Stock Market is the bottom in?

[BuckSutherland]

Trump already got Mexico to start making concessions.... Sounds like Mexico tariffs are paused for one month to allow negotiations. Mexico to immediately send 10,000 troops to the border.



Trump also got a deal out of Panama last night. Panama will not be renewing deals with China to have operational control of the canal.

 

[jsasker007]

Trump has a lot of things to fix. He was left a complete mess.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I’ll never catch heroin addiction I can promise.
I can’t promise I’ll never get cancer or Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Those are diseases. Addictions are a series of decisions that lead to what you described. I wish we would develop drugs to override those mental impulses.

 

[jsasker007]

 

[Telemark]

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Get online, dude. Literally everything is doing the opposite. I'm buying like crazy.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Get online, dude. Literally everything is doing the opposite. I'm buying like crazy.

What you buying

 

[Telemark]

What you buying

SOFI and PLTR so far. I was sitting here peeing my pants until everything started taking off. I think @BuckSutherland and @BenA called it: tariffs scared some people, but the breaking news is having the opposite effect.

Just sold about 4k worth of calls, too.

I guess this means I can't go to bed. I love being in Vietnam, but being 12 hours ahead of NY really sucks when you're trying to make money trading.

 

[jsasker007]

Get online, dude. Literally everything is doing the opposite. I'm buying like crazy.

It fit the initial market reaction which is always shear panic for some reason. I'm just holding what I have for now.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886441687636992078

 

[Telemark]

I bought some CSCO.

I think I'm done for the evening. I deployed a lot of cash and sold covered calls on everything.

Edit: I changed my mind. I'm going to buy some VLO to replace what got sold when my call options got triggered.

 

[Brian662]

 

[Telemark]

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This is the general plan. I am far from an expert, but I am learning all the time. If I can be disciplined enough to follow a system, I think I will be fine. I will admit I have held things longer than I should have (DJT), and have gotten greedy with call options (PLTR and SOFI), and been lazy with my stop losses (PLTR again), but overall my gains outweigh my mistakes. And in the mean time, it's the most interesting and exciting job I've ever had, and I've done some pretty interesting stuff along the way.

I really appreciate the input of people here. For some reason, I feel like the good info to bad info ratio is better here than most other places on the internet. That said, no tips or advice can ever be worth more than discipline. It has taken me about 2 or 3 years to get comfortable trading the way I do, and I still find that my mistakes are generally due to lack of discipline and letting emotion affect my judgement.

I often feel like the guy from Airplane:

 

[Telemark]

BTW, to all of you who are reporting breaking news: what sources are you using to get the most up-to-date info on news that affects the markets?

My IP addresses seem to be giving me a lot of BS I don't care about, and I'm missing out on the news that moves the markets.

I have been meaning to get a VPN, but all the moving around has put that on the back burner, so I'm a bit behind.

 

[Mortenson]

How the meeting went with Mexican lady.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

BTW, to all of you who are reporting breaking news: what sources are you using to get the most up-to-date info on news that affects the markets?

My IP addresses seem to be giving me a lot of BS I don't care about, and I'm missing out on the news that moves the markets.

I have been meaning to get a VPN, but all the moving around has put that on the back burner, so I'm a bit behind.

I like citizen free press

 

[BuckSutherland]

BTW, to all of you who are reporting breaking news: what sources are you using to get the most up-to-date info on news that affects the markets?

Twitter, Youtube, Truth Social.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Here's some info from a popular dividend focused EFT fund

SCHD has a dividend yield of 3.57% and paid $0.99 per share in the past year. The dividend is paid every three months and the last ex-dividend date was Dec 11, 2024.

$10k/acre ag land with $350/acre rent has a similar return rate and you get to hunt it while the land value increases! The problem with that plan though is you can buy a few stocks with each paycheck, but there is no low-cost way to get into land.

 

[bwoods11]

Last time the trade war with China necessitated a $16 billion bailout of farmers. We made Brazil the worlds biggest soybean exporter.

The US secured huge commodity guarantees from China in a major trade deal. Trump enforced them, Biden did not . They have never bought the minimum since Biden was in .

We will see if they are willing to honor the trade deal .

If you think Trump is not pro farmer ? Check the results of the 2024 election, he won almost 76% of the farmers nationwide . He won almost every agricultural county . They know who is on their side .

Note … Democrats have pushed meat alternatives to beef, chicken and pork. They want to end agricultural as we know it. The high cost of fuel due to the climate change agenda is not popular with farmers either.

 

[BuckSutherland]

It appears the Canadians have already folded too. Sounds like they are sending 10,000 troops to the northern border immediately.... I was thinking they might make it a couple days, but apparently their hand is so weak that they were left with no other choice.

 

[Westwind]

@bwoods11 I’m a soybean producer. Get the magazines in the mail to prove it. So I guess I’m a farmer.

Most of my family farms or farmed at one time.

I also buy fuel. And eat a lot of beef my high school buddy raises in a feed lot behind his house.

Funny as **** to have someone talk to me like I live in a subdivision of Philly or something.