Helps to look at it with a different timeframe. I’m only down a bit since the start of the year and up about 100% compared to 5 years ago. (My equity portfolio is 98% S&P500 index funds.)
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Me. I’m heavily “invested” in gold and it’s poised to break $3,000 an ounce any day now.
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That’s great if you started back in that timeframe, later ain’t so great. It’s a great return for 5 years yep.
I am down for sure, but that happened before, and back up it went. The NVDA I bought, is back in the green. That good.
I wouldn’t buy nvidia now, they have a lot of new competition as hyperscalers start making their own cheaper chips and eventually their growth will peak. Google launched their newest tpu recently.
I am just swing trading, up 10% and I drop the shares like a hot potato.
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That makes a lot of sense.
I’m
Bouncing back nicely.
I have a few swing trades in play. QBTS has me up 85% and I might just put that into HON or XOM and let it sit.
My riskier stuff is beaten down but yeah, that happens.
Tech stocks are well beaten down, most I’m just evens after investing in many last year. Their P/E is not even high but they are all getting beaten down.
Google is at around 20!!
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Looks like a green day today, until the next tweet by… you know the usual suspects 
No shutdown effect maybe.
QBTS up 46%…I’m 95% green today.
An across-the-board surge. Big things in quantum on Monday. Let’s see if the NVDA guy ruins it-- again. lol
dividend portfolio is helping offset some losses in the growth/tech portfolio, but been a painful month (though all part of the game).
China & EU has been interesting, NVDA $120 3/28 calls doing nicely in a buy the rumor sell the news sort of way, and had a nice 200% bump with AG $6 4/17 calls and hoping for more
moved an amount to cash/mm funds and waiting to see how things progress
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My newsletter guy says dividends and bonds are the way to go right now. The market wanted a bounce back, but it could be a head fake. The 10 year Treasury is what the government seems to be looking at, and the “soft” QE has really been turned off. No more easy money so Bitcoin and the shitcoins are stuck in a DCA swamp for a while.
Utilities are good, he says, D and UTG and UTF, as is nat gas and pipelines, there’s no stopping the AI energy needs and the US isn’t nearly as energy efficient as China is with deepspace or whatever that AI on the cheap was;
Trump bump stocks are AMGN and BMEZ and they are there for the deregulation to come, and the growing number of old farts in the US who need their pills, as well as tariff protection from domestic manufacturing.
(bold is what I own or will shortly when I ladder down off QBTS and some riskier things)
Um, what else. He likes HSY as a long two year turnaround.
I simply lack the knowhow (and cajónes) to do options. It’s getting a bit late in the game for me to fuck up and lose the ranch! I just GOT the ranch!
dividend stocks have done relatively well as a lot of the growth crowd has moved out of growth and into dividends
but your right dividends and bonds is a good way to ride it out, especially businesses with positive cashflow and history of growing dividend
any options i am doing are small fry, fun money, bit of an all or nothing strategy and with calls the downside is defined unlike owning the underlying stock
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I keep wanting to sell OKLO but with news like this, I shall hold.
And this
And this is great news for my miners.
Trump invokes wartime powers to increase production of critical minerals
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at immediately increasing American production of critical minerals like uranium, copper, potash and gold by invoking the Defense Production Act to expand leasing and development on federal lands.