LOT
Lotus Technology Inc.
stock NASDAQ ADR

I've traveled a fair bit in my life as well, but I can see where kstorm is coming from. Time is your greatest asset when it comes to wealth development. If you hit the gas hard when you are young, you can coast the rest of the way. And if you do it well enough when young, you will retire young and not have to worry so much.
In my personal opinion, when you have money in your late 30's and beyond, you can still travel wherever. I know a LOT of older adults (60s -80s), and as long as you take care of your body, you can truly enjoy travel into your early 80s. I have a family, a home, and a full time job and because I put in the work and invested since my early 20s, I am set for an early retirement. Even with me "grinding" in my 20s to save and invest, I took numerous trips. I have been to Korea, Mexico, Canada, Iceland, England, France, etc. (I don't want to list them all, but I wanted to capture the diversity of where I have been while holding down every responsibility I have). Granted, I was not taking a year off, but I personally find that extended vacations of 2 to 3 weeks at a single location is good enough for me.
In my opinion you don't want to sacrifice your later years for the current day. Yes, tomorrow isn't guaranteed to anyone, but at the same time, you don't want to be living your most vulnerable years with nothing.
It doesn't sound like OP will necessarily have that problem persay but OP also doesn't talk specific numbers so it is truly hard to gauge. Only OP knows the true numbers, but I would say 500k in liquid is probably the number I would agree with if you were going to take a whole year off... Just my opinion though.

swing trade.
Look up Nick Shawn.
My original method is based on his ideas; they're enough, I have refined it a LOT. but he will give you a simple, core framework that will let you get your toes wet in less than an hour a day, once your comfy with every other aspect of trading.

This by no means ends your life or really anything, you definetly have to manage your trigger happiness for any future finance decisions, like this is pretty crazy. Still people have lost a lot more in a lot less time, keep working as if nothing happened, do what you enjoy, the money as you see comes and goes, if you do actually have the skills and the learning of this experience, what was lost can be made in a year or two, grind. Also don't trade options man... If I were you, this is hard reset to pivot into another type of finance or just give up on trading and drop everything in high return indexes. Your family (if its your wife or someone that lives with you and is close) deserves to know. From what I'm seeing you made that 200k in around two years or so, that means you do have the mechanical "skill" for trading, but you are severely lacking in pulling out the losses, if you really want to keep trading, trade at no more than one to one risk or a bit more. Also never take a loan to invest, only play with your money because you can only go to zero, with loans you go into huge debt with interests. Depending on your age, this could be the turnabout of your life, or the downfall really, Look, I feel you here and I'm sorry for you on those losses, but I've personally seen people lose a LOT more and keep going like nothing ever changed, still present to work, still try every day and they made it too. Blessings to you.

I have no idea. I do know there are days where there is a LOT more total volume than there was in time this week with no institutional or insider buys. That is the data we have.
Also we have RK purchases. His are weird because of the popularity he has, but his big purchases do not move the price much until he announces/files with the sec. Same with Burry.

I slowly added some cash to my CMA over time, so the performance starts early September before I’ve even invested. My real start with ETFs/investing was late October, and I was still slowly adding more and holding a LOT of cash just deciding how much to add, etc. IN my CMA, not in an individual account, which was a big mistake because it made it hard to track my true performance.
I know my actual investment returns are better than what it says, because of the huge cash drag. Any ways or tools to circumvent this?
Like my investments were always close to the benchmark, SPX and total world.
When I look at positions and look at “closed positions” for 1Y, and add that to the total current overview P&L for 1Y, the math would say my total return is $912. But in the performance tab, under “total return +” it says the total return is only $373.
Even my “investment income” is larger than that total, so am I misunderstanding? How can “investment income” be higher $300 than the total return?

A lot of newcomers (or even 'seasoned' traders) constantly chase new strategies, which is fair, everyone wants some kind of certainty before stepping into an inherently probabilistic game, right?

One too many losses in a row and they give up, losing all hope in the latest holy grail strategy they found. But one lucky win with haphazard execution (getting lucky while over-trading or over-risking) and suddenly the strategy is 'amazing'. Congrats, you won a ticket to mental torture for the foreseeable future. Because now you'll be over-trading and over-risking like your life depends on it. This is usually where the spiral to bankruptcy and debt starts and ends with a same sob story 'i quit.' type shit.

The truth is you'll never find out if your strategy even plays out in long run if you don't actually apply it in a systematic manner, meaning - respecting what the strategy demands, **OVER A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF TRADES.**
You have your **analysis framework** and then your **entry model**.

This is common for every strategy that exists, just different terminology, but it's basically these two in tandem, always.

Both of these first demand clarity, which means you are not gaslighting yourself into believing there's a setup on the charts when you're staring at candles as they print. Then they demand the level of execution discipline required for the data you're gathering to actually be a faithful representation of what the strategy had to offer in the first place.
If you're coming from toxic trading habits as your default, staying disciplined in its true sense will feel completely nonsensical.

What do you mean *just* 1 trade a day?
What do you mean my week will look like -1R, 0R, -1R, -1R, +4R? I'm barely breaking even after fees and charges.
What do you mean risk less I'm barely making 5k a month at this rate.
Yes, this seems like the not very flashy social media type of trading life but remember reality is very very very far from what you see on social media. Any trading influencer with an ounce of integrity will at least show some signs of trading discipline, and that's usually the tell, but even then they might be making absolute fools of us all and we'd never know. I digress.
Coming back to what I was trying to say - Your analysis framework, and entry model also need a solid repeatable **SYSTEM.** And this one is a non-negotiable.
There can't be space for 'lag raha hai' or 'yahan se to jayega hi' or 'pullback to dega hi'
**Part 1** (Any strategy can give you this)
You need to be able to see-
your invalidation point (where your SL goes),
your actual entry model print,
predetermined partial booking levels if any,
and full target CLEARLY defined before you even think of pressing buy/sell.
**Part 2** (The toughest because this is something **YOU** need to give to the strategy)
You need to build a level of respect for your strategy.
'Not knowing' if your strategy works invites fear.
Having tried and tested a strategy with due diligence, builds positive proof.
Positive proof builds trust.
And finally **TRUST. BUILDS. CONFIDENCE.**
Once you're confident enough to say that 'yes I'm experiencing a drawdown phase or a loss-streak, but it is part of the strategy.' Only then should you consider yourself a seasoned trader.
Because you've seen it yourself, the strategy in the long run, if applied correctly - holds itself true! (wow magic)
You just have to not dirty the data you collect while testing a strategy with the one off 'yaar ye jayega let me take one more trade here'
But you can't do any of that if you really don't develop a system around your trading. And you're even further off if you don't have enough data or enough **clean** data in the first place.
So what's all this got to do with taking 1 trade a day?
1 trade a day locks you to taking the cleanest setup you could find, or skipping the whole day.
1 trade a day slowly builds enduring the no-trade days as 'money saved' instead of the eventual 'loss making spirals'
1 trade a day reduces your headache and stress by a LOT.
1 trade a day almost guarantees your ability to perfectly recall every single trade you took that month from start to finish.
1 trade a day builds YOU as a trader to be humble enough to not fu\*\* with the market when it is not putting out, because we all know who takes it in the rear if you do.
1 trade a day works wonder for your mental, you can actually see a small 20-30k account surviving for weeks and months.
1 trade a day trains you to maintain a steady pace with trading activity.
This is the day trading version of 'time in the markets beats timing the market'
You give your strategy, your capital and most importantly, yourself, enough time to survive the market, and it will actually reward you when you command it.
Sau baat ki ek baat -
Have a strategy?
Test it with discipline.
**GATHER CLEAN DATA.**
Trust the data, not your feelings.
Stick to the system
Stick to the system
Stick to the fuc\*\*\*\* system.
That's all I could think of right now, would love for you guys to add to this, so I'll leave this with a one liner that I once told my friend:
*"Good trades rarely ever look like a needle in a haystack, rather, an RPG on the table."*
Thank you for reading this far. You're already much closer to being profitable than you think you are.
\[TLDR : Limiting yourself to one trade a day and following strict execution rules will do basically do magic\]

[WTS][WTT] GOLD • SILVER • PLATINUM — HUGE COLLECTOR/BULLION LOT

Well who doesn't think the cycle wont continue. Will it get back to ATH? YES, Will it get above ATH YES! When No one knows for sure but if rate cuts are on the radar, then YES that will help it rally. 2 more years of DJT so we are ok for 2 years with a LOT of pain in between and LOT of volatility. DON"T buy if your planning on holding, it will drop 3-5k ++ along the way so set you limits lower, let it rally, buy it when it falls DCA in. Don't do what I did and after ATH not take enough profits. Anyone remember OCT 10th crypto liquidation? It happened b/c the 4 year cycle ended. Will it happen again yes? Will it happen in 4 years? Most Likey. Can it happen between now and the next 4 years? A meltdown, yes. The liquidation event and we just keep going down Possible. THIS IS THE HIGH-RISK HIGH-REWARD. This is Crypto.

how does that compare to positive reinforcement? is it more or less effective?
i feel like I am learning a LOT today.

I wouldn't say most folks. Even through the 2000 and 2008 crashes, my dad kept the same job. That's an anecdote, but statistically, during the recession it hit 10%. But that is a LOT of folks, and is why an emergency fund is so very necessary (most Americans don't have $1000 for emergencies iirc).

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LOT SOLD - all, i got a lot of interest and answered in order of response. Thank you!
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Sure they will, so you might have a short spike window or maybe it even just stays up, but i would be hella careful because the 2 trillion valuation on a 42 billion dollar loss....there is a LOT of hopium / best case scenario built into that.

In addition, what A LOT of people don't realize is all this AI buildout - A LOT of that money is coming from investments that are tied to pension funds. When the AI bubble pops, and it will pop, it's going to take out a lot of people's pensions in the process. We are absolutely totally fucked.

It’s got a LOT to do with the stock. Smaller competitors are eating market share because the shoes are so ugly, uncomfortable and weird.
They have the retro line that has been heavily relied on. I think those are starting to run their course. Then they have these weird, odd, ghetto awkward lines that just don’t look right. The soles aren’t planted, they have weird swoopy lines that make them look like a hybrid between clogs and sneakers. They need to offer more styles that appeal to bigger markets, not just the 20 something teen who works in McDonalds. Sketchers have stolen the older demographic, ON Cloud have stolen the affluent 30’s professional casual crowd, Hoka have got the semi serious sports crowd. Nike doesn’t appeal to those because the shoes look so bonkers.

Yeah, sorry to disappoint. One of the places I get my data from, there's something very similar. Evaluating some numbers and calculating some sort of weighted average or rating, it's really not as uncommon as you seem to think it is. There are a LOT of screener websites out there, you just gotta rummage through a lot of trash to find one that's any good.

So let me tell you something from experience.
I inherited A LOT of guns from my father. Far more than I am able to shoot and hunt with.
It was really difficult to clear them out, even after keeping the ones I wanted and were not duplicates of what I already have. (And unfortunately I also already have duplicates).
And the gun market isn’t great. You either pay way more than things are worth or you sell at a discount and be done with it. Otherwise you sit on things that aren’t being used and the become someone else’s problem when you die.
Gold isn’t the same.

Msft:
Bought around March during the 'Saaspocalypse' at $375 avg
19x per for 20\~30% growth rate
Companies arent replacing Ms Office + the massive firings that were supposed to happen is not happening
They have a massive cash pile + cash flow, havent issued any bonds or stocks
SM Energy:
Bought during March as the Iran War started avg $29
3.3x evebitdax using normalized oil as $75
Massively undervalued compared to peers as their debt ratio is 2 but management is using higher oil prices to deleverage rapidly
TJX:
Bought half my position at $135
Waiting for 110s to buy more
Massive discount retail chain
Per dropped from 30\~ ish to 24 and dropping
Insane quality company i just couldnt buy due to valuation
SPGI:
Bought and buying avg cost $405
One of the companies with the best MOAT
Initially declined due to fear of its market intelligence sector getting disrupted by AI
Now declining due to higher yield rates
Their fper got compressed from 33 to 20 recently
Uber:
Bought in at $69
Company with approx 20x per now excluding tax gains
15x 2027E
Everyone knows about waymo/tesla/ev
Im personally betting on the fact that consumers are lazy and tend to use apps that they are used to
If there are 5\~8 av supplier apps they arent downloading all of them to check prices
Also, availability matters a lot towards consumers wanting a quick ride
Reddit:
Bought in at $150
Talked about a LOT in this sub so I assume everyone knows
US dau worries me a bit as well but international growth is insane
\+28% dau and +12% logged in growth
Human interaction is getting more and more important
I believe that the potential is insane internationally as auto translate are bringing massive userbase from French and Spanish users
Monetization was initially the weakest link for reddit but they are getting better at it

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Intel is not a shoe company... as an Intel shareholder for 5 years I can tell you what Intel is doing and what semiconductor fabs do at the leading edge is one of the absolute hardest things we are doing on this entire planet.
It makes rocket science look like a joke.
That said, you only need to watch a couple of seasons of Shark Tank to see how easy it is to launch a clothing/apparel business. Yes...shoes are harder than clothing. But there's a lot of competitors in this space. A LOT. There's nothing proprietary about what Nike sells.