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Kantmzk

Very valid point, tbh! I have at various points owned $V, $MO, $WM, and some others. Visa and Mastercard got hit hard by Covid, but I sometimes think about them. I am also considering a position in AAPL, which is technically consumer goods at this point rather than tech. I fully expect Apple to retake the #1 company throne in the next year or two.

DSessom

SBUX has floated between $92 and $93 for the past week. Very low volatility. This is NOT a target for day traders to short. We like a quick in/out with at least a 5% gain. If I risk $10k on a short, I want to get at least a $500 profit same day or next day. I can't speak for everyone, but that's my personal MO.

Speedhabit

Pot stocks never make money Inhaled intoxicant companies make shitloads of it That’s why Altria is the best dividend stock of all time (also in on British American and Philip morris MO, PM, BTI) You’ll never get a 10 bagger on pot stocks that are stewarded by your stoned uncle Louie. Im being facetious but I ran into one of these guys the other day, nothing pot related about him, 100% boiler room pump and dump scumbag. Best case one of the aforementioned 100 billion dollar companies buys the scrap but as the pot stocks have nothing to leverage for value, they won’t. Plus regular cigarettes are making are coming back

spartanburt

Who else likes to keep stuff like MCD, KO, amd MO in their HSA just for the sheer irony?

Background-Idea7240

A lot of these food and big pharma stocks are bargains and have excellent dividend yields, but you’re going to need patience. Couple of years ago i bought a boat load of MO and BTI which were in same position. They have appreciated nicely with great dividend on cost basis.

AverageNo130

The price is right for investment entry. Lean toward the bigger MSOs right now. Also MO to consider.

Ok_Tart1360

I think we all see the glaring difference between mango v1 and mango v2. He had guard rails the first time around, people pressuring him (and in some cases going behind his back) to keep things running smoothly. Powell was always a good choice, good credentials and background; for all we know, they selected him by a high stakes game of pin the tail on the donkey, with a bunch of names of qualified candidates taped to the donkey. Trump's MO this time around is to replace every top job possible with a lackey yes-man, whether they have any sort of experience or qualification, or not.

Opening_Swordfish_14

I suspect this is my Walmart in Shrewsbury, MO. It’s a quaint suburb just outside of St. Louis, MO. Of interest is that it is the closest Walmart to St. Louis city and draws a HUGE chunk of its business from outside of our suburb. They have closed all self-checkouts except for Walmart+ and Spark drivers. And the checkers they brought back are incredibly slow and rude (won’t get off cell phone to check you out - no, I am not kidding). The reason was theft, and was really related to placing bar code ‘stickers’ over actual bar codes. Instead of scanning as diapers, thieves would put a sticker on that scanned as a can of soup. Instead of scanning as a TV, an item would scan as a bag of chips. WM has hired an ongoing shift of local off-duty police to try and stem the tide. And our local paper is a constant stream of ‘a person got picked up at a business on ‘this’ block of Watson road for shoplifting.’ Service is just TERRIBLE (even by very-low WM standards. While it hurts our suburb’s tax revenue, our family drives to an additional 10 minutes to the WM two suburbs over. Barely better, but they do have self-check…. Signed, Sad in Shrewsbury

Current_Animator7546

Some of this is where you are. You can still do pretty well out here in the Midwest. It’s just you have a lot of people that won’t settle for a solid paycheck a fairly affordable house in a solid red state city. Sometimes in life you have to make trade offs. I moved from NJ to MO 7 years ago. Best decision I made 

fractious77

Those were warning shots, dummy. That's Iran's MO.

Tough_Winter_4100

Sin stocks are always good MO, BTI or PM. They all pay excellent dividends, why not make money while your friends smoke? 😉 Also people won't stop smoking or dipping as the global economy slows during this cycle of traumatic tariffs, deportations or pending WWIII.

Professional_Post382

What bears miss is that the only countries who would really want to support Iran lack the firepower to do it. China? No way, they don’t care about Iran, and having a war with the US is no bueno. Russia? They couldn’t even if they wanted to. India? Far more likely they’ll launch rockets at Iran just cuz. The EU? Neutrality is their MO for the time being, and they don’t want war with the US obv. Now, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon? Maybe, but they don’t have anywhere near the resources to fight the world.

Steel_BEAR69

Theres a warning on nicotine products too. I dont see MO, PM, BTI performing bad.

tob14232

Operation Midnight Hammer been my MO for years

Exciting-Emu-3324

That's Trump's MO. Obama made that nuclear deal with Iran? Bomb Iran. Biden's CHIPs act? Gone. Zelensky didn't produce dirt on Biden and resulted in his first impeachment? Stiff Ukraine. That moron who signed the USMCA deal? Threaten to annex Canada and tariffs. If a previous president worked on it, he must destroy it so he can put his name on the ashes, even if that president was himself. If he can't have the glory, then no one can. He would destroy the world just for the gall of trying to exist after him.

Shadowflashpatches2

Sold most of my stocks, so it’s speculation, also short SPY, HD, MGM, and others. Long XOM, CHRD, MO, NEM, VZ, PHYS, BRK/B and CEF

iom2222

It’s part of their MO and their PR!!

Butter_Ball22

she's gonna give you the best ride you've had in !banbet SEX 4.88776653323 MO

Ricco121

Trump says trade deal with Canada ‘Achievable’ Standard MO for Dump always says things might or can happen, but with him they never do and then blames everyone else for failure.

dimethylhyperspace

Idk why, but there was a stupid ridiculous amount of volume into Altria(MO) calls on Friday, ranging from 13dte to 580 dte.

Tough_Winter_4100

Sin stocks are always good MO, BTI or PM. They all pay excellent dividends, why not make money while your friends smoke? 😉 Also people won't stop smoking or dipping as the global economy slows during this traumatic tariff time.

elh0mbre

\> Rescheduling would have the federal government getting less money from cannabis companies though, right? They're not currently getting any directly and things like 280E provide advantages to unregulated market options. The couple billion the federal government would lose in 280E advantages would be easily offset by a small federal tax at current retail sales volume. If it expands the existing market (by additional access and/or rolling the unregulated markets in), it's a net win for everyone other than those selling intoxicating hemp and the legacy market. \> Doing this would also disproportionately hurt blue states. Not really. 1. A number of blue states have hemp bans 2. Some of the biggest cannabis states are red or purple (MI, MO, FL)

ZombieRickyB

Tobacco is recession proof. PM and MO are solid stocks to hold

Ythapa

Positive news with the forward flight news a month back, also wanted to get in early on a eVTOL stock in the early stages because I feel it's similar to the ASTS/RKLB/LUNR school of "early, possible burgeoning industry." Of course, JOBY is still way ahead in that game, but doesn't mean there can't be multiple players in the industry. Had huge reverse split concerns if they didn't reach compliance by ~July 14th (Hence why I didn't namedrop this stock because I hate leading people into shit), but wanted to gamble since management was confident they'd reach the $1.00 x 10 days bid compliance by then. Numbers were trending positive too for the last 2 weeks or so. If they reach compliance, I'm perfectly fine bagholding this stock long-term to see how things shake down. That and the Cavorite X7 design + proposed specs/reach feels like there'd be a good niche to carve out even if they're late to the game compared to ACHR/JOBY. But I'm odd in that I pick pennies that are "long-holds" in my eyes. Don't daytrade them, which isn't technically what you should do with pennies because so much goes wrong, but it's just my MO. Hit with RKLB/ASTS, have things in ASM/HOVR, and swung and missed on OMEX (sold too early before they had that one huge bump).

inverseyourmom

So yesterday there was no war, all peaceful shit going on and I saw this on spy chart, sometimes you need any news https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/84MO1c7TsW

Hot-Hurry3199

Not sure why MO is dropping. The thought of nuclear war just makes me smoke more.

weas71

Dividend stocks are okay when you have a ton of cash and the dividends paid can cover monthly bills. I don't have that - I have some MO (okay exposure to weed long term but ppl arent smoking anymore) and SGOV (dividends - bond not a stock though)

_Thermalflask

As opposed to the /stupidstonk cult subreddit you're part of, which is definitely not an echo chamber of nonsense? What happened to MO-ASS? This was supposed to reach literally hundreds of millions per share, 4 years ago. It doesn't quite look like it's there yet?

softboiledjadepotato

Well MO is primarily US based consumers, and PM is international..Something goes bad in the US and it underperforms PM.. I'm holding what I have, but it languishes significantly compared to my PM

andressilvamm

Any thougts on MO (altria group)?? I see good volume and a pretty hammer 🤔

Boys4Ever

Biden inherited Trump’s Covid supply chain causing inflation and Russia invading Ukraine adding to inflation which the Fed tamed because Biden didn’t interfere. Get the facts straight. First quarter all on Trump. Blaming Biden doesn’t change the facts. Including Russia invading Ukraine since Russia still bombing children and has known he was elected since first Wednesday in November. Blaming Biden got old long ago. Recession coming because of trump tariffs which once again he’s threatening which seems to be his thing on Thursday only to later chicken out. Either the man has dementia or playing games to benefit friends and family. That’s clever. That’s also corrupt just like his plane and crypto and pardon for money. Oh wait latter. Might just be everybody assuming. Although fits his MO. Curious on your thoughts of pardoning J6 who attacked officers and killed one and cause another to take their lives. Winning?

Lethalmouse1

If you do a good research balancing and time your dividends, you get great returns.  Everytime the market dips you have rotating money to grab high % divs based on false dips.  The last dip wasn't exactly a super free money machine to the same degree, but man... Covid, you knew EVERY stock was half price. You knew they were going back up. And you knew that you could borrow money at 6% while getting paid 10-15%  Bro... someone sold me sunoco for TWELVE FUCKING DOLLARS.  They sold XOM for... oh man my memory, 30 something?  They sold IRM for 20 something.  They sold MO for 20 something.  They sold ET for fucking $3 THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE DOLLARS.  Free money is always lurking.  But anyway, when the market dips so that everything goes down, 3-5% dividend stocks give you 6+% AND default growth.  Market is what? 10% avg. 6% you need 4 more. 4% growth, with some active trading of false depressions will easily get you another 5%.  That's 15 vs the 10, without even trying. And you can constantly adjust your portfolio. Due to broker switching.  And your "worst" case is usually that during a down market you get your 6% of your original money to buy more depressed stocks. 

Alive-In-Tuscon

Create a problem, fix the problem, but leave a backdoor for exploitation has been Trump's MO since he took office originally

wiltznucs

MO is the stock ticker for Altria. A company that operates in a number of businesses; but, most notably tobacco products (Marlboro, JUUL) and smokeless tobacco as well as having a significant stake in Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser/Stella. They are known as the King of Dividends. Having raised their dividend payout 59 times in the past 55 years. As a result; they have considerable institutional investment from companies like Vanguard, Schwab and Blackrock. So it acts like a stock with market price changes like any other company. At the same time; its dividend payout is so high that it often outperforms the bond market.

gentlegiant80

If I were to guess I’d say, “Bad news” since he’s scheduling the presser after normal trading has ended. Seems to be the MO with this administration but just a guess.

PoisonWaffle3

So investing in companies that have had huge drops (generally 70% or more) is my general MO, but it's more specific than that. I make sure that their financials are solid (very little debt, positive revenue, etc), and the ones I buy the most of are generally down because of over hyped news or drama (think META when Zuck wasted $10B on the Metaverse, but that's like a day's worth of revenue for them so it didn't actually matter, I 5x'd in a year). Could you rerun the data to exclude companies that were fairly obviously going to totally fail? Their quarterly financials should still be all available.

reaper527

> Can I ask which are the red ones? T, MO, AAPL, TKO, WBD

Fauster

It's worth noting that Apple, as a stock, has done really great since Jobs died. It hit 15 in 2011, now it is over 200. You can always count on their buybacks. I owned them for a long time under the if you buy it, own it, philosophy. But, right now its PE is really high considering anemic growth vs. other high-PE megacap alternatives and tariff headwinds. I have no doubt that it is a fine long-duration stock, but there's a ton of risk right now. Based on current Siri, I think their likely problems in making Siri smart could be avoided by making sanity checks part of her MO. "Do you really want to call [ex you haven't talked to in a decade]?" I loved their 500 Gb unified RAM $10k mac studios, but I didn't pull the trigger and now I can't buy one. I can easily see a future in which most macs can run Tb models locally and much more expensive PCs with NVDA (own) GPUs can't.

bender-b_rodriguez

Nope they'll enter the market just as the hype is dying out, that's their MO lately

Andy_parker

What's MO?

Emotional_Mud9557

I'm buying more MO

Vegetable-Pace7461

Old as fuck? Why does that matter? The due date for the applications to be submitted was September 2020, and the original deadline for an FDA decision was September 2021… almost 4 years late! CHUC is in the remaining 0.01% of 2020 PMTAs… which is a GOOD THING. Not sure why you imply it’s bad… are you aware of how long the FDA regulatory process takes? Did you know there are several tobacco flavored products CHUC submitted as well?? Considering Altria ($MO) was just ordered to remove their NJOY devices from the US market due to copyright infringement- yeah someone might actually want to pay hundreds of M’s- maybe B’s… It’s literally chump change to big tobacco- Please let me know if you have concerns- I’m happy to discuss further

wiltznucs

I’ve got a pretty simply strategy; I think of it as a slightly modified Boglehead. I’m 15 years from retirement and I still see value in dividends. It’s nice to see money coming in even in the lean/bear years. Bonds are too volatile for me. So I invest in MO instead. It’s not without volatility; but, it’s hard to argue with a company that pays out 7-8% and consistently raises its yield. I’ve been doing DRIP with MO for some time and have watched it steadily grow. So I try to do 60% VOO and 20% VT with the remainder in MO. Every now and again; I outperform the market too. Ignore the noise; keep throwing money in.

Talldrinkofwater123

Ignoring my husbands recommendations on PM, NVDA, Netflix, MO, …. I’m worth 3.7 mil. He doesn’t know it.

RandomRedditor5689

Exchange cutoff is 5:30pm. Brokers and IBs usually require traders give MO/support notice by 5pm to ensure all the “paperwork” is in order and approved.

Infinite-Truth-6381

For tobacco, your go to stocks will be British American Tobacco (BTI) and Altria Group (MO). These two have seen incredible returns the past year while paying out high dividends, but aside from that I can’t tell you much about them. Never really researched them. Gaming or AI your best bets are likely Nvidia and AMD. Neither are morally questionable, but each company covers both AI with their chip and GPU development, along with making processors and GPU for PCs. Nvidia and AMD won’t be protected during a recession, but pretty much nothing in the AI and gaming sectors will be safe.

theduderino38

Good play for exposure to the private licensed shops in MO and a big market in a very very red state ( outside of STL and KC of course) …. Thnx for sharing! All my dry powder is going to CoMo Mizzou and divi stocks for now…

manualCAD

Completely missed Vireo Growth bought Proper Brands in MO. Proper is a close second to Good Day Farm in the state. Maybe this leads to more buyouts of the various private companies in MO.... Proper's products are typically on the higher end side, but I haven't bought them in a while after I had some cart clogging issues with some of their live resin vapes. Starting a (small) position in VREOF based on this.

DeerComprehensive909

Individual stock (not fund): MO

ongoldenwaves

I picked up some during the pandemic, but it doesn't move much. Fairly range bound between 60-70. I think people just like it because of Buffett. CAT and PM have been much better dividend stocks to own these years. PM is surprising me. You really had to stop listening to this sub which constantly recommended MO over PM though because MO had higher dividends. KO has moved up about 20% since the pandemic crash. PM and CAT have at least gone up 100% in the same time period.

imrightbro

It’s possible, 🥭 tweets were pretty normal mirrored previous tweets like after bannon was fired “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.” It’s possible 🥭 was doing his usual MO and Elon took it the wrong way.

aihes

Wait for MO tomorrow

overitallofittoo

$MO. 6.88% dividend yield

Vegetable-Pace7461

Rarely- but I am speculating that $CHUC could be one soon. $CHUC’s nicotine products are in the remaining 0.01% of PMTAs filed with the FDA- They recently sold 15 of their 600+ pending applications for an about $450k/application to RJ Reynolds… (Big Tobacco) Our current market cap is ~$27MM, but our PMTA holdings alone could be worth $250MM+ as is… Consider for yourself- but I am in big with over 200,000 shares currently. Oh- Altria ($MO) was just ordered to remove all NJOY devices from the US market at the end of March 2025 due to copyright infringement… they are now lacking an e-cig device in their portfolio!

travino0_4

That's the MO for everything they do. Blame, blame, blame, and blame again. They can't do anything positive because they're all profit mongering, homophobic, racists. The only thing they will do positive is put more money in the hands if the rich and that's only a positive thing for 1% of Americans.

HistoricalGate0104

**1. XRX, 2. EPD, 3. MO, 4. SPG — and the fifth is one of my favorites: O.**

EndersScroll

He did the same thing with healthcare. It's his MO and the fact that his supporters continue to buy into it and think this guy knows more about everything than any other person is just sad. I'd feel so sorry for these people if a good swathe of them weren't deplorable.

Straight_Individual3

puts at MO

hughheffres

MO Calls

billy8008135

woke up from a 2 hr nap with like a brain hemorrhaging headache. made my self a poco loco: one part club soda one part shitty red wine over ice, had a cigarette IM BACK BABY RDY 4 CIRCUIT BREAKER 2MO

Kooky-Natural1480

I get your concern. I've ended up with a mix of: bonds & fixed income (various, inc. global unhedged) short term treasuries (SGOV) growth equities (cybersecurity, battery tech, others) commodities (PDBC, DBA, IAU) currency exposure (FXY, FXF, FXA) divident & income stocks (SCHD, MO, others)

Karaoke_Singer

His MO… say something enough times and his minions and sometimes independents will start to believe it.

dufusmembrane

when MO take over weed business

NombreCurioso1337

Not long. Mid. But yes. I had puts going into June (from March), thinking the trade wars and "sell in May and go away" was a double sure thing. Then the market went irrational exuberant, so I thought "sure, double straddle, if it goes up more before a crater I can play the wild swings along the way, or at least break even if it goes too high and wipes my puts." ... Then it settled into steady sideways, as if it's all calm and good and nothing is smoldering just beneath the surface. ...fml, what the heck. I'm going back to cigarettes and booze. MO is my best performer, right now! (And I hate them)

davidshankle

To be fair Barry Bannister is respected, but also notoriously bearish. I don't disagree with him, but I don't think his bearish take will get most people's attention. Kinda his MO.

Reasonable_Handle291

The debt default actually has me a little unnerved. Ranted in past posts that 🥭s MO has just been failing up his whole life via bankruptcy. Really can't put it past him trying to do that with US debt. 😬

PinheadtheCenobite

You mean like the 5 steel mills that were started in the past 36 months? Sedalia, MO Frostproof, FL Tempe, AZ Lexington, KY Martinsburg, WV You mean like those?

zSprawl

His MO so far has been to announce the threat on Friday and then renege on Monday. This timing dance is likely so his friends in the know can time the market, however, everyone is catching on, hence the TACO quips.

Kalos139

It’s weird that his followers don’t mind the fact he always conflates himself with the US. His MO is always [an attack on me is an attack on the US] or [hating Trump is hating America]. That’s some serious egomania.

2AMTrader

Its his MO, of course he will. Will it matter though? crying wolf again?

2AMTrader

He will, its his MO, its all talk. Its for the gram bro. hes doesnt hold the cards.

MarketCrache

Talk of TACO is all very amusing but I think it actually misses Trump's MO. He walks into the room, throws a grenade, and after it's exploded, he starts his negotiation. His opening salvo is always designed to off-balance the opposition. When he reduces the tariffs from 140% to 30%, people wipe their brows in relief, making them grateful for only(!) a 30% jump.

shugo7

That's one hell of a crush if I've seen one. OP gonna be extremely disappointed at MO lol

Reasonable_Handle291

Nope. Wallstreet fucked that up when they mocked their Master's MO and didn't think he'd figure out what TACO meant. 🥭 has a lifetime of elites mocking him and as with ebrythinf else will go full Illegal Unconstitutional Mode to make them pay for his ego. Wallstreet is fucked.

Reasonable_Handle291

Wallstreet formed a whole trade strategy around 🥭s MO but didn't think he would find out the title? ... 

Pristine_Job_7677

I know someone who was at Twitter when Elon took over. He surrounds himself with very young (22-25 yo and all white his male dude bros). sycophants who parrot everything he says and are vastly under qualified for their positions. Little by little, the qualified started leaving- from C suite execs to ground level engineers. Eventually X will be “Idiocracy- The Company. “ I imagine that’s been happening at Tesla. And as working there becomes more of splotch on the resume versus a plus, it will escalate. Unless he releases the reins to grown ups, I wouldn’t invest in anything he touches, especially since Trump will get bored of him, cut him loose, and blame him for whatever occurs, as is his MO.

Stonks4sport

I remember when Kamala went yapping about legalizing MJ 5 years ago. I through a decent amount of my portfolio in MJ, never to be seen again. It’s not happening and by the time it does, you would’ve bled too much to matter. Buy a stock like MO. It’ll benefit from MJ legalization and print money on Cigs in the meantime.

megladaniel

His MO is literally: Mafia boss

ferwhatbud

I mean, yeah. that’s going to be our MO for the foreseeable future. Fly down to Washington to make nice with Trump and be friendly, then give a heavily Canadian coded report to the Canadian press about how it went (eg “it was like sitting by the lake in northern Ontario in June”), while signing oil deals with Asia and défense compacts with Europe.

DipSniper69

MO!! The Nasdaq took my adderall again!emote:t5\_2th52:27421

AlpsSad1364

100%. It's all hype and no trousers. Tech MO has always been to throw money at something until a business model emerges and they can cash out. It's not going to work in this case because the product is only marginally more useful and orders of magnitude more expensive.

DrShitpostMDJDPhDMBA

Fuck that, I've been riding $MO ever since Gen Z teens started vaping hard enough to give themselves popcorn lungs and having nicotine pouches for breakfast.

cranky_wellies

Bessent led the team under Soros that collapsed the British pound. He’s a sociopath billionaire who knows exactly how the economy and markets work, so he is entirely aware of the destructive nature of everything the 🍊 regime is doing. That being said, he probably has lots of buddies that are heavily leveraged in the US economy not completely collapsing, so he’s probably toeing the line between appeasing 🍊 and doing the right thing. At the end of the day, I think he’s probably just looking out for a huge payout from being in the regime. 🍊’s treasury secretary from his first term got a handsome payout from the Saudis. That’s the MO for everyone in the regime I think; they’re just looking out for themselves and their cronies getting immense amounts of power and money, the entire rest of the country/world be damned.

Icy_Cat1350

70,000 jobs? No way. In a week he will be claiming it will create 85,000 jobs, and then later 100,000 jobs. This is his MO. All BS.

Reasonable_Handle291

EU needs to bring multiple hammers starting 8:30am ET Tuesday and collude with other markets to steadily drop them throughout the week/weeks/months if they want this madness to end. Otherwise everyone will pay more and more overprice because 🥭, as is his entire business MO, will keep the RPMs redlined until the engine blows and has absolutely no plan how to fix it.

UnderstandingSea4745

For starters, this is an etf, so it has constituents we can review. Here are the companies. These companies would probably have lower profits in heavy recessions. If we don’t have a bad recession they will price gouge and make high profits. I don’t think you’re stupid but your critical thinning or thought process is lacking Costco Wholesale Corp (COST): 10.52% Walmart Inc (WMT): 9.69% Procter & Gamble Co (PG): 9.01% Coca-Cola Co (KO): 6.41% Philip Morris International Inc (PM): 6.34% Altria Group Inc (MO): 4.50% Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ): 4.42% Colgate-Palmolive Co (CL): 4.39% PepsiCo Inc (PEP): 4.15% Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB): 2.83 I guess I am just looking for substance in discussions which isn’t common today. Im not great at discussing vibes but you guys carry on I guess. Cool.

MarketCrache

This is Trump's MO. He comes into the room, throws a verbal hand grenade on the table. Walks out, comes back in and starts negotiating.

noplanman_srslynone

44 GenX here. I pulled my 401k to international and bonds in December with only 5% US. Pulled out before "liberation day to a Money Market. 1% on a quarter isn't much but the economic anarchy I'm seeing is worth the wait. I'll DCA in month by month starting August depending on conditions. I also have 6 figures i actively play with. 20% gold for a good while now, 30% dumped to UNH AT 255-280, some in MO etc. As a value store instead of SGOV I use IGOV which are non-usd-hedged international bonds. I think the administration's stated goal is dollar devaluation so I found little places to gain based on that. I don't think we are even close to through the worst of this but I have been known to be wrong. My guess is August lows and then some rocky Sept / October to end the year down overall but 5-10% not 50. Depends on inflation/ stagflation and bonds. We are also actively killing world economies right now, Japan, EU, Canada, Mexico ... you name it we are harming it with this nonsense.

Many_Application3112

Why is anyone surprised by this? Trump's MO is to create chaos, then develop a solution to the chaos he created, then declare victory that no one could have solved this but him. And the markets react favorably to this. This is what he did in his first presidency and what he's doing now. All you can do is ride the VIX because that thing is just a money maker if you ride it right.

noplanman_srslynone

So be MO

Loud_Badger_3780

trump will just tell them how much of a bribe he needs to drop the tariff. This is classic MO and is why tariff were abandoned. Corruption runs rampant in governments that rely on large tariffs. It allows government officials to pick winners and losers in a free market.

manualCAD

THC beverages hitting Total Wine stores in MO. Wonder what the price points are and if they are competitive with standard cannabis drinks sold in licensed dispensaries...

arcticmischief

I live in Springfield, MO, a stone’s throw (two hours) from Walmart headquarters, and all of our stores are fresh and bright and renovated and clean and well-stocked. Walmart absolutely crushes Target here (8 Supercenters and 6 Neighborhood Markets within 15 miles to one Target), but I suspect our proximity to the Walmart Home Office plays a factor. (I believe a couple of our stores are also test stores for some of Walmart’s concepts—we were early to get the Pickup Towers during Covid and to move to the bullpen format where most registers are self-checkout machines.) But most of the Walmarts that I go to even in smaller towns all around the rest of Missouri as well as all throughout suburban Kansas City are all pretty similar. To see the old style discount stores, I have to go out to visit family in California, which is apparently too far for anyone from Walmart Corporate to bother doing a site visit. Those stores are pretty terrible – low ceilings, ugly floors, poorly stocked shelves, and some of them even have like 90% of the merchandise locked behind glass so that you have to press a button and wait 20 minutes for an associate to come get you your socks or your deodorant or whatever and then walk you up to the front with you to check out. I’ve never seen the same anywhere within a five-hour drive of Walmart HQ, even in some pretty iffy sections of cities.

mercersux

I mean are you looking to just leave it be and not touch it in 20-40 years? If so just start picking up BTI,PM,MO. Not saying I don't think they're a bit pricey at the moment ( they are, especially PM) but these companies are cash cows and you could either drop or just use the div to go into other more stable ETFs like an SCHD.

The_Milkman

If you give a man a beer, he's going to want to smoke a cigarette, and there are none better than $MO.

dame_las_nalgas

That's the MO. This sub should be renamed yolo fomo bagholders.

donorcycle

What is nutty is back in that time, I stopped talking in Weedstocks. I've warned people about a lot of the bigger companies and along with the individuals. I've been in the space for over the past decade, in LA, as either owner/operator or consultant. I've done MO, IL, NM and worked with a senator in NE regarding legislature wanting to be introduced for vote. Anytime I warned anybody about a company, brand or individual, I'd get told I am just jealous I didn't get in earlier. That or I'd be told I don't know shit and the guy sitting at home in a non-legal state reading decks or surfing Reddit knew more. The issue won't change. It's just like any other business. Goal is to get it to a place where they can trade it publicly. Rarely do you meet someone who is passionate about the industry and not just looking at it from a corporate perspective. It's why most of it doesn't work - cannabis isn't ready to be corporate yet. Not until it's federally legal. So owner / operators still run around spending money like it's 2016. They refuse to change / adapt and you know it's bad when the "big boys" are clawing at whatever scraps they can get. Also the quality of flower in "more recently made legal states" is dumpster fire for the most part. Because these corporate fucks don't know how to grow. They're not "cannabis". They just pulled up with funding.

Mission-Elk5155

Yippon wants to “INVEST” into stock X “US STEEL”. 14B move basically to revitalize steel production. Coin flip is that trump agrees to this deal, which was previously denied by Biden in 2023 for national security concerns. If that the deal is accepted by Trump’s admin, US Steel will rocket. It’s a coin toss. Although Trump’s MO is securing foreign investment into the US. It makes him look good and continues the trend he’s been setting.

meltbox

I mean they never cared so why would they start now? It was never about austerity for anyone but the poorest groups. Handouts for the rich is the modern republican party’s MO.

Vlmlee

Every dip will be bought, sentiment is so bullish and premarket was just the usual 🐻 MO of spreading FUD