LOL….I feel like I have stopped off at a bar….and do not know any of the regulars or history….they are all having a conversation and I am awkwardly out of place….
I feel like Discord is still at the top of the list (even higher than reddit and X) for the most used social platforms for people nowadays. I know a ton of people use it for trading and investing chats. I think because of its instant nature of communication. It really exploded during the covid pandemic.
No worries haha. Yeah there is some big time history with this community going back to 2006 which was about when this community first got it started. I first arrived in November of that year. The community was really thriving back then with hundreds of posters on and thousands of posts being made per day/week. Those were some great times. Missed them big time ngl.
Anyway, please don’t mind me guys. Would really like you all to get back to investing/market discussions in here. I “think” for now everything will remain in place. The site “should” remain online for now. Once there is more info from either Gil or myself will be sure to pass it along here. For now, please don’t mind me and resume the regular investing discussions here. Hope you all have been doing very well. Again my apologies here if I worried anyone with all of this site stuff. I’m just truly concerned for the community here because I genuinely care. That is all. Carry on.
I think RTN has a good point. It doesn’t take much to drop in and clear the air or provide an update. Unfortunately,, this is going to be a dark cloud until it is resolved to some extent.
I find this part interesting and a bit odd. I suppose in this day and age it might be normal?? Kind of struck me as odd, but maybe not?
Yeah, I am sure of that. Not much my style, but being older, I do get the popular instant type stuff. Nobody wants to type out a discussion, such as we do. I am a member of one other site, respectfully will not name it here. It kind of fits my style, but is much, much more moderated and regulated.
Same here smokie. I used to actually admin a fairly popular stock discord community some years ago. It was a very successful chat community but extremely overwhelming lol. The instant chats were kinda nice sometimes can’t deny. But I’m with you there. I prefer the forum format much more over chat rooms personally. For me, it’s just so much easier to follow the discussions. Chatrooms are just far too fast to follow for my liking. Forums are the best imo. But sadly, it seems like forum sites have been dying since the early days of the 2000s. As you and Rui mentioned, things like Reddit, X and Discord are taking it all away from forums. Unfortunately.
Can’t believe this coming week is the final “full” trading week of Q3. This year really is going by so quick! Is there anything noteworthy on anyone’s radar going into this week? Looks like we got all of the FED rate stuff out of the way (for now). Earnings season basically done (well mostly) until next month/quarter. I think we get the next nonfarm jobs report until the following week. Seems like it’ll be a mostly light week for market news unless I am missing something (probably am lol). I admittedly haven’t been totally engaged in the markets for a while now. Just getting my feet wet again after a long summer hiatus myself. Hope you all have a great final “full” trading week of the month and quarter this week!
btw, looks like i might’ve caught a bug. been feeling a little under the weather since last night.. seems a bug has been going around here lately. hopefully not covid. wish you all a great week. think i’ll be in and out kind of sporadically this week. ugh..
Oh we will soon hear some noise about the annual government shutdown. We deal with this every year about this time it seems. I don’t think either side could dislike each other much more than they currently do. They may get a deal as usual, but maybe not. How much the markets will care….who knows.
RTN….what are your thoughts on the NVDA stake in Intel?? Or some of the chip restrictions/deals that have been in the headlines lately?
It’s really quite amazing to me just how well the markets have bounced back from the tariff tantrum lows back in April. Will admit I didn’t think we’d see this kind of a rip in the markets so quickly. I did think we might have a chance to hit these current levels by year end, but to do it in September of all months? This month has had quite the historical history of extreme volatility. But so far this year and the last have been anything but. And we’re heading into Q4 soon which has historically been a very positive quarter for the markets with all of the major holidays soon approaching. I keep thinking things are getting a bit stretched and overbought on the upside but the market just keeps grinding higher and higher haha. I feel like some digestion of these highs would be really healthy. Either through a price pullback or a correction through time (sideways action for a while). This has definitely been one of the most resilient markets I have witnessed in my near 25 years being involved in markets in some form or another. I think I read somewhere that this has been one of the most power rallies off of a major low in history. Isn’t the Nasdaq something like 50% off the April lows? If someone can confirm that one. That’s actually really insane!
