CajunTiger92

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Today's market makes no sense. Crazy how quickly it went from a huge green day to a big red day.

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There have been signs of market deterioration and potential problems for weeks. This was largely masked with the indexes because of the weight the largest of the large caps propping up the index.

NVDA and others were starting to show some weakness. NVDA’s earnings report was thought to be the catalyst to get the market mojo back. Some did not buy into that thesis and waited. When the earnings pop looked like it was not sustainable, the bears pounced. That’s how you go from huge green to big red in a day.

These types of children shows on Netflix is the reason I canceled my subscription over 5 years ago.

Yep, QQQ took 15 years to get back to its previous all-time high.. Secular bear markets have happened before and will happen again. We saw roughly a 50% loss (SP 500) in that long term bear market, a normal loss for a secular bear market.

Big live oaks can be moved. “Big Al” was moved down Hwy 90 near New Iberia about 10 years or so ago. I think it cost in the $300k-$400k range back then.

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Uber algorithm significantly increases the prices of rides on accounts with credits, so the credit is essentially worthless.

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Sometimes we can get some value using the credits for uber eats. Usually only makes sense for a pick up and the restaurant has a great offer like but one get one free.

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I think you can reserve a spot in priority ahead of time. I saw that when I was flying back from Cabo last month.

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Interesting. Looks like it’s available ant certain airports and there is a per person fee.


Points guy

We needed a three bedroom place and Canmore was our best option for that. The drive to Banff wasn’t bad. Parking in Banff is a pain but we were usually there early and always found a place to park, usually at the tourist center parking lot.

In Canmore we went to the Grizzly Paw brewery which was nice. There is also a trail close to there that is definitely worth the trip, Grassi Lakes. We spent most of our time in Banff though.

I didn’t give up a freedom card. It’s been several years now but what I seem to remember before freedom unlimited and flex there was just freedom and you had a choice with going for the quarterly or the 1.5%.

It’s too soon to know if that was THE bottom. The warning signs of a market decline were around in 4QTR24 and as we were hitting the all time highs in February, all before the tariff announcement.

Counter trend rallies in a down trend are usually very strong. There are several technical hurtles coming up that will enable this rally to prove itself and push higher. There is a gap fill at 5571, the 50 dma, and the 200 dma (which is currently near the last counter trend rally highs).

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So explain why Powell is refusing to cut rates?

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Because the bond market hasn’t given him permission to cut rates, at least not yet.

Money market. This market is still in a down trend.