What did you trade today and why?

[imjustawarrior]

SGOV

I have been sitting on a chunk of cash (FZDXX) to buy a couple of cars. I decided to move the money to SGOV because it yields a little more and is more state tax efficient. Probably won't matter much, but why not. It only took 30 seconds.

 

[Flieger]

Moved $7k to my Roth IRA. Bought VOO and ONEQ for LT holdings.

Flieger

 

[Surewhitey]

Bought 500 VZ. Low p/e, usually stays similar to T in all these metrics. Profitability % is greater than peers. I may be catching a knife, but the divy will lessen the blow @ 6.25%. We've been holding T for a decade or more, so have always compared performances of the big 3 wireless companies.

 

[drs]

+MP = I've been buying MP last few days at different prices. I just doubled my position in the afterhours. apparently the defense production act is going to be invoked for rare earth metals.

 

[MrMikeCT]

Added to ARI for income. Will add again at the right price. Added to UBER believing their momentum will continue. Probably won't add again.

 

[toreador99]

A long-term holding for me as well but continuing to hold.

Yield on cost can be a good metric but here I think it may be distorting your analysis: what will be the yield on cost of what you replace it with?

Not touting the stock per se. But it is cheap.

Agree with you on the question of what to replace it with... this lot is down almost 40% and I don't expect it to bounce back to break-even any time soon. I'd rather book some of the long-term capital loss. I'm not against purchasing some back at the lower cost basis, but I'm patient.

 

[Tacitus]

Equity futures way down (Dow to open down about 500 points or more) subsequent to Israeli attack. So, will be buying equity indexes today. I virtually never try to time market nor buy on any news event, but will make exception. Iran nuclear threat going, going, gone. If their ballistic missiles also gone, or perhaps significantly degraded (as was leadership) very little military capacity left. (The worry of course is how many left and if any can strike an Israeli population center.) No airforce, navy or significant ground forces. Power depended on their proxies and their missiles. So believe very soon significant market rebound in the making. Maybe energy prices bounce a bit till things stabilize but overall seems good equity index buying today. As always time will tell but by year's end hoping for nice gains, we'll see.

 

[COcheesehead]

Futures show down less than 1%. Way less than I expected.

 

[COcheesehead]

Flight to safety isn’t treasuries which haven’t moved. It’s gold.

 

[GBcycling]

+ ADBE
+QUBT
+SPMO

Incremental adds to existing positions on premarket or early open. ADBE, Perceived weakness on earning

 

[Flieger]

Equity futures way down (Dow to open down about 500 points or more) subsequent to Israeli attack. So, will be buying equity indexes today. I virtually never try to time market nor buy on any news event, but will make exception. Iran nuclear threat going, going, gone. If their ballistic missiles also gone, or perhaps significantly degraded (as was leadership) very little military capacity left. (The worry of course is how many left and if any can strike an Israeli population center.) No airforce, navy or significant ground forces. Power depended on their proxies and their missiles. So believe very soon significant market rebound in the making. Maybe energy prices bounce a bit till things stabilize but overall seems good equity index buying today. As always time will tell but by year's end hoping for nice gains, we'll see.

I think this was a start, but they could not have reached the underground bunkers yet. There is more to come.

Flieger

 

[Tacitus]

I think this was a start, but they could not have reached the underground bunkers yet. There is more to come.

Flieger

Had watched much of news with the repeated report that Israel had no bunker busters. But later (unfortunately I forget who, maybe an Israeli or expert) claimed upon the new administration taking power, bunker busters sent to Israel. But yes more, I think much more, to come.

 

[toreador99]

Flight to safety isn’t treasuries which haven’t moved. It’s gold.


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CNBC had an interesting discussion on this in the AM. Consensus was there was no good place to go in the bond markets, even internationally, but that is not necessarily a dig at US treasuries; there is a distinction in the market between sovereign and corporate, and the flight to safety seems to be gold and ... equities (?). That last was what I heard, but may not have been what the talking heads meant.

 

[drs]

- (sell) USO @ 80.09 - partial sale. I need to be long oil over the weekend.
+ OXLC @ 4.35 (add, small) oppty to pick up some more shares on a dip prior to ex-div. Would like to de-risk this one eventually
+ FETH @ 25.45 (add, small)
- (sell) EWG @ 41.76 - Germany has crossed a trendline and I don't want to be long it any more. Still long EM's and UK. further USD strength would push me into a loss so figure its time to take meager profits and run. I may reenter lower.

 

[AudiDudi]

Added BCSF - Bain Capitol - goes EX on Monday. 11.6% div with supplemental.

 

[dickoncapecod]

CNBC had an interesting discussion on this in the AM. Consensus was there was no good place to go in the bond markets, even internationally, but that is not necessarily a dig at US treasuries; there is a distinction in the market between sovereign and corporate, and the flight to safety seems to be gold and ... equities (?). That last was what I heard, but may not have been what the talking heads meant.

Talking heads and the need to fill airtime between ads rely on making everything more important --- and even better more frightening --- than it is. Today's hyped "failure" of Treasurys left 10yrs at 4.41% --- a basis point better than WEDNESDAY'S action at 4.42% and 11 basis points higher than Fed funds. IEF TLT LQD MBB HYG all closed up on the week.
Regards, Dick

 

[Still Learning]

Purchased another $50K of VOO ETF which has a good performance history and low fee. This market drop was a good time to purchase.

 

[gman57]

Bought VGT during todays volatility.

 

[Montecfo]

CNBC had an interesting discussion on this in the AM. Consensus was there was no good place to go in the bond markets, even internationally, but that is not necessarily a dig at US treasuries; there is a distinction in the market between sovereign and corporate, and the flight to safety seems to be gold and ... equities (?). That last was what I heard, but may not have been what the talking heads meant.

It appeared that flight to safety was being neutralized by new inflation fears tied to oil. But who knows?

 

[dickoncapecod]

It appeared that flight to safety was being neutralized by new inflation fears tied to oil. But who knows?

And all of this turmoil within about a 5 basis points range on 10yrs ---- market movements that retail would never have heard or cared about a few years ago. The lads had nice profits after a great week and auction --- why not smack a few bids and not worry about it over the weekend?
Regards, Dick

 

[toreador99]

Index fund additions today at the close, both total stock market and total international stock. No particular reason other than I had some capital gains distributions come in on actively-managed funds and reinvesting them in the indexes.

 

[dickoncapecod]

Raised a bit more cash while some holdings were still up.....maybe not enough. Retail sales were very weak, Treasurys are rallying a bit, but credit and stocks are weakening. Doesn't feel particularly good here. Threats against a head of state and deployment of more fighter aircraft just add to punk housing market measures and tariff uncertainty.
Regards, Dick

 

[COcheesehead]

Harvested a weed out of my taxable account. Will book the tax loss and use it at some later date to harvest a profit against it.
Used the proceeds to add to the conservative side of the portfolio buying 4 muni bonds. My state specific so double tax free.
Increased income from the first of the year by 18%.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

+IYRI added to position and IDVO -start position. Both for dividends in IRA and brokerage respectively.

 

[Bill E]

Added a little WDI for upcoming distribution today. AGNC, NLY and DX yesterday.

Bill