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Lotus Technology Inc.
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How much did you risk on the trade and is your strategy to go after huge momentum moves? As a momentum trader I only look for power moves from consolidation breaks so minimum I look for is 5x reward for my risk. Unfortunately you have to be willing to lose A LOT or skip days A LOT and you have to risk very small relative to your account size. I risk 0.33% of my entire account on a single trade every time. Some days I may need to try again or try a different market losing at most 0.66% or 1% (**rarely)** on a single day. But my goal is nearly 2% gains. If you're rising too much you might not be comfortable holding, if your strategy doesn't dictate momentum moves then be happy with your 1:2 or 1:3 gains.

Okay, a company that currently isn't making money, buys a company, for which it takes on A LOT of debt, which barely is making money = A lot of money in 10 years?

SO HOW BOUT THOSE EPSTEIN FILES, EH?! GOTTA BE A LOT OF INTERESTING/DAMNING SHIT IN THEM IF THIS JACKASS IS WILLING TO BOMB AN ENTIRE COUNTRY AND LET THE S&P SHIT ITS PANTS TO DEATH TO TRY AND DISTRACT FROM THEM!!!
Sorry, capslock was on.

Your dad's in a pretty solid spot all things considered. Expenses covered by SS + RMDs, house paid off in the Bay Area, family safety net... that's better than most 70 year olds I've seen.
The 400k in money market / 200k in VT split isn't bad but I'd maybe think about whether he actually needs that much sitting in VUSXX. Like if his expenses are truly covered already, that 600k is basically all surplus right? He could probably afford a bit more equity exposure than you'd think given the safety net you and your sister provide.
One thing though... that $1.8M house in SF Bay Area is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in his overall picture. If he ever considers downsizing or even just wants to understand his options, that's where the real financial flexibility is. I've been around Bay Area real estate for 23+ years as a Silicon Valley REALTOR and I can tell you a lot of folks his age in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View etc are sitting on massive equity they don't fully factor into their planning. Not saying he should sell but it's worth modeling out, that's a lot of equity sitting there and not growing much since the market is basically maxed out.
The reallocation question is smart. Yeah I'd gradually shift VT into bonds/money market as he gets within 3-5 years of needing it. Basically a mini glide path for that bucket.

This list has A LOT OF INACCURACIES. A rough idea can be taken but this is very wrong. It not only places UCL and LSE above Warwick for Quant Research, and doesnt include IITS or IIITS from india while including unis which are far below, citing University of Mumbai has 60 quants , also promoting a uni called Osmania uni from India which not a single soul has EVER HEARD.

bros in for a LOT of days huh

so apparently over 400k BTC got scooped up between 60-70k during this latest bloodbath. like that's a LOT of dip buying happening while everyone's been panicking about the drop from 88k down to 63k.

glassnode data shows the supply sitting in that 60-70k range jumped from around 997k BTC back on jan 1st to about 1.43 million now. that's roughly 429k coins accumulated in just a couple months, which is a 43% increase if you're counting. more than 8% of all the circulating supply that's not sitting on exchanges now has a cost basis right in this zone. basically there's this massive cluster of people who bought in here.

BTC's been getting hammered lately yeah, down about 50% from that october high of 126k. but what's kinda wild is how fast it fell through the 70-80k area. Coindesk called that zone an air pocket before cause bitcoin barely traded there historically. took literally five days from jan 31 to feb 5 to drop from 80k to 70k. when there's no support it just falls through like nothing's there.

the analysis uses glassnode's URPD metric which tracks where coins last moved on chain and groups them by price. the entity adjusted version is smarter cause it clusters addresses owned by the same person and filters out exchange balances so you're seeing actual investor positions not just exchange shuffling.

tbh this kinda buying pressure in the 60-70k range could mean something. either these are smart money accumulating or it's gonna be a lot of bagholders if we keep dropping. i've been watching the spot volume's been pretty intense during these dips. some folks are probably using tools like MEXC AI to time their entries but dunno how well that's working out for them right now.

anyway the big question is whether this 60-70k zone holds or if we're gonna see another leg down. 400k btc is a decent amount of support but in a real panic that can get wiped out pretty quick. we'll see i guess.

Qatari & Saudi officials arrested mossad agents in both countries staging bombings on critical infrastructure. lol israel has a *LOT* of explaining to do in the morning.

I think you’re forgetting the reason why the average medical school debt is *only* 200K. A LOT of students get family help. I’m fortunate enough to have graduated with $0 in debt because of my family, and given how many of my classmates come from physician or above-average households, I’m not surprised many are in the same boat. Unless we want physicians to ONLY come from high-income families (I definitely don’t), 400K is unfortunately close to the floor for those who need to take out loans for the entire cost of attendance (don’t forget, interest accrues from the time you take out the loans).
And not only that, has tuition gone up substantially (even state schools can run ~40K per year in tuition alone). So let’s assume maybe ~30K in living expenses (and test fees, aways, etc.), you’ll come out with 370K in debt, including interest (>7%). Of course you can adjust living expenses to reduce the burden, but it likely wouldn’t bring down the debt burden significantly, while also contributing to additional financial stress during medical school.

I can understand the pain of 5 long years as im one of those apes, but sincr diving into thr collectibles world, and thinking outside thr box on what gamestop is doing with trade ins i gotta say, we havent seen anything yet. Like nothing.
Theres been nothing significant launched other than powerpacks and its nowhere near where the future of all of this is going. I believe i can see some of the same future RC sees and its going to get A LOT crazier for all sellers, collectors, traders and influencers. The future of commerce will continue to trend to stores of value aka collectibility. He sees it he gets it and this next level acquisition(s) will get built around it and chart an unprecedented path for the next ten years.
We’re Amazon in 99 and we’ve been here since 94.
We’re tesla in 2016 and we’ve been here since 2011.
We are early we are not wrong

If you had 45 1 oz coins, that should be 3 lbs and 1.37 oz. You are missing A LOT of weight here.

1. Just interest.
2. did not properly invest in MFs, did not do proper allocation in stocks. Lucked out with few good stoks and thought I was a genius. checked my 3yr xirr in stocks and it was wayyyy worse than FD.
3. I would stick to basics. Build a base (BAF / MAAF / N50 fund) then buy ETFs (satellite portfolio) for sectors and other good opportunities. Also start learning FnO early.
4. I did not read books. But buying only few stocks at a time helped me A LOT. Literally saved me from most of my mistakes.
5. 3 yrs.

Can’t you just save all that money and study music in Europe or something where all universities are basically free or A LOT cheaper?

Slide 7. I like slide 7 A LOT.

I think AI is deflationary as a technology (all tech is deflationary). I don't know how bad things will be and which companies will be worst hit but I think there is a LOT of bad debt and leverage out there, and I think growth stocks will decline 80-90% from their 2025 PS/PE ratio peaks.
I see GOOGL retuning to 100-150, NVDA 100 or less - GOOGL's PS ratio has spiked beyond 2X its historical norm, it is a mature company and sure it is growing, but its main search product is literally being cannibalized by Gemini... I realized this entire thing was about to blow up when I was looking at GOOGL's PS chart last month and saw its higher than at any point since 2008 (peaked Feb 2 2026) - this is insanity.
https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/GOOGL/value/ps-ratio

The military budget has just increased this year and the US, Israel, and other ME allies just used A LOT of missiles. Like A LOT A LOT.
Those missiles have to be replaced so that’s millions, if not billions right there.

Aren't you doing the exact opposite here though? I mean I see swings a LOT bigger than a percent, and very much so when you now switch to half a percent.
Sure things might go on a bigger sale next week.

I found a girlfriend on Bumble and that is saying A LOT. I bought some at IPO as a "Thank you, Bumble!" w/o expecting much. If they can make some sort of hook that fascinates people like how the swipe left/right did at first, then I can easily see this pumping.
Ideas:
\- have a "True Vitals" badge that shows your verified health, height, weight, last 3 ER visits, etc.
\- have paid matchmakers that use their own canny + some AI nonsense
\- embedded live video streaming in a party format that's auto mod'd via that hot dog app from Silicon Valley
\- combo with HIMS the dikkpill stonk

8.9 BILLION SHARES OUTSTANDING IS A LOT

No lie I thought we’d for sure be down A LOT more. Surprised SPY is barely down .50% lol