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Any Undervalued Consumer Defensive Stocks?
I have been looking into the Consumer Defensive sector to add some diversity to my portfolio. Here are a couple that I have looked into: PG, TGT, SFM, USFD, FLO Right now I am most interested in SFM and will likely research it this weekend. What are your favorite consumer …
Am I doing this right, new money could use some advice
I switched careers to sales roughly 4 years ago. Went from 65k a year facility maintenance role, to a steady climb to $750k this year. (2022-$225k, 2023-$465k, 2024-$595k, 2025-$750k) I’m 36 years old, wife is too, she works part time basically just for insurance. Current role is 10-99 b2c one …
Taxes on traditional ira to roth ira
I was going to start doin $50 a week and roll it over weekly (i do not have the funds for the max) When I do this am I going to have to pay taxes for doing this, say at the end of year i end up doing 2,500 in …
Maintenance requirement ratios on Robinhood
For anybody who’s been using margin for a while, how often and why do maintenance requirement ratios change? I've only seen that OPEN was at 100% when it was really cheap, then to 50% when the price rose, and now it's at 40%. My fear is margin investing in a …
What is the best way to invest in my situation?
I got a job at 19 and am about to turn 20. The job is pretty easy from what I’ve seen and I like it. Is this great for investments? It’s a full time job where I get paid 30$ an hour and work 8 hours a day. I have …
17 years olds, 10k cash liquid
I am currently 17 years old. I have 10 K in the bank. I have four sources of income Facebook marketplace. I work at a café. I run a business and I have a remote job for a mortgage company. I am not sure what to do with the money …
LPL Financial/ I am wondering about reliability
Has anyone heard of LPL Financial? I was referred by a family member to one of LPL's local family franchises. I read on line that they were fined for several SEC violations. Now, I'm having second thoughts. Is there a rating entity for Financial Services companies like there is for …
Do you really think markets still work like they used to?
Be honest for a second. Do you really think markets today behave like they did 10 or 15 years ago? That prices are just “fair value” reacting cleanly to numbers? Most of us are still analyzing markets as if the rules didn’t change. But they did. Regulation, geopolitics, macro pressure, …
How to tell apart a great correction from an actual crisis?
I've been studying for a while the market history. The "time in the market" saying is true; if you get the US stock market 200-year average, even the 1929 crash feels more like a correction than what it really was. 2020 is just a blip in the bigger scheme of …
Would you sell gold and take a 6% loan to buy a rental property?
Hello, looking for some opinions here. I live in **Lebanon (not US)**. I make about **$2,600/month net**, work full time as a software engineer, and still live with my parents so my expenses aren’t that high. No other income. Right now I’ve got roughly **$24k total**: * about **$18k in …