Many is subjective. Many to you may be peanuts to others.

You must be the most intelligent options player in the world. I saw many gotten their hands burnt in recent blogger articles. You are the only one winning. True or not ?

Times have changed today ! But,.. like I said earlier,... let's see in one year from now,....no need to talk too much !

August has no mtg. If the CPI rdg runs away again in August, the Feds can't act for that mth and will need to do more in September, otherwise, inflation becomes deeply-imbedded in the economy and there will be more risks to the Feds.

The Feds shld raise by 100 bps next Wednesday to play a 'safer' game. Otherwise,... chances of a US Recession will be even higher.

Err,... no bro,... I am now testing on a US dividend stock called PFLT.

Monthly payout,... still running well,....

If this ctr can 'tahan' the rising rate environment, then it will do well when things reverse.

Bro DWRK,... my AUDJPY pair are really flying,... saw you here and yuo reminded me of my pair that I'm still holding on to.

Bro TOS - AT&T is not a good choice to use as a divdiend-paying ctr to keep, if you study the fundamentals closely. I studied 'T' as one of my first ctrs to go into for US dividend-payers. This 'A' is something like Telstra of Aust.. could have been good many years ago,... but no more after that. Need to be very careful in stock-picking.

Yeah, the mkt is finding all possible reasons for it to rally,... there is still a lot of money waiting at the side;lines,.. waiting to deploy,...

My problem is : tho' the mkt keeps rising, they have not risen to my earlier buy prices till today. I am still in the red on my Tesla, NVidia and ABNB. Guessed I entered too early on my second round of TSLA bets.

I am in the red too for my PFLT,... but my monthly dividends has more than covered my capital loss,... for now,...

All these are cycles, bro David,... I guessed an investor does not have much opprotunities to experience all cycles in his lifetime,.. to be able to capitalise on the opportunities of a cycle. The only way he can profit is IF he has reliable guidance from someone who has gone thru the cycle, and who has accurate observations. What we are experiencing today are multi-year events,... events and economic numbers that break records dating back 20 - 30 years ago. I have not started investing back then. I was still earning my seed money.

And I didn't have guidance till today. I had to do everything by myself,... and I supposed you had to do so too.

So,... we have to do it the hard way,... by experiencing the cycles ourselves. Then only would we know what to do when the cycle comes again.

That;s why,... I've always been curious why that Ramjade fella claims he can make so much money from Options. TThe mkt turns and changes so rapidly,...

I will add one more thing here : People who bought into certain US stocks when they were very low,... eg Tesla would definitely be still in the green today,... BUT if they do not take profit,... the risk is always, TSLA may ereach back their holding prices.

I know of many of my friends who entered TSLA at very low prices and are today,... 'laughing at me/us' cos I'm in the red now,... giving-up all my gains which I made earlier from the first split.

I have bought early too,... but for SG REITs, WHICH PAY OUT DIVDIENDS TILL TODAY, RAIN OR SHINE, IN THE SINGAPORE DOLLAR.

So,... which is better,... I've always asked myself,....

Appreciated your earlier help then, bro,... YOu can bet on another pair down the road,...

I too have capital appreciation on my REITs, but I do not take profits on them unless I wished to adjust my hldg size. Due to my 'buy early' behaviour, till now,... my portfolio is still at a 40% green status. I remembered at the depth of the CV-19 issue back in 2020, the lowest I touched was -5%,....

I agreed with your paras 3 and 4,...

Like now,.. recovered a bit, all my SG REITs are green,... but will this performance hold for tomorrow ? I am still leaning onto the fact that the Feds will still hike by another 0.75% x 2 this year.

Bros,...

As of end this morning (KL/SG Time), US Mkts ended the week at 2% up for the Dow, so it's still a positive from the earlier rises in the week tho' the US Indices dropped badly for the Friday session..

Emm,... Payrolls number was below expectation last night, but the Unemployment number was the one that would motivate the Feds to increase faster. Next Thursday's CPI NUmber is the one to watch for,... and we have a whole slew of numbers to watch before the coming Feds Mtg on Nov 4th..

I predict the CPI for September will be 8.1% at the lowest for September, to be reported at 8.30 pm out time coming Thursday. Cann't be lower than 8.1%.

The for Oct, which will be reported in NOvember, will rise back to 8.3% to 8.4%.

Above predictions are for the year-on-year basis.

Added : The coming CPI will be the second-last most impt datapoint before the next Feds Mtg on November 1st to 2nd... The MOST impt datapoint will be the CorePCE rdg at end-Oct...

This post has been edited by Hansel: Oct 9 2022, 01:15 PM

For myself,.. I'll buy when the mkt goes down.

Watching now, bro,...

Watching now,...

But in a high interest rate environment, these techs may not reach back their previous high-flying prices anymore. Their valuations would have been reduced a lot due to higher borrowing costs.

How do we identify that it is a free fall capitulation process at the said moment ?

Tq for the input, gentlemen,...

How abt SQQQ ? This is inverse of the Nasdaq, and weighted three times, right ?

I was telling my freinds yesterday,... hmm, if Mr Powell says he will adopt a look-and-see attitude on Thursday morning at 2.30 am,... and subsequently,...still increases by 0.75%,....

Those who have not bought-in will really miss the plane, not only the boat.