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2025 Stock Market Review: Surprises, Strong Performers & What’s Next for 2026?
2025 Stock Market Review: Tech stocks led the charge, with AI and semiconductors performing strongly. TSLA and NVDA delivered as expected. But the real surprise was SanDisk, which surged as storage demand skyrocketed. Definitely a dark horse this year. Looking ahead to 2026, which sectors or stocks do you think …
UGMA for niece - need advice
Facts: - niece, age 3 soon to be 4 - dual citizen, U.S. & Croatian - lives in Croatia - parents - not financially savvy or stable I have a niece turning 4 in January. I have been begging my sister to set up a savings account of any kind …
Tracking portfolio performance vs. S&P - cash or no?
I was looking at our YTD performance compared to the market. I am about .5% lower and was like, "what's the point?" My son pointed out that he strips out the cash in his account before comparing, as he feels that is more accurate since the S&P returns reflect a …
Inflation is too high. They should raise rates
We have all seen that everything has gotten way to expensive and they wont raise rates to a realistic percentage 7%-8%. Everyone is scared about the fragile ecomony, but all they are doing is prologing the inevitable. Having rates at close to 0% for around 20 years has done irreversible …
Sold my TSM 310 call options, made $1,638 in one day
On December 30th, I bought TSM 310 call options at $0.31 during the early morning dip, sensing momentum was about to shift. The RSI indicator started climbing, the MACD turned upward, and volume began to surge. So I thought, why not take advantage of this opportunity? I bought 21 contracts. …
Rebalancing Portfolio / Realizing Gains
Being a 30-something year old with a 30+ year window until retirement, I generally subscribe to the "VOO and chill" method for the bulk of my non-qualified long-term investing. I also have a target-dated 401K and some speculative stocks. My income is over the Roth limit so that is not …
15 year plan that will generate a good nest egg
Wanting to decide if QQQI or VT or VTI would be best to go with for a 15 year plan for today. I am new to this so a basic rundown would be great. Looking at it as having a nice chunk that can be utilized towards a house 15 …
Why do most company 401k plans not include options for precious metal exposure?
I'd love to diversify a bit in to gold exposure with my pretax savings, but every 401k plan I have been exposed to lacks any option for this. Is this normal? Are there specific funds I can recommend to my company to give us access to? If a 401k plan …
Greek Electricity Transmission Network Play
Hi All. I have been thinking about this for a while, and while there are plenty of politics at play, I believe that there is a mispricing of ADMIE (ΑΔΜΗΕ). Specifically, I do not think that the revenues that could come from the success of the **Great Sea Interconnector** project …
Year end analyst forecasts for 2008
Here are analyst forecasts for 2008 *The most bullish '08 forecast comes from Jason Trennert of Strategas Research Partners. His thesis: We won't get a recession. Therefore, any weakness in profit growth will be offset by a swelling of P-E ratios. The bottom line: With the Fed lowering rates, investors …