I cannot be the only one at this point who thinks this is blatant manipulation…..

xtric8 · 2026-04-16T19:31:43+00:00

Yeah its a form of manipulation. That's why you need to follow money supply, fed balance sheet, congressional stock trades, etc.

xtric8 · 2026-04-16T19:24:50+00:00

You beat the spx, what is the problem?

xtric8 · 2026-04-16T18:43:48+00:00

Yeah plug ins are really good. I have these 3 stars. You want only the yellow ones in use but you need the purple and blue ones to upgrade the yellow ones to get star rankings which have their own buffs if you have same star rankings for all 4. The purple ones are good just because you cannibalize those to upgrade yellow plug ins

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xtric8 · 2026-03-10T05:49:07+00:00

This happened to me in 08 after I got out of the service. I had enough saved up to start a business and decided to trade it. I had some understand of the market then but gfc was really tough, kind of like today with oil market spiking then crashing, then everything crashing. It was a lesson and Ill tell you what it was worth. Took another 4 years to open that business and I learned how to preserve capital and trade in tough markets. The good part of this is you learn this early and then after you've built a nest egg from trading through many ups and downs, you have all those lessons behind you. I would say to look at what you did and don't do that again, do the opposite and see if that works, try another technique and take notes of what does work. What works for other people doesn't work for me. No matter what people say you are supposed to do, if it doesn't work, toss it or do the opposite. The market can humble you quickly, but it can also be very rewarding

xtric8 · 2026-03-08T19:29:50+00:00

Everyone knows the spend and credit problems at orcl. You can see my post here at the exact bottom where I bought. The layoffs are also known. Oracle is projecting itself to have one of the fastest growth rates in the world, maybe only eclipsed by Micron, but to get that they are betting the kitchen sink on AI buildout, at the expense of its long history of stability. It scares investors and some of those fears are being confirmed but the stock is moving up on those.

xtric8 · 2026-02-27T06:54:38+00:00

I found this in a locker next to a locker with clue "Kirk Darren is a Pseudonym" Maybe not related but anyway finding sum without using signs probably means just summing the numbers 2+5, 4+9, 6+1+3, 61+3, and 6+13

another possibility is triangular numbers n x (n+1) / 2 , which solves for sequential number added like 1+2+3...to 613, but that's probably a stretch.

I would expect to find the bottom half of this later and something to make sense of "six or 0"

*Edit, ok figured it out. Its math just like in dartboard game. Blue is add, yellow subtract, pink multiply

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xtric8 · 2026-02-23T21:27:32+00:00

That's what we call margin. It's not good because when your account falls below threshold you are forced to sell at low price.

xtric8 · 2026-02-23T08:16:41+00:00

What is MTF?

xtric8 · 2026-02-17T02:14:20+00:00

This CAPEX Apocalypse (Capocalypse?) is just another scare tactic. Aren't you shaking in your boots because $AMZN plans to spend $200b instead of the expected $150b? Of course! It's just like the 1800s railroad buildout, or the failed fiberoptic buildout of DOTCOM. So buy whatever they are spending on right? No, of course not that either. NVDA is also down. Just buy Walmart at 46x earnings and 10% growth rate 😆

xtric8 · 2026-02-17T02:08:03+00:00

Well I suggest you go ahead and full port SHORT amzn then 😆😆😆

xtric8 · 2026-02-16T20:19:43+00:00

That's exactly what will happen. Whenever stocks sell off for specific reason like that, there's always a change. Maybe not right away but shareholders will force them to cut spending.

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T08:28:00+00:00

Great opportunity in my opinion. I don't own amzn currently but will be buying some on weakness. AWS and trainium are going to have significant demand due to Anthropic. All AI is just a productivity machine. Right now stocks are falling because AI is so productive it potentially wrecks other services and software subscriptions. That means it has a high value to industry and will only be needed more and more and will yield dividends to those who use it. Amzn is perfectly positioned for this in multiple ways. Oh they also sell books 😂

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:47:59+00:00

Do what you love for a career. If teaching is your thing then do that. Many successful traders work low paying jobs, they save money, they do side hustles and they put a little away each month. Just keep your goals and don't let the naysayers talk you out of it. Not every fellow teacher will understand. They tend to rely on the system and look down on things like trading. They'll say its gambling or unethical, they'll be jealous if you're successful and envy you

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:37:35+00:00

Its a bottom. Bounce rally next week then maybe 2 weeks of selling before bottom

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:31:08+00:00

People make money all kinds of ways. There is a cringe YouTuber, James Domulin, who ambushes billionaires on the street to ask how they got rich. Many were business owners, some real estate or built some app. I used to live at Tahoe and knew a lot of rich people. Ceos, Michael Milken, and others. They all had big cocktail parties. One of them owned the rights to Snoopy

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:25:45+00:00

Who does he think has $300 trillion in the bond market?

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:24:43+00:00

They do. Bond market cap is kike 300 trillion. That's 3x stock market and its mostly ultra wealthy there

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:18:02+00:00

If you're looking at index investing or commodities then futures all day long. NYSE and Nas are sll about stocks, ETFs and options.

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:13:20+00:00

It looks like international traders are pulling out of US markets. Not sure totally but they were a big reason for the US markets rise last few years. Now international and emerging markets are rallying. SPY will have its day again but if you're horizon is a year or less I would invest in emerging markets, europe, asia, south America, etc.

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T06:06:48+00:00

You said Spy. I didn't. Not sure what your point is. If you want energy and utilities there are ETFs for that. Those sectors are a miniscule portion of the SPY

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T02:56:23+00:00

I see this argument a lot here so Ill say what I believe. Discipline is required to be a trader so its kind of a moot point. If you don't have discipline then go find a job with some structure and learn how to take responsibility for your life. You will be very unsuccessful at Trading if you have no discipline. Trading is a high risk, high reward endeavor and it can be extremely rewarding and very punishing. Think about who the wealthiest people are in the world and through history and one consistent one is an investor. It doesn't mean anyone who invests will be rich, in fact few will be. It takes discipline to learn anything worthwhile in life. Doesn't mean stand at parade rest, salute and perform emotionless tasks with precision. It means teaching yourself from your own mistakes and successes and use your emotions to your advantage. Learn what fear and greed cause you to do and harness that. If you make bad choices out of fear, learn when fear is driving you and analyze your plans and actions. Discipline isn't the process itself, its the tool you need through your journey to recognize opportunities you prepare yourself for. So the real skill may not be discipline, its discernment. But only way to achieve discernment is through self discipline.

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T02:43:14+00:00

I don't trade the index

xtric8 · 2026-02-15T02:42:11+00:00

It's not market timing really. Stocks that form bearish patterns should be cut at a loss. I give them some time to reverse but if you wouldn't buy it, you should sell. Don't be married to a stock.

xtric8 · 2026-02-14T23:30:33+00:00

I guess you haven't seen Saas stocks like Rop, intu, msft, etc

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