Trump extends deadline for 50% tariff on EU until July. Futures popping after opening flat

Quacked said:

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Just exited tempus AI. Wanted to get back in below 55$

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This actually has some great setup opportunities. I think in the long term, can be very good. I think $53 is a great spot to add. For a trade, you want to see a reaction from there, of course.

$30,000 Millionaire said:

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On a thematic basis I am thinking a lot about the impact of AI on the biotech space.

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Thats my main play now, using XBI and ARKG but long term

While good for a quick oversold bounce day trade on Friday, MSTR looks like crap and likely sees much lower.

$343 area probably evokes a reaction. Very small wicks on the daily candle, wickless enough to call it Marubozu. Typically a harbringer of more action in the direction of the candle.

I don't plan to buy any Cathie funds. Will chart XBI in a moment.

I like how $XBI looks. Easy to spot path.

oldarmy1 said:

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I was posting trade after trade along with a message that you have to know when to be active. Futures +72

The markets were being so obviously manipulated to shake retail Friday.

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I was told that futures are meaningless....

and aren't markets being manipulated continuously to trap retail?!?

great post action on Friday, as well...

Really hard to try to be bearish when the admin will do anything to keep stonks up.

I'll say it again, don't sleep on bond, currency and counterparty risk independent of tariffs!!

For those that don't understand the mindset dichotomy - trade what's in front of you but be prepared for what could happen

What about Bonds? Its risky?

I can see CPI, PPI and employment numbers causing the market to dip in the coming months

The one thing they cannot control is the long end of the Treasury curve (well they can but that would require a restrained spending bill, which ain't happening); it jumped again with the Euro tariff delay this weekend.

Eventually rising rates are going to steer the market again.

Interesting with the rise of financial youtubers there were tons of "panic" "crash" video thumbnails AFTER the bottom and the whole way back up to here. Now, not seeing those thumbnails as much.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14750213/retired-general-warning-china-mining-moon-helium-3.html

I need the thoughts of those of you familiar with helium-3 and it's potential.

It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

oldarmy1 said:

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Every Congressman and their dog being said to have been buying GOOGL.

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DOJ insider news?

It is criminally undervalued right now. I doubled my position at $150. All my other buys were pre covid.

harge57 said:

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oldarmy1 said:

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Every Congressman and their dog being said to have been buying GOOGL.

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DOJ insider news?

It is criminally undervalued right now. I doubled my position at $150. All my other buys were pre covid.

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I bought in at 160, they will likely figure out the split between ads, blue links and AI. Gemini is a great model, they just need to monetize it now

MaxPower said:

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It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

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Thank you, but in the article it mentions a company that has a prototype to basically scoop it and mine it on the moon. I've never heard of Helium-3 before reading that article today so forgive me if my questions are dumb.

1) If someone is able to mine He3 on the moon, could it theoretically be shipped back to earth?
2) Could it be the key to fusion reactors that essentially produce limitless energy?
3) Could it be used to cool quantum computers at scale?

Even if the answer to those questions is 'theoretically', then imo we should be there first, not China. If all that is possible, can you imagine the massive advancement humanity can do?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just learning about this today and find it fascinating.

ProgN said:

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MaxPower said:

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It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

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Thank you, but in the article it mentions a company that has a prototype to basically scoop it and mine it on the moon. I've never heard of Helium-3 before reading that article today so forgive me if my questions are dumb.

1) If someone is able to mine He3 on the moon, could it theoretically be shipped back to earth?
2) Could it be the key to fusion reactors that essentially produce limitless energy?
3) Could it be used to cool quantum computers at scale?

Even if the answer to those questions is 'theoretically', then imo we should be there first, not China. If all that is possible, can you imagine the massive advancement humanity can do?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just learning about this today and find it fascinating.

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1 Yes, it could be brought back but thats a cost analysis. I've seen the cost of each pound sent to space and I don't remember exactly but it's a big number. First we'd need mining equipment but perhaps that cheaper than it sounds since H3 is scattered across the surface just laying on the top as the suns rays accumulate. Refining at a lower grade level may be easy to decrease weight but im not sure.


2. There may be other reasons H3 has been considered a good fuel for fusion but the main one I rememebe reading about was it did not tear up the reactor walls as bad, so another cost concept. Less neutrons i want to say was the science behind it

Still gotta get fusion working. Maybe China thinks they aren't 10 years away any longer. There are a lot of smaller startups trying to tackle fusion right now which i thought was weird when I ran across it on YT. I don't know if that means something or just private equity is out of control and we'll see alchemy startups soon

jamey said:

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ProgN said:

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MaxPower said:

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It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

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Thank you, but in the article it mentions a company that has a prototype to basically scoop it and mine it on the moon. I've never heard of Helium-3 before reading that article today so forgive me if my questions are dumb.

1) If someone is able to mine He3 on the moon, could it theoretically be shipped back to earth?
2) Could it be the key to fusion reactors that essentially produce limitless energy?
3) Could it be used to cool quantum computers at scale?

Even if the answer to those questions is 'theoretically', then imo we should be there first, not China. If all that is possible, can you imagine the massive advancement humanity can do?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just learning about this today and find it fascinating.

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1 Yes, it could be brought back but thats a cost analysis. I've seen the cost of each pound sent to space and I don't remember exactly but it's a big number. First we'd need mining equipment but perhaps that cheaper than it sounds since H3 is scattered across the surface just laying on the top as the suns rays accumulate. Refining at a lower grade level may be easy to decrease weight but im not sure.


2. There may be other reasons H3 has been considered a good fuel for fusion but the main one I rememebe reading about was it did not tear up the reactor walls as bad, so another cost concept. Less neutrons i want to say was the science behind it

Still gotta get fusion working. Maybe China thinks they aren't 10 years away any longer. There are a lot of smaller startups trying to tackle fusion right now which i thought was weird when I ran across it on YT. I don't know if that means something or just private equity is out of control and we'll see alchemy startups soon

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Let's just hope that China doesnt have any Sam Rockwells and a Gerty, or we're screwed.




And yes, this whole concept was fleshed out in big screen format in 2009. Almost feels like the premise of the script was released as modern news.

Futures looking like a warm hug on Xmas morning lol. Art of the deal!!

jamey said:

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ProgN said:

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MaxPower said:

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It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

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Thank you, but in the article it mentions a company that has a prototype to basically scoop it and mine it on the moon. I've never heard of Helium-3 before reading that article today so forgive me if my questions are dumb.

1) If someone is able to mine He3 on the moon, could it theoretically be shipped back to earth?
2) Could it be the key to fusion reactors that essentially produce limitless energy?
3) Could it be used to cool quantum computers at scale?

Even if the answer to those questions is 'theoretically', then imo we should be there first, not China. If all that is possible, can you imagine the massive advancement humanity can do?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just learning about this today and find it fascinating.

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1 Yes, it could be brought back but thats a cost analysis. I've seen the cost of each pound sent to space and I don't remember exactly but it's a big number. First we'd need mining equipment but perhaps that cheaper than it sounds since H3 is scattered across the surface just laying on the top as the suns rays accumulate. Refining at a lower grade level may be easy to decrease weight but im not sure.


2. There may be other reasons H3 has been considered a good fuel for fusion but the main one I rememebe reading about was it did not tear up the reactor walls as bad, so another cost concept. Less neutrons i want to say was the science behind it

Still gotta get fusion working. Maybe China thinks they aren't 10 years away any longer. There are a lot of smaller startups trying to tackle fusion right now which i thought was weird when I ran across it on YT. I don't know if that means something or just private equity is out of control and we'll see alchemy startups soon

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Yes there's the cost to bring it back but short term the bigger cost is mining at scale. You'd need to mine potentially 100+ tons of lunar regolith to get a gram of helium-3. I highly doubt China has or will have that infrastructure soon.

It's also still a theoretic technology so they'd need to get a sufficient volume of samples to run a test reactor, verify it works, develop one for lunar conditions and transport it there.

MaxPower said:

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jamey said:

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ProgN said:

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MaxPower said:

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It's highly viable for nuclear power. As that article notes, it just doesn't really exist on the earth. Long-term energy will be essential for a lunar city so the nuclear reactor could be used to breakdown common materials like anorthite into its useful components (specifically oxygen but aluminum can be used for construction).

This would be long-term though. First of all, no one has a helium-3 reactor concept, moretheless has shown they can work. The moon isn't a great place for iterative R&D. The second issue is you need mining in scale, which would require a lot of heavy equipment. No way China has the capability to get that much payload to the moon. I have no doubt they are "mining" in the sense that Buzz Alden and Neil Armstrong were "miners".

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Thank you, but in the article it mentions a company that has a prototype to basically scoop it and mine it on the moon. I've never heard of Helium-3 before reading that article today so forgive me if my questions are dumb.

1) If someone is able to mine He3 on the moon, could it theoretically be shipped back to earth?
2) Could it be the key to fusion reactors that essentially produce limitless energy?
3) Could it be used to cool quantum computers at scale?

Even if the answer to those questions is 'theoretically', then imo we should be there first, not China. If all that is possible, can you imagine the massive advancement humanity can do?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm just learning about this today and find it fascinating.

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1 Yes, it could be brought back but thats a cost analysis. I've seen the cost of each pound sent to space and I don't remember exactly but it's a big number. First we'd need mining equipment but perhaps that cheaper than it sounds since H3 is scattered across the surface just laying on the top as the suns rays accumulate. Refining at a lower grade level may be easy to decrease weight but im not sure.


2. There may be other reasons H3 has been considered a good fuel for fusion but the main one I rememebe reading about was it did not tear up the reactor walls as bad, so another cost concept. Less neutrons i want to say was the science behind it

Still gotta get fusion working. Maybe China thinks they aren't 10 years away any longer. There are a lot of smaller startups trying to tackle fusion right now which i thought was weird when I ran across it on YT. I don't know if that means something or just private equity is out of control and we'll see alchemy startups soon

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Yes there's the cost to bring it back but short term the bigger cost is mining at scale. You'd need to mine potentially 100+ tons of lunar regolith to get a gram of helium-3. I highly doubt China has or will have that infrastructure soon.

It's also still a theoretic technology so they'd need to get a sufficient volume of samples to run a test reactor, verify it works, develop one for lunar conditions and transport it there.

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Its possible simple refining technology could be used. H3 is on the far light end of the periodic table so maybe a simple centrifuge or something allows it to be refined at a low level so it's more than 1 gram per 100 ton without breaking the bank

Somebody convince me not to sell a bunch of powl cc

VG on the move. Mentioned this as one to watch a few months back. Depending on entries, could have a chance at some netfree shares.