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It is a good stock for a young guy, as they can't go bankrupt and pay dividends; but I need the value going up, as I am an older guy ! The market was down last time I looked; so no one seems to know what is happening ? Now is not the time to buy electronics such as a computer or TV; as presumably the faster AI chips will hit the market and the newer sets will be twice as fast if not more supposedly. I saw where GoSun, I think it is has a novel idea. A Mat of solar cells you drape over you whole car; when parked, and then they charge you car from the sun. Since they block the front and back windows, then you cool your car at the same time ! Also it is cleaner, free energy ! A good idea, at least I think . A good strategy is to put recommended stocks into your watch lists, them you can check them alter to see if you want to buy ! only stocks that seemed to look good, last time I checked, are LLY, JNJ, KVUE, Comcast ( I hate them, because they used to overcharge me; but the stock may be good ), BEN, and lastly SMCI- but I am still slightly leery of it, especially since all AI seems to be down lately ! INT appears to be dropping off the board, unfortunately I still own 2 shares in the Red ! |
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S & P 500 changes
Some stocks were demoted ( such as American Airlines ) and others Promoted onto the SandP 500 notably PLTR ( something to do with Ai I think ? ) and Dell a ( PC maker as well as other things ) and Erie Indemnity ( I'm not familiar with it, but it sounds like an insurance co. which must be doing ok to make the Promotion ! )
The stocks promoted always go Up, because the ETFs that specialize in this area start buying their stocks. As a former contractor employee; I know that most of the Computers used in all government offices are DELLs. This is because they are very reliable and don't break as fast as others . Some people use Macs; but only about a small percentage in the government ! AAPL stock announces the IPhone 16 I think and so they will probably go up in value as a lot of the IPhone people will immediately upgrade ( unless due to the bad kind of economy, they don't ! ) I have a few AAPL shares ; but I don't have an IPhone, Ha ! ( I am behind the times ! ) |
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Stocks that have been good for me
Some Stocks that have been good for me
AVGO Broadcom AI ( I forget when I got into it but I am up 1,000 NVDA Nvidia AI ( I got into it years ago, but I am up 1,000 MSFT Microsoft getting into AI and the Cloud, and I am up another 1,000 LRCX Lam Research Ai this one goes up and down a lot, but I am up 1,000 PSA Public Storage REIT In the red for 2 years, but now I am up 100 O Reality REIT This is -300, but pays me $10 a month ! MA Mastercard I am only up 150 AXP American Express I am only up 150 MCD McDonalds Used to be good, but is down as fast food is expensive now ! ADP ( I forget ) but up and down I am up 100 AMGEN ( I forget ) but I am up 100 HCA Healthcare but I am up 100 Motley Fool ETF I am up 1,500 I should probably put more money into ETFs, because then they watch the stocks for you. You do have to pay them a fee, so you should try for the ETFs with low charges ! Stocks that are probably good; but I don't participate in them anymore PM Philip Morris I don't think I want to have people smoke ! PFE Phizer Shots I haven't liked them since the Virus ! Moderna Shots The same as Pfizer ! So I guess I have some Scruples after all ! Sign of the times ? IS PSA storage up because people have had to downsize their houses and apartments and so they have had to put more of their goods into Storage ? A variable you won't see in the government figures ! And O the REIT is in better shape, because more people are returning to the office and so office space rents are up ? The Reit has been down as much as $400 on me, but is now back up ? Last edited by Marshal Davout; 09-12-2024 at 07:06 PM.. |
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Your Retirement money
In the states; when you retire, they usually offer you a lump sum or you can take monthly check from some company !
If you take the lump; you will pay taxes on the whole amount as opposed to only paying taxes on your monthly check. However my take is that you should always take the lump sum; following an old adage; "If you've got money, you can make money ! "; whereas with a monthly check you won't have much money to do anything with and inflation will eat into it as you go along ! So I took my lump sum from the last company and have made some money with it in the stock market ( fingers crossed that we don't have an economic collapse in the US ) ! Ha ! |
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The market seems to be in a state of flux ?
I am hesitant in the market; although more or less committed at present !
Every day MSN for instance says Buy Amazon; but I have a couple shares and Amazon is going nowhere ? Even Alphabet is going nowhere. If I had extra money sloshing around now I would buy a few META, although it is expensive at about 560.00 Most stocks on the US market are 50% over-priced or more. Meta does pay a 50 cent dividend though ! Somehow they are making money ! People don't seem to have any disposable income right now, so Amazon is not making money and Fedex and UPS probably are not shipping anything either ! Last things I bought were a cheap printer and a cheap keyboard cause my old printer was messing up and my keyboard letters were wearing off ! The US Dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf coast are threatening to strike; so that will mess things up, too! Mithril on the Aussie market; reportedly, has struck Gold and Silver in Mexico; so they are up on that market ! They are MTH there ! Last edited by Marshal Davout; 09-23-2024 at 02:15 PM.. |
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As distasteful as it may seem, some of my better performing stocks are in the war business - Palantir, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, etc.
I figure, my government spends endless mountains of money on war and it's materiel, at least this way I may get some of that money back! And it does not matter of consumer spending - the government's going to need its bombs and missiles one way or another. |
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Yes, We used to worry about a million dollars going missing ? Now we worry about a Billion Dollars going missing ? !
There is a good movie about the 2008 fiasco; "Too Big To Fail " where everything was crashing and the government had to bail all the companies out ! |
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Life Advice; What to Collect ?
Forget about Things ! They can't do anything for you !
I made the same mistake many people do. I was a US Civil war Buff, so I collected CW Things. I had an artillery short sword that looked exactly like a Roman Short sword in the movies. One thing I did collect that was successful was I used to go to "yard sales" and I would look to see if they had any CW Muster rolls of Regiments ( these were usually from Union regiments ) and I used to bid $1, $2, $3 for them ! Any Muster roll you find from a union Regiment today is worth at least an automatic $50; so that was actually a good buy ( but I digress ) They are probably worth much more today ! Anyway you should collect people in your life; as somebody will always know something more than you do ! You should collect people you know in various places, Acquaintances, Friends, Friendly Experts. You can always ask them for Information ! It might be nice to own a Renoir Painting ! But if you get laid off or fired; it will be better to have somebody you know who can point you to a new job or give you a Recommendation, so somebody will Hire you ! The Renoir painting can't do that ! Magnificent Example: I didn't know any Foreign Singers and only knew the ones we had in the states; such as Britney Spears ( and I Love Britney and would have proposed to her if I ever had been around her ) But somehow somebody has gotten her messed up today, so that she is always taking her clothes off on the media ( but just enough to stay legal; so she should stop that ! ) But I digress again ! Anyway I didn't know any foreign singers; being as you may surmise a foolish american ! But at one point in the international difficulties; a friend sent me a link to NENA's "99 Red Balloons" ! I had never heard of her ! So I begain playing all NENA; even though I didn't understand a word of German ! I was playing all of her songs ! And off to the side one day I saw a video of Alizee singing ! I thought that was a pretty good name for a French Girl singer ( what did I know ? Ha ! ) and so I started to play her and fell in Love with her completely ! And so I owe it all to my one friend who has given me much pleasure with Alizee all these years ! And I don't think he even knows I discovered Alizee through him ? ! But this shows that a friend can help you in may ways ! So the main point in life is to collect people that you know or better yet friends that can give you information ! After you become successful and have an abundance in resources; then you can collect things later ! Last edited by Marshal Davout; Today at 09:39 PM.. |
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