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Also a fellow graduate in Finance and I am finally using my degree to do Finance stuff. Well sort of I do all of the tech stuff now for a finance team but I do get to help with some of the finance stuff. This new position I lucked into only hired me because I have all this experience in Alteryx, R, SAS, Python and Tableau as the people who were helping them out left the company. Also if you graduated within the last couple of years with a degree in finance and have some tech skills in Python or R you would get hired really quickly. The company I am working for is basically sending people with no experience in finance at all to fintech classes all the time and also project management especially for AGILE certifications mostly as SCRUM or SCRUM Masters. Those are the two things most banks are looking for right now. Basically SCRUM and SCRUM masters to lead the projects for the fintech's that the company is having a hard time filling. Started my own business and unless I had no other choice, I can’t imagine myself ever going back to taking orders from somebody else. Truly a liberating experience I did not expect to be as strong as it is.
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Reading this article brought a real smile to my heart. As someone who graduated college in 2008 and spent essentially the next 4 years trying to find a job I can totally related to being on the other side and being treated the same way. Well, well, well. How the turntables... LMAO. As a fellow graduate (‘10) I will concur. To this day I have never used my finance degree for a single day and have many years of paying off the loans spent to get said worthless degree. That article is eye candy to me!
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i cant be the only idiot playing with SHIB dogcrap coin right?
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Started buying some Redfin today in the mid $80s. Hoping for a dump on earnings tomorrow to add more. HODLing
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We’ve been thinking a bit of how nice it would be to sell our house in Mound (western suburbs) and either move to the east side of the twin cities or wisconsin to get closer to family and cheaper, and pay a big chunk / all of our student loans off. Paid 250k 3-4 years ago and probably would fetch 350-375k overnight. It’s ridiculous. The problem is I think we’d literally be homeless lol unless we just buy another house for the same or more $ than the one we have now. This whole free money thing for mortgages is really making a mess of the housing industry and I don’t think it’s getting better any time soon. I can’t find anything on simple searches an hour of the cities anywhere that’s not already pending.
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He was decent for a bit...one of the great things about COVID19 is they are being forced to play reruns of REAL WWF/WWE. Bringing back memories I thought were long vacated from my mind! Forgot all about Meeeeeeesta KENNEDY too. He was fun.
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Not being bearish but in my opinion the “virus” cases are about to spike here in the next few weeks...could see the market yanked. I’ll be taking profits on anything left that I’m not holding long long term. Note we won’t see the lows again, but im thinking they try to shut us down again. Horrible for the economy and all of us, bullish for stocks. Just for fun I’ll probably buy a small position in Hertz (HTZ) this week too. Read the government is directly invested in them now by hook or crook, so thinking they won’t cancel the shares. Hero or zero type play.
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Unlimited fed printing and 0% interest rates really does wonders for a fake stock market doesn’t it? Oops sorry I was supposed to say “stimulates the economy.” 2020 pumping stocks is what 2019 was except all roided up. *Typing this as the futures are green and were on about 12 days in a row of the same exact “pumping stock futures at night and green markets all day long.”
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Raise your hand if you’re still holding anything from the crisis of march 2020.
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I began in late 08-09 as a college kid, made double on Las Vegas Sands and Ford preferred stock and it hooked me. I’ve taken time off a few times for other things, and the first 4-5 was basically a donation to tax writeoff, but now that I can consistently be profitable I actually prefer these volatile situations (election 2016, fall 2018, now etc), it allows us with smaller accounts to grow it with the volatility. I have no problem shorting, enjoy it more actually because there’s a lot of scam out there, but I do everything except my investments via options. Much less capital risked rather than buying 50 AAPL and then just staring at it for months on end. New people without a doubt would struggle, but I’d argue there’s no better time to learn than during a market like the one we’re in...exposed to the worst right off the bat.
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I'm a decade older than you, have been doing the same with IRA, 401K, and feel the same way. I'm terrified of outliving my retirement funds...I probably won't but it's why I live very frugally. I can't really make up lost ground when I'm 80 but I can while I am still able to work. This is why I’ve been working the past several years toward being able to sustainably trade stocks. Zero desire to work for the man, I want to be financially independent, and I want to know that I can work when I want to work, anywhere I want to work. Taking a paycheck from somebody else for the rest of my life is going to leave me right in the position you feel insecure in in 15 years (I’m 31). If you have interest in the markets in general look into it as a second hobby, maybe you find you love it and maybe you won’t. There’s no better feeling I’ve ever experienced though than a hard day “at the office” and going home with high 3 figures-4 figures to show for my work. I then cut lawns for exercise and extra income in between watching our little one ($450-500/week for child care with 6-18 month waitlists is asinine to us). I have a couple friends working the 9-5 and doing the same, strategy just has to be adjusted a bit.
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Do you think people are just going to start voluntarily shopping, going to restaurants, or traveling after the restrictions are lifted? Especially if they see the case counts start to go up again? I do because this is turning out to be nowhere near the bill of goods we have been sold. It’s not a plague, it’s a mild to nonexistent virus for 90% of the country that may just disappear due to seasonality soon. Not 100% for awhile, but maybe 75%. Traveling has never been safer than it will be this summer if you’re interested in a more contrarian view of things. Maybe sometime next year we’ll be operating at normal capacity. Just look at Home Depot next time you drive by, nobody cares whatsoever about the virus that is headed there.
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Every day shut down is another 500k-1m unemployed. This obscene intrusion of government power needs to end by three days ago or we’ll have much worse things to worry about than Covid19. I have the utmost faith we will return to normal faster than some think, but that will only happen if we get out of this lockdown state.
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Why would preferred stocks have safer dividends? They are non-voting shares. Do companies ever pay dividends to preferred shares but not common? The difference is that if a company liquidates, you'd get a portion of the leftovers (although less than the value of your investment) Preferred gets paid before common and preferred usually has a fixed dividend and is usually higher a lot higher than common stock. Some other differences below. A company must pay out dividends to preferred shareholders before common shareholders receive any dividends. If a company fails and its assets get distributed to investors, preferred shareholders must receive a fixed amount of money before common shareholders can get any of their investment back. Preferred are also “creditors” although they rate behind bond holders and can still lose in a bankruptcy. PCG for instance, their preferreds never fell much below par value ($25) throughout the bankruptcy process while ordinary stock lost a ton of value and probably will never get much of it back.
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Well didn’t expect that so fast Lol. Took some NYMTN off at 14 and riding free from here on in. Crazy moves.
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I started dabbling in a couple things today, as I think there was capitulation going on. Preferred stocks (much safer dividends than common shares) were outright being blown out the door, and things like Square rallied 22% off an incredible dump. Not saying we’re out of the woods and we may retest lows again, not sure some of these stocks will see the same lows though. Bought a few as speculative: MSB a little under $10 (iron ore trust in northern MN, no debt and the only thing that it does is distribute royalty payments) NYMTN around $7. preferred stock in a mortgage reit. If they survive it’ll be a 27-30% annual dividend at my purchase price. Eying McDonalds, Delta, and AT&T for the long haul. MCD is getting obscene and Buffett has a large position in DAL already. I think he makes a move on them.
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I guess I’ll be the contrarian and say most of the coronavirus “market fear” is BS and rather much of it was the market beginning to price in Bernie Sanders vs Trump campaign. That kind of unraveled last night and the markets began readjusting again. We’re not out of the woods though most likely. MOD EDIT: removed political opinions. next time's a temp ban
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lovvvvvvvve it for the trading i do.
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Any of you guys do livestreaming? I can't seem to get a grasp of it in my head as someone who hasn't gamed a ton recently why people actually pay to watch video gaming, but my friend keeps telling me about all the money he's making. Not $50 either...more like $500. Few weeks back he made $1700 in about 12 hours worth of "work." Really makes me wonder why I work a 9/5. LOL
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Meanwhile Brinson batting .185, worse avg than Arcia if thats even possible. Hug those prospects....what a steal.
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From another view (I tend to be more bullish)...the market has been digesting a massive run from election night 2016 until late 2017/early 2018 as the economy catches up so to speak. http://i67.tinypic.com/2dumk90.png Wages are increasing, employment is increasing, and many of these jobs are better paying (and full time vs the part time job market of the prior many years due to the healthcare bill incentivizing employers to do it). If your GF wants to own some stocks I would start out looking at simple things like AT&T (T) and Apple that are paying a fat dividend and see how it goes from there before venturing off into riskier things. I own the ETF SCHD (US big cap dividend) and AT&T in my IRA at the moment. I would definitely keep at least part of it with a professional, but do whatever you feel most comfortable with.
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You cannot ever ever consider trading a minor league strikeout prone OF for a proven VERY good major league OF with 4+ years control. Makes no sense. Time to cash in on Hiura now too before he blows out his body playing defense.
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I created quite the controversy apparently. Lol. All I said was I thought folks should be careful out there, nothing more. Some people (myself is one) are a bit more aggressive than the tortoise 40 year plan so it is a bit more imperative to pay attention to the shorter term trends. And that's not to say the 40 year plan is wrong, most people should be doing it as they don't have the time, energy, wherewithal, etc to be doing anything different. The free money rolled for quite some time, we're due for some sideways/volatility for awhile. Especially when the algorithms decide to sell 3-400 points off in afterhours trading based on what turned out to be a fake news piece like they did tonight, or when Credit Suisse ETN's go bankrupt and terminate in a half hour during extended hours trading when it had been one of the "best" money makers for years. Many many managers got F'd bad with XIV and SVXY.
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Be careful out there folks...something is broken in this market. Totally irrational volatility and the ETN's that the big boys have been using to "short volatility" for free money the past several years just absolutely blew up. SVXY and XIV
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Buffett owns SIRI if my mind serves me right, not a huge position but still pretty large #'s to any of us.