whose trading now

Loco is right, I traded for fun for a bit but I knew that the only way to have a good chance at over performing the sp500 was if I dedicated all my time to it, every waking hour trying to improve and be better than others, if I just did it "on the side" I'd be a losing player, exactly like poker, there aren't "on the side winners", and I didn't feel like doing that all over again so I just invest and hold and rarely try to time anything.

That being said commies saying do what successful people do is funny.

On April 24 2025 05:27 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On April 23 2025 09:51 lostaccount wrote: Long story short PR just do what u want, enjoy the journey Doing what you want is living the life of a child. Adults don't just do what they want, they do what they need to do so that they can sometimes do what they want. Doing what you want all the time as an adult means that you are living on the margin of society, which leads to mental illness, if it's not mentally illness that already lead you to living that way. Having obligations is the defining moment of adulthood. A child becomes a man only when they have stopped living for themselves and their pleasure only. It is a stage that everyone who is successful in life has had to go through. So, no, long story short, do what fulfilled, successful people do, not just what you enjoy, if you have any sense at all.

Lol I guess I just use the wrong word choice, what I want is fulfillment and I'm fulfill as I am living a good life. I don't know about u but I enjoy my life.

Yea trading isn't easy but it's fun n exciting.

Ain't a day trader that's for sure but I do watch the market daily n I enjoy it

What's a successful person in ur books loco? urself? I'm pretty successful in my books, I help ppl, enjoy life get to do what I want most of the time. Do I have everything I want? No but I'm grateful for what I have cuz I got all I need n more. Would I like a nice supercar sure but I don't need one. Rather have a BYD car instead n help more people. Don't get me wrong ppl help me too, yin n yang. Balance is key to life

Canada needs to allow chinese ev into our market, u agree loco? But with some tariff of course freer trade and get more exports to the chinese market. Make a good deal for both countries. Let see who our next PM is n how he navigate our economy cuz Trudeau n his cabinet has sucked for so long

Canada really needs to fix east Hastings n our drug problems is one of my top priorities.help ppl find fulfillment so they don't resort to drugs. Also tax billionaire fairly n have a better long term plan for housing. Utilize our nature resources better. Make trump back down from becoming a "51 state" n make a deal with him where both are winners. Are u pro 51st state or negative? Our next PM from election is probably Carney let see if he will get a majority or minority and run the country way better than trudeau. How would u make Canada better loco.

On April 24 2025 07:51 lostaccount wrote: Canada needs to allow chinese ev into our market, u agree loco? But with some tariff of course freer trade and get more exports to the chinese market. Make a good deal for both countries. Let see who our next PM is n how he navigate our economy cuz Trudeau n his cabinet has sucked for so long

Mexico allowed Chinese cars, now local manufacturers are fucked and there are tacky shitty chinese cars everywhere. BYD makes pretty good electric cars though, the Seal make the tesla look outdated.

On April 25 2025 06:07 Baalim wrote: Show nested quote + On April 24 2025 07:51 lostaccount wrote: Canada needs to allow chinese ev into our market, u agree loco? But with some tariff of course freer trade and get more exports to the chinese market. Make a good deal for both countries. Let see who our next PM is n how he navigate our economy cuz Trudeau n his cabinet has sucked for so long Mexico allowed Chinese cars, now local manufacturers are fucked and there are tacky shitty chinese cars everywhere. BYD makes pretty good electric cars though, the Seal make the tesla look outdated.

yea exactly but like I said gotta get something in return for allowing Chinese ev up to a certain amount of ev cars into our market aint gonna just open the flood gate. what does canada get in return I am not sure but at least something meaningful. more market access lower tariffs on some goods is a start. Yea I was talking about BYD I showed rikd that byd has became bigger than Tesla in someways when it comes to sales https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/ev-gi...annual-sales-of-over-100-billion.html

like how china only allows a certain amount of Hollywood movies into their market do that with ev into canada imo

On April 25 2025 10:08 lostaccount wrote: like how china only allows a certain amount of Hollywood movies into their market do that with ev into canada imo

I don't know like 20k ev cars from china a year max?

Not really trading -more investing. I started taking it seriously ~3 years ago. Been beating the market since. It takes a lot of dedication, but I enjoy the process. I follow value investing principles (Buffett, Munger, Lynch, Burry, Lu..), which means first analyzing the company’s financials, how efficient they are at generating FCF, returning value back to shareholders, and of course valuation. I created a system that automates some of this work. And I do some occasional momentum trading now. No options.

Here’s my 2 year graph (48.83% vs 33.55%). I diversify my portfolio, so the odds of my outperformance being luck is low. Especially since I haven’t touched tech in years, which has had the vast majority of market gains over the past years.

https://imgur.com/a/Y0tdKtn

I consider downward protection and outperform the most when the SPY dips, which really creates the compounding gains. The SPY is so bloated with high valuation tech, so it has poor downward protection. But it’s difficult to beat when it rallies hard if you consider risk management at all. During long rallies it’s like trying to beat a Zerg rush in the middle of the map while building bunkers at home.

It’s definitely best to stick it in the index and forget it unless you really enjoy the game. However, there are better passive investing approaches than 100% SPY. For instance, I think more China exposure is optimal, and less tech. I’m sure I’ll get better as time goes on. I imagine I can average at 16% vs the SPY’s average of 10%.

A lot of active investors are more speculators and gamblers.. Degens betting aggressively in a bull market with no downturn strategy.

Many stats that claim that 95% or so of fund managers underperform, leave out important context. Large hedge funds, managing billions instead of millions, often can’t invest efficiently in smaller companies. For example, Buffett has a limited pool of opportunities because of his massive portfolio. He can't allocate a meaningful percentage to small caps without moving the stock price or owning a large share of the company which causes complications. He stated that if he had a small portfolio he could return something like 50%/year.

Many fund managers have a short-term (or 1-2 year time horizon) focus since they're unwilling to underperform in the short-term (which is sometimes necessary if you want to outperform long-term; sometimes it takes a while for the market to realize a company is undervalued), because if they underperform too long they'll lose their jobs and/or clients. And many over-diversify to the point where investing in an index fund would yield similar results. But 95% of retail investors are def trash.

I don't disagree with anything you're saying, I'm also not advocating for a pure Boglehead approach for everyone, there's good reason to think an actively managed fund that has optimal factor tilting and diversification will sometimes outperform a broad low cost index in the long term, Dimensional has done it. I also think Fidelity's over performance with FEQT is not likely to be random luck or its small BTC attribution.

Value plays are difficult and require a lot of study and patience and most people shouldn't even think of opening that door unless they're really smart and passionate. And just like in poker a year or two of run good was very standard for a lot of mediocre players but regression to the mean is unavoidable. Until you've sat through at least a couple recessions/world crisis and over performed for a decade I wouldn't be too confident in my abilities.

On April 24 2025 07:35 lostaccount wrote: Yea trading isn't easy but it's fun n exciting.

Its very easy. Time in the market = $$

On May 10 2025 07:31 VanDerMeyde wrote: Show nested quote + On April 24 2025 07:35 lostaccount wrote: Yea trading isn't easy but it's fun n exciting. Its very easy. Time in the market = $$

post some tips

On April 17 2025 06:23 PuertoRican wrote: Show nested quote + On April 11 2025 18:30 Loco wrote:   On March 20 2025 05:47 PuertoRican wrote:   On December 01 2024 06:56 PuertoRican wrote: I'm new to trading stocks. My portfolio is only 1 year old. My main action is on $HIMS, which I originally bought at $6.70, and bought more at everything between $10 and $19. I met this younger guy in Vegas last year and helped him with some UFC bets, and he eventually told me about $HIMS. I also have action on $GRAB and $ABCL. $GRAB was a good read by me because it's the South East Asian version of Uber, yet the cost of it was only $3 when I originally got into the stock. I assume it will be worth a lot more at some point, but I'm not smart enough to give you a good reason why other than multiple countries use Grab and even though it's similar to Uber, you can do a lot more with Grab. As of today, my portfolio consists of: $HIMS 62% $ASTS 30% $SBSW 8% I'll add a couple of hundred more shares of $SBSW later this week. Just waiting to see it dip a little bit on Friday so I can get a better price. Your portfolio is the equivalent of your gym program that has no leg day. Hilarious stuff. Thanks My current portfolio: • $HIMS: 44% • $ASTS: 40% • $SBSW: 16% I had spring break last week, so I was at home watching the stock market every hour. On two different days I was able to sell a few hundred shares of $HIMS in the $29 range before it dropped to the $26 range after I noticed a trend early on in the week -- I then bought the shares back in the $26 range and kept the profit. This allowed me to make some quick money to roll over into new shares of $ASTS and $SBSW. As for $ASTS, I purchased 150 new shares last week. Due to the recent news with AT&T and FirstNet, I will be adding another 100 shares tomorrow morning when the market opens, and I hope to get its current price of $22.45 (or better). I still have 2 options calls that expire in January 2026 at $30, which I purchased before all of this political/tariff stuff happened and the stock was still in the $30 range. $ASTS will launch its first 6 satellites at the end of next month, so I am trying to add as many shares as I can before that happens, because when those satellites go up, so will the stock. That being said, Q1 earnings is on May 12, so the stock will likely go up first, then go up more after the satellites are launched. I added a few hundred shares of $SBSW since my last post. I was going to add more every two weeks, but that plan was crushed when the stock recently started going up a lot during the week or so. It's currently at $4.94 per share. I am looking to add 500 more shares tomorrow before the market closes, but it all depends on the line movement (I'm hoping to get a better price).

I opened a new position in $OSS last week at $3.58

My current portfolio:

• $HIMS: 34%
• $ASTS: 56%
• $SBSW: 5%
• $OSS: 5%

im just picking up some pokemon cards even though market is tanking there are some cards that is doing really well but takes time to study. just don't be those scalpers please lol

On June 18 2025 23:59 PuertoRican wrote: Show nested quote + On April 17 2025 06:23 PuertoRican wrote:   On April 11 2025 18:30 Loco wrote:   On March 20 2025 05:47 PuertoRican wrote:   On December 01 2024 06:56 PuertoRican wrote: I'm new to trading stocks. My portfolio is only 1 year old. My main action is on $HIMS, which I originally bought at $6.70, and bought more at everything between $10 and $19. I met this younger guy in Vegas last year and helped him with some UFC bets, and he eventually told me about $HIMS. I also have action on $GRAB and $ABCL. $GRAB was a good read by me because it's the South East Asian version of Uber, yet the cost of it was only $3 when I originally got into the stock. I assume it will be worth a lot more at some point, but I'm not smart enough to give you a good reason why other than multiple countries use Grab and even though it's similar to Uber, you can do a lot more with Grab. As of today, my portfolio consists of: $HIMS 62% $ASTS 30% $SBSW 8% I'll add a couple of hundred more shares of $SBSW later this week. Just waiting to see it dip a little bit on Friday so I can get a better price. Your portfolio is the equivalent of your gym program that has no leg day. Hilarious stuff. Thanks My current portfolio: • $HIMS: 44% • $ASTS: 40% • $SBSW: 16% I had spring break last week, so I was at home watching the stock market every hour. On two different days I was able to sell a few hundred shares of $HIMS in the $29 range before it dropped to the $26 range after I noticed a trend early on in the week -- I then bought the shares back in the $26 range and kept the profit. This allowed me to make some quick money to roll over into new shares of $ASTS and $SBSW. As for $ASTS, I purchased 150 new shares last week. Due to the recent news with AT&T and FirstNet, I will be adding another 100 shares tomorrow morning when the market opens, and I hope to get its current price of $22.45 (or better). I still have 2 options calls that expire in January 2026 at $30, which I purchased before all of this political/tariff stuff happened and the stock was still in the $30 range. $ASTS will launch its first 6 satellites at the end of next month, so I am trying to add as many shares as I can before that happens, because when those satellites go up, so will the stock. That being said, Q1 earnings is on May 12, so the stock will likely go up first, then go up more after the satellites are launched. I added a few hundred shares of $SBSW since my last post. I was going to add more every two weeks, but that plan was crushed when the stock recently started going up a lot during the week or so. It's currently at $4.94 per share. I am looking to add 500 more shares tomorrow before the market closes, but it all depends on the line movement (I'm hoping to get a better price). I opened a new position in $OSS last week at $3.58 My current portfolio: • $HIMS: 34% • $ASTS: 56% • $SBSW: 5% • $OSS: 5%

You seem to be under the impression that holding shares of a stock that has a low price is somehow a better investment than a stock that has a high price. This is a popular fallacy in the investing world. Peter Lynch addresses this in chapter 9 and 20 of One Up on Wall Street if you want to educate yourself.

Even Berkshire today is a better value than most of the stocks you would be interested in

For example, this fallacy would prevent you from buying Google, which was severely undervalued recently (still is) while you focus on stocks that seem cheap but are in reality very speculative.

On June 21 2025 03:46 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On June 18 2025 23:59 PuertoRican wrote:   On April 17 2025 06:23 PuertoRican wrote:   On April 11 2025 18:30 Loco wrote:   On March 20 2025 05:47 PuertoRican wrote:   On December 01 2024 06:56 PuertoRican wrote: I'm new to trading stocks. My portfolio is only 1 year old. My main action is on $HIMS, which I originally bought at $6.70, and bought more at everything between $10 and $19. I met this younger guy in Vegas last year and helped him with some UFC bets, and he eventually told me about $HIMS. I also have action on $GRAB and $ABCL. $GRAB was a good read by me because it's the South East Asian version of Uber, yet the cost of it was only $3 when I originally got into the stock. I assume it will be worth a lot more at some point, but I'm not smart enough to give you a good reason why other than multiple countries use Grab and even though it's similar to Uber, you can do a lot more with Grab. As of today, my portfolio consists of: $HIMS 62% $ASTS 30% $SBSW 8% I'll add a couple of hundred more shares of $SBSW later this week. Just waiting to see it dip a little bit on Friday so I can get a better price. Your portfolio is the equivalent of your gym program that has no leg day. Hilarious stuff. Thanks My current portfolio: • $HIMS: 44% • $ASTS: 40% • $SBSW: 16% I had spring break last week, so I was at home watching the stock market every hour. On two different days I was able to sell a few hundred shares of $HIMS in the $29 range before it dropped to the $26 range after I noticed a trend early on in the week -- I then bought the shares back in the $26 range and kept the profit. This allowed me to make some quick money to roll over into new shares of $ASTS and $SBSW. As for $ASTS, I purchased 150 new shares last week. Due to the recent news with AT&T and FirstNet, I will be adding another 100 shares tomorrow morning when the market opens, and I hope to get its current price of $22.45 (or better). I still have 2 options calls that expire in January 2026 at $30, which I purchased before all of this political/tariff stuff happened and the stock was still in the $30 range. $ASTS will launch its first 6 satellites at the end of next month, so I am trying to add as many shares as I can before that happens, because when those satellites go up, so will the stock. That being said, Q1 earnings is on May 12, so the stock will likely go up first, then go up more after the satellites are launched. I added a few hundred shares of $SBSW since my last post. I was going to add more every two weeks, but that plan was crushed when the stock recently started going up a lot during the week or so. It's currently at $4.94 per share. I am looking to add 500 more shares tomorrow before the market closes, but it all depends on the line movement (I'm hoping to get a better price). I opened a new position in $OSS last week at $3.58 My current portfolio: • $HIMS: 34% • $ASTS: 56% • $SBSW: 5% • $OSS: 5% You seem to be under the impression that holding shares of a stock that has a low price is somehow a better investment than a stock that has a high price. This is a popular fallacy in the investing world. Peter Lynch addresses this in chapter 9 and 20 of One Up on Wall Street if you want to educate yourself. Even Berkshire today is a better value than most of the stocks you would be interested in For example, this fallacy would prevent you from buying Google, which was severely undervalued recently (still is) while you focus on stocks that seem cheap but are in reality very speculative.

"You seem to be under the impression that holding shares of a stock that has a low price is somehow a better investment than a stock that has a high price."

Not exactly.

I like to invest in companies that are founder-led (ASTS and HIMS, for example) and that I see long-term value in. It just so happens that ASTS and HIMS are/were small cap stocks when I got into them, but they look to be exiting that arena and won't be considered small cap in the near future. If I found a stock that interested me enough to buy it at $100-$200 per share because it fits my criteria, then I would consider investing in it.

For example, I've been investing in ASTS since it was at $8 or so, and now it's at $50. If all goes well during the next ~2 months, ASTS will go even higher and, by the end of 2025, it will be worth a lot more.

While HIMS just had a break-up (today) with their short-lived former partner in Novo Nordisk and the stock dropped from $60 to $42, the price is similar to what it was before their partnership. I originally got into HIMS when it was at $6 or so.

I originally got into SBSW in the $3s, and now it's up to $7. This is a play on precious metals and where I think the price will go after having read a lot of information.

I just got into OSS a couple of weeks ago at $3.58, and now it's at $3.90 after some back-and-forth in the $4 range. This stock reminds me of HIMS in that covers multiple areas instead of just focusing on one main thing, except that HIMS is related to telehealth and OSS is related to AI.

Like I mentioned before, I am still new to the stock market, so I'm taking things slow. It would be idiotic for me to just splurge on big name stocks because of their name value. I'm trying to learn about different things as I go along, and so far it has been working.