nothing special but not a major loss after the downturn. trying to remain defensive.

2024 presents the opportunity to change my habits for investing. I've traditionally tried to shoot for good stocks and holding on till there was a good move up. but I really didn't have enough capital to make this a great strategy. I'm planning on improving my returns with some options trading. I'll hold about 85% between quality companies and play the options at about 5%. I'll reduce crypto to 5 % and put 5%in cash or cash equivalents with the hope of picking up some bar...

here's a nice Electric Bull!

I'm looking at the student loan resumption as causing downward pressure on consumer spending.  lingering inflation will have its effect too.

I've enjoyed the social content a lot and am watching non US based investments and investors to round out my views on investing. all the great perspectives may help you as well.

logistics on the scale required definitely requires capital but that business is low margin. this move is better and avails them to other delivery systems as new ones evolve.

I've yet to do more than buy and hold. mostly by gut instinct. not working well in a bear market. I'm going to do a better job as I am getting more comfortable with true trading as opposed to "investing".  I will at least develop an exit strategy with stop losses.

interest rate hikes and inflation will erode any profits being made outside of the deposit base. stock buybacks has reduced the amount of available cash to survive any cost increases. plus flight of depositors to larger banks makes access to the lowest cost products makes the margin squeeze extremely rough. I see a few dozen more failures. predatory behavior by larger banks will let them pick through the failures. probably a few distressed pre-failure mergers also. I...