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stonescape

Thanks I'm already heavy in B, and some AGI. Just added some GFI to the mix I've been thinking about. I also just added some BCI that looks really interesting. Not familiar with that kind of holding though, so will look into it some more to see if I want to grow a position.

Diet_Fanta

Neuralink is succeeding because Musk is minimally involved. Also, Neuralink massively overpromises, even if it is at the forefront of industry neuroscience. Neuralinks current aims are to fix muscular issues via BCI, NOT have brain implants in every person, which differs wildly from what Musk is saying. Source: Know multiple neuroscientists that have worked there.

notreal3839399393

Nano tech? BCI? Look at cyberpunk 2077 for inspiration

Banned3rdTimesaCharm

Just a cursory search will show you they are working on a lot of different technologies and not just social media. Whether any of them will bear fruit is a different story. Social media ads make most of their money, but to willfully ignorant of their other endeavors is stubborn and stupid. Google makes most of their money on ads too, but both of them are bonafide tech companies. Can't say the same for RDDT. • Large Language Models (LLaMA, etc.) • Foundation Models for Vision/NLP/Multimodal AI • Generative AI Tools (e.g., for ads, chatbots, media creation) • Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses • Meta Quest VR Headsets (Quest 2, Quest 3, Quest Pro) • Horizon Worlds (Social VR/Metaverse Platform) • Project Aria (Sensor-rich AR Research Glasses) • CTRL-Labs Neural Wristbands (BCI-style input) • In-house AI Chips (Training & Inference Accelerators) • Custom Silicon Development (ASICs for AI workloads) • Reality Labs (VR/AR R&D Division) • Subsea Cables (e.g., 2Africa, Bifrost, Echo projects) • Meta AI Research (FAIR / GenAI teams) • Massive AI/ML Data Centers • Immersive Meeting Platforms (e.g., Horizon Workrooms) • AI-Powered Content Moderation Systems • AI-Powered Personalized Feed Ranking • 3D Avatars and Virtual Presence Tools • Gesture-based User Interfaces • Computer Vision Systems (for AR/VR integration) • Speech-to-Text and Multilingual Translation Models

Bman409

Corn and wheat Of just a full basket of commodities like the $BCI etc

k9idude

Bro I’ve been following CLPT for the past month. Wild to see it on this thread. It’s a BCI company like Neuralink.

Keinermagmich

In the Future ill probably stay away from biotech or Pharma i guess, BCI ist still interesting and i dont Support war stuff and ill try to avoid real Nische stuff

fattyliverking

Personally I am in GLDM (gold) BCI (broad commodities) OXY (high conviction oil bet on my end but I encourage XLE for the same idea) SPUT (uranium) Mitsui Mitsubishi Marubeni 3 of Buffets sogo shosha houses with heavy commodity exposure.

LargeAppearance9694

DD - thought I'd share here, $MDBH — The Public Venture Engine That’s Quietly Building Billion-Dollar IP Let’s talk about a microcap that’s not just undervalued — it’s misunderstood. MDB Capital Holdings ($MDBH) isn’t a biotech, a SaaS, or a meme. It’s a public venture platform that architects companies around high-value intellectual property (IP), launches them into the public markets, and retains equity upside. Think of it as a hybrid between Flagship Pioneering and a self-clearing broker-dealer — but trading under $4. --- 🧠 What MDBH Actually Does MDBH builds companies from scratch using its proprietary IP analytics platform, PatentVest. It identifies white space in emerging tech (quantum, surgical robotics, BCI, therapeutics), secures patents, and launches spinouts with strategic investor communities. Recent spinouts include: - HeartBeam (BEAT) — IPO completed - eXoZymes — biotech platform - Paulex Bio — oral therapeutic targeting the root cause of diabetes - Buda Juice — IPO filed, redefining UltraFresh™ cold-crafted juice --- 💰 Assets & Structure - Total Assets: ~$69M - Float: ~4.5M shares — extremely tight - Insider Ownership: ~55% — they’re not selling - Cash Burn: Under $2M/quarter — disciplined - Broker-Dealer Arm: MDB Direct — self-clearing, strategic control over capital raises --- 🔍 PatentVest — The Hidden Gem PatentVest is MDBH’s IP engine. It’s already mapped 11,000+ patent families across 794 entities and helped launch companies that were acquired for $2.9B (Sanofi) and $14B (Pfizer). It’s being spun out as a standalone public company in 2026. Speculative Valuation Scenarios for 2027: | Scenario | Assumptions | Valuation Estimate | |------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------------| | Base Case | 2–3 spinouts/year, modest licensing | $150M–$250M | | Bull Case | Major IPOs, enterprise SaaS adoption | $400M–$600M | | Moonshot Case | Dominates IP analytics in emerging tech | $1B+ | MDBH will retain equity in that spinout — meaning its own valuation could rerate dramatically. --- 📈 Technical Setup - MACD crossover — bullish - Chaikin Money Flow — rising - Accum/Dist — trending up - Volume — 3× average in recent days - Price — hovering near 52-week low ($3.16), coiling for breakout - Pattern — emerging cup & handle + flag structure --- 🧭 Why This Matters MDBH isn’t diluting. It’s not chasing hype. It’s quietly building a portfolio of companies with real IP, real upside, and real strategic control. If even one spinout hits, MDBH could be a $100M+ company by 2026 — and PatentVest alone could justify a multi-bagger move. --- TL;DR - MDBH is a public venture platform with a proven IP engine - Float is tiny, insiders are buying, and dilution is off the table - PatentVest spinout could be worth $250M–$1B+ - Technicals are coiled, volume is rising, and catalysts are in motion - Price is still under $4 — for now DYOR, but I’m long. And I’m watching this like a hawk. MDBH #PatentVest #MicrocapDD #IPMonetization #PublicVenture #AsymmetricUpside

Pitiful_Fox5681

BCI is mostly public pensions, isn't it? TD will give you a more rounded, interesting experience, I think.  But the truth is that you should go for the one that will give you the best leg up for the future. Higher pay, better connections, more experience relevant to what you want to do, etc. 

Lil_LempelZiv

The FDA is independent of Elon Musk, as are the participants in the trial. If the risk/benefit calculation was not in Neuralink’s favor so far, they would've never progressed past their first participant. They certainly wouldn't continue to expand beyond the last 5. Also, it's not like Neuralink hasn't been transparent. They were the first to talk publicly about thread retraction in their first participant and the strategies they used to recover BCI performance. You seem like you have a lot of opinions on Elon, and very little knowledge of Neuralink’s tech, the competitive landscape in the BCI market, or the FDA process in general.

Lil_LempelZiv

I work in the BCI industry. I don't believe everything he says, but rather am a neuroscientist with intimate knowledge of the field. You don't have to believe anything Elon says, patients who have received the device with both ALS and SCI have spoken volumes about it. The FDA has continued to approve patients for Neuralink’s EFS trial, so you can believe them too. Again, I agree Elon sucks, but you are so clouded by that viewpoint that you can't see something wonderful for these patient populations, and would rather hate on him than hold a view of hope and optimism for those stricken by incurable conditions.

Lil_LempelZiv

It is absolutely new. There were zero wireless implants in the prior state of the art, and the channel count compared to that prior state of the art is more than 10x. This has meaningful ramifications for BCI performance and patient comfort. They can use their implants anywhere, as opposed to being restrained within academic labs for limited sessions. This is the first crack at a possible consumer quality BCI for patients with paralysis, blindness, and speech disorders.

Routine-Courage-3087

A BSI is entirely different than this company… there are numerous BSIs and BCIs being worked on even neuralink, but none are even close to working on all types of SCIs. Even if they do, they are very inconsistent and require you to be hooked up, not practical at all and for measly results. NervGen is enabling the body to repair itself and can lead to much much better outcomes ones and infinitely more practical. Neuralink is the coolest BSI/BCI to date with the highest potential but is 15ish+ years away from coming to market, they haven’t even begun restoring movement yet, trust me I’ve researched all of these for years and know what I’m talking about lol

fallingdowndizzyvr

You are just being delusion. A micro display is no way a BCI at all. If it is, then an etch a sketch is also a BCI. It's not. By your delusions then everything is VR. Since what we perceive as reality is simply our perception of the world. It may or may not reflect reality. That's why two people can watch the same thing happened and then describe it completely differently. Since they both perceived it differently. That's a classic psychology experiment. Perception is not reality.

kiwimancy

I think you're referring to the All Seasons portfolio, the simplified, unleveraged version of Dalio/Bridgewater's All Weather hedge fund that Dalio gave to Tony Robbins during an interview? >30% Domestic Stocks 40% Long Term Bonds 15% Intermediate Bonds 7.5% Commodities 7.5% Gold I don't think there is any ETF following that exact portfolio, but the five components are all available as cheap ETFs. For example: VTI, VGLT, BND, BCI, GLDM Bridgewater's All Weather Fund is a leveraged risk parity hedge fund and not available to retail investors, but they paired with State Street to offer an ETF version of it, ALLW, starting a month ago. I don't know how closely it tracks the original, but it is dynamic and actively managed and it seems to be sub-advised by Bridgewater, so I think it may be fairly close. 0.85% expense ratio. There's also RPAR with 0.50% expense ratio, which is older and not affiliated with Bridgewater.

Stephen_1984

Teucrium offers agricultural commodity ETFs https://teucrium.com Sprott offers mineral commodity ETFs https://sprottetfs.com/setm-sprott-critical-materials-etf/ Commodities Are Falling. Here’s How to Buy The Dip https://www.barrons.com/articles/commodities-etfs-42f84f22 Tickers: PDBC FTGC BCI COMT BCD

SillyWoodpecker6508

Ya it's called BCI and people have been doing this for decades. They might be doing it "better" but this isn't as crazy as you think.

mutherhrg

EUV in the next 2-3 years Next generation EUV by 2030 Heavy investment into next generation semiconductor materials like graphene and other 2D nanosheet semiconductors Massive amounts of robotics tech, from robot dogs to humanoid robots, that they are already using heavily in factories. As you know, DJI and chinese FPV are a monster on the battlefield and this new robots are the next step. Large scale xenotransplantation, lots of money being poured into gene therapy RN Large amount of money being poured into BCI. 100km particle accelerator to be build by the 2030s Rotating detonation ramjet engine Mars sample return Next generation fusion reactor that's aiming for energy positive fusion Robot marathon Two stage spaceplane There's a lot more

DontForgetTheDivy

BCI or DBC for commodities. You can buy XLE or the like for energy. GLD for gold. You can add mining company ETFs like GDX for gold miners, or PICK for non gold miners. That said, if you are young, just stick with growth for better total returns over the long term.

roboblaster420

Should I hold UNG, BCI, PDBC? I've been holding for almost 2 years and I'm down quite some. Any speculation on recovery?

Reddit123556

On the first day of use the patient demonstrated greater fine control of the mouse than had ever been recorded in a BCI. Beat the previous record by a factor of two. Additionally, 20 years ago the chip was not wireless and didn’t connect to iPhone via Bluetooth and charge wirelessly.

Neither-Lime-1868

How is calling it a problem “straight up wrong?”  They had threads retract, which was an unintended and unwanted occurrence, for which they briefly considered the removal of the implant, before solving the issue by modifying their recording method and changing the UI The headline doesn’t say “Neuralink experiences absolute catastrophic failure”, it says “experienced a problem”  I do neuroimaging now, but for my rotations before my PhD program started, I did a total of four months in a BCI lab. This would’ve absolutely constituted “a problem”. It just also had a solution. 

animositisomina35

Elon Musk-owned neurotechnology firm Neuralink has disclosed that its brain-computer implant (BCI) malfunctioned weeks after Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old accident victim, received the device early this year as part of an FDA-authorized study. The trial, named PRIME, is designed to evaluate the performance of BCI, which Neuralink expects will one day help patients with neurological conditions control external devices such as computers only with their thoughts. The company said that Arbaugh, who was the first to receive the device, had several threads come out of his brain implant weeks after the surgery.

pinghing

VM is actually the consciousness of 1000 Indian dudes connected together as a hive through Elon musk's neuralink BCI chip. Powered by NVDA.

charly371

XAR PPA and commodities PDBC BCI and uranium URA URNM

Aceofspades968

[Totes](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12278) Regional banks with highest CRE NYCB VLY COLB OZK WAFD PPBI BCI AX

fickdichdock

Thanks, neat! Even has NYCB at the very top. Short VLY, COLB, OZK according to the list. Bank Assets CRE concentration ratio as of Q3 2023 Construction concentration ratio as of Q3 2023 New York Community Bancorp's (NYCB.N) subsidiary, Flagstar Bank $116.3 bln 477% 30% Valley National Bancorp (VLY.O) $61.18 bln 472% 66% Columbia Banking Systems' (COLB.O) Umpqua Bank $52.17 bln 323% 58% Bank OZK (OZK.O) $34.24 bln 345% 200% City National Bank of Florida $26.14 bln 310% 46% BCI Financial Group $26.05 bln 309% 46% WaFd (WAFD.O) subsidiary, Washington Federal Bank $22.64 bln 371% 113% Axos Financial (AX.N) $20.83 bln 356% 135% Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI.O) $20.28 bln 312% 17% Independent Bank Corp $19.37 bln 302%

stvlsn

Old news. First BCI implanted in a US patient in July of 2022. [BCI](https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/synchron-implants-brain-computer-interface-first-us-patient-paralysis-trial)

iPhone12S

Are there public companies for Bioprinting and BCI?

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

BCI. You don't have to deal with a K-1. Energy 29% Agriculture 28% Precious metals 21% Industrial metals 15% Livestock 6%

Gaswden

WiMi announced its development of a humanoid robot control system based on a head-mounted display (HMD) controlled by a brain-computer interface (BCI).

Shardas7

That is a non-invasive solution, which to my limited understanding of neuroscience means is far less effective than an invasive approach with an implant being inserted directly into brain tissue I’ve looking into some of the use cases for these implants that include correcting vision, and even blindness for those born blind. As long as your vision issues aren’t from trauma essentially. As well as reanimating paralyzed limbs. We’ve seen non-invasive solutions to long term paralyzation injuries, I would imagine a brain implant communicating with a spinal cord implant as BCI companies have talked about, would be even more effective. In my mind, if that’s possible, and after watching tests of people/monkeys using computers with their minds faster than manual controls, then an implant community with a prosthetic limb seems very much within the realm of possibility While my neuroscience knowledge is limited and I’m ready to be corrected on the above, I am no stranger to machine learning and how it can be applied to quickly train sensor input to be interpreted correctly. It won’t be tomorrow or even within a year, but sensors on prosthetic limbs that know what they are touching is possible. Getting that information to the brain and have it interpreted by the brain correctly is the hard part https://www.atomlimbs.com/waitlist?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=14993928384&utm_content=133902952732&utm_term=atom%20limbs&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvfGKgMy-_wIVLgizAB06MAbeEAAYASAAEgLH7vD_BwE Here’s a link to a company working on such a prosthetic that I found a year ago. They have not moved their 2024 product launch since I’ve found them

Shardas7

My favorite sci-fi tech coming to reality is the massive changes to the medical field coming from AI and more specifically BCI (brain implants) a whole bunch of them just moved to human trials and seeing a man have his Parkinson’s disease fully treated and able to pick up a glass of water to drink from on his own when he couldn’t before was amazing. As well as paralysis injuries being mitigated and people walking again. There are also promises for other neurological diseases such as dementia and Alzheimers. Smart prosthetics could easily integrate with BCI and have it feel like the limb was never missing with perfect sync between robot limb and the brain. This is even more compounded when some prosthetics are getting sensors on the hands and then training them what things feel like, so that one day someone with prosthetic limb could grab something without seeing it and know what it is and what it feels like Beyond that, robots in healthcare/surgery in general is exciting. I was an army medic before going into tech and I know the major impact of cheap scalable AI and robots with better care giving capabilities will have on the world. What billionaires have today, the average person will have better. And when healthcare sees so much automation, I’d like to see better social policy. The arguments for privatized healthcare would look way worse than they already do today

Oops_Cat

**WiMi Hologram Cloud（WIMI）Developed And Innovated Its BCI Gaming Model** [https://www.newstrail.com/wimi-hologram-cloud%ef%bc%88wimi%ef%bc%89developed-and-innovated-its-bci-gaming-model/](https://www.newstrail.com/wimi-hologram-cloud%ef%bc%88wimi%ef%bc%89developed-and-innovated-its-bci-gaming-model/)

Oops_Cat

**WiMi Hologram Cloud（WIMI）Developed And Innovated Its BCI Gaming Model** [https://www.newstrail.com/wimi-hologram-cloud%ef%bc%88wimi%ef%bc%89developed-and-innovated-its-bci-gaming-model/](https://www.newstrail.com/wimi-hologram-cloud%ef%bc%88wimi%ef%bc%89developed-and-innovated-its-bci-gaming-model/)

Egillese

3D printing Home robotics VR/AR BCI/AI wearables Fusion Quantum computing EVTOL Robotaxis I could see a robotics arms race for first commercially available humanoid general purpose robot. We’re already seeing a bit of an arms race for robotaxis Hard to say which one will have the biggest impact tho, I think as technology advances exponentially there will be a lot of these moments

Mylynes

Cell phones are adopted by the masses because they have all the necessities within a very portable easy to use device. It's convenient. Now I do agree the next step up is gonna be some kind of AR/VR. Instead of looking down on the phone you can just have everything embedded into your reality...but how do you do that with some janky pair of goggles? The battery life is shit, the dumb finniky hand gestures are not as good as just typing on your phone. This is not what is gonna make people give up phones. You need something else to do it. The truth is that "something else" may very well be a BCI (brain computer interface) which means you'll be waiting a very long time.

Inevitable-Increase2

Tbh google isn't ever going to depreciate because it's just adding more heads to it's chimera as time goes on.The only way I ever see google becoming irrelevant is when BCI tech becomes a reality for humans and that won't be in our lifetimes. Its never a certainty what will be important for tech forever because we're breaking through all the time, but like I said Google is much more integrated now than just being a search engine. 98% of clearnet ad traffic flows through Google's algorithm.

Frank_Caswole

Just waiting for the BCI to get a little higher. >!Bull Cockiness Index!<

Boomer8282

45% equities (15% each in SYLD, FYLD, EYLD), 30% bonds (10% each in BOND, BNDX, VWOB), 15% commodities (BCI), and 10% trend following (DBMF).

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Gaylien28

Teslas have pioneered widespread adoption of EV’s however, a fact that legacy car companies have only recently begun to adapt to. Also while you may not have received a direct benefit from SpaceX, the benefit has definitely been felt by all in the space industry which will inevitably see an effect in your life. There are countless inventions in your daily life developed on the ISS. Also BCI’s and medical implants aren’t new and they’re idealized by science itself to reach new limits of human capability. Perhaps you personally find his views disturbing but it is undeniable the impact this man has had on the world currently.

Gaylien28

Teslas have pioneered widespread adoption of EV’s however, a fact that legacy car companies have only recently begun to adapt to. Also while you may not have received a direct benefit from SpaceX, the benefit has definitely been felt by all in the space industry which will inevitably see an effect in your life. There are countless inventions in your daily life developed on the ISS. Also BCI’s and medical implants aren’t new and they’re idealized by science itself to reach new limits of human capability. Perhaps you personally find his views disturbing but it is undeniable the impact this man has had on the world currently.

anadiplosis84

But we can already do this with eye tracking tech and it doesnt have a 99% mortality rate, now maybe you mean catatonic or something but regardless this tech is nowhere near ready for humans and anyone who believes musk these days is truly a fool. BCI will come eventually but not until they aren't killing most of their subjects and it probably won't be musk who delivers it.

Boomer8282

Commodities and trend-following have done well. BCI and DBMF.

DarthBuzzard

> what could meta possibly do to make it worth 100s of billions of dollars. Photorealism, force feedback haptics, sunglasses-like form factor, BCI input, lifelike 3D audio, fixes for nausea/eye strain/headaches, high quality AR... etc.

DarthBuzzard

> I haven’t seen ANYTHING remotely close to revolutionary come out from reality labs BCI input, photorealistic avatars, holographic optics, varifocal optics, force feedback haptic gloves... have you seen those yet? Unless you mean things that have actually hit products.

joey0314

Well i could say something crazy like he has neural nets that are advanced enough to communicate wirelessly directly with every neuron in the human brain but obviously im not part of the development team at neuralink i dont work training his cutting edge BCI software so i have no evidence of that. But thats not the point i was making i was saying the concept of a humanoid robot that has an advanced neural net has alot of value and you seemed to be arguing the opposite

DarthBuzzard

> There's zero need for Facebook to be involved in that. Like you say they're trying to force the situation and I see no reason why they'd succeed in convincing people to move away from Sony and Microsoft. Because in order to have the best hardware, you need to invest tens of billions of dollars. How soon will Sony, Microsoft, and the much smaller Nintendo - be doing that? Meta's VR/AR R&D is about tackling issues so it can be a general purpose device, not just a game console. They want photorealistic avatars, BCI input, force feedback haptics, and slim headsets.

Nmanga90

Idk bro. He’s a dick for sure but is almost single-handedly responsible for bringing battery tech into mainstream. Tesla researchers are also pushing it along pretty well. That’s not even to mention spaceX which has actually revolutionized space travel, or even neuralink, which is pushing along BCI like crazy. Yes, you could say that he didn’t start any of these, only acquired them, but they were never performant until he acquired them.

Capital_Bonus2918

I just bought in at $5k a few days ago, growth stocks, numerous stocks on Schwab's ETF/"A" equity list (MSFT, DBO, IXC, BCI) and stocks that were and are still considered undervalued (VDE, STE, SFAM) and I'm already down $70. Can someone please reassure me of what I already knew/know--that the DOW took a hit today, that this definitely could happen and could happen again when I'm buying in a bear market before it recovers--or advise me to bail out and buy back in when the market is obviously starting to actively rebound? I'm planning for the long-term (growth stocks are what I'm most adamant on maintaining: QCOM, MELI, SQ, other Motley recs...) but I'm admittedly scared by short-term losses. I know advisors say you have to be prepared to eat +20% losses in the short term in order to see your assets have high returns long term, and I guess I'm just seeking reassurance that all prices are highly volatile and more commonly decreasing right now and that I should just weather this. Even if we're heading into a potential recession, would it be worth it to sell and buy back in another time? What would you do?

Boomer8282

AMC was able to do what it did because we were in the final, euphoric stage of a decade long bull market. I strongly suggest you avoid it. I think a good way for you to diversify and take a higher risk/higher reward position is to invest in commodities. There are several popular ETFs you can do this with, like PDBC and BCI.

Boomer8282

Get some bonds and commodities. BCI, VWOB, BNDX, BOND

Boomer8282

For commodities, BCI and DBC are common. For stocks, you can include some US, I just wouldn’t go 100%. Perhaps equal amounts in VOO and VXUS. Personally, based on market valuations, I would put more in international than US, but whatever makes you feel the most comfortable.

Leviathan2460

Not every 2 weeks, but until i reach my comfortable limit for the asset class. When i have a few notes at month end left. Isf (ftse100) Imeu (euro) Pocket Change Amounts BCI25 (top 25 crypto index) ADA

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

I hit an all time high today. The thing that saved my ass is moving into defensive positions near the beginning of last year and investing in energy. The defensive positions were all ETFs. Value oriented: VTV, VOE, and VBR. Ex-US developed: VEA. Commodities: BCI. Small cap emerging: DGS. On net I am about even on those. I bought a large array of energy companies heavily tilted toward Canadian ones. SU and MRO have been big winners; many others are up \~50%.

Boomer8282

Globally diversified portfolio. Have a good mix of stocks, bonds, and commodities. For the stocks and bonds, have a good mix of US, foreign developed market, and foreign emerging market. For example, my portfolio is 60% stocks (split evenly between SYLD, FYLD, and EYLD), 20% bonds (split evenly between BOND, BNDX, and VWOB), and 20% commodities (BCI).

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

BCI. It does not produce a K1 so your taxes will be simpler.

kiwimancy

BCI

DarthBuzzard

Yes. Keep in mind you call me delusional, but I keep up to date with all of the VR industry's advances. Look at Project Cambria, which is their 2022 product slated for later this year. It's about half the size of Quest 2, has color passthrough, eye-tracking, and face-tracking. That's a real product launching. Meta also have all sorts of breakthrough research that is slated for further down the line, like [photorealistic avatars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqj956KgvRU), [BCI input](https://youtu.be/VKPNJ8sOU_M), [varifocal optics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab92r2Hq-qA), and other things like retinal resolution, full body tracking, haptic gloves, volumetric video. A VR headset in 2030 will almost certainly have very little relevance to one today, sharing very few of the features.

TheMightySoup

Do what you feel is right. I like MGK for tech stuff since it’s all mega caps, not just tech, but very heavy in AAPL, MSFT, Google, and AMZN. SCHD for dividends. VFH for financials. BCI for commodities, XLE for energy.

Frank_Caswole

Bull Cockinness Index (BCI) signaling a 8% drop for SPY tomorrow.

Frank_Caswole

BCI (Bull Cockiness Index) up! Excellent...

Frank_Caswole

BCI (WSB Bear Cockiness Index) is trending up.

Frank_Caswole

This has to be a fake dip, because the BCI (Bull Cockiness Index) has been pretty low all day.

Phorensick

Looks like it was de-listed. Contact the British Columbia Securities Commission https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/ https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/-/media/PWS/Resources/Enforcement/Cease-Trade-Orders/BCI57501.pdf

Frank_Caswole

Should have known, the BCI (Bull's Cockiness Index) was through the roof.

amplex1337

The problem with AI stock trading is that AI can try to make reflections based on past data, but predicting modern financial markets is a much more impossible problem than an approachable problem, i.e modeling realistic human speech or conversation, or detecting a picture of a truck from billions of pictures. Our markets have literally nearly infinite inputs nowdays, and much like the inherent chaos of weather systems, these inputs do little to nothing to contribute to an outcome on their own, and the whole system together will probably be impossible to model long term for quite a while.. Short term, they could probably be right more than 51% of the time (which is a win in algo trading), but the market fluctuates way too much, & is too chaotic in nature to be predictable in the long term, where the biggest gains can be made. I.e - even if you could ingest data for EVERY single aspect of a single company, you could never ingest all the data points for every other competing company out there, predict the future performance of every possible future employee, predict the world economies of product materials or labor, the strategy of every hedge fund, all institutional investment teams, and every market participant and their sentiment or reasoning. Those things I mention just barely scratch the surface of what a company 'is' or 'is capable of'. I know Google is a powerful force driving AI, but our technical capabilities on this planet are not unlimited. Maybe one day if all existing minds could be networked together into a BCI metaverse type of thing, and we have near infinite scalable computing powered by quantum supercomputers (or other next-next-next-gen tech that doesn't exist yet). But at that point, there is no need for a stock market (or any financial market) anymore honestly.. In this timeline, everything you can imagine right now will be incomparable in essence. This is more the type of futurology Google is trying to anticipate to be ahead of the curve.

GENERALR0SE

BCI is such an interesting technology. It's like we've seen the Matrix and literally every other piece of speculative fiction about BCIs where it ends up being a horrific idea, and then went *"but it's really fuckin cool. Let's do it anyway"* But they are really fucking cool. Let's do it anyway.

angelus97

BCI paid a 4.468 distribution. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/funds-and-etfs/bci/dividend-history

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DescriptionFriendly

BCI, but I don't know of any publicly traded companies pioneering this yet

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

Liquid assets are like this: 2.5% in cash. Cash cash, like sitting in a bank account earning a whopping 0.5%. 20% in what I will call cash equivalent. Covered call ETFs. Mostly NUSI because of its use of puts for downside protection and it pays monthly at \~8%. Inflation looks like it could be 5% for two or three years, and I don't want that amount earning 0.5%. \~40% individual stocks. Combination of solid stuff I bought for really good prices. Companies like LMT, DIS, SYY, etc. The other half of the combination is a lot of oil and gas stocks, which I thought I would be out of by the end of this year but that sector now looks good for a lot longer. \~40% ETFs tilted toward value and exUS. VTV, VOE, VBR, VEA. ETFs for emerging markets. BCI for a basket of commodities. 0% bonds. I sold all my bond ETFs last year after the Fed dropped rates to \~0, and I put the money into stocks. I don't care about volatility, I have enough cash on hand to weather any storm, and my job security is rock solid.

DarthBuzzard

> Even with immense resources Oculus and Valve have spent, these companies have hit limits on power and cabling that limit their ability to iterate significantly on their existing VR equipment. There are certainly limits, but they haven't come close to hitting a hard limit in terms of headset progression. There's going to be all kinds of big breakthrough changes that you'll see in consumer headsets this decade. I'm not even sure what Neurolink has to do with this discussion, because VR will get on just fine without that kind of BCI tech.

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Sir_Bumcheeks

I don't think they're concerned with appearances anymore. The state-promoted H&M/BCI boycotts, the crackdown on big tech and education companies kind of shows they're more concerned with control over economic freedom.

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The BCI companies that I am aware of are not publicly traded. Does anyone know any that are?

kiwimancy

\#6 looks like one of PIMCO's stocks plus funds. \#8 is a modestly leveraged version of a public commodity fund/ETN like BCI. Commodities are already fairly high vol so I don't think leverage is crucial. Not sure the most efficient way for a retail investor to get that leverage if it's not a public fund which I'm not sure if it is or not. Options on an ETF would work. Rolling all the individual futures yourself would be annoying. \#10 could be a leveraged bond fund like TMF or simply a long duration fund like TLT or EDV. If something like IEF is considered the 100% bonds benchmark with a duration of 8yrs, then TLT with 19yrs would be about 240% leverage and EDV with 24.5yrs would be about 300% leverage; TYD explicit 300% leverage and TMF 700%. If desired, you can also leverage the near end of the curve as a retail investor with futures. CME just added micro yield futures if the regular ones are too large for your account. \#9 looks a bit like a modestly leveraged risk parity or similar all-asset fund. It could be a public fund and the fact that it's only modestly leveraged hint to me that it is, since I think funds like Bridgewater's All Weather fund use more leverage than that in order to incorporate more low-vol assets like corporate bonds and TIPS. Public funds that do it are AQR's (though I think they are advisor only) or RPAR or Wealthfront's. \#7 looks like it could be SPYC or a similar 1 delta, long vol options strategy. Not sure what 1-5 are or if they are structured as '40 act funds. Replicating 2, 3 & 4 as a retail investor, if they aren't, is possible using global macro / managed futures mutual funds and adding equity futures for the equity exposure. Keep in mind that managed futures mutual funds have more restrictions on how they invest compared to CTA hedge funds. For example, I believe they tend to have more exposure to equity and bond futures and less to commodity futures. I'm less familiar with global macro as an asset class.

Rake-7613

Started by realizing my wage would never pay off pharmacy school debt unless I was super frugal. Somehow found Alan Ellman/BCI books (poorly edited but highly recommend). Then read Generate Thousands by Samir Elias (HIGHLY recommend) which is about using covered calls from more of a trading perspective (vs theta/investing). Traded CCs a while, made good returns but had a binary event (drug failed a trial) that wiped out ~6 months of gains. Opened an account to try strats with entirely for learning. $25k- big money to me at the time, a rounding error for others. Traded PMCC, CCs on pennies, out selling and wheeling in that account. Lots more techniques, unfortunately mostly biotech because I think I have an edge. Biotech is hard. Lots of ups and downs in that options specific account. Doubled then halved and back again. Mostly lost all the money I made selling calls by getting into buying calls. Moved back to safer investments. Back to selling calls. Got into FIRE/mustachian jam. Shifted portfolio to a large portion Boglehead stuff and some biotech. Now have mostly Boglehead, and still use some of that for portfolio overwriting. Still a good chunk of biotech, but shares that I sell covered calls against a portion of, or wheel. As a rule, I never buy a call unless I am using premium I made selling a call. Over time I’ve learned basically better risk allocation and not to buy calls with money you need, and money your account can’t afford to lose. But I still buy them here and there because it does make sense to expose yourself to some lottery tickets if you can afford them. Most of this was done in IRAs. Currently growing retail account to the point where index overwriting covers daily expenses. Should have done that initially.

FlacidPasta

>He's obviously trying to imply 124% short interest No, he's not. He clearly states "estimated short interest is 16% of float" and has stayed consistent in the use of reported numbers only. Also, how are you making the argument that he's trying to push 124% as all short interest, but at the same time, make the argument that he's double counting the shares on loan as part of the 124%? You can't have the argument both ways. You're getting seriously hung up on semantics. The man is a Financial Analyst. If you go into his profile, he was previously an investment banker (CIBC), and prior to that worked in investment management for a pension fund (BCI). Do you really believe that anyone is dumb enough to put their reputation on the line, using his real name on a public platform, to push an obviously wrong number with some nefarious intent to defraud people? Or is it more likely that he's saying 124% of the float is accounted for, which is the sum of 80 + 28 + 16, whether or not that reasoning is correct? Occam's razor. &#x200B; >what shorting a stock does is increase the number of shares in circulation, that these shares must be owned by someone, and would therefore form part of both the retail and institutional ownership. Again, you can't have it both ways. So is 124% double counting, because covered short interest accounts for legally located borrows? Or are there more shares in circulation, because the float is increased by the short interest? Because BOTH those statements are correct, as both statements are not mutually exclusive. &#x200B; >Nothing he's said provides evidence of a short interest significantly higher than the reported figure, which is necessary for a squeeze in AMC's case. Incorrect. I don't think you understand how a short squeeze works, so let me educate you. The only thing that is necessary for a short squeeze is when short positions are forced to close, but are not able to. It doesn't matter how many shorts are or aren't reported. Again, I defer to the VW squeeze. It squeezed because 107% of the float was accounted for, including the short interest. Closing a short position entails buying back the shares that were lent out. Theoretically, 5% of the float not held by Porsche or Lower Saxony could have been bought back and closed. But the squeeze happened because 7% of the remaining outstanding short interest (above the 100% float accounted for) was not able to close, because Porsche refused to sell and Lower Saxony was not allowed to sell. &#x200B; >you've failed to take into account that what shorting does is increase the number of tradeable shares in the market (the float) beyond that which were issued by the company, so there would actually be 16% more shares available for them to cover with then you're implying. Again, you're confused on how shorting works. When a short locates a stock to borrow, and proceeds to sell that stock short, that seller has a corresponding BUYER on the other end, who receives an IOU for the eventual purchase to cover. That's exactly what Tony Kim is saying, that there would be an increase in the number of tradable share in the market to bring the float accounted for to 124%, which IS double counting the shares that are already held, which is correct by definition. And how did I fail to account for this? I clearly state that in the impossible situation where every institution sold their entire positions, the remaining shares that must be bought back from retail would be 5m shares. &#x200B; > you then imply that literally not one retail investor would settle for a low number, which is fallacious. I literally never implied any scenario. I said that theoretically, IF (operative word) everyone in retail diamondhanded, then those 5m shares sold short would not be able to be bought back, prompting a short squeeze. And sure, if the liability is only 5m shares, in reality, I definitely believe there would be profit taking on the way up and bagholders at the end of the covering to close. But that's 5m in a scenario where: 1) Every actively managed fund sells their entire position, 2) there has been ZERO net buys from retail since June 2, and 3) in fact, to make the scenario even more conservative, assumed 10 percent of retail ALREADY paperhanded (implying net sells since June 2). This is a **SCENARIO,** which means **HYPOTHETICAL.** You seem to have missed the operative "IF" entirely, and you're reframing that hypothetical I gave as an example as if I believe that to be fact, when I clearly state that it's not reflective of reality. Are you able to think abstractly? &#x200B; >Ok, different than the source I used I checked the source you used, and I see that the [source](https://www.ft.com/content/0a58b63a-4294-3e07-8390-c3aabef39a26) I used actually didn't account for the DAX index holding 5% of VW. Side note, both Tony Kim and myself have reiterated that ETFs only buy and sell shares with the changes in the ETF's net asset value. So you're right, after accounting for the DAX, there was less than 1% of shares available for purchase. &#x200B; >Lets assume your figures are correct, that would mean that the short interest was 240% of the tradeable float Uh, what? How do you get to 240% of the tradable float shorted for VW? That's not how short interest works. The short interest reported for VW was 12.8%. Maybe accounting for naked shorts the actual SI would be higher, but there's no way to actually know this value until after every naked short position is forced to close. Whatever method you're using to extrapolate this short interest is seriously misguided. This is why the AMC short is far preferable, because VW intended to exercise its cash-settled options to force a buy on VW stock to bring its stake to 74.1%, but it ran out of cash (as per that source link, 2/3rds of the way down the page) and incurred a shitload of debt ($15b euro) to build their initial position. You know who hasn't been buying with debt and won't run out of cash? Retail. This is why Tony says "much better short squeeze conditions compared to Volkswagen". He's 100% correct, all of the AMC shares held by retail are largely in registered cash accounts. &#x200B; >And that's ignoring the difference in the fundamentals, which matters both in the sense of insurance incase of no squeeze (encouraging more holding, as there are fundamentals to fall back on if you miss your exit), Literally noone's banking on the fundamentals for a squeeze play. &#x200B; >And no, but we have diamond hands is not an investment thesis. Never said it was. &#x200B; >It's more likely that they'd feel content to wait out the volatility until retail gets bored or AMC's terrible fundamentals force them under (letting the shorts off scot free). Again, this sentence demonstrates your overall lack of understanding of how shorting works. It's not volatility the shorts are worried about, it's solvency in the form of interest on borrowed shares, and it's mark-to-market losses on their open short positions. Actually I take that back. Volatility does matter, because if the price rips high enough with some shorts covering, some FOMO buying, and some delta hedging (gamma squeezing), the SHFs risk getting margin called. And lastly, getting "bored" is not a reason to sell. It costs nothing to hold. \*\*\* I think you need to do 2 things. First, educate yourself on how short selling works. It's clear as day that your knowledge is lacking. Second, you need to put that oversized ego in check. You speak as if you're some sort of authority on the subject matter, when you CLEARLY are not. Just judging by your comment history, you seem to take some twisted sense of pride from pretending that you have some sort of inside knowledge that nobody else does. I don't know what you're trying to compensate for, but your arrogance is hampering a potential learning opportunity. And I don't give a shit what you do, go ahead and keep doing you. But it takes a real nutsack to refuse to accept that he doesn't know everything. I hold both, but the risk profiles are different. I personally side with Tony, because as he's demonstrated with reported figures exclusively, why AMC is a safer squeeze candidate than GME. GME is a stronger squeeze candidate than AMC, but you have to get comfortable with the fact that a lot of the GME thesis is speculative. It's promising speculation (FTDs, OTM put options, NFT dividend, etc.) but it's not proven the same way the float ownership of AMC is proven.

DarthBuzzard

> To believe that a cumbersome 3D headset somehow belong to or improves the experience, that’s laughable to me. I mean it's very clearly an improvement in the experience. I don't know why you would argue against that. Headsets are cumbersome today I agree, but Facebook has shown research on a VR sunglasses display system as a long-term project that would be paired with their CTRL-Labs BCI wrist-band. This is why you're wrong when you talk about how even a pair of glasses is not enough. Because it would perform all the functions of any device you use today, but do so in a more convenient and more immersive way. For example, instead of needing a workstation desk, you could lie in bed, simulate a virtual office, and type as fast as you do on a keyboard just using the BCI wrist-band. If you wanted to invite colleagues around, you could do so with avatars, which would be more socially engaging, better for productivity, and wouldn't come with any Zoom fatigue that people have had to deal with the past year or so. Not to mention the glasses will offer AR functionality and be able to freely blend between it and VR, so the sensory deprivation comment doesn't match up with how the tech is evolving.

GimletOnTheRocks

> Good ways to hold without buying futures? Buying commodity funds is probably the easiest (eg, BCI, COMB, PCLAX, etc). This is probably better than trying to hold individual positions for individual commodities. Several of these funds are +25% or more in the past year. Be aware that commodities are volatile and we are *probably* toward the end stage of a runup in commodity prices, so definitely set an exit plan if you invest. This is not financial advice.

BotherPlayful4703

BCI Puts

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

VTV = large cap value VOE = mid cap value VBR = small cap value VEA = developed ex-U.S. BCI = commodities with no K1 A couple of emerging market ETFs. Everything is split up so I can tilt toward things I feel will do better. I am currently tilted a bit away from the U.S. and toward emerging markets. The commodities are more of a hedge.

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

For a broad commodities ETF look at BCI. No K1.

swimming723

You should note that all BCI clothing companies are in the action but China only goes after HM. This is because HM is nobody compared to the other big firms and quickly losing its shares in China's market. Large ones, for example, Nike is bare touched because Nike is the sponsor of China's athletic bureau. Money talks after all. Same thing with Apple. Apple has transferred all China's user's data to a facility located physically in China, which is a smart move to show some obedience. Zuckerberg criticizes China a lot, but back in 2010 when Facebook almost got a license in China he did a big show by jogging in Tiananmen Square. Huge investors would do anything for money. I think China and the US, especially the Democratic authority, know perfectly what are political moves for show and what are real business to keep. Most political actions or retaliations are demonstrative and serve their internal purposes only. I agree with one of the other comments: if SEC gets serious, the policy would only affect small-cap stocks from China. BABA, JD, or Baidu will do just fine as American capital is too deeply involved to leave the party.

carnosi

Biotech too. CRISPR and BCI is very promising technology.

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

You could try an ETF like BCI. It is made up of commodity futures. 29% agriculture. 29% energy. 20% precious metals. 16% industrial metals. 6% livestock. It is set up so you don't have to deal with a K-1 for taxes.

Nekommando

GMED makes prosthetic joints and spine augmentations. INB4 they make some truly cyberpunk shit (preferably with Mask's recent BCI venture) and stonks legit rocket to the moon.

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

A commodity ETF like DBC or BCI. BCI simplifies your taxes compared to most other commodity ETFs. Commodity ETFs all seem to be very heavy in energy, so they may not be what you are imagining if you are thinking of a basket of gold, copper, palladium, iron, etc.

phollins

TMV is a no brainer IF you think interest rates are going to rise. I also like BCI and PDBC for rising commodities prices. These ETFs lower your exposure to stocks and should do well during 2021.

Catchthedisc

Being a passive investor, I am looking at ETFs. BCI seems like a good broad choice, with gold, copper, aluminum, silver, and nickel. I read that it is better to have metals in a tax advantaged account, but i am not sure if that applies to an EFT.

TrioxinTwoFortyFive

I recently moved part of my portfolio to VWO and VEA, emerging market and developed ex-US. I moved another part to VTV and VOE, largish cap US value and midcap US value. I also moved into BCI, but that is a commodities ETF that does not have much to do with this discussion.