Stocks and Trading Thread - Channeling your inner Mono

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Habbaku

#2670
April 04, 2020, 11:05:49 AM
VTI.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#2671
April 04, 2020, 11:20:55 AM
Not really an ETF guy.  I like buying names.

Habbaku

#2672
April 06, 2020, 06:56:29 PM
Student loan payments frozen at 0% interest until late September. Yee-haw. Time to invest the payments instead?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

PDH

#2673
April 06, 2020, 07:14:33 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on April 06, 2020, 06:56:29 PM
Student loan payments frozen at 0% interest until late September. Yee-haw. Time to invest the payments instead?

Hmmm, end of September, that is right before October.  Time to invest in pumpkins!
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Habbaku

#2674
April 06, 2020, 07:24:43 PM
Pumpkin futures are in this year.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Camerus

#2675
April 06, 2020, 07:38:04 PM
I gotta feeling they're gonna peak right around January.

Admiral Yi

#2676
April 07, 2020, 12:21:57 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on April 06, 2020, 06:56:29 PM
Student loan payments frozen at 0% interest until late September. Yee-haw. Time to invest the payments instead?

What rate are you paying on your loans?

Habbaku

#2677
April 07, 2020, 08:05:49 AM
They're all pretty modest--~3.5-4.2%. I don't think it makes sense to pay those more quickly, especially with the potential for the loans all being wiped away by Congress.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#2678
April 09, 2020, 01:37:26 AM
S&P 500 is up 23% from it's 3/23 bottom.

Habbaku

#2679
April 09, 2020, 08:31:59 AM
I'm expecting another dip, but otherwise am somewhat optimistic that we'll start the ready return to the top. It will probably take a couple years, though, and assumes this is more an economic panic than a recession/depression.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#2680
April 09, 2020, 08:34:28 AM
Are you keeping any powder dry Seppuku?

Habbaku

#2681
April 09, 2020, 08:36:53 AM
Always do, but I run fairly conservatively with my finances--IE, holding back way more than the general recommendation of 3 months worth of emergency expenses. I put a modest portion of my excess in when the mess started and am happy with how that did, and also played around a bit with TVIX when it was bouncing around 5-800.

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#2682
April 09, 2020, 08:50:15 AM
I meant more in the sense of sitting on cash that you're going to leg in at some point in the future.

Habbaku

#2683
April 09, 2020, 08:52:01 AM
That's what I meant by holding on to too much excess, but was a little opaque on that. I keep a high level of emergency funds saved back in case of catastrophe, but am also willing to kick in a bit of it short term if I see a good buying opportunity like, say, a pandemic panic or a housing crash.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

MadImmortalMan

#2684
April 09, 2020, 10:14:39 AM
I picked up some SDIV last week at a 17% yield.
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