Stock Market 2026

I was gonna set up stop loss orders, but everything seems to have little sharp dips that immediately recover, but would trigger such things unless you set them for something absurd like 25% which you'd probably want to sit out and hold onto until it comes back eventually anyways unless it's some obvious pump and dump or bubble-type ****

almost as though it's intentional somehow
get all the stop-loss setters to sell low unintentionally
 
I thought I recalled that you said you had energy stuff ? Infrastructure, pipeline, storage ? If that's the case, aren't those mostly dividend holdings ? Stable in value but kicking out $ every 1/4 ? Not glamorous or exciting but solid.

I ask as your posts today seem to lament the speculative fortune hunting that is so prevalent . . . . .. . Thought you were the sane one :cookie:
 
Splib said:
I thought I recalled that you said you had energy stuff ? Infrastructure, pipeline, storage ? If that's the case, aren't those mostly dividend holdings ? Stable in value but kicking out $ every 1/4 ? Not glamorous or exciting but solid.

I ask as your posts today seem to lament the speculative fortune hunting that is so prevalent . . . . .. . Thought you were the sane one :cookie:
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still wanted to set up stoploss orders because of paranoia
it just wouldn't really work out

ETA: also I am not sane in investing
if I were I'd be making a living off of it instead of slowly losing everything to inflation
 
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Ransil said:
That was announced months ago, split to make more afforadable to common folks, there were a couple others that also did the split.
Value is still the same.
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It caught me by surprise; dumb me for not doing stupid homework. I was sitting down with the GF the day it split. I was going to load her up with it; but was locked out. Going to be moving positions on a bunch of crap the GF owns next week. I wish we could done it this week.
 
PSA for those that don't know, you can find a ETF with just about any mix of stuff inside. For example I have three that pay me my monthly living expenses, ARR which is a REIT so real estate, check. PDI which is invested in bonds, foreign and domestic credit, corporate debt, so financials, check. And EGGY which holds large and medium cap tech and industrials, so tech, check. A bunch of others that are on DRIP, those I just let compound.

Individual stocks are limited to a few. VZ, MU, SNDK and WYNN.
 
I've got a few stocks doing this. Trying to figure out the best way to proceed. Gut instinct says trim profits. But how much? Thinking I should at least trim what I've put in. In this case it's like $28k. Thoughts?
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2JZ said:
I've got a few stocks doing this. Trying to figure out the best way to proceed. Gut instinct says trim profits. But how much? Thinking I should at least trim what I've put in. In this case it's like $28k. Thoughts?
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And that's the rub, you can play it safe and pull your initial investment but you're going to have to pay short-term capital gains tax.
 
2JZ said:
I've got a few stocks doing this. Trying to figure out the best way to proceed. Gut instinct says trim profits. But how much? Thinking I should at least trim what I've put in. In this case it's like $28k. Thoughts?
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Man Rocket Lab has been a hell of a thing to watch over the past few years. Really makes me kick myself for not tossing a few bucks in when they were trading under $5 per share. Tesla is seeing the same big surge today. There must be some bigger picture thing going on in the country/world, but I haven't looked deep enough to see
 
Levigarrett76 said:
Is there a minimum amount?
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Not sure what your question is, but you can sell any portion of your holdings at any time...as long as there's someone to buy what you're selling. Short-term capital gains are assessed anytime you show a profit on a sale of a stock you held for less than a year, after one year of ownership any profits are taxed at the lower long-term rate.
 
gunracer1 said:
Loosing my **** again, well into six figures on tractor supply. Why don’t I use stop losses? O that’s right, I’m an idiot.
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Damn! I made $560 last week and $400 today and hoping that trend keeps up. I can't imagine being 6 figures into anything!

I've used stop losses to take profit and its been a mixed bag. If somethings going up I raise the stop loss as it goes up, hoping to catch the turnaround. More often than not though, it triggers the stop loss, and continues to climb. I guess triggering the stop loss orders puts liquidity in the stock at that point, which allows bigger investors to get into the stock without raising the price a bunch. I just waited and watched prices today and just dipped out at a high point and that seems to work better. I just can't always watch it while I'm working. Still trying to figure out some form of strategy.
 
Roc Doc said:
Not sure what your question is, but you can sell any portion of your holdings at any time...as long as there's someone to buy what you're selling. Short-term capital gains are assessed anytime you show a profit on a sale of a stock you held for less than a year, after one year of ownership any profits are taxed at the lower long-term rate.
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I guess what I meant, is there a minimum amount you must make in order to be taxed, like if you only clear $2, will that be taxed?
 
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Levigarrett76 said:
I guess what I meant, is there a minimum amount you must make in order to be taxed, like if you only clear $2, will that be taxed?
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no, $2 is taxed

it's just regular income. If you only had 1 transaction and you made $2 (bought for 48 and sold for 50 the next day) you would owe whatever your tax bracket is. anywhere from $0 to $0.74 federally
 
Provience said:
no, $2 is taxed

it's just regular income. If you only had 1 transaction and you made $2 (bought for 48 and sold for 50 the next day) you would owe whatever your tax bracket is. anywhere from $0 to $0.74 federally
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Dividends and short term capital gains are taxed as regular income, which is why I withhold 25/2.5% at the end of each month. Long term capital gains at taxed at 0% 15% or 20% depending on your tax bracket.

Just about everyone in this thread should read this;

How are capital gains taxed?
taxpolicycenter.org

How are capital gains taxed?

taxpolicycenter.org taxpolicycenter.org
 
Roc Doc said:
Dividends and short term capital gains are taxed as regular income, which is why I withhold 25/2.5% at the end of each month. Long term capital gains at taxed at 0% 15% or 20% depending on your tax bracket.

Just about everyone in this thread should read this;

How are capital gains taxed?
taxpolicycenter.org

How are capital gains taxed?

taxpolicycenter.org taxpolicycenter.org
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Agree, but a quick 100% gain is nothing to feel bad about taking short term instead of sweating for a lower tax rate later with potentially less gain at that time
 
Provience said:
Agree, but a quick 100% gain is nothing to feel bad about taking short term instead of sweating for a lower tax rate later with potentially less gain at that time
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“Can’t go broke making a profit.”
 
Roc Doc said:
Dividends and short term capital gains are taxed as regular income, which is why I withhold 25/2.5% at the end of each month. Long term capital gains at taxed at 0% 15% or 20% depending on your tax bracket.

Just about everyone in this thread should read this;

How are capital gains taxed?
taxpolicycenter.org

How are capital gains taxed?

taxpolicycenter.org taxpolicycenter.org
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That is welcomed suggestion. Can you explain in layman's terms the difference in dividend income and the monthly distribution ( not a dividend ?) of income from the MLPI that you posted about ? What I gather is that the monies distributed are not, in fact, a dividend. So they are a distribution because their source is not capital increase (stock price or similar) in value, but some kind of profit generated by short call (?) profiting ? If it makes sense to you, and you have a few minutes to waste care to take a shot at this ?
 
Pony_Driver said:
Are all dividends taxed as income? I didn't think that was the case.
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Some are 'qualified' and are taxed like long term capital gains, 0% 15% 20%, depending on your income, whereas non-qualified are taxed like regular income. The witholding worked out good for me, between that and my wife putting money in a HSA and maxing her 401k, we actually got a refund this year.
 
dang, ALK is trending downward. nearly back to even :rasta:

so what the hell, picked up a call option (one) for ALK for this summer. let's see if there is any upside between now and then
 
Splib said:
That is welcomed suggestion. Can you explain in layman's terms the difference in dividend income and the monthly distribution ( not a dividend ?) of income from the MLPI that you posted about ? What I gather is that the monies distributed are not, in fact, a dividend. So they are a distribution because their source is not capital increase (stock price or similar) in value, but some kind of profit generated by short call (?) profiting ? If it makes sense to you, and you have a few minutes to waste care to take a shot at this ?
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dividends are not based on stock price gain, they are a distribution based on profit/capital moves from the underlying company.
 
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