Stock-Age: Stocks, Options and Dividends oh my!

Just looking at the last annuity I still have. (scammed into it by my bank. If anybody reading this thread doesn't learn anything else never buy annuities unless you're about to retire and probably not even then) It's based off the S&P 500 and it calculates gains once a year which happened over this past weekend. How can I sum this up?


Yeah, I would have at least made money if they did that calculation one week earlier. (And probably one week later.)
 
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ok.

Not entirely sure how this isn't market manipulation for his friends ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠)
 
EviLore said:
Existential dread about the future of America paused for 90 days. The enormous China tariffs will still do significant harm to American companies.
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Paused?
Having a capricious cheeto in charge of your country, who can heel-face-turn on the flip of a dime is not something to have faith in. Trump is liable to 180 on his 90 day amnesty tomorrow if someone looks at him funny or challenges his ego.
 
It's becoming clearer and clearer that he u-turned because something (or someone) big was about to break in the financial system.

Someone big was about to go under and this surge in the market might well have saved them.
 
ProtoByte said:
r/wallstreetbets is malding. Obviously this stuff is ridiculous, but I have no doubt they're mad because they sold. Lmao



Eh, I wouldn't worry too much. Markets are still down from weeks back, significantly. Best case scenario trade deals get signed, but probably going to take a lot longer than 90 days to do that. Worst case, we do this again in 90 days, and the people no doubt swarming the WH with phone calls who managed to browbeat Trump into this call him again.

Plus, once the markets get off the relief high, they'll realize there's still a massive Chinese tariff and a 10% blanket that is still quite negative.
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Yeah, I'm just smarting from missing out on a quick buck. Also at the best time for chucking money into a tax free savings account.
 
Atrus said:
Why would anyone interested in wealth generation enjoy a chaotic geriatric throwing global markets into uncertainty on baseless economic and financial principles?
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I meant he did what most of you wanted, stopped the vast majority of the tariffs. That doesn't mean you're all in kahoots.
 
Dupont De Nemours Inc - manufactures alot of its products in China, their stuff is in almost everything. It supplies materials and printing systems to the advanced printing industry; and materials and solutions for the fabrication of semiconductors and integrated circuits addressing front-end and back-end of the manufacturing process. It's product portfolio includes adhesives, advanced printing solutions, animal nutrition, construction materials, biomaterials, electronic solutions, fabrics, fibers & nonwovens, food & beverage ingredients, industrial films, medical devices, resins and others. It serves industries such as automotive, building & construction, energy, electronics, food & beverage, aerospace, textile, medical, personal care and packaging & printing.

Think this is the company that is going to be felt by everyone when the tariff's hit. :eek:

Wouldn't buy Dupont stock anytime soon. :)
 
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Great Auk said:
I meant he did what most of you wanted, stopped the vast majority of the tariffs. That doesn't mean you're all in kahoots.
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Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
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Great Auk said:
Paused them for 90 days, not stopped them.

Come on man don't be so pedantic lol
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He paused some tariffs but there are still global tariffs, industry tariffs as well as large tariffs on Canada and Mexico, countries not mentioned on the reciprocal tariff board list.

Paying attention to pertinent facts is not pendantic.
 
Badlucktroll said:
i said fuck it i am just going back in and will forget about it and started buying yesterday and this morning then this 😅
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The reality is for the last 100 years or more those people who just ignored everything and bought the index every month without a fuck in the world or a single sell completely destroyed 99% of people who got in and out a few times. It's just the way this game goes.
 
Nocty said:
something I find really interesting about this whole selloff is that the diehard trump team members who we have access to almost real time data on for example Marjorie taylor greene to cherry pick one out, bought MASSIVELY over the last couple of red days, like huge buys. So they are obviously 'in' on something, who knows what.

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She's been loading the boat among other members of trumps cabinet. If he was so set onthese tarifs, why are his insiders buying like it's a joke?
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This is market manipulation. Trump should be impeached for using his presidential power to manipulate the stock market like that.
 
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Rat Rage said:
This is market manipulation. Trump should be impeached for using this presidential power to manipulate the stock market like that.
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To be fair (even though I agree) ... all residents have done this in some form or another. Never has it been this blatant. though.

At least we now know the game being played here.
 
Nocty said:
To be fair (even though I agree) ... all residents have done this in some form or another. Never has it been this blatant. though.

At least we now know the game being played here.
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Agree.

I too think EVERY politician is corrupted to varying degrees but I can't stand the people who say that only the Democratic ones are at fault when you have such blatant examples on the other side which are conveniently ignored.
 
Yeah, if the rest of the assets I have in my portfolio happen to break-even or go green in the next few days/weeks I'm taking it all out until at least there's stable administration handling things.
I'd rather lose money to inflation than be a part of this, this is a literal casino disguised as a stock market and I really dislike gambling... it's fun to watch though.
 
GHG said:
It's becoming clearer and clearer that he u-turned because something (or someone) big was about to break in the financial system.

Someone big was about to go under and this surge in the market might well have saved them.
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I really don't usually give much thought to conspiracy theories but just yesterday you had the Russian Central Bank warning about the oil prices falling below the break-even point which could very well lead to an economic collapse, today the White House backs out of the tariffs and oil prices go up just enough to make it safe for now.
It's like they're purposely giving ammo to conspiracy nuts :messenger_tears_of_joy:
But I still think it's a good old "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" scenario in play here.

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When our president sounded exactly like a 1990s Democrat.

Here is the full speech from Pelosi in 1996 regarding tariffs and China and the trade deficit.

The good stuff starts around 2 minutes in.

 
Great Auk said:
When our president sounded exactly like a 1990s Democrat.

Here is the full speech from Pelosi in 1996 regarding tariffs and China and the trade deficit.

The good stuff starts around 2 minutes in.

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I wonder how the republican reaction would've been if it had been her imposing these tariffs today instead of Trump.
I'm sure they'd all agree and shower her with praise despite her political allegiances and the stock market having an identity crisis, right?
Oh well, at least that video being spammed everywhere on the internet these past few days gives me a good hearty chuckle every time I see it.
And I admit that it is a good reminder that silly economic ideologies have never been monopolised by one side of the political spectrum, it is kinda hard to remember that some days.
 
GudOlRub said:
I wonder how the republican reaction would've been if it had been her imposing these tariffs today instead of Trump.
I'm sure they'd all agree and shower her with praise despite her political allegiances and the stock market having an identity crisis, right?
Oh well, at least that video being spammed everywhere on the internet these past few days gives me a good hearty chuckle every time I see it.
And I admit that it is a good reminder that silly economic ideologies have never been monopolised by one side of the political spectrum, it is kinda hard to remember that some days.
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What exactly do you disagree with that sounds silly? She nailed it. And everything she said panned out and now the West is in a much bigger shit sandwich with China.

We ignored the symptoms and now the disease has gotten much worse.
 
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