I'd buy $5000 of bitcoin and $20,000 in stocks. I personally missed out on the first big bitcoin boon, I have friends that bought houses in cash from their profits. But I've been buying a little here and there of Bitcoin and Ethereum and it's done better than my stock investments in the past year. I like to dabble enough in it that I won't miss out if it does what's predicted.

Well done!

Two things... is 5 years considered a long play? I've watched gold on and off over the past 20 years, it's never been a better investment than the market and has often done pretty badly. I think of it only as a safe haven during a crash.

Perfect example, if you bought one ounce of gold there it would be worth $1900 today, 5.428 times it's value. While that's a nice profit, if you invested the same $350 in the Dow 1991 it would be worth $4,340 today, the Dow has gone up 12.4 times in value.

The Market liked the election results.

I don't think today's drama in DC will have any long term effects on the Markets. This is a few thousand conspiracy theorists rioting, they have zero influence on the economy. Sad day for our democracy for sure, but the Dow is up 1.47% right now and Crypto continues it's climb.

Nope, nothing like this has occurred in my state, nothing like this has happened in American history.

I've used Coinbase and Binance for about 4 years and never experienced any security problems. I'm sure Paypal's new Crypto services are super safe too, but they are limited to 4 most common coins.

In your political analysis you seem to have left out ending the trade war, signing new trade agreements and opening up markets for US goods again. That's definitely in Biden's plans and may help some of the industries most hurt by the trade war:
https://www.globaltrademag.com/most-affected-industries-by-us-china-trade-war/

I'm 52, but a lot of my friends are in their 30s and 40s. Many are pretty nerdy, so they mined bitcoin back in the day and also work for tech companies and bought a lot of Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc. stocks back in the day or got them through stock options. They are skipping the white picket fences, for travel and early retirement.

A lot of people, apparently. But they had to have faith during a lot of lean years. Heck the 2K more I bought a few weeks ago is up over 50%.

That's the only reason I bought more. My friend that's a pinball collector has 10 coins from mining it back in the day, he's pretty excited and is holding. He was joking about his hundred thousand dollar pair of socks he has that he bought for 3 bitcoins back in the day when they were worth $4 each. Ha ha ha!

I'm a big fan of DRIV right now, it includes Tesla, Nio and some other stocks that have been going up a lot.

I did exactly this about 5 years ago. My Roth IRA through work that I hadn't paid much attention too was going into a couple broad funds that were averaging 20% returns for years... safe and steady, but way too slow of growth for me. Moved most of it to Brokeragelink, started doing my homework, picking and choosing my investments, and suddenly was getting much bigger returns. I do understand how some people want a safe hands off approach, but that's not how you make a lot of money.

I'm just the opposite. With the vaccine distribution spreading rapidly over the next 4 months and the anticipated end to the trade war, I expect the economy to start opening back up. Biden was the architect behind the last economic recovery after a recession (and the Market and job growth was great under Obama/Biden), I'd expect his team to make economic recovery a top priority. The Fed will keep printing and the government will invest in the economy, the debt won't be pretty, but it should bolster the struggling economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/joe-biden-oversaw-recovery-during-last-recession/609646/
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/06/828303824/a-look-back-at-how-joe-biden-managed-the-2009-stimulus-package

And there is definitely an argument that the economic recovery was too slow to be made, but the economy has been going in the opposite direction ever since the trade war began.

I try to not let my personal politics influence my investing, you should be able to find successful investments whoever is in the White House. Opening up trade again will definitely have it's winners and losers that you can plan your investments around. People that argue to sell everything on inauguration day are making investments moves with their hearts, not their brains.

The fees should vary per fund and you should be able to see that info. My work account is through Fidelity and they are pretty transparent with what each fund's fees are.

This is a terrible prediction and investment strategy.

Gas prices are very low now, a couple cents tax won't kill growth if it happens. The switch in Presidents to one that has experience helping an economy recover, had the support of the majority of large corporations, the end of the trade war, the big push for green energy and more stimulus for businesses and state governments should be an improvement over the past 10 months (really it should be an improvement of where things have been since the trade war started in January 2018). We are for sure facing a tough economic road ahead, but at least now the business community and average Americans have more hope towards a positive outcome both with the vaccine and the change in leadership. I don't see Americans and businesses pulling back from the Market, and I have my investments focused on companies that will likely have growth and success in 2021.

What was smart and outside of the box with that post? How did it help your investment strategy? I think a couple yahoos hopped on an investment thread to complain about politics, where the rest of us are here for Ice's hot tips and discussing our investment strategies, failures and successes.

During the dip Friday I bought more PINS, NIO, PLTR, PSTH and threw 1K at BB because the Reddit kids that hyped GME into massive gains are setting their sights on BB and PLTR next. Also picked up more crypto with ETH. I'm curious as to what Phil-lee and Lamberger are investing in, rather than their politics. What are your moves right now if you are more doom and gloom?

Are you buying rental homes or commercial real estate? I bought a townhouse rental 3 years ago, it's been a great steady source of income. And if I'm to believe Zillow, it's worth about $120,000 more than I paid for it. A bunch of my family buy rentals and have done well, but it can be a lot of work between renters.

55% according to the most recent Gallup poll. Their age, gender and race breakdown is here:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx

And just a few days later...

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Yeah, there is a reddit group called wallstreetbets that has 1.9 million members and has been doing the GME short squeeze, BB is their next target, I mentioned it last Friday when I picked up 100 shares. It's gonna either keep going past 20 or settle back down to 9, depending on if they are successful or not.

I have a bit of FOMO over it and that's why I bought some BB. Are you holding until the end or have an exit plan? It seems to have hit a bit of a wall that I'm wondering if it will break thru or not. It takes balls of steel to hold past 45.

So are a lot of average Americans like me, I'd like to not have to think about politics or the President every day. NASDAQ, Dow and S&P500 all hitting all time highs today, I hope this optimism lasts.

These ridiculous political posts have no business on a stock market trading thread.

That's what a good stash of booze, coffee, bullets and drugs are for. No one will care about cash, stocks, bitcoin or gold in the zombie apocalypse. The closest I've come to this scenario was this past Summer on the Oregon Coast with the wildfires coming down on us and the air thick with smoke, there were lines at every gas station 50 trucks long to fill up and get out. Power and credit cards still worked fine. FYI, when the electrical grid is down, gas and propane pumps don't work either.

Your investment strategy and opinions on energy are fine, but they aren't exactly great insight for a market traders forum. I don't think nuclear will be America's path to energy independence, but cheers boomer!

Yup, that's how my work Fidelity account works with Index funds with dividends and I roll them right back in to additional shares.

I wasn't confident enough in the plan when I saw it getting hyped and it was around $20. I shoulda jumped.

This is solid advice, I'd add DRIV etf, it's gone up 25% since I bought it at the beginning of December. I bought PINS after my friends and Ice kept hyping it, it's been slow and steadily increasing.

It's a bumpy ride but I bought more today too. If it follows the recent pattern, Thursday is the worst day of the week, then it starts climbing again for a week, each week getting a little higher. But the epic swings are not for the faint of heart unless you've been sitting on the coins for a while.

Are you following along during the day on WSB? Those guys are nuts! But it's fun energy. Since I figured I was too late for for the GME squeeze, I bought a bunch of BB since that's the next target. I figure if the squeeze hits big and makes a bunch of people rich, as they sell they are going to move it all into BB. I'm primed for that. But still a total gamble that it all executes how people hope it does.

I bought it a week ago, I'm up 22%, I think it's going to follow a crazy path like GME as a Reddit meme stock, but I guess we will see.

I dunno, they are ripe for bankruptcy or getting bought out. It's dirt cheap, but do they have a chance of recovering if movie theaters are closed for another 6-12 months? In 12 months even if the pandemic is mostly over, will people want to sit in packed theaters? They got a 100 million cash infusion a few days ago and got a bump, but what are they going to do with it?

If you are already at a huge profit, I'd be tempted to see how far the squeeze can go with some of it. FYI, I bought 10 shares at opening to do just that.

Crazy, how long does that halt last before trading resumes on it?
Edit: Nevermind, it was short, looks like it's moving again

PLTR is going off today as well.

It's a reddit group with 2 million people (it's almost doubled in size in the past month):
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets

GME has been the main target for months for a squeeze. A lot of hype for buying BB and PLTR for the past few weeks, building hype for AMC in the last 24 hours. Betting on meme stocks has lots of risk but also lots of reward. They are seriously driving the prices of a few stocks up.

That's exactly what it is, it's terrible. I'm using it only to see where 2 million people are all putting their money each week because currently they have enough of an investment army to push a stock's price up significantly.

AMC might be a good short term play though because of it's low cost and it has an uptick of interest with the reddit crowd. One of my Amazon friends casually mentioned during poker last week that there has been office talk about Amazon possibly trying to buy AMC and revamping the theater model. I couldn't tell if it was real talk or just people fantasizing about the possibility (there is a beautiful AMC theater in Seattle called the Cinerama that seems to be permanently closing and people are looking at ways to save it). It's had a ton of action since Tuesday.

Blackberry has pushed to over $15 in after hours trading, up about 35% in the past week.

I'm guessing things won't quite return to the before days as the pandemic is finally brought under control. With theaters, while people were stuck at home, they set up home theaters, bought huge 4K TVs, set up screens in their backyards for distanced movie nights, streaming services flourished, and first run movies began to be released on Amazon. People may feel safer and more comfortable at home and the model for delivering new movies may have permanently changed to some degree.

In other sectors too... with smaller businesses closed or having limited hours and people choosing to staying home, they've relied on the big box stores and online retailers way more. Will they go back to shopping locally or stick with Amazon, Walmart and Target deliveries? And if people do go back to doing things in person as much as they did before, how will that effect the big retailers and delivery services that have big profits during the pandemic? The opening back up of the economy with the vaccine will still likely leave us with a shopping, working and entertainment model that will be forever changed. This in turn may mean different investment strategies.

Where are you seeing this data? I did a quick search:
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2020/11/17/economists-forecast-bleak-economic-outlook-for-nd/

Florida seems better, but certainly not booming:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/pandemic-uncertainty-shades-cautiously-optimistic-2021-outlook-in-florida

I feel like this is turning into the Coronavirus thread, rather than the Market Traders thread Bars and restaurants have always remained open in my state, but eating and drinking is only outside. So they've built a lot of outdoor areas, heat lamps, fire pits, etc. And the city of Seattle has loosened a lot of business rules to let businesses build temporary outdoor areas on the sidewalks and into the parking strips, even closing some roads or making them one way to allow businesses to temporarily expand into the street with outdoor seating areas. It's cold, but safer enough that people do frequent these businesses. I'm sitting around 2 firepits and a propane heater tonight with friends drinking beers 6 feet apart, ya do what ya gotta do. But that's not a sustainable model for businesses long term, and just because places are open, doesn't mean the customers will come back. That's what all my restaurant owner friends say, people won't come back until they feel safe. So for things like theaters, I think they are going to be hurting for quite some time.

I think you are falling into that thing where one thinks "I love doing ____ and feel safe doing it, so everyone else does or should too!" Frankly I'm surprised theaters are open in New York, they are still closed in many states. Even those that are open don't have very many customers because people don't feel safe in them.

This is a news story from Friday about how low attendance is at one AMC theater:
https://news.yahoo.com/movie-theaters-open-people-going-042707187.html

It's likely a bunch of theaters will never reopen, and those that do, won't get their crowds of customers back for years, if ever. The economy and businesses will be forever changed by this pandemic.

I'm still holding on my Blackberry shares. Whenever everyone pulls the ripcord on GME (I expect Friday) they are going to pour that money into BB and probably AMC and PLTR.

I'm just playing with these meme/Reddit stocks for fun though, they are insanely volatile, most of my money is in safer index funds and big more reliable companies.

There is! Both of these allow you to look at stocks being talked about in a given time period in different apps and websites and groups:

https://hype-rider.com/
https://unbiastock.com/index.php

I kept only 3 shares of GME, I think I'm going to ride them until Friday afternoon. $250 in after hours is nuts!

I haven't really paid much attention to after hours trading before, it usually doesn't seem to have much movement. Right now it certainly does with a bunch of these hot stocks. I don't understand it though, why would someone not buy at the lower price while the Market is open, but rather wait until it closes and then buy in a more volatile time when the price can go up alot more quickly?

Both AMC and AMCX are getting pumped. AMC because people think it was undervalued and it got hyped, AMCX because it's been so shorted.

Yeah, if GME doesn't go all wrong, there is going to be a bunch of cash very soon looking for new places to invest.

I sold my 3 meager shares of GME at $350 today, I'm sure it will go higher, but at some point the sell off will come. Bought more AMC and PLTR during dips earlier today, holding strong with BB I bought a few weeks ago. Weeeeeeee!

I wonder how wall street will figure out how to stop the hedge funds from over-shorting businesses.

If by small position you mean 10 or less shares and you won't be hurt by losing the money, then no. You'd probably want to watch the movement tomorrow and pick a dip during the 12-1pm lunch hour to buy in. And you'd probably want to be watching what happens Friday to decide if you want to exit at some point because it's so high or crashing.

I asked myself this same question when GME was at $20 and didn't do it, then bought at $56 when I realized it was going to go way higher. But I also sold today at $350. I'd be more tempted to invest in the next move like AMC and BB while they are still reasonably priced, when people cash out of GME there will be a tremendous amount of money looking for somewhere to pump next and it will likely be these two and some of the other heavily shorted stocks.

Hopefully what will come out of this is more regulations and transparency on hedge funds and how they operate and game the system, there could be some very big upside if politicians in both parties are agreeing that what's happened today is wrong.

I didn't panic sell, my shares of AMC and BB are still very up, I'm just watching what they are doing to know when to take a profit. On the bright side, all my index funds and safer stocks are doing great for the first time in days. I wish I bought more PINS yesterday.

It's up 25% and climbing after hours right now.

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Something weird is going on with AMC after hours, the price is fluctuating back and forth between $10.67 and $8.63.

As does my Fidelity account. You have to go through some extra steps to turn it on. I think it's available through most of the big brokerages. Good on you for that AMC sale!

Why do you feel like the price of gold is going to go up when it's been fairly steadily declining since August 5th of last year?

A lot of people on WSBs are already into Crypto, but it's similarly as volatile. Bitcoin has gone up 10% in the last 24 hours, but it can rise or drop that much in a day all the time. I don't think WSBs or meme stocks are going away any time soon, it really depends how this plays out over the next week.

AMC did say today they are issuing new shares again:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amc-entertainment-to-issue-444-million-shares-as-investors-opt-to-convert-600-million-of-convertible-debt-2021-01-28

I'm planning on selling my shares tomorrow, with more and more shares available and the WSB excitement waning at some point soon, I can't see it going up more. It went up to $11.29 after hours, there is still enthusiasm there and more people can buy tomorrow, so I could see it going up, but how long can that last?

Yeah, that's the WSBs crypto push right now. Crypto has lots of pump and dumps in the shitcoins, they rarely last longer than a day or two, I'd take your profits early. I tried to day trade those pump and dumps a couple years ago and often got caught holding the bag. I ended up just moving all my crypto into BTC and leaving it... boy was that the right move.

NOK and NAKD have felt alot like those crypto pump and dumps, a couple people buy alot of something really cheap, build hype on it for a week or two, move the price up enough, then they bail taking profits and the price plummets back down. I don't follow penny stocks, but I'm sure it's the same sorta thing that happens in the lesser known crypto coins. Just be careful, it's usually over in a flash.

I was hoping to see AMC and BB run up so I could sell them, I tried to wake up early enough to sell them at premarket highs, but it was too rough on West Coast time for me. Stability in all those stocks is fine though, at least no one is running for the exits.

I'm liking the movement on AMC now, but with all the new shares, I'm definitely plotting my exit strategy. I bought it at $4.73, not a ton of shares, I'm fairly smalltime on the reddit stocks, but I'm going to turn a great profit if I get out around $10 up per share.

I would guess the opposite if you are using Ameritrade's website, try refreshing the page and see. At least with Fidelity, the web version doesn't live track by the minute, when I was using it I had to refresh alot to see the up to the minute data I was seeing on Marketwatch. Fidelity has an Active Trader app you download that shows the minute by minute data, I'm sure Ameritrade has something similar.

I'm curious to see how many people hold GME into next week. If things get crazy in the last hour of the market, will there be a massive sell off? Or is the mission so big that people will stay on this ride?

Well, it looks like most everyone held their shares in the WSBs stocks today, no big changes on a day I thought their would be lots of action. I guess this is going well into next week. I held my AMC, though I probably should have sold it when it almost hit $16. If it gets up towards that in after hours trading, I plan to sell.

I think I missed it, but the live audio: https://www.cnbc.com/live-audio/

Fidelity isn't limiting those stocks, but apparently they are limiting buying partial shares as of Thursday (so you can't buy a half a share). I've been quite happy with my Fidelity account.

I sold my PSTH last week, it seemed on a downward trajectory for the past 2 weeks and I started reading up on Bill Ackmen's track record. I think I got impatient on no new news and the price heading down.

I fully agree with this, except... I have a bunch of friends that don't follow stocks at all, posting on Facebook about opening accounts and planning on buying GME and AMC Monday morning. If they are doing it and posting about it, I think there is some larger hype phenomena going on right now. We are seeing it in this thread with all the new people *really excited* about the Reddit stocks and posting and asking about how to open accounts or switch brokers to get in on it. And people outside of America are starting to scramble for shares.

I thought it was nearly over, but it just may be getting it's second wind in the mainstream and internationally. Weird times we live in.

Oh, I agree, there is no squeeze play there. And hype can only push a stock price up so much and is short lived. You've got to get in and out on most of these meme stocks.

I use the first option on Fidelity (SPAXX). That's where your cash comes into from your bank, then you buy stocks from it. When you sell stocks, the money goes back in there. You can earn a little interest on it if you have a bunch of cash sitting there for a few weeks.

I don't understand the silver squeeze. My partner is a metalsmith/jeweler, she says almost all the silver that's used in the world today and for the past 20 years is recycled, there isn't neither a bigger demand or supply. Jewelers usually buy a bunch up when it drops under $10 and switch to working with other metals when it goes over $20. Can anyone clue me in?

That would be my guess, gold has been on a downward trajectory since last Summer.

I think this is the only play now. I bought it cheap, I'm keep trying to time my sale of my shares at the top and missing the window. I see a lot of people opening new accounts and wanting to buy AMC, but there are tons of shares and the company will just release more shares if the demand continues. Long term holding doesn't seem good at all, once the hype is over, the theaters will still be empty for at least another year, if not longer.

I think there is an investment strategy right now for the meme stocks, but it's pretty risky. It involves reading WSB's and evaluating what are the new stocks being hyped and see how they rise, using a tool like https://unbiastock.com/reddit.php to see what stocks are getting rising hype, and buying early on the cheap stocks before the hype has fully built and all the new retail investors buy it. That worked well with GME, AMC, BB, PLTR, and NAKD for me, not so much with NOK because I was too late. But like the saying, buy the rumor, sell the news, you are buying a rumor those people are going to jump on a stock next and then selling it when they do... and you can't wait very long to sell. It seems like a super risky strategy though and some won't pan out. And I'd avoid buying the meme stocks after everyone already has, I see zero point in buying GME and AMC now that they have somewhat stabilized in the past few days, unless you are buying dips and selling when they go up a few bucks.

I don't advise anyone to try to profit a lot of meme stocks, but they've been a nice buffer for me as my more stable investments went down with the Market in the past week. It seems when the Market does bad, the meme stocks do good and vice versa.

Nice. I bought AAPL for the first time over the weekend after hours Friday when it was still down with my GME profits, up 2% today.

Me and my 2 shares are happy with the direction it's been heading.

I love Portland and I like drugs, but what the heck does this have to do with stock market trading? The only conversations on drug legalization that seem pertinent to an investment forum is how they might effect drug related stock prices.

ps- Pinball related Portland fact, Portland has more pinball machines per capita than any other city in America

How much time have you spent in Portland? I stay there usually 2 or 3 times a year for the weekend. I love Portland, it's full of pinball bars, punks, hippies, strip clubs, cheap drinks, and more neighborhood restaurants, dive bars and independent businesses than most towns I've travelled too. I would think on a pinball forum you would judge a town more on it's killer pinball scene than on some short lived protest action in on small part of an awesome town. I guess if your only idea of Portland came from the mainstream media's coverage of a few hundred anarchists you might be right, but in reality it's an awesome town with one of the best pinball scenes in the world.

Ha ha ha, I'd never stay in The 'Couve, that town has zero personality and little pinball. I'd happily visit Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington DC even though awful protests have gone down in those cities, I don't think past protests would reflect at all on my experience travelling there, but to each their own. I do love Portland though, my brother and his family live there and I have a bunch of friends that live there. The pinball scene is great, so many barcades and pinheads, there is a pinball tournament going on almost every night, sometimes more than one. But anyway, back to stocks!

Is anyone else getting the daily explanation emails from Robinhood? They are doing some serious damage control.

It looks like it's given the stock a bump both today and after hours too.

I use Fidelity, I pretty much forgot I'd opened a Robinhood account that I never used until someone posted their wife had opened one a year ago and the free stock they gave her was a share of GME. So I quickly logged into mine to see if I was so lucky, but nope, mine is some other penny stock that Reddit has yet to discover. I wonder if Robinhood giving away a bunch of GME shares to people opening accounts with them over the past year or two helped contribute a little to it's rise.

It's been interesting to watch the WSB squeeze, hype, rise and fall. I definitely got caught up in it, luckily early, but I'm also just did smalltime investments in the meme stocks to see what would happen and really didn't risk much. My results:

3 shares of GME, bought at $58 and sold at $350
50 shares of AMC, bought at $4.73, I waited far too long and sold today at $7.49, still up, but I should have sold at 2-3 times this, my biggest mistake
137 shares of BB, bought at $12.07, still holding, down 1.12%
100 shares of NOK, bought at $6.66, holding until after earnings statement, down 31.8%
100 shares of NAKD, bought at $1.25, sold at a loss at $1.04

Still up, depending on what happens with my remaining BB and NOK shares. If I had timed my selling better I would have made a few thousand more. If I buy into hype stocks again, I know to sell them alot quicker. It's been a good learning experience. Mostly I'm a buy and hold type of person.

That was a mistake and I just corrected that post, thanks! I actually bought in at 6.66, it felt like a sign from the devil.

ETH hit a new all time high today. Of course, it hit a new ATH a week or two ago too, it's been on a tear for the last couple months.

I picked up some BABA yesterday after it's price was unexpectedly down after a great earnings report. It's up nearly 5% today. It was definitely a stock I'd been planning on starting to buy for the long haul, yesterday seemed like a good day to start.

Has anyone ordered something from Macy's online during the pandemic? I've had multiple bad experiences and now written them off forever. Ordered two pairs of jeans, they later changed my order to 1 pair and said they had no more stock, then took 2 weeks to ship to me. Ordered a frying pan and a cookie sheet, they notified me days later the cookie sheet was out of stock and would ship later. The pan arrived in a week and was fine, the cookie sheet arrive 3 weeks later and was only packed in a plastic bag mailer and was totally bent up. Contacting customer service via email was a nightmare, they seemed to be dragging out every response so I'd miss the return window. Finally got action via their website chat, but then they processed the return for the wrong item, the pan instead of the damaged cookie sheet. I just sent the cookie sheet and figured they would figure it out... they did eventually, but it took another 3 weeks to get a refund. They seem understocked, understaffed and are cutting way too many corners, I don't see them surviving if other customers are having the same kind of experiences.

I bought more yesterday, glad I did!

Maybe because of this:

"Feb 4 (Reuters) - Snap Inc (SNAP), owner of popular photo-messaging app Snapchat, on Thursday warned that upcoming privacy changes by Apple Inc(AAPL) could hurt Snap's ad business although fourth-quarter results beat analysts' estimates for user growth and revenue.

Snap stock declined 7% to $54.02 in trading after the bell.

Snap said Apple's(AAPL) planned privacy changes, which will ask iPhone users to consent to personalized ads, could present a "risk" to advertiser demand, but added it was unclear how the changes could affect Snap's business in the long-run.

"The disruption to ad targeting caused by the iOS 14 privacy changes will clearly be a worry for Snap, which has been steadily growing its armory of ad formats and advertisers," said Tom Johnson at ad agency Mindshare Worldwide.

Facebook Inc has been waging a public fight against Apple's(AAPL) changes, accusing the iPhone maker of anticompetitive behavior and hurting the social media company's ad-targeting business."

I'm nearly out, I need to stock up.

Isn't that commonplace? I use Fidelity, you can buy for a cash amount or a share amount. I bought by cash amounts for a while and had all kinds of fractional shares and it totally bothered me looking at it, so I moved over to the traditional way and got rid of all the .15s and crap. Crypto buyers are super used to it, most people don't own a full Bitcoin unless they were buying them a decade ago.

I use Fidelity and I'm happy with them, they didn't do any funky restrictions with the meme stocks. They have and Active Trader app you can download it you want more detailed tracking that I finally started using in December and find really helpful.

With new stimulus checks coming and a massive Covid relief bill, plus dropping unemployment rates, dropping virus rates and businesses opening back up, we don't exactly seem primed for a bubble burst.

Honestly, I've just bought and held the two biggest coins ETH and BTC for a couple years and added more to it here and there like a stock I'm holding long term. It's worked out great.

Nah, I buy $200-$500 at a time.

I feel pretty antistpated about all these posts. As much as I love people's predictions about where BTC will be in many years, maybe it's time to give it a break on this thread and get back to stocks? There is a good separate crypto thread...

There are more people whining about bitcoin than talking about it on this thread. I feel like for a lot of us, bitcoin is going to be a small to medium part of our investment portfolio and it's going to come up here from time to time. But beyond the larger moves, most of the talk is and should be on the crypto thread. Our friend from Canada just felt the need to go off a bunch on crypto this morning in post after post stimulating a bunch of talk. It will die down, tomorrow the Market is open, stonks are great!

I could see a big jump in the stock if they sign a deal with an auto company to manufacture the rumored Apple EV.

Cash, credit card, or using your Paypal balance to buy it via Paypal are all easy options.

They are all on Reddit now, it's easy!

I'm on the fence with dumping my PLTR before the unlock, I like the stock long term and am up about 25%. Is the play to sell Thursday then rebuy on the expected dip after the unlock?

Long term, every election cycle more states legalize pot, it's not going away. My state was one of the first, it was interesting to watch a bunch of my friends start legal growing and distribution and lose a bunch of money on it. Then more organized corporate business minded people and companies came in and bought them out for cheap. Same thing has happened with the pot stores, all the smaller ones closed or were bought out by small chains looking to get bigger. It's just determining which are going to be the companies most suited to survive as the industry figures itself out, companies get bought out, consolidation happens, etc. But if you bet on the right company and hold long, who knows how much money they could earn you.

I had 50 shares at the beginning. They did a 2 way and 3 way split at some point fairly early on. Sold most to buy a new furnace and sold the rest at $450 because I thought that had to be a ATH. If I'd held it all along, it would be 300 shares, so by today's price $9,978,600.

Ah, ha ha ha. Now I don't feel so bad.