What did you trade today and why?

Haven't seen a post from dickoncapecod recently...hope all is well with him.He always has an interesting take on CEF world....
 
Here is my buy high sell higher, obviously too early and meme driven, tip of the day. I bought a couple shares of LLY today.

In the past two days I heard that they have acquired some company that might allow them to make a drug that allows you to sleep only 4 hours a day (repurposing a narcolepsy drug). And I heard that they are working closely with NVDIA to train AI models using their massive amount of proprietary drug research data.

Training the AI on the proprietary data could give them a huge advantage in drug discovery.
 
joesxm3 said:
Here is my buy high sell higher, obviously too early and meme driven, tip of the day. I bought a couple shares of LLY today.

In the past two days I heard that they have acquired some company that might allow them to make a drug that allows you to sleep only 4 hours a day (repurposing a narcolepsy drug).
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What does one do with the remaining 20 hours/day? More time to work to make money for non-retirees, and more time to surf the Web for retirees? :)
 
Icarus flew too close to the sun, and I bought/closed out a some of my cashed secured put position in a certain volatile commodity etf, that moved the wrong way……
 
Watching Bitcoin for next week or so to potentially (finally) fully exit to redeploy to GOF, WDI.

Flieger
 
Yesterday, on the severe dip, I bought 100 shares of AAOI. This is a swing trade candidate with my goal being a 40% gain. It's in an IRA.
 
I have a large allocation of VTI in my portfolio. When doing some research I saw that during the lost decade from 2000-2009, equal-weighted s&p 500 significantly outperformed normal s&p 500. Looking at YTD comparison of both, equal weight RSP is outperforming SPY quite a bit, especially during the last month or so when AI rolled over. I am thinking of rotating to RSP over time to try to mitigate losses if we do get a dot.com like crash with AI. Has anyone else invested in RSP and/or do you think it's a good idea?
 
I've been diversifying away from SP500 market based funds and into RSP and other funds for a few years. I prefer less volatility and more repeatable results, and less concentration into technology companies. Sometime RSP and these other funds do better than the SP500, sometimes not. Being retired, I'm OK with lower returns. More info on my post from 7/1 Stock Market performance for first half of 2026

Here's a comparison of FXAIX, RSP and DVY https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/fund-performance?s=y&sl=48JQSJBjih6JCzcA66Ioa
 
Put in a "GTF" order for BTCI to finally exit. Just gonna take the nearly double digit TR hit to free the funds.

Flieger
 
Al18 said:
I've been diversifying away from SP500 market based funds and into RSP and other funds for a few years. I prefer less volatility and more repeatable results, and less concentration into technology companies. Sometime RSP and these other funds do better than the SP500, sometimes not. Being retired, I'm OK with lower returns. More info on my post from 7/1 Stock Market performance for first half of 2026

Here's a comparison of FXAIX, RSP and DVY https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/fund-performance?s=y&sl=48JQSJBjih6JCzcA66Ioa
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It looks like RSP started trading in 2003 yet this chart shows data from 2021. Is it made up, extrapolated data?

I compared RSP and SPY from 2003 to 2009 and saw that during the GFC crash, RSP fell just as much if not more than SPY, which makes sense as major crashes tend to take everything down.
 
NW-Bound said:
I don't have AMD, but if I bought it and believed in its prospect, I would roll the 537.5 July 2 call to 557.5 July 10 call and pick up another $2. Or 550 call and pick up $5. Get paid cash to sell higher!

Or I could write a 537.5 July 10 put and get the stock back, plus $16 cash. Get paid to let somebody hold the stock for 1 week.

Oh, what people would do for cash! :nonono:
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Well, I got lucky and AMD dropped a lot last week and I was able to buy back my CCs for pennies. Woke up today with AMD up 10% so wrote CC at $582.50 strike expiring this Friday. Round and round we go.
 
It will be interesting to see what if any effect index inclusion will have on SPCX. Back when dinosaurs and I roamed the Street, many index funds simply asked a major equity trading firm like maybe Goldman to deliver xxxxx shares at the close price of index entry day. Traders could apply their skills in an effort to make some money trading/hedging around what is essentially a deep in the money variable strike European short call. And the indexer gets precisely what they need to avoid deviation from index pricing. I have no idea if that still goes on, but if it does, indexers may have no need to exercise giant market on close orders.
FWIW, Dick
 
The link I posted above is actual data. I would not expect much difference in the SP500 and RSP when something big happens that affects all stocks, such as 2008 and 2022.
 
Opened a position in OVL and NIHI after positive comments from Armchair Income. NIHI in taxable, OVL in IRA. Right now I like thses NEOS funds - time will tell as they are relatively new. But over the last few weeks, I opened positions in SPYI, QQQI and MLPI. All in taxable accounts as they claim to produce tax efficient income. Again - we shall see.
 
dickoncapecod said:
It will be interesting to see what if any effect index inclusion will have on SPCX. Back when dinosaurs and I roamed the Street, many index funds simply asked a major equity trading firm like maybe Goldman to deliver xxxxx shares at the close price of index entry day. Traders could apply their skills in an effort to make some money trading/hedging around what is essentially a deep in the money variable strike European short call. And the indexer gets precisely what they need to avoid deviation from index pricing. I have no idea if that still goes on, but if it does, indexers may have no need to exercise giant market on close orders.
FWIW, Dick
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Index inclusion will have little initial effect on SPCX. It cannot be included in the S&P 500 for at least one year since it is non-profitable. It's small float (4.2%) will make it a minor addition to other indexes, since SPCX's inclusion is based on float adjusted market cap.

Much larger effects will come as insider lock ups expire over the next 6-9 months freeing up 44% of the float. The 10x float increase will likely crush the stock price. Musk will hold his 42%, but it won't stop other insiders from selling.

The dual share class voting structure results in Musk having 80+% of the voting shares giving him absolute control of the company. Nothing and no one can stop or overrule any decision he makes. All other shareholders are completely at his mercy and whim. No other large public company is organized this way.

Care to invest?
 
Sold AVGO this am @ 382.01 and 380.37...bought AVGO July 2 ...tidy profit...AVGO tends to have some big swings. However my outlook on tech. stocks is still fairly negative.
 
Traded out of 1/2 of my "large cap momentum" ETFs and XLK today based on weakening trend. Bought 3% of port each of PDI,PDN,PHK - pre-ex date divy pickup. (All in T-IRA).
 
Mr. Tightwad said:
Took my KMB dividend and bought 24 shares of DIS.
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Disney stock?

Over the past 1 year Disney has returned -21.3%
Over the past 5 years Disney has returned -43.8%
Over the past 10 years Disney has returned -0.89%

Do you have some inside information?
 
neal1313 said:
Sold AVGO this am @ 382.01 and 380.37...bought AVGO July 2 ...tidy profit...AVGO tends to have some big swings. However my outlook on tech. stocks is still fairly negative.
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Did you sell before or after the news that Apple had entered into an agreement with AVGO to have AVGO supply them with chips until 2031?
 
Qs Laptop said:
Did you sell before or after the news that Apple had entered into an agreement with AVGO to have AVGO supply them with chips until 2031?
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Before..July 2nd. Today AAPL entered into an agreement with AVGO, hence the pop...".sometimes it's better to be lucky than good"...
 
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