Favorite team:Virginia Tech 
Location:Hills of TN
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Interests:Real estate, Golf, Fishing
Occupation:Process nerd
Number of Posts:1395
Registered on:3/6/2013
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without changing the VA constitution won't they just have the same problem with the new judges?

re: Unsolicited texts to buy my house

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 4/30/26 at 10:16 am to
It's a numbers game usually what happens is someone wants to sell quickly without doing any work. If I can get a discount to make that happen I buy the house if not on to the next one. I can assure you that no one that knows anything about real estate is going to take 30k off the purchase price and do the work for 2 reasons 1. Me doing the work isn't free and 2. If you do the work and its include in the purchase price it adds a few thousand to the down payment and goes into the loan. If I do the work after closing it costs me 30k.
I've been doing some research on Argentina as apparently it is affordable enough to retire in my 40's if I am willing to go there and open a business like a winery or olive oil bottler. Something I learned was that Argentina made a concerted effort in the 1800's to attract European immigrants. So while Germans did move there after WW2 there was already a significant population of Europeans living there and influencing the culture. Mendoza is their wine country most similar to our Napa valley and aside from it being 5000 miles from family I could likely live out the rest of my life with what I have saved if I were able to produce a bit of income there.

re: CAR - Avis short squeeze

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 4/15/26 at 12:12 pm to
Can any of you explain how to tell what the short volume is on a stock and when it has to be closed out? I'm tempted to gamble on some call options on mrln if I can figure out what date to use.
Where are you guys putting your sell order in?
I've got a buy order at 10.00 I'll follow it for a few days and see if I can get in.

re: Spec Play - HGRAF

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 3/16/26 at 11:22 am to
so when does the squeeze start?
Wouldn't it be a shame if the whole EU had to pay for Spain's insolence? Maybe Teresa would be wise to get her member states in line before she gets thrown out with the bathwater :booboo:
I always thought NFT's were a way to launder money while in person art auctions weren't available because of Covid.

re: Options premiums plays

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/27/26 at 3:24 pm to
In February I generated around 600 in option premium on stock I am going to hold anyway. If it gets called away at a price I am happy with great. In the meantime the call premium can fund my silly little side plays like hgraf or degenerate gambling like 0dte SPY options. Either way the 600 was "free" money to my smooth brain and like I said if it had exercised yesterday I'd have locked the price at 70 a share and not participated in the 5 dollar drop that happened today.

re: Options premiums plays

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/27/26 at 1:39 pm to
Today I really wish the person that bought my delta options had exercised them yesterday when we were above the strike price :banghead:

re: Spec Play - HGRAF

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/27/26 at 10:47 am to
I got fgphf at .05 but i wish I'd bought 500 more shares of hgraf instead of 10k shares of fgphf!

re: Spec Play - HGRAF

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/26/26 at 3:38 pm to
What do you guys think about FGPHF as a poor persons secondary play

re: Options premiums plays

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/26/26 at 3:09 pm to
Obviously it caps the upside but if you can generate income along the way selling out of the money calls at a price you'd be happy to sell the stock for anyway to generate "rent" from your holdings.

Options premiums plays

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/25/26 at 9:17 am
Do any of you own stock and sell weekly call options to generate weekly income? I am considering doing this with 10-12k of my roth portfolio to slowly generate cash for trading in a tax free way. I am asking Chat GPT and it likes HIMS and MARA as potential buy and hold for a year stocks with high options volume and analyst expectations of at least 30% stock price increase by the end of the year.

re: Spec Play - HGRAF

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 2/24/26 at 10:47 am to
I am in for 1000 at 1.90. If it gets to 25 dollars by the end of the year :banghead: that I didn't put more in earlier!
I bought them and they worked for me :cheers:
VIX options in 2020. It was the stupidest trade ever but I was lucky.
He lost to osu and Michigan as double digit dogs for most of those top 10 and top 25 losses. 2 programs that spent a lot more on football than PSU. I’ll be happy for the same results in the ACC although some of the hires with the budget he has are head scratchers.

re: Pinned options thread

Posted by bobaftt1212 on 10/30/25 at 1:55 pm to
I piled in to the meta trade in my play account.
Jan 26 800 strike for 9.40

I am bagholding Path Dec 25 16 calls bought at 2.46 and Dec 25 17.5 strikes bought at 2.51. I made 100% on some calls on the run up and thought I'd be slick and get back in when it ticked down.

Last position is Jan 26 FI calls at 135. they were .45 and mostly a wild gamble to see if they'd bounce a little and let me triple my money. Spoiler alert they did not