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2025 / 2026 Investment Thread

Weird, SHLD is up 75.7 percent over the past year while EUAD (which I also own) is up 58.7 percent.

The other third of my Roths is in Euro Stock Index Funds with Schwabb and they have not done as well as that but soundly beating the S&P.
 
Yes but if you bought one on an up day and the other on a down day it could skew the results.
 
mercurial said:
I am really really not a fan of covered calls, except with very strict application (buy out of the money, .1 delta or less.) They are like an extra small dividend payment. All of those ETFs that buy at-the-money covered calls on the SPY are not a good deal. You lose so much upside and the premium isn't even that great, nor will it protect you substantially in a major downward trend.

If security is what you are after, you need to do an equity collar. That's where the covered call premium is used to buy a put. You don't get any extra return but you do get downside protection at the cost of more limited upside.
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Thats just like your opinion man.

I sold some 100 ASTS calls for March 20th, I collected $7 in premium. ASTS needs to blow past 107 for me to "lose" on the trade, and even then I can roll for more premium. In the meantime these shares are free becasue I have been selling covered calls and the cost basis of the shares was originally less than $20. These are all free shares at this point. I also sold a couple of 100 puts just for the off chance that it does blow up I collected a ton of premium. I can roll those down as the covered calls expire.
 
Spym is even cheaper then voo which is cheaper then spy

This used to be splg
 
Shares of virtually anything. S&P500, defense, tech, foreign stocks, metals...

Big down days like today usually rebound after the 1-2 hour point. Just like it did today.

So if your portfolio dropped from, say, 80% stocks to 79% today, why not take advantage of that dip and bump it back up to 80%

Will it fall again tomorrow, maybe.... but whatever, I'm having fun
 
some drones up - Rcat, KRKNF
Some drones down - ONDS

Still made money selling covered calls on them
 
fortune.com

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune

The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.
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The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.
 
As has been the case for the last 30 years, unfortunately.
 
Most people cannot relate to trillion-dollar figures on a government ledger. So consider this: divide every number by 100 million — drop eight zeros — and federal finances look like a household budget in freefall.


That household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Its total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets, leaving it $1.3 million in the hole. Uncle Sam, by any accounting standard, is insolvent.
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A massive federal government does not operate the same way as a household or business.

I've been wondering...with numbers so large, does it even matter at this point?
 
Yeah, the national debt matters. Mind you, there's benefits to foreign nations holding out debt....just not THIS much debt.
 
My buddy who reads the economist and thinks Elon is a god says the debt isn't really that bad and will be offset by all the reductions in govt spending recently. So, don't worry, well be fine.
 
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