BIG
Big Lots, Inc.
stock NYSE

BIG DUMP incoming. FULL PORT SPX PUTS BABBYYYY

Beats me...no data from Shanghai right now...but soon I think. CME has their BIG hammer out for today. Let us hope it doesn't work. BUY!

WOW that's ab BIG red candle! Maybe the Chinese will try to catch this falling knife.

It's HARD to tell. I definitely see potential GROWTH, BIG candles, solid PUMPS.

How can such a recogonizable brand, that's getting name checked by the likes of rappers with over 20 Million followers and TV shows such as Family Guy be currently deemed by the market to be worth nothing? It's just not right. If we are looking at selling the company, then we need BIG BUCKS for Squatty Potty.

It depends what they are seeing locally. If enough people are accepting 6 to 8 per ounce, dealers will take it.
If one dealer were to pay spot and clear the local market, they are taking a BIG bet to the upside. At $80, with moves >10%, that is unnecessarily rocking the boat of a small business.

My (55, early retired) portfolio consists of two parts:
\--Non-rolling TIPS ladder that provides an income floor from now until 2040 (delayed SS)
\--A risk portfolio, consisting of risky assets, namely global stocks at market weight, global risky bonds at market weight, and alts at market weight.
Here are the risk portfolio market weights as of December 2025:
|Updated Numbers (12/26/25)||Market Cap (M)|Percentage||
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|US Stocks|[FTSE Global All-Cap Index](https://research.ftserussell.com/Analytics/FactSheets/Home/DownloadSingleIssueByDate?IssueName=GEISLMS&IssueDate=20231229&IsManual=false)|$66,256,026.89|49.30%|Stocks|
|Ex-US Stocks||$38,261,882.70|28.47%|77.77%|
|World IG|[FTSE World BIG (Corp + Covered Line Items)](https://research.ftserussell.com/Analytics/FactSheets/Home/DownloadSingleIssue?issueName=WBIG&IsManual=True)|$19,308,860.00|14.37%|Bonds\*\*|
|World HY|[FTSE World High Yield Bond Index](https://research.ftserussell.com/Analytics/FactSheets/Home/DownloadSingleIssue?issueName=WHYM&IsManual=True)|$1,850,000.00|1.38%|15.74%|
|Crypto Majors (BTC, ETH)|[Coingecko](https://www.coingecko.com/)|$2,103,000.00|1.56%|Alts|
|Gold\*|[WGC Gold Bars, Coins, & ETFs](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQShEGnLTHNk2_zgHWTiReXADEhmNvLR8SIaTsdGTdQJaa_F9ESrbo8bcsP0XEsVlBFtGEbjqUMO7g_/pubhtml#)|$6,616,837.32|4.92%|6.49%|
|Total||$134,396,606.91|||

\*Physical gold is defined as for investment (coins, bullion), not jewelry or industrial
\*\*Excluding sovereign debt due to overweight of US Treasuries due to TIPS ladder.

I love NEOs and I live QQQI.
SPYI underperforms SPY in a BIG way.
Total return comparison (Max duration):
SPY +79.91%
SPYI +61.43%
QQQI holding much better:
QQQ +47.33%
QQQI+44%

Two choices, either good ones.
Here's how I think of it (keeping the math easy):
Say you bought 100 ozt at $35 and now silver is $70.
Sell 50 ozt and you recoup your initial investment . And it's like you were gifted 50 ozt of shiny. It will NOT go to $0. And if it climbs you are ahead even more.
HODL. If silver continues to climb... BIG PROFIT. If it pulls back it would take a 50% pullback, HIGHLY unlikely IMO) before you've lost a dime.
So now ask yourself, why did you buy silver? Is it still a true reason for you? If someone gave you a substantial pot of money, no strings attached, would you buy silver?
Only you can answer these and other questions. But you are in a GOOD place.

LMAO wait till the BIG medical bills come rolling in and you'll find out what the causes the most bankruptcies in America

Everyone keeps predicting rugpull or BIG pullback, but, at what levels?
If silver runs up another 20% - 30% to sit around $100/oz, then decides to pullback 40%, you’re still sitting at a $60+ silver oz

Ich finde fast ne halbe Milliarde noch mal ne andere Ecke im Vergleich zu 40 Mio. Hast wahrscheinlich recht, der dickste Fisch ist man da evtl nicht, aber wahrscheinlich der unerfahrenste. Am ehesten hätte ich Angst, das genau das böswillig ausgenutzt wird. Dann ist man gezwungen allein um Missbrauch vorzubeugen 8 Augen prinzip und starke kompartmentalisation anzuwenden. Anstrengend. *I got lawyers watching lawyers so i wont go broke* wie BIG einst sagte