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$QQQ $SPY $VTI $VTIP $DIA Don't buy the dip in the tech/AI trade, be patient. This has months of negative trend until any real correction occurs. Swinging is the way. There are plenty of great deals out there. Look at Energy, Defense, Logistics, Banks and Insurance. Slow and steady wins this race.

$DJT $SPY $DIA $VTIP $VTI The Iran war is about to kick off.. again: "Netanyahu promises Iran regime change: Can Israel topple Tehran government?" Brent will top $120, Diesel will approach $10 USD, and expect 10 years to start ticking up likely over 6%. Oil Tanker rates are far higher than brent crude suggests. A tanke pricewar between EU and China is underway. The bull parade is over, the reality of our increasingly perilous position should have everyone thinking defensively. What of Iran strikes static oil terminals and limits crude exports even further? What if they handicap Mid East diesel production? What if Iran attacks civilian infrastructure forcing Americas hand to deploy ground troops? The polite stage of this war has ended, it is now existential for Iran's survival to end this conflict quickly, on their terms. There will be blood and oil spilled. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/22/netanyahu-promises-iran-regime-change-can-israel-topple-tehran-government

$SPY $DIA $VTI $VTIP $VOO There are major signs a Global Downturn is underway: "Norway’s sovereign wealth fund reported a loss on its investments in the third quarter." "The downturn was driven by a decline in its fixed income investments, which the fund says were dented by rising interest rates. The fund has a current value of around $2.3 trillion." Trump's tariffs and needless war in Iran has at a minimum decimated the global economy over the next 5 to 10 years. There is no easy fix. The world's economy has rested on the backs of America's monetary policy which in reality was always a practice in forcing policy to match banking preferences. You could say, the world put it's financial eggs into one basket, they then placed that basket on top of a razor think ledge. So many systems from the "on demand economy" to "low interest lending" depend on near perfect conditions. Sure, it's been a good run, but it is not to be expected to be the norm. A change is coming. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/norges-bank-nbim-wealth-fund-q3-results.html

$SPY $DIA $QQQ $VTI $VTIP Be extremely fearful when companies create new financial vehicles and gimmicks to justify expenditure. Like in 2008: "Derivitives": Repackaged debt, rated, broken into tiers, the tiers evenly divided/weighted into packaged parcels of collateralized debt, those parcels of sub-prime debt (with a little 'A' sprinkled on) were sold in bundles at auction known as "mortgage-backed securities and "collateralized-debt obligations". What investors of these packages didn't realize, they weren't buying high-rated debt, they were buying packages of bad debt with more favorable ratings. Kinda like the circular nature of the AI trade is hiding the real debt cost. Depreciation. The moral of this story: The return prior to 2008 was not worth the risk associated with the profit made by packaging bad debt into "collateralized obligations". The whole premise is silly: profiting off bad debt. That isn't investing, that is loan-sharking. (I know, in my teens, I ran numbers)

$QQQ $TSLA $SPCX $VTI $VTIP You didn't get caught up in the frenzy did you? "Be fearful when others are greedy" How is a whole tech segment producing real negative gains, but floating an economy?

$SPY $DIA $VTI $VTIP "The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day" Pretty sure someone just got $STOCKTWITS https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/the-internet-is-having-a-very-bad-cybersecurity-day/

SEC Filing: The traditional space and launch business accounts for roughly 1.8% to 4.5% of SpaceX's overall valuation (valued around $30 billion to $80 billion out of a total roughly $1.75 trillion to $1.8 trillion market cap). The vast majority of the company's valuation is driven by Starlink (connectivity/broadband) and its integrated xAI/artificial intelligence division. • Space & Launch (Rockets, Falcon 9, Starship): ~1.8% – 4.5% ($30B – $80B), viewed as a capital-intensive infrastructure and transport transition layer. • Starlink (Satellite Broadband & Mobile): ~30% – 50%+ of core revenues and major value, backed by over 10 million global subscribers. • AI & Super Intelligence / xAI (Data Centers, Grok, & Cloud/Computing): A massive chunk of the post-merger valuation and growth narrative, rapidly rivaling or overtaking connectivity in quarterly contributions. Please, understand your investments before preaching about your investments. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm $SPCX $DIA $TSLA $VTIP $VTI

$SPCX $TSLA $DIA $VTIP $VTI "Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX" What could go wrong? "take your protein pills and may god's love be with you" It must be hard to keep "adjusting" the numbers across two companies, why not make it more efficient and just make the lie a lot simpler. Also, now Elon will have total control. We all know how ketamine makes people amazingly competent and stable decision makers. Seriously, I just don't get it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmlyl09xjke4o