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Need help understanding when to take profits after strong stock growth
I have always invested in Index funds in a 401k and IRA and understand the implications with those. Last year (1 year and 1 month ago) I purchased $15,000 worth of Marvell stock in a brokerage account. I believe that I would owe long term capital gains and state income …
Think people fail to understand what "timing the market" means
People keep pretending timing the market is impossibru!! But maybe that is because they dont use the rational definition. Timing the market doesnt mean you took your money out 1-2 days before a major crash happens. Yeah that would be absurdly lucky, nobody can predict the future to such a …
r/Stocks Daily Discussion Wednesday - Apr 22, 2026
These daily discussions run from Monday to Friday including during our themed posts. Some helpful links: * [Finviz](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=spy) for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks * [Bloomberg market news](https://www.bloomberg.com/markets) * [StreetInsider](https://www.streetinsider.com) news * [Market Check](https://www.streetinsider.com/Market+Check) \- Possibly why the market is doing what it's doing including sudden spikes/dips …
Alright, which stocks...
...are being manipulated the most by the Trump playbook? I figure that if he's going to keep making announcements to tank the market, and then announcements to boost it back up, right on the predictable weekly schedule, I need to figure out which ones so that I can put in …
Favorite Brokerage App/Platform to trade stocks
I am posting this again as my last post I guess went against the rules in another community: I have my all my holdings with NetXinvestor (BNY Pershing). It’s not a very friendly retail choice for trading stocks. I tend to trade daily including OTC names occasionally. I don’t use …
“Retail investor trends” are mostly just Reddit mentions
I keep seeing “retail investor trend” data floating around, and a lot of it seems to come from stuff like ApeWisdom, basically just tracking mentions. Which is fine, but it’s a wierd proxy for what people actually hold. Looking at it more closely: \- The same handful of stocks dominate …
Offsetting losses
Is there a simple equation for I can use to find out the exact number of shares I should buy to offseta loss and balance back to zero if it hits a certain value? For example if I spend $100 and bought 10 shares of ABCD at $10, but it …
If you had to choose one of TSLA or NVDA for the long term, which would you pick?
TSLA makes headlines every so often, and its stock price fluctuates with market sentimentrising sharply when it goes up and falling just as sharply when it corrects. In reality, people are buying more into “what might happen in the future.” NVDA is completely different; it’s essentially driven by its earnings. …
UI and DELL are my 2 ride or die stocks.
Never marry a stock. But UI and DELL are the 2 stocks I am not planning on selling until they go private and buy back my shares. Or I start cashing out in retirement. No one ever talks about these stocks. I know the past few weeks have been really …
Ideal Roth portfolio and mix?
I’m 21 and I got about $16k in my Vangaurd Roth rn. I’ve been doing a bunch of reading about what the best stocks are to put my money into for long term growth, but everybody has a different answer. The ones I’ve seen brought up most often are VTI, …