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I Dad have been studying U.S. stocks for nearly 20 years. For beginners, I have summarized a few simple rules: 1. Price falls 5% → Hold 2. Price falls 15% → Buy 15% 3. Price falls 25% → Buy 25% 4. Price rises 5% → Continue holding 5. Price rises 15% → Continue holding 6. Price rises 25% → Sell 15% 7. Price rises 35% → Sell 25% 8. Price rises 45% → Sell 35% 9. Price rises 60% → Sell 45% 10. Price rises 100% → Sell everything Discipline + patience = stable long-term growth

AI-related borrowing is skyrocketing. US Dollar-denominated AI-related corporate bond issuance is up to $419 billion so far in 2026, the highest annual figure on record. This represents a +90% YoY increase from full-year 2025 and a +437% increase from full-year 2024. Year-to-date, Alphabet, $GOOGL, Amazon, $AMZN, Meta, $META, Microsoft, $MSFT, and Oracle, $ORCL, have issued a combined $157 billion in corporate bonds, accounting for 37% of the total. This is followed by investment-grade and high-yield data center and computing companies, which have raised $66 billion and $37 billion, respectively, and together account for ~25% of AI-related issuance. Other AI-linked corporate bonds have represented $159 billion, or 38%. The AI revolution is driving an unprecedented wave of corporate borrowing.

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Who is financing America’s growing national debt? If investors require higher yields, Washington pays more to borrow, and the effects ripple through global markets. #Investing #USDebt 👉 @technicitymag @gvalan @DrFerdowsi @junjudapi @mary_gambara

SpaceX said on Thursday that its stake in Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. netted the company an investment gain of $561 million during the third quarter. The gain accounted for more than half of SpaceX’s “other income” in the period and boosted its net income, which landed at just over $4 billion:

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You can pull $220,000 from Chase and Amex at 0% interest, put all $220,000 into high-yield Treasury and dividend ETFs, and borrow $175,000 against the portfolio at 4.8% on month 11 to pay the credit cards back to zero You end up holding a $220,000 investment portfolio bought entirely with the bank's money while the dividends pay the interest for you Wall Street hedge funds call this a carry trade, and anyone with a 720 credit score and an LLC can run it from a laptop Walk through the exact numbers step by step: Step 1: You have a 720+ personal credit score and an LLC. By sequencing applications across 5 banks (Amex, Chase, US Bank, Wells Fargo, and Citizens) in exact bureau order, you unlock $220,000 in 0% APR business credit for 12 to 18 months Step 2: Just from moving that $220,000 off the cards, you trigger 450,000+ sign-up and spend points across Chase Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards (worth $6,500 to $9,000 tax-free on day one) Step 3: You deposit the $220,000 into a brokerage account with portfolio margin or a Pledged Asset Line (Interactive Brokers or Schwab) and buy a split of short-term Treasury ETFs and covered-call dividend funds yielding 7.5% a year Step 4: For the first 12 months, your interest rate to Chase and Amex is 0.00%. Meanwhile that $220,000 portfolio pays you $16,500 in cash distributions over the year Between the $16,500 in yield and the $7,000 in credit card points, the banks just paid you $23,500 in year one to hold their money Step 5: On month 11, before the 0% promotional window expires, you tap the brokerage Pledged Asset Line for 75% to 80% of the portfolio ($175,000) at 4.8% interest, roll the remaining $45,000 onto a fresh 18-month 0% card, and wire the payoff straight to Chase and Amex Now look at your position on month 12: - All $220,000 of your original business credit cards sit at a $0 balance, wide open to use again - You still hold the entire $220,000 portfolio compounding in your account - The $16,500 annual dividend yield from the $220,000 portfolio covers the $8,400 interest on the $175,000 brokerage line and leaves you $8,100 a year in surplus cash flow The reason 95% of people with a 720 score never get past step 1 is that if you apply to five banks randomly, the first two hard pulls land on Experian and banks #3 through #5 cap your limit at $8,000 or auto-decline you If you have a 700+ credit score and want my team to build and sequence your 150K-250K 0% funding stack from start to finish, book a call using the link in my bio

Warren Buffett: “90% of the people that buy stocks don't think of them the right way. They think about them as something they hope goes up next week.” “I think about what the company is going to be worth 10–20 years from now.”

“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” — Warren Buffett

Howard Marks:   “It's by doing the things other people think are nuts, that's how you make the big money…”

Howard Marks: “You should never buy into momentum, you should never buy something because it’s been going up... You should only buy it if you think it’s good value.”

“If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money.” — Ray Dalio

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” — Warren Buffett

“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” — Peter Lynch