Author: pluginever

  • What are your symptoms when your Stocks go down?

    Stocks going up and down is part of investing. However, when markets corrections come into play and most of your stocks drop significantly, it can drive you crazy. The past week or so I have experienced anxiousness, anger, frustration and even second guess myself. I also become withdrawn and ignore friends & family. This is…

  • Status of Metalic Nodule Mining (dark oxygen publication)

    I have had a few thousand shares of TMC for a little over a year and am starting to get cold feet. There has been discussion about the environmental impacts of deep sea nodule mining for some time, but the article that was recently published feels to me like a nail in the coffin: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38523-4…

  • Is volatility in good companies just manipulation to scalp shares?

    Prime examples – META and Nvidia in 2022 Sometimes it seems extremely suspect to me when I see really good companies trading like penny stocks with extremely high volatility for absolutely no reason. I remember seeing META tanking in 2022 like social media was about to go extinct or something. Constant 5-10% drops week after…

  • Excessive Exposure to Microchip and AI

    Hi there! I've always been a fan of the S&P 500 indexes, and a significant portion of my investments are in them. However, I'm becoming increasingly concerned about what I believe to be an AI bubble, so I'm looking for an S&P 500 fund that excludes microchip or tech companies. I recently came across the…

  • MarketWise using AI to juice search results and Google hasn’t caught on – yet

    Many may remember MarketWise $MKTW from pay-to-play drama over the past few years but if you haven't, here's the TLDR: Feds charged employees of a (former) subsidiary for accepting payments to recommend specific shitco stocks. MarketWise wound down that entire operational arm, cutting 18% of its workforce. In the midst of all that, founder Porter…

  • Chipotle tops earnings and revenue estimates as restaurant traffic rises again

    Chipotle Mexican Grill on Wednesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations as it saw higher traffic at its restaurants, bucking an industry slowdown. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: 34 cents adjusted vs. 32 cents…

  • Reverse Split

    Hello, can someone please help me? I bought 45 shares of LTMAY LATAM Airlines back in 2021 apparently they’re doing a reverse split and yesterday when I tried to sell my stock at $97 it wouldn’t let me. now today it’s saying that I only have 0.02 shares in the company where did my stocks…

  • NBA says Amazon will be its new media partner, rebuffing WBD attempt to match deal

    The National Basketball Association has told Warner Bros. Discovery it doesn’t intend to honor its matching rights and instead plans to move ahead with Amazon as a media partner. “Warner Bros. Discovery’s most recent proposal did not match the terms of Amazon Prime Video’s offer and, therefore, we have entered into a long-term arrangement with…

  • Is Visa (V) attractive here?

    We all know the company, many of us have their cards in our wallet. Very stable business in a sector that really only has a handful of competitors (MA, AXP, DFS). Absolutely mind-blowing net margin of 53%. Balance sheet is a thing of beauty with 22 billion in cash and 28 billion in long term…

  • Ford posts massive earnings miss as warranty issues weigh on results

    Ford Motor came in well short of Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings expectations, while beating on revenue, due to warranty issues that have plagued the automaker for several years now. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 47 cents adjusted vs. 68 cents adjusted Automotive revenue: $44.81…