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Retail buyers:

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I'm preparing multiple put plays and they are helping juice the returns and lower entry cost. Love it.

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You already in them or just planning?

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Are you interested in entering some yourself?

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Not quite yet but I didn't know if Heine meant he was already building positions or just strategerizing about building some. Which is why I asked for clarification. That's all.

I am content to stand pat into early December before I have conviction in much of anything one way or another. Just about every chart I was tracking looks like a mess right now and not much discernible pattern on where things may be headed. Panic selling may creep in but we could just as easily rocket past 7000 on the S&P.

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Got it. Just caught me off guard that you'd be interested in buying puts. You know, since all the cool guys are 100% cash now and markets only go up.

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Ha, I can take the criticism. But as I said, I am not interested at the moment because I don't see anything yet that leads me to believe we are heading one way vs the other. I have the nerve to ride out dips and enough in cash / bonds to take advantage of equities if they ever reach "on sale" prices, which we are still probably a ways from if the market is at the start of a bear cycle.

Until they realize there's not enough power for all the additional data center demand

El_duderino said:

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Until they realize there's not enough power for all the additional data center demand

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It's being worked on..

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El_duderino said:

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Until they realize there's not enough power for all the additional data center demand

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It's being worked on..

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We still have some tricks up our sleeve! It's going to be damn capital intensive, but there seems to be a lot of capital available and ready to get to work.

I hope the September jobs report released tomorrow morning doesnt ruin this rally!!

Texag5324 said:

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I hope the September jobs report released tomorrow morning doesnt ruin this rally!!

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I think if it does dip, that with the NVDA news the dip will get bought right back up

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El_duderino said:

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Until they realize there's not enough power for all the additional data center demand

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Nvda will buy POWL for $1000/share.

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Why would NVDA buy a cash pile with backlog? They already have plenty of that.

Jobs report came out good!

September's official employment report, delayed since the start of October by the US government shutdown, shows that nonfarm payroll employment rose by 119,000 in September.

That's more than twice as many jobs as expected, thanks to gains in health care, food services and drinking places, and social assistance. Job losses occurred in transportation and warehousing and in federal government, though.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/long-delayed-jobs-report-show-hiring-amid-wobbly/story?id=127668400

With NVDA results good and jobs report good, let's see how the market reacts throughout the day! GLTA

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BucketofBalls99 said:

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With NVDA results good and jobs report good, let's see how the market reacts throughout the day! GLTA

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Futures ticked up even higher after the jobs report came out. Lets go!!!

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on the SEPTEMBER jobs report, LOLOL

My company announced in their big town hall this week that they will be focusing on deleveraging over the next 18 months.

How does that tend to affect stock price and is it insider trading if I act on it?

Edit to add I've already tried google and got mostly useless answers.

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My company announced in their big town hall this week that they will be focusing on deleveraging over the next 18 months.

How does that tend to affect stock price and is it insider trading if I act on it?

Edit to add I've already tried google and got mostly useless answers.

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Completely depends on the context. They are reducing debt and shoring up the balance sheet. On the surface that would typically be seen as less investment for the future which would lower growth expectations and drag the stock down. If the company had the perception that they had a big debt risk, and this solved that it could be seen as a positive.

Most likely it means they are less certain in growth opportunities and are taking a more a cautious approach which would typically lower the price of the stock.

for executives there are "blackout periods" where you cannot trade your own company stock.

ask your HR department.

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for executives there are "blackout periods" where you cannot trade your own company stock.

ask your HR department.

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What about for peons? Do we tend to have blackout periods?

This market is pretty silly.

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LMCane said:

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for executives there are "blackout periods" where you cannot trade your own company stock.

ask your HR department.

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What about for peons? Do we tend to have blackout periods?

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Agreed check with HR and or company attorney. But if you are not on the executive leadership team and you've never signed anything regarding stocks you're probably ok to load up on it now and sell when it spikes.

Come on down please. Need a retracement here to jump back in. Took all SOXL/TQQQ profits premarket.

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for executives there are "blackout periods" where you cannot trade your own company stock.

ask your HR department.

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What about for peons? Do we tend to have blackout periods?

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If they don't tell you you're in a blackout period you're probably fine. Totally depends on the company. I've found over the years that is less stressful to leave work at work and trade other segments instead, particularly because your paycheck/bonus/health care is already dependent on your company's success. In your case the only action I would take is to sell whatever you have because your company is hunkering down, unless you think they're for sale and trying to make themselves more enticing for acquisition

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Between WMT and NVDA today, I'm a very happy man!

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NVDA saved the entire world! Everyone is happy with them.

NVDA is obviously selling like freaking hot cakes, however I do think the news this week that Gemini 3 was trained exclusively on googles TPUs is a pretty big deal. There is plenty of demand to go around, but at some point the chip market has to get competitive. I also wonder what the useful life of these chips will be and what the refresh cycle will look like. Do these things all need refreshed in 2 years on top of future growth for NVDA. or are these chips going to be useful 5 years from now?

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Between WMT and NVDA today, I'm a very happy man!

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Good to see WMT have a great day. Ive owned them for a long time. Just decent slow and steady returns. Maybe wont take off an AI stock, but good stock to own for the long term.

NVDA is not out of the woods. I still think it put in a significant high, and the move off the low is not guaranteed bullish. Before earnings, this had two likely scenarios playing out.. an ending diagonal down to a buyable bottom (that I was hoping on as it would have started with earnings and finished quicker) shown in orange. That is still technically valid, but the earnings strength made it highly improbable. The other scenario was shown in blue, and that's a more or less flat 3-wave (b) wave that should be topping between today and early next week, before a crash-like (c) wave down to $165 area. For me to turn bullish, I'll need to see $203 or higher without first dropping below $188, and then a clearly corrective (overlapping or sideways) higher low. I would buy that if it happened with a tight stop. This has all the characteristics of a bull trap, followed by enough bearishness to then cause a bear trap, before the true Christmas rally and everything rally into early next year.