How many of you are disaster prepping?

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]Classic point. No way in hell do I think QCOM is worth $68/share….And yet the damn thing keeps rising. Conclusion, I’m not smarter than most people. In fact, I’m probably dumber for thinking I might be smarter. Resistance is futile.[/quote]
Was it J.M. Keynes who wrote that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent?

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=flu]nope. Feeling pretty bullish these days myself.[/quote]
Time to sell then, I guess? 🙂

[sdrealtor]

[quote=flu][quote=sdrealtor]me neither. Bought into stock market on the dip Thursday and up a few percent already on that buy. Heading out to party tonite:)[/quote]

traitor![/quote]

Lol……nah it’s my IRA money. I jump in and out grabbing gains of 3 to 10% each time. I look for the right set up and do it 2 or 3 times a year. I have no risk tolerance for riding long term. I wait for a pull back jump all in and back out in no more than a week or two. Have been doing this since 07 and averaging 10 to 20% returns every year since without a single down year. I do what works me.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu][quote=Diego Mamani]Did anybody else notice this at Costco?
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11613699

Looks like they are catering to Branch Davidians-type of wackos…[/quote]

Yes, but those are for earthquake emergencies.
[/quote]
Earthquakes? That Costco item has “17,586 Total Servings of Emergency Food.” There’s no way food supplies would disappear for that long in an event of an emergency. They are either catering to institutions, or cults like the branch davidians…

[Coronita]

[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=flu][quote=Diego Mamani]Did anybody else notice this at Costco?
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11613699

Looks like they are catering to Branch Davidians-type of wackos…[/quote]

Yes, but those are for earthquake emergencies.
[/quote]
Earthquakes? That Costco item has “17,586 Total Servings of Emergency Food.” There’s no way food supplies would disappear for that long in an event of an emergency. They are either catering to institutions, or cults like the branch davidians…[/quote]

yeah, but they know also we are under SDGE.. 🙂

Hey, last time I checked, Costco also sells coffins, but I don’t see people scrambling out the doors with those either…

[Arraya]

Collapse is a proccess not an event, as party pup would have it.

My prepping is much different from stocking up on canned goods and other silly things.

[Coronita]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=flu][quote=sdrealtor]me neither. Bought into stock market on the dip Thursday and up a few percent already on that buy. Heading out to party tonite:)[/quote]

traitor![/quote]

Lol……nah it’s my IRA money. I jump in and out grabbing gains of 3 to 10% each time. I look for the right set up and do it 2 or 3 times a year. I have no risk tolerance for riding long term. I wait for a pull back jump all in and back out in no more than a week or two. Have been doing this since 07 and averaging 10 to 20% returns every year since without a single down year. I do what works me.[/quote]

You’re killing me here that that’s the right the to do and get out of stocks, and you’re buying stocks nowing darn well that doing exactly the opposite of what I do is the sure ticket to fame and wealth..

[Coronita]

[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=flu]nope. Feeling pretty bullish these days myself.[/quote]
Time to sell then, I guess? :)[/quote]

Nope, actually I have been selling. And to some extent short selling some.. Why else do you think certain stocks are hitting 52 week highs ???

But no worries. QC is going down this week. Because once again, I reversed my position and going long again on QC.
It hasn’t been pretty on this particular fvcker… And I give up and give in… Thank god I own Valero, armh, and brcm. They’re saving my butt big time…

Actually, and I’m in Intuit at 57.5 as of yesterday. This stock you can’t really go wrong on… I’m serious here. between 57 and 60… The best time to buy Intuit is when they accidentally screw up a flagship product with something minor (because they won’t every screw up majorly)… Like the last few times they pissed off customers by putting anti-piracy in it and made the customer experience ackward. Stock took a hit about 10-15 percent that year but bunched right back a few years. Well, because they pretty much dominate this financial business. And Intuit never would screw up big time because they are just a that good of a software company. You can consider them to be a software staples company, because unless the tax code drastically change, they will always do pretty well.

[sdrealtor]

[quote=flu][quote=sdrealtor][quote=flu][quote=sdrealtor]me neither. Bought into stock market on the dip Thursday and up a few percent already on that buy. Heading out to party tonite:)[/quote]

traitor![/quote]

Lol……nah it’s my IRA money. I jump in and out grabbing gains of 3 to 10% each time. I look for the right set up and do it 2 or 3 times a year. I have no risk tolerance for riding long term. I wait for a pull back jump all in and back out in no more than a week or two. Have been doing this since 07 and averaging 10 to 20% returns every year since without a single down year. I do what works me.[/quote]

You’re killing me here that that’s the right the to do and get out of stocks, and you’re buying stocks nowing darn well that doing exactly the opposite of what I do is the sure ticket to fame and wealth..[/quote]

LOL…I’ll be back out in a week or two so you can get back in.

[sdrealtor]

and once again my copy of Turbotax mysteriously was sitting outside my front door this morning. I dont know where it comes from but it always does. Guess I should ask all my Intuit friends how that happens…nahhhhhh

[UCGal]

[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=flu][quote=Diego Mamani]Did anybody else notice this at Costco?
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11613699

Looks like they are catering to Branch Davidians-type of wackos…[/quote]

Yes, but those are for earthquake emergencies.
[/quote]
Earthquakes? That Costco item has “17,586 Total Servings of Emergency Food.” There’s no way food supplies would disappear for that long in an event of an emergency. They are either catering to institutions, or cults like the branch davidians…[/quote]
Or to Mormons. They need to stock up on a years supply of food. That would feed 3 meals/day for 4 years for a family of 4… or 3 meals/day for 1 year for a family of 16. My Mormon grandfather was from a family of 14… so it’s not all that out-there.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]Hey, last time I checked, Costco also sells coffins, but I don’t see people scrambling out the doors with those either…[/quote]
It’s not that people are scrambling out the doors with the 17,586 food servings either… Nothing weird about coffins, unless they sell them to households in 500-packs.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=UCGal]Or to Mormons. They need to stock up on a 4 years supply of food.[/quote]
Wow. I thought of churches such as the Mormon church purchasing these articles, but you’re saying that Mormon families might be buying them? Time for me to check what Wikipedia says about their need to plan for armageddon.

[Coronita]

[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=flu]Hey, last time I checked, Costco also sells coffins, but I don’t see people scrambling out the doors with those either…[/quote]
It’s not that people are scrambling out the doors with the 17,586 food servings either… Nothing weird about coffins, unless they sell them to households in 500-packs.[/quote]

Lol… Check out the “survival food” section at costco…

http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=91037&eCat=BC|3605|91037&whse=BC&topnav=&hierPath=3605*91037*&lang=en-US

[UCGal]

[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=UCGal]Or to Mormons. They need to stock up on a 4 years supply of food.[/quote]
Wow. I thought of churches such as the Mormon church purchasing these articles, but you’re saying that Mormon families might be buying them? Time for me to check what Wikipedia says about their need to plan for armageddon.[/quote]
I said they need to stock up on a year of food.

Then I did the math – and figured out it was a 4 years supply of food for a family of four.

Please don’t edit my posts when you quote me.

I’m not Mormon – but I have an entire branch of the family that is. And they have their supplies set up… rotating them through for freshness.

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