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Post by var » Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:03 pm

mathjak107 wrote:
Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:28 pm
That would be typical.....but so far futures down at least now and oil up ....I don’t hold these very long at all ......especially sdow that was down something like 22% today .....

Right now my one day a week of work is on hold so if I make a days pay I am happy
what kind of gain are you holding for these udow and uso?

how has your results been with uso?
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Post by mathjak107 » Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:35 am

i just bought uso again .... over all uso has made money but i only hold it a day or two .. i buy after a tumble and sell first pop
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:38 pm

Bought 250 shares xom at 41.70
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Post by amdda01 » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:41 pm

mathjak107 wrote:
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Bought 250 shares xom at 41.70
Assume you're looking for quick hit?
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:59 pm

i am trying
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Post by amdda01 » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:13 pm

mathjak107 wrote:
Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:59 pm
i am trying
Closed 41.25 after hours.

Whatcha gonna do?
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:38 pm

Hold for now
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Post by amdda01 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:32 am

MJ.

You're in the green now (41.755).
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Post by mathjak107 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:42 am

i added more this morning when it was down ..41.37 313 shares
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Post by amdda01 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:56 am

MJ,

You have mentioned previously that at some point, you have to sell gold + TLT - otherwise you end up riding it up and down endlessly.

With TLT close to all-time highs, are you looking to pocket profits - or let it ride?
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Post by mathjak107 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:10 pm

Right now I am sitting as is in these uncertain times and keeping the pp intact for now until we get some clarity .....it is perfect for times like this when things are so screwed up .....
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Post by mathjak107 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:34 am

sold xom , nice gain
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Post by amdda01 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:50 am

Good call - XOM blowin up.
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Post by mathjak107 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:04 am

not uso , but xom and cvx were pretty oversold
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Post by mathjak107 » Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:55 am

looking into berkshire class b for monday .....

i think up or down berkshire is situated to take advantage of things if they get worse and berkshire's poor choices have already taken its toll on the share price so it is down far more than say the s&p 500.... those billions can snatch up lots of companies if things get worse here so it is like a hedge .

this may be an example of a stock selling at a discount unlike most which are priced low because their business fell off.

this would be a longer hold as buying berkshire is really like buying a small mutual fund
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:50 pm

Bought Berkshire today
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Post by mathjak107 » Wed Apr 29, 2020 5:46 am

sold berkshire as it was far a head of the total market yesterday morning ... rebought ivv which seems to be way a head of brkb this morning ...
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Post by bedraggled » Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:49 pm

MJ,

I noted you clarified your portfolio values saying all 4 parts had 7 digits. Tech asked clarification and you confirmed that, yes, each part had 7 digits to the left of the decimal point.

If we channel Wayne's World-

Garth: No way!

Mathjack: Way, man!!!

Anyway.
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Post by mathjak107 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:06 am

oops , no i am up to 800k in each part ..i thought he meant in total was it 7 digits . .....

i could go 7 digits in each but i think with the fact so many are jumping in to tlt and gld at this point i wouldn't commit anymore unless we roll back .

in fact just the opposite i want to trim a bit back after a run up like this and me breaking new all time highs in net worth despite being retired and drawing 6 figures a year for more than 5 years now .

we closed out our real estate LLC months ago and sold the remaining holdings to an investor group .so i threw it in the pp as the safest bet .

the pp is the only model i have been running .... we can easily see a depression as well as see a very weak dollar and inflation ... it is really uncharted waters here . i have not even been trading gld and tlt ... it has been pretty much straight up so if anything i was migrating money over from the other model i ran on the dips in tlt and gld . the other model which while 25% equities , does not have the lift of the pp ....

it was easy to migrate over since i could use the 25% equity position as it was .

it is never a good sign when so many on forums are buying those assets and never owned them before ......that has always been a red flag .

i wouldnt sell out but i would cut it back a bit ... then every time one asset falls bring it back up to the level of the ones that didnt fall.

that is how i migrated the money over ...
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Post by mathjak107 » Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:45 am

trimmed back a bit to 600k in each ....
still a substaintial investment in each with huge moves in gld and tlt daily .

i would still let it go up to 7 figures in each but not at near record levels on each asset ... it isn't even like one tanked so you come out about the same overall ....everything is pretty much at highs .
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:56 am

haven't traded in while but recently had quiet a few trades in TLT .

picked up an extra couple of thousand dollars .. then rebought TLT ON THE DROP , SOLD IT BOUGHT IT AGAIN AND YESTERDAY sold it in the morning while it was up and rebought it later in the day when it was down .

also opened positions yesterday again in LTPZ , VTIP AND DBC.

tlt has provided crazy trading as it flip flops up and down . TLT YTD GAINS 27k


here the trades the last 30 days in tlt this month
10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU SOLD EX-DIV DATE 11/02/20RECORD DATE 11/03/20 ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) $256,078.17

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA 20512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$24,915.90

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$99,938.67



220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$99,938.67
10/22/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$471.51
10/22/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$86,816.79
10/21/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$50,137.13
10/20/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$14,971.80
10/20/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$100,103.20
10/09/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU SOLD ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) $69,958.22
10/09/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$69,642.00
10/08/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU SOLD ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) $99,951.92
10/07/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$99,375.00
10/06/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU SOLD ISHARES
TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) $99,583.17
10/05/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU SOLD ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) $100,324.78
10/05/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$99,931.25
10/05/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

10/05/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT ISHARES TR 20 YR TR BD ETF (TLT) (Cash) -$100,062.5
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:06 am

here are the dbc trades this month. also netted about 1800 ytd

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$1,999.49

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$24,997.98
10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$24,999.53
10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$25,018.40
10/28/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$25,011.48
10/05/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU SOLD INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) $155,294.30
10/02/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$2,987.76
10/02/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$9,091.23
10/01/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$5,987.77
10/01/2020 ROLLOVER IRA

220512916 YOU BOUGHT INVESCO DB COMMDY INDX TRCK FD UNIT (DBC) (Cash) -$10,002.50
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:07 am

new positions in ltpz yesterday


10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT PIMCO 15+ YEAR US TIPS INDEX FUND (LTPZ) (Cash) -$2,932.86

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT PIMCO 15+ YEAR US TIPS INDEX FUND (LTPZ) (Cash) -$24,913.25

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT PIMCO 15+ YEAR US TIPS INDEX FUND (LTPZ) (Cash) -$24,931.02

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT PIMCO 15+ YEAR US TIPS INDEX FUND (LTPZ) (Cash) -$24,960.93

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT PIMCO 15+ YEAR US TIPS INDEX FUND (LTPZ) (Cash) -$49,930.56
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:10 am

and bought vtip again yesterday

ytd up 353.00 but only owned it a few weeks before selling and rebuying on yesterdays dip



10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$962.83

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$24,981.74

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$24,984.55

10/29/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$24,989.48

10/28/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$24,968.31

10/08/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 IN LIEU OF FRX SHARE VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) $44.36

10/06/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU SOLD VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) $130,641.51

10/06/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 DIVIDEND RECEIVED VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) $602.60

10/06/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 REINVESTMENT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$602.60

10/02/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$4,667.16

10/01/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$5,985.92

10/01/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$9,995.11

09/30/2020 ROLLOVER IRA
220512916 YOU BOUGHT VANGUARD SHT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED S (VTIP) (Cash) -$9,9
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Re: mathjak's daytrading adventures

Post by mathjak107 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:15 am

overall it has been a pretty good year , gold has produced nice gains too .

gld , iau have had ytd 60k in realized gains and 11k still unrealized .

overall i show 186k in realized gains and 52k in gains still unrealized for a ytd date of 238k

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