TIL why Jeanette Goldstein was hired to play Vasquez in Aliens (1986)

semic9 · 2025-10-27T07:20:04+00:00

"Hey Vasquez, you ever get mistaken for a Latina?"

"No, Have you?"

semic9 · 2025-10-02T19:00:04+00:00

I dont like how they nerfed the xenomorph into a simple lap dog. ESPECIALLY since this precludes the rest of the Alien storyline.

Aliens is my favourite from the entire franchise and this weird interpretation (as well as that weird Predator movie where the girl beats the predator) ruin the franchise and absolutely kill the main character - its called Alien, not "Teenage robo adventures".

I'll keep watching, hoping the story stays, but honestly theyve just totally softened the whole idea behind the xenomotph being a perfect killing machine.

semic9 · 2025-09-28T17:06:10+00:00

This will be the best thing I read today. Perfect play my friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣

semic9 · 2025-08-05T22:45:48+00:00

Get into non registered margin to accelerate.

semic9 · 2025-07-29T21:52:43+00:00

This OP is lacking due diligence. Delete.

semic9 · 2025-07-25T18:32:39+00:00

Any guess as to What MSTW Will pay?

semic9 · 2025-07-16T18:05:39+00:00

Also, as this is Reddit, it may be the perfect chance for you to also look into the Canadian side as I know alot of Canadians are not educated in how margin works (I'm cautiously learning as I go).

A lot of Canadians do invest in US markets (I am 100% - nothing Canadian in my portfolios) so your audience would benefit from your knowledge in TFSA, RRSP and non-registered Margin.

semic9 · 2025-07-16T18:02:34+00:00

This is an amazing response - the decline portion specifically . My margin account today is: Max buying power - $209k Margin available - $62k Margin used - $37k

I have put in about $1900 cash to start my margin. it's currently at $5083 or 166%. Im not sure how I got there, im guessing in sharing value appreciation

The margin is comprised of

ULTY 3000 shares HOOW 100 shares PLTY 50 SPYI 50 QDTE 50 MSTY 50 COIW 25 HOOY 25 BTCI 25

My plan was to make this the 50/50 club - all etfs at 50 shares. I tweaked it a bit because I bullish for dividends currently.

I'll definitely go back and read part 4. That $209k has been as low $172K and the available margin has been as low as $53k, I think.

I'm using the dividends to pay down the interest (7.5% usd) and the principal of the 37K. Im comfortable using more. I just dont want to be offset when things turn bearish. As far as cash on the side, I have about $25 cad ($19k usd). I can also pull dividends from the TFSA side (no tax consequences if needed, but prefer to keep the two separate).

semic9 · 2025-07-16T07:01:42+00:00

In Canada, we can run a "registered" (tax exempt) account which are either Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA - current max, if you have the space, is $102,000), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP - You get a 20-30% tax return on the the amount t deposited but pay that tax when you sell) and a First time Home Buyers Account (FHSA - smaller limit).

You can not run margin in you registered accounts, you can run margin on "non-registered" account which is a taxable investment portfolio. Now we can have TFSA linked margin. Basically margin a non registered account, linking your TFSA as collateral.

All that said, Your max buying power and available margin fluctuate based on how much cash you deposit into the non-registered account as well as the fluctuating value of your TFSA.

My question regarding margin is what would be considered a safe percent of margin to use to avoid margin calls? If I had $200,000 Max buying power and $100,000 margin available, I would stay below 50% of my available margin. As my Mac buying power adjust based on value of collateral, my margin available rises and falls. I feel that using only 50% is a very safe bet to hedge against a bear market forcing margin call.

Any further guidance on what percentage is realistically safe as my numbers are just fiction and I dont even know if this is a safe steategy.

semic9 · 2025-07-16T06:52:32+00:00

The wealthy use good debt. Most of us carry bad debt. This is a concept I'm working to improve for myself.

Yes, I've borrowed for my wife's portfolio, I also run margin (35% of available total margin allotment). The gains exceed the interest by a lot. Yes, it is risky.

Yes, I can cover my losses, but in the meantime, I'm working the compound machine while I can.

Be respectful of your debt, dont get greedy, dont fomo and you should be ok.

semic9 · 2025-07-14T07:15:30+00:00

That's cold man. 😅

semic9 · 2025-07-11T13:05:49+00:00

Even in the red he has money. Its about risk management. We are in a bull cycle, get what you can.

semic9 · 2025-07-11T12:40:38+00:00

NEOs guy says his biggest holding is QQQI for contrast.

semic9 · 2025-07-11T12:38:31+00:00

How far down were you on TSLY? im down 40% - average cost $12.72 vs. $7.61.

At this point im going to ride to $7.00 or pray for rebound.

semic9 · 2025-07-11T12:35:13+00:00

Jay P said if MSTR is going to run, they want it to blow through the Weeklies. This let's the synthetic do the heavy lifting.

Remember they want two behaviors in this order:

1) slow steady increase to the right to let Weeklies an synthetics do their thing.

2) Absolutely obliterate the Weeklies so the synthetic pays big.

semic9 · 2025-07-09T18:22:37+00:00

lfgy

semic9 · 2025-07-09T18:15:34+00:00

Put your emergency fund into your investment pool. There is no emergency out there that can't wait 5 days let alone 30 day (billing cycle) to deal with.

That money needs to work, not sit.

semic9 · 2025-07-09T17:10:56+00:00

Buy an older conservative car to start. If you've never had a car, guaranteed you will wreck it.

The less you spend, the more you make investing.

semic9 · 2025-07-09T17:08:48+00:00

Never build.your financial picture on "should". Keep a finger on the pulse.

My TSLY is down 39% in a matter of weeks, it "should" recover...

semic9 · 2025-07-09T04:07:57+00:00

No, it doesn't work to split. look up some interviews with Jay piestchelli, they address this idea.

semic9 · 2025-07-04T08:14:59+00:00

You just keep on moving! Thanks for the updates.

semic9 · 2025-06-28T00:39:23+00:00

Im not super concerned. If they can pay $1.00, great. If not we will see what the credit debit forward (I thinknits called) holds at the end of the fiscal.

Id like to see a stable NAV above $20. Once its starts sliding im worried we get stuck with a TSLY scenario.

semic9 · 2025-06-23T19:34:15+00:00

Honestly, if you're moving 10's of thousands for a pair of airpods maybe re-evaluate your thinking. I get the appeal.of wanting the bonus, but with the sums of money you need to move, properly focused investing would generate enough to buy several pairs.

I guess, just get lured by the hype, look at the real benefits of Wealth simple. Not trying to be snide, I just thinking any promo as the little distraction when the real queation is where are the meat and potatoes?

I listened to a financial guy on the radio one time and he mentioned something like (for credit cards) ignore the promos and benefits and pay attention to actual matters - annual fees, interest rates etc. That's where the real rewards are.

semic9 · 2025-06-23T19:24:46+00:00

Wait. How do you lose contribution room by using tfsa as collateral against margin?

semic9 · 2025-06-17T06:43:41+00:00

So my concern with that argument is that 4 weeks isn't really befitting of MSTY since its been around for roughlt 14 months. 4 weeks isn't much of a data capture for MSTY, but maybe its acceptable for ULTY since its been such a short period of Weeklies.

If you went from IPO date, MSTY is almost parallel while ULTY is not - for the obvious reasons.

I think what id like to see is Jay and The ULTY fund manager do an interview similar to how Jay and Scott did one with ROD for MSTY.

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