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jimmyjazz

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  1. Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about X.
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    spaceflight's business model seems hard to crack. Peruse their "roster". I can assure you that there is at least one band on that roster which has nothing to do with the company.
  3. $30K? I mean, I see why the airline thinks they should take a shot, but that wouldn't cover most a la carte medical bills after a crash like that.
  4. Which, to be fair, is pretty much like punching Billy Corgan.
  5. I phrased that wrong on the covered call: you can still lose it all EXCEPT the premium received for the call, which you pocket.
  6. Long put + long stock = long call. They're synthetic equivalents. Yeah, the put itself is bearish, but it's a hedge against the long stock. Selling a covered call is capping the upside for income, not hedging the downside. You can still lose it all on the covered call. Not on a long put + long stock. I'm just curious if there are papers studying (for instance) the efficacy of X% stops versus long puts on long stock. Probably not the right thread.
  7. The punt return against BYU? If so, that was 74 yards (67.7 m). Yes, zig-zagging. I don't know how to compare that to a sprint. Maybe top end speed?
  8. I'm well aware of what a stop is. The point is that owning a put gives me the control, whereas a stop can be taken out on a blip down.
  9. Very smart guy. Weird as all get out, but smart.
  10. That corgi has Little Dog Game.
  11. One claim is an outrageous number of "bullet ballots", which are ballots with only one vote cast (POTUS). I haven't read anything that seems terribly grounded in provable data.
  12. Enjoy your lavender margaritas and your Sysco food (curated by JoJo) and your new knicknacks and your "Home Is Where The Heart Is" sign.
  13. In general I like Rudy's but their ribs suck.
  14. Any idea how stops work out versus puts? I know there is the "risk" that the market makers will move to take out stops, but surely that's unlikely with small holdings in large caps, right? Plus, you don't pay for a stop. (I think I'm answering my question.)
  15. Some gain, the inheritance was about 18 months ago. We've just been giving the whole thing the side eye since then. It's probably almost half cash, so the downside risk wasn't as bad as it could have been (and the gains were obviously capped by those cash holdings as well).
  16. I took a look at BIL . . . valuation just sawtooths up and down monthly, is that reflecting a 1-month yield payout? Never mind, I found the price data, it's the dividends.
  17. Yeah, I'd like to see what that portfolio did during some of the shocks more than a decade ago. portfoliometrics goes back farther?
  18. Thanks, those sound like good tools. I'll check them out. I assume they allow for the reinvestment of dividends, too? We don't really need cash flow outside of the current obligations I've alluded to.
  19. Sure, if CD rates track down we might have to adjust. We just have a lot of shit going on right now and have little appetite for risk, certainly compared to what it was in the past. I'm mostly looking for advice on those individual stocks to see if there are any particular one or two that stand out as keepers. These accounts are WAY loaded towards MSFT (as in 3X the next largest holding) so I'm included to at least trim that back some, if not just get rid of it completely. I'll dig into the annual dividend % on these stocks and see if that colors our perspective. Doesn't protect much against downside risk, though.
  20. A&M could schedule the Eagles and the Chiefs and we'd still be their most important game.
  21. That's just pure capitalism right there, that's what that is.
  22. My version of "safe" assumed certificates of deposit. Seems like they are yielding roughly the same as HYSA and money market funds. I'm not exactly an expert on the differences, although I should say we won't need the cash and a 6-month term that gets rolled would be fine.
  23. Not THAT kind of conservative LOL.
  24. It's even more subtle than that. People can be an XX "intersex male". They can be an XY "intersex female". And then there are the multiple cases of triple chromosomes, etc. (Not a biologist, but I did take Human Genetics for my undergrad "basic science elective" in engineering school, because otherwise i would have had to take Geology 101 or Astronomy 101 and who wants to do that?)
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