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How/What to use to invest at 17
Hello, I am 17 and I am wanting to begin investing. I have for a while now but I am finally now taking the effort to. I don’t know a lot about investing, so I’m going to have to do a wide array of research but my first struggle is …
Meanwhile in Germany markets are looking up
For personal and family reasons I've always kept an eye on Germany's economy and held some modest positions in German companies. While the U.S. markets are increasingly volatile, Deutschland's markets are doing pretty well these days. Their economy is not great-- it grew by .01% this past year after two …
Why is the ten year not falling?
Typically the stocks drop the ten year yield drops with it..today that trend did not stick. Any reasonable explanations why? I do think trump is trying to engineer a recession. To bring down the 10 year. To unlock a refinance golden era. But today the ten year not falling would …
Option expiring deep ITM help
Hi everyone, I'm a bit new to options trading (2 months). I want to ask about a scenario where a stock price is 100 and my short put is 83. Will the option still be exercised at expiry even if the price of purchasing the option (from another buyer) costs …
Tariffs on Mexico paused until April 2
It seems after just a couple days of making America great and rich, tariffs on Mexico have been paused for another month. There is no indication that Mexico provided any concessions. Markets are still heavily in the red today, notably not seeing the drop/rally cycle we saw after previous tariff …
Are you all liquidating some assets (stocks) given the current bloodbath and gloom outlook?
As the title says. My family has been lecturing me to sell all and now are saying to sell some because a crash is coming soon and I need to protect my investments. I am getting tired of the world is ending scenario. My thought was to keep holding until …
What to do with my annual bonus?
I just had my review with my boss and I'll be getting a 3.5% raise and a bonus of ~$18k. I'm wondering what to do with about $10k of that. The only debt I have is a car loan for $7420 with a 1.99% interest rate and a little over …
Flat market is the worst?
I’m trying to wrap my head around the worst case scenario for the stock market in the long term. We use the rule of thumb that SP500 has historically beat inflaton long term at an adjusted 7% average YOY. But this assumes people are long these stocks. Couldn’t we say …
Is the "4% withdrawal" rule still applicable to a young person with an aggressive account? If not, what is the safe/optimal withdrawal rate?
My mother passed away and I inherited a trust worth about $500,000. The rules are set up to where I can withdraw up to 5% of the initial principal amount per year until I turn 35 (in 7 years) in which I will unlock the full value of the trust. …
Big Pharma and The Donald
So with the current Stock Market turbulance in response to the Donald... I was looking at some of the Pharma Stocks, Novo(Ozempic) & Lily... Both are down granted, but with the ever increasing demand for the skinny shots, would it save to assume these stocks should be a little safer …