who do y'all use for trading? Robinhood?

Bag said:

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who do y'all use for trading? Robinhood?

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Guessing Schwab and Interactive Brokers would be 2 of the most common.

I have accounts at Scwhab, Fidelity, and Vanguard (bleh)

Bag said:

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who do y'all use for trading? Robinhood?

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Started with Scottrade, so Schwab now. Like ToS platform, but hate that charts are only candlesticks and can't see my lot details. Like everything else about it.

Bag said:

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who do y'all use for trading? Robinhood?

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Mainly Interactive Brokers for me. Have a little left in Robinhood. Also have accounts in Schwab, Vanguard and Fielity but don't trade there.

You can change the candles to bars or anything else you prefer

I would love to see SMCI break through the 58 to 74 gray bar resistance this week. It would help relieve some of the heartburn SMCI's bad leadership has caused over the last five months.

El_duderino said:

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You can change the candles to bars or anything else you prefer

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How? Didn't see anything in the settings.

Nevermind. Finally figured it out. Not where I thought it was.

Go to style in the upper right, and then in that dropdown there should be an option to change it from candlesticks to whatever you prefer

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El_duderino said:

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You can change the candles to bars or anything else you prefer

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How? Didn't see anything in the settings.

Nevermind. Finally figured it out. Not where I thought it was.

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Heineken-Ashi said:

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Give me OXY $50.25 and I'm buying next Friday $52 calls around 30 cents looking for 4x at $53.25.

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Well, it didn't get to 50.25, but this would have still been a good call...

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Heineken-Ashi said:

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Give me OXY $50.25 and I'm buying next Friday $52 calls around 30 cents looking for 4x at $53.25.

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Well, it didn't get to 50.25, but this would have still been a good call...

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Ya, didn't get my entry. Oh well.

Be careful. At the market close last night, only 20,000 short stocks were available. After the morning sell-off, 60000 short stocks were available. At lunchtime, 55000 short-stocks were still available. With a small float, it does not take many short stock *******s to keep this stock price down. Of course, please do your own DD. I have been in Powl since the last pulled back from the 290.00 to 300.00 range. I would love to see it turn around more than most. Don't get me wrong; I made a profit from POWL multiple times last year. I am a believer in POWL. They need to split their stock to increase their stock float so the Short Trade ******* will stop using this stock as a money printing machine.

Random Individual Stock Investment Question (not ETF):


What's the most you'd feel comfortable (portfolio-wise) investing in a single company? 2%? 5%? 25%? More?


I've gone as high as ~30% and of course it's a case by case situation, but is that too risky for some of you? In my defense it's worked out for me so far because it was in pretty strong companies that I planned on holding (ASO and ET in the past and currently my POWL position is getting pretty high).

Interweb chatter on $MOMO call volumes

giddings_ag_06 said:

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Random Individual Stock Investment Question (not ETF):


What's the most you'd feel comfortable (portfolio-wise) investing in a single company? 2%? 5%? 25%? More?


I've gone as high as ~30% and of course it's a case by case situation, but is that too risky for some of you? In my defense it's worked out for me so far because it was in pretty strong companies that I planned on holding (ASO and ET in the past and currently my POWL position is getting pretty high).

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Depends on my conviction. I've put 50% of my largest account on a single ticker before. The stop was very tight at the entry. It was like a 1% loss chance vs 20% gain chance.

If I'm VERY confident, and the R/R is really good, I will put a lot on it. If I'm semi confident with a good R/R, I'll put less. If I'm not very confident with a great R/R, I'll still put a good amount, but probably less than the other two. If I'm gambling, it's like 0.1% - 0.5% at most.

My target cap is 5%. I have 4 between 5-8% right now. The rest is pretty much SP500 ETF and a large cap growth fund.

I have had some get too big in the past in a good way and in a bad way.

GRAB - $3.50 - $4.30 is the range I would need to even consider buying. Hope some of yall didn't become exit liquidity for rug pullers. If so, need to hope it holds somewhere in that range.

me too, I was looking at that today - purchased around 46 and got out around 22

not good, should have stayed the course

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I'm here for the SMCI seller's remorse for selling when it bottomed near 18.50.

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Don't ask me how many shares of xle I sold at the bottom of the covid crash.

Hopefully not more than 50K worth.

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Digital marketing and one of the biggest players in the online ad space.

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Honest question - The ad space has been absolutely killing it for years and has been one of the best benefactors of AI. But if the consumer, who is cash strapped, in debt, and has maxed credit, starts to pull back, do the companies running ads see that weakness before a recession, or after its too late?

Because consumers pulling back would lead to ineffective ads as the cost of running them and performing all the analytics to maximize them starts to outweigh the effect of them on the bottom line. This is where I personally believe TTD and similar companies might have topped out, and its just too early for the general market to notice the potential deterioration of the forward effects.

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Category/Industry specific.

Where TTD does it better than everyone else is the break through walled gardens approach. When media buying, a lot of brands spend separately on CTV, OLV, programmatic display, audio, OOH, and paid social which leads to a lot of guessing and assumptions on if you're actually reaching the same consumer across those mediums.

What TTD does better is that they can target the same consumer across all of those with the exception of paid social so that the ad spend is more efficient and you're getting accurate reach and ad frequency that the better brands know what it takes to convert a consumer or improve brand recall.

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That's great. But if the consumer in general pulls back and the economy weakens, and less products are being bought within the economy, do ad runners continue to spend with TTD at the same frequency as before? Are they bringing in as many new clients. In general, is their growth slowing? Because their P/E is still ~100 even after the big drop.

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I know a few at major retailers that work with them directly. I'll ask and find out what they're doing currently.

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Thank you. I don't focus as much on the fundamental side of things. So finding out how firms are assessing risks could be big for stocks like this. Much appreciated.

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Here's my best summary:

Privacy Laws and public sentiment towards being tracked (rise of VPNs, death of cookies, Apple focus on privacy, DuckDuckGo) are at odds with Digital Ads. As the first has increased the capability and accuracy of companies like TTD has gone down. You can google and find articles about the death of cookies and digital ad buying/targeting struggles.

TTD was one of the gold standards years ago, but it's become a race for who can interpret and adjust to the newest laws.

Your question can also be true: TTD could definitely be on the front lines of consumer spending decreasing, but conversion rate ROI and the above are different issues. Both could be affecting them at the moment.

EliteZags said:

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Celsius up 30%

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bought shares around 24, more in the 25's

credit to @Jake_Wujastyk on X. I got stopped out a couple times first, but 3rd time was a charm.
Wish I had calls on it! he made 6 figures on it.

hope you guys are making good money, sorry been too busy with work to post here much.

FUBO is next!

LFG!