Not shorting, but I am holding onto about 25% liquid right now in my investment account (I normally hold 0-5%) and waiting and watching to buy when it seems right. I'm looking at BXMT, WOOF, CCL, AAL; and increasing my position in WMT. I would like this to be my best year yet but 47% return last year is going to be hard to beat.

I decided to go with some recs I've seen on here and bought about $8k of each SABR, LTC, and GAIN just now. I am commenting mostly to say that I am happy I found this thread and hope that I can make some useful suggestions in the future.

Sold my VSTO today at 31.2 (near the peak) and bought NOC. We'll see how this goes. I'm avoiding all the crazy Reddit stuff. I will buy and sell in the short term but am over 20 years from retirement so I can wait too.

I was also wondering how much of your investments are in stocks? I am 20% (32% return last year) with 10% in real estate (7% return last year) and the other 70% in my business (14% return last year).

EDIT: I calculated my 401k and my personal account that I manage in the 20% figure but only did the return from my active account and not my 401K. It is now correct.

After buying and selling AMC for a profit multiple times over the last few years, I most recently purchased it a few months ago at $10. I watched it sit at the bottom of my holdings for months and sold it today a bit above $16. It was one of my smaller holdings and I only made a little over $1000 but I was happy to sell it for a nice little gain. Thanks Reddit!

I am thinking about joining The Motley Fool. Anybody a member? Worth it?

For the last 80 years, the overall growth of the stock market is 7-10% per year averaged over any 20 year period. Inflation is typically 2-3% so your effective growth is 4-8%. I typically use 7% when calculating my target date for retirement.

That is why I said "averaged over any 20 year period". The last three years we have seen returns of 12-15% per year. I personally have averaged 30% return per year over the last three years but I don't use that number to calculated my long term returns. I am currently 40 and plan to retire in 20 years. I know that things won't be like this for the next 20 years and assume an average of a 7% return. Less than that over 20 years is possible but unlikely and if I do better, that's just gravy.

I use Fidelity and I like it a lot. I will have to get the active trader app as I do some trading almost every day.

This is a crazy time. My entire portfolio has been up 1-2% per DAY for the last 4 days. It isn't unusual to have it go up that much in a day but it usually drops down the next day or so by a similar amount. I have only been trading for 3 years but I have a feeling this can't continue and we are seeing a drop coming. I currently have 28% of my portfolio in Walmart. Walmart tends to weather drops in the market pretty well so if there is a big drop, I will probably sell 60% of my Walmart shares and put that in other stocks that fell but are likely to go back up over the next year after the fall. Eventually I will sell them off for profit and buy Walmart again. No guarantees, of course, but that's my plan.

What are others' thoughts on a potential drop in the near future and what are your plans prior to or in case of such?

When Bitcoin was starting to get into the thousands of USD per coin, I thought it was crazy and stupid and wondered why anyone would be foolish enough to think something less than vapor had that kind of value. The Bitcoiners told me that I just didn't understand and that it was the future of currency. So I did extensive research and educated myself on everything related to Bitcoin including mining, blockchain, typical use, etc. So now I realize that it is worse than I originally thought with all of the faults of cash and stocks (and a few faults new to Bitcoin) and none of the upside of either. It is purely a speculative bubble driven by FOMO and has no future. Does that mean that there won't be some people who get very rich from Bitcoin? No, of course there will be. But as with all bubbles, a few will get spectacularly rich while most will lose their asses.

Thanks to whoever it was that talked about PSTH, BXMT and GAIN a while back! Those are all doing well for me. Thank you!

I am fine with people discussing Bitcoin on this thread, FWIW. This is a pinball forum so this is all off-topic. I have to laugh at the guys saying Bitcoin is just like cash or stocks. No. Both of those have some of the flaws of Bitcoin but they are backed by something far more real: the US government or a large company and a stock exchange. Bitcoin is like the Emperor's new clothes of investments. People are saying it is the future of currency but hardly anybody is using it for currency, just a speculative investment. Those invested have to keep trying to dupe the rest of us into buying this crap so their investment goes up. Bitcoin is Myspace for now, but what about when Facebook comes into play? There is no limit on how many cryptocurrencies that can be made. How people are paying thousands for a fart in the wind is amazing to me. And this coming from someone who invests in Magic, the Gathering cards, literally just a piece of cardboard with printing on it that I am paying thousands for. That seems a little insane but they are at least tangible, difficult to accurately replicate, and serve a purpose for entertainment.

Touche. Well, I guess if there had been a way to "invest" in the Central and South American cocaine trade without doing anything illegal yourself in the 80's that would have been pretty sweet. Maybe I should have more FOMO.

I bought PSTH this morning and just sold with an 11% gain in a few hours. Wish I could just do that every day; I could retire.

I got out at 33.07. I learned a long time ago that sometimes I regret not holding on but more often I REALLY regret holding on too long.

How much does that $10K represent for your entire investment portfolio? Do you have a 401k already being smart about level of aggressiveness for your age? Do you already have X amount invested? If so, how much, and in what? Or is this your first foray into stocks? Do you have other income producing investments? Also, how old are you?

What am I missing when it comes to Apple? I have bought it before and then sold it a short time later. I just don't see how it has a market cap 5x that of Walmart. They don't even make the best phones. I switched from Samsung to Iphone once and went back two weeks later. Has it just gotten by on the name and the consistent share price increases and splitting creating faith in it? I just have never really gotten it.

Well shit...I guess I violated a trade rule (selling securities before they were paid for) too many times on Fidelity and am not allowed to buy securities with unsettled cash for 90 days. Yikes! I guess it's sell or HODL or wait to buy for me for 3 months. I am so angry with myself that I didn't check my messages warning me. I guess I have never checked those messages on banking apps because they were always worthless. Lesson learned. Learn from my mistakes and don't be me.

I have a $300k balance so thank you! I'll look into that.

And of course my Fidelity app isn't showing all but two of my holdings.

Very true, but I don't sell losses. I only have 3/23 holdings that are down and even at cost basis they only represent 3% of my total value in all stocks (they're worth 1.5% right now, unfortunately). My worst is NVCN. I got a tip from a friend a couple years ago and bought 54,000 shares (for about $1900, ha). It went up almost 18% in one day and I sold for a little $350 profit and bragged to my friend. My friend said "oh no, don't sell yet, it is going up way more". I rebought what I had and it has only tanked since and is now worth $106. Did I mention the friend is a super-attractive woman? I leave it there as a reminder to be happy to take my profits where I can and not get greedy. Now if I'd gotten greedy on Tesla, I could have made $180,000 instead of the $20,000 I did, but that's how things go sometimes.

I don't have a picture of her. Sorry. I wish I did.

I don't use any of those. I used to use Facebook but left when they kept censoring Right leaning posts specifically. Plus, I knew this girl from working with her but she left about a year ago. She's a 5'4", petite, fit, 30 year-old, beautiful blue-eyed brunette with high cheekbones and the best rear end and legs I've ever seen. You'll have to use your imagination from there.

And to make this post relevant after several that weren't. I went to 15% cash today and may do more tomorrow. That along with my 30% in Walmart are my plans for the impending crash (if it happens). I feel like the Gamestop story caused a LOT of people to start investing and maybe this isn't a bubble and we will instead see a permanent rise over the next few weeks. I don't know if that'd be nice or not; being rich when everyone else is too means you're not rich.

To appease the desire for a picture of a hot woman, here is my wife. And she's 38 and a mother of 5 kids, BTW.

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My wife (the tall, curvy blonde) or my former co-worker (the petite brunette)?

EDIT: I know who you meant. So to save room...mostly.

That's actually pretty close to my wife. She used to play some but really doesn't anymore. And she got annoyed when I would spend $10k on a new machine and she would say "so now I get to buy something for ten thousand, right?" And I would respond with "sure, as long as it retains value like this pinball machine." One bonus is that in one of the rare circumstances when we had no kids in the house, she was willing to play pinball while engaged in adult behavior with me. Prior to Turtles co-op, that was one of the only ways to have two people score on a pinball machine at the same time.

Another frustrating day where my Fidelity app wasn't updating for all my holdings. Yesterday it was all but 2 that weren't updating and today it was only 4 holdings.

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Just did my first after-hours trade since I got on margin on Fidelity. Bought CRWD.

Here I am refreshing at 9:30 ET and...President's Day.

I was doing some calculations and with my current rate of return so far in 2021, I'll be a billionaire in 16 years. At the current rate of return over the last two weeks, I'll be a billionaire in 2 years. So that seems completely plausible. No way this could be a bubble.

I work for myself and normally only take New Years, 4th of July, Christmas, and Thanksgiving off for holidays, along with 3-4 weeks of vacation. I could take as much time as I want off but I don't make any money and still pay my expenses when I don't go to work.

It has been near or below zero F here for almost a week. I was just thinking this morning about when I lived in MN and it would do that for a month almost every winter. I don't miss that. I still remember walking my bundled up 3 and 1 year old sons through a parking lot at -20 F without wind chill to go meet their newborn brother in St. Paul 12 years ago.

I went ahead and jumped in at 28.88.

I also sold 1/3 of my CCL, doubled my positions in GE and DKNG, and bought some more WMT (which is 30% of my portfolio) to go 100% invested. I was holding 10% cash but this craziness appears to be continuing so I'll ride it a bit longer. I really think the combination of stimulus checks, everybody staying home, optimism for the end of the pandemic, and especially the GME ordeal is driving this with a ton of new, mostly small-time, investors. It will have to end some time but it seems a bit unprecedented and difficult to predict.

Just taking a little profit and getting some cash to buy other shares with. It is still my 2nd largest holding after Walmart.

I'll give it a shot. I bought 211 shares at 55.27.

Up 4% since I bought it. Should be interesting.

Looks like I bought PLTR too early. Fixed that a bit by doubling my position this morning under $25. I also bought more WMT on the dip after missing earnings projection.

A Tesla Model S is my daily driver and I calculated that it costs me about the same for electricity as an ICE car that gets 100 miles to the gallon. Plus, you don't have to pay for oil changes.

This is precisely what I do. Sometimes it takes 3 hours. Sometimes it takes 2 years.

Correct. 63 million DOSES, counting two for people who have received both doses.

Also, the people selling the vaccines don't seem to want this information out there, but there is an even better way to gain immunity to Covid-19 than the vaccine: prior infection and recovery. Some of the numbers will be doubled because there are people who had and recovered from Covid-19 but still got vaccinated. There are 28 million new cases so far. But the actual number of infected is probably 2-5x that number; because of people not getting tested or being asymptomatic. If we use a number on the more conservative end of that, 2.5x, that means 70 million infected (with most being recovered). So we have 1/3 of the population already having >95% immunity to severe infection and that number is rapidly rising with the current (and increasing) rate of 1.8 million vaccine doses per day. New cases are rapidly falling and deaths are also declining. The rational conclusion is that this is almost over.

But I guess I'm just not so optimistic. I would like to think that people would get fed up with this crap and start doing "high risk" things they used to do and enjoy but what I've seen from the majority of the population over the past year would lead me to believe otherwise. Scared followers have been proven to be far more common than rational thinkers.

I hope this isn't too off topic as it does relate to stocks that are affected by the response to Covid-19, such as CCL and AMC and many others.

So what are people buying today? I am thinking about getting back in on FVRR, PINS or PSTH.

Sweet. I bought both, plus the three I mentioned in my post.

I think where you live makes a huge difference. In South Dakota, where we have had very little in the way of government mandates, life has been changed to a small degree. Many people are wearing masks in stores like Wal-Mart and offices (many are not), but they and restaurants are still busy; we have sporting events, malls, and movie theaters still open. We just had an indoor stock show in town a couple weeks that was packed full of people and an indoor rodeo that was also packed. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally went by with no appreciable increase in cases. That is why so many people are moving to SD, FL, and TX where they can live without this "new normal" BS. I think most people are wanting things to go back to the way they were prior to March 2020 but unfortunately far too many people are irrationally scared and falsely believe that the mostly ineffective lockdowns, masking, and social distancing is the right thing to do. I can only hope that as more people discover the truth of what a massive overreaction this all was that it will go back to being weird when you ARE wearing a mask at Wal-Mart, as it should be. I don't need to go to the theater because I have a much nicer one in my basement, but I have continued to go to grocery stores, department stores, home improvement stores, sporting goods stores, book stores, electronics stores, etc during this entire past year and I want to continue to do so. And I know I am not alone because there are a whole bunch of other people there every time I do. I didn't really go to sport events or concerts before but I could see how they could be affected more, just like movies. With as good as streaming has become along with the insanely cheap, huge TVs you can now buy, theaters might very well be in trouble without some massive innovation to elevate the theater going experience.

I hope not. I am a physician and will find a new path if I have to wear a stupid mask for the rest of my career.

I was using what I know as an example because I live here. Cases aren't the best metric for how "well" a state is doing, deaths are a much better metric. Having a high case/fatality ratio would actually be a good thing. Furthermore, a disproportionate amount of severe cases and deaths are from the reservations, which have their own, much stricter, policies.

SD might be an "outlier" (in a good, non-draconian way) but my point about people moving here in droves over the last year speaks to the desires of people in other states to avoid and reject this "new normal".

Did I call someone stupid? Being irrationally fearful is not the same as stupidity. I am not a virologist but there is a large breadth of training that goes into getting through medical school, internship, and residency. I also have a sister with a PhD who did research on microorganisms and a father who is physician with a masters in epidemiology. Plus, I have a degree in mathematics and know how to critically evaluate data and research, something I have spent countless hours doing over the last year rather than listening to the news, politicians, technocrats, or anyone else with bias, for my information.

Do you think politics affect stocks? I am interpreting this statement to mean you don't. Curious.

I am holding 20% in cash right now, waiting to get in on what feels like the bottom. Today seems early. I think there is further to fall. What are others thinking of doing?

A bunch of my stuff was down 5-15% and I was down 3.2% overall. I went to see one patient and come back 20 minutes later to see those same holdings down 2-8% and down 1.8% overall. Seems like it will be a volatile day but I am still guessing an impressive overall downward trend.

I just bought 5k each of PLTR, POSH, AMD, and WOOF.

I am holding 100k cash right now that I am expecting to be out of by the end of the week. This should be fun.

Maybe I need more patience. Now I bought $5k of each PINS, FVRR, WOOF, PLTR, POSH, AMD, CCIV, and ZM. AMD and CCIV were new to me; the rest I already had holdings in.

I'm watching Wal-Mart. It's my APPL and I think it is a bargain now and will be even better over the next few days. I will likely add a large increase in my position to it this week.

I bought CCIV at 42 and again at 37 today. It was my only holding purchased today that went down significantly overall.

WOOF, ZM, CRWD, POSH, FVRR, MAC, PLTR all fairly neutral.

AMD and PINS were up.

I have 75% in my day trading and 25% in my managed work 401K (which is also fairly aggressively invested) so I am pretty aggressive/risky in the market overall. But I'm also only 40 so I have a lot of time to deal with volatility and I have 5x as much in non-market investments.

How early did you guys get into investing in the stock market? I started at 37 and really wish I had started earlier. My parents started me off with $20k when I was 20 and I took it out and blew it on a car I didn't need, like a moron. Hopefully I can teach my kids to do better.

I got into investing by having a competition where each of my family members (I have 5 kids) picked a stock and I bought about $1000 worth of each. I think we had Apple, Disney, Google, Hasbro, Nintendo, Amazon, and AMC. Amazon was a little more at the time for just one share but I still bought that for the one kid that chose it. Then whoever had the best return at the end of the month won a portion of what they'd made. I believe all of them, except my wife's Disney went up, but my AMC went up 23% in that month so I won, much to the chagrin of my kids.

That was the first time I bought APPL and it was the last time until a couple days ago when I bought some again. I just have always felt that it was overvalued. They don't even make the best smartphone, that'd be Samsung.

I invest so much in Wal-mart because I feel it is still really undervalued. I know profit margins are a thing but how can Apple be worth more than 5x what Wal-Mart is worth? The reach, dominance, and just pure real estate holdings of Wal-Mart has me wondering how they are not the most valuable company in the world. I believe with a few tweaks that they could dominate Amazon, too. They already have far more shipping centers across the country. They could have 1-day shipping for most people, for most things. There is no reason they couldn't get into streaming and do everything Amazon does online along with their dominance in B&M.

When I started at my current job 8 years ago, I got the 401k. The broker who manages that for us wanted to meet with me and discuss finances. Instead of listening to my situation and desires, he gave me a cookie-cutter line out of any "Investing for Dummies" book so I decided to just do the minimum 3% there. I am also a big numbers/spreadsheets kind of guy and I eventually started doing my own thing and I just really enjoy it.

Looking at CCIV and WMT.

I am taking a bath pretty bad on the CCIV I bought yesterday. I will keep an eye on it and probably double my position when it seems to bottom out; try to make some of my money back.

Sold MAC at 14.60. Bought PLTR at 25.49. Put a limit order at 28 for a little more CCIV.

Well I spent all of the cash I had ready for the fall...probably time to just buckle down and HODL for about a year of (hopefully) ups and downs. That will take a lot of willpower as I have been trading so actively for the past year. I have approximately equal holdings in: LTC, GAIN, EPD, MFCSF, AMD, NOC, PYPL, NTDOY, ATVI, ALL, NFLX, PSTH, YUM, IDXX, WBA, DKNG, AMZN, GE, PINS, FSLY, AAPL, BABA, FVRR, CRWD, POSH, PLTR, ZM, CCIV, WOOF. I also have about 7x as much in WMT. Overall I am down about 7% right now and expecting it to drop more in the near future. Thankfully I don't need this money any time soon.

Thanks, it is a pretty even mixture of:
- My own choices
- High dividends
- Motley Fool recs
- Picks I got from this forum

I sold mine at 67.03 and bought more ATVI and NTDOY. My HODL strategy lasted all of one day.

I know; I really shouldn't take memes from those dirty crypto traders.

I am up almost 3% overall today. It is crazy how I keep expecting a big drop and it just doesn't happen. I really think what we saw in February (and has continued to a degree since) is a large influx of new money from new investors that represents a new baseline rather than a bubble. This pandemic has people thinking more about their future and I know so many people that started investing more in the past couple of months. I really think the Gamestop story made a lot of people aware of how easy it is to invest; along with more free time and more money due to stimulus checks and less spending of "going out"/entertainment money.

High dividend stocks have been doing really well lately: LTC, BXMT, EPD, GAIN. Any other strong dividend stocks I should look at?

Anyone joining in on that?

I'm going to San Antonio for a trip with the fam on March 27th so I hope that happens real quickly. Invest in SeaWorld and Six Flags?

*Looks at those stocks* Dang! I wish I'd given myself that advice 4 months ago!

WMT has taken quite a dip recently. Bad for me as I have a lot of it but might be something to look at.

Yep, second day in a row of slaughter for me. The worst are POSH, CRWD, WOOF, PINS, PSTH. Of course, that is right now. They day has been very swingy for me overall.

I sold 15% of my stuff including PYPL, GE, DKNG, AMD, FVRR, ABBV, and some WMT on Monday and all of them have dropped since, some significantly. I will probably watch them fall a bit more and buy them back tomorrow or next week.

Same here. I was thinking about buying a bit this afternoon and then more on Monday and Tuesday.

I sold mine yesterday.

Any thoughts on the RBLX IPO on Wednesday? As I was watching 4 of my 5 kids play Roblox last night, I decided to see if it was a publicly traded company...and yep, IPO in 3 days. Same thing happened to me with Petco and that hasn't turned out well, yet. Regardless, I plan to buy RBLX; I'm just not sure how much and when is the best time to get in.

All of my kids decided to buy some RBLX and NTDOY this week.

My kids that play Roblox regularly are 7, 9, 12, and 13. My 15 year-old is on to other games.

Yes, thanks for the correction. I said "IPO" for the brevity.

I appreciate the heads up. I bought the shares under my account and just keep track of how much they put in and at what price. As they only put in $50-100 each, I don't worry about charging them for taxes nor do they get the dividend (I of course do both ). It is more about having them watch a stock as a fun family thing.

Busy buying day for me, bought more PSTH, WMT, NTDOY, FSLY. Rebought DKNG, PYPL, AMD, FVRR. New buys of VEEV, XOM, SKLZ, WRE.

EDIT: Watching EPD (buy order at 22.8) and ABBV (buy order at 106.0). Sell order for ALL at 119.5.

I really feel like AAPL is mostly current investors saying how it is a long-term growth stock and not overvalued to convince others to buy more. And as long as people keep mostly buying, it will keep being gradually good. It just seems like at some point enough people would say "why is this the most valuable company in the world?" and it would tank. But that never happens; AAPL is its own thing. I have some AAPL stock so I don't want that to happen. I guess I am just another sucker, but all of us suckers keep gaining value on AAPL so...

EDIT: "AAPL, not APPL"

Ouch.

I bought some AAPL recently because sometimes you have to separate your opinion of the company from your stock buying decisions. I've hated almost every Apple product I've ever used from their computers to their tablets to their phones. The last Apple product I remember enjoying was when I played King's Quest 3 on my parents' Macintosh II SE. Just the other night I wanted to break my daughter's iPad because she fell asleep watching Youtube on it and I couldn't figure out how to stop it from playing the video (I did eventually) nor turn it off (never figured that out). When I tried an iPhone because my wife liked hers, I returned it for a Galaxy in 2 weeks. I guess I have bought some songs from iTunes...

You misspelled "stupid and reckless" haha! But time and diversity fixes all things in the stock market.

I bought PINS at 80. Is that good? Also just realized that it isn't Stern pinball. WTF?

I guess if I want to invest in Stern I'll just keep buying NIB pins with 1/3 of the code done.

Also, today represented the first drop below my starting balance + deposits line for year-to-date.

I bought a lot yesterday but should have kept with my mantra of "sell in the morning and buy in the afternoon". That usually doesn't fail me and it wouldn't have in this case. I would be up big on a bunch of stuff, particularly FVRR, if I'd followed that advice. It will be good still, I think, but will take a bit longer to be good.

I know talked about this some yesterday but I am planning on buying some RBLX when the public offering starts tomorrow. I'm not going crazy, but am planning on putting about $6k into it. Any advice based on past experience from those more knowledgeable than me? Avoid companies this early? Buy ASAP? Buy in a couple days or weeks? Thanks. I'm a big boy and any advice that I take that turns bad is my fault, not yours.

"I am the most often misquoted person in history; more than Kim Kardashian." --Albert Einstein

I put a limit order on RBLX at $50 for just 20 shares. A little bite. I am expecting to buy about $5000 more of it but want to see how things go for a few days to a week first.

I put 3 limit orders of just 20 shares each at $50, $65, and $75.

I got 40 shares at 64.50. I could sell right now for a $350 profit but I'll probably just hold onto it and buy more if it drops.

I put in an order for 50 more shares at $60. I am sort of doubtful it will get there today, but we'll see.

My kids that play are 7, 9, 12, and 13. My 15 year old plays a little but mostly plays other games.

I played a Quake clone on Roblox the other day. It was one of the most enjoyable deathmatch FPS I've ever played and I used to play Quake competitively.

That's badass! I started with Quake II but mostly played Quake III Arena. I wasn't in a Quake clan. I wasn't at the same level as you; played more regional level lugging my 19" CRT monitor and massive Gateway tower around. I was much better at Half-Life Deathmatch and Team Fortress and was in a clan for those but those weren't as popular as Q3A and Counter-Strike.

Hey! Another WMT guy in here! It is by far my largest holding and I feel like it is a buy right now. I added more a couple weeks ago when it was around 130. I think that if Walmart wanted to, they could crush Amazon. They already have the distribution centers with all of their stores. Their online store is already pretty good and they could add a streaming service and a "Prime" sort of membership (that could even tie-in with Sam's Club memberships) and just do what Amazon does, but better in some ways. Imagine an Echo type of Walmart device that just automatically orders and has your groceries delivered once a week (or have them ready for you to pick up at the local store). Maybe they'll never do these things but it would make their share price soar if they ever did. That's what I'm hoping for and just taking the slow and steady gains in the mean time.

I shop at Walmart all the time. It is so convenient to have so much in one store and they have good produce and meat (Sam's is even better for both). Unfortunately there is no Costco where I live. We have Target but it's not a Super Target and the only thing better about Target than Wal-Mart is the hot moms seem to like Target more and I like hot moms (though now they're all wearing fucking masks). I own shares in Wal-Mart, Costco, and Amazon. I also don't always have to like a company to own shares of that company because I understand that people are different than me. As I've said before, I think Apple products are crap but I own shares in Apple. I don't drink coffee and wouldn't see why anyone would pay $8 for coffee but I would buy Starbucks shares if the price seemed right. I admit that Wal-Mart has their problems but they are still a titan of retail and grocery so the foundation is there to be great.

You must have better companies than I do. My EPD and XOM are up, but nothing amazing. SABR is my best holding so far today.

I am in a waiting pattern for right now. I sold a bunch of stuff last week to go to more cash and am waiting for my entire portfolio to hit 20% down overall (10% now) to cost average down a bunch of my holdings and rebuy some of the up stuff I sold that has fallen, and then wait for the rise.

I currently own EPD, GAIN, XOM, WRE as my dividend stocks.

Four of my 27 holdings are barely green; the rest are red. Watching for more falling and waiting with cash to buy...

Same.

I bought more PLTR this morning to cost average down to 25.40.

The last two weeks have been the slowest trading time for me in three years. I bought $3000 (my monthly transfer allowance) worth of QYLD today and that's all I've done for two weeks.

HAHA! You dick.

After making no moves for a while, I sold a large position in GAIN this morning and used that to buy AI, more EPD, and to buy back into MAC and FVRR.

Also, why oh why did I buy CCIV? It is killing me right now.

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Bought it yesterday and sold it today.

Thank you. I don't have an IRA but I'll look into KMI anyway. This is all just my individual investment account. I also have a managed 401k.

WOOF, LIT, and SABR are the only holdings I have that are up anything more than a fraction of a percent today. 80% of my stuff is down, however.

I do believe I bought those based on your recs.

I am losing my ass on CCIV and not sure what to do. I already averaged down a bit but that just increased my holding size and therefore my losses since. I am down almost 50% ($7000) on it. I haven't experienced this kind of loss before. I am probably going to just hold and wait (I can do so for years, if necessary), but I am a little concerned about it just tanking more and never recovering and think perhaps I should just cut my losses and try to make my money back elsewhere. Or there is the option of averaging down by buying even more, which might be the craziest idea.

I have Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Youtube Red. The order I personally watch them: Youtube, HBO Max, Prime, Disney, Netflix, Hulu.

Netflix has so much of their original stuff that is just mostly crap and haven't been carrying as much of the movies I actually want to see lately, like they used to.

Have you watched Batman V Superman, Ultimate Edition and Zack Snyder cut Justice League? It is amazing how much better those movies are than the original theatrical releases.

Also, Godzilla vs. Kong sucks.

All that said, I still own a fair amount of NFLX, which I'm currently down on. I bought it on Motley Fool rec.

What is your position? I have 414 shares at 35.06 average. It is currently my worst holding as I am down from an outright dollar amount more than twice any other position I have. Let's hope for good things. I have decided to hold and not increase my position as of right now.

EDIT: changed "percentage" to "amount"

It was not my finest decision to purchase it where I did. I didn't follow the "rules" that I created and typically follow and I've paid for that. Live and learn. I considered just buying 4,000 shares to really average it in the right direction (and today would have made that a good decision last week), but I didn't.

I bought TTC and ABNB today. Also bought more FSLY and SABR.

I am feeling really good about ABNB right now. More "vaccine passports" means more off-mainstream vacation options. A coworker was telling me she cannot fly into LAX without proof of vaccination; despite having proof that she had and recovered from Covid-19. This is getting crazy.

With the currently available evidence, previous infection and recovery provides better immunity than the vaccine. So yes, crazy. Also, vaccines are widely available enough now that anyone who wants one can get started on the course. Those who are confident enough in the vaccine should feel safe enough getting their own and there would be no need for others around them to get one. Also, there is plenty of evidence to support the use of Ivermectin as an extremely safe and effective treatment for Covid-19 at all levels of infection severity, but especially at prophylaxis and mild infection levels. 100% safety can never be assured, but previous infections, vaccination availability, and good treatments are all at levels that the safety of the vast majority of Americans from Covid-19 is very high. High enough that requiring vaccines is ludicrous from a medical evidence standpoint. But that isn't what is driving this. From a profits standpoint, invest in Pfizer. But I digress...

Relevant to the stock discussion, companies will also lose customers based on requiring vaccines. I would argue they will lose as many as they will gain but there really isn't any data available at this time to support or refute that.

I am sure she was talking about the quarantine (which is still ridiculous) but I should have considered the source (she likes to exaggerate a bit). I wonder how they monitor that? You get in trouble if you get pulled over or get asked for your papers on the boardwalk, but can flout the rules if you get lucky? I guess I've been spoiled living in one of best states to be in during this. I can't imagine living in that kind of draconian BS environment.

And again, vaccine mandates will affect businesses negatively too, just like mask mandates did. I'll personally never go into Menards (formerly my favorite store) again as they would not allow you to enter without a mask for almost a year while all other stores were more lax. I will use any airline, cruise line, or go to any destination that doesn't require a vaccine 100% of the time over one that does. There are a lot of people who feel the same. I'm far too pro-freedom, and pro-science, to follow these kind of arbitrary, freedom-stealing, irrational fear-powered, rules meant to increase money and power for those who already have too much, under the guise of "safety".