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The reason so many of us are so red is because we went in with large percentages of our life savings, like way more than is rational. I put most my savings in GME in 2021, then sold a home / moved and put almost half the equity in GME in 2022, sold a btc I'd saved a decade and put most of that (in I think 2022) too.
I can't remember off the top of my head my buy ins, but the price was almost 200 when I first bought in and the majority of my BIG purchases were years back when value was 2-8 times higher than the last couple years of price in the teens to 30. I recognize that my big share buys were times I was more concerned about missing golden tickets in FOMO of MOASS than the impetus or fervor of the times I was trying to average down my share price--and plenty of times I made big purchases at $100, $80, $60 thinking it would never go lower.
I actually DID buy my average cost down some over the years, but there just isn't any way I have the means to offset the largest purchases that were 2-8 times higher when those were purchased with such a large amount of all I'd accumulated over the first 20 years I worked. TBF though, I'm kind of arguing nothing since I did still average down the cost basis pretty heavily. I just checked again and mine currently is down from the first purchases from close to $200 when I jumped in (presplit, January sneeze) to now having a $32 per share cost basis (at least of those I have in a broker instead of computershare).
I'm kind of stupidly complaining about having so many shares that new purchases don't dilute and lower the cost basis as much, but mostly I'm saying it makes sense that many of us have higher cost basis per share than we 'could' because we all went so heavy into GME compared to our income or savings and so many of us have held for so long the brunt of our cost basis was set 5 years ago. In my case while I bought a ton every time the price was rising like a dummy, and less the times it was falling.
Man, writing this inane comment out makes me think about how badly I've done the last \~6 years, I've made EVERY mistake (except selling my shares).. I lost a ton of money on options that many of them were at points in time showing 100%-500% profit, but I kept rolling them into new ones or not selling in FOMO of MOASS... I lost money with LRC and again at one point had profit there that I left, I had a LRC account that had crypto worth 17k for a minute, think I put like 6k in, lost crypto in the GME crypto market / app by losing a password key and missing the window of its shutdown, and most painfully I lost an unknown amount in bed bath during that mess but again I was massively up in options and that time I took some of the profit and collected thousands of their stock just for them to get delisted and be worthless. GME 5+ years ago was my first time ever getting into the stock market, completely ignorantly. As tangential as me complaining about all my failures during this escapade, it seems relevant to the original debate too though since I can't be alone in not making perfect moves, beyond people going in with life savings, GME was unique in that January and the buy button being turned off seriously enticed a shocking amount of investors like me that had no experience and would be learning as we went.

There are as many opinions on the market direction as there are investors and spectators in the world. I can see you haven't heard from all of them yet and I hope you sold your BIG position at much higher levels than AMD is trading at today. I have been trading using various strategies since the late 80's and typically call myself a swing trader mostly because that is what appeals to me AND I trade in a retirement account with tax advantages which is both a blessing and a curse. If you do not trade in a tax deferred account it is usually much better long-term to just do a buy and hold for the most part. To be a trader of sorts, I would recommend a few approaches and will identify a few challenges of being a trader, as I could write a book.
The biggest challenge to trading is having the mental fortitude to buy when the market feels and looks like it is melting down. Why didn't you buy some at 188 or 190 earlier this week? Even if you had bought 10 shares you would be up today and not wishing for 190 once more., or not quite so much. The point here is to average in and average out buy the way or if you make big sales, to have some place to park those dollars so they are still working for you.
In order to swing trade, I suggest dividing your pot of investable cash into 10-20 tranches and be disciplined to only invest one of those tranches when the stock reaches some low level. You could decide to look at a stock like AMD on a daily or weekly chart, weekly might be better really, and count the times AMD has hit some level such as the 20DMA or 50DMA over the last 2-3 years for example and to visually see where it is moving over those weekly timeframes. If you do not equip yourself with this larger timeframe context, then you are simply whipping around in the wind of every piece of news and rumor you hear every day. You should KNOW that VERY little of what you hear or read is truly current but has a one to 3 day lag and is not really all that actionable. Further many things posted as news today may be recycled from weeks ago as well.
So, let me offer some factual perspective on where AMD's weekly chart is as I read it today. I use SMA's not EMA but the real differences are immaterial and anyone can simply put both on their charts and see those differences. If I was day trading and looking at 1 to 5 minute charts, THEN, using EMA's matters.
So back to the AMD charts, AMD is now in its' 6 consecutive week of lower lows and that is important. I noted in my opening remarks today that AMD is very close to closing this week with a higher weekly close than last week, even though it dipped to a lower low early this week. THIS suggests we may be at a weekly low pivot point. I certainly do NOT KNOW but am simply observing the market behavior,. AMD closed last week at 200.21, so keep that number firmly in mind.
Stepping back for more context, AMD's 3 year mean weekly average is 187.98, which is almost tagged this week with a low of 188.22. That is damn close. We can also see that the 50week SMA which is in an ascending slope so moving higher si currently at the 173.01 level this week and moving up about 2-3 dollars per week. This dynamic is important as AMD last crossed the 50 week MA in June of 2025 and has operated above it ever since. In fact this is the longest consecutive week drop in AMD since that time as well. From my personal perspective, I am expecting AMD to put in some sideways range trading action over the next 2-5 weeks as we end the core of the earnings season and the stock puts in some consolidation before moving gradually higher back to the 220 level. It is very common for stocks to put in some sideways movement following a sharp decline as AMD has experienced. AMD is also prone to some sharper moves based on announcements of significant deals. We never know then that can happen.
One of my favorite SMA's or MA's is the 5 week and 5 day MA. AMD's 5 week MA is at 203.55 for this week and is in a sharp downward slope. The sideways action for a few weeks will give this average time to flatten and turn as the stock is likely to move above that 5 week MA effectively indicating a positive improvement in the stock price. You can also observe the 5 day MA for breakouts.
Everything I have written here is just from looking at the charts it is not predictive but offers perspective on the direction of the stock and one can estimate, infer or assign some probabilities of the moves over the next several days and weeks. It is important to consider that the market decides what happens next for AMD. I am observing that the price action for AMD today is fairly strong as AMD is down .61% as I write this exactly the same as the QQQ right now, but has actually been exploring higher prices than this moment most of the morning. Good Luck in your trading. Only you can decide how much the day to day news or commentary can or will influence how you actually trade

It will be BIG!

This sound really dumb that i am uploading it here where investments are BIG. But right now i am a working student in college at nursing ang course ko dahil gusto ko talaga maging nurse and i took a risk of getting into a university and up until now na 2nd year na ako, paaral ko parin ang sarili ko by working at a food stall, side hustles at tinda tinda rin, wala din po kasi akong lakas ng loob na gumaya sa iba at mag post sa fb na financially struggling ako dahil may kaya pa naman ako mag trabaho. I have 3000 pesos na ipon pa po. May paraan po ba na ma i invest ko ito para lumaki? Ayaw ko po kasi na ma sit aside lang to dito nang di nagagalaw knowing alam ko naman na may chance to lumaki pero di ko lang talaga alam kung paano. Salamat po sa mag
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All in on 0DTE
GO BIG OR GO HOME

CHINA ORDERS BIG REFINERS TO HALT DIESEL + GAS EXPORTS AS IRAN WAR ESCALATES ⛽️🚨

Endless comments about buy ETFs; one thing to consider if you want to resist the herd just a little, is to review HOW BIG your investments have been. If you had bought LAM stock and ORCL stock with approximately their proportions in the S&P500 then you might have been more comfortable with holding .. one went up, one went down, but most likely both will go up and down many more times. If you buy a broad ETF, you still exactly buy these two stocks (plus many others). The difference is only a little, but still: in any ETF you pay every year for the privilege of having bought it one time. Buy and hold makes ETF not so pretty.
So short summary, don't give up on stocks, don't completely listen to ETF & chill, but do make your individual investments proportionate to what you have to invest.

Uh oh.
Tarriffs were supposed to balance out the tax cuts for the wealthy (and only the wealthy) that were given through THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!!!
thank you for your attention to this matter
-a tax paying citizen

KOSPI -11% yesterday - BER R FUCJ
KOSPI +11% today - BER R BIG FUCK

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>CHINA WILL DIRECT MORE SOCIAL RESOURCES TO THE REAL ECONOMY, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL REPORT\.
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>CHINA STATES THAT THEY REMAIN DEDICATED TO THE ONE CHINA POLICY AND WILL NOT CHANGE THEIR POSITION\.
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>CHINA DECLARES IT WILL STRONGLY OPPOSE AND FIGHT SEPARATIST GROUPS TRYING TO PUSH TOWARD 'TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE'\.
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>CHINA PLANS TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND SOLVE IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT WORK REPORT\.
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>CHINA'S GOVERNMENT HAS CREATED A 100 BILLION YUAN SPECIAL FUND TO STRENGTHEN DOMESTIC DEMAND\. THE GOAL IS TO REDUCE THE COST OF FINANCING FOR BUSINESSES, INCREASE HOUSEHOLDS' SPENDING POWER, AND GROW THE SUPPLY OF GOODS AND SERVICES\. OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMS THIS INITIATIVE\.
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>EUROSTOXX 50 FUTURES INCREASED BY 0\.5%, AND DAX FUTURES WENT UP BY 0\.3% IN THE TRADING SESSION\.
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>KOREA'S KOSPI INDEX SURGES 12% AS SAMSUNG, SK HYNIX REBOUND
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>CHINA ANNOUNCES THAT FISCAL POLICY WILL HELP INCREASE SPENDING AND GROWTH BY INVESTMENT, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL REPORT\.
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>American official to CBS NEWS: The number of our wards who will be evacuated from the region will rise significantly
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>Iranian drones fying over Dubai earlier tonight
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>CHINA'S LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WILL USE SPECIAL BONDS TO FINANCE BIG PROJECTS, DEAL WITH SECRET DEBT, AND PAY OFF OVERDUE PAYMENTS, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL REPORT\.
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>UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed condemns the Iranian attacks on the UAE and regional countries
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>THE UK MARITIME COMMAND REPORTED AN INCIDENT 30 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTHEAST OF KUWAIT'S MUBARAK AL KABEER\.
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>UK MARITIME AUTHORITY SAYS A TANKER IS ANCHORED AND THAT A WITNESS HEARD AND SAW A BIG EXPLOSION ON THE PORT SIDE AND THEN A SMALL BOAT LEFT THE AREA\.
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>UK MARINE TERRITORIAL OFFICE REPORTS OIL IS LEAKING INTO THE WATER FROM A CARGO TANK, POTENTIALLY CAUSING ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE\.
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>UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed holds phone calls with his counterparts in several countries regarding regional developments
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>UKMTO: RECEIVED REPORT OF AN INCIDENT 30 NM SOUTHEAST OF MUBARAK AL KABEER
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>CHINA'S CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 10\.4 TRILLION YUAN IN TRANSFER PAYMENTS IN 2026, ACCORDING TO THE FINANCE MINISTRY'S REPORT\.
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No doubt some won BIG on this crash on Polymarket ..

They are just starting to scale. By that, I mean cybercab. The **BIG** thing I think, is that it's going to be a lot cheaper and faster to produce. No surface paint, very little welding. They are doing crash testing. They are also building a lab for their own crash dummies. I think the big holdup has been getting all the cost factors lined up. Their Lithium refinery is now operating, the dry cathode for 4680 is solved. This why everything is set to really take off. The Semi factory is starting to produce the new version, (also going to be using the 4680)

BUT THE QUESTION IS WHO IS DROPPING BIG MONEY LIKE THAT?!?!? These are breadcrumbs that must be eaten!
This was sarcasm - before I get a flood of ridiculous responses…

Keep a BIG distance from Revolut!

Memory shortage, disk shortage. Now thanks to US Empire gas shortage, also less petroleum going to china which might trigger Taiwan takeover... Honestly everything is set up for a BIG collapse to PRINT more $ and ignore completely inflation, making stocks to a new ATH in this golden age 🪙. Short meanwhile printer goes full stamina because for something hedgies are in

Any day now RC will come out with something "BIG" like NFTs for plots of land on the moon - and THEN GME will go there! /s

It is great to see you in the MU game and sharing some great strategies. The prices the last few days and especially yesterday were AMAZING.
One of the interesting disclosures this morning was the US sank an Iranian ship using a submarine. It has been noted a couple of times over the last few weeks that Iran might have submarines themselves and those could pose a threat to the Straight of Hormuz. The US having subs in the area should provide some extra comfort for shipping to resume. I think we should see some shipping progress soon as in the next day or two and move forward from there. The market has had a BIG reaction to the activity in Iran and I think we might have seen the worst of it now. Clearly, this is a bold optimistic view, but someone has to have one!

VIX GIVE US THE BIG LEG DOWN GET YO ASS BACK TO 19

Looking for an unbiased opinion on this OP's post around the current affairs. What do you think? It does seem to make sense but who knows 😂
See below, not mine just somebody I follow on Facebook.
THIS IS WHAT MY BIG LENDERS ARE SAYING
! IF YOU'RE UNDER 30, DO NOT BUY A HOUSE RIGHT NOW.
HERE'S WHY!!
Step 1: The US just started a WAR with Iran. Trump says it could last 5 WEEKS.
Step 2: Iran CLOSED the Strait of Hormuz. 20% of the world's oil is now BLOCKED.
Step 3: Oil is surging past $85/barrel. Heading to $100+. Maybe $120.
Step 4: When oil goes up, EVERYTHING goes up. Gas. Food. Shipping. Construction materials. EVERYTHING.
Step 5: Inflation is COMING BACK. Bank of England rate cut odds already collapsed from 80% to 29% in ONE WEEK.
Step 6: If inflation returns, central banks CAN'T cut rates. They might even RAISE them.
Step 7: Higher rates = higher mortgage rates. 7%? 8%? Maybe higher.
Step 8: Higher mortgage rates = people CAN'T afford payments. Forced sellers FLOOD the market.
Step 9: $3.2 TRILLION has already been wiped from global stock markets in 4 days. People are LOSING their down payments in the market crash.
Step 10: South Korea's stock market just crashed -8% and TRIGGERED A CIRCUIT BREAKER. Japan -6%. Dow -1,200 points.
Step 11: When stocks crash, layoffs follow. Tech. Finance. Real estate. Construction. ALL of them.
Step 12: Laid off people with 7% mortgages they can barely afford? They SELL. At ANY price.
Step 13: Housing inventory SURGES. Prices DROP. 20%? 30%? In some markets - 50%.
This is EXACTLY what happened in 2008.
Oil spike → inflation → rate hikes → stock crash → layoffs → housing crash.
THE SAME SEQUENCE IS PLAYING OUT RIGHT NOW.
Step by step. In real time.
If you have cash, SIT ON IT.
The biggest buying opportunity of your lifetime is 12-24 months away.
This isn't fear.
This is maths.

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>BESSENT: SPAIN HAS BEEN 'TERRIBLE'
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS ON POSSIBLE TRADE EMBARGO ON SPAIN: ANYTHING THAT SLOWS DOWN OUR ABILITY TO ENGAGE IN WAR PUTS U\.S\. LIVES AT RISK, SPANISH PUTTING U\.S\. LIVES AR RISK \-CNBC INTERVIEW
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>BESSENT: SPAIN IS FREE\-RIDING ON THE US, OTHER NATO ALLIES
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>TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT ON INCREASE TO 15% TARIFFS: EXPECTED SOMETIME THIS WEEK
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>UK'S PM STARMER: WE'RE RESUPPLYING AIR DEFENCE MISSILES TODAY
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS ON IRAN: WE HAD BEEN SOFTENING THE ECONOMY TO PREPARE FOR CAMPAIGN NOW
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS ON IRAN'S ECONOMY: CRASH GAVE OPENING TO GO IN
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT ON OIL, CHINA: CHINA IS VERY VULNERABLE ON ENERGY \-CNBC
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SEC BESSENT ON OIL: CHINA HAD BEEN PAYING A BIG DISCOUNT
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>UKMTO SAYS A CONTAINER SHIP HAS REPORTED BEING HIT BY AN UNKNOWN PROJECTILE JUST ABOVE THE WATER LINE CAUSING A FIRE IN THE ENGINE ROOM
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>UKMTO SAYS NO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS ON IRAN, CURRENCIES: NEED TO LOOK TO OTHER SIDE OF THIS \-CNBC
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>U\.S\. TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT SAYS ON IRAN: TRUMP HAS A VISIONHERE AND EVERYONE SHOULD STEP BACK
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>BESSENT ON IRAN: TRUMP HAS A VISIONHERE AND EVERYONE SHOULD STEP BACK