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    Down to about $90k, where would you park it if your trading skills were trash?

    Nope. Follow my advice up-thread, you'll exhaust your tax loss carry forward in a couple years. TLCF actually allows you to take profits on winning trades w/o tax consequences. Poor me is sitting on multiple $100k unrealized gains like a deer in the headlights because i don't want the tax...
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    Down to about $90k, where would you park it if your trading skills were trash?

    Anybody who has the balls to come up on ET and says "I'm not a good trader and that's OK with me" is way ahead of the game. Take 75% of what's left, buy COST, AVGO, MSFT and never ever look at it. Use the 25% honing you skills on ES, NQ, CL, GC. Ruthlessly cut your losses. Let your winners run...
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    small caps market making trouble?

    Looks to me this ought to be legit: You're adding liquidity by tightening the spread.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    That's indeed their MO: buy dealership, restructure and bring scale to cut costs. Dealership industry is very fragmented, most of it small regional players. ABG's business is to scale up, absorb and increase profitability, rinse and repeat. Another player doing the exact same thing is LAD, worth...
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    Definitely solid. I'm familiar with their last acquisition (Koons), bought my truck there. Thanks for the suggestion but I don't do covered calls, I'd hate seeing it called away as it starts rising. If anything I'd rather sell puts and roll them over and over again till I get assigned.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    That's correct. Indeed I would. I would advise a family member to take a good look at it and decide for themselves : 44+% 5Y average EPS growth, 20% 5Y annual CAGR and a PE of 6. Nothing to sneeze at so I decided against selling it. Patience needed. Can't recall whether it was Einstein, Mark...
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    No. What I'm saying is deciding to keep the stock is no different than buying it if I had none. I'll only buy more if and when it gets some momentum.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    That's what I just did by deciding to keep it.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    Reassess every quarter unless they hit my max loss limit (7% from cost) before. Right now it's down less than 2% from cost. Earning Growth average last 5 years is 44.5%, stellar.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    ABG indeed. Keeping it. I can't sell a nice business with a PE of 6. Makes no sense. It'll wake up eventually.
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    Itching to dump amazing stock

    Stock returned 20% CAGR over the last 5 years, has low correlation with the rest of my holdings, trades at an incredible 6 PE: checks all the boxes except: been going nowhere since I bought it a few weeks back. I'd hate selling a 6 PE stock with stellar track record but it's costing me margin...
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    America’s Billionaires Love Japanese Stocks. Why Don’t the Japanese?

    I tried. Freaking Nikkei been stuck at 32,500 for weeks. Going nowhere since June. Better stuff elsewhere.
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    Trillion-Dollar Industry Powering Chicago at Risk of Leaving

    Vote for monkeys, get peanuts. Surprise surprise.
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    Can you rank the easiest, to hardest ways to make money in financial markets?

    It's easy to make a small fortune in the market: Start with a big one.
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    What type of a track record do prop firms think is good enough prior to funding you?

    Looked for it but couldn't locate it. Maybe they pulled it? Or they found that golden needle in haystack.
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    What type of a track record do prop firms think is good enough prior to funding you?

    Last job offer I ran into on LinkedIn, they were requesting a Sharpe above 3. I don't do 3 Sharpes, I just don't. Mid 2's on nice markets and mid 1's over the cycle (Nice market+ Shitty market combined). And that's with 35% SD and close to 50% max drawdown for a puny close to mid-double digit...
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    Does a Round lot order (100 shares) get better filling ?

    Algos split their orders to remain undetected. Plenty of time my round lots orders get filled by a whole bunch of 2's, 3's, 14's and so on. So I guess odd lots should not affect fill quality.
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    Is Secretary Treasury Yellen talking like a banker from a 3rd world country

    "Fitch’s quantitative ratings model declined markedly between 2018 and 2020 – and yet Fitch is announcing its change now" I've heard that before: "It's Trump's fault". TDS. She didn't say anything by the way. Some Dem apparatchik drafted that and published it in her name.
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    What's up with Futures closing prices?

    Thx Bro, learned something tonight.
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    What's up with Futures closing prices?

    Sep CL contract last traded @$79.82 5:00pm today. Next thing I know, closing price is $80.09, which last happened around 2:30p. Works for me as I'm long but WTF? Is it VWAP? Or is it some dude in Chicago pulling a price out of a dark place depending how his book looks like? Anybody knows the...
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