Speaking of the media above and the truckloads of information available today. The "sentiment" reports, the news stories in general, and all of the excessive and obsessive narratives. All competing to drive outlooks and opinions about every conceivable subject known to mankind. A little article with some good commentary and charts discussing the never-ending black hole of information. There really is too much information to process it all. Above all, there is no need to. Most of it is just going to drive people into dumb decisions and create an inability to form your own conclusions. In my opinion, folks spend too much time concentrating on this noise. The Lowest Consumer Sentiment EVER - A Wealth of Common Sense
Perhaps we should find all of these posts in this thread and send them to their customer support email one at a time in perpetuity https://imgur.com/a/RKDzCsA Just say the word, W
If you want to send them that latest post...fell free....ROAD. BUT.....NOTE....I did edit that post to add a bit to it.
YEAH.....DUH. ‘Sell in May’ Looks to Be Going Astray. Again. May’s returns were pretty nice. https://www.fisherinvestments.com/e...ry/sell-in-may-looks-to-be-going-astray-again ....."So don’t get suckered into gimmicks aimed at avoiding short-term volatility, be they seasonal or otherwise. Volatility isn’t a dealbreaker. It is the price we all pay for reaping the long-term returns that get us to our goals. Put that front of mind, and let seasonal myths be the useless trivia they are." RIGHT....personally I dont invest based on MYTH or SUPERSTITIONS. BUT....that is just "me".
Some good advice for those that are near or in retirement. Not that this is going to happen. BUT....no doubt....every retiree will have to ENDURE one or more BEAR MARKETS.....perhaps even a long one. Be careful our there boys and girls....in retirement when you no longer have TIME on your side to make up for losses. New Retirees: Prepare for the Possibility of a Lost Decade A financial advisor’s view on negative or flat market returns and when to claim Social Security. https://www.morningstar.com/retirement/new-retirees-prepare-possibility-lost-decade
YES....exactly. Of course this article is talking about employees using....AI. Appearing Productive in The Workplace https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ ...."This is a new form of slop, and it is more expensive than the public kind, because the people producing it are being paid a salary to do so. The pipeline of future experts is thinning from both ends. The work that used to teach judgment is now done by the tool, and the entry-level roles where the teaching happened are being cut on the theory that the tool can do the work. What this is causing, in many offices including mine, is a great deal of motion and very little of what motion used to create.".....
Of course.....EVERYTHING....overshadows any gain or positive news in NVDA. BUT....I am of course ENJOYING the big gains in NVDA and MSFT today. S&P 500 is little changed as oil jumps, overshadowing Nvidia gain https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Here is the NVDA and MSFT news of the day that is DRIVING both stocks. MSFT has been on a real TEAR....over the past few days. Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/nvi...fresh-line-of-windows-laptops-by-dell-hp.html
I get....SO...very tired of the constant comparisons of the current fundamental bull market to the DOT-COM era and market. There is ZERO comparison. I say that as someone that lived and invested through the DOT-COM era and CRASH. Back than speculation in companies that were nothing more than a wevb site and a name was RAMPANT. The MEDIA was pushing, pushing, pushing it all. As to the article below.....YEAH....the key factor now is REALITY......and....actual companies that are making money. AND....not just in IPO's. The 2026 stock market has a key factor the dot-com boom lacked https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/a...factor-the-dot-com-boom-lacked-121423029.html "There’s an important distinction between the hot backdrop for markets in 2026 and the lead-up to the dot-com crash in the late ‘90s and early 2000s: the quality of initial public offerings. There just isn’t a frenzy of fundamentally crappy companies with no future financial prospects going public in today’s market.".... ALTHOUGH....now we have to put up with relentlessly IDIOTIC pretend and lazy journalism.
The open today very much...depends on what you happen to own. In general a MIXED market open today. The NASDAQ is green for reasons noted above....the SP500 is mildly RED....and the DOW is moderately RED
Add to the BS story lines that I am sick of hearing....is all the articles about the poor consumers not spending money. Of course...most of these are actually nothing but.....POLITICS. The politicians have discovered that they can drive results by INFECTING the financial markets and reporting with their constant.....political BS. BUT...once in a while REALITY....comes out......somehow. Retail had a ‘surprisingly robust’ first quarter, but the real test is ahead as tax refunds dry up https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/q1-2026-retail-earnings-tax-refunds-bnpl.html STRONG profits in retail means that consumers were consuming. I LOVE this first sentence in the summary to this article. "The retail industry eked out strong gains in profits and sales in the first quarter despite concerns about consumer weakness given high gas prices and low sentiment." HOW do you....."eke out strong gains in profits"? You dont....the gains were NOT "eked out". They EXPLODED....that is what the word "STRONG" means. AND........ cue the NEGATIVITY...... as the sentence continues. Of course those....."concerns"....were NOT reality.
Another day of....actually....NOTHING going on. Fine with me.....I thrive from doing.....NOTHING in response to NOTHING going on.
I'm not a betting man (well maybe if you you count going chin deep in chip stocks) but I would say the average return of the active posters in this thread over the last 5 years would most likely beat the vast majority of active funds. Yes the forum on page 3 of google.
For me the forum shows up on page 1 of a GOOGLE search. Of course that is on my computer...which is reflecting my every day posting in the search results. I think you are right TireSmoke.....most of us on here are handily BEATING the huge majority of active fund managers and traders. The best part is.....we are for the most part not taking near the risk many of them are.
I just looked....and I have a really nice BIG gain going today.....with only three GREEN stocks....MSFT, PLTR, and NVDA. In fact I think...(I am not sure).... I am at a new high in my accounts....ALL....the accounts that I manage. We need to.....PUSH, PUSH, PUSH.....as they say in Formula 1......to the close in about an hour and fifteen minutes. YEAH....I am GREEDY. AND.....riding the wave.
YES.....I call BS on this excuse....the broken ice cream machine. I see this all over......and it is not just McDonalds. I had a regular Jack-In-The-Box that I would hit late when playing a lot. They simply NEVER had milkshakes. Their machines was supposedly "broken" for years. Same with MCD and their machines. I think they are.....in REALITY....too lazy to clean the machines. So, at some point in the day....or for weeks at a time..... they clean them and from than on.....bingo....the machine is "broken". Why the McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Is Always Broken, and Why That Might Be About to Change https://fee.org/articles/why-the-mc...etter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fee-daily
WELL.....I guess this is actually NOT that....confidential. Anthropic files confidential paperwork to go public ahead of OpenAI https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/a...k-to-go-public-ahead-of-openai-160929472.html
The continued...story of the day. Nvidia debuts RTX Spark processor for Windows laptops, taking aim at Intel, AMD https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/a...aptops-taking-aim-at-intel-amd-053000567.html "According to the company, the RTX Spark will pack upwards of 128GB of memory, a massive amount for any laptop."
WTF.....I thought the economy was in the tank? US Manufacturing Activity Expands by Most in Four Years https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-manufacturing-activity-expands-most-142953880.html There is a huge DISCONNECT between what the.....MEDIA MORONS....are telling every day and REALITY in the business world.
