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    Stock Market - Amazon.com bans foreign sales of seeds in U.S. amid mystery packages


    Amazon.com bans foreign sales of seeds in U.S. amid mystery packages

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:29 AM PDT

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-bans-foreign-sales-002006262.html

    (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said it has banned foreign sales of seeds in the United States after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packages of seeds in their mailboxes, mostly postmarked from China.

    "Moving forward, we are only permitting the sale of seeds by sellers who are based in the U.S.," Amazon said in an emailed statement on Saturday.

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    ELI5 the SoftBank call-option market manipulation

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 12:21 PM PDT

    Here is an ELI5 ("explain like I'm 5 years old") for the SoftBank news, very simplified, using toy numbers:

    Imagine SoftBank buys a TSLA call option from Goldman Sachs for $1

    That TSLA call option gives SoftBank the right to buy a TSLA share from Goldman for $500

    Goldman Sachs wants to make sure he can easily sell a TSLA share to SoftBank for $500 even if the TSLA share price jumps up to $650 overnight

    So Goldman Sachs buys a share of TSLA at the current market price (say, $475) to "hedge" the call option that he sold to SoftBank. Now that Goldman owns a $475 TSLA share, he can sell it to SoftBank for $500, no problem

    In this way, SoftBank spends $1 to buy a call option and in doing so forces Goldman Sachs to buy a TSLA share for $475

    The big news is that SoftBank spent more than $4 billion buying call options, and in doing so forced market makers to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of worth of shares

    This distorted the stock market. SoftBank's leveraged speculation produced or amplified, a huge market bubble

    It's like a Ponzi scheme, or a chain letter, or a stock pump/dump. It works by sucking money in. If you sell early (while the money is still flowing in), you win. If you sell too late, you lose

    Generally speaking, 2019/2020's abnormal moves in TSLA (and other "hot" companies) have little or no basis in business reality

    Instead, they are in large part caused by call option speculation, which became popular among retail investors (e.g., r/wallstreetbets) in 2019 and which was taken to an extreme by SoftBank in 2020

    Everybody hates ZeroHedge, but ZeroHedge broke this story before FT, WSJ, and CNBC, and their article has the details (SoftBank's 13-F disclosures, indicating which companies' shares were probably involved, etc.). So take a look: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/one-day-after-zero-hedge-ft-unmasks-softbank-call-buying-nasdaq-whale

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    6 Month Long Rising Wedge on the S&P500 Broke Down

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:20 PM PDT

    I know I'm not the only one who sees it but anyone think we will see 3,000 again? Tracing the widest part of the wedge to Friday's breakdown puts the target a bit below 3,000, about a 25% drop.

    Thoughts?

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    What are some of your favorite YouTube channels for keeping up on the stock market and popular stocks?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:02 PM PDT

    I follow a few right now but would like to hear more opinions. I'm mostly interested in tech stocks but really anything tho. What are some of the channels you follow or find to be interesting, or what are some widely followed channels? Looking for stuff that isn't quite as wide scale as CNBC, more YouTube channel-like. But yeah there seems to be a lot of seedy accounts giving their opinions on the stock market or sharing their portfolios, just wanting something more down to earth.

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    Top picks for stocks that haven’t shot up a ton recently?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:55 PM PDT

    Top picks for stocks that haven't shot up a ton recently? I was into NIO and PLUG and missed my chances. Any other companies that haven't skyrocketed yet that have potential? I'm a young kid in high school and also love any advice. And no I'm not just gonna buy the first stock recommended, will do tons of research

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    Portfolio Review September 2020

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:58 AM PDT

    Hi guys, it's been quite a while since I made a portfolio review. We have gone through a lot of stuff in the last couple of months, so I decided it is time to make one. As usual, it inculdes a portfolio breakdown, new positions, closed positions, overview and more.

    For anyone interested, here it is

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    Bloomberg Excel Template? I found it here somewhere, lost it.

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:45 PM PDT

    I'm on a search for someone who made an excel spreadsheet that mimicks the Bloomberg terminal color scheme. It was either on this sub or some other sub, I am just checking around. Can't find it anywhere. Thanks!

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    The new kind of ''Woodstock''

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:51 PM PDT

    Hi guys!

    So I did a lot of DD in the past weeks and come up with some stock that can potentially have the biggest earnings of the year.

    As you can see on this link, the lumber price. It reached a peak in 2018 at $600.. Today it's at $875. That means that lumber company are making a lot of money on this margin!

    https://ca.investing.com/commodities/lumber

    So as an investor I saw this opportunity to make enough money to add a fry and a coke with my meal. I seek lumber stock that could be explosive! Many of them have already recovered from the Covid19 crash but i was wondering how far can they go?

    I looked at CFP, IFP and WFT wondering what was their price in 2018 when the lumber was ''all time high''.. Turns out it was $33,62 for CFP vs $16,57 now. $27 for IFP vs $16.42 now and $96 for WFT vs $67 now.

    All of them had an amazing Q2 where they all bump a crazy 25% soar. So now what is left? well the party isn't over...for many analysts it is not over till the lumber price is back near the $400 what do they think the price is? Well let's take CFP ...

    Scotiabank - 23$

    BMO-29$

    CIBC-25$

    Royal Bank-26$

    Raymond James-24$

    Overall this is going up according to many finest analyst.
    What is my bet on it? You already know.... THE MOON!

    Next earnings are in October for most of them and the consensus EPS is higher than Musk at Joe's show.

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    Safe/profitable investment strategy.

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:24 AM PDT

    Hi guys! First of all thanks for all the tips you guys are sharing on a daily basis.
    I've got lump sum of money I would like to invest wisely long-term and I'm looking for the best possible advice. I was thinking about dividend-yielding stocks and reinvesting the yield. A few things to be taken into consideration:

    - I am currently living in the UK and will soon (6 months?) be moving to Poland.
    - I need my investment to be tax efficient.
    - Lowest fees possible as far as investment platform is concerned.
    - Automated dividend reinvestment.
    - Possible to withdraw at any given point (if I really need to).

    I was thinking about top 50 dividend yielding stocks from S&P500 with lowest volatility . But that is just my initial thought - any other suggestions are welcome.

    What do you think? Any suggestions/recommendations as far as platform/tax/type of investment/approach?

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    Dividends, DRIP and taxes

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 12:29 PM PDT

    How do you pay taxes on dividends when you have a DRIP enabled?

    If the income from dividends is automatically reinvested where do you get the money to pay the taxes or does the brokerage allow you to automatically withdraw a portion of the dividends from the DRIP to cover taxes?

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    Do you create a company and use it to invest your money? What entity?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 12:10 PM PDT

    I am thinking about setting up an LLC and investing my money via the LLC.

    Similar to how many wealthy people invest their money.

    For example, Bill Gates has his investments invested via Cascade Investment LLC.

    I want to do something similar. I'm nowhere near Bill Gates wealth but that's not my point. I believe having a personal investment company would be better for the long term rather than an individual account.

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    It's Spammy Sunday! Share your awesome apps, websites, blogs, YouTube videos and content!

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 12:09 PM PDT

    What's up /r/StockMarket!

    TLDR

    We're going to try a weekly thread where we allow self-promotion in an effort to find quality external content we're missing out on in this sub, and reward its creators. You can share/promote your own content in this thread, but read "THE IMPORTANT PART" and the rules before you do or you might get hit with the banhammer. If you have suggestions to improve the effectiveness of this idea, share them too!

    BACKGROUND

    As the sub has grown recently (218k members in the last 8 months!) we've taken a pretty strict stance against self promotion in an effort to prevent spammers and scammers ruining the sub. It's been effective, and we've banned and/or removed posts from hundreds of people trying to shill various shady services or just really not contributing anything to the sub other than trying to spam us w/ their own blogs/tools/apps/YouTube videos/Instagram pages or whatever else they can dream up. In general, my personal stance on this has been to look at the user's post history and if it's obvious that they're just using Reddit for a marketing tool, I issue either a temp or permanent ban depending on how obnoxious the person is being and whether I think they will even care or notice if they got banned. Otherwise, if they're generally not to spammy, it's the first time I've seen it come up and they haven't reposted it across ten different subs, or they contribute to the sub in other ways, I'll just end up removing the post and possibly issuing a short temp ban to let them know that they're breaking the rules. In some of these cases if the content they've shared is actually high quality and was just removed due to trying to apply the rules fairly to everyone, I've even added their tools/content/resources to the market toolkit linked in the sidebar so that their work gets some exposure and recognition.

    Anyway, the downside to these blanket-type rules is that a lot of people who do contribute to the sub and who are producing quality content elsewhere, whether it's on their YouTube channels, apps/websites they're building, blogs they write for, or even things like sharing their own articles on reputable websites are being discouraged from sharing their content - or even worse, being banned - for trying to contribute content that would really benefit a lot of people here. It also means that in general, the content of the sub is lower quality and filled with hundreds of the same "how do I get started?" and "should I buy TSLA?" posts, which sucks. It also sucks because we're not giving anything back to our best contributing members who are here constantly responding to comments and helping people out. For these people who are genuinely trying to help people, when they occasionally pop up and share something from their YouTube/blog/wherever, we shouldn't be robbing them of their content by forcing them to copy/paste it here in text form and remove all the links and all references to the fact that they were the one who put in the effort to create it for us. We should allow them to share it as a way to say thanks for contributing to the sub and to give them some reward for their effort.

    Of course this is a desperate balancing act between trying to reward people who contribute quality content and discourage spammers, but I think that having a slightly different approach to this could vastly improve the content of this sub.

    THE IMPORTANT PART

    So, as an experiment, today and for the next few weeks we're going to try something new called Spammy Sunday! On Spammy Sunday (or maybe Spammy Saturday? Preference, anyone?) we'll make a post like this one and in this thread you will be allowed to share/promote your own tools, websites, YouTube videos, or other content you feel is valuable to the community.

    These rules may change later, but let's see how this goes for now. The standard rules for self promotion still apply outside this thread, and I'll edit the sidebar verbiage once we determine if this is going to be a success or not. Til those rules are updated pending the results of our little experiment here, any form of self promotion outside this thread will still result in a ban. Here's my initial set of rules, but feel free to suggest others if you think of something I'm missing:

    THE RULES

    As a contributor to the thread (i.e. someone sharing your own content):

    • You must do it in a top level comment. If you hijack someone else's comment to promote your own content, your post will be removed and you will be permanently banned w/o question cause that's just a dick move.

    • Please have some post history in this sub before promoting your own content here. If you create an account solely to promote yourself and don't contribute anything else, you'll probably be banned cause you're not giving us anything in return. We may create an automod rule to spam/ban people who do this if it becomes an issue

    • If your content requires any kind of subscription/signup/payment, you must disclose this and share some sort of sample. Free/freemium is best, but paid services/content is ok IF you explain its value and share some examples so people can make an educated decision.

    As a viewer of this thread:

    • Upvote stuff that is genuinely good content and people who are genuinely contributing something valuable
    • Downvote stuff that is low-effort or low quality
    • Downvote and report all referral links/shills
    • Downvote and report anyone hijacking others comments to promote themselves
    • Downvote and report anyone suspected of using alt accounts to manipulate votes/comments
    • Downvote anyone whose post history is basically just them spamming the same thing everywhere

    Content you CAN share:

    • Your own market-related YouTube videos/commentary, due diligence, technical/fundamental analysis, educational stuff, etc
    • Watchlists and actionable trading ideas. If they're hosted on your own site and/or behind a paywall, people must be able to get something of value out of it for free in this thread.
    • Blogs/articles you've written yourself
    • Apps/websites/tools you have created or are creating yourself
    • Updates/new additions to things you've created (e.g. a new feature on an app/tool you've shared in the past)
    • Twitter accounts if you tweet regularly and tweet useful, actionable, market-related things
    • Market-related posts you've written on other subs, or subs you think deserve more exposure
    • Other content you think is valuable even if it's not your own

    Content you CANNOT share:

    • Referral links of any kind. This is a place to share your own content which you have created yourself, not to shill your RH/Webull/Amazon links or spam someone else's service for kickbacks. You will be permanently banned if you do this.
    • Instagram accounts, these are just dumb and useless for market analysis
    • Surveys - these are just annoying...you're basically an internet telemarketer
    • Anything that could be interpreted as an effort to pump any stock/crypto/etc
    • P/L screenshots/low effort "sub to my service!"/"LOOK AT MY GAINZ!1!!" crap. No one cares about your paper trading gainz or believes they're real. No one wants to hear your hot alerts for mad tendies. Share something useful and don't be another spammy furu taking advantage of newbies
    • Anything else not on the list of content you CAN share. If you have something that doesn't fit here, message us and ask first.

    CONCLUSION

    In general, think of these threads not as a place to promote yourself, but a place to share content that you genuinely believe people will find value in. If it's valuable, the exposure you seek will come naturally. Our goal is to improve the quality of the content of the sub by seeing what's out there that we currently don't allow, and simultaneously reward contributors of quality content for their efforts. If you have something awesome, show it to us and tell us why we should love it. I'm hoping that by providing people with a dedicated place to share their content it will a) improve the content quality of the sub and b) further cut down on spam/promotion outside this thread...let's see how that works out!

    In the future this post will be MUCH shorter and I'll move the rules into a wiki or something, but wanted to brain dump everything here for now.

    Ok that's it! If you have something you want to share please do so and/or just comment on the idea and share your thoughts about how to improve/regulate it!

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    I need advice

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:26 AM PDT

    So I'm 17 years old very interested on the stock market, my dad is setting me up with $300 to invest and I've watched a hundred hours of youtube tips and read tons of articles but I'm still at a loss on where to start, anyone got any ideas for me?

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    Anyone know how to invest in the company bringing sputnik V

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:13 AM PDT

    The released test results show that While sputnik is by no means amazing it seems that Russia was telling the truth and that it is probably leading the vaccine race right now.Is there anyway to get in on this before shares rocket

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    Inherited Stock - advice needed

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:57 AM PDT

    Hey guys.... My wife apparently inherited loads of stock from her mom.

    Telefonica in Spain, I think it's about 1000 shares or so. I just learned about it and she forgot about it until now. I check the stock history and in the last years its been a very hard time for the stock I guess.

    I have no clue what to do now? Should we hold or sell?

    Explain it like I'm 5 please because we ain't got no clue about the stockmarket :)

    Thanks in advance

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    Is this week a good time to buy tesla/apple?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:16 PM PDT

    Do people think they will resume their rise after a short period or red Thursday shook confidence in those stocks and theyll take a more significant time to recover and resume rising?

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    New option dates

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:43 AM PDT

    I have been swinging options and holding some longer and was wondering, when are new option dates added to the chain? Is it on every quad witching? Is there a way to be notified when the new dates are added? I apologize if this is a noob question and thank you in advance :).

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    Best news website apps and sites

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:49 AM PDT

    So guys, i want to better follow the news surrounding companies and stocks. What are the best business apps or websites that you guys use to follow the news every day?

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    Thought's on Long Term Portfolio?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:32 AM PDT

    Buying Stocks At A Good Price

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:12 AM PDT

    1)Do you use dollar cost averaging?

    2)Do you use a DRIP?

    3)How long do you use a DRIP for?

    4)Will you stop using a DRIP during retirement so you can finally live on the dividends?

    5)Would it be a good idea if I invest a set amount on regular intervals into stocks, ETF's etc and have a drip enabled so I can dollar cost average however only invest large amounts when I believe an asset is trading at a discount so I can further lower my cost? Could this be seen as timing the market what do you think?

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    Anyone trading as PDT?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:31 AM PDT

    If you have over 25k in ur portfolio and your are already marked as a PDT, what's is the maximum day trade you can make in a day? If you have experience with this please share.

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    Why would stock prices of foreign companies mirror domestic counterparts?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:05 AM PDT

    I've been following Sea Limited ADR (based in Singapore) which is an e-commerce, digital wallet, gaming platform provider. Their price seems to rise and fall in unison American tech stocks but they have different regulations, customers etc.... how does this make sense?

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