Brian Earl Spilner said:

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After several nerve-wracking months, looks like I'll finally be getting a formal job offer from the Dept of VA.

Times like these are when the old nest egg provides a tremendous amount of peace of mind. My stress level would've been through the roof otherwise.

The job market really sucks right now. I would say 98% of my applications resulted in total radio silence.

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That's good.
I actually retired from the VA this year, took the DOGE deal at end of FEB, and my retirement was finalized 30 SEP.

What VA is it?

Nice. Federal.

TTUArmy said:

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Is anyone picking up $USAR way down here or is it still headed south?

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I thought I might be picking up pennys on a busy highway with this one, but made out pretty good.

Let's Go Fed!

techno-ag said:

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El Chupacabra said:

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techno-ag said:

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techno-ag said:

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El Chupacabra said:

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Anyone holding UNG...you're welcome, I sold some CCs yesterday.

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Mid $16 this morning. I'm rich.

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Kissed $17 today briefly.

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back down to earth

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Yeah I'm not rich anymore.

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I was annoyed I sold $16 cc's WAY too early. Now I wish I was getting assigned at $16.

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

US seized an oil tanker from Venezuela.

Interest rates drop again .25% for third time

Heineken-Ashi said:

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Can move your stop on LABD to entry. IF it comes back down to there, best to not lose and wait for next opportunity if it holds $19 range.

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Watching it last 30 minutes on lunch break...

Finally got my rollover 401K into a Roth IRA account with Fidelity. Got most of the money deployed a few weeks ago and invested another large chunk a few minutes ago. What are yall's thoughts on my allocation?

QQQM - 22%
VOOG - 22%
Cash (waiting to deploy) - 22%
IWB - 17%
PWR - 11%
NVDU - 5%

Trying to be hyper aggressive with this account. This is most of my retirement savings, but my thought is I am young enough to where I can absorb a little loss at this stage of my life and be able to recover. If I hit it big on something now the payoff is huge in the years to come. I am very interested in where this board thinks I should deploy the remaining 22%.

Get something that'll give you a weekly cash payout. Take the infusion and use it to buy more of something every week. At the moment I like COIW and SMCY.

Maximus Johnson said:

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Finally got my rollover 401K into a Roth IRA account with Fidelity. Got most of the money deployed a few weeks ago and invested another large chunk a few minutes ago. What are yall's thoughts on my allocation?

QQQM - 22%
VOOG - 22%
Cash (waiting to deploy) - 22%
IWB - 17%
PWR - 11%
NVDU - 5%

Trying to be hyper aggressive with this account. This is most of my retirement savings, but my thought is I am young enough to where I can absorb a little loss at this stage of my life and be able to recover. If I hit it big on something now the payoff is huge in the years to come. I am very interested in where this board thinks I should deploy the remaining 22%.

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I'd stand pat on your cash at the moment and wait until the first week of 2026 before putting it to work if I were you.

Wish I had bought more WRBY. Has gone up like a rocket the past week or so.

after MSTY's mess I've only been able to trust ULTY

A little sell off into the close. Got into GUSH when news hit of the tanker and made some profit today. Figure any escalation will spike prices short term. Carrying that into tomorrow. Also added a little more to my LABD position after that drop today.

Looks like a double top may be forming on the DJIA… we got just near the ATH and faded. Wonder if we push through tomorrow or we sell off again?

PDEMDHC said:

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A little sell off into the close. Got into GUSH when news hit of the tanker and made some profit today. Figure any escalation will spike prices short term. Carrying that into tomorrow. Also added a little more to my LABD position after that drop today.

Looks like a double top may be forming on the DJIA… we got just near the ATH and faded. Wonder if we push through tomorrow or we sell off again?

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Futures ripping after hours. Buckle up!

Looks like both of these are at or close to all time lows. Thoughts on the bottom? The distributions have been consistent?

EliteZags said:

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after MSTY's mess I've only been able to trust ULTY

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The weekly dividend payout has been dropping every week since September. Has your ULTY original principal remained constant? Or has the principal started to drop since September as well?

SD*AG said:

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Looks like both of these are at or close to all time lows. Thoughts on the bottom? The distributions have been consistent?

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The underlyings are low. If and when SMCI and COIN rally they'll be fine. Overlay COIW's chart with COIN. It follows pretty close.

Agreed you have to keep an eye on these. I gave up on ULTY before the reverse split because the payouts went down.

These aren't the only choices. I'm just saying buy something that gives a little weekly cash and you can keep investing all year long in a retirement account even after your annual contribution.

El Chupacabra said:

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ORCL shi**ing the bed.

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Just a matter of time until Trump buys it.

aggieband 83 said:

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EliteZags said:

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after MSTY's mess I've only been able to trust ULTY

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The weekly dividend payout has been dropping every week since September. Has your ULTY original principal remained constant? Or has the principal started to drop since September as well?

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principal def gone down but much less intensely than MSTY, and still net positive on my my shares bough starting low 6s and downward

@NFLPlayerProps said:

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STRC has been great so far, especially if you buy shortly after ex-div. I bought 1,000 in the IPO and I'm up to ~1,700 now which is about $1,300 a month at current rate. Dividends are ROC until you reach your cost basis.

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So you have 1700 shares and it is paying you $1300 a month?

Yes. Tax free for a very long time.

Very nice!

Holy crap….futures shaping up tomorrow to be a sh!&ty day

Let's hope the morning can gain some back

Thanks for the mention on this.

Under what circumstances is your principle at risk? Bitcoin draws down to XX,XXX and they have to sell? Insolvency?

If BTC dropped to ~$20k and stayed there for a few years then MSTR and all related financial instruments would be in trouble.