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Fuelman » 03 Jan 2026, 10:04 am » wrote: ↑

03 Jan 2026, 10:04 am

??? 
So you retired and then went back to work at the company that closed their doors?

I was talking about the 50K$ 401K I haad that went back to the orginal 12K I had invested in '08.
I have been rehired by three companies in my career.

I am out of work on the 8th. Go Back Monday and out on Thursday..  Unemployment claim will be filed on the 9th for the record. 
Sabbbatical is needed. I have to try and see Mom.

Good news is I am hearing the economoy might actually turn around..  Do I believe it?  Nope!
But AI needs SMR's
 
 
 

Fuelman » 03 Jan 2026, 10:04 am » wrote: ↑

03 Jan 2026, 10:04 am

??? 
So you retired and then went back to work at the company that closed their doors?

Johnny's not too bad when he's not high, which is about 10% of the time. 

JohnnyYou » 03 Jan 2026, 10:07 am » wrote: ↑

03 Jan 2026, 10:07 am

I was talking about the 50K$ 401K I haad that went back to the orginal 12K I had invested in '08.
I have been rehired by three companies in my career.

I am out of work on the 8th. Go Back Monday and out on Thursday..  Unemployment claim will be filed on the 9th for the record. 
Sabbbatical is needed. I have to try and see Mom.

Good news is I am hearing the economoy might actually turn around..  Do I believe it?  Nope!
But AI needs SMR's

An unplanned vacation could be the start of something better.

Go see Mom, she will appreciate it.
 

RebelGator » 03 Jan 2026, 10:07 am » wrote: ↑

03 Jan 2026, 10:07 am

Johnny's not too bad when he's not high, which is about 10% of the time.

He is a little different than the old 5 x 5, actually looking stuff up and challenging what he believes.
 

ROG62 » 02 Jan 2026, 11:56 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jan 2026, 11:56 pm

there are the haves and have nots...the way he incessantly whines, one must conclude he be of the latter...

Yeah....I see it that way too.

bad life choices equals bad results

Fuelman » 02 Jan 2026, 6:37 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jan 2026, 6:37 pm

That's a nice return!

It can disappear quickly though, you never know what Trump will say next.

I did better in 23' and 24'.

Wait till the moron you replied to learns of my returns in 2025.

I will say my first trade of 2026 is a flop so I am behind YTD 

LowIQTrash » 04 Jan 2026, 3:27 am » wrote: ↑

04 Jan 2026, 3:27 am

Wait till the moron you replied to learns of my returns in 2025.

I will say my first trade of 2026 is a flop so I am behind YTD

I wouldn't be surprised, a much larger risk should imply a much larger return.

My goal may happen sooner that expected, a solid 13% in 2026 will do it. 

Keep stacking up that win column!
 

Fuelman » 04 Jan 2026, 10:14 am » wrote: ↑

04 Jan 2026, 10:14 am

I wouldn't be surprised, a much larger risk should imply a much larger return.

My goal may happen sooner that expected, a solid 13% in 2026 will do it. 

Keep stacking up that win column!

You'll be lucky to break even if you hold stocks thru Dec 31st, '26
 

Fuelman » 04 Jan 2026, 10:14 am » wrote: ↑

04 Jan 2026, 10:14 am

I wouldn't be surprised, a much larger risk should imply a much larger return.

My goal may happen sooner that expected, a solid 13% in 2026 will do it. 

Keep stacking up that win column!
 

your ideas about time being linear came about by false conclusions manifested by context suggesting life is more than personal time adapting by heart beats forward now.

*31stArrival » 05 Jan 2026, 6:33 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2026, 6:33 am

your ideas about time being linear came about by false conclusions manifested by context suggesting life is more than personal time adapting by heart beats forward now.

It must be nice being the only person in the universe not living a lie.
 

LowIQTrash » 04 Jan 2026, 4:51 pm » wrote: ↑

04 Jan 2026, 4:51 pm

You'll be lucky to break even if you hold stocks thru Dec 31st, '26

The projections for 26' are all over the map, even one calling for a 5% GDP increase and S & P up 20%.

Breaking even is better than a negative number. We fall into that smaller 25% category of retired people who don't touch their retirement accounts for 5 years which is where we are now. It will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future. Time is on our side.

You may get your short opportunity this year,
just not as big as you wish! (Hopefully)
 

Fuelman » 05 Jan 2026, 10:55 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2026, 10:55 am

The projections for 26' are all over the map, even one calling for a 5% GDP increase and S & P up 20%.

Breaking even is better than a negative number. We fall into that smaller 25% category of retired people who don't touch their retirement accounts for 5 years which is where we are now. It will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future. Time is on our side.

You may get your short opportunity this year,
just not as big as you wish! (Hopefully)

I have the Nasdaq bottoming around 7600 - 8000 in 2029. 

And the kicker is the next bear market will last 3.5 - 4 years.

LowIQTrash » 06 Jan 2026, 4:09 pm » wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2026, 4:09 pm

I have the Nasdaq bottoming around 7600 - 8000 in 2029. 

And the kicker is the next bear market will last 3.5 - 4 years.

In the meantime, Santa showing up a bit late. Nice run the last two days.
 

LowIQTrash » 06 Jan 2026, 4:09 pm » wrote: ↑

06 Jan 2026, 4:09 pm

I have the Nasdaq bottoming around 7600 - 8000 in 2029. 

And the kicker is the next bear market will last 3.5 - 4 years.

Relative time theory is busted. Actual time alive never has been broken by genetic outcomes adapting in space as incoming specific great great grandchildren to each ancestral lineage, daily here.

Accountability by specific chromosomes living one ancestor at a time now.

What position in generation gaps of your specific ancestral lineage do you currently occupy since conception, not after birth.
a. 1 of 16 great great grandparents
b. 1 of 8 great grandparents
c. 1 of 4 grandparents
d. 1 of 2 parents
e. each great great grandchild arriving son or daughter to last 2 parenting generation gap.
f. just dying to stay in character defined after birth by rule of law.
g. hope, faith, charity are methods of absolute corruption where people agree to a philosophy "Time is money earned ignoring all one was since conception.".
h. Hell has same punishment as insanity practiced every generation gap forward socially living in the atmosphere now, doing the same thing over and over every generation forward each great great grandchild is nurtured after birth to represent previous 4 generation gap behavioral patterns cradle to grave.

8 hemispheres of intellectual reasonable doubt about how life evolves daily here historically recorded in history of how humans pretended now isn't eternity documented by every society still governing tomorrows this rotation now.

You chose who you rather had been since conceived after birth. What humanity continues to do, is on your state of mind because ancestrally speaking, you ignore being alive as eternally separated by your own heart beat daily here with your brain navigating time proportionately alive.

Trump does it also as eident since he was the author of "Art of the Deal" make believe now isn't eternity and your soul can live eternal life as someone governed tomorrows as President of the United States of Ancestors living artificial time relativity so far.

The absolute core Reverse Psychology is every ancestor daily alive agrees to disagree how genetic outcomes exist self evidently adapting in plain sight now. Live Evil. every character's soul saving humanity compromises away their actual time adapting in space for ideas life exceeds adapting in space now.

Hell of a circle of intellectual time logistics written throughout history.

I didn't invent this ****, but I am the second male to figure it out in the last 2,025 years.