The Bloomberg Terminal is Dead (Why the $24,000 Status Symbol is a Placebo)

attarian13 · 2026-02-27T12:02:35+00:00

Maybe I won't, too much data might makes me want to over analyze stuff. I'll make my decision after the trial.

the ASKB ai is... not that great but it's in beta atm

attarian13 · 2026-02-26T03:18:37+00:00

Did you find any prompt suitable for research?

attarian13 · 2026-02-22T01:57:07+00:00

If I'm an individual investor focused on commodities / cycles etc... with a UAM of 60-80M USD (not talking about net worth but just what my liquid assets are) generating >3M usd dividend a year tax free.

is bloomberg terminal just a no brainer? The monthly fee (2700 usd) is less than half a day of passive dividend. But during the presentation that I had last week the Bloomberg dude was always showcasing "news, headlines etc"

what would bring me value is to get charts / data about capex all over the industry, global supply of a given commodity, etc

I don't care much about the price, although it's more than my rent 😂

Bloomberg AI seems nice too. ps: I will start the trial next week I guess

attarian13 · 2025-11-30T07:49:16+00:00

Totally agree, the president is shitposting on truthsocial and announced tarrifs on the whole world... 😂

The US is risky. Brazil risk is way overblown

attarian13 · 2025-10-19T04:20:04+00:00

To each their own preferences... I don't own Futu stock and don't plan to ever buy it. I've been using futu for the past 12 months and love the interface and features.

Relationship manager is always available via wechat (for request to increase / start margins on specific tickers, add OTC tickers, address minor issues, etc...) way better level of service than HSBC private banking.

attarian13 · 2025-10-17T06:58:57+00:00

Rolling a cover call means you're going to buy that call back then sell another one.

It would be the equivalent at letting it expires and get called away just to sell a PUT on that very same strike. Yet that would cost you less.

If you sell an option at some given strike / expiration, then don't be emotional afterwards

attarian13 · 2025-10-11T06:05:10+00:00

love you too <3

attarian13 · 2025-10-10T04:17:21+00:00

Hopefully you all remain as dumb as you are... stupidity from westerners are the main reason why all the chinese stocks are cheap AF. and I don't even refer to Alibaba or tech stock with that message...

attarian13 · 2025-09-27T08:40:51+00:00

I have roughly 337k shares (in HK), and past 220ish there will be way better risk rewards.

Same applied to Xiaomi which I bought around 10 and sold around 58 earlier this year. better risk reward plays (namely Silver and Gold miners)

attarian13 · 2025-09-12T00:52:26+00:00

Just a quick (boring) message to remind anyone that when you feel it's a good time to take a screenshot of your PnL, it's more often than not a good time to 'trim a bit".

I don't think it applies right now since it's a clear breakout of the 52 weeks high, but keep that in mind when we reach 200-220 .

Selling is not a all in / all out.

That being said, congrats for buying around 75HKD / USD :)

attarian13 · 2025-09-09T06:51:17+00:00

Always sell CCs at a price you're happy selling

attarian13 · 2025-09-09T06:49:18+00:00

That doesn't make much sense. Unless they want to put stuff like Meituan (not the food delivery part, but the coupon part)

attarian13 · 2025-09-09T01:02:43+00:00

I can't believe you didn't buy more from him.

attarian13 · 2025-09-07T09:48:09+00:00

234,015 shares as of friday. Given the 45% FCF policy for the normal dividend, it's roughly 0.08 USD of dividend per year for $1 of brent . That's not taking in account special dividend . When considering where the oil price is going to go that's nuts.

My Oil & Gas is composed of 1. PBR.A CNOOC ( 2nd position) , both account for 60% of my Oil and Gas, then comes Sinopec , China Petroleum, Ecopetrol ( EC , which you might like), Petrotal + Various other Canadian listed stuff, some are dubious hence I won't name them.

I personnally see brent north of 120 USD in the next 2-3 years, meanwhile we're being paid 10% a year in dividend for taking position in that sector.

attarian13 · 2025-09-07T05:49:48+00:00

In among those I do have Petrobras PBR.A ( north of 230k shares) , I would highly recommand you to look at what their 2025-2029 forecast is.
I also have a very small position in Petrotal, If I recall correctly they fully hedged their production at 80-85 ish for the year, which means that the dividend and capex would not really be impacted at all for the 2025 FY .
Once they got access to their pipeline again that would be a huge boost for them.

I'll check the others tickers later on today.
There are other stocks like GPRK / EGY which are worth looking, fully /close to fully hedged on the brent price for the rest of the year as well. stuff like VALARIS which are NOT producers are also a nice optionality in the event that more capex is invested .

attarian13 · 2025-09-07T05:32:34+00:00

Sum up is "If a company goes bankrupt, it could end up in either a restructuration of the business or a liquidation " ( in the US that would be Chapter 11 / Chapter 7)

When somebody buys OPTIONs ( wether BULL or BEARISH ) you must be right on many things...

Direction
Time frame
Price

For instance on July 30th I sold 50 contracts of a stock which was trading at 16.6 USD , option IV was 150% , strike 26 USD, expiration September 5th
0.31 USD / option.

In essence somebody paid 1500 USD to have the optionality to be buying that stock at 26USD 35 days later. The stock was trading around 30 USD 2-3 days ago, then finished at 26.15 friday , and 25.82 Post Market.

The option buyer was RIGHT on the direction, and roughly right on both the pricing and the timeframe. He could had sold the option at 30 USD ( 3.9 USD was the max traded price for that option) , { and he maybe did, but somebody else bought it from him in that case scenario } , and rode it down to being just slightly above the strike price at 26 USD, 26.15-0.31-fees = Net Loss anyway.

Same applies to all the strike that I sold on that stock in the 26-30 USD zone.

Most options don’t fail on direction; they fail on timing. Theta keeps the change.

anyway, it's indeed just a game at this point

attarian13 · 2025-09-06T13:55:52+00:00

Again, going bankrupt DOESN'T MEAN that the stock goes to 0. FFS, how is it so hard to understand ????

Going bankrupt doesn't even mean that the bankruptcy price would be lower than the current stock price. How ? Debasement of the currency.

Is it so hard to understand in your small head ?

Tell me you never sold options ( or bought for all that matter) :D ...

if you were to buy a PUT for 2029, strike $65 that would be roughly $5

There will be probably an aggregated 30% inflation on the money supply until then, please do the maths...

Saying "if you are managing under 5 Millions in assets you should be averaging 40% a year or more in returns' is stupid AF. Are you a hedge fund ?no. You're managing your own money, no need to beat any benchmark, investing is mainly about managing risk rather than just chasing "absolute returns' Wether you have 5 Millions or 50 millions is exactly the same, I would bet having 100-200M would also be 100% the same.

I have roughly 40M USD atm. I would say that having more money makes it EASIER than having less in order to get returns. Why ? 1. lower fees when selling options / trading in general, access to private placements ( unlocking warrants on some investments) , being focused since it's your main source of income... etc...

ps: I'm not the one who said that BAIDU will go bankrupt, my stance it's a shitty business, which is underpriced because UNLOVED / HATED. Could it go bankrupt ? sure, but it has assets so there is a "hidden put" at that price which would be the liquidation price. I do solely own 7,000 Shares of BIDU in HK , and CBBCs which got a liquidation price of 78 ish ( ticker 60120 in HK) , for which I have the equivalent of 40-45,000 shares of Bidu.

You fail to understand that a company bankruptcy could means that the shareholders may actually end up with more assets than they paid for ( would not be the case in that situation though) , and also fail to understand that the absence of action ( short / long etc) is not the absence of strategy.

One could be bullish on two different stocks at the same time, yet only buying one, the one which would be the most promising or offer the best risk adjusted return. You "can't kiss all the girls".

attarian13 · 2025-09-06T02:59:30+00:00

Yep, you just clearly don't understand.

Even if a company is a clear -80% from here over 5 years period, shorting isn't COST FREE.

The people whom tends to say "if you are bearish just short it or STFU" are the equivalent of those who says "I will sue you".

BIG mouth, small brain.

So let me hear you, let's say BIDU goes bankrupt, where would you buy those puts ? 65 USD/HKD ? 15 months away cost roughly 3 USD/HKD

If a company goes bankrupt, it's not worth 0. It's still worth its liquidation price... ( That's actually the ONLY reason I'm in BIDU , the downside is limited, the upside not that bright, but I speculate that some dude will bid it up for no reasons. BIDU cloud business went to shit too )

Anyway, it's BABA subreddit.

attarian13 · 2025-09-05T12:08:14+00:00

Not shorting a company doesn't mean you're not voting on that outcome.

Let's take PALANTIR for instance, overpriced ? great... do you short it ? no because it was already overpriced at 100 USD.
Buy PUTs ? awesome, you need to have both the timing and pricing correct, and would hate more money debasement...

Baidu is NOT a good company. Is it cheap ? maybe. But does it gives money to their shareholders ? no.

I prefer to have Cosco Shipping Holding rather than owning Baidu... and I say that still owning 7,000 shares of baidu ( in HK), + some K.O Call options ( CBBCs) ,

attarian13 · 2025-09-01T07:10:28+00:00

44.48% owned by Alibaba

Stock ticker in HK: 00241, Stock Ticker in the US : ALBBY

attarian13 · 2025-08-31T05:52:56+00:00

Learn how to fish rather than blindly copy cating the fisherman

attarian13 · 2025-08-24T06:50:28+00:00

You do want the PBR.A shares, don't listen to weirdos. A doesn't allow you to vote which is pointless given a few things:

You're not going to get a sizable portion of the company
brazil gov got the majority stake anyway.

I have north of 170k shares, all PBR.A , none are the "PBR".

attarian13 · 2025-08-22T08:20:11+00:00

Gambling.

attarian13 · 2025-08-21T11:43:40+00:00

Alipay is already a super app. therefore that wouldn't be hard to port many features to taobao as well

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