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Robinhood app is really shady. Feels like someone inside Robinhood might be selling scammers info.
So I opened a robinhood account back in Feb 2021 to get the free stock they were giving away, cause why not? But outside of that free stock and transferring in a $1 that same day, I have not logged into the account. Fast forward to this week monday when …
We are nearing Extreme Greed... yet $VIX is up
It's crazy how different the market is today, compared to the last time the Fear & Greed was this high \~71 to be exact.. with 75 marking extreme greed. Cboe's volatility index, [$VIX](https://x.com/search?q=%24VIX&src=cashtag_click) is currently up 27% YTD, sitting at $19 per share. The last time the F&G index was …
SEC overturns the $25k Pattern Day Trader rule, ending the long-standing requirement for traders to maintain a minimum $25,000 balance to day trade.
The change replaces the traditional Pattern Day Trader designation with a risk-based intraday margin framework. For years, the PDT rule limited smaller accounts from making more than three day trades within five business days unless they maintained $25k in equity. The new approach shifts toward real-time risk management rather than …
Gold Prices Slip as US-Iran Talks Uncertainty and Strong Dollar Weigh
Gold prices declined as investors waited for clarity on possible U.S.-Iran peace talks and reacted to a slightly stronger U.S. dollar. Spot gold fell 0.7%, while futures also dropped, reflecting cautious market sentiment. Iran is considering joining negotiations in Pakistan, which could influence oil supply and global stability. Analysts say …
Every consumer staples name I screened this month has insider buying. Here are the 3 beaten-down food plays smart money keeps stacking.
Been running the same insider screen every morning for two weeks, and the concentration in consumer staples keeps growing. Every beaten up food name I pull has people inside the company writing personal checks. Three I can't stop looking at. $LW (Lamb Weston): JANA Partners, one of the better known …
If you moved country would you move your portfolio too?
Hi all, curious about the mechanics here for anyone who has knowledge of cross-border investing. If someone has held a UK global tracker fund for 15 years and then becomes a German tax resident, what are the general options typically available to them, and what are the trade-offs of each? …
I tried combining multiple data sources when analyzing stocks. The results were more conflicting than I expected
Lately I’ve been trying to improve how I analyze stocks, especially the tendency to rely too heavily on a single angle like technicals or fundamentals. I experimented with combining several types of data at once, including news sentiment, price action, financial metrics, analyst opinions, insider activity, and relative performance versus …
I tried to predict market stress from corporate fundamentals and the results were more interesting than i expected
Most stress indicators people watch, VIX, credit spreads, yield curve inversions, are price-derived. They move when stress is already visible. I wanted to test whether looking directly at corporate balance sheets gives any signal before markets react. I built a quarterly composite of leverage, operating margins, interest coverage, and free …
What’s the maximum drawdown you could realistically hold through before selling?
Serious question: At what point would you abandon an investment strategy, even if you believed its long-term returns were strong? Would you hold through: \-10%? \-20%? \-35%? \-50%? And does your answer change if the strategy historically delivered much higher returns than the market? I’m starting to think **drawdown tolerance …
UnitedHealth just jumped 7% this morning!!!
UNH is making moves this morning. While most are focused on the news and war situation. If you’ve been following the sector, you’ll know UNH has been in the TRENCHES lately, between the CEO situation, the massive sell off that wiped out nearly 45% of its value. But today’s earnings …