LOT
Lotus Technology Inc.
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Stock only go up on rate cutes post crisis. If rate cuts happen too late (before a recession) stock market falls.
So unemployment looks bleak af. People are increasingly defaulting on their home, & car loans. Majority of the country is living paycheck to paycheck with less than $1000 saved for emergencies. Inflation is skyrocketing. We know the numbers being reported are fake. Weird how all these unemployment statistics have to be revised by a lot each month. Weird how the people releasing the statistics can get fired if TACO doesn’t agree. The stock market evaluations, are grossly bloated. There’s zero legislation being passed to help any pressing issue, only to give tax breaks for the wealthy. The housing market is ass. The dollar is free falling. Universities are becoming pointless (which brings in A LOT of business, & businesses in smaller cities). Child care is unaffordable for majority of the country. TACO seems like he could care less about the economy. There will also likely be a government shutdown.
Okay so my question is who’s the clown? The person who pretends everything I just listed doesn’t matter, & the economy is just fine?
OR
The person that thinks we might be fucked economically given every issue I listed?
I don’t think the market will crash but 2-4 weeks of bearish pullback is definitely at play.

There. Is. A. LOT. More. To. This.

Wes Edens. He’s just an amazing person. And I cannot believe he would accept failure — ever. Point in case: NFE just pulled off a contract with PR (finally). I’m still in the red by A LOT, but I’m going to ride it out for the meantime.

[WTS] Toned Mexican Libertad lot @ $48 ounce, Zombucks/beskar LOT

It could be $1 by next March, but I think $0.50-0.75 is more likely. Remember a LOT of new capital has to flood in to make this happen and new entrants into the crypto space are usually cautious whilst they building comfort.
However, if FOMO hits, fuck it - 2.71

I’m relatively new to day trading (been a few months now). I’ve been testing out for a funded account through FunderPro using TradeLocker (demo) as the platform. And recently (in the last 3 weeks) I’ve noticed some changes on here that have caused me to lose out on more money on (both my winning and my losing) trades than previously anticipated before I place each trade.
Just to get this out the way, I’m not blaming either service for the outcome of each of my trades- as I’m sure everyone knows on here that that is purely my judgement. But regardless of that my profits are still being negatively affected by about 20-30% each time.
Issues:
1. Being filled in an order nowhere near as close as I used to be: I understand what market slippage is but the fact that it’s only ever been negative for me and to a much greater extent than it used to be is quite concerning. There have been many times where I’ve been filled in a position where price hasn’t even visited yet/ for several minutes in the direction of my bias and because of that I’m gaining much less for my winning trades.
2. Larger stop losses: I only ever use the risk function with a predetermined stop loss when trading to get a reliable gauge on my safety net. But since this has started happening, I’ve always noticed more money next to my stop loss after placing my order than the number I typed into it beforehand by ~20%.
3. (Most important) Being credited with (A LOT) less profit than what was displayed on my live P&L when exiting a trade: In times where I’m up and I exit the trade, I look to my closed positions to find that what was just over $100 live at the time of exit (an example earlier) to then see that the trade had only made just over $70 (30$ cut!). And in times where I exit a losing trade before the stop loss was hit, I would be credited with a higher degree of loss than what my live P&L was saying by roughly the same percentage in the other direction.
I have some videos of the last 2 issues happening live but as I can only upload one at a time, I will attach these elsewhere/on other posts for proof and clarity as to what’s going on here.
I would appreciate if anyone could explain to me the reasoning behind these issues alongside any advice on what to do about this, and if anyone has recommendations to prop firms that don’t give these kinds of limitations I would be infinitely grateful too. I don’t think this is normal when trading through funded accounts I’ve never experienced any of these issues prior to the last 3 weeks so right now I’m just confused.
Thank you all for reading!

"One could choose a suitable target-date fund and do just as well if not better.
Maybe I'm misintrepreting you here...but, you very typically won't do as well with a target date fund than a total market or SP500 fund. About 12 years ago I debated this with several coworkers as we each made our 401k plan selections. I picked the SP500 and total market funds and they picked target date funds. I have DESTROYED them in returns over the years (by several multiples). Every year we get a summary of each options performance and mine are almost always in the top 3-4 for overall annual return with none of the target based funds ever getting near top returns.
I reviewed multiple common target based funds for returns on the last 10 years and in every case the SP500 fund had TRIPLE the total returns or more over those ten years. Not sure what I'm missing here....
I'd also disgreee on fine tuning your investments being "nowhere near as important" as maximizing investment. I agree maximizing is important, 100%, but if he isn't smart about his selections, he could be leaving a LOT off the table.
In short though a dated fund, my opinion, is good to diversify, especially at OPs age (which ia about mine), but I suggest still also going heavy into total market or SP500. It'll get hit more on a down turn but the up years more than make up for it.
I might be missing something here on your response though

she talks A LOT. i feel bad for her husband

hi, I know some of you will say that copytrading is impossible, bla and bla, but there are actually people making grands with it (the first day trying it using a copytrading bot I won 1k usd easily, then im losing A LOT)
my question is, how? I doubt all of them spend a lot on super expensive servers and stuff.
even having scripts to filter hundreds of wallets and having the luck to pick a good one, how it can be profitable?
slippage and various fees are killing all my attempts, or maybe this is happening because they're not huge wins and margin becomes unsustainable because high slippage? (im currently at 30-50% if not transactions are not running it)
what do you think guys? love u

NVDA will just a sign a bunch of BS deals where they give money to potential customers so the potential customers can hand the same $$ right back to NVDA to buy their chips.
Round tripping revenue is fun until its not. Bulls are gonna learn a LOT about that term in the near future.

Buying gold with a credit card is my other big play. I earn a LOT of points that way.

Gold is not doing anything, A LOT of recent price movement in the market in general is simply DXY going up and down

Your concerns about the market being in a bubble a correct… there are a LOT of indicators that are real concerning. Overall this is one of the most expensive markets EVER in terms of price for earnings. Plus there is TONS of leverage in the market at the moment also near all time highs, while the underlying economy is not fantastic with job numbers struggling, home sales struggling, inflation creeping up, and political instability. Plus there’s a lot do crazy money in ai that hasn’t show to be profitable.
Statistically over a long period of time an index fund is your best bet. But 3 years is not a long period of time and certainly won’t give you huge growth. Still statistically this might be your best bet.
One option is to hold the money in a money market , beat inflation by a bit and bet on a market downturn to buy. They would potentially give you big returns if you’re right but a market downturn may take years or decades to correct.
Higher risk and more profitable possibilities do exist but come with a MUCH higher risk of loss, are you willing to risk your investments going to 0 to chase gains?

$NFE still has room to run. Already at all time lows, and recently secured a $4b contract with Puerto Rico that is worth 4X their current market cap. BlackRock and Goldman Sachs recently increased their stakes by a LOT. Near term run up to $4-6 very likely. Not even going to mention the potential short squeeze.

Agree this is just ridiculous language, people just don’t talk like this. Especially after killing somebody and being on the run from the law. There is a LOT more going on in this case. This is just bulls$&t that no one with rudimentary brain function should believe.

5-6% monthly is NOT reasonable. You're likely to blow up, as that means you're taking on a LOT of risk for that premium, and the odds are not in your favor.
1-2% is much more reasonable, with 1.5% being where I find it plays out most for me, but YMMV.
Try to stick closer to 30-40DTE and 20- or 30-delta, and manage those by closing around 25-50% profit or 21DTE.

Having looked into both (and seriously done the Wheel), I agree with you on both counts.
What's always worked for me in stock-picking was just good old-fashioned momentum: look at charts till you find one that's going up smoothly (it doesn't have to be a LOT, smooth trumps that) and buy it.
Then I tried all the 'things' you can do with options, including another serious evaluation of the Wheel.
What finally did it for me was Mike Yuen's book [*Intrinsic: Using LEAPS to Retire Early*](https://www.amazon.com/INTRINSIC-Using-LEAPS-Retire-Early/dp/0578814161/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FHP31LOLG36B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tc1jvwZ8ryBIJK0P9QBkWg.a0Wy5ALC9ysuJB7p5OAa6jf6mSrnGyzvcNlEgtVaXT4&dib_tag=se&keywords=mike+yuen+intrinsic+book&qid=1758074053&sprefix=mike+yuen+ins%2Caps%2C315&sr=8-1)*.*
I don't use his *exact* recommendations (which are a little inexact anyway), but I've taken to heart the principal that a deep ITM Call some months or years out can act as a *stock substitute.*
But because they cost so much less than stock, they give you sweet, sweet leverage.
(Which cuts both ways, don't forget.)
And then, just as we should generally do with shares we hold, I sell CCs against the long Calls.
Together they're a Diagonal Call Spread.
If the long leg is a year or more out, they call it the Poor Man's Covered Call. Same thing.
They're all I do now, and I've never been happier.

Shareholders deserve a LOT more information than we've been given. But a few deals would suffice in lieu of that!

I like it! I like it A LOT!

yes 1.47 was the total of A LOT of small trades