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No way. Do you fully understand the margin call and forced liquidation risks involved? I would never, ever use Margin if I didn't have the ability to pay it back immediately on short notice. I only use it as collateral to trade option spreads. Do you have a house and can you just tap a HELOC instead...

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I used to work at a large (10,000+ employee) private company that had HCE limits, it was a bummer for anyone who made 130k or more was only allowed to contribute 6% to the 401k.

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Strange situation, does your outlier high balance have some kind of negative impact on the 401(k) plan admin cost structure? I am not sure what other negative impact this could have on others, if anything you would think they would be asking you for investment advice Also I find it odd as I understo...

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Yes, I received the consolidated 1099 from Schwab on Feb 17. A lot of option trades this year...300 pages :mrgreen: :mrgreen: OOOF! I hope you're importing that on Turbotax, rather than inputting it manually! The TurboTax import doesn't work, throws an error and says too much data. I just manually ...

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Yes, I received the consolidated 1099 from Schwab on Feb 17. A lot of option trades this year...300 pages

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Is anyone in RIOT blockchain or any of the other crypto mining stocks? The performance is stunning even by bitcoin standards. As a bitcoin/ethereum holder, I feel a bit foolish for having no exposure to these stocks. I would if I were confident it is just a leveraged crypto play, but I don't know e...

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I have the Dell 4320Q, 43" 4K IPS with 16:9 aspect ratio. It also has both thunderbolt usbc and display port inputs (auto switching works great). love it:

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You could use an option collar (sell calls against the shares your holding + buy a put for a small net credit) if you just want to lock in your gains up to this point and wait until the shares have exceeded the 1 year holding period for LTCG

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Of course concentrated funds can outperform the total market in the short term, so can random people on YouTube/Reddit who pick stocks, or perhaps your neighbor who just bought whatever was trending on stocktwits. Do you think what worked last year, will work this year, and next year? If your outloo...

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Mid February has been the earliest I've ever gotten 1099s from Schwab, I wait until late march to file taxes because sometimes Schwab will send a corrected 1099 in mid March

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I wonder what his Bogleheads.org username is

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I haven’t touched SPACs yet but I am interested. Regarding taxes, Assuming I buy and sell these and never hold them long term for 1+ years, thus the transaction is a short term cap gain/loss, does the PFIC status matter? From what little I read, PFIC are always treated as short term gains/losses and...

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I’m glad I increased my positions in RIOT and MARA last month, but after today I wish I would have gone bigger

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Are you legally allowed to take a bearish position against your vested company stock position to hedge?

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Is anyone selling covered calls on SPACs that are still hovering close to their NAV? I've been taking at look at the option premium on these "pre-liftoff" SPACs on the call side and premiums are about 15-20% for 6 month contracts just slightly OTM. This return seems to good to be true give...

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I have a BA degree from an unranked university and have worked in software development my entire career, including at 2 of the FAANG companies. My experience in this industry and the interviewing process is that everyone is assumed to be useless until proven otherwise. Professional background and ed...

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I'm looking forward to a future where the talking heads providing investment advice offer guidance on ideal asset allocation to Dogecoin

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I'd like to be in the office at least a couple days a week, with the teams I engage with. So presumably they would all be in the office the same couple of days as you? I am still getting projects done, but often more slowly than before. That's my sense when talking with most of my non-retired frien...

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The WSB style, as I have always understood it, was going big on high risk high reward trades. Going heavy buying OTM short duration calls hoping for some unexpected movement in the stock your betting on. Basically, your buying lotto tickets. The probability of these bets paying off is low, but the p...

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On 2nd thought, calling etrade to exercise my long call will result in a $25 commission since it's broker assisted. Since there is no more risk of me shorting the stock & holding the long call, why don't I short a put next week at the same strike where my prior short call was (yes, I do have en...

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........ Remember that options can only be exercised after normal trading closes, you should be able to exercise the other leg of your spread after hours with your broker if you must (keep in mind exercise fees). Also keep in mind that after hours trading of stock is still going on 4pm-8pm and even...

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People always talk about market risks like big corrections and crashes, and positioning ones portfolio for these risks. However, I personally believe FOMO is a bigger risk, I have known a few people who have levered up to buy into momentum and then suffer devastating losses. Having a large cash or b...

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It depends on your broker, there is no standard, check your brokers documentation I trade spreads with Schwab and if the short put expires ITM, the options will be automatically exercised and I will be assigned the stock, if a short call expires I will be assigned a short position in the stock. Pers...

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no activity on this topic for over a decade, just curious what the situation is today... i use a margin account (don't actually use any margin) with interactive brokers (ireland) and declined participation in stock lending programs.. for balances exceeding sipc/Irish equivalent limits, in a scenari...

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Glad I added to my positions in Mara, Riot, and Can last month. Still have my 32 eth i was going to use to stake a beacon node...funny how what started as a nerd hobby project turned into one of my best investments the last few months on accident...

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I use Schwab, their options trading platform is called StreetSmart Edge, I like the platform however it is Windows only. It's free to use with no added fees: https://www.schwab.com/trading/software As far as strategy goes, back in 2015-2019 I began with the wheel strategy and then added margin and t...

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My IPS says I need to sell 100% more options than I sold last month due to the IV spike

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For what it's worth, I was reviewing Google Trends and searches for the word "stonk" have really increased dramatically up this past week:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=stonk&geo=US

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Here you go, Josh Brown was making fun of this on the Compound podcast yesterday, NBA Top Shot (Blockchain collectables)

https://www.nbatopshot.com/

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I got out of AMC, GME, EXPR yesterday

Made a very small bet on SLV today, bought 10 calls @ 24, 60 DTE.

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I think this depends on field of study. I went to a state school, I am not sure how it’s ranked. It had a very high acceptance rate like 70% and a low graduation rate of 20%. I had poor grades in high school and average test scores and they accepted me :mrgreen: . I liked the school, professors were...

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Made a few small yolo bets in expr, amc, gme. Sold half my positions today, probably will regret it on friday but the gains today are unreal. By far the best day ever for my active portfolio

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I’ve always bought the new place, moved in, and then listed old house. However, we have always lived on neighborhoods where the houses move quickly and being stuck with both for an unknown length of time wouldnt create any issues, typically I only carried both for a few months. If you cant carry bot...

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For me it was being content with a good job with a good employer for 12 years. While this was great, I was too lazy to evaluate my potential market value every year and look for other jobs. When I finally put in the effort to switch, my total comp doubled. Thus, I missed out on potentially hundreds ...

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I spoke with HR at one of our regional Accounting firms and she said the #1 reason provided why applicants are looking for a new job is that they do not like working from home. How strange, but to each their own. Some of the young people I work with expressed interest in going back to the office, b...

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I have also been under a non-poaching/non-solicitation agreement. As others mentioned, I don't see any reason to consider deleting yourself from Social Media. However, what you do need to be careful of and what makes these so effective is that they eliminate the ability for former co-workers to reco...

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I would get the largest LG OLED that fits in your budget. At least go watch some 4K HDR content on an LG OLED before you make your decision. If you never watch 4k content sources, then I guess it's not going to matter much, though even 1080p looks quite a bit better, especially content with light/da...

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Similar things happened to me, and I was able to successfully get my money back. As a precursor, you need to go to your local police department, talk to someone who will note down the situation. A few days later, after they have submitted their report, you can go back to the police station and get ...

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+1 to the Miata

Also, a 20 year old Honda S2000 is worth considering. Great little sports cars that are as simple as possible, they don't even have ABS. Unfortunately, these are very expensive as everyone wants them

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Hey all, thank you for all of the advice and kind thoughts on this. Wanted to share a few updates: - Reached out to Ebay and opened a sellers appeal. Unfortunately, Ebay stands by their initial decision to rule in the buyers favor, their reasoning was that the buyer provided a tracking number to my ...

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Hi Bogleheads, I sold some old items last months, some of the items were fairly valuable. One item sold for $600, around fair market value based on prior listings which sold. The Situation: The buyer for this item paid for the item in early December, about 1 week later requested a return through Eba...

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I used wired for almost everything, except for my mouse which is wireless.

Personally I like the Logitech MX revolution mouse, have used them for over 10 years. Good egronomics, performance, and the free spinning wheel is amazing once you are used to it

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Something tells me todays events will be another bullish trigger for BTC. However, I increased my position today so that means there will be a drawdown coming soon

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Man, IWM is ripping today...yet again

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I would move on, but not for the role you mentioned here. Take your time to find an opportunity worth making a jump for. I grew up in the midwest, actually a friend of mine still lives in the city I grew up in and one can still find a decent house for around 100k, which is a bargain...minus the weat...

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“Miami Could Become First City in US to Allocate Treasury Reserves Into Bitcoin” “ Miami is also considering the possibility of accepting Bitcoin as a means for citizens to settle their bills with the city, the mayor said it is part of their plans for next year. “We are definitely going to be workin...

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If you want to buy tsla stock, create a seperate taxable “YOLO” account used specifically for “bets” or whatever strategy you want to use If your going to mix multiple strategies, such as buy and hold total marker ETFs along with randomly betting on meme stocks like TSLA, its very important to bucke...

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I have a taxable account that I use exclusivly for selling option spreads on a handful of ETFs. 45-60 DTE Typically neutral to slightly bullish bias XLU, TLT, SPY, IWM, QQQ, XLV, EFA, EEM .25 to .35 delta on the short side on spreads 1.5 - 2% return on capital target per month Trim the account to ke...

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Why do you want 2 part time jobs?

Just stay with your current job while you search for a new full time job that can be done 100% remote

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Logitech C920x Pro HD Webcam - $70

I have the older version from several years ago, it works great on both Mac and PC, I have both. Up to 1080p resolution, handles low light very well, image quality always looks great in my experience

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