JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
stock NYSE

Professor G in yt has a video on 500k investment. Permission to be wealthy in yt has a video on living off dividends ( her own setup) with 380k netting clise to 63k. Maybe add schd to that or JPM or something to your liking. *not investment advice. As for either, if you dont want btci u can always sub it out with sgov or other safer etfs/ stocks.

[https://www.cftc.gov/dea/options/other\_sof.htm](https://www.cftc.gov/dea/options/other_sof.htm)
This is Commitment of Traders (COT) report. Assume a large portion of the positions are JPM.

My thinking is that if JPM was big in at $77 that is the new long-term floor. They will keep it above that.

I generally don't believe the world runs on such intricate plans.
That said, can never go wrong owning JPM. They win no matter what.

I remember looking at the commercial real estate holdings of banks and everyone seemed worried and frightened that could just collapse the banks
like holding all the office space around Detroit and similar around the Great Lakes region
as if Los Angeles and San Francisco wasn't a big enough worry
I think the Federal Reserve thing got people to flood into the banks in the pask week and a half
You got me hunting and I discovered something new
the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index
and that seems to match up
3 days ago
Seeking Alpha
# Regional bank stocks climb, propelled by merger outlook as one analyst sees it
Feb. 04, 2026
Regional bank stocks' gains have outpaced the banking sector and the S&P 500 Index in the past month as investors rotate away from the megacap bank stocks, likely bolstered by optimism for continued consolidation in the sector.
The KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index (KRX) climbed 10% in the past month, compared with the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index's (BKX) 1.7% increase and the S&P 500's -0.1% slip. Regional bank stocks' strength continued on Wednesday. KRX gained 1.7% in afternoon trading, compared with BKX's 0.8% rise and the S&P 500's (SPX) 0.8% dip.
Wednesday's gains come after Webster Financial (WBS) agreed to be acquired by Banco Santander (SAN) in a $12B deal. That comes after Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) completed its $10.9B acquisition of Comerica on Monday, the same day that Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) closed on its $7B purchase of Cadence Bank. Late last month, Prosperity Bancshares (PB) agreed to acquire Stellar Bancorp (STEL) in a deal valued at \~$2B.
"I think Webster Financial is the start of a domino effect," Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo said in an interview with Seeking Alpha. "I think it's the acquisition and deregulatory environment that's driving most of the change."
"The expectations and the actual consolidation in the sector" have produced "a new era for bank consolidation," he added. He sees a "sweet spot for certainly the next eight months before the midterms, where you have a very unique window for bank mergers."
As a result, he sees the potential for the greatest number of bank mergers in a decade or more. "Mergers are back for midcap banks," he said, adding that it's the "greatest change in regulation in a generation."
Furthermore, "scale is more important than it's ever been before." For example, for a bank of Webster Financial's (WBS) size, it would take a decade and a half of total expenses to equal the amount that JPMorgan Chase (JPM) spends on tech alone in a single year, Mayo said.
Among the stronger-performing regional stocks on Wednesday are
Huntington (HBAN), +3.2%
Fifth Third (FITB) +3.2%
Zions Bancorp (ZION) +1.8%
First Citizens (FCNCA) +2.6%
Truist Financial (TFC) +2.1%
PNC Financial (PNC) +2.3%.

https://x.com/i/status/2020309993493270976
“Epstein Files Show Financial Ties to DOD Deputy Secretary Feinberg”
“…The SEC "Do not investigate list" is VERY real.
The SEC is OWNED by the criminals on it…”
There is a full page redaction before this 👇👇
“…Refco might be out of business but NITE and CDEL have stepped right in and the illegal activity never skipped a beat.
In fact: the illegal activity has gone on steroids (I've written that before) and into a whole new level beginning in December 2020 after Trump lost the election spiking from 200 billion shares of OTCM money laundering shells to over 1 TRILLION then hitting almost 2 TRILLION shares in Feb 2021. Up from 87.7 billion in Feb 2020.…..
….Judge Swain: you and your colleagues in the SONY as well as EDNY and NY Supreme Court have been played for fools by the grossly corrupt SEC.
REPEATEDLY.
The SEC has actively facilitated keeping this massive fraud on the public it is mandated to protect very much up and running in 2021.
The SEC "Do not investigate list" is VERY real.
The SEC is OWNED by the criminals on it.
The BD SRO FINRA has no business enforciing securities LAWS of this country.
Fines are NOT a deterrent. INTENTIONALLY.
The grossly corrupt SEC has WILLFULLY obstructed Congress in its failure to implement the CAT.
Instead, Clayton et al gave
the criminal entity NITE as well as CDEL their own exchange: MEMX.
Clayton and his SuII Crom colleagues
Fishman, Rodgin Cohen are up to their eyeballs in the criminal entity NITE.
As is Handler/Jefferies,
Solomon/Blankfein: GS, Schwarzman/BX,
Dimon/JPM etc etc.
How many people have been
ripped off since my TCR was filed in 2013? How many more since your Rhino/Refco decision?
Say it with me: Junk is junk is junk....
Feinberg/Cerberus: Gruntal: Milken
money laundering clean up GUARANTEED
Cerberus/Feinberg/Milken interest in NITE is predictable.
Like ALL of the "glitch" participants: Cifu/Feinberg
KNEW exactly what a fraud the Knight balance sheet was in 2012.
They ALL knew it in 2017 when VIRT bought KCG.
Brcause the SEC gave the green light for the illegal activity: massive fraud on the public to continue.
And it does today. Paul Weiss alum: Cifu wrote down $4 billion+ in fails from the KCG balance sheet.
The SEC:Paul Weiss Alum Mehrban/SDNY: Paul Weiss Alum Damian Williams let him.
Handler/JEF worthless position reaped hundreds of millions in profits.
JPM financed the deal w/ $1.6 billion: "Rankled No More".
Goldman/Sull Crom
advised.
Trump PA campaign Mgr and Viola BFF David Urban joined the BoD.
Greifeld: Russian DMA to
NASDAQ/Hutchins: Blackstone Alum: Bag Men.
You've been played for fools.
What are you going to do about it?…..”
justice.gov/epstein/files/…
pogo.org/investigates/e…
forum.navyadvancement.com/topic/12107-ep…
@FlyEaglesFly529 @Hamnakedshorts

But it is actually backed by physical silver, not a lick and a promise from JP Morgan.
Safest bet is to hold it in your hands
$20 K worth of silver is only a couple of one hundred ounce bars, which will always have value.
What is the value of paper silver? What ever JP manipulates it to. Currently 400 plus ounces to every actual ounce held.
Sorry you got bad advice. If I found myself in your shoes, I would mirror whatever JPM is doing. Whether that be buying or selling. But I'm not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice.
I haven't even stayed at a Holiday Inn Express for at least a year now.

Air Liquide is the second largest industrial gas supplier in the US. They are highly diversified though out the World, pay a dividend, and they offer critical materials in a variety of industries. They have little to zero AI impact, they do offer Hydrogen and CO2 to power plants so I guess that could be spun as an “AI play”. I wouldn’t classify it as one personally, but I like that they offer specialized materials for all different types of industries.
MTB is interesting and I remember looking into the bank during the small bank collapse in 2022ish I think. If I remember correctly I think what kept me away from investing in the bank is that it is a regional bank in the US. Meaning that the FDIC in the US would likely let it fail, unlike the major banks like JPM, CITI, Capital One, Wells Fargo……
The US large banking industry is the most socialist industry in America, their profits are theirs and their losses can be offset to the taxpayers. Sorry for the rant. I did buy JPM and Interactive Brokers group during 2022, I sold JPM shortly after but I’m still holding Interactive Brokers.
As for why MTB has been rising lately, I think it might just be people divesting from tech stocks to more “value stocks”……the trend could keep happening but it could also end abruptly if tech/SASS stocks take off later this year. With interest rates potentially lowering I think that would lead to more people investing their money in the market instead of hoarding their money in savings accounts leading to less assets on their bank’s balance sheets.

I have individual preferred shares of DUK, HIG, JPM and T. Thanks for the post.

Anyone who would likely sell you shares now will ask a hefty premium. You’d likely have to buy shares from an employee or earlier investor. Why would they sell now when they know a potential huge payday is coming? To get shares directly from the company you need to be vetted. SpaceX notoriously vets new investors. If you use a reputable wealth manager like a Morgan Stanley, Goldman, JPM, UBS, Citi, etc you can ask them to acquire shares for you but you’ll pay a very hefty fee. I mean you could always look into working for the company…

There’s a difference between providing subsidies to an industry vital to national security, and taking government equity stakes in companies. If there are three lithium mining companies, which one do you choose? Do you choose the one best positioned to be successful? Do you choose all three? Do you choose the one that lobbied hardest or has the best connections to whatever administration is in charge? The point is that these kinds of stakes create favoritism, not a good look for the market. Similar criticisms were made during the GFC: Lehman Brothers was allowed to collapse (eventually absorbed by Barclays) while Bear Stearns was taken over by JPM in a government-brokered deal. OP’s take is quite sensible. Just because someone disagrees with this president doesn’t make it propaganda.

So far it’s built.
Core Strategies:
• Mean Reversion - BUY when oversold (RSI < 35, price below lower Bollinger Band)
• Momentum - BUY on EMA crossovers + MACD bullish + RSI rising
Regime-Adaptive: Automatically weights strategies based on market regime:
• LOW\_VOL: 60% mean reversion, 40% momentum
• HIGH\_VOL: 30% mean reversion, 70% momentum
Alternative Data Integration:
• Earnings beat/miss tracking
• Insider buying detection (Form 4 filings)
• Short squeeze potential scoring
• Unusual options flow analysis
• Pairs trading (market-neutral, hedged)
Infrastructure:
• Hourly signal scanning
• Auto-execution on 85%+ confidence signals
• Trailing stop losses on all positions
• Full trade logging to Supabase
Current Portfolio (Paper): \~$49.6k
Market Overview (Feb 7, 2026):
• Regime: LOW\_VOL\_RANGE (13.4% annualized volatility)
• Current signals: BUY on JPM, WMT, INTC | SELL on MSFT, AMD, QCOM
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Lol if you think gold can't be manipulated. Just wait till JPM et al make their next play to snip off the corners of your bars.

Fair enough Ive been stalling on actually doing this myself but verified over phone they still do, one account is corporate maintained 401k with Alight and other is personal IRA with T.Rowe Price (already verified I can roll most TRowe over on the phone because of their relationship with TRowe) I'm trying to break a mil before I do it. Lol. Like anything, there are gates to hurdle. I've toyed with taking the Chase/JPM account bonuses, but they still only work out to 3% for holding accounts there 3 months. I pretty much funded all my cash for a trip to Europe when Wells Fargo did one of those and withdrew the bonus in Euros. 😆
No intention of leaving CS as I'm trying to consolidate accounts for retirement.
Another point even if it makes this a bit long winded is brokerage and IRA accounts don't have the same legal protections as a 401k.

Well, we are heading toward a global debt crisis, money is moving back to less risky positions. Gold and Silver probably wasn't supposed to be a pump and dump on retail investors but major players like GS and JPM were looking at those prices and probably salivating to take those gains and maintain a profitable balance. And so they did.
As far as the tech sector, I don't think AI is a Ponzi or a pump, necessarily. I think the market is finally pricing in the risk of lacking ROI and also filtering out non-players as AI tech matures. So anyway, you've seen a bump in industrials as the money was reallocated. I don't think this was a "crash." CEOs played earnings/capex chicken with investors and investors are trying to get them to swerve first. Anyway, proper diversification could see you through such swings with minimal loss.
And on Japan, at least they're taking their economic situation seriously. The US admin seems to be exacerbating the issues in all honesty.

JPM,GS<KO

It is quite obvious that JPM have a lot of physical in their vaults, I am wondering if they are going to be the new De Beers keeping the price artificially high in the future after COMEX defaults.

Welcome! I also started my dividend journey when I was in my mid 30's.
Seems like you have other investment accounts and considering dividends as sort of a fun thing on the side to manage and accrue for retirement.

You'll receive many different perspectives here, some members are ETF only, some are "you're too young for dividends", and there are some of us who are here just to see what the portfolio trends are for everyone else.

I am not a financial advisor so I wont steer you to which stocks I am invested in. But my portfolio consists of SCHD (ETF) as my core, as I branch out to a handful of individual stocks that are not in their holdings but provide tremendous dividend growth opportunities. These stocks include MSFT, Goog, VRT, JPM and others. The reason why I look at individual stocks is because I strongly believe in their growth while they pay a minimal dividend, hoping that in the future as their growth slows down, they will increase their dividends.

Best of luck!

What if most of the contracts are speculators and end up being forced to sell their positions, the remaining buyers who have the cash to take delivery is less than the 100mil oz in the vault? At current rate let’s say the price is $70/oz, all OI contracts value at $30billion. It will be a sight to behold to see $30billion go through an exchange for 1 commodity. Either way, whether the speculators will be flushed (again) or not, fact remains unchanged is that the vaults will get thinner if JPM hoards their physical silver & not delivering.

I just read JPM lowered their price target from $305 to $265? Do you have a link to the $315 price target?