Recent Content by nitrene

  1. Tesla 2025

    Even though Musk has had trouble recently, I'm always amazed how many different tech companies he can run all in parallel. The same with the guy...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM in forum: Stocks

  2. Hedging ETFs

    All currency pegs will collapse. What will happen when the Hong Kong peg collapses? Calamity in the mortgage industry just like what happened to a...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM in forum: Options

  3. Hedging ETFs

    I was partially hedged during the Covid collapse. I had weekly ES puts 10% OTM. It did eventually kick in and by day 3 of the collapse I was...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM in forum: Options

  4. Tesla 2025

    I still have a hard time believing Musk thought going MAGA was going to help his brand sell more cars. I think a combination of arrogance & his...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM in forum: Stocks

  5. 15 Norway Pop Songs You Need to Add to Your Playlist

    One of my favorite 1980s acts was the Norwegian duo of Georg Kajanus & Frankie also know as Data. Their 1985 album Elegant Machinery was amazing....
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM in forum: Music, Movies and TV

  6. Wildchild in on Boeing

    Another "great" plane by Boeing, the 787, crashes and kills more people. Management is crap and should be fired immediately. When will the Board...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM in forum: Stocks

  7. I'm Old Enough That...

    Elaine Garzarelli was the lady who used to come on Rukeyser's show who predicted the 1987 crash. She was pretty smart. She had a pretty good...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. Addiction to ultra-processed foods?

    I was mainly referring to their microwavable oatmeal. It barely even tastes like oatmeal.
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM in forum: Health and Fitness

  9. Favorite (Healthy?) Snack.

    Is JIF better than Skippy? The weirdest peanut butter is the one where it is premixed with grape jelly. I think that was Skippy. Best is to just...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM in forum: Health and Fitness

  10. I'm Old Enough That...

    It's amazing how little Liz Ann Sonders aged over the years. I remember the other lady who used to be on WSW all the time -- I believe she...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM in forum: Retail Brokers

  11. Geoffrey Hinton's warning

    Great episode. The best part is when the CEO gets canned and is talking to the engineer he canned earlier in the episode. That was the hallmark...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM in forum: Artificial Intelligence

  12. Addiction to ultra-processed foods?

    Most of the foods especially here in the US is processed. Cereal is junk food compared to Irish Oatmeal or British Porridge. Even the Oatmeal that...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM in forum: Health and Fitness

  13. Australia’s property boom making the nation poorer

    Reminds me of the old USSR saying: We pretend to work & the government pretends to pay us. Here in California the wanna be Gordon Gekko Governor...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM in forum: Economics

  14. Gotta love ZERO RISK in the SP500 = $$$

    It's just a replay of the December 2018 to Feb 2020 market under Trump. $COMPX +59%. Instead of Powell folding to Trump and lowering rates in 2019...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 9, 2025 in forum: Trading

  15. CRCL - Circle Internet Group

    Probably better to post this in the Crypto section but I did buy 100 shares at $79 on the first day. Looks like there is a boom coming in the IPO...
    Post by: nitrene, Jun 7, 2025 in forum: Stocks