So, i believe the biggest issue fundamental investors have is the information they rely on. Often, more often than you think, it's actually wrong, or sometimes it's just calculated in a way you didn't realise. I will use two cases to illustrate, from one investor class... the dividend investor. I look at data every day, and dividend investors are looking for consistent and growing company dividend over time. Personally I want a dividend stock to be doing both. At least once a week, information about the stock I invest in is actually wrong. #arcc last week for eg on one site told me it paid a dividend of only 3 cents per share during 2 quarters of last year, totally wrong. Checking other sources quickly confirmed it to be totally wrong. Moral of the story... don't trust one source of data,

I'm not sure I want to invest in anything the massive institutions are playing with. I still recall my days in the sandpit at kindergarten. A couple of institutional bullies that would not let you play with the cool big yellow digger. I was just the little retail investor that got to play with the shell, and pretend it was a digger.  I'm actually not implying that institutional investors are bullies, but they control the market and we tiny retail investors get nothing but crumbs. So I look at stocks that they don't. Obviously I do have a portion of my stocks in the bigs, but it's just $Vanguard S&P 500 ETF(VOO)$ And $Vanguard Growth ETF(VUG)$. Let the bigs do what the bigs do, I'm happy with the cr

I don't know about once in a lifetime event, in retrospect I could name a number of stocks that "if only I'd brought them then". But I'm sure most of us have played that depressing game.  To find a once in a lifetime stock, well you need to be insanely good at reading the tea leaves. I mean I purchased $Citigroup(C)$ And $Bank of America(BAC)$ last year during the banking crisis. They were both super cheap so it was a no brainer. They are both up over 50% annualised as i write this, which is nice. But then other people write how they are up over 300% and my excitement kinda goes flaccid.  I mean I have had a few once in a lifetime experiences. In the late 1990s and early 2000s The New Zealand g

Does anyone play cards anymore? I'm a huge 500 player, and I think investing in stocks can be similar. So far I'm doing pretty good betting on winning hands like $Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ and $NextEra Energy Partners LP(NEP)$  In cards you get dealt some amazing hands sometimes, and it's easy to win. More often though it's an average hand requiring skill to win. But win you will if you truely know how to play that average hand. knowledge is the key, as is practice.  But now I'm going to go emotional on y'all. In cards, especially playing 500, I normally win by loosing. What? It's a nack, maybe spiritual idk. But I excell at loosing a hand, hence winning by saying I will loose every trick. Fast

All I can say is... Nuts! I mentioned in an earlier post that I spent over 6 months trying to understand options trading. Found this fantastic brokerage called tiger trade and started putting my learning into practice on the demo account. now I have put real coin to work. And... it's working. @Barcode @Barcode @SPACE ROCKET @xXxZealandxXx @TigerClub @MillionaireTiger @Tiger_chat

I still remember black monday 1987, luckly the previous week i had sold out of a large position so my losses were limited. But then i went all in thinking the worst was over. My first big lesson, its called a dead cat bounce. The market went up a bit then plumetted even lower. Since then i have always been a bit more cautious

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$Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ Mentioned this stock a week or so ago and since then it's gone from around $4 to round $4.50, but the big question is will it go to $5 or drop back to $4. I actually believe it's worth at least $8, but to explain that, well I'm working on a you tube channel. I actually hope it drops so I can pick up more options. But I think that finally the word is getting out and this stock will start to rocket. So I'm an emotional investor which means many things, but one in particular is being a contrarian. So I invest in stocks that Wall Street overlooks. Many reasons for this, but in rocket labs case it's because they are too small... for now ;) So in the space industry in the USA there is space x and there is rocket labs, that's

Yippie 

$RKLB 20260116 5.0 CALL$ Going to the moon :)

Funny thing about AI is it's still pretty clunky compared to a reasonably intelligent human. But then again reasonably intelligent humans are on the decline.  So a wee yarn, over the weekend i went to a website and signed up and quickly came to the conclusion it was likely trying to scam me out of my hard earned coin. My initial conclusion was ok, the women im talking to are not women, but indian men from deli. Tested this hypothesis for as long as i could without giving out my cc #. And once i ran out of free credit, well i just logged into the website again with a new profile, deciding id make myself very complicated.  Hmmm, second time round I noticed very clear patterns. Wait? Definitely a scam, but now I realize its actually not a person at all. I'm being scammed by AI. How

$RKLB 20260116 5.0 CALL$ Coffee? Seriously im up for a margarita or two@Barcode @Hen Solo 

I suppose you could argue Musk is just being visionary. But im more inclined to feel he over promises and under delivers

Ok better get a kiwi song up… cool me down by the black seeds. Reminds you to keep calm and carry on when investing

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ You only loose money if you realise paper losses. Sometimes ive got it wrong with an investment and i do decide to realize the loss like with $Pfizer(PFE)$ recently. Just decided i had way better investment options and pfizer was just sitting round doing nothing. Used the funds to buy more $NextEra Energy Partners LP(NEP)$  and $Main Street Capital(MAIN)$ and $Hess LP(HESM)$ and i have zero regrets

This must be the place by talking heads. It was one of the songs from the movie Wall Street. It was the movie that inspired me to start investing @Barcode @xXxZealandxXx @SPACE ROCKET @TigerClub

$NextEra Energy Partners LP(NEP)$ id rather go with this stock because it hasn’t surged yet

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ I agree, I'm always looking for ways to cut costs so I have more money to invest. But my grandmother always told me "everything in moderation, including moderation" so i think sometimes it's ok to have a blowout 

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So after two weeks on tiger I was down about the same as I am now up after 4 weeks. What is that saying... time vs timing. I have less that 1% of my portfolio with tiger atm. But I'm loving this platform. So I'm working on moving my hard earned coin here. Really enjoying the discussion here, real retail investors sharing their thoughts, no trolls, just a great community 

Oh I'm just going to go broken record on this one. Stocks to watch today, seriously? I think I would rather go to the greyhound track and bet on some dogs.  The only person that wins from betting is the bookies, or in this case the brokers. Research, buy and hold for the long term and ignore the daily noise. That's my approach, boring as it mite be. It bloody works, just ask Warren buffet[Great]