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    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here. Investing

    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here. Investing


    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here.

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 05:22 AM PDT

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    Arstechnica: Federal bill would allow clean energy companies to structure like oil companies

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:33 PM PDT

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/federal-bill-would-allow-clean-energy-companies-to-structure-like-oil-companies/

    Last week, US senators and representatives introduced bills in the Senate and the House to open up a type of corporate structure originally reserved for oil, gas, and coal companies to clean energy companies.

    Called a Master Limited Partnership (MLP), the structure currently allows fossil fuel companies to take advantage of lower taxes placed on limited partnerships while also allowing those companies to issue publicly traded stocks and bonds. If the recently re-introduced bills—which have bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate—pass their respective votes, clean energy companies would have the option to structure their companies as MLPs and take advantage of the tax and funding benefits.

    It's going to be interesting to see if yieldcos (e.g. Nextera Energy Partner, CWEN, Pattern Energy) switch to MLPs should those bills pass, and if other utility/energy companies would also consider running MLPs.

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    How important is EPS and P/E ratio for MU?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 03:15 PM PDT

    Hi. I know all the other metrics used to drive stock price along with growth etc but when I compare EPS and P/E ratios of MU with other stocks in same sector it doesn't make much sense as it's EPS is pretty high and P/E pretty low.

    MU stock $32.43 EPS $10.67 P/E ratio $3.2

    I know nand, RAM stock are cyclical and all but realistically what do u guys think about MU 6 to 12 month guidance.

    Thanks

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    Bloomberg: Timberland as a long-term asset class.

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 01:27 PM PDT

    Wealthy Families Are Adding Forests to Their Portfolios
    https://bloom.bg/2x2gLkU

    Been meaning to get back into this asset class. Had a couple of individual tickers and ETFs a while back. Even contemplated buying some individual tracts and lots.

    Was curious if anyone here had any specific experience with timber?

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    Facebook releases details of cryptocurrency ‘Libra’

    Posted: 18 Jun 2019 03:34 AM PDT

    Investing in anticipation of recession?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 10:33 AM PDT

    I know I've (32yo) been way too conservative in my portfolio over the last few years (~80% cash/bonds) as I stare at overpriced PEs and higher stock prices: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2019/06/04/market-cap-to-gdp-an-updated-look-at-the-buffett-valuation-indicator

    I'm finding it harder and harder to stay the course of conservatism waiting to buy on the downward slope of a receding price. What do people here suggest in asset allocation? I still feel like there is a lot more downside risk in the market than upside potential but can never predict timing.

    TIA for advice.

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    Basic bond advice needed

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 10:48 PM PDT

    Iv been investing in stocks for close to 8 years now so I feel pretty comfortable in the market but my portfolio is 100% stocks and I'm thinking its time to start to fade to the defensive a little (10-20%). I just scoped out some bonds on fidelity and frankly I had no idea what I was looking at...it looks like a foreign language. I was seeing corporate bonds with 7% yield and my first thoughts were how and whats the catch. I want something in the 5-10 year maturity range, low cost (if that is even applicable), and I honestly don't even know what other variables to be considering. Private vs gov?

    Primarily just trying to protect against downside, but obviously if I can at least cover inflation that would be dandy.

    Also, I realize that bond return will be poor right now because interest rates are low, but assuming interest rates rise, will the bond return rise also or will I be locked into a shit return on some muni bond?

    Thanks for an thoughts!

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    Do expense ratios make it so that gold ETFs are doomed to eventually go to 0?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 04:08 PM PDT

    Let me explain my reasoning: I presume that when you buy shares of a gold ETF, the value of your investment is tied to a fixed amount of gold. Let's say you invest in a gold ETF the equivalent of 100 grams of gold. Then if the expense ratio is 0.2%, then next year it will be as if you only have 99.8 grams of gold. Eventually after many years, it will be as if you have only a very tiny amount of gold. I understand it would take a long time for this to happen, but if we can't expect it to be profitable in the long term, why should we expect it to be profitable in the short term?

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    BTC=Gold 2.0 ... right?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 08:38 PM PDT

    I'm thinking at this point it looks like a hedging commodity. So forget the coin part and using it for buying stuff with. It's simply a more convenient asset that can be used to store value. Like Gold.

    If looking at it that way, seems like in a recessionary environment it will follow similar patterns as Silver and Gold but with a more "puristic" bent since BTC has no industrial utility at least. Or right now.

    What's the total market cap for gold in USD? Could that make a more realistic potential market cap for ~20m BTC? And be used as a measure for BTC long term valuation?

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    My recession strategy, flawed or just contrarian?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2019 12:11 AM PDT

    Like many of new investors, I started investing at the peak of the bull market in 2018. Since then they were many cries for a recession, these days the news outlets are more agitated, people recommending to go defensive, to hedge, to buy Gold, to buy miners, bitcoin etc. it is all very confusing and overwhelming. This sub has already started to reflect the mainstream media the last few days.

    My strategy is the following: I am not changing my current picks and strategy, not selling anything, not going defensive by purpose and definitely not going speculative with GLD or Bitcon. If there is a defensive ETF or stocks that look like a clear cheap buy, then fine. I know some sectors will get hammered during a recession, I know I will be hammered since I started buying in 2018 but isn't this ultimately what we want? buy the shit we bought at a higher price to buy now at lower price?

    Why should an investor concern itself about market regime if he/she is in for the long haul? Isn't the only preparation for a recession supposed to be accumulate CASH so that one can simply collect when it is raining gold? Did I get this whole investing thing wrong and I am heading for a nasty surprise?

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    FTSE-All Share

    Posted: 18 Jun 2019 12:06 AM PDT

    Fidelity UK are running a competition with This Is Money, the premise is stock picking between July and the end of September.

    Choose between 6 and 20 shares from the FTSE All-Share and if your selection performs the best over the three month game time - you take home the £20,000 first prize!

    What shares would you pick and why?

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    What company basically has a monopoly?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 01:29 PM PDT

    Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY) & Aphria (TSX:APHA) Move up the TNW Cannabis Rankings; Anticipating Positive Q3 Results

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 04:36 PM PDT

    http://tradernewswire.com/2019/06/tilray-nasdaqtlry-anticipating-positive-q3-results/

    From this, we have made changes to our official TNW Cannabis rankings, to now include the significant push for research centers to aid in expanding cannabis seed variants, as well as opening the doors for university collaborations with large Cannabis companies within the USA and Canada.
    Let's take a look at the two companies besides Aurora Cannabis that made some significant movement in our Cannabis rankings this month.

    Does anyone think Tilray can make a move like last year during pot season?

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    I am trying to build a portfolio for generating passive income. I was looking at SDIV and BIZD in particular but I don’t understand what these ETFs are investing in. What is your opinion of these ETFs?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 09:03 PM PDT

    When breaking up is easy to do: a historical look at spin-offs

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 01:47 PM PDT

    What stocks are you shorting, if any ?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 07:16 PM PDT

    Google Sheets - Using Google Finance to label whether to "Buy or "Hold" a stock?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 07:13 PM PDT

    I have a roth IRA that I am averaging into.

    Currently I have my Costs Basis, Value, 52 week high/low of each holding in the portfolio. I also track the week to week movement of each stock. What I want to do is create a formula/visual aid to show which stocks are trending lower to their 52 week lows/52 week highs and returning a value of "BUY" OR "HOLD" respectively.

    Would i just create an if statement that if the price is a certain distance from the 52 week low to return a "Buy" value?

    Thanks!

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    Can anyone provide a rundown on 3x ETFs and the indexes they follow?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:58 PM PDT

    Havent been able to find much googling around. Just lots of lists of the 3x ETFs.

    Are any of the ETFs less or more volatile than the others?

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    What's the math behind direct indexing?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:05 PM PDT

    Earlier today I was thinking through some of the recent 'direct indexing' strategies that have relatively recently become available to retail investors (https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/211005023) and I became curious about the math behind these strategies. What process does Wealthfront use to select the securities they'll include within their portfolio? Given that there's presumably a relatively large number of stock combinations that will perfectly correlate with the index being followed, how do they select which combination of stocks to use? If I wanted to replicate the math behind the strategy, how would I go about doing so?

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    REITS

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 07:04 AM PDT

    Thoughts on whether to add REITS to my 100% all cap global index tracker portfolio? Also its worth noting that I currently own no property in any form. Would adding these (assuming they're tax protected) increase my long term expected returns? Cheers

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    How does one protect their assets and investments in a recession?

    Posted: 17 Jun 2019 10:27 AM PDT

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