OT: Stock trading

[HuskyHawk]

I was told by my boss that it would be cheaper to pay for me to have a co working space membership than the electricity from my location at work alone.

When you can shut a whole building it really makes a difference. Our offices are already almost all in the suburbs, and we are still shutting buildings. Electric, internet, maintenance, cleaning, landscaping, snow plowing, trash removal, security, amenities like gyms, coffee stops or cafeterias. That's before considering cost savings to the employee and external costs like the carbon footprint (which most companies want to claim they reduce). The economics of commuting are beyond awful. I realize that some people are wedded to it and refuse to admit that it is on its way to the dustbin of history.

 

[XLCenterFan]

If WFH is going up, so are divorce rates. People will lose their minds being around the significant other and/or kids all day. I'll take not working from home all day. Any marital separation-based stock plays?

 

[the Q]

If WFH is going up, so are divorce rates. People will lose their minds being around the significant other and/or kids all day. I'll take not working from home all day. Any marital-separation based stock plays?

Match.com? Lol

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Match.com? Lol

Wouldn't know, yet media rumors suggest females prefer BMBL.

Side topic someone referenced above, potential businesses to benefit via WFH > home solar, generators (GNRC), dependable/fast internet, suburban shared office space, etc. WFA opportunities?

 

[temery]

Match.com? Lol

Remember the ad with Courtney saying, "come find me." I found her home address and sent her a letter. I think she's waiting to reply so everything she writes is memorable.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Remember the ad with Courtney saying, "come find me." I found her home address and sent her a letter. I think she's waiting to reply so everything she writes is memorable.

I am sure that poor Courtney struggles to attract male attention. Thankfully Match is there to connect her with stalkers guys like you.

 

[Dogdeacon]

When you can shut a whole building it really makes a difference. Our offices are already almost all in the suburbs, and we are still shutting buildings. Electric, internet, maintenance, cleaning, landscaping, snow plowing, trash removal, security, amenities like gyms, coffee stops or cafeterias. That's before considering cost savings to the employee and external costs like the carbon footprint (which most companies want to claim they reduce). The economics of commuting are beyond awful. I realize that some people are wedded to it and refuse to admit that it is on its way to the dustbin of history.

It is not people wedded to a commute, its companies that benefit from many things including accountability, the increased collaboration, more rapid exchange of information and ideas gained from having people in same place. Office demand (as evidenced by searches on CoStar & Loopnet) has recently returned to pre-pandemic levels. No doubt, companies will downsize and allow WAYYYYYYY more work from home. But there will still also be a significant number of companies that will require employees to come to the office and industries/jobs where doing so adds value for both the employee and the employer. People didn't only commute to Manhattan b/c their employers made them or they loved the train, they did so b/c Manhattan is one of the greatest cities in the world offering innumerous things you cannot get in the 'burbs.

Commuting and office work in major southeastern cities like Dallas has almost fully returned. Office demand in the suburbs is actually pretty strong across the country right now & likely more better micro live-work-play suburbs prosper (i.e. in Boston 128 belt will be very popular for both companies and residences).

I would wager any silly thing anyone wants to wager that there will be some massive traffic jams in Boston, DC, NYC, San Fran etc & nightmarish commuting and parking stories when workers return en masse after Labor Day.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Think of the Miami building collapse...the 35w Minneapolis bridge...Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill....the list goes on. All potentially avoidable if DPLS has the capabilities they are saying they do. The public will demand real time feedback on these structures, and a reasonable person could expect this tech added to building codes of our future smart cities. Cha-Ching.

DPLS Cha-Ching thanks to @Gutter King > up ~375%.

DPLS > Trans-Alaska Pipeline?

Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline - Alaska Native News

“The implications of this speak to the pipeline’s integrity and the effect climate change is having on pipeline safety in general.” Alaska’s thawing permafrost is undermining the supports that hold up an elevated section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, putting in danger the structural integrity of...

alaska-native-news.com

 

[UConnSwag11]

$FUBO

 

[UConnSwag11]

Business Wire
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6 hours ago

 

[UConnSwag11]

MarketWatch
FuboTV Shares Higher, Fubo Gaming to Offer Sportsbook Service in Pennsylvania
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4 hours ago

 

[pauliepeppas]

Paysafe is a steal at these levels,

 

[UConnSwag11]

I have Fidelity and I have no had a issues with them. The customer support is great and they have great mutual funds, but their web version and app are not good IMO, which is big for me. Would you guys recommend TD Ameritrade over them?

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

BABA & BILI. They were both up 5% Tuesday when just about everything else in my watchlist was down. Both were getting hit harder than everything else the days proceeding, because of the scare with the DIDI situation, then Tuesday the global trade news came out. Also, I'm sure you've been watching the shipping bottleneck in the south that is freeing up.

China is cracking down on data privacy. That's terrible news for some of its biggest tech companies | CNN Business

China spent months clipping the wings of some of its tech champions over concerns that they were crowding out the competition. Now Beijing is seizing on data privacy as the next step in a sweeping campaign that threatens to cut companies off from global investment.

www.cnn.com

Global demand for Chinese-made goods is soaring and shipping delays are easing too

Demand for Chinese-made goods is soaring as the world continues to bounce back from the pandemic. That's helping to calm fears about the recovery in the second largest economy.

www.cnn.com

Amazon & MELI have been thriving the last couple weeks, BABA was struggling the same time.

Ah, so the ole 2 companies symbolically representing all of a specific "market". Just bustin' 'em, and only my individual pet peeve when others (not you) reference "the market" did X, or the "the markets" are down/up/traded sideways when ALL did not do X or only some parts of ALL equities traded down, or were up, or traded sideways.

All joking aside, clearly non-mainlanders, particularly Yanks, may consider treading lightly with some mainland-listed companies, some mainland-specific companies trading in NY, London, or as ADRs in HK, etc. Non-specific, not ALL mainland companies yet some ETFs or some non-mainland companies (US, European, JP, KR, TW, etc) active on the mainland may increasingly become more popular ways to potentially benefit from possible ongoing growth in the Middle Kingdom (China).

Related Barrons article: Some China Stocks Could Vanish in the U.S. What to Know.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I have Fidelity and I have no had a issues with them. The customer support is great and they have great mutual funds, but their web version and app are not good IMO, which is big for me. Would you guys recommend TD Ameritrade over them?

No specific comment regarding either Fido nor TD Ameritrade, but be aware integration of the latter in to Schwab is now in process. Fido, SCHW and Vanguard are each solid companies, yet each are also laden with a LOT of legacy technology. With TD and SCHW, ideally they pull the best of both, kill the worst, and introduce enhanced, newer tech to bring the resulting integrated company more into the 21st century sans shystery Robbinghood ops, non-existent client support, dearth of legit fiduciary practices, etc.

SoFi is interesting. Anthony Soto and team seem to have established a solid company with appropriate fiduciary practices, reasonable support, and they appear to be polar opposites of Robbinghood's Vlad born in a small Bulgarian town. Observing Robbinghood go public may he entertaining.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Puts, and straddles helpful.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Very bad day today. Oof. We will see if this is the beginning of the Bear, or if it bounces back.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Slight bounce today. Good to see the resistance.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Slight bounce today. Good to see the resistance.

Yes, but if the pessimism was covid concern for lockdowns it is unfortunately more likely to roll backwards. Seems like the math on infections is just inevitable bad news at this point. Add all the supply issues in every business and we've got some serious short-term impediments to growth.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Yes, but if the pessimism was covid concern for lockdowns it is unfortunately more likely to roll backwards. Seems like the math on infections is just inevitable bad news at this point. Add all the supply issues in every business and we've got some serious short-term impediments to growth.

IMHO, yesterday's general drops among many US/western/global equities of various types/caps were not solely due to spikes in Delta/India variants of mainland China SARS-2 and global supply chain challenges you reference. See US Treasury overreaction, further build up in US/West v mainland Central Govt (govt-sponsored hacks on the west, regulatory IPO constraints to SSE, SZE, HKSE v NYSE/Nasdaq/LSE IPOs, ongoing mainland big tech regulatory claws, etc.)

Additionally, US/western labor availability vs willingness of many unemployed to work at offered comp levels (particularly schools reopen FT), potential actions of ridiculously over-margined crypto holders and some equity shorts cashing in to free up cash to meet margin calls; reasonable sales of some overly-juiced equities of various types, etc.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Yes, but if the pessimism was covid concern for lockdowns it is unfortunately more likely to roll backwards. Seems like the math on infections is just inevitable bad news at this point. Add all the supply issues in every business and we've got some serious short-term impediments to growth.

It seems that was part of it. Supply chain issues remain massive all over. Interesting that demand is high. At some point capital will flow to solve that supply problem. Microchips in cars for example, Intel will probably get into that business.

As for Covid restrictions. Have you seen the protests in France and the UK? I would expect the same here. There's no appetite to shut things down again rather than to just accept that this virus is present and live with it.

Agree with @Da_Aisijimo_Gou that there are many other factors affecting the markets. The Federal Reserve can't seem to get its act together for one.

 

[Scud49]

I have Fidelity and I have no had a issues with them. The customer support is great and they have great mutual funds, but their web version and app are not good IMO, which is big for me. Would you guys recommend TD Ameritrade over them?

I have Fidelity Active Trader Pro software and I've found it to be excellent for my stock charting and buying/selling purposes.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I have Fidelity and I have no had a issues with them. The customer support is great and they have great mutual funds, but their web version and app are not good IMO, which is big for me. Would you guys recommend TD Ameritrade over them?

I have Fidelity Active Trader Pro software and I've found it to be excellent for my stock charting and buying/selling purposes.

My company's 401k is done through Fidelity and it's also where I do my stock trading.

Keep a separate Vanguard IRA where I put any random money which comes my way.

No complaints with either one.

 

[HuskyHawk]

My company's 401k is done through Fidelity and it's also where I do my stock trading.

Keep a separate Vanguard IRA where I put any random money which comes my way.

No complaints with either one.

As we have dealt with the death of my mother in law and my father in law's dementia, I will say this: there are benefits to having almost everything all in one place. I just keep everything at Fidelity now. They haven't charged me a penny to trade in many years.

 

[uconntoatl]

Steal of the century at these prices

Chainlink onboards an average of 1.4 new partners each day in 2021

Chainlink’s Verifiable Random Function has bolstered its ecosystem growth, spurring numerous partner integrations over recent months.

cointelegraph.com

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

As we have dealt with the death of my mother in law and my father in law's dementia, I will say this: there are benefits to having almost everything all in one place. I just keep everything at Fidelity now. They haven't charged me a penny to trade in many years.

Your child(ren) will appreciate you and your spouse's consolidated holdings, especially when reasonably held in trust name.

Zero trade fees aside, Fido, SCHW, Vanguard, IBKR, etc generate massive net income from client's trades, holdings, uninvested cash, fund op fees, asset mgmt, robo mgmt, securities lending, margin loans, retirement plan administration, etc. Cash cows. SCHW's stock performance has been sweet as honey the last year.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Your child(ren) will appreciate you and your spouse's consolidated holdings, especially when reasonably held in trust name.

Zero trade fees aside, Fido, SCHW, Vanguard, IBKR, etc generate massive net income from client's trades, holdings, uninvested cash, fund op fees, asset mgmt, robo mgmt, securities lending, margin loans, retirement plan administration, etc. Cash cows. SCHW's stock performance has been sweet as honey the last year.

Along those lines, has anybody set up a brokerage account for their kids? Fidelity has a new child account for 12-17. My daughter is 18, so I tried to go through applying for a normal one yesterday with her, and it seems we need a paper application. I assume her complete lack of any credit score is the reason.

She has some money from work and HS grad gifts and other gifts over the years. I want to park it in a F500 ETF rather than a useless savings account. I will have her set up a Roth too, and possibly fund it myself to the limit of her wages. I sure wish I had invested money I had when I was much younger. 40+ years of growth, especially tax free in a Roth, is a benefit that shouldn't be passed up.

 

[Scud49]

SAVA is really popping - up about 29% today alone. The buzz is their Alzheimer's drug may be FDA approved at some point.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Along those lines, has anybody set up a brokerage account for their kids? Fidelity has a new child account for 12-17. My daughter is 18, so I tried to go through applying for a normal one yesterday with her, and it seems we need a paper application. I assume her complete lack of any credit score is the reason.

She has some money from work and HS grad gifts and other gifts over the years. I want to park it in a F500 ETF rather than a useless savings account. I will have her set up a Roth too, and possibly fund it myself to the limit of her wages. I sure wish I had invested money I had when I was much younger. 40+ years of growth, especially tax free in a Roth, is a benefit that shouldn't be passed up.

I set up one for my 16yr old son entirely online but its a custodial account so my info too. As a 16yr old male he would impulsively cash out the second he wants something, heck I did that at 25 turning 5K inheritance from my grandfather that had become 10K+ into a car (great, fun Honda Prelude but still).

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is pretty interesting. Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries - WSJ