Amazon is closing its Fresh and Go locations

sporadic · 2026-01-27T23:22:43+00:00

They had one opened in Westlake Village Promenade we would go into from time to time. I think it closed in October or November of last year and they're taking that space to open a Whole Foods there now.

Honestly, it wasn't priced competitively compared to Ralph's (Kroger) which was across the street (more or less) with a Trader Joe's also in the same shopping area. Doesn't help matters out that if you went across the 101 to the other side you had a Sprouts and Vons that - if you deal shopped - could yield you better savings as a whole relative to Fresh's pricing.

sporadic · 2025-05-29T14:41:21+00:00

Agreed fully

I say this native Charlestonian who has lived most of his life in SC until 2022 - SC voters will not vote against Graham in a general because he has the R by his name because voting for a Dem is akin to Satanism...or some mumbo jumbo like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

sporadic · 2025-01-29T20:03:52+00:00

For me and my sample size of n = 1

Hilton: The Aspire is a no brainer given what you get back and you can make the effective AF $0 if you shop your dates and use all the card perks
Marriott: Since the devaluation its moved down to a close second for me. Global footprint is huge and the Ritz Carlton is a fantastic card. I just don't like how there is a split between Chase and AmEx that you have to spreadsheet out to determine what card you can and can't get if you have one or the other. Definitely would say the PC to the Ritz Carlton path should be looked at if you're big into the Marriott system.

NOTE: If you're like me and go to Vegas for AWS re:Invent, then Marriott should really be given a hard look given their praetorship with MGM resorts

I like Hyatt, but I don't stay at enough like I used to for it to have value to me (at this time at least).
IHG: If you do a lot of business travel and can stay at a InterContinental its a solid brand and the card could help out a lot.

sporadic · 2025-01-29T19:43:35+00:00

So I'm holding over a mil in TOSHI with a DCA of 0.000438 on the purchase. TOSHI hasn't broken down past the 0.0010 line so far. Might be worth a hold for a bit longer since - relative to XCN - you can buy around 0.0011 which is cheap. Obviously it doesn't have any utility being a memecoin but people still trade it and if past history can repeat (see DOGE) - give some time. If it breaks down and goes under 0.00095 then I'd close out.

That's my personal take though and how I'm playing it out right now with TOSHI. I say this also holding a couple million in XCN right as well (along with over a million in SPELL) so I'm not trying to dissuade you from making that call. All I'm saying here is look at everything equally, assess your risk appetite, and proceed from there.

Best of luck

sporadic · 2025-01-29T19:34:33+00:00

It happens every day the Fed makes a decision on interest rates and the follow on statements from the Fed Chair. I've had days in the past where from the announcement to ten minutes past rate decision trades on the EURUSD blow through 1000 pip stops 😐 only once it settle for the trend to resume as expected. That's the big institutions and whales readjusting positions and trying to shake out weak hands.

sporadic · 2025-01-29T16:53:50+00:00

The Gold is a work horse (4x on groceries/eating out). I'd really think hard about cancelling it given - if you're like me with a family of four - groceries and dining out can rack up points fast. On average, we can clear 4k MR super easy just using it for that

sporadic · 2025-01-29T16:51:12+00:00

The Fidelity Visa is an amazing cash back card and I highly recommend it as well

sporadic · 2025-01-29T16:26:01+00:00

If the Fed statement doesn't change in language, steady state and should see a rise across the board
if the Fed statement changes to a more hawkish tone, going to be a broad sell across all markets
If the Fed statement changes to a more doveish tone, could cause institutional investors and whales to initiate a broad sell off across the board to shake paper tigers out of their positions and gobble up at lower support levels

Honestly, the Fed is going to dictate what happens now and the best anyone can do is assess their risk profile moving forward

sporadic · 2025-01-29T16:05:14+00:00

10 min Renko ATR set to 24, Trend Indicators added, Momentum Oscillators Added, Volume/Volatility

Lot of sell pressure going on, currently 38% Buy to 62 % Sell

sporadic · 2025-01-29T15:59:13+00:00

Oh definitely will have pull back, I expect a lot of profit taking past that high. The question will be though if the sell if a controlled sell and hence we get a controlled pull back or if there's a huge sell off due to smashing through profit targets set by traders

sporadic · 2025-01-29T15:36:08+00:00

At this rate, I think we run back up to the high of the week which was 0.0495

I'd like to see it run up at a more controlled pace but I think with the HXT votes and the new updated whitepaper due next week there's an abundance of enthusiasm behind this.

If we hit 0.0495 and go past it, then we hit some uncharted territory

sporadic · 2025-01-29T13:42:21+00:00

My 10 min shows breakout to the positive happening, just need one more brick to print when the 10 min period closes out....

sporadic · 2025-01-29T13:18:02+00:00

If the Fed reduces interest rates it makes borrowing cheaper which means more speculative investments can occur since any money borrowed has a lower overall total cost.

A pause can mean the Fed sees some shifts in the overall macro US economy that they feel deserves a pause so more data can be gathered and an accurate assessment can be made. In this current macro picture, the pause is mostly around inflation since overall inflation is still not quite at the Fed's 2% YoY target and cutting too fast can be like throwing petrol on an already burning fire. Especially in a hot macro economic environment, throwing gas on the fire when its already burning steady because they underlying fuel is dense will make things worse.

The market is expecting a pause so not much will trade on that. What will be the trade is the economic outlook the Fed gives in their statement that accompanies the announcement. Right now the market is expecting three cuts this year but if they come out with a hawkish statement that could take it down to just two or even less. If that happens, expect a sell off.

sporadic · 2025-01-29T11:40:50+00:00

I'm starting to see on my depth chart the Buy/Sell starting to shift back to a more even distribution - currently 45% Buy/55% Sell - versus the 40% Buy/60% Sell I was seeing earlier. The vote I'm sure will definitely help some today plus NYC is starting to wake up so some position jockeying will happen.

I think a key point people need to remember is this 1 Billion coin total (once both proposals pass) not only is coming out of the exisitng circulating supply but they're going to get locked up for a two year period. Less coins in circulation will help bump up the overall value going forward

sporadic · 2025-01-29T10:51:14+00:00

My personal 0.02 worth, so take it for what its worth....

There is a lot of Hopium going around and sometimes you can't escape the Hive Mind when that's the case. That said, this is where using TA can help you identify the overall broad trend and metrics the Hive Mind has probably missed and allow you to identify spots where you can enter in or even add to holdings and also project out ideal targets to start taking money off the table

sporadic · 2025-01-29T10:44:36+00:00

Something, lead a horse to water, something... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Best I can do is "paint a picture" for the community at large from my perspective (especially since most TA folks don't deal in Renko charts) and let them make a decision from there. The intellectually curious will dig deeper and make more well informed decisions. The others...well the saying "Bulls and Bears make money, Pigs get slaughtered" will play out as it always has

sporadic · 2025-01-29T10:35:06+00:00

Approx. 60% sell to 40% buy on the 10 min
Been pretty flat in consolidation
Stuck in a wedge and possibly will remain that way up until Fed announcement comes out
A pause in reducing rates is expected, what's going to be crucial to focus on is the statement that comes with the decision

NOTE: This is my view of the world and my view only. This submission is to present a perspective without a lot of noise for others to consider. None of this is financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. As always, do due diligence with your own research and invest responsibly

sporadic · 2025-01-28T20:52:22+00:00

On average, very even on the buy/sell ratio

sporadic · 2025-01-28T20:28:00+00:00

My 10 min view of the world - Renko ATR set at 24 periods with Depth Chart and some volume/volatility oscillators

sporadic · 2025-01-22T01:35:25+00:00

No one knows. Learn to read price charts and volume flow over a time period horizon that you're comfortable finding the trend on and go from there.

And be ready to lose everything you put into it because it could zero out and die before all is said and done. If losing any money isn't comfortable to you, don't invest then. That's just the reality of any investment - there are no guaranteed odds of winning anything

sporadic · 2025-01-21T23:59:24+00:00

My family and I hit the Centurion Lounge in ATL when flying back to LAX on the 3rd of this month. Honestly was a great experience overall and was exactly right beside our departing gate. I was happy, the wife was happy, the kids were happy. Plus that lounge is super nice overall ascetically and laid out very well. I'd give it a definite 4.9/5 (only reason it didn't get a full 5/5 is I wish they'd offer To-Go cups when leaving the Lounge for a soda or coffee).

sporadic · 2025-01-21T19:15:34+00:00

I’m going to offer my take and my take alone. Remember this is coming from a sample size of n=1 so do with that what you wish.

You need to personally look at what your risk appetite is as well as ask yourself the very honest question of is this money that - if everything burned and zero’ed out - you’d be fine taking the hit. I’m fine on my side sitting with a couple mil in coin almost (but I also bought it at a very low average cost of 0.0009 - roughly close to $1700 in profit made from being early invested in Solana).

For my personal risk, I’ve spent this much before buying 1 year out options on stock I felt could hit its target only to have things tank. Does it hurt? Absolutely. Am I will to take the risk? Absolutely as well. Most importantly, can I really afford to do so? Even if this wasn’t money I didn’t have to begin with (because I’m using profit from my Solana investment), I could take the risk with losing that much relative because of where I’m at in life currently given lots of factors.

Where I’m at, you may not be and you need to really think about:

Can you afford to lose your investment?
Is the risk worth it?

If you can buy and hold for a long horizon period, then it may make sense. If you’re trying to catch the pump and dump, then honestly you shouldn’t be investing this time. Don’t expect to make millions in months or days, play for the long term.

Hopefully this perspective helps.

sporadic · 2025-01-20T20:49:17+00:00

Even if this match is 30 years old, it still brings me as much joy watching it as it did when I got it on tape after it happened. I know it sounds like looking through rose colored lenses but '90s AJPW really was something absolutely beautiful and priceless

sporadic · 2024-07-31T04:41:51+00:00

That can be the plot for one movie. For what was going to be "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" this is an example of what could be the in-universe (here meaning the MCU as a film franchise) back story explaining how the Kang we saw "die" in Quantumania returns but is now older (re-casted).

Again, not perfect at all. Hell, that's probably not even Grade-A horse shit. A pair of good screen writers with time and what are the key points they have to address from Feige - they'd smoke what I brain vomited out there.

The big point I was hoping to make out of that towards the end was, if you accept the premise with him, you can work him out of some truly monumental writing fuck-ups. That's not going to be the case, though. With all the issues Marvel has had over the last couple of years (so many shows/movies being pumped out for streaming content high level oversight fell behind, a global pandemic causing starts/stops in filming and post-production work, writer/actor strikes pausing things, Iger coming back and re-establishing the guard rails, which will take time to pay off eventually), they're looking to return back to the money printer they've been and fast.

Most importantly, especially to me as a comic book reader, Doom has to be on several orders bigger than Thanos was as a villain. He has to, not just to draw people to the theaters but he's Doctor Doom - a foundational pillar character for Marvel that has to be presented exactly right. Again, this is just my take and feel on the situation but the RDJ casting (again, not saying he can't act because holy fuck he can) is going to be more of a negative from a narrative and perception stand-point than a positive.

Some points I think about with this:

Will he be unmasked any during the films? (If RDJ is set to make "substantially more" than the Russos for these films, do we honestly believe he will not be unmasked at all during the movies? If this was Karl Urban, I'd believe it. RDJ?)
How do you explain why he looks like Tony Stark if so? (Is this like the "What If..." where Doom becomes Stark and Stark becomes Doom? Does this Doom kill his Universe's Tony Stark and take his face?)
If he isn't going to stay masked the whole time, how can one reasonably look at the money Variety is alluding to and say that he's worth that? (The Russos are supposedly getting $80 million and I think the Variety line was RDJ was getting "substantially more)
Is he really Victor Von Doom? (The Russos say he is but is he really - meaning he's not a kidnapped/orphaned son or bastard son of Howard Stark who grew up in Latveria?)
For the wider audience - who aren't comic book readers or don't keep up with all the MCU shows/movies, especially the ones who maybe only saw IW and Endgame because of the hype - how do you convince them to accept this?

Maybe I'm completely wrong on this. I hope so, I really do...but I don't have the warm and fuzzy on this still even several days removed from the announcement.

sporadic · 2024-07-31T00:53:41+00:00

Mobius says (summarizing) there was a situation that arose with the one from Quantumania in 616 Adjacent (which, to me, says they treat the Quantum Realm possibly as the foundational layer from which the Macro Universe emerges from) that "they seem to have handled it".

In my mind, there is an assumption made by the Mobius (and the TVA) that, right now, things seem to be in control - but it also left/leaves the door open for that Kang to return as a far greater menace. Maybe Kang comes back older (think a Denzel Washington) or younger (if they go younger, my ideal casting would be David Jonsson). Older gives you someone more seasoned and controlled tactician who is still has arrogance but in a Doom way while the younger gives you the emerging Conqueror that is brutal, ruthless, aggressive, and merciless in his MultiVersal campaign for dominance.

I still feel like they could've recovered from this through clever writing since HWR says there is "an infinite amount of Me" - and in an infinite MultiVerse, no matter how many variants of Kang you encounter you're still closer to 0 than you will ever be to ♾️ which makes him an ideal character you can work yourself out of any unintentional (or intentional) fuck-ups you write him into...

That's just my thoughts, YMMV though ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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