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I feel sort of bad for calling my shot.  I moved heavily into cash two weeks ago and will wait until everything settles down.  I am not trying to time perfectly but the market was so frothy already I was suspicious.

 

 My play account took it in the ass today.  Down over 10 percent.  That’s where I do my Wall Street bets action.

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2 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

The over-utilization of insurance is what increased the cost and complexity of care.  Insurance was never meant to cover every PCP visit, pay for basic prescriptions, going to the emergency room when you have the flu, and what not.  The system being bloated at the front end really destroyed the level of care ladder, and spiraled the costs of both care and insurance itself out of control.  

IMO, it will only get worse under 'medicare-for-all' once people think going to the doctor is "free" unless penalties or restrictions are put in place. I had a family member who is a poor that was on medicare while pregnant and would go to the ER every couple weeks with the excuse "I haven't felt the baby kick in a few days" so she could get free sonogram photos :/

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Good thing his administration is filled with the best and brightest minds and not a bunch of two-bit hack yesmen.

We’ll probably be fine.   Maybe.  I hope.

1 hour ago, Hmbre97 said:

IMO, it will only get worse under 'medicare-for-all' once people think going to the doctor is "free" unless penalties or restrictions are put in place. I had a family member who is a poor that was on medicare while pregnant and would go to the ER every couple weeks with the excuse "I haven't felt the baby kick in a few days" so she could get free sonogram photos :/

I too enjoy corner-case straw man fallacies. IDK about your experiences, but private insurance isn't exactly what you want, when you want it for family members that require long-term care for a degenerative disease. Hell, you could even come to the conclusion that were actively trying to find ways to avoid paying for things which results in denial of care and worsening of a condition as a result. But this ain't the thread for that.

2 hours ago, Hmbre97 said:

IMO, it will only get worse under 'medicare-for-all' once people think going to the doctor is "free" unless penalties or restrictions are put in place. I had a family member who is a poor that was on medicare while pregnant and would go to the ER every couple weeks with the excuse "I haven't felt the baby kick in a few days" so she could get free sonogram photos :/

In whatever fantasy world where Bernie's M4A actually is implemented, it will have significant utilization management policies. Much like the current Medicare program. And not dissimilar in any sense from the utilization management implemented by private insurance. They will have a closed formulary, which means they will restrict access to many medication treatments. They will require prior authorization and step therapy and a mountain of administrative paper work, just like both Medicare and private insurance does today. Basically every abrasion point will remain. The primary distinction will be that the system will be run by a government bureaucracy that will provide a greater leverage point for price negotiations with pharma and providers and hospitals.  For better and worse. ER utilization is more closely related to health belief and behavior sets that coverage will not change, so that cost trend won't really bend based on utilization. ACA demonstrated that. Quality measures and satisfaction with care will likely go down. The long term impacts of a 8-10% haircut in provider and facility reimbursements are not fully known, we'll see what happens.

 

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

IDK about your experiences, but private insurance isn't exactly what you want, when you want it for family members that require long-term care for a degenerative disease.

What are the substantive differences between private insurance and Medicare in terms of long-term care for degenerative diseases today?

7 hours ago, Rusty Shackelford said:

Gold just got squashed

Still over $1650.  $1580 was resistance just a few days ago.

Still over $1650.  $1580 was resistance just a few days ago.

What happened around 2:25?
4 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:


What happened around 2:25?

Looks like a lot of selling.

40 minutes ago, bernorange said:

Looks like a lot of selling.

Any idea who was selling? Margin call on stocks?

Just now, washparkhorn said:

Any idea who was selling? Margin call on stocks?

No, I'm not privy to that level of market intelligence.

1 hour ago, Henry Hill said:

Take this shit to CR.

As soon it doesn't have any relevance to the stock market. 

White House asking for over a billion in emergency funds for coronavirus stuff.  The Senate is getting a classified briefing on the coronavirus tomorrow morning.  Repeat of todays' market?

since brexit there have been 12 instances where there's been a steep decline on a friday followed by a large gapdown (over 1%) on a monday.  11 of the 12 times there has been a significant bounce on tuesday (over .5% correction).  only twice did the markets proceed to put in a new low within the next week.

5 hours ago, Anastasis said:

As soon it doesn't have any relevance to the stock market. 

Everything political can be stated as having relevance to the stock market. Start a financial market thread in the politics board, if there isn’t one already.

since brexit there have been 12 instances where there's been a steep decline on a friday followed by a large gapdown (over 1%) on a monday.  11 of the 12 times there has been a significant bounce on tuesday (over .5% correction).  only twice did the markets proceed to put in a new low within the next week.

 

Yeah, so I think we’re looking at one of those new lows within the next week scenarios. Looks like some sizeable put buying.

 

Anyone familiar with Tesla’s resistance levels? Would love to pick up some shares in the $600 range.

5 minutes ago, BLKNSTY said:

 

Yeah, so I think we’re looking at one of those new lows within the next week scenarios. Looks like some sizeable put buying.

 

Anyone familiar with Tesla’s resistance levels? Would love to pick up some shares in the $600 range.

Some support right here at the 800 level, then again at 745ish level, then nothing really to stop it down to 560.  

Just now, Incredulity said:

what did we find out in the last 20min?

Hey, it only dropped 300 points!  Now that the Iranian government has infected itself, and more cases are being found around the Persian Gulf, I’m sure that will do wonders for oil prices.   3M should be doing much better.   

Just wait until info from the Senate hearing leaks out.  

3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Hey, it only dropped 300 points!  Now that the Iranian government has infected itself, and more cases are being found around the Persian Gulf, I’m sure that will do wonders for oil prices.   3M should be doing much better.   

Just wait until info from the Senate hearing leaks out.  

3M is a pretty diversified company. The healthcare business is less than 20% of their overall revenue. I suspect a global downturn in the economy would impact their overall revenue much more than an increase in healthcare sales could offset, no? How much of their $32 billion in sales is from masks/respirators?

5 minutes ago, Blotto said:

3M is a pretty diversified company. The healthcare business is less than 20% of their overall revenue. I suspect a global downturn in the economy would impact their overall revenue much more than an increase in healthcare sales could offset, no? How much of their $32 billion in sales is from masks/respirators?

Think PPE.  More than just masks.   Could be a massive boost as this keeps getting worse.   You’re right, they are very diversified.  

On 1/11/2020 at 8:34 PM, jimmyjazz said:

VIX options don't really work that way.  Held to expiry, they do, but in the meantime, what you think should be a win is a loss.

 

On 1/12/2020 at 1:50 AM, hornhorn said:

Uh no they work exactly as I said they do. VIX closed at 12.56 on Friday, a 12 handle is one of the lowest points it has been since early 2019. In the last six months it has been as high as 23. I'm aware that it has hit 11 something as well but this is still pretty low. 

A contract for 17 call that expire in June 17 2020 is going for 2.55, let's say you buy 100 contracts: 10,000 X 2.55= 25,500. This is what you'll spend. 

A contract for 17 put that expire on June 17 2020 is going for 2.30, let's say you sold 100 contracts: 10,000 X 2.30= 23,000 This is what you'll receive. 

Net you spent $2,500. My bet is that VIX will spike up over 20 within the next few months at the very least, I'll remind you when it does and where these bets end up. Oh btw, it doesn't have to hit that high to make money. VIX can go to 15 next Friday and these trades make a great return.

Why don't we wait until May and see where this ends up. Cool? 

So those same VIX calls at 17 strike you bought, today are worth $3.5 X 10,000 = $35,000

Those same puts at 17 strike today that you sold, are worth $1.7 X 10,000 = $17,000

You sell those calls and buy back those puts.

$35,000 - $17,000 = $18,000

At its peak that $2,500 is worth $18,000 in less than 2 months. 

This is why VIX works as a hedge. 

Yeah, that was a great play -- long synthetic VIX (which can't actually be traded as shares).  The low theta was easily worth it.

3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, that was a great play -- long synthetic VIX (which can't actually be traded as shares).  The low theta was easily worth it.

This is how it always is with VIX, I've done it several times. 

13 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

Any idea who was selling? Margin call on stocks?

 

I'm not even gonna look.


Palabra. Not gonna realize my losses
14 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

 

You know perfectly well, we don't have $394 million in cash

18 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

I feel sort of bad for calling my shot.  I moved heavily into cash two weeks ago and will wait until everything settles down.  I am not trying to time perfectly but the market was so frothy already I was suspicious.

 

 My play account took it in the ass today.  Down over 10 percent.  That’s where I do my Wall Street bets action.

I tried to sell off about 12% of my Blue Chip Growth mutual fund on Friday expecting the market to tumble.  Unfortunately, I didn't get my order in before EOB, so it wasn't filled until after Monday trading, so I only got about 95% of the value I expected.  I'm going to sit it out for a bit and try to jump back in on the eventual rebound.  I see it as setting some winnings aside at a craps table to ensure I come out ahead.

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kudlow on cnbc is not particularly inspiring with his damage control. 

26 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

This market isn't close to being oversold.  Let's see if the S&P 500 can hold 3030 'cause that's where it's headed.

3044.99 200 day MA. But it has to fill the gap between 2948-2972, so it will swing by it at least once. 

10 yr just dropped under its all time low yield which it ties this morning, losses on the Dow starting to accelerate.  

Options update - sold a little yesterday, likely to unload a little more before close today

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5 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

Options update - sold a little yesterday, likely to unload a little more before close today

options-2-25-2020

Cheers for holding your ground on day 2. Looks like it paid off nicely. 

1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

Cheers for holding your ground on day 2. Looks like it paid off nicely. 

To be completely honest, I did get greedy and hedged my hedge by buying some near money call 2/26 calls thinking there could be a bounce at the open. The bounce wasn't big enough and I sold them in the first 20 minutes of trading and took a  50+% loss on $1,800. 
I might do the same today, after I lighten the first 2 tranches and see where the close looks like it is going - I'm playing with some house money, but I want to close out making more of it my money.

Normally it would be time to jump on the dip, but if this virus takes off, hang on.

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