First, you’re doing great as ROI. I started with $500 USD in about 1980-81. Of course over the years, I’ve added more money. And here 44 years later I’ve topped 1 million. I have done buy and hold on stocks and traded options. Each cycle of the market is different. There are a lot of people on here who may appear to be out performing you, but remember, you aren’t competing with them. You should measure yourself against the market (maybe the S&P or DJIA). Also remember that the market goes through cycles. What works in a bull market doesn’t often work in a bear market. As Warren Buffett said a rising crude raises all boats. But when the tide goes out, you find out who’s been swimming naked.

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started with around 800 USD back in 2019, mostly just threw it at whatever seemed interesting at the time, no real strategy. now sitting at roughly 6k which i know is nothing compared to what people post here but it's mine lol your gains are actually impressive though, 14k to 105k in 5 years without touching options is not something most people manage. wsb will make you feel like everyone is printing money but for every rocket screenshot there's like 40 guys who don't post their losses the "should i redeploy my winnings" question depends a lot on your risk tolerance, not everyone needs to be gambling on weekly calls to do well

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That's what's keeping me long in stocks. USD is not a great store of value now.

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Stocks down -> USD up Can’t lose as a eurochad 😎🇪🇺

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Since rates haven’t actually been hiked it may be premature though it could be bearish and consolidating for a long time. Not only are central banks buying but accelerating because gold is immune to US sanctions regime and China is dumping treasuries for gold. Expect gold to be the de-dollarization media of choice in the future with RWA tokens trading in lieu of USD, but that is still into the future.

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I will wait for it to lose before stating “Euro is stronger than USD”. But the downvotes are the classic indication that I was factually right. Unpopular, but right.

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**For now** interest rates are being driven by inflation control by the fed- who are pushing up the floor. However if the sovereign debt market issues in certain countries accelerate further upwards beyond the floor to the point of insolvency risk starting to become a thing ( Japan, France, UK or even Canada...), well then all bets are off. USD may strengthen a bit, but you guys are also borrowing like mad and the debasement trade will start again post initial USD strengthening and a whiplash across markets.

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Gold is falling because countries like India / Japan / Turkey / Argentina are selling in order to save their fiat currencies. This is actually bullish for gold, though, because it proves that money backed only by a government’s authority does not hold any value over time. Gold will go a lot higher because the US debt market is fucked. People are starting to realize that it doesn’t make sense to lend your hard-earned money to an entity almost $40T in debt for 10-30 years. For example, banks are now suggesting that the ultra-safe 60/40 portfolio should instead be 60 stocks / 20 bonds / 20 gold. And the DXY is only going up because the yen and euro are going to shit faster than the dollar is. USD/RMB is down 7% since the start of 2025, and guess what China’s been feverishly buying? Gold.

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They are absolutely right. It’s not even worth 13.5 usd. You pay extra for the dreams and hope.

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Honestly ASTS is starting to look way more risky as they were looking 1-2years ago. Slower pace of satellite launches, blue origin‘s oopsie doopsie. Also serious competition is forming. SpaceX will need some time until they can directly do device to device communication, blue origin/kuiper planning their own constellation. Combine that with the risk of this technology not scaling as fast and big as anticipated the price of roughly 35b usd is not that cheap. Wasnt it telecom that announced recently that users barely use the satellite service? I really think satellite internet communication will, once the tech is fully adult, be way superior than laying cabels in the ground on earth everywhere, but this could take years or decades.

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