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I really like points 3 and 4. A lot of people think they're diversifying when they own S&P based funds and NVDA, MSFT, Appl, or similar.
And with point 4, even selling .1 delta, you expect 1 in every 10 trades to go south.

There is always large volume in the last few minutes prior to market close.
Many large institutions submit orders right at end of day.
Also MSFT is a $500 stock. A $4 move is less than 1%.

Hyperscaler-level demand is spilling across and there will be winners and losers, however, multi-year contracts with OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google & MSFT of the big names makes me bullish.

Personally I wouldn’t bother with the ETF’s if your going to invest in MSFT, NVDA, META, TSLA, AMZN, those are the top performers on the indexes and in my opinion that’s all you need a few great business and not all the other mediocre rubbish holding back your return potential in the name of diversification, but I get it, most people think it too risky, and I suppose 10% average return is ok, but I don’t want ok, I want great.

What caused MSFT to drop suddenly in the last 15 minutes today?

MSFT - might be, at some point, the most profitable company - has a PE of 40
GOOG - the most profitable company - has PE of 20
🤔

21.5% MSFT + NVDA + AAPL… super diverse!

I think the amount of money MSFT has wasted on AI will cause it to fall but it will continue to sell software and services

This wasn't some random Azure user who sells gummys. Am sure MSFT keeps
Also MSFT engineers were directly involved in the setup of the system.
Head of Israel intelligence met with MSFT CEO to get this setup.
Israel is committing genocide and is led by an indicted war criminal.
I suppose it's possible that MSFT assumed Israel was running a humanitarian program tracking a million phone calls from Gaza.

Sooo lazy… on NVDA, TSLA, AMD, ORCL, SPY, MSFT, AMZN etc etc (I can name 10 or more tickers) The spread is literally .99-1.00 (0.01)almost always every single day. And that’s for OTM calls, once you get into ITM or ATM you can make it even easier with higher delta.
1% stop can be done daily, insta filled with 0 problem on the most liquid options in the world.

Jackson Hole has been a bearish event the last few years. I don’t expect this year to be any different. The Fed should cut rates to help the lower end consumer, which was their stated goal when refusing to raise rates in the summer of 2021.
At this point, higher rates significantly benefit the wealthy and inflation is raging irrespective of the Fed fund rate anyway. This is all just a massive mess that was brought about by a ridiculously overblown reaction to COVID. The COVID response was an attempt to paint Trump in a negative light since the Democrats were clearly ceding power to him after their failed Russia-gate debacle. Now Trump is back in power not only due to Biden’s falters and mental decline, but the Democrats’ poor choice of Kamala Harris as their candidate. All of this nonsense is just as much the fault of Democrats’ missteps as it is Trump’s incompetency.
I have been increasing my crypto holdings and decreasing my equities exposure this past week. I don’t feel great about this market at all unless the companies I own are being supported by strong fundamentals (NVDA, PLTR, HOOD, MSFT, GEV) or are being run by CEOs willing to kiss the ring (looking at you AAPL).

Just finished watching Hank Green's video on how he is changing his investing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMFp-mEWoM) and wanted to get your thoughts on it. Mainly, I am interested in his point of the top 10 companies of SP500 (FXAIX for me) index funds representing 40% of the fund. Of that 40% there is a lot of tech exposure (NCDA, MSFT, AAPL, META, AVGO, GOOGL).
Total Market index funds (ex. FSKAX) has the identical top 10 holds that make up 33% of the portfolio. Would it be prudent to add mid cap/small cap index funds or international for diversification?
Curious to get your thoughts on this!

Edit: forgot to mention that my portfolio is currently not just held in SP500. My portfolio is 80% Total market, 15% or so international and the 5% bonds

Eventually big fish start eating smaller fish. Let's take a hypothetical - MSTR continually gets 0% interest loans...ZERO PERCENT...now imagine somebody wants to start looking into how that's being pulled off (I don't think GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, AMZN, et al get zero interest loans).
Then they go and, just for sake of thoroughness, double-check the math on all those 10-Q reports filed. Does everything add up correctly?
In an ugly scenario, that Smog pile may end up being forfeited, one way or another ~ feel free to replace MSTR with any target of your choice, mind you...point being, what the big players want, they usually get - and money isn't even the object or concern anymore - it's control & influence...

MSFT dump to $520 EOD like clockwork.

BTC MSFT 520p @ 0.06 thank god I didn't wait for 0.01, omg what a dump.
BTC CRWV 100c/100p @ 0.50 +1.00
BTC CVNA 350c @ 0.64 +40%
BTC 4x AMAT 162.5p @ 0.2 +60%
BTC x2 UNH 315c @ 0.03 (+95%)
BTC 1 MSTR 370p @ 3.50 (+35%) im gonna be honest this one pissed me off because we were so close to 370 :(

Get FNGS... NVDA, MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, AVGO, NFLX, NOW, CRWD.

STO $MSFT 9/26 555cc for @3.0
STO 2 $TTD 9/26 57cc @1.53

I would think all the spending that Meta and MSFT is doing should show up in forward guidance. And with export restrictions to China no longer in place, there shouldn’t be a reason for the dump. But this market has surprised me more than once this year 🤷‍♂️

MSFT investigating itself...
Doesn't say much of MSFT tech capabilities if this was happening and they didn't know about it. It's even worse if they did.
I would suspect the even worse option. MSFT knows what it's doing.

Bubble or not, most of the AI valuation gains are in tech giants that are making massive profits and either already have large and rapidly growing AI revenues (like NVDA and MSFT and AMZN) or are very profitable and investors see a fit with them plus AI (like META).