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    Next Steps?

    Wait until the COVID pandemic is fully behind us before giving up your job. Both the economy and the stock market is being propped up by the Feds pumping money into the system. If the money stops flowing we could be facing a deep recession.
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    If Biden wins, is a Stock Transaction Tax likely?

    Wall Street donated 5 times as much to Biden as they did to Trump. a) They expect Biden to remember that, and b) they don't seriously think that Biden would put their business in Jeopardy. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/business/trump-biden-wall-street-campaign-donations/index.html
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    SCO short ETF on tomorrow's watchlist on Biden killing oil industry?

    Biden said that the transition would be gradual, and that he wanted to move to net-zero emissions in energy production by 2035. With or without Biden, most of the oil industry will go the way of the coal industry by 2035. Natural gas, which is much cleaner, should stick around much longer.
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    Trades out of hours

    Wait until the next day. If the market opens in your favor, you probably won't get a fill. If not in your favor, you will be the sucker who left an overnight order outstanding.
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    Biden Will Hike The Top Capital Gains Tax Rate To 39.6%: What That Means For Markets

    Even if the Democrats win the White House, House and Senate, I doubt that Biden would have the votes to increase it all the way to 39.6%. Around 28% would be more likely. Either way before December 31st, there would be a selloff from long term stock holders trying to take lock in gains at the...
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    Now no stimulus negotiations until after election

    NY Times: President Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he had instructed his representatives in talks with Democrats over an economic aid package “to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and...
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    choosing several executioners of estate

    Yes you can have multiple wills, but don't try doing it with legal help. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-i-have-more-than-one-will.html Also, see why you may not want multiple executors. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/naming-more-one-executor.html
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    Trump tests positive for Covid 19

    By smooth, I am talking about Pence's political ability, not his governing abilities, which I view as very bad. Watch the VP debate tomorrow and you will see how skillfully he deflects questions and defends Trump.
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    choosing several executioners of estate

    Your best bet is to assign specific benefactors to all of your financial accounts, and leave as little as possible for the executors to do. Joint accounts with right of survivorship also work well.
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    Trump has the Virus, will it hurt the Market?

    a. It's too early to tell how he will fare. It typically takes at least 5 days for symptoms to appear. b. Even if he were doing badly, the White House would lie and downplay it.
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    Trump tests positive for Covid 19

    I doubt it. The left views Trump as very beatable in the upcoming election. His replacement, Mike Pence, on the other hand is a much more smooth politician plus would get the sympathy vote.
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    Will 2008/2009 lows in real estate ever be broken?

    Will 2008/2009 lows in real estate ever be broken? Adjusted for inflation, it certainly could happen again. Right now real estate is booming because the Fed is pumping a lot of money into the economy which is propping up the stock market and keeping interest rates at record low. However, if...
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    Knowing if a symbol is an ETF or a stock...

    You may want to see if your SQL database supports Regular Expresssions, which would vastly simply your test to something like: company_name regexp '^.*(etfs?|etn|fund) ?$' or company_name regexp '^advisorshares|pro ?shares|x ?tracker|ipath|wisdom ?tree' etc
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    Knowing if a symbol is an ETF or a stock...

    For any given stock symbol XXX, check if there exists the symbol XXX.IV (or XXX.IV.X if you are using IQFeed). This will be the ETF's Intraday Indicative Value. Works for 99% of all ETFs. Only exceptions are a few really old ETFs, like QQQ (which uses QXV), and these you can hard-code. You can...
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    Adjust dynamically each current week due to holidays

    Assuming you mean the USA, and you are referring to holidays when the stock market is closed, New Year's Day, Independence Day, and Christmas Day are the only holidays that can fall on a Friday. So you can simply hard code those days. Remember though, that if those holidays fall on a Saturday...
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    A new economic era?

    Please explain: a) How is it possible for the government to both keep the money and spend it. b) How do illegals vote?
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    MRNA gets a big downgrade today

    It's has always been unlikely that Moderna, a company that has never produced any vaccine, would beat experienced pharma/biotech companies like Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Regeneron in the vaccine race.
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    Rate my ETF picks

    Hard to grade your choices without more info. Is this a retirement account? Are you in your 20s, middle age or close to retirement?
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    Why SPY and IVV has different price and dividend yield?

    Nope. SPY is based on the on the S&P Index not the Futures. Here is the SPY list of components from SPY's sponsor https://www.ssga.com/us/en/institutional/etfs/funds/spdr-sp-500-etf-trust-spy
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