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You saw dentist?
Risking Covid for a smile?
How vain the soon slain!
Can you help me connect the dots? I didn't see FDMF or Kistler anywhere in the report.
After reading this incredibly fascinating material I'm unable to connect FDMF to it although my bet has long been that the company is as guilty as any could be.
Are you saying FDMF is implicated?
Gone are the old days
When we'd go out for fun food.
Now it's home...for good?
Whew!
Please flush it. Anybody!
You're lucky!
lol
I don't need for him to be fired.
Dissatisfaction in stock performance usually can be traced back to the investor's disappointment in an investment.
My take:
More often than not, disappointment will be found in the "lap" of unreasonable expectations.
You're pressuring by showing up after a very long absence and posting nonstop all day.
Nobody else would do it.
On top of that you've not offered any help by way of sharing insights.
I'm not happy with that posting style as it strongly suggests a wish to manipulate others. It also presumes we are of inferior intelligence.
We all have our own opinions but that doesn't explain why you're pressuring us.
None of us are pressuring you!
Hi, Tom!
Not understanding the use of absolutes to define amounts of cash to be spent purchasing shares or not spent as in when taking other types of actions.
Case in point:
As you know, I've been adding as mercilessly as I could, recognizing EPD is a truly awesome pick paying about 11% annually. There's just one rule I subscribe to---namely I've got to see money-making opportunity without any prayers required.
Not sure here but when you speak to sequential transactions, are you talking about wash rule considerations? I bought a dozen or more times today and I don't worry about the wash rule tax issues as I pay a CPA to take care of my business. I'm here to have fun and I don't want to be bogged down with the CPA's job. I prolly pay more tax, needlessly, but if the trade-off adds spice and fun to my life, I'm fine with that. Just gotta make enuff munney to pay the CPA lol
I like your having sell targets. I don't do that myself but what I do isn't very far from it, either. Today, for example, I was horny for more EPD and pretty much tapped out at the moment. So I sold a bunch of BAC which replenished the cash side of my accounts. I then repurposed the cash moving it into EPD. The net effect, then, is that I churned BAC with its 3% yield, redirecting opportunity towards EPD paying 11%. It's a no-brainer.
The thing I have to wonder about is the setting of presets as in percentages to buy or sell. Times change and account values do as well, obviously. I'm not sure I want to predetermine buy or sell points when so many variables come into the picture. On the other hand, today I sold hundreds of BAC with the divvy coming in this week. And I sold at a smallish profit, too. Selling was clearly called for what with the investigation into international banking institutions. But more important was the opportunity to take advantage of EPD's unwarranted drop knowing full well the company's balance sheet is in fine shape.
Question for you, Tom:
If you buy stock X today, how do you know you'll find acceptable terms of engagement thirty days out should you wish to sell or take profits?
Interested in what you think!
Looking forward.
Len
What has you believing the company is possibly changing its devious ways and is about to go straight?
That calls for quite a stretch of directional change, wouldn't you say?
Got a fill for 50 units pf EPD at $15.90.
Now reaching for $15.83. With the general market in melt-down mode, I'd say there's a 50/50 chance this order will make it through.
Anybody else in these here parts making moves too?
Dang, this dude screwed up---after posting I had $15.92 in mind I forgot to write the order. So I just placed the order now and will continue to follow things down as may be available.
Geeeesh!
I placed an order for 50 units of EPD at $15.97 not thinking it'd go thru any time soon. Went out to feel my critters (donkey and goats) only to return to the main house finding my $15.97 order executed.
Gotta stay on it as this is an incredible opportunity to secure food for the rest of my life, letting my current cash infusion pay off in the years ahead.
I'm leaning towards orders starting at $15.92 with follow-ons to be determined by how long it takes for the $15.92 to fill...if it does.
Later.
The Arizona ruling authority convened and all but one out of thirty representatives attending approved of the company moving ahead with the Florence project. At issue was concern regarding environmental controls.
Upon hearing this I added 25% to my position at $1.22. I'm liking this company and, of course, my participation.
The order for 50 units of EPD came thru at $16.11. But my follow-on bid for 50 units at $16.04 is what caught me off guard as it went through about five minutes ago and I hadn't realized it. The truth is I was about to raise my offer. Alas and alack, I won't get to pay more. Pity, pity me.
So now I need to figure out my next moves. This bleed-off ain't over, I'm convinced. I know Jim Cramer said yesterday that this droppage will stop but I sense people are in the process of just now awakening to this latest round of Covid-19 reality and need more time to chew, swallow, digest and come to terms with a new world stage, its underlying difficulties not to be dismissed.
So I'm adding units as they drop in price, knowing full well that these value-oriented moves will indeed pay off as soon as people realize they ARE alive and if reasonable health protocols are followed, life can be rich.
A bid for units at just beneath $16 is looking sensible to me at this moment.
More later.
By the way, I hope I'm not turning people off with this trading information. My intent is that of guiding others with a perspective or style not necessarily similar to mine. My portfolio is much higher year to date and I'd very much like to see others benefit from other strategies.
Good fortune!
Back on the EPD accumulation trail once again.
Added at $16.17 and now trying for 50 units at $16.11.
I think this latest offer to buy will come through. If so, other low-ball bids will move towards center stage.
I sure do hope others are availing themselves of this incredible opportunity! This is money in the bank.
Too, given that the price is so ridiculously out of whack, it stands to reason that you can always redeem some of the seed capital you add now, should the need to raise capital arise. A rock solid stock can work effectively as an investor's petty cash drawer, available for unexpected situations. The beauty is that you make 11% along the way via distributions while you also set yourself up to benefit from capital appreciation.
Really, what could possibly be better?
Good fortune, folks!
You'll need it.
Lol
Of course!
I wish you luck.
So is the company...meaningless.
Hold on there---aren't you forgetting your $15 previously disclosed wished-for reentry point?
Also, given your dissatisfaction with management leading to incessant rants calling for the replacement of DR. Perry, I don't understand how you could even consider resuming a position in RCEL. It seems to me there's something not making sense here.
Could you elucidate, please?
Thank you for your awesome....
Your.........
Sorry, I don't have more words at my disposal.
But wait!
Disposal----now there's an interesting word. lol
Just now got a fill for 50 units of EPD at $16.12.
How do we spell "m-e-l-t-d-o-w-n?"
The Corona virus is being held responsible for the deep dives in today's market and that may be so. But I'm guided by opportunity and today's market action spells opportunity for me.
So here I wait, watching to see if I can scrape a few more nickels together to spark highly unusual profit potentials in the near to mid term and probably well beyond. With present EPD holdings, distributions will hand me $142.00 each week. It won't take much more to take care of the food my wife and I need. And, mind you, we eat really well. lol
What an exciting day this is!
I guess a lot of people run scared when the market shows signs of being roiled as is the case today. Yet it is in the nature of stocks to rise, to fall, to resume earlier trends...etc. I don't have to go into this as I'm sure we all know how things work. So, then---the key to adding wealth here is to take a chance and spend the bucks because you know EPD is the crown jewel of MLPs. Tight balance sheet enhancements of late spell even greater security for this massive energy-related company.
Once the investing public comes to at least partially accept the fact that Covid-19 is here and it is not going away any time soon despite anything politicians may assert, I see EPD beginning to rise once again. Even sick people require energy and energy-related services such as EPD provides. And while I shudder at the thought, the fact is that hospitals, too, depend upon products and services made possible by companies responsible for energy logistics such as our company handles.
So then, in the end, expectations may have gotten out of hand recently but one thing is for sure:
That, alone, will not translate into energy no longer being important.
Thus is the absurdity of those despairing because of difficulty in handling the obvious---regardless of the net effects of the pandemic.
As all chirpers learn:
If at first you don't suck seed...
Eat a worm, stupid!
Market timers are everywhere, just ask them! lol
More to the point, try to distinguish timing favoring gains versus losses.
Timing is everywhere but so illusive as to effectively be nowhere.
I see now I just got a fill on 50 units of EPD at $16.20 along with a 100 unit fill at $16.20 and one at $16.22. Follow-up indicates a fill of 50 at $16.19.
I'm about tapped out unless I find I just can't stand not taking advantage of this enormous opportunity and yield to my instincts.
The gut usually wins in my world. And no, I'm not overweight. lol
Now holding 4,100 units with a cost basis of $16.556.
Underwater? for sure! But sometimes the fisherman is in pursuit of fish that are underwater. And there are times when the fisherman is flying.
I'm preparing for flight. lol
Underwater by $1,565.
Pretty good given that this latest purge sets us up for terrific gains ahead.
Things are obviously in a state of turmoil today. That said, opportunities are springing up everywhere. My interest isn't selling into a frenzy built of uncertainty. Instead, I've been concentrating on building out several positions, including EPD.
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This one is a no-brainer, isn't it?
It never fails to come through with sizable distributions and often enough---even larger than previously in-line numbers.
Also, as moderator and friend Pete807 aptly points out, this is as rock-solid as any energy play could get.
I relaunched a position here in EPD last week, knowing the time was right as units had been unfairly beaten down without mercy. While I heard the pain, I felt the joy within. lol I had to trust my instincts and still do.
Aha! Here's my opportunity to slither my way back into unitholder status.
Well, sometimes living in the moment has its drawbacks and I guess I fell into one. But I'm hardly disappointed as I'm now holding 3,600 units with a cost basis of $16.60.
All told, I'm down a thousand $ but this thing could easily hand me a really strong gain in capital appreciation over the course of well less than a year while also rewarding me with $6,400 in distributions yearly.
I'm expecting to hold most or all of these units. Too, I'm vying for more units after transferring a bunch of bucks from my ACH-tethered checking account.
This is one of just a few stock places I find appropriate at this delicate and unstable moment as I have no fear when it comes to trusting EPD to remain stable.
Great stock! Great moderator and spokesperson in pete807 and incredibly smart opportunity to hold onto something secure.
Good fortune to all!
While the DJIA is down nearly 900 points, it's understandable that VYNE would also be down. However, different forces are in play bringing VYNE shares down in price. Thus it is that I've been adding shares of VYNE mostly at $1.69.
I know others doing much the same thing and I strongly believe we will come out better for having invested emphatically.
This is a great opportunity in my opinion.
Copper is now at $3.09.
Must I change for you?
Or stay as I'm meant to be?
Please like me...I do.
It was already announced early this week.
Methinks you've confused this with another pick.
You see, Taseko is not an OCT listed offering. It's on the NYSE!
Your confirmation is meaningless under the circumstances, I'm afraid.
You say this is a scam play?
Perhaps so.
But as a long, long time investor in stocks I've learned that how I manage my bets once placed will determine who actually has won.
Frowns may feel good sometimes but careful and deliberate processing invariably wins out, enabling me to make my way financially.
There may be opportunity for you here. Why not let possibilities percolate before spitting out the brew?
You may actually acquire a taste for it, finding that it's better to swallow than to upchuck on the grounds that....
And---
Enuff puns already!
lol
Moral of the story--- finding fault with a stock pick due to our distrust is the easy part. Focusing on making munney is the worthwhile part of the process.
Snooze? Sneeze? What is best?
Living life's not the question...
Each day's the bestion!
My jalapeños.....
Do they love me? I do, them!
No sweat, just doodoo.
Blessed are those who won't
Wear a mask for them or us...
Meet your end, alone.
Why are you smoking?
Is it because you can, sir?
Of course you canCer!
That's funny.
I don't short stocks but if I did, I certainly wouldn't entertain thoughts of doing so with RCEL now as it seems to be moving up strongly as though to finally take its proper place after the reverse and redomiciling. I'm seeing $35 all over it and expect as much within the next six months or so.
Of course, I don'[t know this for fact so I hope nobody is foolish enough to make book on what may be nothing more than my own wishful thinking.
Still, the gains of late are certainly startling if not magnificent.
Not only that, I'm liking how things are going.
Lol
If you want to ignite it, go right ahead. It's one way of going into heat .
Aha!!!
I just knew it had to be your fault!
Dang, dude!
While we agree on executive pay escalating, is it any different when we look at athlete paychecks?
I know the average NFL career is a startling four years short and that ought to count for something. Yet the disparity when comparing salaries across the earnings spectrum is mind-boggling to be sure.
However, I think most of us here are reaching for the monied ring be it gold, silver or brass. So long as my RCEL investment continues to show promise and monetary gain, I can't bring myself to find fault with the "machine" as a whole. And RCEL is definitely moving along an a great path in my opinion.
Off topic:
Texas is going to get hosed literally. The wife is telling me 7 to 12, maybe fifteen inches of rain come Monday night. As it happens, our electrical guy is setting up two generators today, one for the house and the other to guarantee water-well operation. We'll get a charge out of that, huh?
Stay dry, amigo!
Just now noticed that VYNE gained 21% over the course of this past week.
That's really extraordinary in my opinion. With Covid-19 providing the worst of all possible backdrops thanks to masking able to hide blemishes and the grief of sufferers, it's hard to believe we are steadily regaining ground.
Let the share price continue rising, I say!
lol
Enjoy