CAN
Canaan Inc.
stock NASDAQ ADR

Noticed the same thing, people CAN change!

Well to be fair... Your loss on a BPS is exactly the same as a CSP in that neither is a loss until it is closed. Further you CAN roll a short put leg in your spread. You can even turn it into a straddle or invert it if you like. Also, your loss with a spread is limited to the width of the spread less the Premium received. Your loss on a CSP is UN-limited. A CSP has a higher risk but a higher reward. The spread limits your risk but it lowers your reward by the cost of the long strike. Each has it's pluses and minuses. Best of Luck. Twilighter.

Whether you are about to retire depends a lot on whether you CAN retire with what you have and what you spend. From what you’ve said in other comments (low 6 figure brokerage, indefinite unemployment, retirement funds at 60, and a cost of living you don’t plan to cut back on) it sounds like you’ll need to look for another job. Your fatalism doesn’t really make sense to me. Tech or minimum wage aren’t the only two choices. Your current spend doesn’t need to be your forever spend. 40s is pretty young to give up on ever working again (and I’m in tech in my 50s - I know the ageism and still managed to land a new role less than 2 years ago)
Buck up. And frankly, try harder.

CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER

for individual stocks specifically - i think you need to look at their history. google dropped about 25% just last year (~Jan 2025) - they're a rock-solid company that has outperformed the market over many, many years, and as a business is fundamental to our entire way of life. in 2021 the stock dropped nearly 40%. this is just examples from the last 5 years - there is no such thing as a sure-thing bet for a company; many things can go wrong either within the company, from competitors, or from the overall economy. or the valuation might simply be too rich.
as for etfs - the s&p dropped nearly 60% in the 2000 and 2008 crashes each. that would totally wipe out even just 2x leverage. there is certainly wipe-out risk for just buying ETFs too.
as for stoplosses / cutting losses early - when the price drops you still lost twice as much money than if you weren't leveraged. that means you have half as much of a base if you decide to reinvest into the stock again. also, typically market downturns are aligned with economic decline - and these are the moments when you may need that money the most.
you also do pay interest on your margin loan. that means you aren't gaining a clean 2x on your trade
i say all this, but they're just considerations realistically. margin CAN be a good tool to elevate returns in specific scenarios - most institutional trading/investing firms do indeed use some margin. it does carry a significant risk though, and should be treated as an advanced strategy. as a first hand experience, i'd say learning about investing comes with a lot of costly lessons. if you're new, you should consider whether you're willing to pay twice as much, or even four times as much, to learn the same lesson.

Agree. In fact, I assume in my sims that it won’t exist at all.
I’m not a SS doom-er. I actually think the narrative gets weirdly pessimistic and misunderstood, including that it CAN be fully funded if our politicians weren’t a joke. There’s a lot of independent studies about the various ways the shortfall can be covered and many don’t even meaningfully increase taxes for individuals.
All that said. Bottom line. This is IMO a great approach. Let SS be the icing, not the cake.

MICRON TURNED GREEN NOW WE CAN MUUN!!

Says the guy who was pumping CAN saying it was going to be $5-6 by end of last year.

I’m not a financial services expert by any means, but I’m confident I could explain in layman terms exactly how short sellers CAN and DO kill companies.

Cultivator and grower, the odds of survival are not good. I have no doubt that at some point, there will be serious winners in the growing side of the supply chain but unless the business was pursuing a renewable power situation where they were self reliant, I can't see how it works on the enormous cash inputs required.
So after looking at this:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJBHLerJEk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJBHLerJEk)
It appears they are going for a more closed loop approach to both water and energy, but I also didn't see panels in their fly over.
Based in WA, $2m in government funding, at least $25m in private funding. Looks like they're crowdsourcing investment using Crowd Sourced Financing.
Additional information on the offer can be seen here:
[https://www.onmarket.com.au/offers/cannaponics/](https://www.onmarket.com.au/offers/cannaponics/)
Terms of the offer:
https://preview.redd.it/sxqqoekcqu3h1.png?width=743&format=png&auto=webp&s=773dcf537b3c66c316f42d5694e2ba52cb406982
Taking the price per share and mutliplying by total shares on issue for both the minimum and maximum subscription, this means that they are valuing themselves between:
$84.7m MCAP (Min) and $93.5m MCAP (Max)
Pay attention to where the generation of funds is going. Offer costs around \~7.5%.
They're going for a full value chain approach, this is not a particularly unique approach, it's been done before.
|**Competitors**|**Ticker**|**MCAP**|**Business Focus**|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Althea|AGH|$23,000,000|THC Beverages|
|Little Green Pharma|LGP|$31,920,000|Med THC Products|
|Vitura|VIT|$41,000,000|MedCan and Digital|
|Cann Group|CAN|$7,000,000|MedCan Cultivation|
|Zelira|ZLD|$5,350,000|MedCan Biotech|
|AusCan|AC8|Delisted||
|IDT Australia|IDT|$39,850,000|MedCan Production|
|ECS Botanics|ECS|$10,360,000|MedCan Cultivator|
This is not a complete list, just what I have available.
Peace.

Bro...they covered it...
AND FOR GOD'S SAKE....CAN U GUYS STOP SAYING EVERYTHING AS BLOODBATH?

Agreed about global volitility. Also think about extraction costs. And established high grade Au ore mine in the US / CAN can extract at a cost ~ 3k/oz. Labor, fuel, machine costs only rise. At 4k level ther is still incentive. Once the runs out, less Au is mined, driving scarcity.
Also this is about the value of the dollar, that is changing. The value of gold doesn't change. Ask yourself, what is the value of Au in gold!?

YOU CAN DO IT

https://preview.redd.it/4z4fdjgxwa4h1.png?width=1384&format=png&auto=webp&s=88d44fb68a1ef84e0d5c360c0a56ca34f6d4ec7e
BULLISH HEAD AND SHOULDER PATTERN FOLLOWING TRENDLINE SUPPORT, INSIDE BAR BREAKOUT WEEKLY IF CLOSING ABOVE 302 WE CAN SEE A GOOD UPSIDE MOVE , VOLUME BUILD UP AND GOOD NEWS IS THAT MSCI ADDED FEDERAL BANK TO ITS INDEX REBALANCING ...1ST RESISTANCE 297 , 2ND AND STRONG RESISTANCE AT 302 , WAIT FOR CONFIRMATION AND RETEST THEN PLAN YOUR ENTRY , I HOPE MY ANALYSIS HELPS YOU , THANK YOU