OT: Stock trading

[Jaker]

OK, so list your favorite dividend stocks??

 

[CTBasketball]

It’s clearly been propped up by oligarchs and criminals moving and hiding money. Sounds like a great investment :/.

You should analyze our own stock market. It’s the most corrupt thing in the entire world.

 

[Jaker]

Waiting patiently for AMD to test $100

 

[temery]

Any thought on Garmin or Nikon (NINOY)

 

[tentoes4rings]

You should analyze our own stock market. It’s the most corrupt thing in the entire world.

I always say the market makers have their agendas at any given time to push the market up or down and can float stories to support that agenda. Market gets too overheated, cue CPI, inflation, bond yield spikes or rate hike stories. Market sells off, buy and create optimism. Rinse and repeat. Not to mention the corruption with IPOs, members of Congress making fortunes etc. More and more the play seems to be don’t fight it, trade the spikes. Seems like volatility is here to stay for the rest of the year, and possibly much longer.

 

[CTBasketball]

I always say the market makers have their agendas at any given time to push the market up or down and can float stories to support that agenda. Market gets too overheated, cue CPI, inflation, bond yield spikes or rate hike stories. Market sells off, buy and create optimism. Rinse and repeat. Not to mention the corruption with IPOs, members of Congress making fortunes etc. More and more the play seems to be don’t fight it, trade the spikes. Seems like volatility is here to stay for the rest of the year, and possibly much longer.

I’ve been closely analyzing 5-6 stocks for the past year and a half, they are all highly manipulated and the ways they do it is so grimy and illegal. Even at the micro level they do this. Holding back buy orders, hedging on calls to drive price up/down, it goes on and on. They can literally force a stock to run at open like 15%, then buy puts and then take the wheels off and drive it down 30%.

And the SEC is asleep as always. We’re all on the roller coaster.

 

[August_West]

I’ve been closely analyzing 5-6 stocks for the past year and a half, they are all highly manipulated and the ways they do it is so grimy and illegal. Even at the micro level they do this. Holding back buy orders, hedging on calls to drive price up/down, it goes on and on. They can literally force a stock to run at open like 15%, then buy puts and then take the wheels off and drive it down 30%.

And the SEC is asleep as always. We’re all on the roller coaster.

Hedgies?

 

[CTBasketball]

Hedgies?

Market makers mainly. Susquehanna, Citadel mainly. Very corrupt guys.

 

[August_West]

Market makers mainly. Susquehanna, Citadel mainly. Very corrupt guys.

Milk man?
He sucks

 

[CTBasketball]

Milk man?
He sucks

I love a good class of milk. I think I like ice cream more.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Awfully quiet here...

Can someone... anyone... give me a beam of hope for LINK. Is it buying season?

 

[HuskyHawk]

Awfully quiet here...

Can someone... anyone... give me a beam of hope for LINK. Is it buying season?

Depending on your time horizon, it may be buying season for everything.

Somebody else needs to explain all of this, because I can't. My own hypothetical is that things are tanking because the odds of it just blowing up into a great depression level spiral are as high as they've been. Government is politically incapable doing what it needs to do to solve it, which would include incentivizing as much oil and gas production as possible just to stabilize things.

 

[husky429]

Depending on your time horizon, it may be buying season for everything.

My time horizon is 30 years. Just maxed out roth IRAs and HSA for wife and I today. Definitely buying season.

 

[casual-yardin]

Depending on your time horizon, it may be buying season for everything.

Somebody else needs to explain all of this, because I can't. My own hypothetical is that things are tanking because the odds of it just blowing up into a great depression level spiral are as high as they've been. Government is politically incapable doing what it needs to do to solve it, which would include incentivizing as much oil and gas production as possible just to stabilize things.

I'm not sure what the oil reference is about in regards to the market but interest rates are the primary reason for the current declines. I'm not sure how more domestic production stabilizes the market. If you're talking about oil prices the focus should be on OPEC where production is purposely being held back.

Further, oil producers have no interest in hiking output moreso than already planned. They've been burned before.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[casual-yardin]

I'm not sure what the oil reference is about in regards to the market but interest rates are the primary reason for the current declines. I'm not sure how more domestic production stabilizes the market. If you're talking about oil prices the focus should be on OPEC where production is purposely being held back.

Further, oil producers have no interest in hiking output moreso than already planned. They've been burned before.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

last sentence should say "domestic" oil producers

 

[GG]

I'm not sure what the oil reference is about in regards to the market but interest rates are the primary reason for the current declines. I'm not sure how more domestic production stabilizes the market. If you're talking about oil prices the focus should be on OPEC where production is purposely being held back.

Further, oil producers have no interest in hiking output moreso than already planned. They've been burned before.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Exactly. Oil producers got burned bad in 2020 when oil sat on ships with no where to go. They will not make that mistake again. So many of the domestic producers shut down around that time as well unfortunately. It was just not profitable for them at those price points.

We need supply chain issues to dissipate and the Fed has to raise rates and cool the economy without plunging us into a recession. It remains to be seen whether they can do that ((looks like Powell thinks so), but fingers crossed for some type of soft landing. The Fed let things run hot for too long and we are feeling it now.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

I’m getting absolutely slaughtered right now in my crypto and individual stock portfolio but still dumping extra cash every paycheck on top of my normal weekly buys across all my accounts. If you have job stability, can stomach it, and have a long term outlook recessions are great times to build long term wealth.

 

[CTBasketball]

I’m getting absolutely slaughtered right now in my crypto and individual stock portfolio but still dumping extra cash every paycheck on top of my normal weekly buys across all my accounts. If you have job stability, can stomach it, and have a long term outlook recessions are great times to build long term wealth.

In theory yes. But people will be getting margin called soon, so they will continue to sell to free cash up. Everyone is highly over-leveraged.

I’m not buying again until we are near rock bottom. Not close yet IMO. Save the cash for now.

 

[GG]

In theory yes. But people will be getting margin called soon, so they will continue to sell to free cash up. Everyone is highly over-leveraged.

I’m not buying again until we are near rock bottom. Not close yet IMO. Save the cash for now.

Near impossible to predict the bottom. Could nibble on some of the really good companies.

 

[CTBasketball]

Near impossible to predict the bottom. Could nibble on some of the really good companies.

We’re going to be in free fall until you see some highly over leveraged players force moves to the upside.

 

[uconntoatl]

Awfully quiet here...

Can someone... anyone... give me a beam of hope for LINK. Is it buying season?

If you have Link, you're early in my opinion. Utility tokens aren't sexy, but Link secures over 60 billion dollars worth of value via all the services they provide without a single loss since implementation. Staking (super linear) and CCIP are suppose to be released in 2022. I've accumulated since .80 cents and have been dca-ing ever since. Chainlink is the key to unlocking smart contracts (See Mark Cuban tweet below) which can be the next major catalyst in the blockchain space.

Next Up for Chainlink in 2022: LINK Staking and ‘Internet of Blockchains’ - Decrypt

Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) | Chainlink

Chainlink Hybrid Smart Contracts

 

[CTBasketball]

I’m convinced half of you are running a pump and dump for $LINK.

 

[HuskyCLT]

If you have Link, you're early in my opinion. Utility tokens aren't sexy, but Link secures over 60 billion dollars worth of value via all the services they provide without a single loss since implementation. Staking (super linear) and CCIP are suppose to be released in 2022. I've accumulated since .80 cents and have been dca-ing ever since. Chainlink is the key to unlocking smart contracts (See Mark Cuban tweet below) which can be the next major catalyst in the blockchain space.

Next Up for Chainlink in 2022: LINK Staking and ‘Internet of Blockchains’ - Decrypt

Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) | Chainlink

Chainlink Hybrid Smart Contracts

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What Cuban is saying about improving business productivity is why I love HBAR and QNT. Huge upside and both geared toward enterprise applications.

And yes, Chainlink has their hand in every pot, so agree it’s not sexy but it seems relatively safe.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I’m convinced half of you are running a pump and dump for $LINK.

What Cuban is saying about improving business productivity is why I love HBAR and QNT. Huge upside and both geared toward enterprise applications.

And yes, Chainlink has their hand in every pot, so agree it’s not sexy but it seems relatively safe.

I recognize it as a long, long, long play and a gamble.

Futures were up across major indexes until the CPI news came out. Now down again. I know there's a lot of reaction to treasury yield, but that all comes back to inflation, and a whole lot of inflation is energy costs, because they affect everything else. Transport, plastics, everything. China's lockdown is also a massive supply chain problem. I'm still waiting for some leadership on these issues. We need more domestic supply, we have to switch home heating oil over to NG ASAP, and we have to incentivize US based companies to either build manufacturing in this hemisphere or start up new competition to Flextronics and Foxconn, preferably someplace like Panama.

 

[casual-yardin]

LOL! I know about money printing. That doesn't mean everyone is over leveraged, Again, got any evidence?

Wage growth has risen steadily since the mid 90's save for '08 and '20 ( I assume, haven't looked at it recently) and should be very strong the last ~18 months. I have no idea what "value-aided taxation" is. If you mean value "added" our country doesn't collect taxes in that manner. There was virtually no inflation for 10+ years until a global pandemic came along and screwed up the whole world. The value of the dollar is only relevant when measured against other currencies. Repo agreements are how banks and the Fed meet short term liquidity requirements and needs. None of this points to everyone being over leveraged.