The Rokslide Stock Traders Thread

[Kimber7man]

Haha says who? I made plenty of money serving my 20 years in Corps, plus now with my pensions and Va benifits. I’m doing better then most 38 year olds if I had to guess.

Plus I’m young enough to continue investing and living off dividends and passive income from rental properties.

If people would investing smartly and heavily in their 20-30s it would make their retirement outlook and age much easier imo.

Everyone is different and has a different cost of living and way of life. Having the freedom to do whatever I want at this age within my means is priceless to me though. Very happy I lived with a budget and within my means.

Also helps my wife’s a doctor and is also extremely smart with money and investing as well, which afforded us the opportunities to be able for me to invest into our retirements heavily during my military and younger days.

Well done and thanks for your service.
1mil at 38 > 2 mil at 48 > 4 mil at 58 with approx 7% returns……

 

[Pharmseller]

Haha says who? I made plenty of money serving my 20 years in Corps, plus now with my pensions and Va benifits. I’m doing better then most 38 year olds if I had to guess.

Plus I’m young enough to continue investing and living off dividends and passive income from rental properties.

If people would investing smartly and heavily in their 20-30s it would make their retirement outlook and age much easier imo.

Everyone is different and has a different cost of living and way of life. Having the freedom to do whatever I want at this age within my means is priceless to me though. Very happy I lived with a budget and within my means.

Also helps my wife’s a doctor and is also extremely smart with money and investing as well, which afforded us the opportunities to be able for me to invest into our retirements heavily during my military and younger days.

Evidently, says you.

You have a pension and benefits outside of that million. You also mention real estate. And a doctor’s income.

So yeah, take away the other assets and income and that million looks pretty skinny.

 

[NDGuy]

Evidently, says you.

You have a pension and benefits outside of that million. You also mention real estate. And a doctor’s income.

So yeah, take away the other assets and income and that million looks pretty skinny.

lol ya no kidding.

For a normal joe schmo who puts in their 40/week and invests their whole career, a million is going to be tight. Gotta invest heavily early or work to make sure to limit retirement spending/mortgage. I'm on track to be in the 4ish range but that likely won't be enough in 30 years either...

 

[ChrisA]

Haha says who? I made plenty of money serving my 20 years in Corps, plus now with my pensions and Va benifits. I’m doing better then most 38 year olds if I had to guess.

Plus I’m young enough to continue investing and living off dividends and passive income from rental properties.

If people would investing smartly and heavily in their 20-30s it would make their retirement outlook and age much easier imo.

Everyone is different and has a different cost of living and way of life. Having the freedom to do whatever I want at this age within my means is priceless to me though. Very happy I lived with a budget and within my means.

Also helps my wife’s a doctor and is also extremely smart with money and investing as well, which afforded us the opportunities to be able for me to invest into our retirements heavily during my military and younger days.

Says the guy married to a Doctor. Kidding, of course. Great job on self control with spending. I maxed my Roth and 401k after graduating back in '97. Wish I would've invested my party money in the market though, lessons learned to pass on to my kids or anyone that will listen.

 

[BrownTroutGuy]

All I gotta say is SMR's have shaved a considerable amount of time off my work career. Holy cow, I have had a week. I took some profits, but also am still heavily invested. This will go down as my best year ever for investing more than likely.

Which SMR’s? I’m pretty heavy in the space and looking to add more

 

[bowhuntercoop]

Evidently, says you.

You have a pension and benefits outside of that million. You also mention real estate. And a doctor’s income.

So yeah, take away the other assets and income and that million looks pretty skinny.

Agreed but if they do their 20 years of goverment service and don’t have a pension or benifits they have the compounding interest alone on their tsp, then with another 20 years of compounding interest before they start to draw on the retirement account.

Almost all the agencies have a form of pension though. My buddies with Leo pensions are killing it stacked with their military time, often times brining in 6 figures without even touching their tsp retirements yet.

That gives them 20 plus years for another career, investing in more sectors, back door Roths, 529c, houses, etc.

1 mil alone prolly won’t last the average American 20 years of retirement with no supplementalt income due to their life styles.

If someone is going to retire no matter their age, 40-60-80. They shouldn’t have a mortgage, vehicle payments, or any large monthly bills. It should be standard living expenses which even 1 mil will take you pretty far depending on how a person lives.

All I was stating is if the tsp is an option it’s just too easy to max out contributions and in 20 years in the c and s they will have 7 figures to fall back on when the time comes. I had a few years that had 20-25 percent return, on the compounding interest it was epic to say the least.

 

[HuntHarder]

Which SMR’s? I’m pretty heavy in the space and looking to add more

Im pretty heavy in OKLO. Also have decent stakes in SMR and GEV.

 

[CorbLand]

Im pretty heavy in OKLO. Also have decent stakes in SMR and GEV.

I just cleaned up some of my accounts and sold some stuff. Is there a good place that has information about SMRs? I am looking for new things to buy.

 

[BrownTroutGuy]

I just cleaned up some of my accounts and sold some stuff. Is there a good place that has information about SMRs? I am looking for new things to buy.

For AI to do what they want it to do in the 2030’s, nuclear has to be a big player. These data centers are absolute power (and currently water) hogs. Future data centers will most likely have SMR’s included as part of the design, if not the main power supply. Larger nuclear facilities surrounded by data centers will also (likely) take off.

Look for the govt. to streamline nuclear permitting & this thing will launch. Right now P/E’s are ugly, but if you’re in it for the long haul there should be massive gains. The risk/downside is other technologies taking over nuclear.

 

[HuntHarder]

Yeah, I have made a few posts on here over the last year regarding SMR's. The segment is not for the feint of heart. When I first got in, the daily/weekly swings were huge. As mentioned, some of these companies have little to no earnings. Some will likely fail, but i fully believe nuclear is our future, especially with this administration. Small reactor sites are a lot easier to permit and build and Trump has already started to streamline the permitting process.

 

[BrownTroutGuy]

Yeah, I have made a few posts on here over the last year regarding SMR's. The segment is not for the feint of heart. When I first got in, the daily/weekly swings were huge. As mentioned, some of these companies have little to no earnings. Some will likely fail, but i fully believe nuclear is our future, especially with this administration. Small reactor sites are a lot easier to permit and build and Trump has already started to streamline the permitting process.

Ya the risk is there along with the upside. I should’ve added, a reactor failing would literally blow up this entire industry. If that happens, most of them will go bankrupt. It seems like right now everyone is re-evaluating their position on nuclear, in a good way.

 

[HuntHarder]

Ya the risk is there along with the upside. I should’ve added, a reactor failing would literally blow up this entire industry. If that happens, most of them will go bankrupt. It seems like right now everyone is re-evaluating their position on nuclear, in a good way.

Absolutely. I took some nice profits, essentially hedging my bet. Decent amount of risk, as well as a lot of unknown. The technology is quickly changing and companies are trying their method to bring reliable, safe electricity. Sam Altman backed Oklo pretty heavy. All of the SMR companies have large institutional backing.