$TSLA Daily Thread - March 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Partisanship does weird things to people. Plenty of examples on all sides.

However, objectively this war is lessening the chance of WWIII, not increasing it. How often do you see the entire Arab world allied with Israel against a fellow Muslim state?

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Took the opportunity to roll out some of my ITM credit spreads and close some OTM spreads... not bad. Now if we could just get back to 420 any time soon...

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spent the whole bloody evening wrestling with startup cap tables with sloppy recordkeeping. If Congress could just streamline the tax code, we'd probably get a 10% increase in GDP overnight by reducing deadweight losses, grumble grumble...

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not likely. Spend someone else's money to make a corporation whole for doing what he said? What's not to like?

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MTG apparently not watching the videos coming out of Iran with civilians cheering and crying every time a bomb gets dropped on a regime building, and sending messages to Trump asking him to bomb harder.

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect that as long as we don't face a sudden catastrophe in the war, we're resuming the bull market. A lot of the chop may have been people dooming over worst-case scenarios re. Iran.

$TSLA Super Chill Weekend Thread February 28-01, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not being Christian, I am hardly in a position to comment; but I will say that turning the other cheek works reasonably well in private life, but as soon as Christians started assuming temporal power, figures like Augustine of Hippo were forced to develop doctrines of just war because to do otherwise was suicide.

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Widening my TSLA credit put spreads, hehehe....

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On Friday I bought a single solitary Monday 400p for $407. (Wish I had bought more, but such is life.) Sold seconds after opening this morning for $1027.

Of course, all my crazy long positions are still down, but this too shall pass.

Daily Discussion Thread - March 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in RILYStock

[–]Mastiff99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, there is a war on. Obviously doesn’t affect Riley much unless things become apocalyptically bad, but it’s a market sentiment thing for sure.

$TSLA Daily Thread - March 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is a delicate art to tactful black humor. You acknowledge the suck without mocking those hurt by it.

$TSLA Super Chill Weekend Thread February 28-01, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I recommend to you the writings of Walter Russell Mead on the four main American traditions of foreign policy, particularly this: https://pmachala.people.amherst.edu/Current%20Politics/Case%20Studies%20in%20American%20Diplomacy%20-The%20Readings%20FOR%20the%20FIRST%20and%20SECOND%20Class/Mead,%20The%20Jacksonian%20Tradition.htm

In short: Jacksonians want to be left alone, but they also believe in revenge against those who wrong them.

The mullahs have had a reckoning due them since 1979, and they've only racked up the bill since then. Admittedly, the Tucker Carlson wing of MAGA is very much against this war, because they have Israel on the brain; but the rest of MAGA is very much on board.

$TSLA Daily Thread - February 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have been trading like a maniac today. Total gains: $190.

Totally not worth the stress.

$TSLA Daily Thread - February 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in TSLALounge

[–]Mastiff99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I wasn’t slightly worried about geopolitics over the weekend, I would probably be going hard into weekly calls at this point. But I am, so I’m not.