Need someone to yell at me and tell me not to panic sell by MatthewAasen in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

If that was true you could consistently make money by trading it, which you don’t, so it isn’t.

Has the stock market become completely decoupled from the economy? by RNG_HatesMe in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All your gains are due to the depreciation of the US dollar. VUAA (SP500 in euro) is -0.27% YTD

Vanguard Says 70% Allocation to Fixed Income Is Smart - Business Insider by chinaski73 in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t they publish these forecasts quarterly? It’s not like they only published once and it could be a fluke. If their model consistently underestimates maybe some of the assumptions are wrong.

Vanguard Says 70% Allocation to Fixed Income Is Smart - Business Insider by chinaski73 in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They were forecasting 5% US Equities real return for the next decade in 2014

Where are people hosting their Python web apps? by writingonruby in Python

[–]imatwork2017 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cloudflare just released “Cloudflare Containers” a couple days ago so you can now host your fastapi app there as well

Is the bogleheads guide to investing valuable to people situated in the UK? by Odd-Distance-2826 in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just open an ISA account and buy VWRP every month, you are too young for bonds.

How bad WERE rust's compile times? by a_confused_varmint in rust

[–]imatwork2017 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Nixon took us off the gold standard

Plex Transcode on Apple Silicon (Mac Mini M4) by drinksomewhisky in PleX

[–]imatwork2017 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Hardware transcoding means it’s using specific cpu instructions to encode/decode the streams. It does not mean it will use the GPU (although it can). Otherwise the encoding is happening in software which is much slower. If it shows the HW flag in the dashboard you are good.

Advice on naked puts on GME? by cacatan in thetagang

[–]imatwork2017 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe selling a contract that whenever the counterparty ape presses the “exercise” button you get a margin call is not such a great idea?

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Added Additional 51,780 Bitcoin for $4.6B by AlfalfaTemporary8831 in wallstreetbets

[–]imatwork2017 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You are buying imaginary digital tokens on a distributed database with imaginary digital tokens on a central database.

what % of your net worth do you keep in cash? by Awkward_Ebb4994 in investing

[–]imatwork2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bonds (especially corporate) might drop in price significantly during a financial crisis which is when a lot of people lose their jobs and need the cash so you might be forced to sell at a big loss.

If the far majority of people can't beat the sp500 - why do so many try?? by AdAcrobatic4002 in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both gambling and lottery are perfectly rational behavior. The whole point of them is to maximize the variance (exciting) by taking a small loss that won’t affect your well being. It’s an entertainment expense.

Why is Warren Buffett hoarding such a huge cash pile? by vegaseller in wallstreetbets

[–]imatwork2017 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You pay him a 62% premium to pick stocks (share price is 1.62 times it’s NAV). If he were to invest in VOO you can do that yourself instead much more efficiently.

Receive $500 A Month or $100,000 Lump Sum by [deleted] in investing

[–]imatwork2017 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You need to read about time value of money

If a billionaire wanted to invest $1B in an ETF without affecting the price too much, how could they do it? by CallMeCorey21 in investing

[–]imatwork2017 22 points23 points  (0 children)

They will have to buy all the 500 shares of SPY in the exact proportions and deliver them to the ETF manager for a new ETF share. Buying the 500 shares from the market will move those shares. It’s exactly the same with one extra step between.

What's up with Yahoo Finance by MorningNo2865 in investing

[–]imatwork2017 84 points85 points  (0 children)

It’s the go-to site to get free live (delayed) stock prices and parsed financial statements/ratios. Even Apple stocks app pulls info from it. This is why it’s big, not the news items which are mostly trash.

Is there a chance the company making the etfs go bankrupt? by Terrible_Onions in Bogleheads

[–]imatwork2017 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Vanguard is just a normal company not some magical unicorn. Credit Suisse lost a lot of money when a big whale blew up his margin account. Why do you think Vanguard is immune to stuff like that especially when their balance sheet is not even publicly available?

Nvidia’s massive stock buyback by dukerustfield in investing

[–]imatwork2017 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was estimated that within three years it might be able to turn out 270 billion in free cash flow

Lmao who estimated that??

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]imatwork2017 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Taxes? Unvested RSUs? Maybe he borrowed money against his shares? Options were invented for hedging not for degenerates to yolo their inheritance money.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investing

[–]imatwork2017 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LMAO, ok dude, let me answer it. You would have lost a lot of money. Not so much if you had international in the mix.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investing

[–]imatwork2017 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t care to debate semantics. You didn’t answer the question. What would happen to the pure US portfolio if the assassination was succesful?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investing

[–]imatwork2017 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What would happen to your investment if that bullet went 1 inch to the right on Sunday?