Gonna be an exciting week for earnings.
Earnings right now is like a blindfolded dart throw. And I believe options have priced in the "nobody knows shit" factor. Also, even a beat may not mean much depending on the overall market that particular day. LMT beat got flushed away on a down day.Anyone doing options prior to warming ws?
Or waiting until after to buy etc?
Earnings right now is like a blindfolded dart throw. And I believe options have priced in the "nobody knows shit" factor. Also, even a beat may not mean much depending on the overall market that particular day. LMT beat got flushed away on a down day.
This is how we were for years. And we found the FIRE movement at a good time, probably when our household income was around $50-60k.Truth. I've always lived well below my means and just invested anything extra. Which is the majority of my income. This doesn't prevent you from doing anything because I still do plenty of dumb shit that, "wastes" money. I travel when I want and buy what I feel like. However I do not give into emotional buying under nearly any circumstances. I have no debt other than my house which is <$100k right now and the only reason I don't just pay it off is because the ROI on my returns is greater than the interest I am paying on the remaining home loan.
If you do this and invest the rest in just about anything you'll be in a strong position in the long term. Be lazy and buy nothing but index funds. Whatever.
The USO shitshow continues. Only down about 20% this morning. I bet all the Robinhood traders are dollar cost averaging down today
It announced this morning it is changing its portfolio composition again. 30% in June contracts and 15% in each of the following months (aug, sep, oct and dec). Its making the move over the next 3 days. So more selling low and buying high. God what an ass-fucking this is giving to its shareholders.I know USO has detached off of the futures it's supposed to track to a big degree, but good god. The bloodbath in oil looks like it's going to keep going with the contagion spreading to a lot of other staples. Agri productions look like there's going to be a few entering nightmare spirals.
This is a siege completely unlike what the fed has seen before. Commodities and credit market are a major problem that the earning seasons are really just a facade to. Normally when there's too much and it becomes unprofitable, the gov steps in to buy and dump extra product and stabilize it. Can you really see them doing that now with everyone in the public seeing a shortage? What an ugly spot to be in.
Gotta feel good having this happen while you're still employed rather than a couple years into FIRE. Good for you man! Wish I'd learned about FIRE earlier myself, although I don't envy you for having to watch that number drop.The plan had been to retire next year, but this little market drop has pushed that back a good amount (we'll see how much, but we were down well into six figures so there's a lot of ground to make up). On the plus side, we've now had our big market drop that should've happened years ago. So now we can go into retirement much more comfortable.
Indexes up 1% and all the FANG/MAGA stocks in the red.
Was a freedom rally. My hotel and grocery reits caught their first real bid in forever. Lux apparel CPRI is slip sliding away. Have to reassess. I'm finally out of the energy and shipping biz. Just seemed like rotation from techs. Which is very healthy. Need to broaden the new Bull.
I'm just funnin' with youYou may think it's a roulette wheel. I don't. But then again you buy options.