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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should create a WallStreetBets Lemmy community here to discuss our possible trades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

[email protected]

There is one, but it's not very active.

Are there others?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

From the article:

“We see some irony in the recent outperformance by foreign markets over the U.S. markets. In our view, foreign companies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America are likely to suffer even more from deployment of tariffs than companies in the U.S.”

I think they are overestimating the amount of trade flowing into the US. Tariffs will directly impacg US companies and customers, but they'll also decrease the demand for foreign products. That will cause a challenge, if not outright recession worldwide, but I still think that foreign companies would be able to mitigate the drop in demand from the US better than US companies coping with supply shortages and higher prices.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Looks like I might have made the right choice keeping my non-401k savings out of a market index fund for now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not unless you're retiring soon. You want to buy when things are low.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's why I said "for now". I was mulling buying in after the election when corporate interests were riding high on a "pro business" President. But I didn't. Now I have that cash free to buy in when we hit the bottom of the slump, if there is a bottom...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There might not be a bottom? Damn.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I sold all of my stocks a couple weeks back and I'm feeling pretty fucking good about that right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My employee stock purchase plan went through recently. I missed selling before the dip caused by all the other employees selling. Normally I will ride it out for a bit and the stock jumps back up but this time I had a sense it was going to just keep dropping. I waited a couple hours for it to partially rebound and managed to time it perfectly, it's only been downhill since I sold lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well done. Timing the re-entry is difficult as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To be totally honest, this isn't about stock market gamesmanship to me--I'm not trying to buy the dip over the next few days. (If anything I'm waiting for the AI bubble, which I personally believe is bigger than the .com bubble, to blow the fuck up.)

Between incompetent idiots and assholes running everything, ridiculously inflated stock prices, meme stocks and market manipulation, on-again-off-again trade war bullshit, and the AI bubble, I'm happy to have my money out of the market. I have zero faith in the people who are running our economy to do anything worth investing in, and I'll be perfectly happy to find alternative means of investing over the next 2-4 years.

Frankly, I'm sick of putting almost my entire life savings in the hands of corporations and the delusional k-holed fucknuts like Musk who run them. It's a bonus that I'm no longer the shameful owner of bullshit ETFs and company shares that serve only to enrich and empower the richest corporate oligarchs.

I've lived through multiple crashes already, maybe I'll hop back into the stock market during the next one, or maybe not because fuck this whole system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm SO READY to buy the dip in a year and a half

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Recent recessions have shown that the top 1% get richer after the recession. It makes sense when you think about the super rich having the cash to invest is now much cheaper stocks and property while everyone else is struggling to make ends meet.

So I wonder how much the Nazi and the monkey want to avoid a recession. The monkey does not have to worry about reelection and the Nazi is a psychopath.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

trying to look at the positive side, some house market value correction would be nice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The TCJA passed in Trump's first term. It cut the mortgage interest deduction.

Mortgage interest deduction for newly purchased homes (and second homes) was lowered from total loan balances of $1 million under current law to $750,000. Interest from home equity loans (aka second mortgages) is no longer deductible, unless the money is used for home improvements.

The mortgage interest deduction is a tax break for homeowners, and Trump Term 1 saw that get cut. One would expect that cut to generally apply downwards pressure on house prices, since it makes it more-expensive to borrow money to buy a house.

If one assumes that one could use that as a guidepost as to policy during a second term, maybe that'll continue.

kagis

https://doeren.com/viewpoint/president-trumps-proposed-tax-plans

To that end, GOP lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have compiled a 50-page document that identifies potential avenues they may take, as well as how much these tax and other fiscal changes would cost or save.

To help generate savings, the GOP document proposes making changes to various tax breaks, such as:

  • The mortgage interest deduction. Suggestions include eliminating the deduction or lowering the current $750,000 limit to $500,000.

Sounds like it. So that could push prices of houses downwards.

I haven't been following the situation there, so this is just a quick skim, mind.

EDIT: I'd also add that some of Trump's policies may have dramatic increases on house prices, depending on what he actually does at any given point in time; he's not really one for providing clear guidance, and even when he does, one can't very well take his statements at face value. Two potentially relevant factors include:

  • Trade disputes with Canada. The US gets a lot of its lumber from Canada, and North American homes are typically wood-framed. If lumber becomes more expensive, that will drive up the materials cost of construction of new homes.

  • Illegal immigration. If Trump actually has a significant impact on the illegal immigrant population, it will increase labor costs in construction, as construction makes use of a lot of illegal immigrant labor. That will drive up the labor cost of construction of new homes. My personal take is that most of Trump on immigration is political theater for domestic politics, but it's worth keeping in mind.

So it's hard to judge what factors might dominate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The biggest influence on housing prices, by far, is the zoning code. Prices are never going to stabilize long term as long as cities keep legally prohibiting supply from meeting demand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not if the Fed steps in and bails out Trump with big cuts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which honestly could be the point of all this, crash the economy so the fed is forced to cut rates to near zero and all his billionaire buddies can enjoy the fire sale of the republic on the cheap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My GIC came due and I was considering mutual funds, the bank employee (in those services not like a random one) even said now may not be the best time to do that due to the way markets are in flux. Like they make money if I put it into mutual funds. Unless she just didn't want to help me shrug that's sort of a possibility since they didn't call for our previous appointment when my last one was due. Least it's making more than my bank account I guess but this seems a bit more down than usual too, mean that's usually a good time to buy but who knows when they manipulate it up? Not us regular folk, who have more to lose when they absolutely tank it before it makes gains and a pittance because I chose the wrong one.

Also I'm sure I made the incorrect choice, you're welcome to tell me how badly I've chosen. I used to play RPG games, in D&D I rolled a 1 for attack and 20 for ability check twice in 4 rolls, I always have the worst luck. Go to slots and see my buddy with a bucket of coins when mine ran out in as many tries as my coinage allowed. So if I chose to buy the markets would suck longer lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Been saying this was part of their plan for a long time. Expropriate money from the government after getting around the ability to track it.

Crash the market.

Buy up big when it's crashed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you do politics for the rich and powerful only and the wallstreet still goes downhill, you have seriously fucked up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No no, it has to tank so everything is stupid cheap to buy up since the average person will now be too poor to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Better yet if you can do it during rapid inflation. Because then the real assets you buy will outpace anything the stock market can do.

And squeeze the fuck out of the little guy. If they can pay rent and nothing else, then you don't have to worry about any competition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This didned have to happen ...what a damn joke..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surely mortgage interest rates will follow right? Right? Yeah, right...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's based on inflation and with the tariffs I've got bad news regarding inflation...

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