What did you trade today and why?

toreador99 said:
Only PIPNX, but it has transaction fees.
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Sounds like Fidelity which I used to have. I opted for PIPNX. I only paid the larger transaction fee for the initial buy After that, when I wanted to add, I set it up on their Automatic Investment Program (AIP). It used to take a couple of days to transact but I was in no hurry. The AIP transaction fee was only $5. I have no idea if Fidelity works the same way today as when I was with them.
 
PaulR888 said:
Sounds like Fidelity which I used to have. I opted for PIPNX. I only paid the larger transaction fee for the initial buy After that, when I wanted to add, I set it up on their Automatic Investment Program (AIP). It used to take a couple of days to transact but I was in no hurry. The AIP transaction fee was only $5. I have no idea if Fidelity works the same.
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Yes, $5 if you use AIP in Fidelity.
 
Interesting article by Barbara Kollmeyer dated June 13th in MarketWatch. Titled "Defaults in debit Market are starting again, warns PIMCO. Here's the bond giants game plan."
 
Expecting a good day tomorrow if world news is accurate. Will return to being fully invested based upon those reports.
 
As the likelihood of the opening of the Strait hopefully increases through the week, it will be interesting to see if the event draws buyers or if this is the sell-the-news opportunity up-to-the-gills equity investors have been waiting for.
Regards, Dick
 
As of now i am watching what happens in the middle east in the next days. Will there be lasting "peace" or maybe we get a great opportunity to short some travel stocks or airlines. Maybe we get a spike in oil again.
 
I wonder if we fade into the afternoon. A sell the news event or if this brings people off the sidelines
 
I am going to put a trailing stop loss on a small amount of MU and will probably sell another 5% of my BPTRX tonight.
 
dickoncapecod said:
As the likelihood of the opening of the Strait hopefully increases through the week, it will be interesting to see if the event draws buyers or if this is the sell-the-news opportunity up-to-the-gills equity investors have been waiting for.
Regards, Dick
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Interesting, indeed. Rather like an inflation indicator earlier, perhaps transient. A good time not to count chickens, IMHO.
 
Sold JFR and GOF. They did their job. Swung some into WDI and PIMCOs. Also bought a small amount of SPCX for fun and to play with its options.
Regards, Dick
 
Worked on my spreadsheet over the weekend. This morning, we completed my husband's RMD for the year and did $20K of Roth conversion to stay just under first tier of IRMAA. We split that conversion and bought VOO and FTEC. Last year it was pretty ugly, incurring deep into 24% tax bracket, IRMAA and NIIT, which we will see the effect of that IRMAA next year.
 
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dickoncapecod said:
You stock guys are in trouble! I bought some MSFT and AAPL calls....
Regards, Dick
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I sold my last few calls this morning when it hit 398 but it did go higher, up to $402 I think. It will probably just shoot up to $440 this week with my luck.
 
RetiredHappy said:
Worked on my spreadsheet over the weekend. This morning, we completed my husband's RMD for the year and did $20K of Roth conversion to stay just under first tier of IRMAA. We split that conversion and bought VOO and FTEC. Last year it was pretty ugly, incurring deep into 24% tax bracket, IRMAA and NIIT, which we will see the effect of that IRMAA next year.
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Hi RH ... could you share your rationale for pairing VOO and FTEC? Thanks.
 
Sold my positions in KVUE and MDT. Held Medtronic for over 3 years and just about broke even, time to move on. Held KVUE for about a year and have a small loss, not excited about merging into Kimberly Clark later this year.
 
My trailing stop loss 2% on MU tripped this morning around $1062. I sold 5 shares. All told I have reduced my position about 25% (at much lower prices than today). I will probably just hold the rest,

I sold 5% of my BPTRX yesterday and put an order to sell 10% more tonight. I will probably sell another 10% tomorrow on the theory that there is a three session IPO pump. If SPCX keeps going up on Wednesday I will have to consider that the fanatics might be more rabid than a typica IPO. In that case I may hold off until the 27th to sell some more (the session before the 15 day IPO no-flip expires).
But I have to decide whether to sell some of my 400 SPCX and reduce less BPTRX or continue to reduce BPTRX. 2/3 of my BPTRX takes an 85% LTCG hit in my taxable account.

This year I will try to not let the tax tail wag the dog, but I don't want too bad of an IRMAA hit.
 
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