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What are your thoughts on casino stocks? Will $MGM crash further? Should I buy put options or sell call options?
This requires a semi-thoughtful answer:
The handle Casinostocks was created when I was day trading stocks in my younger days. I was too lazy to think of something else when I joined this Site back in 2016 so just as a joke I created an account here, not expecting to stick around for long at all, yet here we are! Actually, the nomenclature has very little to do with stocks in a casino or any casino for that matter but it was conjured up as a sort of a gaffe and joke believing that playing the markets is akin to parlaying in casino type gambling games.
Now regarding playing with any individual stocks: unless you have solid insider information (to go long or short) for which if caught you will go to prison, my advice would be to avoid playing them as if it were a plague! In fact, if you lose your $ by going to a casino, you may get comp'ed a room and some meals if you play for long enough. In the markets, you will be lucky to get lubed up before you get royally, eh, hm, ah, ha! If you're an average working stiff and can take advantage of saving schemes such as Roth IRA and similar, then contribute your max yearly toward your eventual retirement, buy the indices like S&P and then salivate over the growth of your portfolio in the long term, count your paper wealth but knowing that to cash out before its maturity, you will be penalized like an a**hole. In fact, Wall Street types don't like giving any money back to anyone and once that whole sum balloons to a sizable amount after 25 years, they will come up with other schemes to generate you an income stream and doing their preventative best to dissuade you from cashing out in totality.
If you have entrepreneurial aspirations and vision, always invest others' monies and a bit of your own in your own business rather than investing in others' schemes. Work hard, pay attention to trends and offer the kinda good & services which will be much more rewarding than piggy backing individual stocks as a retail customer, unless you have had great tangible experience by playing the insiders games and are well adept at level 3 trading (level 2 is not good enough). I have been outta the game for a long time so what I was yammering on about are 15+ years old information based on personal experiences.
ETA: for every AMZN, APPL, FaceFuck and Goog, there are a massive litany of failures and losers which get cut out of the indices so that you never know the casualties, only the heroes!
#stillnotnathan
#nathanstillnotcasinostocks
So, what then if you can't afford to lose any money? You're just f'd?
Rock and a hard place? Invest and watch it burn, or invest in bitcoin and maybe watch it burn?
Invest in physical metals and deal with having to liquefy assets when you need to go to the store?
I want to throw up when I think of where the economy is going.
One lesson which I have leaned by now as a primary maxim is NEVER FIGHT THE FED. When the FED pumps liquidity into the markets, do not fight it an in fact roll with it.
I dont trust crypto at all. I dont think I'll ever retire. I need to purchase a property pretty far away asap... were all fucked.It depends on how risk averse you are and when you plan on retiring. If you’re investing long term, stocks historically always go up. After the next crash, buy some S&P index funds like Casinostocks suggested and leave it there and ignore it.
If you have an appetite for risk, buy some crypto when it falls a bit and forget about it.
I buy gold and silver from trusted online vendors and it’s easy to sell back to them. Precious metals are rallying because of the falling value of the dollar. I think this will continue.
100% right. J.Powell can wave his magic wand and trillions of phantom dollars will appear out of thin air.
Would love to see a collection photo or at least some eye candy of a few of your favourite gems in the same photoCasinostocks
Curious as to why the UF and Shiv would go!(?)
Are they the least favourite of yours or do you have less use for them?
PS. If or when I finally grow the fooque up or if reincarnated in which BS I don't believe in, I'd like to come back asMike157 's knives storage
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I have 5 UF's and 5 sons.
When I die I want them equally irritated when I'm buried with them all![]()
If a gun was held to my head during a homeburglaryrobbery (I did say gun, duh me!) and the choice was to lose them all forever but one, I would settle on the HDFK. It's the one so far which seems to be the best utilitarian unless we are talking about everyday tradesman jobs. Foe these folks, the EDC and the field knives offer more utility.
I am really looking to Nathan's first folder.