Redfin could go out of business. Stock at $3
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Redfin could go out of business. Stock at $3
Home equity loans to make payments?
BRILLIANT!
:D
Nat gas down another 10%. Down almost 50% in two months.
Container ship backup in LA..zero
From a peak of 109, wow.
Notably, freight rates have plummeted. Containers from Asia to LA were over $20 grand and now have fallen below $3 grand. https://www.wsj.com/articles/souther...ds-11666344603
Container rates still have a long way to fall. Suspect they will.
My understanding:
The inflation of the container rates was nuts.
The return to normal on the rates is expected
Decreased Chinese output is helping to accelerate the fall
^That should lower import costs and stimulate Chinese production and thus raw material demands?
With retail inventories so high and home sales so low durable goods gonna slow. Look a whirlpool. Household formation hasn’t rolled over yet.
VIX higher in a 2% up market. That’s actually the way it’s supposed to work. Uncertainty.
I grabbed two shares of GOOG for $98, and two shares of AAPL for $142, both filled premarket. I’ll probably pick up a couple of each on every dip from now on.
Tried to sell a Nov 4, $11 strike on F for $.30, missed it by a couple cents. I’m kinda wishing I’d put in a limit order and just bought some outright. Fed possibly backing off on rate increases juiced the market a bit. Next week GM and F both report earnings. I think the lack of new cars has created a demand that is pent up, supply chain issues are seeming to work themselves out. Even if earnings disappoint, I wouldn’t be surprised to see improved guidance. I like F and I’ll probably be buying no matter which way the earnings fall.
I like to post in this thread because I think I’m showing that even an idiot can make some cash in the market, I could be totally wrong. I hope people reading along will be thinking about their future. Don’t be me and suddenly realize you’re in your mid fifties and you should probably start thinking about the future.
Start putting money away in your youth, let that shit compound and have the years work for you.
tgr... where the youths go for sound financial advice.
fact.
Yeah, every time GOOGL dips below 100 I buy a few shares too. For some reason I keep missing the AAPL dips.
And from where I'm sitting, you're doing pretty good Bob.
got a fill notification that my XOM hit my target sell price of $105 on Friday, probably will end up regretting not setting that higher, but can't complain about ~170% gain. Portfolio is looking pretty bad as I sell off all the winners, ha. Mostly just buying VOO on dips, but also some VNQ, VEU, VYM, VAW.
Tempted to do some TLH, since stuff I would sell at a loss I would buy VOO and don't plan to sell that until no longer have w-2 income. Or will just keep taking my losses as dumb buys get delisted.
The high yield and ig bond guys are going clean this cycle up as long economy doesn’t completely collapse.
Lots of new inventory plus folks giving up the Abnb star eyes:
“Rents are falling on a month-over-month basis now. This may take some time to show up in data sets like CPI that rely on owner's equivalent rent surveys, but nevertheless it is an encouraging development in the economy.”
Natural gas prices in the Permian Basin of West Texas “are plunging toward zero,” amid “booming production.”
If prices go negative, energy producers “will effectively be paying someone to take gas off their hands ..”
Have negative commodity prices happened outside of Covid oil?
Knowing a tiny little about that industry, I'd guess producers in the Permian Basin would flare off their gas before paying someone to take it. As recently as 2019 producers across the US were flaring off more than 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.
^^^that is why I don't get the anti natural gas "green" movement...it is going to get burned no matter what.
Can’t indiscriminately flare nat gas without penalty. Even in Texas
Is Facebook/Meta or whatever it's called now dead ? Seems like it's been hammered over the years. Can it come back ?
Those folks are so into sniffing their own farts that they think they have to oppose anything fossil fuel related no matter whether it actually is ecologically beneficial because the ultimate goal is to eliminate all fossil fuels ASAP and the associated pain must simply be accepted as part of the mission.
These are not big picture people. They only think it terms of "cut carbon emissions AND don't enable carbon emissions, literally nothing else matters... if it was legal to destroy everyone's ICE car and ban air travel, that would be ideal."
Not exactly bullish if you’re contrarian:
“.. hedging for doom and gloom is falling out of fashion fast .. the relative cost of contracts that pay off if the S&P 500 Index sinks another 10% has collapsed to the lowest since 2017.”
Their foundational problem is that they can never get rid of Zuckerberg. They could make a comeback if they axed him, took some steps to undo some of the toxic algorithms and predatory models, but with him there's an increasing amount of people who will never engage with their products.
Once they lost out on ability to use phone VPN research clients they also lost some of their ability to tastespot and exploit up and comers (see: instagram, wechat), and given how they've treated the companies they've bought, no founder that gives a shit about their company legacy will sell to them (they've reneged on many items to many people).
I will throw a party if they go anywhere close to zero. A lot of smart people there wasting a ton of time on bullshit for a wannabe king.
Hit and miss day for me today. ARCC beat on eps and sales and raised the dividend 12%. ET raised their dividend by 15%. GM beat estimates and pulled F up. Then Alphabet fucked it all up, missed on earnings and revenue. That seemed to drag down everything after hours.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that drags the entire market down tomorrow. It’ll be interesting to see if AAPL follows suit with a disappointment or brings it all back up on Thursday.
Fundamentally google has been dogshit for 4 or 5 quarters now. Declining ad revenue hitting revenue badly. Maybe not as much a problem for apple, but big for twitter (if it’s not private) Facebook etc.
Growth equities up overall…and yields down on the day. Easy to figure that one out, at least for one day. Longer term as we go into a slowdown…even lower rates (driven by inflation rolling over simply on higher base levels from end of 2021 and early 2022) won’t save growth equities which may continue down based on lower revenue, activity, general economic activity.
Winters coming.
Google search and youtube search were both down considerably. I’m kinda hoping it rips even lower tomorrow. Low 90’s I may buy in a little deeper. I’m rather conflicted on them growing employment while decreasing revenue. But, I gotta think with what they’re spending on R&D it’ll eventually pay off.
We’ll see, eh?
I’m still thinking big layoffs in big tech unless they are just front loading earnings declines. End of year will be interesting. December and January are popular layoff months.
I don’t get why google added 30k employees yoy?
“In the second quarter, Alphabet said its head count rose 21% to 174,014 full-time employees from 144,056 the year prior.”
DXY dropped below its July high. A weekly close blow 110 would help stabilize stocks.
IWM and DIA could lead next cycle higher for years like after the 2000 crash.