Are stocks attractive now?

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=The-Shoveler]Working from home most of the time, my wife yells at me to change my sweats at least once a week.[/quote]

At least you wear pants[/quote]

Do you recall the 2010 Superbowl commercial, I WEAR NO PANTS, from Dockers. Still makes me chuckle.

I still sing it to to myself when I’m walking around in my underwear.

[Coronita]

Days with zoom calls I wear a nice shirt and shorts when I’m on call with a customer I just need to remember not to stand up LOL. Also I need to point the camera so it doesn’t show the rest of my messy room

[Coronita]

Also, white vinegar is an excellent cleaning agent. It’s cheap and it’s much more effective than a lot of the tile and grout cleaners. It dissolves soap scum and mildew really easily pour into a spray bottle and let it sit for 15 minutes the only caveat is tolerating the smell. Spray after using your shower or tub and rinse and you never need cleaner to clean

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]I view housecleaning as a form of exercise. Done with extreme speed, it is highly aerobic. My strategy over the years has been doing a lot of cleaning at high speed with fair to poor quality. I finish very quickly and do a ‘C” job. This irritates my wife and so, I broke down and will pay in the interest of matrimonial harmony. But let the record reflect that this was over my vigorous objection. Although it is nice how clean she gets the house. Not worth the money to me, but definitely to my wife. I go way too fast to get it that clean.

Also, doing the dishes can lead to enlightenment. See e.g. Mr natural does the dishes.
[/quote]

lol an ongoing conversation in our house, over a series of years.

On any day when my sons or I do the dishes and put them away:

Wife: (pulling a dish from the cabinet) “You call THAT clean??” (picking off a tiny speck of something from some crevice)

Us: “Well, yeah….man clean”[/quote]

i try the “some bacteria is good for us and too clean can impair our immunity system” argument, but it doesn’t seem to work.

[anxvariety]

Prepare to be much poorer no matter the strategy. The bubble fills to get as many people locked into to interest paying contracts as possible, before deflating rapidly.. those with interest paying agreements will unfortunately pay for all the fun over the last decade or so. See Weimar, rations were implemented so # of ‘dollars’ didn’t really matter much unless spending a few hundred for some butter on the black market. The interest paying bagholders, and those charlatans telling others its a good time to buy are agents of inflation.. and ‘we all falll dowwnnn’. “but but I thought that loans were going to be easier to pay back with inflation!” “well, the inflation already occurred no one told you about this next part? its great and all that you have 1% interest but you paid 1 million for a 1000 sq ft ‘crap shack'”.

[Coronita]

[quote=anxvariety]Prepare to be much poorer no matter the strategy. The bubble fills to get as many people locked into to interest paying contracts as possible, before deflating rapidly.. those with interest paying agreements will unfortunately pay for all the fun over the last decade or so. See Weimar, rations were implemented so # of ‘dollars’ didn’t really matter much unless spending a few hundred for some butter on the black market. The interest paying bagholders, and those charlatans telling others its a good time to buy are agents of inflation.. and ‘we all falll dowwnnn’. “but but I thought that loans were going to be easier to pay back with inflation!” “well, the inflation already occurred no one told you about this next part? its great and all that you have 1% interest but you paid 1 million for a 1000 sq ft ‘crap shack'”.[/quote]

huh? Bay area folks have been use to paying $1million for a crap shack for decades.

The issue right now is lack of inventory.

And one thing a few were discussing. Another reason not to sell. High capital gains taxes. Federal + state taxes combined being 30%, you’re better off borrowing against the equity than to sell.

That’s the irony. I think one way to get more inventory and to get more people to sell is for the state to have a state capital gains holiday on home sales, instead of politicians trying to figure out more ways to tax more, lol

[sdrealtor]

[quote=anxvariety]Prepare to be much poorer no matter the strategy. The bubble fills to get as many people locked into to interest paying contracts as possible, before deflating rapidly.. those with interest paying agreements will unfortunately pay for all the fun over the last decade or so. See Weimar, rations were implemented so # of ‘dollars’ didn’t really matter much unless spending a few hundred for some butter on the black market. The interest paying bagholders, and those charlatans telling others its a good time to buy are agents of inflation.. and ‘we all falll dowwnnn’. “but but I thought that loans were going to be easier to pay back with inflation!” “well, the inflation already occurred no one told you about this next part? its great and all that you have 1% interest but you paid 1 million for a 1000 sq ft ‘crap shack'”.[/quote]

Thats where you are wrong. You paid 900K for a piece of dirt and $100K for the “crap shack”

[an]

[quote=Coronita]…you’re better off borrowing against the equity than to sell. [/quote]
Ding ding ding… winner winner chicken dinner.

[phaster]

opps dup

[phaster]

[quote=bibsoconner]Anybody want to dust off their crystal ball and tell me if now is a good time to buy some stocks for the long term?
Thoughts?[/quote]

[quote=deadzone]
Buying qualcomm stock in 1995 opportunity of a lifetime.
Bitcoin anytime before 2018 opportunity of a lifetime.
I missed those too. Oh woes me.[/quote]

got lucky holding some stocks I purchased in the late 1990s that compounded way above the market index,… so I guess that qualifies as an opportunity of a lifetime

since I’m an accredited investor

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp

I’ve been investing in pre IPO startups involved in the environmental sector (which I’m pretty certain will survive ‘over the long term’ AND hopefully will give me great returns)

PS FWIW “time in markets rather than trying to ‘time’ the markets” is what seems to work over the long term

give ya an example one strategy I used and worked really well before the 2008 sub price crash was momentum trades (i.e. “the trend is your friend”),…

basically momentum trades worked for a while, then that strategy pretty crashed and burned

fortunately I was playing the market for some time before the subprime crash,… so in hindsight view the subprime crash as a short term rough patch (because I stayed invested)

[sdrealtor]

[quote=deadzone]But seriously there are many signs that the stock market may be on the verge of a major crash. So if you insist on buying equities today, recommend you stick with high value (low PE) stock funds at least, not tech heavy or high PE stuff.[/quote]

NFLX on 3/8 $345
NFLX on 4/4 $395

[an]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=deadzone]But seriously there are many signs that the stock market may be on the verge of a major crash. So if you insist on buying equities today, recommend you stick with high value (low PE) stock funds at least, not tech heavy or high PE stuff.[/quote]

NFLX on 3/8 $345
NFLX on 4/4 $395[/quote]
My call is in the money now, right?

[Coronita]

[quote=an][quote=sdrealtor][quote=deadzone]But seriously there are many signs that the stock market may be on the verge of a major crash. So if you insist on buying equities today, recommend you stick with high value (low PE) stock funds at least, not tech heavy or high PE stuff.[/quote]

NFLX on 3/8 $345
NFLX on 4/4 $395[/quote]
My call is in the money now, right?[/quote]

FAKE NEWS

How’s peloton doing?

[Anonymous]

Again, it is irrelevant if it is “In the money” or not at this point. I could purchase a NFLX Call right now that is already “in the money”, that doesn’t mean shit.

Yes the value of your call has gone up in value. So congratulations, if you sell and take profit.

[Coronita]

I’d rather be dumb, wrong and make money…
than smart, right, and lose money…

lol

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