Author: pluginever

Why has Royal Caribbean caught such a run up in stock growth while CCL & NCLH cannot seem to break out of their lows? 1. It’s clear that RCL has had a better 2023 in terms of profit relative to revenues. 2. They asset to liability ratio is comparable to CCL’s, but not NCLH. NCLH’s…

ESPN has gone off the air on a major carrier for the second straight year during the U.S. Open tennis tournament and in the midst of the first full weekend of college football. Disney Entertainment channels went dark on DirecTV Sunday night after the sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement. The move angered some sports…

Chinese electric car giant BYD sold a record number of passenger vehicles in August, with sales of hybrids growing faster than those of battery-only cars. The company said August sales rose by 30% year-on-year to 370,854 passenger cars. Its sales of battery-only cars rose by nearly 12%, while hybrid-powered vehicle sales surged by 48% to…

The general use is to just do some basic SPY wheeling. For context, I personally don't care if: Brokerages selling my order flow. Brokerages “shutting down” a stock while it's meme peaking (I don't put serious money into meme stocks). A brokerage has on-the-phone customer service. (I realize other people care about these factors, and…

I’ve been doing a lot of research and studying of how options work before I start doing them and one thing I don’t really get is when you go on to a lot of online brokerages to open a contract, such as Robinhood, there is a buy and sell for call and put options. I…

I’m investing through schwabb and for a while I’ve been investing in a few mutual funds. I realized recently that one of the funds SWLSX has an expense ratio of 1.01%, and one of the similar funds, SWLGX has an expense ratio of 0.04%. I was looking at moving the funds from the higher expense…

People seem to think of a large capital gains distribution from a mutual fund as a bad thing. (A distribution in the tens of thousands, say, or one worth 10-15% of your holding in that mutual fund. See Vanguard VTIVX in 2021 for a recent example). But why exactly? This isn't meant as a rhetorical…

Hey all, just a quick question. Looking at things like SWPPX, SPY, VOO, etc — they all track the S&P 500, but they also have returned slightly different growth over time. Do they not all track the same stocks and should therefore logically return the same amount? Is it just a difference in expense ratios?…

This is the daily discussion, so anything stocks related is fine, but the theme for today is on technical analysis (TA), but if TA is not your thing then just ignore the theme. Some helpful day to day links, including news: Finviz for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks Bloomberg market news StreetInsider…

I just want to know and hear from people who've actually taught themselves trading and were able to quit their dayjobs. I work a 9-5 and contribute to a 401k & IRA every month blah blah. I plan to continue to do all that but I dream of making enough to live off interest and…