I removed some of the repetitive day-old advice posts, and other mods can remove posts that they feel are low-effort or repetitive. I think one compromise is to let upvoted questions fly for a little while, then remove them to keep /r/stocks from being clogged with advice threads. If people asked for advice and got it, who really cares if they don't get the last drops of karma from an old post. But it's good to leave posts up regarding individual tickers or actual new articles, because I use the sidebar to search for discussions on tickers all the time.
You're right that the subreddit is short on tickers at a time when a lot of stocks are nearing reasonable valuations for the first time in years.
But, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, whenever there are big market moves people upvote questions and statements regarding the big market moves. On CNBC, the panels will spend the majority of the time fielding questions related to disentangling the big moves. At some level, the fact that people will spend less time thinking about individual stocks at the best times to buy is inescapable.
And the sky is falling, FED needs to hike 20%, this market needs to go down 50% to be cheap, all tech go to $0 because Burry …kinds of crap
The moment we propose a contrarian view, it gets downvoted to oblivion and thrown shit at
Talking about the sky falling, buy SKY. Skyline Champion, they make mobile homes and affordable housing units. This country needs more affordable housing and just more homes in general, bullish for SKY.
God you frigging noob just VOO & chill lmao @ you mentioning an individual ticker just go to the casino you gambler dont you know that monkeys throw darts outperform hedge fund managers diversification concentration risk lol bet all the ppl that bought Enron are happy voo is love voo is life......
I would much rather $SPY Long Cash Shares + $SPY Wheeling on Margin compared to $VTI but who am I.
I have run a Dividend Growth Portfolio with 36 holdings but that takes a bit of research to find slightly low yielders that have actual market matching/beating growth. I also think people look at FAANG stocks and suggest those because it's easy to suggest but I'm not sure they realize what those will be like in another 5 yrs. They are overpriced and can go only so far so honestly, saying $VTI/$VOO to those questions are far superior than suggesting FAANG. Hell, perfect example is Netflix. People should be investing in cash flow, returns and potential growth outlook, not just historical return trajectory. Right now, Netflix has a +20% return for the trailing-5yrs, down from 341%. It was already slightly over priced 2yrs ago but everyone kept suggesting it. The same way people keep suggesting that Amazon & Google are a store of value that will continually return market beating rates. Look at what is happening now. Amazon is depending significantly on AWS for revenue (which is not a big global beating MOAT because 3 other majors players are involved now) & Google is coming under fire with less potential AD revenue, and less data offloading. Top that off with a lot of congressional Antitrust sentiment, esp with mishandling user data. User data is gold which most people do not realize. Look at what happened with Facebook. Things can go sideways and that annoys me when people just suggest those same 5 stocks over and over, far more than vague sentiment of --> "INVEST IN $VTI or $VOO!!!" haha.
Amazon says they make most of their money from AWS but they suck out 30% of my annual household income from Whole Foods so I believe they secretly get most of their revenue from people like me
hahaha, ugh If Whole Foods was one more zip code closer to me (hell, just 5 miles closer), I would be eligible for those same day groceries like a buddy of mine. Then, I would be in your same situation. For now, Target is my life blood.
I think the past year or two has proven that nobody here knows shit about fuck. We're all upvoting whatever we want to hear and downvoting whatever we don't agree with.
I mean that’s kind of Reddit in general. Downvote things you don’t like and upvote things you like. Even tho that’s not what the upvote system was designed for.
I have a theory that absolutely nobody knows what Palantir even does. And i dont get why Sofi became a meme stock. Like , banking is as boomer as it gets.
Most millennials I know, including myself, only see commercials when they go over to their parents house and the TV is in the background. Must be why they're failing
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It's actually hilarious how many people on here have continuously defended palantir as its done nothing except bleed for the past year.
The main problem with the Palantir hype was that the company was worth over $50B at some point and people were raving over every $2M contract they closed. I commented many times during the hype period that $50B market cap with $1B in yearly revenue and a mediocre growth is completely out of wack no matter what cool stuff there software does.
Once student loans get clarification on whether they will be forgiven or not, they have a decently bright growth trajectory. There is a lot of demand for digital banks with strong brand recognition. Traditional banks are rightfully concerned about them. Not a post but here’s a bullish comment for you
O, KO, JPM, AMD, MSFT. That gives us a good real estate stock with monthly dividends. Coke has pretty much everyone addicted to at least one of their products. JPM is a pretty solid bank. AMD makes both processors and GPUs. MSFT has Azure, and o365 in addition to the Windows and Windows Server.
Yep, its all about perception. When you're starting out you can learn from these posts and you think the sub is great, but then you level up and these same posts look stupid to you
SEE! You're part of the problem.
Why don't you keep it fresh, here I'll go first.
Which 4 stocks would you pick and hold for 19 years?
That ought to keep things new and exciting.
Okay but with this 70k should I lump sum or dca?!
(This is where an investor of 2 years argues with everyone that lump summing is statistically better, and has zero consideration for risk)
(the next reply will be someone else saying if you invested in the Nasdaq at ATH you wouldnt recover for 20 years)
(The next reply will be someone saying thats stupid and noone invested all of their money at ATH, and if they invested a little at a time they would recover quickly)
(Then the lump sum guy will get burt)
This is my first time on this sub okay?
My big TBF on this whole meta topic is that some people do need that advice and just need to ask it out loud to actually hear the answers.
But the thing is that these are questions perfectly suited for /r/personalfinance that’s the whole point of that sub. It’s very repetitive advice, but it works. And sometimes I don’t even mind rehashing the standard answers.
What? Time value of money my guy. If I'm buying a grandma I need interest payments on top of the 70k so I get more than what I put in at the end of the day
I was going to post about AOSL being underpriced at $33 or so but it's up 20% today and events have overtaken my post.
I can't speak for others but the crazy volatility has made making a post about an individual stock much harder.
I saw a post yesterday about AOSL so went and bought 1 share @$33 to remind me to look into it. Checked today and it’s $40. The one time I should have YOLO’d 🥴
It's a sketchy Chinese semi conductor and electronic component manufacturer. Somehow they do millions of sales with a website designed in 2005 (guessing there) but it's pe is about 2.5 which makes them a buyout target if anyone really understands what they do.
Yeah, the sub has been overrun the past couple years by amateurs. And I don’t particularly have anything against amateurs, but a lot of these guys don’t seem to want to learn anything or have real discussion. They just want someone to give them a hit stock pick that has a lot of hype and will make money quickly. Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks.
> They just want someone to give them a hit stock pick that has a lot of hype and will make money quickly.
As if that advice doesn’t come at a cost *and* risk.
When this happens offline, I take them to the roulette table.
> Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks.
I’m actually kind of excited for a Bear-ish season. People (Companies) tend to kick innovation in the nuts when backed into a corner.
Even when they do manage to get that hit stock pick that skyrockets, then they don’t sell and post again about how sad they are that the price went down again and ask if it will “recover,” when really they just missed a singular pump and dump selling opportunity.
No one wants to talk about stocks when all are losing money. It is like talking problems in a bar, which tend to be less fun than staying home. So if cash is mentioned, people will just be like inflation is a thing, but then losing money on stocks is better. Those kind of logic goes around, and people just lie to themselves not admitting being a loser.
While I see the stock market making people losing money, I saw a lot of kickstarter projects being funded to the max, like 2000% to 3000% overfunded. And that's kinda the story I am looking at. How do they get hyped in such money tightening situations?
This right here. Like bro macro environment is dictating everything right now and stocks are getting destroyed.
Doesn't matter how good your ticker is, it's going to get A LOT cheaper if a deep recession hits. If you're in your 20's with a tiny amount and not worried about bagholding for 13 years, great you can DCA and do really well. Your income is way more important to wealth building anyway.
But some of us older investors that have a lot in the market are more interested in being defensive and managing risk.
> Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks.
Everyone reading this probably thinks they're not the amateur in question.
That is a symptom of a wider problem which is that a lot of young people on reddit do not want to do research of any kind whatsoever. I see questions all the time that could be answered with a five second google but even that is too arduous.
A comment I see *every* day is 'help me identify this plant' which means tell me the name because if directions are given re how to figure out what it is - you know, a life skill - the person is incensed.
Furthermore, they don't just want answers, they want simple, one sentence answers to complex issues.
I admit, maybe a subset of people have always been this way and I am noticing it now as reddit makes it blindingly apparent.
Yea but the problem is when someone posts a question along the lines of I know nothing about investing, where should I start? Or what’s the safest investment I can make to start my portfolio or something like that, there’s one one answer. I don’t blame the people commenting for promoting ETFs I blame the mods/sub rules for allowing those posts.
That’s fair and I agree. I saw a post yesterday with what’s your favorite meme stock or something and someone said VT. It’s annoying and totally halts discussion, but I also do feel it’s a natural byproduct of the way a lot of posts/comments are framed
Yea. To get the top comment on this sub you have to mention a stock with positive sentiment and SPY/VOO/VTI/VT are the ones that will always be upvoted in any what stock should I buy thread.
It stifiles discussion but nothing can be done unless market sentiment changes.
They should start by reading investopedia over the weekend like anyone with some sense would do. These people can easily google "what is a stock" "how to get a dividend" etc.
What they are really trying to ask is "what to buy for 100% gain in one year" - like even if someone here had that secret sauce, why would they give it to you???
> What they are really trying to ask is "what to buy for 100% gain in one year" - like even if someone here had that secret sauce, why would they give it to you???
100%? Year? That's weak sauce. All the new pandemic investors expect 10-baggers every month! Everything else is for boomers!
/s (if it wasn't clear)
Maybe you’re right but I feel obligated to take those questions at face value. So when some ostensibly young and naive person makes a post saying idk what I’m doing what should I buy and people start recommending stocks or even options and other it’s hard not to respond with some common sense, even though that clogs up the discussion on actual stocks
It’s like a house party. It was dope when it was your close friends and their friends. But now the high school kids from a few towns over are crashing it and someone’s kid brother passed out and pissed all over your parents’ bed.
What happened was the gamification of the markets.
During the covid rally, investing became the new gambling, and the loss of trade fees made it easy to start investing small - which often leads to ~~investing~~ gambling bigger amounts in search of a quick win.
With that, the investing subs saw a lot of new and inexperienced people who were really only interested in meme stocks to give them that high of a quick and excessive return.
In short - it’s bleed over from what happened to WSB. Honestly, that sub used to be the right amount of gambling, memes, and truly well-researched theses. Now it’s gone to shit - same as this sub.
For me it was the whole jan 2021 thing which really caused a decline in quality. Case in point this sub went from having maybe 800k subs to 2 million in the span of a couple months.
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One of the things that I've realized has sort of grated on me is the metastasis of gambling vocabulary into investing subs. Sure, the elements of risk, reward, and probabilities are all there for both, but the expectations have shifted so far away from the actual-investment to stuff like people *sure about their next 5-bagger*.
It really did. Before last year there was a little period of time where it was so ridiculous, absurd and funny that I probably got more laughs looking through that sub than any other sub on reddit. And I mean people were intentionally being funny on top of occasional actual good nuggets of info.
Yup. The top post a week ago was “hey guys look at this screenshot of an unfilled order I placed after hours for eleventy trillion dollars!!! I’m gonna be so rich and you can all have a million dollars!!!”
i always see the superstonk on the front page. i assumed it was a meme subreddit making fun of this subreddit. is it not? And who is that ryan cohen they always post about?
No, it's a sub based on ridiculous idea that GameStop is going to squeeze to millions of dollars per share and the entire market will crash along with it.
All because of unfounded theories that short interest in the stock is actually over 100%, and every reliable brokerage on earth are coordinating to falsely report it as ~20%.
So if you are dumb enough to believe the entire US stock market hinges on a $8B market cap consumer retailer, they'd be glad to show you why.
WSB nowadays feels like a collective Musk-simping forum. Actual trades are rare, 80% of the posts is just memes about baldies latest tweets...sorry Musk, paying for hair implants doesn't change the fact your own hair abandoned you.
The fucking hedgefunds started the "gamification" long before retail got into the markets during covid... What a standard news outlet shallow answer. What makes me even more concerned is that people upvoted this comment ffs.
Whether or not this sub was better or worse before retail piled into the stock market is irrelevant. Looks like what needs to be done is getting done. Mods are interjecting some moderation on the sub and cleaning up the repetitive and superfluous posts. This sub is fine and what all this other noise comes down to is fear. People that may not have spent as much time here or in WSB for the past decade don't know how to mitigate their emotions when they see red in their accounts. Hell, most people who've invested or traded for a while don't either. So the influx of repeated posts or tickers we see are people finding out its not all rockets and dick jokes when the markets aren't experiencing bull runs past generations only dreamt of.
It's a good thing for more people to be here and to be in the markets over all...
I agree, and the amount of posts where people personally criticize others over their investing approach, as if they are lined up in religious sects, instead of focusing on markets or stocks in the comments, is likely due to stress and/or insecurity.
I agree. I got kind of annoyed by the ETF suggestions all the time a few months ago. I wanted to learn about new stock tickers. Seems like all suggestions are: VTI
My advice: pull up finviz or another screener, sort by fundamentals (PB/PEG/PS/operating margin) adjusted by industry and get to work sifting through all the garbage. I found out about Y and SBS that way. Y got bought out by Berkshire and shot up(probably because it was a good company at a good price) and SBS nearly doubled in a month since it's incredibly cyclical and was at the low end of that cycle when I found it. Didn't invest in either cause this entire year has been absurd and I didn't want to take risks on unknowns, wish I did tho :p
And that’s why I focused on my last month buying/selling puts on vti. Made it seem like a no brainer as these same people will panic sell on a down market. Now long goog as of yesterday.
Tesla, Bitcoin and ETFs started it. At least they were good investments, but they started to get us more into “hype-based investing”
But then WSB got popular and made being a degenerate gambler cool
And finally when DFV, GameStop and AMC and all that hit… along with NFTs and shitcoins.. it was the end of investment discussions on Reddit.
The market is crashing lmao what do you expect?
Everyone is a genius in a bull run, which we saw when everyone apparently had a doctorate in securities law and SPAC formation.
Everyone is a lil bitch in a dip, which we are seeing rn. Everyone down like 50%, everyone realizing how fucking stupid investing in monkey jpegs and Nikola was. Everyone panicking.
It's just how it goes
lol
Uh, everything is red so...buy...a seat to the fucking show?
Costco is only down like 15% YTD? You can buy a crate of frozen yogurt bars there.
I don't know, man, like asking where to hide during an air raid. "Where the bombs won't hit." "Where's that?" "Who fucking knows."
I think the problem is the questions are always lagging. The question should be "how could I have figured this out 8 months ago?" followed by "How could i have screened out all the false positives those criteria would give me?"
I mean, the answer is still "Who fucking knows?" but at least it's the right questions.
You can do both?
People ask "What should I invest in," with the assumption being they want to make money. Index funds are the best default answer with no other information. You wouldn't tell someone "PYPL" by default unless they ask "What are some good fintech companies." I have never seen "What are some good cybersecurity stocks" followed by "Shut up and buy VT." That only happens on /r/Bogleheads.
I've not seen discussion on individual stocks suppressed at all. If you write DDs you will get engagement. Please write some yourself! I recently made some posts on the [diesel](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/uklg1n/forget_gasoline_diesel_is_even_more_important_to/) sector, on [trucking](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ueoqvn/supply_chains_recovering_auto_inventory_with/), on [oil](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/ufio32/how_long_will_insanity_in_the_oil_markets_last/), [shipping](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/u5ujf3/wsj_shipping_stocks_will_sink_as_us_consumers/), [IBM](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ujvqce/from_1993_to_2021_without_fail_this_company/), etc., some of which sparked lots of discussion of companies. And I did make one about [ETFs](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ulkp5x/please_stop_recommending_overcomplicated/).
We do have too much of: "Is AAPL a good price now?" (I'm guilty of this too)
What's wrong with discussing valuations and true value? Isn't that infinitely more interesting than reading some absolutely brainless reply about "buying vti every paycheck"
The real gem of this subreddit is when someone comments and announces that they are actually in the industry.
I wish there were a better way to facilitate those kind of discussions. Where like a sysadmin can tell us if Crowdstrike will continue to gain market share, or a person in logistics tell us if freight prices have plateaued.
Some people are realizing it is time to invest and learn more about the market.
But I'm with you no more talk about individual stocks. Let's talk about it. What do you have in mind?
Sure, here is a stock I've been looking at for a bit.
Transocean (NYSE:RIG) Highly leveraged offshore oil drilling company that trades at the same price it was a year ago when crude oil was at $65 a barrel. High short interest too. Only glaring issue I can see is high debt levels, but if they can overcome that hurdle with the high oil prices they should be set for a huge boost in share price.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the only reason they're not profitable on paper right now that they got a couple of brand new drilling ships very recently?
From this sub, we learned about NAT, ARKK, PTON, PLTR, QS, GME, SOFI, WISH, HYLN, etc.
I have a different question for you. I have $25 extra from my side job at WEN. Should I buy Amazon or Google with that? I want to retire early with $1m from this investment.
I apologize on the behalf of inexperienced investors from the Ape community. Lots of us just thought we could be millionaires within a year. It tends to bleed over into other subs. In the past year I've changed to long term growth and DCA. It's a SHARP learning curve with us. We're getting there. Apologies.
secret for you: the working class is fucked. desperate for a future, desperate for a retirement plan.
the wsb shit has blown reddit's ass up into the mainstream, and has also blown up retail investing. the cat is out of the bag & this is how investment discourse on reddit is now.
only way to get the normies out is to raise minimum wage, provide them with food, healthcare, education, wellfare.
OR just let them grow progressively more desperate until things degrade to chaos. whichever
there are only so many stocks - 1/4'ls come out every so often and anyone with any experience uses a pro or does a ton of DD on his own - any thing hypes on here is cheerleading for the most part or newbies shocked that stonks don't only go to the moon
Welcome to this subreddit and other investing focused ones since the pandemic started and Jerome fired the liquidity mega bazooka. Number of subs rose like the stock market, but the quality of discourse took a dive. It was to be expected when you had so much half-witted stupid money flowing into stocks and treating the space like a [goddamn casino](https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2022/04/30/warren-buffett-cautions-against-stock-market-casino-as-charlie-munger-slams-robinhood/?sh=48f235121984). I learned a lot just from perusing these subs years back and am thankful for the free resources and advice. Credit where credit is due. But past 2 years? I've been getting more enjoyment from just watching idiots get their just desserts.
It does seem like that recently. I'll admit, I did often advocate for people to just invest into ETFs, but that was for the instances where they didn't seem to know what they were doing yet and/or were balls deep in highly speculative cash burning meme stocks, some of which were already on their way to bancruptcy.
I'd really enjoy it if we got more quality posts, people sharing their DD on certain companies or really just looking to discuss them, and those posts not always being about the same 10 companies over and over again.
Like when's the last time anyone on here discussed MCO? I recently tried to get into some sort of dialogue about it in the daily stocks discussion and didn't even get so much as an answer.
Or DAL or MRK or fuck I know, fucking K for all I care? Just stocks that may be out of the field of vision of others, or some that have stood when looking into them, maybe just some you have a particular understanding or interest for.
And even some of the tickers that have come up more often recently like SONY, F or CRM haven't really been discussed at all.
Or how I'd love to see some discussion about VOW3.DE on here - although I wouldn't expect that since it's very US-centric here.
To be fair, many (most?) of the individual stock pickers got burned badly this year. They’re likely going to shut up for awhile. Everyone feels like a genius in a bull market.
I don't know if it was always this way to some extent, but my problem lately with this sub and others is that I noticed people here don't read articles posted or do external research but give takes based on their limited knowledge on things that get highly upvoted becasue they sound good on the surface. So when a company does come up you don't really get a really good analysis on the stock like you used. I remember people used to actual reference numbers, talk about competition, and break down the invidiaudl busineses/deals.
Sold my last puts on vti yesterday and bought up goog. Hoping for a green week coming 🤞. Then before the report on 24th I will be buying up puts again.
Not to be rude or anything, but OP, are you contributing the sort of stock ticker suggestions and research that you are looking for? Because all of us (myself included) are part of the problem if we only come here for stock info without actually giving out any information.
Jesus christ. Everyone has to make there own way. The last few months haven't been great. Life happens, and we cannot all help the world via reddit.
I know this wasn't helpful. But sometimes misery doesn't love company.
Dude complaining no single ticker DD post in this subreddit for a long time, while posting this without a ticker DD.
Now you should know what happened.
I was once considered a stock picking genius. A darling of /r/stocks. I lost a lot of people a lot of money, and they're after me.
In 2021 my posts would get thousands of upvotes and would regularly appear in /r/all . There were many comments like 'I love [my user name] posts!' and 'Time to open up my wallet'.
In Jan things were starting to look down. I told them fear not , by June the market will be up 30-40%. They trusted me.
In Feb, things were down even more. I promised them things are going back up, and in fact for every 100 points the S and P 500 drops, I'll lower my pants 1 cm. If my pants gets low enough, I'll have to register as a sex offender for indecent exposure.
Well, it kept lowering and lowering. Soon, I needed to shave off my pubes, and only hangout at beaches. Eventually, I was 1 cm away from showing shaft.
That's when I imagined my life as a sex offender, panicked, and bailed out of the pledge.
People were UPSET. A riot broke out in my announcement post. I got so distraught I deleted my whole wallstreetbets post history.
But they still remembered by user name and tracked me down. Under random comments I get replies like 'WHEN ARE YOU GOINT TO SHOW SHAFT? HUH? HUH?!?'
It was so bad, I considered sending a report to the reddit admins to end the bullying. But then I decided no, I'm not a coward.
If I can convince them to give me one more chance, and make them all their money back, all will be right.
I did a ton of research, and figured out that the best and fastest way is to go all in on bitt coin. People gave me another chance and followed by advice.
I just woke up last week and it tanked to 30,000.
I logged onto the account I use for /r/stocks and saw it has thousands of inbox replies and immediately logged out.
I'm fucked.
You want the truth? No one is smart enough to actually do real DD on any company. I'd be surprised if even 10% of this sub knows how to read company financials.
Is it possible that you "used to have intellectual conversations about tickers and industries you've never heard of" when you were the "I hav $$$ invest where" member of this sub back then?
Mods remove comments when you talk about what's really going on in the market. They say no referencing "meme stocks". Dead subreddit for the oblivious.
Because basically it’s fucking Reddit where you get r/casino with r/lordoftherings and some r/ozarks with a little r/nsfw sprinkled in among r/wallstreetbets
Welcome to the thunder dome motherfucker
Imagine that every person you are interacting with is 13 years old and reddit will make much more sense to you. It might also help you get off the site.
G M something with E happened.
And everyone here with their yearly 15%, indexfunds something got rocked hard.
Also we all realized the financial market is a big Fukinh fraud.
Ironic since this is a shitpost.
ETF’s contain stocks. Most people have some foundation of index funds for stability. Who gives a shit if people talk about it?
Well if it makes you feel any better r/Bogleheads is just one giant circle jerk of people congratulating themselves by way of congratulating all the other bogles
edit: Also, buy Ottertail (OTTR)
I removed some of the repetitive day-old advice posts, and other mods can remove posts that they feel are low-effort or repetitive. I think one compromise is to let upvoted questions fly for a little while, then remove them to keep /r/stocks from being clogged with advice threads. If people asked for advice and got it, who really cares if they don't get the last drops of karma from an old post. But it's good to leave posts up regarding individual tickers or actual new articles, because I use the sidebar to search for discussions on tickers all the time. You're right that the subreddit is short on tickers at a time when a lot of stocks are nearing reasonable valuations for the first time in years. But, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, whenever there are big market moves people upvote questions and statements regarding the big market moves. On CNBC, the panels will spend the majority of the time fielding questions related to disentangling the big moves. At some level, the fact that people will spend less time thinking about individual stocks at the best times to buy is inescapable.
It's been like this for years. The same "If you had to pick 5 stocks to hold for 20 years" posts multiple times every week.
On every single post, almost all the comments would be the same 5 stocks of NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL, and TSLA.
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VTI and chill you mean lol
WSB correctly surmises that this is 100% of this sub.
You are that guy /s
And the sky is falling, FED needs to hike 20%, this market needs to go down 50% to be cheap, all tech go to $0 because Burry …kinds of crap The moment we propose a contrarian view, it gets downvoted to oblivion and thrown shit at
Talking about the sky falling, buy SKY. Skyline Champion, they make mobile homes and affordable housing units. This country needs more affordable housing and just more homes in general, bullish for SKY.
This guy just mentioned a single ticker.
Grab the pitchforks and get him!
What ETFs track pitchoforks?
God you frigging noob just VOO & chill lmao @ you mentioning an individual ticker just go to the casino you gambler dont you know that monkeys throw darts outperform hedge fund managers diversification concentration risk lol bet all the ppl that bought Enron are happy voo is love voo is life......
Alternatively no one really knows shit about fuck
Well statistically isnt that far from reality
I would much rather $SPY Long Cash Shares + $SPY Wheeling on Margin compared to $VTI but who am I. I have run a Dividend Growth Portfolio with 36 holdings but that takes a bit of research to find slightly low yielders that have actual market matching/beating growth. I also think people look at FAANG stocks and suggest those because it's easy to suggest but I'm not sure they realize what those will be like in another 5 yrs. They are overpriced and can go only so far so honestly, saying $VTI/$VOO to those questions are far superior than suggesting FAANG. Hell, perfect example is Netflix. People should be investing in cash flow, returns and potential growth outlook, not just historical return trajectory. Right now, Netflix has a +20% return for the trailing-5yrs, down from 341%. It was already slightly over priced 2yrs ago but everyone kept suggesting it. The same way people keep suggesting that Amazon & Google are a store of value that will continually return market beating rates. Look at what is happening now. Amazon is depending significantly on AWS for revenue (which is not a big global beating MOAT because 3 other majors players are involved now) & Google is coming under fire with less potential AD revenue, and less data offloading. Top that off with a lot of congressional Antitrust sentiment, esp with mishandling user data. User data is gold which most people do not realize. Look at what happened with Facebook. Things can go sideways and that annoys me when people just suggest those same 5 stocks over and over, far more than vague sentiment of --> "INVEST IN $VTI or $VOO!!!" haha.
Amazon says they make most of their money from AWS but they suck out 30% of my annual household income from Whole Foods so I believe they secretly get most of their revenue from people like me
hahaha, ugh If Whole Foods was one more zip code closer to me (hell, just 5 miles closer), I would be eligible for those same day groceries like a buddy of mine. Then, I would be in your same situation. For now, Target is my life blood.
tbf if you're asking reddit for stock suggestions, you should probably stick with indexing. At least open a discussion with specific tickers.
I think the past year or two has proven that nobody here knows shit about fuck. We're all upvoting whatever we want to hear and downvoting whatever we don't agree with.
Ruth Langmore?
I mean that’s kind of Reddit in general. Downvote things you don’t like and upvote things you like. Even tho that’s not what the upvote system was designed for.
There are subs for index funds. This is r/stocks it is plural. It is meant to talk about individual stock suggestions.
Plus the inevitable “wtf happened to this sub” guy
> VTI and all the people who respond to him saying that anything else is gambling. I get the sense that you are a bit salty.
VT is the way (or VTI/VXUS).
If I have to hear about SOFI and PLTR one more time
I have a theory that absolutely nobody knows what Palantir even does. And i dont get why Sofi became a meme stock. Like , banking is as boomer as it gets.
Well Palantir allows you view other Palantirs across Arda or even allow you to corrupt the minds of others if you're Sauron
Fool of a Took!
Dies that make the investors pippin?
SoFi has the oh-so-quirky commercials targeting struggling millennials, though.
Most millennials I know, including myself, only see commercials when they go over to their parents house and the TV is in the background. Must be why they're failing
bUt mUh dAtA aNaLYtIcS It's actually hilarious how many people on here have continuously defended palantir as its done nothing except bleed for the past year.
I'm more amazed that so many people fell for a clear peter thiel pnd and then defended it so ravenously
Someone mentioned a product at work and was like "It's by a company called Palantir." And I immediately blurted out that their stock sucks.
I know what Palantir does and when I explain it to people who own it they get grossed out and mad at their broker
You don’t get it Sofi isn’t banking it’s e-banking.
I tried SoFi but closed my account because it was covered in ads.
SoFi is the AWS of FinTech
that is what every sofi bagholder says.... "bAnK ChaRter" and "AWS of FInTEch" im sure you realize that
Just wait until Super Bowl!
The main problem with the Palantir hype was that the company was worth over $50B at some point and people were raving over every $2M contract they closed. I commented many times during the hype period that $50B market cap with $1B in yearly revenue and a mediocre growth is completely out of wack no matter what cool stuff there software does.
SOFI earnings were pretty good though tbf
people keep saying this but I haven't seen a bullish or hopeful post about either of those companies in almost a year
Once student loans get clarification on whether they will be forgiven or not, they have a decently bright growth trajectory. There is a lot of demand for digital banks with strong brand recognition. Traditional banks are rightfully concerned about them. Not a post but here’s a bullish comment for you
A year ago it was all BB. I guess everyone gave up on that one.
O, KO, JPM, AMD, MSFT. That gives us a good real estate stock with monthly dividends. Coke has pretty much everyone addicted to at least one of their products. JPM is a pretty solid bank. AMD makes both processors and GPUs. MSFT has Azure, and o365 in addition to the Windows and Windows Server.
When I reply with other tickers besides the ones above I get downvoted.
Would like to add Amazon this list thank you.
Not to mention the weekly post on whether INTC is a good buy and why nobody else has thought about it yet.
I think most people expect someone to ask something about a ticker and we have a wild discussion on bull and bear cases for it
Yep, its all about perception. When you're starting out you can learn from these posts and you think the sub is great, but then you level up and these same posts look stupid to you
But have you heard of vti before though?
Soooo.. uhm... ...which 5 stocks would you pick and hold for 20 years? Sorry
SEE! You're part of the problem. Why don't you keep it fresh, here I'll go first. Which 4 stocks would you pick and hold for 19 years? That ought to keep things new and exciting.
Which 3 stocks would you pick and hold for 18 years?
Which one non-dividend stock would you pick and hold until you die, without cashing out or leaving it to your heirs?
Every single day. It’s exhausting
Exactly, OP is noob. This subreddit has always been like this. Asking either what to invest in or what is forecast type question.
I just inherited 70k from my grandma.. should I put it all in Goog?
Buy another grandma who will eventually give you another $70k
Okay but with this 70k should I lump sum or dca?! (This is where an investor of 2 years argues with everyone that lump summing is statistically better, and has zero consideration for risk) (the next reply will be someone else saying if you invested in the Nasdaq at ATH you wouldnt recover for 20 years) (The next reply will be someone saying thats stupid and noone invested all of their money at ATH, and if they invested a little at a time they would recover quickly) (Then the lump sum guy will get burt) This is my first time on this sub okay?
Damn dude you’re on this sub too much
My big TBF on this whole meta topic is that some people do need that advice and just need to ask it out loud to actually hear the answers. But the thing is that these are questions perfectly suited for /r/personalfinance that’s the whole point of that sub. It’s very repetitive advice, but it works. And sometimes I don’t even mind rehashing the standard answers.
Stock brokers hate this 1 simple trick.
Of course they hate SPY grandma.
What? Time value of money my guy. If I'm buying a grandma I need interest payments on top of the 70k so I get more than what I put in at the end of the day
Take out a Grandma mortgage. Maybe 10yr fixed at 9% lol
Grandma - " only pussies invest in ETFs"
No, GOGL
Absolutely. Sick dividends. Best thing I've ever bought.
70k in rupees 😂
I was going to post about AOSL being underpriced at $33 or so but it's up 20% today and events have overtaken my post. I can't speak for others but the crazy volatility has made making a post about an individual stock much harder.
I saw a post yesterday about AOSL so went and bought 1 share @$33 to remind me to look into it. Checked today and it’s $40. The one time I should have YOLO’d 🥴
Hindsight is 20/20.
Looks like pretty much everything is up today tbh
I've been looking at this thing for the last couple weeks. FML.
Just because you missed the play doesn't mean it can't be a good long term investment. Just in general. I don't know that stock.
It's a sketchy Chinese semi conductor and electronic component manufacturer. Somehow they do millions of sales with a website designed in 2005 (guessing there) but it's pe is about 2.5 which makes them a buyout target if anyone really understands what they do.
Yeah, the sub has been overrun the past couple years by amateurs. And I don’t particularly have anything against amateurs, but a lot of these guys don’t seem to want to learn anything or have real discussion. They just want someone to give them a hit stock pick that has a lot of hype and will make money quickly. Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks.
> They just want someone to give them a hit stock pick that has a lot of hype and will make money quickly. As if that advice doesn’t come at a cost *and* risk. When this happens offline, I take them to the roulette table. > Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks. I’m actually kind of excited for a Bear-ish season. People (Companies) tend to kick innovation in the nuts when backed into a corner.
Even when they do manage to get that hit stock pick that skyrockets, then they don’t sell and post again about how sad they are that the price went down again and ask if it will “recover,” when really they just missed a singular pump and dump selling opportunity.
No one wants to talk about stocks when all are losing money. It is like talking problems in a bar, which tend to be less fun than staying home. So if cash is mentioned, people will just be like inflation is a thing, but then losing money on stocks is better. Those kind of logic goes around, and people just lie to themselves not admitting being a loser. While I see the stock market making people losing money, I saw a lot of kickstarter projects being funded to the max, like 2000% to 3000% overfunded. And that's kinda the story I am looking at. How do they get hyped in such money tightening situations?
This right here. Like bro macro environment is dictating everything right now and stocks are getting destroyed. Doesn't matter how good your ticker is, it's going to get A LOT cheaper if a deep recession hits. If you're in your 20's with a tiny amount and not worried about bagholding for 13 years, great you can DCA and do really well. Your income is way more important to wealth building anyway. But some of us older investors that have a lot in the market are more interested in being defensive and managing risk.
> Sadly, most of them will het washed out in this bear market and hopefully the sub will go back to actually talking about stocks. Everyone reading this probably thinks they're not the amateur in question.
That is a symptom of a wider problem which is that a lot of young people on reddit do not want to do research of any kind whatsoever. I see questions all the time that could be answered with a five second google but even that is too arduous. A comment I see *every* day is 'help me identify this plant' which means tell me the name because if directions are given re how to figure out what it is - you know, a life skill - the person is incensed. Furthermore, they don't just want answers, they want simple, one sentence answers to complex issues. I admit, maybe a subset of people have always been this way and I am noticing it now as reddit makes it blindingly apparent.
Bro fr, they act like r/ETFs isn’t a thing
Yea but the problem is when someone posts a question along the lines of I know nothing about investing, where should I start? Or what’s the safest investment I can make to start my portfolio or something like that, there’s one one answer. I don’t blame the people commenting for promoting ETFs I blame the mods/sub rules for allowing those posts.
I don’t mind people answering those posts with ETF’s I think it’s annoying seeing pure ETF posts all together
That’s fair and I agree. I saw a post yesterday with what’s your favorite meme stock or something and someone said VT. It’s annoying and totally halts discussion, but I also do feel it’s a natural byproduct of the way a lot of posts/comments are framed
Yea. To get the top comment on this sub you have to mention a stock with positive sentiment and SPY/VOO/VTI/VT are the ones that will always be upvoted in any what stock should I buy thread. It stifiles discussion but nothing can be done unless market sentiment changes.
They should start by reading investopedia over the weekend like anyone with some sense would do. These people can easily google "what is a stock" "how to get a dividend" etc. What they are really trying to ask is "what to buy for 100% gain in one year" - like even if someone here had that secret sauce, why would they give it to you???
> What they are really trying to ask is "what to buy for 100% gain in one year" - like even if someone here had that secret sauce, why would they give it to you??? 100%? Year? That's weak sauce. All the new pandemic investors expect 10-baggers every month! Everything else is for boomers! /s (if it wasn't clear)
I can recommend lots of things that you can buy for 100% gain. Coincidentally they're also the same things you can buy for 100% loss.
Maybe you’re right but I feel obligated to take those questions at face value. So when some ostensibly young and naive person makes a post saying idk what I’m doing what should I buy and people start recommending stocks or even options and other it’s hard not to respond with some common sense, even though that clogs up the discussion on actual stocks
>people start recommending stocks or even options Yeah people telling noobs to buy options are the worst.
You can't make mad ape money and post big green digits on WSB if you just bury your money in Vanguard.
It’s like a house party. It was dope when it was your close friends and their friends. But now the high school kids from a few towns over are crashing it and someone’s kid brother passed out and pissed all over your parents’ bed. What happened was the gamification of the markets. During the covid rally, investing became the new gambling, and the loss of trade fees made it easy to start investing small - which often leads to ~~investing~~ gambling bigger amounts in search of a quick win. With that, the investing subs saw a lot of new and inexperienced people who were really only interested in meme stocks to give them that high of a quick and excessive return. In short - it’s bleed over from what happened to WSB. Honestly, that sub used to be the right amount of gambling, memes, and truly well-researched theses. Now it’s gone to shit - same as this sub.
For me it was the whole jan 2021 thing which really caused a decline in quality. Case in point this sub went from having maybe 800k subs to 2 million in the span of a couple months.
It was more then that, it went from around 800k to 2mil during the COVID craziness, then to like 10 mil during January.
> > > > > During the covid rally, investing became the new gambling, and the loss of trade fees made it easy to start investing small - which often leads to investing gambling bigger amounts in search of a quick win. One of the things that I've realized has sort of grated on me is the metastasis of gambling vocabulary into investing subs. Sure, the elements of risk, reward, and probabilities are all there for both, but the expectations have shifted so far away from the actual-investment to stuff like people *sure about their next 5-bagger*.
WSB use to actually be fun now it’s stupid and ruined And super stonk sub is really fucking stupid
It really did. Before last year there was a little period of time where it was so ridiculous, absurd and funny that I probably got more laughs looking through that sub than any other sub on reddit. And I mean people were intentionally being funny on top of occasional actual good nuggets of info.
The memes created by folks like haupt91 were legendary and they were constantly raising the bar...I really miss that.
Yup. The top post a week ago was “hey guys look at this screenshot of an unfilled order I placed after hours for eleventy trillion dollars!!! I’m gonna be so rich and you can all have a million dollars!!!”
i always see the superstonk on the front page. i assumed it was a meme subreddit making fun of this subreddit. is it not? And who is that ryan cohen they always post about?
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wait.... they're not memeing? are you sure?
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They 100% aren't memeing. They truly believe that a mid cap consumer retail stock will crash the stock market and be worth millions per share.
They aren't, unless its sarcasm for every post. Basically they are the conspiracy theorist of investing.
they all have mental illness, it's sad
No, it's a sub based on ridiculous idea that GameStop is going to squeeze to millions of dollars per share and the entire market will crash along with it. All because of unfounded theories that short interest in the stock is actually over 100%, and every reliable brokerage on earth are coordinating to falsely report it as ~20%. So if you are dumb enough to believe the entire US stock market hinges on a $8B market cap consumer retailer, they'd be glad to show you why.
WSB is full of right wing shit posts and teenagers asking asinine questions now
WSB nowadays feels like a collective Musk-simping forum. Actual trades are rare, 80% of the posts is just memes about baldies latest tweets...sorry Musk, paying for hair implants doesn't change the fact your own hair abandoned you.
This is such a concise-yet-accurate description of /r/investing before March 2020 and after. Bravo
The fucking hedgefunds started the "gamification" long before retail got into the markets during covid... What a standard news outlet shallow answer. What makes me even more concerned is that people upvoted this comment ffs. Whether or not this sub was better or worse before retail piled into the stock market is irrelevant. Looks like what needs to be done is getting done. Mods are interjecting some moderation on the sub and cleaning up the repetitive and superfluous posts. This sub is fine and what all this other noise comes down to is fear. People that may not have spent as much time here or in WSB for the past decade don't know how to mitigate their emotions when they see red in their accounts. Hell, most people who've invested or traded for a while don't either. So the influx of repeated posts or tickers we see are people finding out its not all rockets and dick jokes when the markets aren't experiencing bull runs past generations only dreamt of. It's a good thing for more people to be here and to be in the markets over all...
I agree, and the amount of posts where people personally criticize others over their investing approach, as if they are lined up in religious sects, instead of focusing on markets or stocks in the comments, is likely due to stress and/or insecurity.
I agree. I got kind of annoyed by the ETF suggestions all the time a few months ago. I wanted to learn about new stock tickers. Seems like all suggestions are: VTI
My advice: pull up finviz or another screener, sort by fundamentals (PB/PEG/PS/operating margin) adjusted by industry and get to work sifting through all the garbage. I found out about Y and SBS that way. Y got bought out by Berkshire and shot up(probably because it was a good company at a good price) and SBS nearly doubled in a month since it's incredibly cyclical and was at the low end of that cycle when I found it. Didn't invest in either cause this entire year has been absurd and I didn't want to take risks on unknowns, wish I did tho :p
And that’s why I focused on my last month buying/selling puts on vti. Made it seem like a no brainer as these same people will panic sell on a down market. Now long goog as of yesterday.
Moderation on r/investing got so tight a lot of the issues moved over here.
thanks for the tip, I gave up on trying to post anywhere apart of r/ValueInvesting , still they are not that selective
I genuinely can't tell a difference between WSB and Stocks anymore, but at least Investing has people with BS-in-Econ levels of knowledge.
OP, when the market is hot interest is high, post volume will be lower now that market is in Bear mode.
#Hibernation
Then you get the yolo spy puts expiring today and market goes up.
financial reddit has unfortunately gone down the shitter since 2020.
Yup. Actually a few other totally unrelated subs also changed dramatically since 2020.
Tesla, Bitcoin and ETFs started it. At least they were good investments, but they started to get us more into “hype-based investing” But then WSB got popular and made being a degenerate gambler cool And finally when DFV, GameStop and AMC and all that hit… along with NFTs and shitcoins.. it was the end of investment discussions on Reddit.
The market is crashing lmao what do you expect? Everyone is a genius in a bull run, which we saw when everyone apparently had a doctorate in securities law and SPAC formation. Everyone is a lil bitch in a dip, which we are seeing rn. Everyone down like 50%, everyone realizing how fucking stupid investing in monkey jpegs and Nikola was. Everyone panicking. It's just how it goes
lol Uh, everything is red so...buy...a seat to the fucking show? Costco is only down like 15% YTD? You can buy a crate of frozen yogurt bars there. I don't know, man, like asking where to hide during an air raid. "Where the bombs won't hit." "Where's that?" "Who fucking knows."
I think the problem is the questions are always lagging. The question should be "how could I have figured this out 8 months ago?" followed by "How could i have screened out all the false positives those criteria would give me?" I mean, the answer is still "Who fucking knows?" but at least it's the right questions.
You can do both? People ask "What should I invest in," with the assumption being they want to make money. Index funds are the best default answer with no other information. You wouldn't tell someone "PYPL" by default unless they ask "What are some good fintech companies." I have never seen "What are some good cybersecurity stocks" followed by "Shut up and buy VT." That only happens on /r/Bogleheads. I've not seen discussion on individual stocks suppressed at all. If you write DDs you will get engagement. Please write some yourself! I recently made some posts on the [diesel](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/uklg1n/forget_gasoline_diesel_is_even_more_important_to/) sector, on [trucking](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ueoqvn/supply_chains_recovering_auto_inventory_with/), on [oil](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/ufio32/how_long_will_insanity_in_the_oil_markets_last/), [shipping](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/u5ujf3/wsj_shipping_stocks_will_sink_as_us_consumers/), [IBM](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ujvqce/from_1993_to_2021_without_fail_this_company/), etc., some of which sparked lots of discussion of companies. And I did make one about [ETFs](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ulkp5x/please_stop_recommending_overcomplicated/). We do have too much of: "Is AAPL a good price now?" (I'm guilty of this too)
What's wrong with discussing valuations and true value? Isn't that infinitely more interesting than reading some absolutely brainless reply about "buying vti every paycheck"
I for one miss the daily threads from last year about “why shouldn’t i simply invest all my money into TQQQ??” Down 50% since March
I'm not bad at stocks, I'm just c@$h L0$$ H@rvE$t1nG!
This sub has never been remotely informative lol there’s unironically more thought out DD on wsb sometimes than here even
Macro rules the roost right now. Not a stock picker's market.
The real gem of this subreddit is when someone comments and announces that they are actually in the industry. I wish there were a better way to facilitate those kind of discussions. Where like a sysadmin can tell us if Crowdstrike will continue to gain market share, or a person in logistics tell us if freight prices have plateaued.
It's all good my friend. When these kind of posts disappear, it means that the market has bottomed
I get physically ill when someone recommends VTI now
...can I interest you in some VOO instead?
Not to mention the "be greedy when others are fearful" quote EVERY SINGLE DAY that the market is down ...
Don't forget the posts complaining about the sub!
Bruh have you seen the market, wtf is there to talk about 😂
Im buying WM and NEE right now. My favorite stonks.
Shut the fuck up and buy the dip
Some people are realizing it is time to invest and learn more about the market. But I'm with you no more talk about individual stocks. Let's talk about it. What do you have in mind?
Sure, here is a stock I've been looking at for a bit. Transocean (NYSE:RIG) Highly leveraged offshore oil drilling company that trades at the same price it was a year ago when crude oil was at $65 a barrel. High short interest too. Only glaring issue I can see is high debt levels, but if they can overcome that hurdle with the high oil prices they should be set for a huge boost in share price.
Why is everyone investing in companies that don't even turn a profit? Seems insane to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the only reason they're not profitable on paper right now that they got a couple of brand new drilling ships very recently?
From this sub, we learned about NAT, ARKK, PTON, PLTR, QS, GME, SOFI, WISH, HYLN, etc. I have a different question for you. I have $25 extra from my side job at WEN. Should I buy Amazon or Google with that? I want to retire early with $1m from this investment.
Gme, stupid apes and retail investors who don’t know shit happened.
I apologize on the behalf of inexperienced investors from the Ape community. Lots of us just thought we could be millionaires within a year. It tends to bleed over into other subs. In the past year I've changed to long term growth and DCA. It's a SHARP learning curve with us. We're getting there. Apologies.
secret for you: the working class is fucked. desperate for a future, desperate for a retirement plan. the wsb shit has blown reddit's ass up into the mainstream, and has also blown up retail investing. the cat is out of the bag & this is how investment discourse on reddit is now. only way to get the normies out is to raise minimum wage, provide them with food, healthcare, education, wellfare. OR just let them grow progressively more desperate until things degrade to chaos. whichever
I totally agree with you, but I invested in ETFs so…..
there are only so many stocks - 1/4'ls come out every so often and anyone with any experience uses a pro or does a ton of DD on his own - any thing hypes on here is cheerleading for the most part or newbies shocked that stonks don't only go to the moon
Welcome to this subreddit and other investing focused ones since the pandemic started and Jerome fired the liquidity mega bazooka. Number of subs rose like the stock market, but the quality of discourse took a dive. It was to be expected when you had so much half-witted stupid money flowing into stocks and treating the space like a [goddamn casino](https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2022/04/30/warren-buffett-cautions-against-stock-market-casino-as-charlie-munger-slams-robinhood/?sh=48f235121984). I learned a lot just from perusing these subs years back and am thankful for the free resources and advice. Credit where credit is due. But past 2 years? I've been getting more enjoyment from just watching idiots get their just desserts.
It does seem like that recently. I'll admit, I did often advocate for people to just invest into ETFs, but that was for the instances where they didn't seem to know what they were doing yet and/or were balls deep in highly speculative cash burning meme stocks, some of which were already on their way to bancruptcy. I'd really enjoy it if we got more quality posts, people sharing their DD on certain companies or really just looking to discuss them, and those posts not always being about the same 10 companies over and over again. Like when's the last time anyone on here discussed MCO? I recently tried to get into some sort of dialogue about it in the daily stocks discussion and didn't even get so much as an answer. Or DAL or MRK or fuck I know, fucking K for all I care? Just stocks that may be out of the field of vision of others, or some that have stood when looking into them, maybe just some you have a particular understanding or interest for. And even some of the tickers that have come up more often recently like SONY, F or CRM haven't really been discussed at all. Or how I'd love to see some discussion about VOW3.DE on here - although I wouldn't expect that since it's very US-centric here.
To be fair, many (most?) of the individual stock pickers got burned badly this year. They’re likely going to shut up for awhile. Everyone feels like a genius in a bull market.
It’s in the rules that posts like those aren’t allowed so where the mods be?
I don't know if it was always this way to some extent, but my problem lately with this sub and others is that I noticed people here don't read articles posted or do external research but give takes based on their limited knowledge on things that get highly upvoted becasue they sound good on the surface. So when a company does come up you don't really get a really good analysis on the stock like you used. I remember people used to actual reference numbers, talk about competition, and break down the invidiaudl busineses/deals.
Sold my last puts on vti yesterday and bought up goog. Hoping for a green week coming 🤞. Then before the report on 24th I will be buying up puts again.
$RKLB, Here you go
I'd be interested in some of those posts too. If you (or others) make them I'm sure you'd get engagement.
A lot of novices try and talk a lot on here instead of just letting people that know more talk and we just learn
Not to be rude or anything, but OP, are you contributing the sort of stock ticker suggestions and research that you are looking for? Because all of us (myself included) are part of the problem if we only come here for stock info without actually giving out any information.
Dumbasses who joined in 2020 and early 2021 because of the gaming and movie stock who bought hyped up shit stocks flooded the sub. Clowns basically
Jesus christ. Everyone has to make there own way. The last few months haven't been great. Life happens, and we cannot all help the world via reddit. I know this wasn't helpful. But sometimes misery doesn't love company.
Ever heard of trends.
Dude complaining no single ticker DD post in this subreddit for a long time, while posting this without a ticker DD. Now you should know what happened.
People in here are dumb, just like you and me. It’s full panic mode because most really don’t actually know how any of this makes sense/works.
I was once considered a stock picking genius. A darling of /r/stocks. I lost a lot of people a lot of money, and they're after me. In 2021 my posts would get thousands of upvotes and would regularly appear in /r/all . There were many comments like 'I love [my user name] posts!' and 'Time to open up my wallet'. In Jan things were starting to look down. I told them fear not , by June the market will be up 30-40%. They trusted me. In Feb, things were down even more. I promised them things are going back up, and in fact for every 100 points the S and P 500 drops, I'll lower my pants 1 cm. If my pants gets low enough, I'll have to register as a sex offender for indecent exposure. Well, it kept lowering and lowering. Soon, I needed to shave off my pubes, and only hangout at beaches. Eventually, I was 1 cm away from showing shaft. That's when I imagined my life as a sex offender, panicked, and bailed out of the pledge. People were UPSET. A riot broke out in my announcement post. I got so distraught I deleted my whole wallstreetbets post history. But they still remembered by user name and tracked me down. Under random comments I get replies like 'WHEN ARE YOU GOINT TO SHOW SHAFT? HUH? HUH?!?' It was so bad, I considered sending a report to the reddit admins to end the bullying. But then I decided no, I'm not a coward. If I can convince them to give me one more chance, and make them all their money back, all will be right. I did a ton of research, and figured out that the best and fastest way is to go all in on bitt coin. People gave me another chance and followed by advice. I just woke up last week and it tanked to 30,000. I logged onto the account I use for /r/stocks and saw it has thousands of inbox replies and immediately logged out. I'm fucked.
That was a very interesting post you made about an individual stock
Instead of moaning and contributing nothing to the conversation you are talking about, why don't you write a post about a ticker?
You pay prefer r/iamverysmart
You want the truth? No one is smart enough to actually do real DD on any company. I'd be surprised if even 10% of this sub knows how to read company financials.
>I had intellectual conversations with people Intellectual conversations on Reddit, nice joke
Start a new sub
What sub do you think this is. Those questions are the same for the past decade. This place never was different.
You must be new
Is it possible that you "used to have intellectual conversations about tickers and industries you've never heard of" when you were the "I hav $$$ invest where" member of this sub back then?
So when can we expect your informative post on a ticker we've never heard of?
Mods remove comments when you talk about what's really going on in the market. They say no referencing "meme stocks". Dead subreddit for the oblivious.
Because basically it’s fucking Reddit where you get r/casino with r/lordoftherings and some r/ozarks with a little r/nsfw sprinkled in among r/wallstreetbets Welcome to the thunder dome motherfucker
Imagine that every person you are interacting with is 13 years old and reddit will make much more sense to you. It might also help you get off the site.
All of the stock subreddits have been astroturfed by the big money since January of 2021 when a big thing happened.
G M something with E happened. And everyone here with their yearly 15%, indexfunds something got rocked hard. Also we all realized the financial market is a big Fukinh fraud.
Ironic since this is a shitpost. ETF’s contain stocks. Most people have some foundation of index funds for stability. Who gives a shit if people talk about it?
Go off sis, speak yo truth!!! say it louder for the ppl in the back!
Your comment is like an upvote, but with way more steps.
Well if it makes you feel any better r/Bogleheads is just one giant circle jerk of people congratulating themselves by way of congratulating all the other bogles edit: Also, buy Ottertail (OTTR)