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I saw one of my investments sail by ...
Sell any of these or hold all for the next 40 years?
Hey can someone help me with carnival Corp $CCL IM LEVERAGED TO THE TITS on longs
A year ago you guys made fun of me for breaking even finally
A year ago you all made fun of me for breaking even finally
Stock strategy idea. Help me understand why it's a bad idea?
NCLH unusual option activity, implied vol, and divergence
NCLH unusual option activity, implied vol, and divergence
WSJ - A Soap Maker Cracks the Code to ‘Made in America’
Are the Cruise Lines back? NCLH RCL CCL
God bless America. Reminder to take your profits.
tracking abnormal order trade volume for 'improved' return's
Bought 5 $CCL calls yesterday for $45 which expire today. Not Lambo money, but an honest day's work.
CCL earnings 10k loss then 14k gain. Market manipulation
Who is the main cause of the “sell-the-news” effect?
Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: Alibaba, Dice Therapeutics, Avis and more
For the love of Christ, hear me out on $OPEN.
Market Recap - 6/14/23 - I hope I triggered all your stops
CCL: I was accused on pumping the stock so I deleted all my previous posts. Keep holding, will post again when I sell, bye.
God bless the WSB CCL shill for convincing me to get some calls 🙌, you da real MVP
CCL: Next week 17 Earnings 25. Yes I deserve to dream.
Market Recap - 6/7/23 - Bargain hunting
Market Recap - 6/6/23 - rotation under way?
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Carnival stock sails higher on earnings beat, upbeat outlook (NYSE:CCL)
Why Carnival Corporation (CCL) Stock Has a Score of 4.5/10 even after upbeat earnings
Why Carnival Corporation (CCL) Stock Has a Score of 4.5/10 even after upbeat earnings
Carnival Q1 Earnings Preview: What to expect? (NYSE:CCL)
2023-03-06 Wrinkle-brain Plays (Mathematically derived options plays)
Buy CCL??? When will the Carnival start really popping off???
RCL just came out with bookings higher than 2019.. why do people feel like the debt is stopping this stock from fully recovering?
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what jackass just bought all those CCL puts right after i bought mine
CCL and NClh leaps up bigly
CCL heading to $40 the dividend is back and I got 10k in leaps
The 14th is the last day ti get into CCL before the divi
Carnival Corporation & plc (CCL) officially reinstated its quarterly dividend in December 2025, marking its first payout since the pandemic-driven suspension in 2020. The board declared an initial dividend of $0.15 per share, which is scheduled to be paid on February 27, 2026. Key Dividend Dates and Details To be eligible for the upcoming payment, investors must hold shares by the record date. Dividend Amount: $0.15 per share Ex-Dividend Date: February 13, 2026 Record Date: February 13, 2026 Payment Date: February 27, 202
It can be both, it all depends on the time you buy it. For a while they were doing quite badly but since then demand has picked up quite a bit and their revenue is looking good again, their p/e is roughly half of RCL (stock is doing crazy well). Everyone was talking about it during 2020 but not many people held on. To be fair there were better stocks to invest in at the time, but I think people extremely underestimate the value of holding almost any company that isn't a complete failure long term. I don't forever hold stocks though, I buy companies I believe are below their intrinsic value and sell them when I think they are fairly priced. My target is 47~50 dollars for CCL (not financial advice) based on the bit of research I've done, but I would definitely trail my stop up at those prices to lock in profits.
Are you saying is CCL is a great find or it is a dud?
I'll give you one then, CCL. It's not a super hyped up stock that everyone is talking about (at least if they are I'm not aware of it). Been waiting for this stock to do something for like 5 years lol but I have several watch lists and I just pounce on the right companies at the right time with stop losses. There are literally thousands of undervalued solid companies though, I would recommend scanning on finviz to find them. I specifically look for p/e under 20 and p/b 5 or below with high institutional ownership and insider buying, then I filter with the chart (I don't buy anything at all time highs or lows)
My CCL, hood, sofi and NU calls keep printing
Last week was crazy def bought the dip Hood and Hood calls. CCL and NCLH calls. SOFI and Sofi calls. Scared money dont make money.
Got you fam PLTR - https://imgur.com/a/Ph4RBNY PLTR again - https://imgur.com/a/5DcsBfM CLOV - https://imgur.com/a/dnmt0hJ PTON - https://imgur.com/a/6tgKCAa CCL - https://imgur.com/a/t5hmEBB This one will do it for you - https://imgur.com/a/1utdZhV Fun fact: I was the person on WSB with the most loss on PLTR in the early days. So much so that my flair was "🔮PALANTARD, can't stop, won't stop buying the top". I miss the good old days.
CCL is heading to $40 the divi is back and its combining CUk with CCL
CCL is heading to $40 rhe dividend is back
I call that a real PAINPAL in your ass BRO!!! next time choose growth stocks like $TER / $CELH / $CCL ( Safe bet) I see only one opportunity to recover your losses: You can do a risky recovery play on $OSS best regards ! ✌🏼
Is Carnival (CCL) gonna breakout today? Been hitting the $32.50 resistance level for weeks. Just crossed $33
If I have CCL leaps and it merges with CUK will my leaps still ride?
CCL and Cuk are consolidating
My CCL and NCLH leaps are up 80%. Buying $130 Hood leaps
CCL been good to me too!
ha i used to work at CCL and bought a boat load of shares during Covid. my 1600 CCL shares are up 61% and 113 RCL shares are up a staggering 382%
If 2A people support this, it’s absolutely pathetic. I also have a CCL btw
Man they fucking nickel and dime everything these days. Fun fact if you own 100 shares of CCL you get free onboard credit but you have to apply 2-3 weeks before your trip
Yeah, I wish. I bought like 25 shares of CCL as a rather new investor with RH. Sold day of ipo at like 80% of its high, then got banned from ipo participation for 30 days. The money was worth it.
Once my prohibition period was finished on RH from flipping CCL, I invested in GLXY and wanted to hold for longer term…..sold most for little to no gain. My remaining shares are with Kraken and are on loan.
The two that got me early were NAT and CCL. I learned quickly that he's a moron and learned how to evaluate companies and read financials. But, that was my biggest early mistake.
CCL was up 22.5% in 2025 and still has room to run in 2026. If you bought in April you were up 85% btw.
I got 80% gains in CCL, roughly the same in WMT, 42% with NVDA, and 50% in just two weeks with Intel. I also got market gains since I primarily invest in the SP500. Solid trades this year!
NCLH has been my best performing stock for the over the past week even more than CCL
CCL) has just reinstated its dividend, announcing on December 19, 2025, that it's resuming payments after suspending them in 2020, following record financial results and improved leverage, signaling strong confidence in its future. The initial dividend payments for 2025 (Q1 & Q2) were already announced earlier in the year, but this latest news confirms the long-term return of shareholder payouts after years of focusing on financial recovery.
$CCL earnings still not out, its getting late, this doesn't look good for my calls.
CCL breaking $30 tomorrow
I'm doing the following. I've had about a 65% win rate so far with earning plays but all of these can bust tomorrow so..... nke calls - I sold my god damn $70c strike ones this morning and bought $68c in their place. IV is pretty high but I wasn't gonna make anything on those $70cs. Honestly I should have not bought back in. This looks like a lotto play. KBH - $60p - Lennar and Toll both dumped so the smaller fry KBH probably will not perform as well with margins and housing growth. BB - $4.50c lottos. no other reason than nostalgia and some heavy OI CCL - $29c this is also a lotto play for me. The other cruise stocks did not fair well So basically all of these are lottos
Closed today shortly after open: MU calls, KMX Puts Opened today: Calls: NKE CCL
Best ER to gamble on this week? MU? NKE? FDX? CCL?
JPMORGAN said the sell off was panic driven and strong bookings and pricing dont match the drop. CCL hinted at starting the dividend up again next year.
Keeping two nuts is your goal? Rebound in tech with Goog, AWS, and possibly META because they seem to have some volume at 666.47 but Google Glass announcements and AI Apple Sauce Execs, I'll watch. Maybe rotation into UAL, AGLT, DAL, CCL, IWM. Although, maybe Trump opening the NVDIA H200 chips to China frees recipicle tarrifs. Other chips could buy, but the PLA dug in their heels.
I'm on CCL's new Celebration Key with 2 boats full of people throwing cash all over the place, could hardly even get in the casino last night it was so packed. Long CCL.
Just bought a bunch cause no one knows 😂 What an opportunity check out CCL
Hopefully watch my CCL calls continue to print
NCLH followed CCL and RCL and puts were pretty cheap!
No reason for it not to be honestly. Problem is NCLH (and CCL but I don't trade them out of spite of that company) are drug whichever way RCL is going. My long term target for RCL is around 460. I loaded with RCL when they tanked in 2020 at 19.90 a share.
They're literally the only companies that operate with net cash on hand vs the traditional in debt we trust. RCL does anyways. They were shut down for almost an entire year and survived. No big brother handout. Against all odds. Everything. If that doesn't prove that they are among the most resilient business, then nothing will prove it to you. I am a hardcore bull on RCL. NCLH and CCL not so much because they love to dilute their shareholders. Fun fact, you're just as likely to catch norovirus from a flight as you are a cruise.
Anyone else bought Puts on CCL with me last week. They are cooking today!
Probably buy more CCL calls for earnings. MGM and Casear's shit the bed, boomers need somewhere to gamble their retirement away still. And I went on one recently, they've got their shit together. Way better offers than Vegas has sent me in like two years.
Anyone buying CCL, RCL puts? I just came back from an island near Venezuela and I think some military action is gonna happen soon
Been profitable. CCL just baaaaarely propping up my port today, but it's doing it.
CCL. MGM and Caesar's earnings calls were bad, Vegas is low value and they still sound tone deaf on that, boomers still need somewhere to blow their retirement other than on health care and a third house.
The green in my port today being held up solely by CCL Thank god the boomers still have money to go gamble on ships
CCL. MGM and Caesar’s earnings calls weren’t great, they still sound tone deaf to the real problems, boomers need somewhere to gamble away their kids and grandkids non inheritances
I track single stock momentum from the top 50 of the S&P. Any time any of these tickers have a down day or two I buy because they always mean revert. CCL is #19 on my list.
Ignore the debt and $CCL is lookin spicy lol
Must of been such poor timing to be down on CCL calls
Any chance the rate cut pump could save my January CCL calls
NCLH has paid me handsomly. Before this recent selloff. Been out of it since. If it touches around about 20, it would be a decent buying opportunity. Assuming that support region doesn't tank. And remember, whatever RCL does, CCL and NCLH tend to follow.
SCHD is likely to hold up better than the market if it tanks because I think that it has a 10% exposure to tech versus 35% in the S&P 500. I highly doubt that you can put on a 2 year collar at 90%/130% with a net cost of less than 1%. Apart from the width disparity, dividends increase the cost of puts relative to calls. Having retired young, my goal is different than most here. After years of aggressive growth, my focus changed to keeping my money and having some potential for growth. rather than full exposure to growth. That's means hedging. My game is keeping my nest egg so I'm willing to leave both tails to others. They can have the big gains and the big losses. I'll accept more modest gains with no killer losses (see 1987, 200, 2008, 2020). Every few years after large market increases (or when there's adverse market news), I buy IWM or SPY put LEAP spreads 10% OTM and 10% wide with a cost of about 1.5% of the proceeds being hedged. Because I'm comfortable shorting equities, 10% OTM gives me modest protection and between the two, I can offset a decent amount of portfolio loss. With a normal cooperative market during the year, I cover and re-sell the short puts and/or roll the long leg down, lowering the cost of the position of to a net outlay of half a percent or better. If the market is higher after 6-9 months or time decay has eroded the short puts, I close them, ending up with long protective puts which then provide full protection below their strike price. How effective they are depends on the index's current price. If the long puts have any decent salvage value, sometimes I roll them out to the next hedge to avoid the increased theta decay during the last few months before expiration. In 2020, I had a lot of leftover long March SPY puts worth 15 cents two weeks before expiration. When the market tanked due to Covid, I rolled, selling them for $15 to $21. I rolled them down 2-3 more times that month. Between these leftover puts and individual position hedges, I was down less than 10% when the market dropped 35%. Reasonably easy to recover from. And this was despite owning several 1,000 share positions in large caps that lost more than 50% during the drop (CCL, DOW). This year, the tariff talk troubled me. In early February, I bought Sep '25 and Jan '26 IWM $210 puts outright and I rolled them down 3 times to $175, putting a nice gain in my pocket. The Jan $175-s are highly likely to expire worthless but I booked a nice gain from the process. Personally, I wouldn't do a 2+ year collar. Yes, the cost per day is less than 1+ years but if the market rises, they become ineffective. Let's assume (a guess) that a 2027 10%/30% is 2/3 the cost of 2028. If the market drops, your collar does what it's supposed to do. If VTI rises nicely, you can deploy that 1/3 cost savings into a collar at higher strikes, establishing more effective protection. Another advantage of the 1= year collar is that later in the cycle, it will be easier to roll the short call up and out for a credit, avoiding assignment and a taxable event. A 2+ year collar will retain much more time value and rolling will be more costly. If you don't understand some of this, ask for clarification.
SCHD is likely to hold up better than the market if it tanks because I think that it has a 10% exposure to tech versus 35% in the S&P 500. I highly doubt that you can put on a 2 year collar at 90%/130% with a net cost of less than 1%. Apart from the width disparity, dividends increase the cost of puts relative to calls. Having retired young, my goal is different than most here. After years of aggressive growth, my focus changed to keeping my money and having some potential for growth. rather than full exposure to growth. That's means hedging. My game is keeping my nest egg so I'm willing to leave both tails to others. They can have the big gains and the big losses. I'll accept more modest gains with no killer losses (see 1987, 200, 2008, 2020). Every few years after large market increases (or when there's adverse market news), I buy IWM or SPY put LEAP spreads 10% OTM and 10% wide with a cost of about 1.5% of the proceeds being hedged. Because I'm comfortable shorting equities, 10% OTM gives me modest protection and between the two, I can offset a decent amount of portfolio loss. With a normal cooperative market during the year, I cover and re-sell the short puts and/or roll the long leg down, lowering the cost of the position of to a net outlay of half a percent or better. If the market is higher after 6-9 months or time decay has eroded the short puts, I close them, ending up with long protective puts which then provide full protection below their strike price. How effective they are depends on the index's current price. If the long puts have any decent salvage value, sometimes I roll them out to the next hedge to avoid the increased theta decay during the last few months before expiration. In 2020, I had a lot of leftover long March SPY puts worth 15 cents two weeks before expiration. When the market tanked due to Covid, I rolled, selling them for $15 to $21. I rolled them down 2-3 more times that month. Between these leftover puts and individual position hedges, I was down less than 10% when the market dropped 35%. Reasonably easy to recover from. And this was despite owning several 1,000 share positions in large caps that lost more than 50% during the drop (CCL, DOW). This year, the tariff talk troubled me. In early February, I bought Sep '25 and Jan '26 IWM $210 puts outright and I rolled them down 3 times to $175, putting a nice gain in my pocket. The Jan $175-s are highly likely to expire worthless, but I booked a nice gain from the process. Personally, I wouldn't do a 2+ year collar. Yes, the cost per day is less than 1+ years but if the market rises, they become ineffective. Let's assume (a guess) that a 2027 10%/30% is 2/3 the cost of 2028. If the market drops, your collar does what it's supposed to do. If VTI rises nicely, you can deploy that 1/3 cost savings into a collar at higher strikes, establishing more effective protection. Another advantage of the 1= year collar is that later in the cycle, it will be easier to roll the short call up and out for a credit, avoiding assignment and a taxable event. A 2+ year collar will retain much more time value and rolling will be more costly. If you don't understand some of this, ask for clarification.
$CCL is FINALLY breaking out of the undeserved downtrend and flying up (I’ve said this several times over the past couple weeks but this time it’s real trust)
CCL @ 5.7%, and still happy with it.
Ah yes, the classic “it’ll expire worthless, what could possibly go wrong?” strategy. CCL saw your confidence and said “hold my beer.” I usually take the boring route and close around 50% profit before the market decides to humble me again. Expiration Fridays love drama.
Carnival Cruises $CCL iykyk. Fucking hate that thing
My CCL NCLH leaps are coming back to life
When I see an undervalued stock with high IV I just sell puts and roll them every week or two. For example, I had similar views on $CCL a few years ago and $INTC last year. Selling naked puts gives you leverage while collecting premium. And if you give yourself enough buffer (strike and/or free cash) you can easily survive short-term drops. But this is also predicated on your long-term conviction that the stock will ultimately recover. You also need to have a good feel for the right market price as you don't want to roll up and get whipsawed into a loss.
Your CCL call option worked out to +200% gain. Thank you. What guidance do you have if someone wants to learn how to evaluate stocks like you did for weekly expirations?
$CCL is finally reacting to the super bullish earnings report it seems
$CCL going up while the market is down, and going up 2 days in a row? Could be the reversal this thing needs
Trying to trade $CCL makes me want to rip my arms off why tf is this stock so regarded
Panic sold NVDA when it dropped in 2022. If I held onto the $20k I had when I sold it I would have been up $300k by now. In 2020 I originally bought RCL then I sold it and switched to CCL big mistake.
Thank you for your insights on this. From a consumer standpoint both companies offer similar but different experiences even though they operate similar ports and excursions. They definitely feel different when on board. Reviewing the numbers: By all indications (other than top line) RCL appears to be a better run company - if you see something different I am all ears. Top line revenue is a growth metric but it looks at a point in time, given that CCL is larger than RCL it’s not a surprise they have a higher revenue reported. In my thesis I look at change in revenue over the past 5 years RCL crushes CCL. 50% growth in revenue ($10.95B in 2019 vs $16.48B in 2024). CCL has around 20% growth, still respectable ($20B in 2019 vs $25.02B in 2024). In 2019 total cruise revenue was $53.3B over industry. This means at the time, CCL owned about 40% of the market. With RCL, they owned a combined 60% of the market. Fast forward to 2024 and the combined revenues of CCL and RCL are 41.5B vs $55.66B (total cruise revenue was virtually stagnate over the 5 years due to COVID travel), yet CCL was only able to grow revenues from $20B to $25B and control 44.9% of market - whereas RCL has increased revenues to $16.48B and improved their market share to 29.6% of market. Still less than CCL but based on their growth and projected growth they will eclipse CCL as top Cruise line in near future, and likely be able to do it with less passengers which creates higher demand and pricing ability and better overall efficiency. Further, as I noted CF, FCF, levered FCF, etc are all better for RCL - which adds to their attractiveness as an investment, despite the debt loads of both companies. Now, the risk is definitely in play because CCL could acquire an additional cruise line and bolster their financials. Especially with their focus on debt repayment. Also as I note above RCL is still a smaller line than CCL (about 70%) of the size. If current metrics are maintained for both companies my guess is RCL will be top cruise line on all valuation metrics sometime in early 2030s. CCLs moat is being chipped away at by RCL and smaller cruise lines. Their stock price, even with the higher valuation on a P/E basis is poised to continue to go higher. I do think both companies will see decent returns, you won’t go wrong with CCL, but overall I think opportunity is higher with RCL. Even during COVID this was true, and coming out of COVID CCL is still lagging RCL at the stock market level.
$CCL looking to break out?
It really depends what you want in a cruise. CCL offers the majority of their cruises off US ports based on what I can find available. CCL offers shorter cruises that target a younger audience. CCL cruises tend to be a cheaper option. CCL ships are smaller. CCL ships are older. I did not intend to show bias. CCL is a great option. I still think CCL from a brand standpoint is more in line with Pepsi. CCL is a widely-known brand, widely-accessible for everyone-type product. RCL is like coke, it’s a more polished, luxurious type product. Nothing wrong with either brand. With that said, RCL and CCL are in the same class, I just feel RCL is a peg or two ahead right now due to their current positioning. Even on valuation basis the higher premium is evident of that in the RCL stock. It doesn’t CCL can’t change that because they probably can, and will likely do so. But at this time it’s RCL for me. Despite higher revenues, net income was higher for RCL as well as FCF. Which indicates thinner margins for CCL.
157 days later. I will kindly disagree with you. RCL targets the family fun entertainment with late night options. CCL targets a younger crowd with a more party atmosphere. With that said, because of their demographic targets, CCL tends to offer shorter cruise options and for now smaller ships to cater to this younger crowd and also target mostly US based destinations. RCL is building a global based business with many cruises throughout the world. They have a mix of shorter and medium term cruises to cater to a wider audience. Their state rooms and ship sizes offer a massive range of clientele. Also note that RCL is also offering in the next several years exclusive destination/Resorts such as private resorts and new stops only accessible by RCL and brand family cruises. It will be years before CCL or NCL catch up. With that said, CCL does handle the higher volume of people, but in my opinion RCL offers better quality. MSC and NCL are also upping their game but tend to have smaller ships and more diverse port access. In comparing to other industries I’d liken RCL to Apple whereas CCL is Samsung. RCL is like Coke and CCL is Pepsi. RCL is DAL and CCL is like AAL. While each line has its loyal cruisers I think far and away RCL is better than CCL. This is evidenced today in their respective stock prices, so investors have the same sentiment. New large ships from RCL through at least 2036 plus new private destinations for RCL are the difference for me.
My plan was to have $CCL calls for earnings, sell for good profit after the best, then transition to $UUUU calls. Now of course $CCL is still being pinned down by MMs burning calls and $UUUU is flying without me
$CCL calls are hella cheap rn compared to where the price should be
$CCL looking like it might finally break resistance after being held down post record-breaking earnings
So MU beats earnings and my calls get fucked because it drops for several days. CCL beats earnings and tanks and stays down for several days and my calls are down significantly. TLRY beats earnings and they’re up 17% pre market. Wtf man
$CCL just broke the resistance that’s held it down for days
lessgo CCL of all things
NCL is a quarter of the size of CCL. I don't foresee them being able to build $30B worth of boats within the next 4 years.
Is It Time to Buy Calls on $CCL? CCL had strong earnings — record revenue, solid bookings, raised guidance — but the stock keeps dipping. Feels like profit-taking more than bad news. I think there’s solid support around $28–28.5. Might be a rebound setup — or just another fakeout. What do you think?
I bought CCL at $17 but only a 20 shares. Wish I would have put more into it. Still holding.
CCL is one of those plays that will guarantee gains, you just have to wait. Before 2020 they were at $50 I believe they can reach that value back. They always beat earnings, but somehow they always end up going flat or negative in the short term.
*CCL to the moon or to the Mariana Trench, no in-between.*
Great q. Covid was the obvious threat to these companies. RCL is far beyond recovery, is CCL that far behind? Methinks not
CCL is the largest holding in my portfolio. RCL was the real winner, +400% for me, ~1000% bottom to top, but CCL is next in my books. NCLH has not pulled out of the COVID debt pile like these companies have. Bonus tip - you get onboard credits for owning a certain amount of shares. Stroking it to CCL tonight.
I’d say delta vacation in general has been falling , CCL posted good earnings and dipped, Vale had crappy earnings and dipped harder
CCL is being held down fml
CCL finally starting to take off post earnijgs
Id be curious to know how much of CCL's ticket sales are financed with payday loans. I bet it is close to 50%