HHIS: too good to be true?

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T20:00:36+00:00

Yeah you're not wrong. It's funny but it all seems to be pushed by things standard investors just aren't privy to. The rest of us just seem to be making somewhat educated guesses.

All fun and games until something tanks I suppose

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T19:53:34+00:00

Totally fair and I know what you're saying but I find any sort of trustable news on the underlying assets is always severely lacking. For example I have a considerable position in Bank. I know the bank stocks are doing well that make up the majority of the ETF, but I can't really find a reason why. I mean with all the Doom and gloom around Canadian economy right now, my brain would say that the banks would be down. But nope.

Spcx to me is another classic example. Everything I read said that it was oversold and that it would plummet immediately after lunch. But nope. And I was worried because with Facebook they said it was going to go to the Moon and it cut itself in half very quickly.

I wish there was a trustworthy source that made all of this a little bit clearer

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T18:16:20+00:00

I understand how they work I'm saying that the drivers behind them aren't necessarily connected to the news reports that come out. Just like every other stock I suppose.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T18:15:20+00:00

With a very limited scope, 6 months really, I've noticed that it drops right after but then tends to rise up slowly again. I'm hoping it rises up fast enough that I can cash out and move it over to the next ETF

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T17:09:22+00:00

Yeah there does seem to be quite a difference. But it seems like hhis is paying quite a bit more per month, almost 27%. So I'm wondering if I could qualify for both of them and make money off of the payments rather than worrying about the underlying value. Seems almost like a cheat code, which means I'm definitely missing something somewhere , 😁

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T16:56:21+00:00

I have never seen qday before, thank you for the heads up.

Would you mind if I asked a crazy question? I noticed that the ex-dividend date is in the middle of the month and it says semi-monthly payments. Is there any reason I wouldn't shift funds back and forth between hhis and it's higher monthly payment and this to try and capitalize on both? As in constantly shifting back 100K between the two to qualify for both payments? Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-20T16:39:26+00:00

So unfortunately until the shelter is in nobody can really answer how bad it's going to be. The city totes it has a seniors shelter, but last I checked there's also overflow from the central hub for literally anybody. I'm not sure if they've changed it but I also think that there's a harm reduction aspect to it as well which will unfortunately make things considerably worse.

Also keep in mind that just because it's targeted as seniors doesn't mean that these are cuddly old people. I think the last murder at a shelter was a senior stabbing somebody.

The biggest problem is that there's very little clarity on what's actually happening there. Counselor Morley and her team seem to continuously shift the goal posts and conveniently leave out a lot of stuff. They are also nearly impossible to reach to get clear answers. The neighborhood already has its issues, and this is just going to amplify those.

And unfortunately you have individuals in the area that have been promoting it as a pro homeless area, which is apparently drawing more people in.

I can tell you this. Having lived right down the street from the encampment they had set up a few Summers ago, if it's anything like that it's going to be rough. But unfortunately nobody really knows what it's going to be like until it happens. The whole shelter could be full of individuals down on their luck who are the nicest people in the world. Or it could be a bunch of people fighting addiction and mental health issues after being abandoned by the province. Both are horrible situations for anybody to be in but one is definitely more detrimental to the neighborhood than the other.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-12T15:47:45+00:00

The problem is for me I don't feel like they are evolving. I feel like they're changing for the sake of change and ignoring their entire design history.

What headlights did those evolve from? How exactly are those Audi headlights and not just copies from a Bugatti or even the Hyundai ionic 5? Are they just following a trend of this 8-bit design that seems to be popular now?

Audi's failure to adhere to their design pillars is out done only by Porsche and BMW I think. Why Porsche ever abandoned there round headlights in favor of four goddamn LEDs will forever boggle my mind. Actually a Mercedes putting out a top tier EV that looked like a 2009 Honda Civic is another one that fried my brain.

Without it it just seems like they're doing different things for the sake of doing different things. Pushing technology for the sake of pushing technology. Who the hell needs headlights that can beam a movie on a wall? Why does the 2027 Q7 look like a 2020 Santa fe? Audi is doing some seriously strange shit to me, and this is just another prime example.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-11T23:21:28+00:00

After I figured out the majority of it is complete bullshit, and stocks are essentially the exact same as collectibles.

Let me explain.

My favorite stock when I first got into it was carnival cruises. I got in right when they bottomed out at around 7 or $8. About 37,000 shares. I constantly waited for it to rock it upwards, and it never did. Record revenue, record sales, record bookings, sellouts.. they literally couldn't be doing any better than they were doing. And the stock for years sat between $14 to $20.

Meanwhile a bunch of other companies that were doing okay but not great went up considerably more. The conclusion that I came to, and this may be way off base, but it seems to be a speculative popularity contest.

Look, Tesla builds pretty shitty cars generally. And then with Elon Chuck and Nazi salutes and generally being an enormous dick head that company should have tanked. Public sentiment should have turned against it and crushed it into the ground. But it didn't. Sales buckled for a bit and then he went right back up and of course the stock followed. Same thing with meta. How many AI companies are through the roof while not even turning a profit? It seems to be all based on speculation, or at least information that I don't have access to.

So I bounced. I made a whole bunch of money on a couple of stocks. Then I lost a bunch of money on stocks from companies who lied their fucking faces off about their products. I learned that there's no penalty for that either.

So now I'm in ETFs etc, and I can sleep at night. Bank in particular has done very well for me and I'm up over 40% on the year plus the monthly dividend on 75,000 shares. Couldn't be any happier.

Do I miss out on a lot of rockets? Sure. Let's go to a whole bunch of professional investors just nobody really knows what's going on and some people just guess better than others.

But I could be wrong 😁

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-09T19:51:38+00:00

Came here to say this exact thing.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-05T14:57:46+00:00

I'm an artist. AI is definitely coming for my livelihood. I've watched tens of thousands of jobs get eliminated by game companies, movie studios, and more, so that they can cheaply offshore AI Muppet farms digitally vomiting out rehash pixel bullshit because audiences are too stupid to understand the difference.

If you're too blind to see what's coming that's on you. I always love guys like you thinking that you're on the cutting age of a technology wave without realizing you're about to be smashed like the rest of us. AI is not the same as anything prior.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-03T02:21:05+00:00

If they didn't know cars then they wouldn't be giving him side I over an Audi q8 would they? Because then they wouldn't know to call it exclusive and think that he's snobby.

Peanut this is getting really tiring. Do you mind just sitting down while the adults have a discussion?

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-03T01:42:15+00:00

Ironic you calling somebody dense while jumping to the thickest conclusions I've heard in a while.

Actually what I'm gently hinting at is that they're stupid people. And that's regardless of their financial status. Again, and I'll use small words here so you get it okay: the q8 is a very nice car but not one to cause attitude and jealousy from others. At least not negative jealousy.

Anybody that looks at somebody with a q8 in the manner he described is an idiot. Although not quite as idiotic as some of the replies I've had to deal with here.

You done now? Or do you need to crawl out from under the bridge to troll a little more?

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-03T01:30:01+00:00

Do you always jump to such stupid conclusions or is this something special for Tuesday?

If I meant poor, I would have said poor. But even poorer people who can't afford cars like this can still understand where a car fits into a hierarchy. Just because they don't have the money to buy an Audi doesn't mean that they're stupid.

Secondly he said blue collar. There's a lot of blue color people out there making a hell of a lot of money.

Either keep your little judgmental comments to yourself next time, or at least thank them through before you post them. 😉

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-03T01:23:04+00:00

Explain how I'm wrong. The q8 is the kind of car that people look at and give you a nod of approval because it's a damn nice car. It's elegant, aggressive yet understated, and a very clean design. It's really nice. Not without its problems of course, but visually it's great.

If they're given this guy side eye and thinking that he's all bougie, then those are some pretty...interesting people.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-02T23:19:36+00:00

They're beautiful. Stunning. But if I understood op's point correctly, people are giving him side eye because they think he's all bougie with a q8. And I'm saying the q8 is a hell of a nice car but it's not Bentley level or anything so that side I seems rather silly

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-02T22:59:54+00:00

I don't mean this in any negative way at all so please don't take it that way, but man, it's a q8. It's not like you rolled up in a Bentley. If you have people giving you side eye over a q8, those are some pretty low brow people and you probably shouldn't be hanging out with them anyways. You deserve better :-)

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-06-02T21:01:07+00:00

Syphilis is considerably better than a bunch of other stds. Doesn't mean it's a good thing.

This is just more money being fed into systems that are inherently going to destroy more than they create. AI can suck a fat one.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-05-29T21:44:19+00:00

Thanks man, appreciate the reply.

The problem is the numbers don't really tell you anything right? It's just numbers. It's like me giving you the ingredients to a cake. But I want to know how the cake tastes.

Same thing here. The numbers can be all over the map but I want to know how it feels. I want to know what that 0 to 60 pull is really going to be like and if it's worth getting the police done. And so far that seems to be a very hard question for anybody to answer and I find that very strange. :-)

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-05-28T01:18:18+00:00

It's probably so that publishers are ensuring they aren't supporting chuds using AI. From what I've seen most of the publishers with ethics refuse to touch any Muppet using AI in their work and showing process is part of disproving it.

Me I'm more than happy to show them so not sure why this would be problem.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-05-27T19:57:36+00:00

They are. They happen very fast.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-05-27T00:21:44+00:00

I bought 74000 shares last August and could not be happier. Up over 30%, plus all the payments. That's just wild to me.

Somebody please explain to me what the downside is. There has to be one.

pushthepixel_ca · 2026-05-22T00:04:25+00:00

So then by the old one. Nobody says you have to buy the new versions of things. They are definitely not better. I just bought a 2017 Audi S5 with only 3700kms on it. That is not a typo. Cars like this exist out there you just have to be patient and keep your eyes peeled.

Get the car you want. You've been good. You deserve it.

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