Stocks and Trading Thread - Channeling your inner Mono

[Barrister]

New computer at work.  It was Bing set up as the default search engine.

Bing really sucks.  I mean truly.  Goggle is much, much more likely to give me the result I'm looking for in the top one or two results.

Maybe Bing Chat makes a difference.  I don't think I've used it.

[Josquius]

I try to use Ecosia to get away from Google's tentacles a little and because the planet is nice...but damn it I keep going back to Google. Its just better.
Bing doesn't have any added advantage to make something worse worth it.

[Hamilcar]

I picked up some Games Workshop because Nerds really pay a small fortune for their minis. Plus the Amazon adaptation will really drive this company forward.

[Tamas]

I picked up some Games Workshop because Nerds really pay a small fortune for their minis. Plus the Amazon adaptation will really drive this company forward.

1. Is there an Amazon adaptation?

2. Surely GW isn't a very recession - proof stock?

[Hamilcar]

I picked up some Games Workshop because Nerds really pay a small fortune for their minis. Plus the Amazon adaptation will really drive this company forward.

1. Is there an Amazon adaptation?

2. Surely GW isn't a very recession - proof stock?

1. Yes and Henry Cavill will star in it and produce it.

2. What recession?

[Tamas]

2. What recession?

Give it 3-4 months.

[Admiral Yi]

What else do you have in your portfolio Hamilcar?

I'll show you mine first if anyone cares.

Tesla
Square
SPY (SP500 ETF)
Netflix
Google
Nvidia
VHT (healthcare ETF)
AMLP (pipeline ETF)
Skechers
Tencent
Robinhood
Paramount
Crisper Therapeutics
NNDM (Israeli 3D printing)
Canopy Growth
AT&T
Visa
Boeing
Walmart
JPMorgan
WDIV (dividend ETF)

[Hamilcar]

Mostly US index ETFs plus some Microsoft. Trying to figure our positioning for the next market phase.

[Hamilcar]

Microsoft up over 8% on earnings beat. 

[Sheilbh]

Whats M$ got brewing?

I don't pick stocks I put savings in pre-selected funds, so ignore my opinion because I don't know.

But from my sector they've made interesting moves in the last year in online advertising with purchases they've made. No idea if they can stitch it all together. Nor sure also what strategy they'll go for but lots of the bits they have acquired liked to pitch themselves as better at privacy (they're not) and less of a walled garden than, say, Google - so I can see an idea of what Microsoft might want to try and create. Again, no idea if they can.

Google seem to be in a slightly more difficult spot - but that might just be wishful thinking on my part

[Hamilcar]

2. What recession?

Give it 3-4 months.

I'm increasing convinced that the recession was in the second half of last year.

[Tamas]

Microsoft up over 8% on earnings beat. 

Yeah for quite a while this year I felt good for bailing out of it at $273, not anymore.

[Hamilcar]

Microsoft up over 8% on earnings beat. 

Yeah for quite a while this year I felt good for bailing out of it at $273, not anymore.

It's going to be over $450 in a year.

[Hamilcar]

What else do you have in your portfolio Hamilcar?

I'll show you mine first if anyone cares.

Tesla
Square
SPY (SP500 ETF)
Netflix
Google
Nvidia
VHT (healthcare ETF)
AMLP (pipeline ETF)
Skechers
Tencent
Robinhood
Paramount
Crisper Therapeutics
NNDM (Israeli 3D printing)
Canopy Growth
AT&T
Visa
Boeing
Walmart
JPMorgan
WDIV (dividend ETF)

What's your rough division between ETFs and individual names? I try to minimize individual names unless I have a really solid thesis and that takes time.

[Tamas]

Microsoft up over 8% on earnings beat. 

Yeah for quite a while this year I felt good for bailing out of it at $273, not anymore.

It's going to be over $450 in a year.

I would not expect 2020-21 to the be new normal on the stock market.