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It’s “models and bottles” or “hookers and blow” - please don’t intermix these key phrases, homie...

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

$XSOE: The Wisdowm Tree Emerging Markets ex State Owned Enterprises ETF, very well priced, also you will be buying it an a relatively low price after the sell major sell of in Chinese tech, look it up on Morningstar, it has good long term track record, a strategy that makes sense, you can access it without a financial advisor, etc. If you have any other questions let me know. These are blue chip emerging market companies, companies like Mercado Libre (the amazon of Latin America), etc. and excludes state owned companies like an oil producer in Kazakshtan or a Coal mining company in south africa.

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good point, was being dramatic. do you think there is more room to run in energy? WTI at $80 with delta coming up? henry hub at $3.25 is investable, but then you have JKM at $15 (!!!) and it makes me think how much upside is left?

edit: was looking at wrong data source, HHI at $4.05. i was looking at LNG deals in summer 2019 when HH was at ~$2-2.50. is there more room to run here?

 

If I had cash to burn id snoop around town for small businesses that are owner run. These typically aren't very sophisticated and if they are surviving you'd probably would be able to increase the margin, you'll always find someone who's son/daughter doesn't want to take over. 

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what banks allow you to invest in single stocks after asking for approval?

 

hmm OP since I read again and you can't invest in $BTI or $MO I'm actually really interested in rolling up laundromats. I can get the first deal done with my own capital but if I successfully buy the first laundromat then I will probably look to raise some capital from family and friends to buy some more laundromats. the laundromat industry is truly a mom & pop industry, only 4% of laundromats are owned by owners who own 5+ stores. I see it as a good space for a consolidation play based on lack of capital chasing laundromats. it's kind of surprising to me that there are no laundromat consolidation plays considering the amount of PE activity in car wash/gas station/other types of similar businesses space. send me a PM and I'll share my Substack with you if you want to read my newsletter that I started for brand building/capital raising/sharing progress purposes. however if you don't have a lot of capital then something like an illiquid investment in laundromats might not be the smartest move compared to investing in some sort of index.

 

For anyone that has a mtg - thoughts on paying it off?

I owe $120k @ 3.375% (15yr)

Given small amount, even a refi doesn’t make sense bc closing costs would be greater than interest savings.

I know that mathematically keeping it outstanding and investing is the right answer, but there is something extremely compelling to me about owning a home free and clear

 

For anyone that has a mtg - thoughts on paying it off?

I owe $120k @ 3.375% (15yr)

Given small amount, even a refi doesn’t make sense bc closing costs would be greater than interest savings.

I know that mathematically keeping it outstanding and investing is the right answer, but there is something extremely compelling to me about owning a home free and clear

 
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For anyone that has a mtg - thoughts on paying it off?

I owe $120k @ 3.375% (15yr)

Given small amount, even a refi doesn't make sense bc closing costs would be greater than interest savings.

I know that mathematically keeping it outstanding and investing is the right answer, but there is something extremely compelling to me about owning a home free and clear

No price on peace of mind my friend.

 

there is mentally, but damn a 15-yr at 3%+? When was that?

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there are quite a few companies that are not overvalued currently. in general, you're correct, total market is overvalued, but there are companies with below 20-30 P/E and high growth perspectives. if you can invest in individual companies, I would recommend that. if not, then go search for real estate selling on auctions or just on the market - there are some foreclosures going on right now, so you could find a decent deal, even though in general, as you said, the real estate market is also overvalued right now, but some properties go for reasonable price, just need to do some searching.

 

any particular funds/indices that you like?

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Not sure about specific funds. My advice would be to diversify as much as possible, especially when it comes to EMs / frontier markets. I think EMs on aggregate will deliver very good relative returns over the next few decades, but there is a lot of idiosyncratic risk in each individual country, so diversification is your friend. I put most of my excess money into VT just so I have exposure to everything, but I like VXUS and VWO.

 
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My ideas/where I'm putting my money:

International (both EM/Developed)

 I think valuations are pretty stretched in the US and I'm not 100% confident in how strong we'll be politically continuing forward. The later is certainly speculative/a matter of opinion, but I think there has to be some reversion to the mean. If you look historically, it's true the US has outperformed international markets, but they also appear to have alternating periods of dominance. Given what a crazy bull run we've had for over a decade, I think there'll be some reversion to the mean. My ticker pick is $VT. Simple, contains the entire world market, including EM exposure. If you don't want any US exposure, $VXUS is my pick since $VT still includes a lot of US. I picked $VT personally because it's more diversified.

Financials

If you think rates will rise to curb inflation, financials would benefit from the rate increase, especially lender-heavy banks. I'm personally sticking with ETFs ($VFH), per usual, but I do own a small stake in $JPM and am wheeling options on $BAC. It could make sense, based on my thesis, to go with smaller banks that are primarily commercial banks like an M&T bank corp. Don't take my word for those though as I personally am mainly in mega-cap stocks and haven't researched them enough.

Oil & Gas

Bring on the monkey shit. I don't want to turn this into an inevitable climate change debate, especially since I actually do think investment in renwals is important socially long-term. That said, I think there's a lot of people jumping onto the EV bandwagon and abandoning oil, which means there's going to be a shortage of oil, which is already a positive catalyst for companies that are disciplined allocators of capital/have a clean balance sheet. On top of that, and this is where people are going to disagree with me, I don't think green tech alone will fully satisfy global energy consumption requirements, especially as the rest of the world gets richer/demands more. As such, we will still need oil/gas to power a large amount of our energy consumption for the forseeable future IMO but are underinvesting in it currently. This will lead to a glut down the road and oil stocks will do well, especially since they've now learned to be profitable on lower oil prices. My picks are $EOG, $PXD, $CVX.

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I don't fucking know and nobody here does either, despite what they may claim. Just buy either $VTI, $VOO, or $VT and dollar cost average in because they'll definitely be higher in 20-30 years when you retire.

 

When do you think this dip will happen? Not trying to be smart or argue or anything. Actually curious about this and what the hell to do. I'm throwing a bunch of my pay right into my 401k now too and can't help but feel I'm being fucked by these older guys telling me to invest now who have already enjoyed the market for so long and will leave our generation with shit moving forward.

 

I have no idea. I stay fully invested in 401k and roth all the time and pile up cash to be opportunistic. It's time in the market, not timing the market

also, your 401k is investment, if you can max that plus a backdoor roth plus a mega backdoor roth plus a HSA and still got some scratch left as a youngin, then yeah invest but I always recommend maxing out tax deferred/tax free first (beyond emergency funds of course)

 

Go on youtube and watch David Ramsey. Pay off debts, save an emergency fund, invest in high yielding mutual funds. Then Dave will tell you to go get a 2nd job and 3rd job, then don't buy anything, hand wash your cloths in your sink, save every penny eating beans and rice and rice and beans...and youll be a millionaire in no time..

you're welcome

 

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