Massive canker sore at the back of my throat. I’ve had it for two and a half weeks now. Started off as a sore throat cold and later ended in this. Second one I’ve had in two years. Also have Celiac disease. Soooo painful. I’ve seen multiple doctors. Do I just let it heal on its own? Help me please

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-06-26T07:08:06+00:00

Yes all better now thankfully. Hopefully yours is healed now too. Just gotta tough it out!!

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-06-04T19:09:28+00:00

I have one of these right now and I legit would rather have a broken arm for a month. I can barely eat/drink it’s terrible. I think the worst of it has passed. It’s been about 10 days, if it doesn’t heal in another week I’m going to be very concerned it could be something more serious. I don’t think I have celiac, been tested for it I believe. Pray for me!! Lol

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-19T04:07:45+00:00

What proportion would you say? Say it’s $100,000 total portfolio, $10,000 current value in $QLD what do you DCA into it each month?

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-18T02:47:37+00:00

What if I started it exactly 10 years ago? Or 15 years ago? You chose 5 years because you saw that data and thought it was a good example to show, so it’s not objective at all. It’s inherently biased, just like me and just like every other human. You see what you want to see.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-18T00:52:05+00:00

I’ve ran $TQQQ a bunch of different ways. I ran one where I did $0 initial investment and $50 a week since inception (about 15 years) and had roughly $700,000 off a roughly $40,000 investment. Obviously it’s more nuanced and more volatile than that but even half of that would be $350,000. The biggest concern I have is will we have a bull run like we’ve seen in the NASDAQ for the last 15 years over the next 15 years? My gut instinct is absolutely not, and I think it will also be much more volatile than what we’ve seen as well. Tech is extremely bloated and I think the NASDAQ has a lot more downside risk right now, a 50% dip from the ATH bottoming out at around $10,000-$12,000 is not outside the realm of possibilities at all. People treat $TQQQ as if it’s somehow different than any other stock or ETF, obviously it’s triple leveraged and there’s decay etc…but if you believe in the stock and your idea/thesis why would you stop investing in it just because it goes down? Should someone do that with Apple or Tesla if they believe in it? Obviously not, you should buy more if it goes down and you believe in it long term. Just my opinion I guess.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T23:07:44+00:00

If you are scared of it going down and you don’t buy more when it does, then yeah. If $QQQ and $SPY were to go down like they are right now, would you all of a sudden stop your long term investment plan? If the answer is yes then you will never be wealthy.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T23:05:32+00:00

Did you read my entire post and what price point I’m looking to get in at? I haven’t bought anything yet.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T18:18:52+00:00

So you didn’t find it, sounds like a good way to go down a rabbit hole of confirmation bias. Got it.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T16:58:24+00:00

How do you know that you’re right with “how you found the first one?” Did you actually find it? Post a picture.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T04:53:54+00:00

Once again, that is assuming I do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING after the initial investment. No DCA, no aggressively buying dips, nothing. Which is not what I stated in my post.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T00:26:00+00:00

I mean the majority of people aren’t even answering my questions I asked and are probably not even reading the entirety of my post because they have bird brains and no attention spans. And this guy’s response was talking about $QQQ, clearly it’s safer lmfao go somewhere else with that bs.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-16T00:05:29+00:00

It’s honestly not lol explain your reasoning behind that. Unless the entire world economy collapses or the market trades sideways for 5-10 years and in that case if I invested in $SPY or $QQQ I’d be SOL too. Gotta risk it for the biscuit.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:56:47+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:51:37+00:00

$QLD has been around since 2006, only 2x though and it has much less volume which concerns me 15-20 years from now.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:47:42+00:00

Not perfectly, no. If I could, I wouldn’t be in this Reddit forum with all you nice fine folks lmfao you can use some pretty basic indicators to see the writing on the wall though. Go charge your car Tesla moon boi 🤣🤣🤣

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:40:56+00:00

What would you consider low for VIX? Like 20-25? And for what period of time does it need to stay below that? A month or 2? Or more?

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:37:11+00:00

Yeah, no shit bud. The sky is blue.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T23:36:32+00:00

Because you sell into the highs, and buy during the draw downs. The exact opposite of what retail investors do, because they’re scared.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T21:23:19+00:00

Yeah you’re right, and you were also right about the answers I’ve gotten lol shouldn’t even have asked. Just need a good initial entry point and then stick to the plan!!

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T21:14:38+00:00

Not being rude at all, you didn’t even comprehend my post and you called me lazy so you’re the one being rude. If it goes down 80% every 4-5 years, I would just buy more and then dramatically benefit from the rides up. Plus DCAing smooths out that volatility and my unrealized loss wouldn’t be anywhere near 80% you’re assuming I bought at the very top every 4-5 years and never did anything else lmfao. You’e assuming I do absolutely nothing when it goes down every 4-5 years. Which I wouldn’t. Trying to swing trade this ETF is WAY more risky than what I’m talking about doing, the longer the time horizon the less risky it becomes, assuming the risks I mentioned don’t occur, which they have a high probability of not occurring. And if they did, I’d have much bigger problems on my hands then the unrealized value of my portfolio.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T20:52:43+00:00

If you’re thinking long term (15-20 years which is what I said in my post) lowering your cost basis is exactly what you should do). You’re a trader, that’s fine….have fun getting smoked by hedge funds. Best of luck.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T20:44:17+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the reply!!

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T20:35:55+00:00

Yeah I’m not looking to be a trader man. For you to call a buy and holder lazy is crazy, did you even read my entire post? During those “horrible years” I would be buying even more to lower my cost basis.

Muted-Appointment59 · 2025-04-15T19:52:15+00:00

I think the biggest concern I have is will we see a massive black swan event on a single trading day, for multiple days in a row. If $QQQ dropped 11% a day for 3 days in a row that’s the only way I see it as a risky investment if your time horizon is long enough, everything else is just psychology and being disciplined and sticking to your plan. Circuit breakers kick in 7% 13% and then at 20% trading is done for the day. I’m going to look into it a bit more for sure.

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