/smg/ - Stock Market General

This morning a coworker said "you now get 1.15 Dollars for the Euro", I said "wait, when I had breakfast it was at 1.13".
Is there a way to trade volatility of currencies?

sell it all. today.

Maybe someone is frontrunning the next announcement that Trump will make in 30 minutes.

Sure are a lot of Chinese factories trying to sell their stuff on TikTok right now. I thought they were winning. I also thought they didn’t have access to TikTok.

Ominous knower

volatility of currencies

A VIX for EUR/USD? Not that I know

i need some of that bbt quickly!

Good day for NSE.V

Pump gold, got it.

love that i have to schedule my day around this motherfucker

Yes. Buy something for X amount of euro and save receipt. Wait until euro increases and then return item you just bought.

I hate that lil nigga crab like you wouldnt believe on god

what happened there?

love that i have to schedule my day around this motherfucker

you should be kissing his ass for all the sweet sweet volatility he is creating

i slurped divvies fuck this gay market

No. That sucks lol

Gold bros., why we pulling back here? Did they cutoff Chinese buyers?

google refusing to show the ticker or the stock chart

manipulation to the highest degree

ehm....doom

so...can we start the slow crawl back up now

Tony bros

I'd like to slow crawl up fern's cooch, if you catch my drift

This, too, shall pass.

Copper is winning on the day

China is going is now ignoring copyrights and produce counterfeits of all luxury western goods.

Now come down more..

a bunch of panicans in here

they have been doing that forever

Gotta admit these ladies are pretty cute.

they still havent purchased BULL

it is at 61$ and climbing

Gold gang ww@?

ARGT

YPF

BBAR

Fuck, I should have invested in white people.

I accidentally set the board theme to yotsuba B and got all confused.

do my taxes

realise that I forgot to bill a company for all of 2024

not even hitting red

which sectors and companies stand to gain the most if and when the tariff situation is resolved?

Put quite a bit down split between 2.5 GLD/1.0 UGL

He does it for free.

How much did that cost you?

gary_oldman_everyone.gif

BULL IS AT 65

HOW DO NONE OF YOU LISTEN?

I watch mainly crab videos on YT now. Mud crabbing in Oz, Pacific cra's, Jersey Lobbies and FL spinies. I must be losing it.

Ticker named BULL

It's actually bullish

BULL IS OVER 72

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

bought 1000 dollars of sqqq at 36

sold at 35 because TQQQ pumped overnight

lose 35 bucks

market randomly decides to dump after this

Literally inversing me

All in on BULL, hurry and get your tickets for the moon mission while you can

This is some BULL shit haha get it?

You know what's funny is that I was 'aware' that companies like this were going to IPO, but I thought it was next year. Story of my shitty life.

Why is there always someone trying to convince people it's not a retarded idea to get in at the top of a 600% in one day memecoin pump?

$BULL bros!!!

yes, it's and it's called fx trading

unfortunately i don't have enough to make it worth it with the pos broker and there are no leveraged instruments available

are we going to pile into USAR? SARRSS????

Have you guys hears about $BULL? It's supposedly the new GME/AMC where normies fomo in. Reminder that GME topped at $400 before going back down!

Apparently Vietnam is joining China in retaliatory tariffs. Trump might place counter-tariffs on Vietnam, and if that happen, it could affect a lot of products. A lot of clothing and Chinese goods get routed through Vietnam.

got chopped up and scammed, bought labu to try to make my money back and it spiked hard, sold it, back to +15. lot of my trades were losers, and i can't even say i cut them at the proper time either, let them bleed a little too long. i'm trying to get an idea on what this market is up to but i really don't know, think i'll wait for a word from the president.

don't wanna bother my crush too much. i know things are bad but i appreciate hearing from you this morning. i'm gonna do my best to try to fix what i've messed up, take things one step at a time. just remember that there's nothing closed off in this world, if you can imagine it, it's possible. the other day i started thinking about how strange and unusual this whole situation is, began to really spiral and feel embarrassed and dismayed, but i found courage and remembered what i just told you now. whatever your dream is, i wanna help you make it come true. hope you have a fantastic day and i'm thinking of you as always, i am trying to behave and i've poured out too much already, but my horoscope said it was a good day for a heartfelt talk and repairing relationships, don't want to miss that opportunity.

JUST IN: A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes San Diego country estates and California region

saw an interesting video on csis last night, they were talking about putting targeted investment taxes on china, said it could reduce the trade deficit by like 20% and it wouldn't matter if they dumped goods in vietnam or somewhere to sell to usa. basically we don't tax foreign interest or dividends, and all the money china makes from selling goods to us gets invested into our markets. seemed like a good idea to me, although it would make china very upset, but there seem to be easy workarounds to the tariffs and we end up hurting countries we want to be friends with.

The crab and the bear are working together.

It's time for the lunchtime check in. What are you all eating? How are you doing?

YOU JUST NEED TO LEARN PORTFOLIO PERCENTAGE DISCIPLINE.

100% OF ASSETS IN STOCK "labu"

TAKE 80% PROFITS

LEAVE 20% IN LABU FOR RIDE OR DIE

TAKE OTHER 80%, DIVIDE IS BY 50%; TAKE THE FIRST HALF AND REPLAY IT IN YOUR STRAT

TAKE THE OTHER HALF AND HEDGE AGAINST YOUR STRATEGY.

YOU JUST BECAME A HEDGE FUND MANAGER. SO LONG AS YOU ARE RIGHT, YOU WILL ALWAYS WIN; IF YOU ARE WRONG; YOUR LOSSES ARE COVERED AND YOU REPEAT WITH STEP 1

i'm 99%+ stocks. i trade on margin and i'm really skittish about taking losses or risking too much, i already have a ton of risk, i'm just trying to monetize volatility a little bit. it's working but not today.

Deboonked

USGS Revises Magnitude Of Earthquake In San Diego Country Estates, California Region To 5.1 From 6

Shame, I want Commiefornia niggers to suffer as much as possible

TRUST THE PLAN

how do you even fuck up this badly? haven't you noticed you're not getting paid for a year?

i am financially bored

I think he's right

i hope trump tells them they have to leave all the rubble alone and are unable to do anything regarding clean up for 16 months because of safety concerns.

me too.

Let’s close under 40k again.

beautiful things to come investing.com/analysis/basis-trade-sent-yields-soaring--is-it-a-warning-200659437

Get this pro-muslim Iranian propaganda out of my fucking thread!

fucking fed up of the shills and jeets on Anon Babble, board is out of control and jannies dont do shit

jannies don't do shit

almost like it is a 1:1 ratio

god i hope every hedgefund gets heemed

experts predict 200k more fed layoffs this month.

Based. Freeing up more funds for those $5k stimmies

So we are shrinking the public sector, just as the private sector is set to lay people off as well, and the illegal sector is getting smaller too with the mass deportation efforts of Tom and Kristy.

It was just $2k, it's a company that sells my software for me at discounts and gives me a 60% cut. I haven't updated most of them since 2015 so it's easy to forget about.

nobody has to work, the future is here

I have to work

Seems alright on its face but wouldn't capital controls get investors very very nervous about America? Which I get is part of the point but still, seems like it could spiral unless there's a squadron of JPows deployed to soothe everyone

I still firmly believe we will close the gap at spx 5571 before heading lower, unless there is news that causes a flash crash

Oooooooo

according to their rally target for the week is about 5600 before they expect a downturn; so you're probably in the same ballpark

ANY NEWS OF A GEOGRAPHIC UH OH'S WILL WIPE OUT CONFIDENCE IN ANYTHING

read that entire article

or read my one line post based on my 10 seconds spent looking at a chart

its all such a meme

he doesn't cross reference his in depth technical analysis from investing websites with 1 to 2 lines fortune dot org slash bant shitposts

yeah they mentioned that. and it would be unprecedented and possibly challenged by a court, but it's another option if they're serious about their stated objectives. and i do think the world understands that china is the main target here but there could be consequences, and it doesn't do anything about manufacturing at all. csis is deep state too so they might be floating a less punitive compromise. is an interesting alternative i think though.

the data is in. Chance of V shape recovery is 99%. If you are not buying you will be crying

plunge

Turn on your monitor

Where is the income statement? Where is the balance sheet?

HOOKED

FREN, LOOK AT THE TIMESTAMP. YOU TALKED TO SOMEONE WHO POSTED 2 HOURS AGO. KEEP UP

V?
I'm here for the N

well if we are going to be green then i hope these multi % come every day for the week. i don't want to spend the weekend just drinking water

Fed could cut rates later this year under 'smaller tariff' scenario, Fed Governor Waller says

Bond market healing

The US economy is saved.
Even if the market dumps, we can all buy the dips and go green in a year or two.

The West is saved.

Water is good for you though. Don't drink the liquid Jew. We have the best water in the world here. That's one of the few things in Finland I can say I'm proud of

It was still green and only a short drop 2 hours ago.

几 shaped recovery

Sell it all this week

Still green and I collected a bunch of cans and bottles today. Still hoping for a few more red days though. Have a lust provoking image /smg/.

Don’t drink it but it doesn’t hurt to invest in it. My KO and COKE shares have held pretty steady this month and you get a dividend.

Naughty market..

More context:

Laying out two scenarios for what the duties will eventually look like, Waller said large and longer-lasting tariffs would bring a large inflation spike initially to a 4% to 5% range that eventually would ebb as growth slowed and unemployment increased. In the smaller-tariff scenario, inflation would hit around 3% and then fall off.

Either case would still see the Fed cutting interest rates, with timing being the only question, he said. Larger tariffs might for a cut to support growth, while smaller duties might allow a "good news" cut later this year, Waller added.

Seems like they've already primed themselves to cut rates sometime within the next half year. At least well before year's end, anyhow.

lmaoing @ BULLfags

interview for a bank teller/service rep position at a bank that's 5 minutes from my house

think it's fine if they pay me 15 dollars an hour because it's 5 minutes from my house

base pay is 23.75

My grandfather and mom were/are members there so I hope that gives them a reason to hire me over the random creaturas that inevitably applied. But if I actually get job then things have gone better than expectito.

Wow, 10 YR really pulling back to 4.36? Gay

i want another chance at $35 $TQQQ and $7 $SOXL first please.....

unemployment increased

Who is becoming unemployed or is this the "they're not reshoring they're just being niggers and waiting Trump out" scenario?

Did you make sure to tell the HR lady you'd never make a loan to a nigger?

oh yeah didn't mean it like that. im always surprised when i hear people say they can't drink the tap water and get bottled water instead. also was at the bread line today and a girl seemingly drunk girl touched me so i guess im no longer a incel

my niggie vidoe looking decent

its near an good area to do some in range price movement. bouncing between support and resistance. would be a comfier hold if does that

+ 30 today. bought a lot of tops, sold a lot of bottoms, caught a couple lucky breaks but now it is time to stop. below my daily target but making anything today seems like a win. intel is up a good deal and helping my portfolio a lot. several times the market has reversed on me the second i put a trade on so i'm not trusting it anymore today, either i'm incredibly dumb and unlucky today or the market is rigged against me, neither thought gives confidence, and there's only an hour left. gonna shower and step away while i can still notch a win. feel like if we were free of 5400 s&p's gravity we would be rallying harder, so i wouldn't be surprised if we get sent back down there or below once again.

I don't know what could cause that strong of a downshift unless Trump removed the 90 day pause or the economic impact of the china trade is worse than feared but we won't feel those for a while. The short term this week points to a slow recovery. At least a couple hundred basis points.

30

how much capital are you working with and why are you making multiple day trades for a measly thirty bucks??

nice hope you get it. we are gonna plan an heist and ride off to the sunset right?? kek

Some imports are b2b and many of those companies' employees will be laid off.

Over the weekend GS raised its target for gold to $3700 and forecast large surpluses this year and next in oil: “a surplus of 800,000 barrels a day in 2025 and 1.4 million barrels a day in 2026." To put that into perspective, GS anticipates global crude inventories to rise 192 million barrels this year and 511 million barrels in 2026, roughly equal to a 100% increase in all oil in storage in America today, or 2 X the SPR.

KEK BULL BAGGIES

It was a southern man so I'm probably okay.

target

lmao

Bull Shit, more like it

pic is bant smg

niggers in this very thread got BTFO by going all in puts AFTER the massive shake out

Is using a plunger on a woman's snatch the preferred method of abortion in Macedonia?

They will have new targets in two weeks.

Look you're the one who either had gay porn saved on your computer, or went out and found gay porn to repost in the thread.

No.

Hi everyone, the Anon Babble /smg/ is straight up reddit. Is this place a little more classic internet right wing?

The preferred method is none at all. One of the more successful campaigns by the Orthodox Church against western NGO’s.

nah only cute girls for me

yeah sadly its also full of retarded muslims just like Anon Babble but at least here we can call them fags and wish for TMD without getting banned

We just like to have fun here

it feels like a lot of them are underage too

Anon Babble tranny comes to Anon Babblesmg specifically to dump his gay porn collection.

ywnbaw

Yeah we've got all kinds of schizos. We have the Jewish American schizo who writes messages to a girl but posts them here where only us can see them, we have the German flag retards who insist on making a quarter of the posts, we have garden variety belligerent Ameriboomers, we have the porn poster, we have leafs posting absolute garbage, we have it all.

AAAAAA I'M NOW A PANICAN

Interesting

Wew lad

how? its so green today

you bought AFTER the 40% pump last week??

you will 3x your money within a couple months as long as you have the ability to not sell

Alright I'm immigrating over here. I cannot figure out wtf the Anon Babble /smg/'s problem is. They all have some kind of reddit brainrot or something.

And yet you're also posting over in biz/smg.

You're literally proving my point
.

Based
Exactly this. Don't be a fucking pussy now.

Unless of course tariffs completely destabilize US-based semiconductor companies making you lose your money at 3x speed plus decay. But you'd be a PUSSY to not take that risk.

Bull trap.

post the real one

yw

Uh oh, looks like I hit a sore spot.

that's not the real one, this is the real one

Somehow cheese toast returned.

no he bought after a -45% dump the past month

Based plan trvsters

Don't mean to bully but why buying so much soxl?

Like most communities, the orginal users got driven away by bad moderation and trannies moved in to wear its skin.

Alright so since I missed Webull even though I planned on buying it 2 weeks ago I'm gonna make a list of the ones like Kraken that haven't IPO'd yet so I can gamble on a 8x when it finally does I hate this shit man even when I know something is coming I miss it.

Turn on your monitor. Despair was April 4th.

Keep eToro in mind too.

Power 20 mins incoming.

despair

not even 20% down

everything still overvalued

tariffs just getting started

worsening international trade situation

coming off of the longest and deepest yield curve inversion ever

There are some hard lessons that are yet to be learned hete.

NO CRYING IN THE CASINO

BASSÉ

Because I bought a new supplement this week, it boosts testosterone

damn nice digits, quad dubs

something in my portfolio goes down 10%+ every day

nice little flash dump in the final 15 minutes

its the margin interest

news?

Just saw Sven Carlin talking about deficit spending on OAN. Not sure what to make of this.
(They only had him on to say a few sentences, the news is the dumbest thing we do)

soxl keks

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING
Well, how did it go today?

+1.54%

i keep yelling “blue collar” at the blue collars next door and they just keep working kek

+1.07%. Ay I'll take it.

+0.81%
snibbed, then snabbed

Nice little dump into close. Should be able to slurp a little tomorrow..

+1.06%

-0.98%
What a boring day.

every time i see this image all I see is the broad on the left and right are wearing the wrong tops/bottoms and it just pisses me off

0.6%

1.08

Let’s keep this up

starting this post before close, i'll just make it a dingpost, and there's a little bit more trade left and it looks like we'll close higher but the trajectory was down today and europe closed at s&p 5380 which was the lows of the day. what that tells me is that there are short sellers that think we're going to trade lower than that in the first 3 hours tomorrow. with luck, futures will bring us down there in the overnight, the market will refuse to go down, and tomorrow we can have a short cover rally and the bulls buy it up to where they think it should be. not sure if we got semiconductor tariff clarification today, if we did i missed it, but that could turn into a disaster zone real fast. would say biotech is the place to be but they're slated for special tariffs too. new closing and intraday high for gold miners on the year as well, that was one of the only sectors to trade up this morning while the market was dumping too. as it is though i have a bearish bias going into tomorrow and i'm going to try and stay convicted, find some courage, and trade it.

I lost money today. Impressive.

i want to touch her soft tummy... and zero gains perfect crab

+0.78%

-,20%

Neet here. What should I buy?

Didn't see the comma before the 20 at first

all those things im reading is making it look more and more like hedgies will be the ones to bring real problems in the near future as trump bounces around the markets in surprising ways

A job

Kneepads

you mean to tell me the 50x leverage hedge funds gambling on 1% credit spreads are going to doom the markets when trump deliriously shits out a random tweet calling for massive economic policy changes on a whim?
nooo wayyyy

hope it happens. every hedgefund deserves a heeming

All I'm reading from your picrel is

FAILED TREASURY AUCTION SOON

gold-BARONS...

Chad here. What should I buy?

tf..
idk.

occupation?

Gold, bitcoin, Shares of David Soxl Computer LLC

When will /smg/ retire?

soxl baggies you're gonna fall below $10 again

What the FUCK is this jewish SHIT

Local top is in on tech.

Punishment for Lum keking gme baggies

can i ask, why is this thread here and not Anon Babble?

At age 80. Me on the other hand? I'll retire in a few years with my gold gainz

Anon Babble is gay

52-wk high: 70.00

52-wk low: 7.23

Such is life in the SOXL zone

Long story. Basically we're refugees and Anon Babble is Jeet central

bessent is on bloomberg. said he doesn't think it's foreign nations selling bonds and that it's normal volatility, says foreign ownership is actually higher but i don't know how accurate or current that data is. said that they intend to make a deal with china eventually. they asked him about a "mar-a-lago accord" and he responded that he didn't know what they were talking about. his voice sounds shaky and he seems nervous.

grimmm brooo
i am retired already. work is very damaging. i bent over to pick up groceries todays and i could feel the damage

you DID go all in $LUM.V, right /smg/? It's your waifu after all.

honestly though this company is super cheap.

Having flags definitely helps, should be on every board.

China doesn't give a shit. They want to decouple economically so they have a free hand to start taking over the Pacific.

NVDA announces theyre going to move manufacturing to the US

stock goes red on the day

what the fuck bros

Bessent is pumping bonds again

in other news, water is wet. News at eleven.

you could not catch me being long bonds. Who the fuck wants return free risk from a questionably solvent counterparty? Gold all the way.

TAIWAN
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>NVDA announces theyre going to move manufacturing to the US

lol
lmao even

its true
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-manufacture-american-made-ai-supercomputers-us/

An anon in the previous thread had a couple of good points about this

moving production to a high wage country

shows they're taking the China tariffs seriously

yeah yeah I've seen this story before

w-we promise to build factories in arizona/texas/nevada (lol taxes) and restart domestic manufacturing! we totally super duper like seriously promise!!

Get back to me in 4 years if they have even a single factory built

I'm baking up an AI reply

gonna cost more to build in america, higher labor costs and taiwan subsidizes electricity.
don't think gold has topped, but i think it's period of outperformance might be ending soon if it didn't end today.
gonna take my nap. have a great afternoon /smg/.

depends on what your time frame is anon. Gold's period of outperformance is likely to remain in force through the end of the 20s, but there will be pullbacks and lulls along the way just like there have been since the big bullrun began last year.

while everyone is focused on tariffs i think there are other things to worry of and the tariffs are just a distraction. would you trust a upset chink to keep making your product and not putting your company at risk as they steal everything they can and the government at minimum messes with your supply chain

if you were making 100k a year from passive income, would you even bother with trading?

Yeah

No you wouldn’t

Yes, I would. I'm a greedy man and I love speculating and value investing.

yeah its addicting

Nope. I wouldnt work, would trade, wouldnt risk my golden goose in any way.

Probably not. None of it is actually good for Niggervideo's bottom line

how would i be earning 100k a year in passive income

RIght?

SKYT has returned to report profits on May 7th again so I have once again begun accumulating.

if you had 2 million

I would probably not 'trade' like this and would just follow buffett logic.

Having a couple million dollars in a high yield stock

or having 2m in FLOT

but then wouldnt that technically count as trading
or did they mean specifically day trading

1-2M would suffice. Just watch out for dividend yield traps

idk, stock market and having a portfolio manager.

exactly lol.
No, after a few milly you wouldnt trade.
I aint rich but im rich enough that many things below me now.

Rocket Lab selected for multi-billion dollar U.S. and U.K. defense contracts

Is 2m a lot?

1.3%

When I hit 1mil but I will probably just keep doing what I do now. Here forever.
Anon Babble tariffs were unacceptable

Most of us will never be millionaires, sadly.

us

what kind of trading are we talking about here leaf-kun? I don't daytrade to begin with. But I do buy and sell actively when I see opportunities come and go. I would keep doing that. I think in years, not days weeks or months.

Yeah maybe. I guess you can do that.
Like active trading.
Like stocks go up, in the end you just end up buying higher.
I think in years too and the last 10 years has been awesome for rich folks.

I guess you can do that. but in the long term, it goes up anyways. Some people dont wanna want to pay more taxes.

I'll probably be a millionaire but it's gonna be a while. inb4 hyperinflation

I have been able to buy some of my favorite resource stocks for pretty cheap over the past few years while building my understanding of the different commodity sectors. It's a very cyclical market with long cycles. You often see prolonged bear and bull cycles. Right now gold is in a bull, but REEs and battery metals for example are in a bear. Copper and energy stocks are hated. A lot of the time I find stocks that are just giga undervalued or hated while the rest of the sector is trading higher. I will always keep trading these insane commodity markets, I think. It's just too attractive to pass on those contrarian trades when they present themselves.

Absolutely not. I'm only at $2k now but I dream of even hitting $48,000

I know what you’re talking about. But I guess i was mainly focused on blue chips. Like sure you can trade those but eventually you just end up buying higher

if SOXL hits $10 again, should I just all in?

Energy is long term downtrend though.

Pimping.

It will be hyperinflation

Pimping ain't easy and it sure ain't passive my nigga you gotta be slappin niggas and bitches the same all the time

Uranium has been rekt. Lol I was almost considering making a long term hold of $urnm because of the macro voices podcast guy.

energy is cyclical as well. The stock prices also adhere to the same forces. If I can buy Exxon at $50-60/share during the bear market in oil this year or next year I think I'll take that opportunity. A lot of these oil and gas companies pay hefty shareholder returns. Oil doesn't need to go higher than $70 for the good companies to make bank.

Uranium stocks by the way are fundamentally in a stronger position than they were in 2022-2024 while the stock prices are down. For some reason investors hate buying uranium stocks right now though. Boggles the mind really!

sneaky jews dumping when most retail can't defend themselves. been noticing it a lot that prem/ah sets the next days direction

Interestingly enough SCHD heavily rebalanced into energy this year

are we getting UUUU shills again

im too much of an incel to understand how they pull that off. with how hard its to even start a conversation with one i can't imagine going to one and asking hey would you like to start selling yourself through my company

Probably a tad too early if they want to buy and hold imo. In the very short term energy stocks are hated so I have been a buyer recently. Will probably sell some of those off if I get a +10-20% swing. Need to strictly hold quality names right now in any case. Not a great place to be a low margin SMID when oil is likely to be <$60 for a year or three

They auto go based on fundamentals. The hypothesis is that the etf has been able to outperform because it dances between the best performing sectors

which fundamentals? Commodity stocks generally look the cheapest using classic fundamentals like P/E when they are trading high at the top of the cycle

They rank stocks by 1) cash generated vs debt with no debt given the best score 2) dividend yield 3) dividend growth 5 year 4) overall equity return

And its led to 11% dividend growth annually for like 12 years

I assume they also weigh the sustainability of the dividend? Seems like a pretty good system they have.

For some reason investors hate buying uranium stocks right now though. Boggles the mind really!

The reported spot price has been dropping for over a year. If someone hasn't done the work to know how uranium is traded and how the nuclear fuel cycle works that's enough to stay well clear.

Also the new producers are all still making comical ramp up mistakes and losing lots of money.

I guess the average investor is unaware that most volumes go through the term market and not the spot market. And yes, the juniors have faced lots of issues.

They're a milling company with some tiny low grade abandoned mines and a titanium feedstock project in Madagasgar cosplaying as a serious uranium and rare earths company. Meme ticker.

Look at this thread being open for 1/4 of a day. I get it's over

Still better that biz Reddit smg

extrapolating housing prices in my area studio apartment in the bad part of town will be 16 million dollars in 2035. which would also be 15k-17k/month in rent. so either we all become millionaires or the currency resets and the zeros will change anyways.

ironically that mineral sands project in Madagascar is more of a reason to own UUUU than their other assets. It's certainly not a serious uranium company. That Madagascar project by the way had all the permits and was getting ready to be built a few years ago, but in an epic failure of gaining social license, locals literally burned down the onsite camp and the government shut it down. Maybe Energy Fuels can do a better job, but it's not a risk I'm going to take. Something was very wrong with the way that project was being developed.

news.mongabay.com/2019/11/madagascar-suspends-activities-at-controversial-base-toliara-mine/

Discontent among local communities has been brewing over the years but it came to a head this April when a band of forty people allegedly burned and vandalized the mine’s exploration campsite. Nine of them were arrested in May and charged with arson, destruction of property and forming a mob. They were convicted only on the count of unarmed gathering without permission but released in June after their six-month sentences were suspended.

You see a lot of retarded stuff in the resource sector but it's rare to see the opposition go nuclear like this

houses dont count

Normally dividend funds are either high yield or lower yield and growth
For whatever reason SCHD is the secret sauce thats been able to grow its dividend faster than the actual return of the market should allow.

And the theory is that its because it jumps in and out of the sectors during the business cycle

My euros are healing.

Only against DXY, a useless measure since all fiat currencies are going to zero

The S&P500 had a death cross today.

Yes, that's true but I can get more US stock for my euro now.

death cross

Cmon, buddy we've heard this one before.

Learn to see the signs around you. Tune your soul to the same frequency as the market, and the future will be revealed.

KEK BULL BAGGIES

MY DOLLARINOS ARE MELTING

from cnbc

This shit is so fucking retarded. What the fuck are fundamentals in a casino?

From 2022, there might be still some days.

90% of people quit right before they are about to hit it big. It's how the casinos manage to stay in business.

How does this chart make you feel?

Does it make you want to own more gold?

I've been contemplating calls on gold miners.

It might be too late to buy gold to make money, idk.
I do know that buying oil isn't a bad idea right now either.

Anything that has fundamental value, you know? Because even if shit dumps they'll come back.

why have 0dtes become so popular in this bear market vs every other time we've had corrections the last decade
I've seen completely oblivious irl normalfags I know of reference weekly options trades now, wtf

They are generally more popular. It's a casino

My big question is what happens here in the US? Our political system is broke and Trump is extremely unpredictable. Michael Oliver is calling for a 2008 x3 in the next year or so.

GDXY

Sorry Europe, it's over for you. Follow the money.

Pretty sure all these "yieldmax" dividends wont last for longer than two years.

looking like S and P has resistance around 5460-5450
I wonder how solid this is going to prove to be.

dreamed about playing football. but not in a good way, being outsized and overmatched and getting clobbered. kept trying to do my best but i wasn't nearly good enough and my team was even worse, the other team just kept running up the score on us. something i haven't commented on but just noticed again is orange juice is above 300, an important level, not sure if everyone remembers it's been a while since i juicepilled people but the us government is the biggest buyer of this stuff, they use it for the navy to prevent scurvy. feel like the market has been pretty tough ever since it started it's run a few years ago, and it seems to be bright green every red day almost. thought we were long past this, was so relieved when it started falling when trump took office, now it seems to be back and like i said, crossing an important level, do not want to see that start another bull market.

Well, regardless of what happens now, by the fall, the Trump administration is going to start discussing who to replace Powell with in May 2026. Obviously it's going to be a puppet that will power up the money printer. Probably all time highs before midterms. Of course then I'm going to move to gold after that.

People keep saying it's too late and trying to call tops in gold. And it keeps going up. And up. And up. And up. And up....

dreamed about playing football. but not in a good way,

sounds euphoric

I'm surprised that more people aren't completely freaking out about China's magnet export embargo. Not only does it completely cripple a lot of industries, but it's also a pretty strong signal that they're getting ready to invade Taiwan soon.

dont look at the gold chart in weimar germany.

Gold's going to crash by the fall because that's when the Trump administration is going to discuss Powell's replacement in May 2026. Obviously it's going to be a puppet that's going to crank up the printing machines like nothing we've ever seen before. However, once that starts circulating and we get more inflationary effect, that will be the time to jump in gold again. For me anyway.

the average investor barely understands what tariffs are, what makes you think they're even aware that choina put an embargo on rare earf minerals and magnets yet

Oh no gold is going to "crash" to $3k by fall

damn now thats some proper doomposting finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-dalio-warns-current-chaos-115500635.html

They aren't freaking out because we have stockpiles for now and before those run out China will be getting it's shit pushed in. The gamble is that they're only using it as a bargaining chip for when they need to. Which is likely the highest probability. So the market isn't panicking.

They're right to worry

heh even the hedgies agree

gold will sell off as the dollar rallies. sorry, it just will.

Real answer is expectations of a quick resolution or the development of backdoors that normalize the situation.

we have stockpiles for now

Big if true.

before those run out China will be getting it's shit pushed in

Huge if true.

The gamble is that they're only using it as a bargaining chip for when they need to

Enormous if true.

Which is likely the highest probability.

Absolutely colossal *IF* true.

Dollar won't significantly rally because too many countries don't have faith in it at the moment.

the drop back to normal would be my concern as well if i were starting getting into it now at aths. when/if things calm down people might want to put their money in more profitable stuff and then gold could drop to normal levels

It was JPM or GS or some other bank that estimated that the average historical gold allocation has been 4% of portfolio. Now it's closer to 0.5-1%. Gold really is slept on, hated, shunned. You can see it here, you can see it in ETF flows and ETF holdings, you can see it in the way it trades. No panic, no hurry, steady accumulation towards new highs, continuously. All the while the Treasury market melts, stocks look weak, stagflation is rampant and currencies race to the bottom.

treasury secretary just said the VIX has likely peaked, literally last words in the interview. implications?
youtube.com/watch?v=MuNo6fhuRpk

im seeing red future. are we finally done with the ridiculous pumping

They can keep cucking on tariffs, but it doesn't matter. They're not the ones in control of this situation anymore. China is.

WW3 will be over the magnets I use to make my warhammer minis have swappable weapons

Bessent is just desperately pumping Treasuries to anybody foolish enough to listen

NO CRYING IN THE CASINO

youtube.com/watch?v=1TKbYeyLDsI

the vix probably peaked last week at 50 already but better late than never i guess. or not.

imagine if it goes to 60 or 70. that would be really crazy. somehow, people saying it peaked one week late is bothering me. i have a bad feeling about this.

Trump can actually cuck on tariffs until May 2026 when the Fed chair is a hand selected Trump puppet. Then the money printers will ramp up as tariffs ramp up and the market will rally or at least be countered. The best thing he could do right now is wait, but he probably won't. Unless he keeps doing the delay thing.

I can't go back to Anon Babblesmg guys.
I can't do it. I tried. I'm not going back. Look at this shit. These kinds of posts, spammed over and over. Reading it gives me pain.

China just greenlit their insurance companies to allow 1% gold allocations and stage 2 they want it up to 5% before the fireworks and bombs start going off.

playing cs2

have 7 kills

die

some 18yo zoomer with a twink voice criticizes me

he has 1 fucking kill

he then posts the chicken jocky "meme"

I am thoroughly boomerized and hate zoomers now. It wouldn't be so bad if they were good at anything, but they suck dick and then still brainlessly act like they know what they're talking about.

You can't make motors, generators, or moveable actuators without those magnets, and especially not drones. Automotive is kill. Machine tools are kill. Robotics is kill. Basically anything that needs to move is kill.

Just don't tell them we're here

kind of crazy to think that gold would be much higher if insurance companies, banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds were allowed to hedge with gold more the gold price would be even higher. A lot of the current system has been (((Treasury-backed))) by decree.

that's benign compared to the truly dumb shit I've seen on Anon Babble the past two weeks

DUDE BONDS AND YIELDS ARE BOTH DOWN!!!

lmao

ooooo poggers bruh

they wont get my last coins so easily this time. i got both a sp up bet and a vix up bet

speaking of magnets and rare earth's, mp materials up 20% today. probably the new rock trade now that gold has peaked. time to invest in magic rocks, not shiny ones.

Why not both? I am long on one REE company which I deem to be the best in the world. That one is also up 20% right now. Trades on the ASX. Not sure how sustainable this China-related REE rally is but it may set a bottom in the REE sector.

do any autists here know how to log transform AND make sure that the chart stays positive numbers only?

Literally impossible?

If you're transforming for visualization but want to keep everything visually positive, you can:

import numpy as np
data = np.array([...]) # your positive data
log_data = np.log(data)
# Shift so all values are positive
min_val = np.min(log_data)
if min_val < 0:
log_data_shifted = log_data - min_val
else:
log_data_shifted = log_data

If your data includes values very close to zero, you can use np.log1p(x) which is log(1 + x). It’s numerically more stable and avoids log(0).
log_data = np.log1p(data)

This naturally keeps everything positive if data > -1.

If you’re trying to make a chart of stock prices, note that:

Log(price) emphasizes relative percentage changes rather than absolute ones.

Log returns (log(P_t / P_{t-1})) are often used for analysis, but not directly plotted on the same scale as price.

If you’re working with returns and want to keep values all positive (for charting or ML input), use:

log_returns = np.log(data[1:] / data[:-1])
# Optional: shift to positive domain
log_returns_shifted = log_returns - np.min(log_returns)

tl;Dr

log transform

but need the chart to stay all positive
just log(data) then shift the result up so the smallest value is zero or more:
log_data_shifted = log(data) - min(log(data))
now it still looks like log but no negative values on the chart

i suspected that much. guess i'm fucked

thanks!

i already tried similar stuff but the problem is when it comes to ratios.
they are not symmetric.
maybe its not even possible.
i would like to have symmetric ratios.
a/b == b/a

not equal obviously but so that percentage change stays the same or close enough to the same.
maybe i'm asking for too much

because most ratios just arent symmetric.
if ratio 1 goes up by 100% than the other ratio goes down by 55% or something instead of 50%

new bread

Ah ok you want a transformation where ratios remain symmetric, meaning:

transform(a) / transform(b) == transform(b) / transform(a)

That's not possible with log or any monotonic function, because:

log(a)/log(b) != log(b)/log(a)

And no asymmetric function (like log or exp) will ever preserve a/b == b/a under transformation.

Since perfect symmetry in a/b == b/a under transformation is impossible, here are options depending on what you're trying to do:

1. Use Log Difference Instead of Ratio
Instead of comparing a/b, use:
log(a) - log(b)

This is symmetric in the sense that:
log(a) - log(b) == -(log(b) - log(a))
That’s how log returns are used: they're additive and symmetric in change, not ratio.

2. Use Geometric Mean Normalization

If you want a “centered” comparison between a and b, try:
ratio = log(a / b)
normalized = ratio / abs(ratio) * abs(log(a / b))
Or define:
sym_ratio = abs(log(a / b))
This gives a “distance” in log space, symmetric between a and b.

3. Custom Transformation

You could define a transformation like:
f(x) = log(x / M)
Where M is a midpoint or geometric mean reference. Then:
f(a) = log(a / M)
f(b) = log(b / M)

Now:

f(a) - f(b) = log(a / b)

This isn’t symmetric directly in the ratio sense, but differences are meaningful and centered.

TL;DR :

want log chart with only positives AND >symmetric ratios (a/b == b/a)

not possible. log(a/b) ≠ log(b/a), and no >function makes a/b == b/a for all a≠b

try using log(a) - log(b) instead, it’s >symmetric in direction (flip sign), or use >abs(log(a / b)) as a "distance"

thanks. are you augmented with *cough* nevrolink chatgpt++?

Yes

may god bless you and grant you wisdom and discernment