads here also, https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=16

With oil getting butchered yesterday, I wonder if it's time to buy some more XOM or maybe wait a bit longer. The analyst opinions seem to be all over the place...

So what’ll tomorrow bring, up or down? I’m thinking tomorrow will be eye of the storm before the shit really hits the fan next week. Looking at new cases especially in NY makes me think there’s still rough waters ahead

I think there's some room for gains with MAC, what I worry about is long term viability as their portfolio is largely based on malls which I fear will all fail in the future. Any thoughts on that?

Sold all my CCL today, made a nice 30% profit. If/When it dips again, I'll likely buy it again. Thanks for your tips iceman44

Silly question, assuming you own several lots of the same stock does it make sense to sell the ones with largest profit or it doesn’t matter as long as they are long to minimize the tax impact? Just trying to figure out if there’s a benefit in one approach over the other when selling

I think it'll be good for Apple, but Tesla valuation seems to be on the (very) high side to me so hard to see the same there. I'm glad I bought some TSLA at $215, I guess it's time to sell before reality hits it

Has anyone looked into IIPR, a REIT focusing on pot facilities? My gut tells me that anything to do with that industry is a gamble, but as it gets more widely legalized there must be an upside that might materialize in the future driving the price up.

If CCL goes down a bit more, I'll take a gamble on it - people love cruises so there's a long term upside that's real (IMHO). Got some MAC a while back too, I'm under water of course, so will probably lick my wounds unless it starts to show longer term potential. I also made a small bet on TDOC and IIPR, as always do your own study, but there's maybe something there...

My stop loss on PINS triggered at $60, but I got a nice 170% return on that. If it goes down significantly, may join the party again.
Definitely keeping an eye on what goes on over the next week or so, it's definitely Volatile with a capital V

Is anyone using asset management services? I’m nearing the point where I don’t have the time, energy or expertise to manage my investments efficiently so maybe turning into a professional makes sense. So if you have an opinion, or advice on what to take into account when deciding on this I’d appreciate that. Thanks!

I had high hopes for Opiant because of this, but that stock's been a dog unfortunately

What's the ticker?

Totally off topic, but your guy Jussi must have Finnish origin. The country with best bread in the world! On topic, I’ve been sitting on MAC a while and glad to see the recent gains. Perhaps I should get some more

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AI is getting close to $110, perhaps time to buy or is the initial enthusiasm and excitement growing colder?

Pro tip: Don't start with money you can't afford to lose (at least some of it), there are always ups and downs.

Starting is easy, open an account with companies like TDAmeritrade, Fidelity etc, transfer some money to your investment account, study companies you are interested in (great tips in this thread), execute a purchase and see how it goes. Diversify (not just stocks, but other vehicles like ETF's) and don't be afraid to make losses if your picks don't perform as expected. Look at Bogglehead investment philosophy as a guide (See e.g. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investing_start-up_kit or https://thecollegeinvestor.com/4119/boglehead/)

Short squeeze will probably not work well on NOK as there’s no high short position. Price is driven up just by volume

There's no reason for NOK to go up like it did today, other than WSB crowd manipulating (successfully) the market. Telecoms is a high volume, low margin business and if you look Nokia's results over the last years it's not a massive growth business and I don't think 5G will change that either (at least in the short term). There's no big short interest either, so squeeze (like with GME) is unlikely. Gamble at your own risk here, it might be a good long term investment though

I was going to yesterday, but got distracted and missed the opportunity. I'm wondering if with the up today I should wait and see, yes it could go higher but sometimes after swings like this it'll come down before going up again. And yes, I know you can't time the market but still...

I'm up 80% on MAC, thanks to your recommendation. Love this thread, let's make some $$$

With that, and things normalizing fast, do you think it's too late to beef up CCL and SIX positions? Any other noteworthy ones in travel related segment?

I had not heard of QYLD before, so had to check it out. This article seemed pretty well written, https://seekingalpha.com/article/4435641-nusi-vs-qyld-retiree-conundrum

This rumor was such BS, and really based on bad assumptions. Anyone who knows anything about telco industry should have seen through that immediately, but hey someone made money with that move

Sure, there are companies like AST Spacemobile and Lynk working on direct to mobile phone satellite service but what Globalstar has is not related to that. Globalstar has spectrum that's allocated for terretrial mobile operations and the next gen Qualcomm chipset supports that band -> next iPhone was assumed to be based on that chipset -> Globalstar also has satellite service (however, that's not related to the spectrum band they have) -> hence next iPhone must connect to Globalstar satellites.
So I agree that phones can possibly connect to satellite service in the future, but this train of thought that was applied in GSATs case was a huge stretch of imagination IMHO