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#18,852
Jax_Vol said:
News to me. Why is that?
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I’ve probably become somewhat desensitized to the short term noise after the extremely volatile start to Q2. Plus I’m looking for spots to sell options and we’re kind of in the middle of share price ranges this week. At least the stocks that I’m watching.

I think Q4 will be fairly wild.
 
#18,853
#18,853
Thunder Good-Oil said:
I’ve probably become somewhat desensitized to the short term noise after the extremely volatile start to Q2. Plus I’m looking for spots to sell options and we’re kind of in the middle of share price ranges this week. At least the stocks that I’m watching.

I think Q4 will be fairly wild.
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Got it.

My question was actually more basic. Why isn't Tuesday, Sept 30, the end of Quarter 3?
 
#18,855
#18,855
Throwing out some bullish short option limit orders today on FIG, SMR, KBH, and MTH.

Thinking of doing the same with RH but the new furniture tariff seems like it should be putting more pressure on the shares.
 
#18,859
#18,859
Go aeiou said:
Up a little almost every day. The reason I kept it was it was already beaten down. It's still down about 15% in the last year.
It pays a 2.7% div.
Someone on here suggested LMT.
Big if for me is Congress/Pres attitude towards war stocks?
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That was me.

As long as Putin wants to fight, LHX, LMT, RTX are the three I know that make various key production items needed for defense.

Perhaps NOC, but not as familiar with them.

LDOS is a smaller more design-oriented bunch also in the mix.
 
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#18,860
#18,860
AVAV is on fire. I was assigned shares at $250 on short put position. Unfortunately I sold the $280 10/3 covered call and missed out on half of a potential return as it closed at almost $315 today. $30 (plus $13 on the options) isn’t as good as $65, but I can’t complain with the results in just over 5 weeks. Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

I’ll sell AVAV puts again if the underlying AVAV shares pulls back.
 
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#18,861
#18,861
Thunder Good-Oil said:
AVAV is on fire. I was assigned shares at $250 on short put position. Unfortunately I sold the $280 10/3 covered call and missed out on half of a potential return as it closed at almost $315 today. $30 (plus $13 on the options) isn’t as good as $65, but I can’t complain with the results in just over 5 weeks. Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

I’ll sell AVAV puts again if the underlying AVAV shares pulls back.
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Obviously, the drones have changed the way wars are fought.

There are some high-tech USA toys, but unsure if we are allowed to sell much of that to other countries.

Huge market for the cheap drones that are used as a weapon. Don't really know but guessing that Europe can build those themselves.
 
#18,862
#18,862
Jax_Vol said:
Obviously, the drones have changed the way wars are fought.

There are some high-tech USA toys, but unsure if we are allowed to sell much of that to other countries.

Huge market for the cheap drones that are used as a weapon. Don't really know but guessing that Europe can build those themselves.
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Not just drones, but surgical, cheap, and short range. Future wars will fought with less and less human piloted platforms with $100 million planes.
 
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#18,865
#18,865
Jax_Vol said:
That is awesome!!

Congrats Thunder!
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Nope. I sold the $280 covered call so my shares get called in 2 days. I made about $45/share, but missed out on an additional $55/share.

Selling covered calls hasn’t worked very well for me. But selling cash reserved puts has. But that’s how things go with appreciating stocks.
 
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#18,866
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I’d like to pick up UBER shares for a long term hold. But it’s already a $200 billion market cap. Plus the forward p/e is expected to double. I don’t know why - are earnings per share expected to be cut in half?

I think that home builders are still reasonably priced. The tariffs have probably been holding them back.
 
#18,871
#18,871
The move in the disk drive companies (STX, SNDK, WDC) the last few months has been absolutely spectacular. WDC is up nearly 40% since mid-September and is up almost 5x from the April lows.
 
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#18,872
05_never_again said:
The move in the disk drive companies (STX, SNDK, WDC) the last few months has been absolutely spectacular. WDC is up nearly 40% since mid-September and is up almost 5x from the April lows.
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I didn’t even realize that disk drive companies were still a thing. I owned Quantum and Read-Rite back in the day. I think that I got out of Quantum with a profit. Read-Rite was a swing and a miss. I don’t think I ever owned Seagate or Western Digital.

I bought EMC and planned to hold it forever. Michael Dell and the EMC BoD stole it from me.
 
#18,874
#18,874
Thunder Good-Oil said:
I didn’t even realize that disk drive companies were still a thing. I owned Quantum and Read-Rite back in the day. I think that I got out of Quantum with a profit. Read-Rite was a swing and a miss. I don’t think I ever owned Seagate or Western Digital.

I bought EMC and planned to hold it forever. Michael Dell and the EMC BoD stole it from me.
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They're a thing again. All of that data that AI creates and uses has to live somewhere. The wild thing about this trade though is that it didn't seem to really take off until after the tariff selloff. These stocks weren't huge participants in the general AI trade until just the last few months.
 
#18,875
#18,875
05_never_again said:
They're a thing again. All of that data that AI creates and uses has to live somewhere. The wild thing about this trade though is that it didn't seem to really take off until after the tariff selloff. These stocks weren't huge participants in the general AI trade until just the last few months.
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Data warehousing and the cloud is where AI stores their stuff. MSFT. AWS. IBM. GOOGL. Dell. With hardware storage devices from Toshiba, Samsung, or other Asian manufacturers. I’ve always thought of those 3 drive manufacturers as more desktop oriented. Maybe WDC has a strong presence in the big rack based storage systems. But I don’t drill down too much into tech names that are vulnerable to the big dogs squeezing them or possibly taking them out.
 
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