The Long Term Investor

A nice BIG....medium gain for me today. AND...to top it off a nice beat of the SP500 by....1.37% in my stocks.

I am liking the current WAVE that I am riding. LETS DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW.

 

YOU are now a VETERAN INVESTOR.....LORI. A near...professional. AND....with a return of....+174%...in only 6 years....you are beating ALL the professionals even Warren Buffett.

Even in a booming market....what you have done is way beyond normal.

I am glad you found this site too.....I treasure you and the other international posters we have on here.

If all your friends and people around you in day to day life knew what you have achieved.....they would be insanely jealous and probably very confused.....since they dont understand about investing like you do. They are going to be SHOCKED in about 20-25 years when you announce that you are a....MILLIONAIRE.

I will note that the BIG DANGER for all of us is if we get used to the BIG gains of recent years and come to expect them. They are highly ABNORMAL. That is why i try to MENTALLY keep my GOAL of averaging 10% long term.....in mind....even though I am way beyond that. AND.....every so often we have to pay the price of SITTING THROUGH a 1-3 year BEAR MARKET.....when all hope seems to be lost forever.

 

I like this little article....even though much of my portfolio is concentrated. BUT....I do have a good CHUNK in the SP500 part of my portfolio.

How Not to Invest During Times of Uncertainty

https://behaviouralinvestment.com/2026/05/05/how-not-to-invest-during-times-of-uncertainty/

....."The sense that markets are unusually uncertain is the time when behavioural discipline matters most, but also when we are highly likely to abandon it. Market timing and portfolio concentration feel right, but really they are just the easy options that make us feel good, while being very unlikely to work."

 

A very good open today in the markets. LETS FINISH THE WEEK STRONG.

Stocks rise on strong jobs report and Iran deal hopes, S&P 500 heads for 6th winning week in a row

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

 

As usual.....I dont TRUST any of the jobs numbers....but here they are.

April jobs report: Economy adds 115,000 jobs, far better than expected

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/a...-jobs-far-better-than-expected-182224225.html

 

AND....this is the FUTURE of jobs.....which we have been actually living for at least 2-5 years now already.

Cloudflare stock sinks as company slashes 20% of its workforce, citing AI

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/a...-20-of-its-workforce-citing-ai-134338851.html

“With AI and agents now core parts of our workforce, the way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed,” Matthew Prince, Cloudflare co-founder and CEO said in a statement."

 

ALL....the big averages are GREEN....especially the NASDAQ.

We are in the middle....meaning that I expect it to continue for a while....right now.

RIDING THE WAVE.

 

YES....there are negative money and investing traits that go along with gender. For MALES...it is gambling and taking excessive risk....along with....overconfidence.

Most women are confident savers, survey finds — but where they stash their cash could be a problem

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/women-savings-lags-inflation.html

 

The....MARKET MANIPULATORS......are way more common and way more of them than anyone knows. Although much of their behavior is legal. I would say the odds of getting caught by our market bureaucrats is actually pretty low.

Unmasking a decade-long insider trading scheme that led to 30 charges, 19 arrests
FBI says defendants spoke in code and profited from nearly 30 merger deals involving major public companies

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifesty...ider-trading-scheme-led-30-charges-19-arrests

This type of activity...by its nature.....is nearly always people in POWER and in high positions. The little retail investors......the "chumps"......in the minds of these sorts of ELITES......are just irrelevant to them.

 

That is about it for any news or interesting content today. It is simply a day to sit and watch the markets and HOPE that the BOOM lasts till the end of the day and the end of the week. We just have to get past the mid morning FADE and the end of the day FADE into the weekend.

In other words....the actions of the....TRADERS and SPECULATORS.

 

I think this is a pretty RATIONAL view of PLTR.

Palantir Just Beat Earnings and Dropped. This Has Happened Before. Here’s What Came Next

https://247wallst.com/investing/202...his-has-happened-before-heres-what-came-next/

I agree that people like MR A-HOLE and the other media manipulators.....make things tough for the company. They would not be able to do what they do without the FAWNING and SYCOPHANTIC MEDIA.

I also agree with this:

......"At the end of the day, Palantir isn’t just another SaaS company that’s scrambling to make a pivot; it was built from the ground up with AI in mind, and, as a result, the firm is already bearing significant fruit, delivering real profits in real-time.

For that reason, I’m inclined to view the firm as AI-native, capable of leading the way into AI-driven monetization. It’s creating serious value rather than what Karp referred to as “AI slop” software that “only appears to work.”"......

 

In one of the accounts that I manage....I added $10,000 to MSFT a few minutes ago. for some reason....I believe their inability of their CEO to play the messaging game with the MEDIA......they are the current market WHIPPING BOY.

 

SORRY..... I am about to TANK....NVDA. They are just a.....SMIDGE (investing term of art)....away from a 52 week HIGH.