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Yes I would agree on the whole rynosback, the thing on a corporation like Chili's (Brinker) they have the infrastructure to go back where they were quickly. I don't know how long it would take the stock to recover but if it was running 40 and now 10 don't you think you could fairly easily get 20 or 30 price point back rather quickly.

Let's say it took 2 years to hit the 40 mark again, that would be 4 times your money in two years, 30 would be three times your money. You know what I am saying.

Sysco who yesterday (Thur) hit 26 was at 41 when I checked then out on Friday, closed at 35. They are in the same boat as restaurants as that is who they supply.

I am watching and waiting, hoping we can all make something off this.

Thanks for your input.

A couple more people gave me today. If any of this interest you, a couple do me and look attractive.

(BUD) as in beer, was 90.00 now 36.00.

Chili's (EAT) running 40.00 now at 11.00

BJ's Restaurant (BJRI) was 40 in Feb now 8.00, up 22% today 3-19 with about 6% dividends to boot.

The last two look attractive to me, check these out and if you see an issue with them post up.

There show be a chart of stocks somewhere that shows the ones with the highest losses I could look at and choose maybe even better ones from that list, had not had time to look for that though. Tesla was down further today but maybe a few above offer grater gains and less volatile. 

Post up your opinions.

23 hours ago, rynosback said:

They have been taking a beating. But with a high yield, about 6%, I will get paid to wait and have it come back up. The Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. engages in focusing on solutions that reduce carbon emissions and increase resilience to climate change by providing capital and specialized expertise to companies in the energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainable infrastructure markets. 
with global warming and companies pledging to be at 0 or negative footprint is right up there alley.

Thanks for the info, 6% is attractive, the stock has recently seen a high of 39 down to 20 now, looks like you could easily hit 30 per share.

I didn't know Tesla was so low, I will need to watch that one closer also and the tip on Disney is down from 145 to 93.

I will throw another company out that I just noticed it is so low, I worked for the back in the 80s and 90s, held their stock up until 18 months ago. They are the largest food service distributor in the USA that caters to the restaurant industry and chain establishments. They are a solid company who knows how to make money, nothing exciting just a steady company.

There stock hovered around 65 to 70 with a high the first part of the year at 84, now it is at 35, could not believe this when I saw it. If you see a reason why not to buy this post up. Analyst had a sell at 85 and a hold at 75.

SYY - Sysco Foods Houston TX.

Keep the ideas coming for us to check out.

Looks like you bought Apple at a pretty good price, not familiar with HASI, what can you tell me about this stock?

In my area it is cable as stated and Spectrum is rebranded, Time Warner is who I write the check to.

21 hours ago, rynosback said:

I would think if you ask 99.9% of CEOs what they think there for cast would be in 5 years. They would all give you a good outlook.  AMD has had a GREAT run in the last year. Heck airlines and cruise lines will have large increases as they are at tremendous lows in 5 years.

I thought when you were a public company and had the eyes of the SEC on you the CEO just could not blow smoke to the public investors or SEC or you could possibly go to jail for whatever reasons. Maybe not?

AMD had their stock forecast report.

Looks like the CEO is predicting a stronger forecast the next 5 years. I am not pushing AMD, if I see news of interest I am passing it on, you determine what you get in on your own yardstick.  

" Chief Executive Lisa Su forecast a long-term compound annual growth rate of 20%. "Overall, AMD looks to be going for a growth play with a 20% CAGR (Compound annual growth rate) commitment, a massive uptick over the 14% CAGR the past 5 years," "

The stock has risen on after hours trading and the link is a short paragraph.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amd-stock-rises-after-hours-on-strong-growth-forecast-2020-03-05?mod=mw_quote_news

The exhaust went back to the distributor and a refund issued to me, no way to eat that money.

In my situation I have ran an online business for 10 years, get the same, I am spending 500 or 1000 dollars I expect XX.

On a 500 dollar sale I might get 8-12 dollars from, I don't see the max you spent, I see you are a 8-12 dollar order for me.

You are here because I have the lowest price, there ain't no more Mr Customer that is why there is not a lower deal. Mr Customer you can want but you will need to go somewhere else, it literally is not worth me taking a phone call or answering a string of emails from you. 

Happened the other day, guy received a damaged item, 900 dollars exhaust was scratched, customer wanted 150 dollars and he would keep it, I sent a label to bring it back. Told him I made 25 dollars on the order, I have lost money bringing these back with shipping, no problem bringing them back but could not do the 150 the customer wanted.

Another customer wanted a set of exhaust and told me he found a set 95 dollars less, I told the customer to jump on those the dealer is losing money and you might not actually get the set as your order would be canceled. After a day or two he came back and bought mine.

When you are a seller it is easy to see a customer trying to put the shaft to you and you want the seller to be happy to spend time with you and sell you a product. 

Perspective from the other side.

A have a list of watchers also, two that have garnered a bit more interest for two reasons.

1. New stocks on the market as of 10-19

2. The stocks have been headed in the right direction.

If interested they are.

Viela Bio, Inc. (VIE)

Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (VIR)

When it is time to get back in what will you be purchasing?

FYI, Bank of A. changed their outlook on AMD from a target of 58 to 62.00, this is the stock that doubled my money last year (not selling you on the stock just a FYI about my history). AMD will hold a investors meeting Thursday March 5th how they will be increasing the EPS from what I have read.

You can read a short article here if interested.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/amd-target-price-lifted-at-bank-of-america-ahead-of-analyst-day

What I am finding out by this research of and on the job learning, if you put Trailing Stop Orders on your purchases it will save your margins especially important in a huge downturn we are seeing.

If I had known about this on the pot stocks I would not have lost 20% before getting out. Those of you who held your pot stocks this would have saved your bacon also.

If you use the Trailing Stop Orders feature yourself or through a broker, with Fidelity you choose Good Till Canceled and it last for 6 months but will also send you a notification before it is about to cancel so you can re-up it again. With Merrill Edge I am not sure how long it last or if they have a notification feature. These are the two I have money with, by the way, no reason to use these, it is just what I have.  

I am not telling you to use this but it is an option and I don't see a big downside why we as investors do not utilize it more, we need every edge we can get.

I did read the article, I don't think what I or we would be doing would be alarming to the IRS, never know so that is good to know.

There is something to the settlement date that I talked over with my brokers rep., you can buy without/before funds being settled but if you sell again before the first sell is settled you will be restricted for ninety days  to only buy with settled funds.

So you can Buy - Sell - Buy (on unsettled funds) but you can't Sell again until the first sell has been settled. If you do you are restricted as noted above, not a big deal and if you need to get out of something you Sell. This could happen on a volatile stock like Tesla but otherwise you would be fine as settlements take about 2-3 days.   

I had a guy who was handling my funds the last 1 ½ years, he a little more than doubled my money but does not want to handle trading of my account any longer, not a broker, just my CPA and a gentleman’s agreement.

I had a stock broker for many years, in the beginning it was good than downhill from there. Even in the good days and thereafter he would purchase a stock, for example, $20 dollars a share, it goes up to $25.00, drops back to $22. In my mind I question why did we not sell it around the $25 mark and repurchase at the $22 mark? I know the problem, no crystal ball, I understand. Any news and it starts tanking we need to get out, that is his job, right?

His target to sell is $28 so we hold until he is comfortable at selling close to the $28 mark. Brokers handle a lot of people accounts and probably easier for them to let it ride instead of putting in a Trailing Stop Loss order say at $1.00 below.

Since my guy stopped handling my account I have been on a crash course to figure this out without tying myself to the computer.  

  In the example above, a (TSLO) Trailing Stop Loss sell order would follow the stock price up, initially when purchased at $20 the order to sell would be at $19, as the price of the stock moves up say to $25 the TSLO would move up also to $24.

This is an automatic sell if the price drops to $24, it saves your profit, I did not know this existed. On the flip side when my broker would buy something it might drop 10% and stay there a while, if I had this in place we could have cut my losses and repurchase at a later time.

Of course if a broker does this on all stocks that this would apply, it would be a lot of work for him but best for his clients, they take the easier way out. 

Not exactly Day Trading Kirk but could be as in the case of Tesla who we all know about. Along with Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. Space (SPCE), it went up 24% in a day, I watched it do this. Another day it did the same, went up than back down, in this case it would be a day trade, though not intended when you bought the stock but to protect your margins.

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, the chip processor, is another one and the stock my CPA more than doubled my money on. In the last few months it went from $28 to $55 now.  

This was going to be strictly about the topic heading but I think I have some answers to that so I changed it up a bit.

1   1. Do you go through a broker or self directed stock purchases?

2    2. What type of stock orders do you use, as in Stop Loss, Trailing Stop Loss, Limit Orders, etc.?

3    3. If you purchase stock in the morning how long before you can sell the stock? Hours later, same day?

On 2/8/2020 at 10:28 PM, Kirk W said:

2) The answer to this is yes. A lot depends on they type of RV you are shopping for and also the size of your budget. Gasoline powered tow trucks will perform much better when towing either a travel trailer or a fifth wheel and particularly the lager ones. But diesel trucks also cost much more.

Did you intend to say Diesel?

Making it tonight, I altered the recipe above.

Altered the amount of beef broth and amount of mixed vegetables.

I use these Birdseye 19 oz. bag of frozen vegetables with the large carrots. Do not microwave, they come out mushy, put them in frozen.

Hamburger Soup

 Not my photo, for reference.

Ingredients

    2 lb lean ground beef

    1 Large onion , diced

    2 cloves garlic , minced (2 tsp)

    3 Large potatoes , peeled and diced

    32oz container beef broth (Low Sodium) Plus 2 more cups I made with beef base (Ms likes more broth)

    1 can (28 oz) diced tomatoes with juice

    1 can condensed tomato soup

    3 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

    1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

    1 bay leaf

    salt and pepper to taste

    1 19oz bag mixed vegetables , fresh or frozen

Instructions

    Brown onion, ground beef and garlic until no pink remains. Drain any fat.

    Add potatoes, broth, tomatoes, tomato soup, Worcestershire sauce, seasoning, bay leaves and vegetables. Simmer covered 45 minutes.

Serve with a pat of Butter in your bowl, salt and pepper to taste.

So when do I buy and what is causing it to gain than close back at 887.00?

I need to get the PUK codes myself.

That is frugal, thanks for keeping up with expenses and posting. I don't think I could get anywhere near that, I like to do too much.  

On 1/13/2020 at 4:10 PM, ARGO said:

Get a "2x30 to 50" & use a feed off another site if unoccupied. 

Do they make such a thing? If so, here's your answer.

Thanks for the update.

On 12/29/2019 at 6:59 PM, sushidog said:

bought one of these about a year ago at Walmart after looking at the lighter weight telescoping ladders. It fits in the storage area under my motorhome just under my fresh water tank perfectly. It's a little heavier at 25 lbs but has less flex and is way sturdier, (rated for 330 lbs) especially on uneven ground. The wide rubber feet give added stability top and bottom and don't scratch my RV. 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ktaxon-12-5FT-Heavy-Duty-Multi-Purpose-Folding-Step-Ladder-Platform-Extendable-Scaffold-Ladder-Aluminum-7-in-1-Extension-Step-Lightweight-330LB/589037158?athcpid=589037158&athpgid=athenaItemPage&athcgid=null&athznid=PWVUB&athieid=v0&athstid=CS004&athguid=6da4ee66-6df-16f54499bd4ad3&athancid=null&athena=true

These are a pain to setup and take down if you have not had one.