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Classic bull trap
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:08 pm
If you bought shares this morning, you’re at least 5% down on those by close of business. If you bought calls, they’ll probably expire worthless.
The house wins again.
The house wins again.
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Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:17 pm to DrrTiger
im glad i didnt buy yesterday. Tomorrow is D day with China, shits gonna get scary. I wouldnt touch anything until Friday.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:17 pm to DrrTiger
Pointless thread, but I have no idea why anyone would be buying options right now with the IV sky high and premiums juiced like this. If you have a ton of shares in something, selling covered calls might be a smart idea right now.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:23 pm to DrrTiger
quote:December 2027s too?
If you bought calls, they’ll probably expire worthless.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:32 pm to DrrTiger
I started nibbling the last 30 minutes of the trading day today when everything was red on the day. Left plenty of ammo to fire off some more rounds tomorrow when Trump has a dick measuring contest with China.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:34 pm to DrrTiger
I've been puting additional cash in every day for the last week. It has been great.
I haven't taken anything out. How have they won?
quote:
The house wins again.
I haven't taken anything out. How have they won?
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:38 pm to ColoradoAg03
quote:
I started nibbling the last 30 minutes of the trading day today when everything was red on the day. Left plenty of ammo to fire off some more rounds tomorrow when Trump has a dick measuring contest with China.
I'm down to my snubnose .38 with 6 in the cylinder. Gotta make those count. It's gonna really have to shite for me to blast away again. Reinforcements coming, but maybe a month or two away.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:56 pm to DrrTiger
It wasn't a "classic bull trap". The indexes were due to finish green today but the tariffs/trade war with China got ratcheted up and so the market responded accordingly.
Towards the end there might have been some smaller traps going both ways, but overall it was just a reaction to the tariffs.
Towards the end there might have been some smaller traps going both ways, but overall it was just a reaction to the tariffs.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 3:59 pm to DrrTiger
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Classic bull trap
I wouldn't call it a classic bull trap because it's not driven by normal market conditions. I think it's pretty clear that the market desperately wants to get back to ATH, but is reacting to a potential economic standoff between Trump and China.
When Trump moves on to his next shiny object and ever so slightly hints at the possibility of accepting deals is when the market will start going in the other direction with quickness, unless that next shiny object is a destabilizing economic policy as well.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:08 pm to dallastiger55
Add another 40% to the current 40% dump and we are 80% down to start the Trump presidency. Sure looks like big winning …
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:21 pm to DrrTiger
Does anyone else get the ick when people use casino/gambling terms to describe buying stocks? I never felt like owning part of Microsoft was the same as putting $5 on a football game.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:23 pm to PUB
We've had nothing near a 40% decline so far. Do you really believe that? If so where are you getting your misinformation?
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:31 pm to Motownsix
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Does anyone else get the ick when people use casino/gambling terms to describe buying stocks? I never felt like owning part of Microsoft was the same as putting $5 on a football game.
Well, most people have no idea what they are doing, so i'll give them a litt slack
It has shocked me the amount of people i've known that are long term passive invenstors, not doing active trading, that put their portfolio in cash during all this. It is baffling.
This post was edited on 4/8/25 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 4/8/25 at 4:54 pm to Motownsix
Yes, my personal pet peeve is when people refer to "house money" in their own portfolio.
No bitch, it's all my money.
Eta: ironically its usually said before doing something completely uncalculated or something you wouldn't do with your own money, like "ill let it ride since it's house money". It confounds me.
No bitch, it's all my money.
Eta: ironically its usually said before doing something completely uncalculated or something you wouldn't do with your own money, like "ill let it ride since it's house money". It confounds me.
This post was edited on 4/8/25 at 5:03 pm
Posted on 4/8/25 at 5:10 pm to DrrTiger
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If you bought shares this morning, you’re at least 5% down on those by close of business
Ok you win, the market will never be higher than it was at 9:00 am today
Posted on 4/8/25 at 5:18 pm to DrrTiger
5%..so you are an amateur/rookie...
Posted on 4/8/25 at 6:16 pm to saint tiger225
Posted on 4/8/25 at 6:20 pm to SalE
I buy every Tuesday morning. I got in before it took off this morning but did go down some. I’ll buy again next Tuesday. I’m 25plus years away from retirement so I never time the market. Plus me 401k, the big money, is handled by professionals not me. I don’t need to time the market, I’m consistent with my fun investing and always buy never sell. The stocks I bought today were way lower than I bought the same stocks 3-5 months ago. So it was a win for me. And I only invest in companies I believe me. Apple, Microsoft, MO, att, VZ, etc….
Posted on 4/8/25 at 6:24 pm to 904
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When Trump moves on to his next shiny object and ever so slightly hints at the possibility of accepting deals
I think people really underestimate how serious Trump is about tariffs. He's been talking about them since the book he wrote in the early 2000s when he ran as president for the reform party.
Posted on 4/8/25 at 6:38 pm to DrrTiger
Where was this post this morning? 
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