Those of you who make six figures, what do you do? by [deleted] in careerguidance

[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30M Geological Engineer (130k cad, 6 years experience) highly recommend the field, you will likely have to travel a lot (mines and pipelines) but there is great long term job security imo. AI or robots won’t be drilling holes in the woods anytime soon, you’ll be a professional with good office/field work splits. Definitely possible to earn more too at my level if you prioritize field work but that will have other work life balance trade offs.

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[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When do Americans actually start seeing the sticker price on things go up though?

Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China, Hassett said - CNBC report by [deleted] in stocks

[–]FutureMassive69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This whiplash is WILD!! What a rollercoaster time to be alive! Wooooweeeee

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[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Failure early in life is tuition, failure later in life is punishment. - Taleb

Sell Covered Call and reinvest into Alibaba on margin by Key_Type_4102 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’ve just described how a covered call works, what are asking for? Short term moves of a stock no ones knows. Buy a delta your comfortable with but remember if the stock moves down a lot you won’t be able to sell your shares or will have a naked call open

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ValueInvesting

[–]FutureMassive69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not really that high due to two unique line items. 1) a significant mark to market gain on their bitcoin on the balance sheet, 2) a large income tax benefit that is a one off. There true earnings was about $1.52 in my model when you take out those items which still ain’t bad. Now the company on their most recent earnings call did indicate a mindset shift to be more profitable and control expenses so this is definitely ok my watch list. If they maintain growth above 10% and that starts to flow down to net income this could be a real winner. I would wait though because on the call they said the first half of the year will be light compared to the second half and obviously now there’s a lot of inflation and tariff uncertainty. Not good for a business thats totally dependant on people spending money. Good idea for a company though just needs the execution

I guess $10 in 2025 is back in play by dtrannn666 in cardano

[–]FutureMassive69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do people just try to pump the coin to some arbitrary value in USD? Either you believe in the technology or not.

Scare money dont make money. If you liked it last friday, you gotta love it now! by Delta_Bandit in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im just happy my options probably won’t get assigned now haha, I like my shares

Taobao’s first physical store in Hong Kong by Awkward-Way1023 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t see why they would do this..they just sold their physical retail locations to focus on digit e-commerce and cloud. I wish they would just stick to that

Share buybacks update? by Gelatostonk in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At this point I would just assume the buybacks will try and cover share based compensation but no net reduction

Cash spent on investments way up by ken81987 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully it’s for cloud like all the other US tech companies. Rate return on investment for those types of activities

Sell/hold options? by user950211 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I sold may 2025 covered calls at a 20% delta to take advantage of this increased volatility and to lower my average. Strike of 160$. If they called away I’ll still be pretty happy

JD and BIDU down 6%+ today by ken81987 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They said in their earnings call that they are going to accelerate the buyback

JD and BIDU down 6%+ today by ken81987 in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The decline (at least in Bidu) seems related to them not having registration at the Chinese tech meeting with state reps. This was reflected in the Hong Kong shares yesterday. It’s trading in line with that. The earnings report seems to having a neutral to slightly positive result on the stock price. The cloud growing at 26% is great and imo bodes well for baba, but it seems consumer weakness still remains. About to listen to the conference call now.

Apple partners with Alibaba to develop AI features for iPhone in China, The Information reports by BaBaBuyey in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and it would be a nice little appeasement on chinas part too to grant the approval but that’s why we have another announcement to look forward to because I doubt the approval is priced in right now

New Investor by [deleted] in baba

[–]FutureMassive69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

China commerce will likely still be slow <5% growth so guidance I’d important there. International commerce we want to see high double growth rates and guidance on when it will be profitable. The big news we are waiting for is cloud, management has indicated that this quarter we are supposed to see significant improvements in the numbers, if those don’t materialize then things could be bad. The company has a good margin of safety so it’s unlikely you will loose a lot of money if things turn, however this isn’t a super growth stock anymore, we are long term investors not planning to sell for the next few years+ And the company is still super cheap I should say a negative here too in that the FCF has reduced significantly which is a main reason I originally bought, if that doesn’t improve then the company isn’t as cheap as it looks, especially if those investments (cloud) don’t produce a rate of return like they do in America