Any good news this weekend and it rallies. No news this weekend likely chops around. Sell off calmed down AH a bit after taco walked back and said he will meet Xi. Market is just waiting for confirmation of a meeting or trade talks, once it gets that it relief rallies on that news alone. We seen this shit play out like 3 times this year already with China lol

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They signed a deal with Microsoft. Rumor is APLD will sign with one of this: NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or OpenAI. Brother, once this happens, my 1k will turn to 6 figures.

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What do people even buy from China? I've never once bought a "rare earth metal". No idea why people are panicking, has anyone here bought a single "rare earth metal"?

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Has this drunk thought last night: Nvidia has a 4.5 tril dollar market cap. People are like "wow. All these shares are literally worth 4.5 tril. Im so rich" but they really aren't. Cuz if everyone tried to cash that shit in all at once the price would drop like a Boeing 737 Max 8. So then what about buttcorn. At least with Nvidia you own a piece of an actual company that makes profit. All you own with buttcorn in a digital alphanumeric string that will probably get cracked by quantum computers in a few years... no real value. 🤯

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Hey OP, I'd like to tell you a story. Growing up my family always enjoyed having a barbecue every once in a while. My parents would make a nice well-done steak and slather it in barbecue sauce because that's the only flavor it had. One day, I discovered a steak YouTuber and realized just how wrong my family truly was. I started eating medium rare steaks, cooked in charcoal instead of natural gas, cooked in indirect heat with a hot sear. Compare to my family's "any temperature will do" until it's grey. I never, ever looked back. I'm experiencing the same with my investments. Everyone around me keeps talking about minimizing risk and "stability", and snagging pathetic gains while they're at it. They're absolutely right about the risk - we all took a beating today - but in the end, I think most of us will be ahead of the bond-buying normies. We live in a capitalist system - your net worth is literally the most important number in any single person's life! And yet some people don't care. Bizarre.

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Already too late if you didn't buy at close. Once people realize they have to make a deal and it's all bluster they will want back in

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I made a lot doing the same but when it’s contagion it just hits everything at once. Collateral damage

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Yes. Initial green but once we’ve realized the economy is obliterated and we don’t even have tariffs to show for it, bigly red. Some say the next Great Depression red.

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The bad thing about having assets far in excess of your wages is you have days like today where you log in to etrade and realize an entire year's salary was wiped out while you were writing a design doc and trying to convince your coworker to not merge a PR that would (once again) take down the queue service. Very disassociating.

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I mean he can do this tariff circus once, maybe twice but at a certain point it permanently erodes the political relationships. It’s not funny.

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