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Who's buying stock right now? Edit: I told you so. It's happening. Up, up, up.

fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 5, 2020 7:16AM in Precious Metals

I am.
MSFT
AAPL
CVX
AMZN
GE
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I'm also a AU AG bug.

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  • NMRNMR Posts: 38

    I’m buying leveraged oil (UCO) and it’s options. Also short of the Dow 30 x 3 (SDOW).

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NMR said:
    I’m buying leveraged oil (UCO) and it’s options. Also short of the Dow 30 x 3 (SDOW).

    Are you short SDOW or saying you are short the DOW30 via SDOW?

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • NMRNMR Posts: 38

    No I’m buying SDOW to short the market. I’ll buy UDOW when things eventually shake out but who knows when that”ll be. It’s amazing how bad the news is, how many people aren’t working, and all the jobs that will be lost and how sustaining of an effect this will have on our economy but yet there seems to be so much upward pressure despite all that???

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't need to buy no stinking stocks. The FED is buying them for me.

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m in this camp. There will be plenty of time to get back in

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/suckers-stock-market-rally-122402728.html

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  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OK, NMR, so you are thinking oil goes higher and the DOW goes lower.

    Interesting.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 15, 2020 9:40PM

    Just trying to get good deals for 5 to 10 years down the road. The stocks will go down, down. But eventually the strong run stocks will right themselves.
    In the post virus world no more person to person. School classes, board meetings, everything will be run on "the cloud". At some point Amazon will have fast and fresh delivery service. Ice cream deliveryed within minutes to your pourch in July. Also Amazon is going to bypass the USPS and use amazon delivery for everything.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seems to be a lot of assumption everywhere one looks that the virus will be history soon and everything will be back to normal. I'm not buying it. I think equities will reach -50% of their highs before it's over. I'm keeping TVIX in the on deck circle. It's been good for short ins and outs over the past two months. The euphoria of FED buying will be short lived.

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    Seems to be a lot of assumption everywhere one looks that the virus will be history soon and everything will be back to normal. I'm not buying it. I think equities will reach -50% of their highs before it's over. I'm keeping TVIX in the on deck circle. It's been good for short ins and outs over the past two months. The euphoria of FED buying will be short lived.

    Then the Fed will just buy and give more money. Trump said.."Whatever it takes".

  • NMRNMR Posts: 38

    @cohodk - Oil is at 20 year lows - it has to go up. They are selling it for less than it costs for them to get it out of the ground in the US. And we can’t lose our energy industry. Can you imagine the devastation?! Ain’t gonna happen immediately but it has to get to 30s at least in the next few months. Can’t really believe in any kind of rally with oil at these levels.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • RonBRonB Posts: 635 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 16, 2020 1:29AM

    Lot of interesting thoughts in this thread. While I'm usually optimistic, were just getting started. Keeping the powder dry for now until more info is available ..

    Good read below: Make your own comparisons..

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/world/coronavirus-response-lessons-learned-intl/index.html

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  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never stopped buying. I was buying yesterday, and I will be buying today and I suspect tomorrow as well.

    I live well below my means and make it a point to park 50% of my salary in the bank/casino/stack.

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bought AMZN @ $1,835 it's up to $2,335 per share. Crazy !

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NMR said:
    @cohodk - Oil is at 20 year lows - it has to go up. They are selling it for less than it costs for them to get it out of the ground in the US. And we can’t lose our energy industry. Can you imagine the devastation?! Ain’t gonna happen immediately but it has to get to 30s at least in the next few months. Can’t really believe in any kind of rally with oil at these levels.

    I understand your reasoning on oil. It has never been so low in relative terms vs equities or gold.

    Im just not so sure i would want to be short equities if oil went back to 35.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 16, 2020 5:11AM

    I'm buying, since early March...extremely long term/portfolio holds with dividends in play.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DrBuster said:
    I'm buying, since early March...extremely long term holds with dividends in play.

    Well played. You bought at near lows ...so far.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @fivecents said:

    @DrBuster said:
    I'm buying, since early March...extremely long term holds with dividends in play.

    Well played. You bought at near lows ...so far.

    Yeah we'll see. At 10+ year lows I figured why not, especially on stuff I've been tracking 15-20 years.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 16, 2020 6:29AM

    @dpoole said:
    I sold AMZN early in the dive at 1929.70. Bought it back at 1641.51. My wife thinks I'm a genius (I'm diplomatically selective about what trade activity I discuss with her). o:)

    You timed that trade to perfection. Very well played sir.

    I talked my wife into buying herself 6 shares of AMZN @ $1,835. She had her personal money just sitting in CD's. She's up $3,000 in days. After she had the money doing nothing for years.
    To her I am a hero. I told her it really was just dumb luck.

  • NMRNMR Posts: 38

    @cohodk - Agree I’m only in SDOW for the short term. Far too much unrealistic enthusiasm for me to stay short - I just want to make some easy money w/o having to work for it. But look, this morning jobless claims a 1/4 million higher than expected at 5.25 million for a total of 22 million unemployed in just 4 weeks- and the stock market response??? Yeah- lets go up. It’s bizarre and a disconnect from reality. I don’t necessarily think we’re retesting lows but I don’t think, especially working on the front lines in a hospital that any good news is coming that will have things like they were before coronavirus. So, we have to head further down I think before we can have sustainable upside.

  • RobMRobM Posts: 535 ✭✭✭

    Lows will be tested. Current stock multiples are high based on TTM, and ridiculously high based on projections. This is assuming that everyone returns to work by June, a vaccine is widely available in a year (unlikely), and that infections do not return in any significant numbers in the meantime (also unlikely). The Fed and Treasury are now one, so the only way stock valuations can go up is with significant inflation through continual support. In that case, one is probably better off holding physical PMs. PM ownership is, in effect, joining the fed as much as any stock purchase, but without the downside risk. The Fed and Treasury (one in the same now) are going to throw at a minimum $5-10T at the problem.

  • selling3selling3 Posts: 166 ✭✭✭

    I am---------in out,in out. Today in V, cop

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DrBuster said:
    I'm buying, since early March...extremely long term/portfolio holds with dividends in play.

    Already have dividend rolling in from March's buys. Feels good.

  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @selling3 said:
    I am---------in out,in out. Today in V, cop

    Picked up COP today as well.

  • RobMRobM Posts: 535 ✭✭✭

    @selling3 said:
    I am---------in out,in out. Today in V, cop

    Don't tell me, you are using your visa card to purchase oil and you are storing it in your swimming pool to increase US reserve capacity?:)

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 30,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got out in 1 account, but not all accounts right before the fit hit the shan. A few stocks have come back quite a bit, but not fully. I'm thinking that I should should take whatever profits are available now and sit on the sidelines until mid May. There's nothing more dis-illusioning than earning the same money over and over again. if the re-opening proves to be too soon, stocks are going to take it in the shorts.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My wife thinks I'm a genius (I'm diplomatically selective about what trade activity I discuss with her).

    lol, smart thinking. :)

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lows will be tested. Current stock multiples are high based on TTM, and ridiculously high based on projections. This is assuming that everyone returns to work by June, a vaccine is widely available in a year (unlikely), and that infections do not return in any significant numbers in the meantime (also unlikely). The Fed and Treasury are now one, so the only way stock valuations can go up is with significant inflation through continual support. In that case, one is probably better off holding physical PMs. PM ownership is, in effect, joining the fed as much as any stock purchase, but without the downside risk. The Fed and Treasury (one in the same now) are going to throw at a minimum $5-10T at the problem.

    +1

    PMs are an indirect beneficiary of Fed policy, but still with some degree of risk, albeit small. Stock markets tend to go up when the central banks are creating tons of new money. Like now.

    When a single share of stock goes for over $1,000 - you know that somethings' up. Especially when, as RobM points out - the current multiples are quite high, especially given the current shutdown situation and it's long-term ramifications. I think it's way too early for stocks. All of this monetary policy fluff has to shake out before reality returns.

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:

    When a single share of stock goes for over $1,000 - you know that somethings' up.

    Suppose there are 2 identical companies, producing the same exact product, making the same exact profit, have no debt, ect. They each make $1,000,000. Company A has 1,000,000 shares valued at $1 each. Company B has 1000 shares valued at $1000 each. You are saying that there is "something up" with company B because the price is $1000?

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    EPS

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Used to do a stock split when the stock price went way high. Do companies even do stock splits anymore?

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Suppose there are 2 identical companies, producing the same exact product, making the same exact profit, have no debt, ect. They each make $1,000,000. Company A has 1,000,000 shares valued at $1 each. Company B has 1000 shares valued at $1000 each. You are saying that there is "something up" with company B because the price is $1000?

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Unless one is buying silver. Now you can get twice as much as 8 years ago. HAHA. Sorry. Cant help it. Maybe
    its relative value against other popular assets makes it a better deal now.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No one really knows the extent to which the economy is going to be damaged. Once things return to "normal" we will have a better idea of how many jobs and businesses will be gone forever. In 3-4 months, we will see all the defaults on investment properties, rentals, primary homes, car loans, business loans, credit cards and everything else that was temporarily pushed off. Don't get me started on the number of student loans in forbearance or default, that number will go through the ROOF with restaurants, retail and other low wage jobs going POOF. Once those issues start rearing their ugly head is when the economy will start looking scary.

    Liquidity has been pumped into the market...and again, we don't know how much. The 25%ish jump in the market is temporary and looks like an extended dead cat bounce to me. We all better hope that the china virus goes away and stays away, cause if there is a round #2 of this in the fall, were F'd big time.

    I'm lucky that my wife and I both have our jobs and that our families are healthy and in good financial positions. I feel bad for my fellow Americans who want to work and pay their bills and can't...

    Stay healthy and HELP your neighbors if you can!

  • goldengolden Posts: 9,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it is a sucker rally.

  • selling3selling3 Posts: 166 ✭✭✭

    @RobM said:

    @selling3 said:
    I am---------in out,in out. Today in V, cop

    Don't tell me, you are using your visa card to purchase oil and you are storing it in your swimming pool to increase US reserve capacity?:)

    Oil in the swimming pool?? Don't be silly, I lined the pickup box with a plastic tarp and filled it with gasoline.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I lined the pickup box with a plastic tarp and filled it with gasoline.

    Quite some time ago, I got to witness what 1 gallon of gasoline looks like when some associates burned a big pile of tree trimmings and downed trees. Let me just say that it was very impressive.

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:

    @jmski52 said:

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Unless one is buying silver. Now you can get twice as much as 8 years ago. HAHA. Sorry. Cant help it. Maybe
    its relative value against other popular assets makes it a better deal now.

    Silver is primarily an industrial commodity. As such it and other industrial commodities took a hit in the current crisis.
    What you fail to realize or point out is that when it was high 8 years ago, it had recovered remarkably from the crisis two years prior. What makes it a good great deal now is not its relative value to other assets but its demonstrated resiliency over all those other popular assets. Dang, the glass is half full, not half empty.

    The decline from democracy to tyranny is both a natural and inevitable one.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you have any semblance of common sense and sufficient financial cushion, you get to sell when prices are higher, and you can actually buy when it's advantageous to do that. The last time I sold any appreciable amount of silver, it was in the mid $30 range. The last time I bought an appreciable amount, it was $17 or so, although I paid some premium for a monster box of the pucks. (not nearly the premium that's in effect now, however)

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @jmski52 said:

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Unless one is buying silver. Now you can get twice as much as 8 years ago. HAHA. Sorry. Cant help it. Maybe
    its relative value against other popular assets makes it a better deal now.

    Silver is primarily an industrial commodity. As such it and other industrial commodities took a hit in the current crisis.
    What you fail to realize or point out is that when it was high 8 years ago, it had recovered remarkably from the crisis two years prior.

    I kinda remember a fairly robust economy over the past 8 years, so with silver being "primarily" an industrial metal, why did it not trade higher during this time? Have you failed to realize this?

    I sure hope it goes up now...weve all been waiting.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not I.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I sold to buy a building. No more rent now. But taxes are like rent. We will never really have ownership except for debt. Remember "this note is legal tender for all debts public and private.." And it's all debt in America. Rich men carry a heavier debt load, if you consider the deficit.

    How would ya like to be a billionaire and all you had were IOU's. LOL. Sorry for my twisted perspective.

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 17, 2020 7:03AM

    Premarket surging over the company Gilead. Gilead has a COVID 19 treatment drug that seems to be working!!
    Most patients using the drug have been released from medical care!!!!

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hell yeah...please be true.
    This Gilead drug could cause a quick medical and economic recovery from the pandemic!

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TwoSides2aCoin said:
    I sold to buy a building. No more rent now. But taxes are like rent. We will never really have ownership except for debt. Remember "this note is legal tender for all debts public and private.." And it's all debt in America. Rich men carry a heavier debt load, if you consider the deficit.

    How would ya like to be a billionaire and all you had were IOU's. LOL. Sorry for my twisted perspective.

    Congratulations 2Sides!! That's something to be proud of in this enviroment. B)B)B)

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry about the cut-and-past, but this seemed relevant:

    Curb Your Enthusiasm on Gilead
    11:18 am ET April 17, 2020 (Dow Jones) Print
    By Charley Grant

    A viable treatment for Covid-19 is desperately needed, but investors are way too enthusiastic about the latest potential breakthrough.

    Stat News reported Thursday that a subset of Covid-19 patients receiving the drug remdesivir had improved. Of 113 patients in this subset, only two had died and the majority of the others had been discharged from the hospital. These patients are enrolled in a larger clinical trial.

    Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc., which owns the drug, surged Friday in response. Since Covid-19 data readouts have implications for the entire economy as a whole, the report was likely a factor in Friday's market rally.

    While that news is wonderful for the patients involved and encouraging for the general public, investors should be skeptical. The exuberance is "out of control," Baird analyst Brian Skorney said in a note to clients. "We are cautious on interpretation of what amount to leaked case reports, given the frequency with which we have seen randomized, controlled data refute previously 'encouraging' data from small, uncontrolled studies." More definitive answers about whether the drug works are unlikely until late May, he added.

    Another issue is that, while these patients are considered to have severe symptoms, none were on mechanical ventilators or experiencing organ failure. It is unclear whether the death rate experienced in this subset is any different from that of patients not receiving the drug. There is still no clear data on whether the drug reduces viral load in patients, which is key to understanding its true power.

    Even if the drug helps patients get better, investors are ignoring other relevant considerations. Remdesivir is administered intravenously in a hospital setting and carries the risk of significant side effects. It is unrealistic to expect the drug to be useful for all Covid-19 patients. An effective treatment for some will be a big step forward toward a return to normal life, but won't solve other key problems, such as insufficient testing.

    As for investors buying Gilead shares, any future sales would be barely significant, since the company already books about $20 billion in annual revenue. The company has committed to donating the initial supply of remdesivir if the drug proves safe and effective, which is enough to treat 140,000 patients. Its shares trade at 12 times 2019 adjusted earnings -- already on the rich side for a large biotech company.

    That is good news for humanity. Investors shouldn't confuse that with good news for Wall Street.

    Write to Charley Grant at charles.grant@wsj.com

    (END) Dow Jones Newswires

  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TwoSides2aCoin said:
    I sold to buy a building. No more rent now. But taxes are like rent. We will never really have ownership except for debt. Remember "this note is legal tender for all debts public and private.." And it's all debt in America. Rich men carry a heavier debt load, if you consider the deficit.

    How would ya like to be a billionaire and all you had were IOU's. LOL. Sorry for my twisted perspective.

    I wouldn't call it twisted at all. Most choose to just turn a blind eye and go with the flow. You see things for what they are. It is what it is.

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 30,977 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 17, 2020 11:50AM

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @jmski52 said:

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Unless one is buying silver. Now you can get twice as much as 8 years ago. HAHA. Sorry. Cant help it. Maybe
    its relative value against other popular assets makes it a better deal now.

    Silver is primarily an industrial commodity. As such it and other industrial commodities took a hit in the current crisis.
    What you fail to realize or point out is that when it was high 8 years ago, it had recovered remarkably from the crisis two years prior.

    I kinda remember a fairly robust economy over the past 8 years, so with silver being "primarily" an industrial metal, why did it not trade higher during this time? Have you failed to realize this?

    I sure hope it goes up now...weve all been waiting.

    Maybe supply simply kept up with or even exceeded demand.

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @cohodk said:

    @derryb said:

    @cohodk said:

    @jmski52 said:

    Well, you and I both know that the number of shares outstanding has a little bit to do with the answer to your question. We both also know that $1,000 doesn't go quite as far as it used to go. Right?

    Unless one is buying silver. Now you can get twice as much as 8 years ago. HAHA. Sorry. Cant help it. Maybe
    its relative value against other popular assets makes it a better deal now.

    Silver is primarily an industrial commodity. As such it and other industrial commodities took a hit in the current crisis.
    What you fail to realize or point out is that when it was high 8 years ago, it had recovered remarkably from the crisis two years prior.

    I kinda remember a fairly robust economy over the past 8 years, so with silver being "primarily" an industrial metal, why did it not trade higher during this time? Have you failed to realize this?

    I sure hope it goes up now...weve all been waiting.

    Maybe supply simply kept up with or even exceeded demand.

    I believe that to be the case. Somehow, someway, demand needs to increase faster than supply.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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