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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

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

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

I'm kinda all in at the mo, so no spare cash to buy much at all sadly. I am single so maybe I could sell my body on the street to raise a few dollars, but being a male in my early 50s, I don't rate my chances. But if I did have some spare cash, I'd be buying more of the businesses I already invest in that have dipped. Why? Because I understand them. For example $Arbor(ABR)$ has dipped, it's a property investment business, so the higher interest rate environment is impacting its price, but it's maintaining a great dividend yield of over 10%, and has a growing dividend. And interest rates will come down eventually. Buying the dip is an interesting concept to me because many of my stocks haven't actually dipped. I tend to use a counter cyclical approa

Ok so not the best start after two weeks on tiger

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  Im to sexy for my car, too sexy by far Ok so tin hat on, but i have to say why? Why would you buy tesla. The cyber truck is so cool to many, stupid to others. My take is it looks really cool, but like a trophy wife, a man should never go for looks over substance. Nor should a woman, but women know this, men well they wanna get noticed, so just buy a tesla.  Whats that saying fools and their money will soon be parted. FACKS: evs are NOT environmentally friendly, the cyber truck is not bullet proof, and seriously how would that be important in any case, and when your fingers get cut off closing the hood, nuts you can't shoot back. Oh wAit there's more, driverless taxis, kinda takes a much longer time to

SHOW ME THE MONEY   So in previous posts I've mentioned a few stocks that form the foundation of my portfolio. These are all dividend stocks that provide nice cash inflows, and they make up 50% of my portfolio.  Some of them like $Main Street Capital(MAIN)$, $NextEra Energy Partners LP(NEP)$ , and $Trinity Capital Inc.(TRIN)$ These are often REITs or BDCs but I'm looking for a return of +15%. I call them my dividend engines because they are the engine room of my portfolio, providing 10% plus returns plus around 5% growth, to get to that magic 15%. There are some companies out there that provide over 20% returns, but their dividend growth is in the n

Im surprised nobody has mentioned Pfizer, thats been my worst performer for some time. Its not a bad stock really. It did insanely well during the pandemic. Perhaps thats why Wall Street hates it, cup half empty people. The stock is viewed as a poor performer rather than a stock that had a major windfall and is now just business as usual. I wouldn’t wish another global pandemic on anyone, but maybe thats the only thing that will save Pfizer :(-

$Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ 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

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

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

Personally, I sold my apple stock recently. Why? Don't get me wrong I love apple products, have an iPhone, iPad, laptop and desktop. It's just that they don't have any break out products in the near term. But wait, you obviously say... what about the VR headset. Well, my jury is out on that one, let me explain. A few years back when my children were all still teenagers, I became incensed with their antisocial behaviour regarding their iPhones, so I took action. I took a large glass pitcher, placed two old iPhones in it, filled it with water and placed it on the dining room table. When the kids came home, I pointed to the pitcher and explained that's where their iPhones would end up if they didn't turn them off and put them in the kitchen draw. I think the VR headset will lead to even more

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ Gladly ive made more than ive lost on the stock market. Occasionally i do make a bad decision and that's generally because done enough research and don't fully understand the stock. If you really really understand a stock, a strange mentality takes over.  If the stock price dips and you go into the red, you actually feel great because you see the dip as a opportunity to lower your average cost by picking up more. Thisaproach requires significant conviction however and a necessity to reevaluate your assumptions toconfirm that something fundamental hasn't happened that no longer makes the stock so fantasti.

I have spent over six months getting an understanding of options, very much still a novice. but lastweek made the plunge from demo to real. Puts, no thanks you can loose your shirt. I'm just into long calls like 2026 calls. And just stocks I really understand. Obviously im not here to give advice, just getting an understanding, acting on it in a very small way and seeing how it goes

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

I would just enjoy meeting him and shaking his hand. His books have answer all of my questions over the years so I would just like to acknowledge the legacy he has created 

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  A few other posts of mine have probably given you an idea that im not a fan of tesla, EVs and elton musk (but to be fair, i have never met elton, so its not fair for me to comment on him). But i do believe i need to justify my opinion on why I don't think Tesla is a winner. So, when i do due diligence on a stock, one of the most important components is to understand the industry. So im just going to discuss the robo Taxies for the mo, because thats "apparently" the savior for tesla going forward.  So i know a person that runs a taxi company. I asked her yesterday actually, what are be biggest issues for you business. Her reply was Maintainence costs on vehicles, regulation and staff. Ok so lets keep it a bit simple

First three months have been great, all my banking/finance stocks have been popping. Planning on investing long in rklb call options in april