The Rokslide Stock Traders Thread

[Danny Hoey]

I have to stay away from biotechs. I always loose my rear end.

I played them for awhile. The key is to get into 3 at the same time and hope one hits.

 

[Poser]

I have to stay away from biotechs. I always loose my rear end.

That's a tough game. Always seems like so much much potential and then they implode. Even the ones that tend to do well often get bought out and dissolved.

 

[Beendare]

Does anyone here have experience with buying Pre IPO non listed companies Stock on Hive, Equity Zen or Forge?

I'm curious as to how that worked out for you....

 

[BBob]

Let’s see where this Venezuelan development goes with the disputed Guyana oil fields.

 

[Ten Bears]

Does anyone here have experience with buying Pre IPO non listed companies Stock on Hive, Equity Zen or Forge?

I'm curious as to how that worked out for you....

Curious about this as well. Anyone have any experience with these ?

 

[2531usmc]

Let’s see where this Venezuelan development goes with the disputed Guyana oil fields.

Might see an uptick in Exxon and Conoco

 

[Beendare]

There is a lot of insider trading going on and it was on display with this Venezuela thing...but there are some smart MF's too;
From Twitter poster @sweetcheeksreal

How i made 80,000$ in a single night using
@Polymarket
Basically ever since the US brought their largest aircraft carrier i knew a strike was 100% going to happen, but i did not know when. So i built a vibe coded bot to track the dominos pizza orders around the pentagon because it is known heavy pizza ordering at weird hours = pentagon people working over time The moment the pizza indicator bot spotted an unusal activity i was alerted on my phone and immediately purchased as many “will the us strike venzuala shared on polymarket.GG and thanks for playing!

This is probably fake......but I've seen Hedge Fund guys do some crazy channel tracking like that.

 

[HuntHarder]

This new type of "investing" is wild. Absolutely insane but also borderline genius.

 

[2531usmc]

I dunno, but some of these threads sound no different than playing roulette and betting on “red 18”.

Gambling on biotechs, nuclear power, crypto, whatever and hoping to strike it rich.

Hard to beat a lifetime of making monthly deposits into a low cost S&P 500 index fund.

 

[HuntHarder]

Low cost S&P funds are so vanilla and easy. Majority of my investments are pretty safe and reliable, but I am young enough that sometimes I want to try the hard way first with my "homerun" money. The ups are fun and the downs suck. Lol. Those up days/weeks are like sinking a long putt. Keeps you coming back.

 

[2531usmc]

Might see an uptick in Exxon and Conoco

ConocoPhillips up 10% and Exxon up 7% in premarket trading

 

[NDGuy]

Don't chase anything with the Venezuela stuff. Insiders already loaded.

 

[sasquatch]

This new type of "investing" is wild. Absolutely insane but also borderline genius.

It is slowly distorting the market and making it irrational. The market is far too relative to news headlines than fundamentals these days.

Once it TOTALLY distorts the market, investing will be nothing but casino gambling day by day destroying business and economies.

Half the time the headlines are false but the AI trading platforms run with it instantly.


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[NDGuy]

It is slowly distorting the market and making it irrational. The market is far too relative to news headlines than fundamentals these days.

Once it TOTALLY distorts the market, investing will be nothing but casino gambling day by day destroying business and economies.

Half the time the headlines are false but the AI trading platforms run with it instantly.


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Just wait until they have markets running 24/7

 

[MountainTracker]

Just wait until they have markets running 24/7

Yep

As the value of fiat drops people will go to more and more extremes to try and make up the difference. Just how I see it.


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[SWFLhntr]

I dunno, but some of these threads sound no different than playing roulette and betting on “red 18”.

Gambling on biotechs, nuclear power, crypto, whatever and hoping to strike it rich.

Hard to beat a lifetime of making monthly deposits into a low cost S&P 500 index fund.

Meh, you only live once. Taking a little risk once in awhile is good imo.
That said.....I'm all low cost, easy index funds this year

 

[Doc Holliday]

Everybody has different risk appetites and time horizons, but if these are tax-deferred IRAs and you are 20+ yrs away from needing the money, you are leaving a ton of money on the table not investing in individual stocks, especially growth names. I like an ETF as your top position. Whether its SPY, QQQ, etc. Then below that, go in order of confidence with individual names.

I have some neighbors who are business owners, self-made, etc. They make very good money, and think the stock market is a casino as well. I mean, yeah, it can be if you dont know what you are doing. Folks who think that need a financial advisor. Kinda like backcountry hunting. Im sure the average city slicker thinks it crazy and dangerous as well....because they don't understand it.

 

[HuntHarder]

Good start to today in my portfolio. Let's see what the week brings

 

[Ucsdryder]

Good start to today in my portfolio. Let's see what the week brings

Don’t even say that. Seems like the trend lately. Huge share then give it all back!

 

[Poser]

I dunno, but some of these threads sound no different than playing roulette and betting on “red 18”.

Gambling on biotechs, nuclear power, crypto, whatever and hoping to strike it rich.

Hard to beat a lifetime of making monthly deposits into a low cost S&P 500 index fund.

I doubt anyone would argue with this, BUT... in order for this to work you need the following to play out favorably:

1. a lifetime of investing
2. No zero-out events or significant setbacks. Examples: divorce, major medical events, sustained unemployment/underemployment due to unemployment.

Being forced into life altering situations can sometimes lead people to take certain risks, hopefully calculated, in the marketplace that they would not have otherwise with a uninterrupted lifetime of investing. This isn't necessarily to "get rich", rather, it is to catch back up and it can be often the case that if they don't make moves to capitulate, they mathematically cannot catch back up for retirement relying on mutal funds alone.

When it comes down to paying $5,000 out of pocket per cancer treatment once a month for 16 consecutive months or watching your spouse die, could be the case that investment funds are getting raided. Or, you get laid off of your $150,000 job and take a job as school bus driver while months of applying for 100s of 6 figure jobs pass fruitlessly by, meanwhile you have a family to support. Or, maybe you get divorced in your mid 50s, lose half of your retirement while starting over with a new mortgage. These are all events I've seen play out in the last year and a half where people have decided to take on a higher risk investment track in order to rebalance their situations. "Safe" investment advice, while sound, still relies on your situation working out favorably over the long term and that simply does not work out for everyone.