Carney thanks Trump for his leadership Commits to maximizing oil and diesel exports to the US. Looks like he’s seen how the jobs numbers are going and is pivoting back to the US. $SPY$USO$VDY
Today, I’m taking a moment to appreciate how far God has brought me. This car means a lot to me because I know the work, patience, and sacrifices that go into building the life you want. It hasn’t always been easy, but I’ve learned to keep going, trust God, and stay focused on my goals. I’ve also learned that you can’t please everybody. Some people will celebrate your progress, while others will question your decisions. That’s life. At the end of the day, you know what you’ve worked for and what it took to get here. I’m grateful for how far I’ve come, and I pray God continues to give me the wisdom to keep growing. Never forget where you started, and don’t be afraid to appreciate how far you’ve made it. ❤️🙏 All thanks and glory to God for this blessing, and special thanks to $SPCX for last week’s trade with my trading community. I’m grateful for the opportunities, the lessons, and everyone who’s been part of the journey. 📖 ECCLESIASTES 3:12–13 “I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.” To me, this verse is a reminder that it’s okay to enjoy what you work hard for. Sometimes we’re so busy chasing the next goal that we forget to appreciate what God has already blessed us with. Not everybody will understand your choices, and that’s okay. I’m just thankful for what God has allowed me to accomplish. All glory belongs to Him. 🙏 🙏 MY PRAYER FOR EVERYONE READING THIS ❤️ Heavenly Father, I pray for everyone reading this post. You know what each person is going through, even the things they don’t share with anybody. You know their worries, their struggles, and the things they’ve been praying for. Lord, please give them strength when life gets hard, peace when their minds are troubled, and hope when things don’t go as planned. Bless their families, provide for their needs, and open doors of opportunity for them. For those who have been working hard and waiting for their prayers to be answered, please give them the patience to keep going and the faith to trust in You. Father, guide their steps, protect their homes, and surround them with people who genuinely want to see them do well. Remind them not to give up just because things are taking longer than they expected. Help them appreciate the little blessings along the way and give You thanks through both the good days and the difficult ones. My prayer is that everyone reading this finds a reason to smile, receives good news, and sees better days ahead. May God bless you and your family, provide for your needs, and give you the strength to keep moving forward. In Jesus’ mighty name, AMEN! 🙏❤️ read more
What’s the most important thing you look for when researching a stock and finding a winner? What are the things that a stock must have in order for you to own it? Let me know below, i’m super curious!
The greatest loss in 2026 is common sense. I dont like elon. Thats plain to see, but if I had to put a reason to it I would say it is because he is a salesmen first. Just a reminder that powerful people will say what is in there best interest first. We should do what is in our best interest first.
added: nothing for the risk averse, i understand you may not like the volatility, but i am a firm believer that owning $BTC, $XAU, & $VOO is much less risky than owning dollars. i'm begging you to protect yourself i am targeting a liquid 6-figure net worth by july 2027. for reference, up to this point i have never made more than $53k per year at a job, & i started at nothing in november 2024 after i graduated college follow along for the crazy ride
So what stocks did you guys buy this week ❓❓ Not the greatest week for memory and semis but the overall market kept pushing higher as both indices are sitting at their respective highs.
People keep asking me why I own Bloom Energy and Nebius, so here's the honest answer. Both of them are a bet on the same idea. The AI buildout has a bottleneck, and it's power. Not chips. Power. Every data center that gets announced needs electricity, and the grid can't deliver it fast enough. Gas turbines take years. Permits take years. These two companies are solving that problem from different angles. Bloom Energy makes fuel cells that sit on-site and generate power directly, in DC, which is what AI chips actually consume. They deliver in months, not years. Every major hyperscaler has now validated their systems. Oracle signed them for up to 2.8 gigawatts. Brookfield put $25 billion of project financing behind them. Last quarter was their first billion-dollar quarter. Revenue up 166%. Full-year guidance doubled. Is it cheap? No. It's trading at over 100 times forward earnings. Part of last quarter's margin came from a one-time tariff refund. And the stock swings hard. It dropped 6% in a day last week on nothing company-specific. That's the price of admission. It's a satellite position for a reason. If it doubles, I'll trim it. If it halves, the core of my account holds up. Nebius is the other side of the same trade. They're a pure AI cloud. They rent GPU clusters to anyone building AI models. Revenue grew 454% last quarter. Roughly $32 billion in contracts signed with Microsoft and Meta. Nvidia owns 9% of the company. That is about as strong a setup as you'll find. The risk is the spending. They're deploying over $11 billion in capex against about $1.4 billion in annual revenue. That's an 8-to-1 ratio. It works as long as the contracts keep converting to cash. Last Thursday the whole sector sold off on exactly that worry, and Nebius fell 7% in a day. My alert line is $209.90 and it closed Friday at $221, so I'm watching it. I'm not reacting to noise. Power is the bottleneck. These are my two ways to own it. Are you bullish on the AI infrastructure buildout? Is so, where do you believe the best opportunities to be had are today?read more
Earnings season kicks off. The big banks report, with JPMorgan on Tuesday, plus BlackRock, J&J, UnitedHealth and TSM (a check-in on the AI trade). The biggest event is September CPI on Wednesday morning. It could shift expectations for the Fed's Oct 27–28 meeting. PPI and retail sales follow later in the week. Monday is Columbus Day: stocks are open, but the bond market is closed. Not financial advice.
President Trump says Russia will supply millions of tons of diesel to U.S. and global markets. 📊 Key Highlights: ⛽ U.S. diesel prices hit around $6.28 per gallon. 🤝 Trump reached a supply agreement with Vladimir Putin. 📉 The goal: Increase supply and bring fuel prices down. ⚠️ The U.S. temporarily eased sanctions on certain Russian diesel shipments. 🌍 BUT THERE'S A CATCH! Analysts question whether the deal will significantly lower prices, while Ukraine criticizes the move. 📈 Could this change the global energy market? 💬 What do you think? Smart move or risky decision ?read more
On September 24th, I wrote on my newsletter that Nvidia was the one big AI stock that hadn't run. It closed that day at 224.6. Both targets I marked got hit: 229.7 on September 28th, up 2.3%, and 234.3 on October 2nd, up 4.3%. On September 10th, Nike was at 36.6, and I put it on the list I don't touch. On October 2nd it traded at 32.0, its lowest level in more than a decade. On September 29th, I said AMD's new weekly turn didn't count until Friday's close. That Friday it closed at 633.9, above its 617.3 line. The next ceiling I posted, 654.2, was hit the following Tuesday, up 3.2%. Two levels didn't hold. Alphabet closed at 343.5, below the 352.6 it needed, and Micron finished Friday 0.2 under its floor. I grade every call I publish, including those. When you follow someone's reads, what do you look at first: the calls, or the track record? Not investment advice. Find more of my deep dives on my newsletter 🐝 read more
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Here are my top 9 most favorite books on the topics of money, investing, and the psychology related to it. 🙂 I have also shared my short takeaways from each of these books: ✅ Reboot Your Portfolio (Dan Bortolotti): By simply "owning the market" through globally diversified index funds, you will almost certainly enjoy better performance than the vast majority of investors who buy actively managed funds or try to pick their own stocks. Over the long term, index funds offer the highest probability of achieving your investment goals. ✅ Atomic Habits (James Clear): If you can get 1% better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. Focus on making tiny adjustments to your behavior, as small changes lead to lasting improvements. ✅ Die with Zero (Bill Perkins): Maximize meaningful and memorable experiences in your lifetime when you are healthy and have the capacity to do so. Invest in experiences that yield long-lasting memories and pay you regular "memory dividends". ✅ The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins): Build a financial cushion (F-You Money) to give you a choice, and invest through low cost, broad-market, diversified index funds. ✅ Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki): Use your money to acquire assets instead of liabilities. ✅ Choose FI (Chris Mamula, Brad Barrett, Jonathan Mendonsa): Achieving Financial Independence requires a plan, much like building a house, but it is not a one-size-fits-all approach and you can tailor it based on your own journey. ✅ Quit Like A Millionaire (Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung, JL Collins): Spend your money on experiences that last a lifetime that on material stuff and consumer debt. ✅ The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel): Managing your emotional impulses and learning how to behave in face of challenging money decisions, play a crucial role in your financial success. ✅ I will teach you to be rich (Ramit Sethi): Develop a "Conscious Spending Plan" that aligns with your values and financial goals. 📚 Learn More: https://youtu.be/KIXOYvKgtnw ➡️ What are your favorite money/investing/self-development book recommendations?read more
⚠️ Warning: This post was vetted through AI. You may want to look away now. 😂 After experiencing the uninformed and unwelcome opinions of people shaming the use of AI, and, even more frustratingly, misrepresenting my financial situation, I decided to reread The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck*. It reminded me of something I already knew: Not every opinion deserves my attention. Fundamentally, I don’t participate in negativity, harassment or hate. I don’t need to convince everyone that my choices are right, and I certainly don’t need the approval of people who have decided they know my financial situation better than I do. But I did feel that the developing culture of AI shaming deserved my attention, not because I want to argue with the naysayers, but because I think there’s an opportunity to have a more positive, productive and inclusive conversation about it. I genuinely enjoy sharing my financial growth, milestones, lessons and journey here on Blossom. It’s one of the fun parts of this app for me. I’m excited about what I’m building, and I enjoy sharing the process with people who are interested in learning, growing and having conversations about money. And just to be clear: I don’t use AI because I’m illiterate, incapable or unintelligent. I was a professor in a dental department at a post-secondary institution. I know how to think, research, question information and form my own conclusions. Using AI doesn’t equal incompetence. It’s a tool. A tool that helps me organize my thoughts, be more productive, communicate ideas and accomplish my goals. And I actually think there’s something beautiful about that. Technology can make participation more accessible. It can help someone find the words they struggle to find, organize thoughts that feel overwhelming, communicate in a language they’re still learning, or simply make it possible to participate when life is busy. That feels more inclusive to me, not less. Of course, AI isn’t perfect. It can be wrong. It can misunderstand context. It can produce information that needs to be checked. That’s why I believe in using it responsibly: question it, fact-check it, protect your privacy and ultimately take responsibility for what you choose to publish. That isn’t giving up your intelligence. That’s using your intelligence to use a tool well. AI is here. It’s ubiquitous. And honestly, it has barely begun. We don’t shame calculators because people used to do long division. We don’t shame spreadsheets because people once balanced books by hand. So why are we suddenly treating the use of a new tool as a character flaw? Telling someone to stop using AI because it’s “not real” is about as logical as trading your laptop for a pen and paper, your smartphone for a corded home phone, and your GPS for a paper map. Technology changes. We adapt. And perhaps the most important part of all of this: The people who have reached out privately, with thoughtful messages, encouragement, curiosity and kindness, far outweigh the toxic noise. Those are the people I choose to give my energy to. AI isn’t going away. Neither am I. And I’m not going to spend my time arguing with people who are determined to misunderstand me. I’d rather keep learning, keep questioning, keep investing and keep moving forward. You don’t have to use AI. You don’t have to like AI. But you also don’t get to decide what tools someone else is allowed to use to build their life. And yes…AI helped me write this. 😉 I’m okay with that.read more
As I'm sure many of you know, Blossom added a new AI detector. I wanted to share some of my thoughts on AI and how I use it to help me create my Blossom posts and other content. If you haven't noticed already, the vast majority of my posts are written using AI. If that bothers you, no worries, you don't need to read my content. Here's how I use AI to help me create my posts: When I find a topic in my QAFP studies or have an idea I think is worth sharing, I talk through it into Wispr Flow for a few minutes. It always starts with an idea or an opinion that I have, and then I talk through that opinion or the new concept that I just learned. After that, I usually get an LLM to make my thoughts more understandable and clear while still trying to preserve all of the ideas and opinions that I have. I have no issue using AI this way because the topic, perspective and responsibility are still mine. It helps me turn a few minutes of rambling into something easier to read. I do see an issue with a large number of AI posts on Blossom and other social media platforms. For example, whenever I see em dashes and glaring AI-isms, I automatically discount the content that I read in those posts. The posts I discount are the ones where it feels like the person contributed almost nothing. The repeated phrases and perfectly balanced sentences are easy to spot, but the bigger problem is that the person did not bring a point of view of their own. AI can make a weak idea sound polished without making it worth reading. I am responsible for every claim I publish, whether AI helped arrange the words or not, and that responsibility matters far more to me than a detector score. How do you feel about AI-assisted posts?read more
Guys I know it seems like stocks only go up right now but they DO NOT only go up. Please don’t make dumb decisions. I want to see all of you succeed. Never financial/investment advice.
Amazon ($AMZN) is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, an AI startup specializing in real-time video generation, virtual world simulations, and AI infrastructure. Decart is known for two major AI models: Lucy – Uses AI to transform and edit live videos in real time. Oasis – Creates interactive virtual environments using AI. So why does Amazon want it? The acquisition could strengthen Amazon Web Services (AWS), support its growing AI chip business, and help Amazon compete in the rapidly expanding AI industry. Interestingly, Decart was valued at nearly $4 billion in May 2026. Now, Amazon is reportedly considering paying $7 billion! ⚠️ Nothing is finalized yet, but this could be another major move in Amazon’s AI expansion. What do you think? Is $7 billion worth it? read more
300+ Cybercabs on the road in Austin right now. That's 8x fleet growth in 30 days. Dallas is next. The robotaxi story went from “someday” to “right now” FAST. These are steering-wheel-less cars. No driver. Actually doing rides. And it hasn't been pretty. CNBC called month one “rocky”: long waits, wrong dropoffs, regulators sniffing around certification. Bears: 395x trailing P/E. HSBC at $157. The future is priced in. This is a car company in a costume. Bulls: a real autonomous network, scaling in real time, and this is only the start. I'm a believer in the AI & robotics thesis. Long-term hold for me. But I'm not going to pretend the execution looks clean. Robotaxi is either the whole thesis playing out... or the most expensive test fleet in history. Where do you stand? 👀read more
SCHD holders brag about the dividend. VOO holders brag about the growth. 10 years, dividends reinvested: $VOO : 316.5% $SCHD : 244.5% That's a 72 point gap. On $300K that's about $216K left on the table. SCHD's answer: a 3.2% yield vs about 1% for VOO. Cash in hand every quarter. In a rough year, that dividend check feels GOOD. My stance: I'm a growth guy. I want the compounding, not the coupon. Long-term buy & hold for me, I'll take the extra 72 points. But dividends aren't nothing. A payout that shows up rain or shine is real money. Which side are you on? The 3.2% yield now or 72 points of growth over 10 years? Where do you stand? 👀read more
On October 2nd, Micron cleared the level I was watching by a dollar twenty. This Friday it closed at 1,029.0, twenty cents under its floor. Same stock, same kind of line, opposite side. It wasn't the only name I graded. Eight stocks carried a level into last week: four worked, two were mixed, and two failed. Nvidia and $AMD both hit their ceilings early in the week, then gave all of it back. Something else flipped too. The chips that fell now have more room to their next ceiling than distance to their floor, but each one is still sitting under its central line. The software names that won are the stretched ones now. That flip, Oracle's cash problem and every level for the week ahead are in "The Money Didn't Leave. It Moved." on my newsletter. Chips with room, or software with momentum? 🤷🏻♀️ Not investment advice 🐝 read more
🚨 A DECADE of dividend investing 👨💼 My portfolio is now worth ~$2M 💰 And it pays me roughly $10,500 in dividends EVERY MONTH 💵 8 HIGH INCOME ETFs with ZERO PRICE DECAY that I own or plan on buying!📈🔥 $SCHD 🏆 Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF ~3.0% yield ~531% total return Pays quarterly Launched Oct 2011 $QDVO 🏆 Amplify CWP Growth & Income ETF ~11.2% yield ~52% total return Pays monthly Launched Aug 2024 $OVL 🏆 Overlay Shares Large Cap Equity ETF ~10.5% yield ~208% total return Pays monthly Launched Sep 2019 $SEPI 🏆 Shelton Equity Premium Income ETF ~7.9% yield ~27% total return Pays monthly Launched Sep 2025 $IDVO 🏆 Amplify CWP International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF ~6.1% yield ~114% total return Pays monthly Launched Sep 2022 $GPIQ🏆 Goldman Sachs Nasdaq-100 Premium Income ETF ~9.9% yield ~105% total return Pays monthly Launched Oct 2023 $XQQI 🏆 NEOS Boosted Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF ~20.2% yield ~21% total return Pays monthly Launched Jan 2026 $HAKY 🏆 Amplify HACK Cybersecurity Covered Call ETF ~15.0% yield ~48% total return Pays monthly Launched Jan 2026 *Bookmark this one* 🔖👇 read more
Quick math before anything else. Monday a stock goes from $100 to $125. That's up 25%. Tuesday it drops back to $100. Down 20%. Two days later the stock is exactly where it started. Now run a 2x fund on that same stock. Monday it's up 50%, so $100 turns into $150. Tuesday it's down 40%, and $150 turns into $90. Stock: flat. 2x fund: down 10% 📉 (made up numbers, real arithmetic) Nothing broke there. The fund did exactly what it says on the label, because the 2x (or 3x) on a leveraged ETF is a promise about one single day. It resets every night and starts over the next morning. Hold it for a month and what you get is a string of daily bets stacked on top of each other, which can land a long way from double the stock's month. What follows from that: Chop is what hurts. Up, down, up, down grinds the fund lower even when the stock ends up right back where it began. A clean trend does the reverse. Two 10% up days in a row is 21% for the stock and 44% for the 2x fund, a little better than double. The extra exposure comes from swaps and futures, and these funds can cost more to hold than a plain index ETF. Inverse ETFs are the same machine pointed down. They chase the opposite of one day's move and reset the same way. And they've gone single stock. There are 2x funds built on $NVDA and on $TSLA now, plus a 3x fund on the Nasdaq 100 (the index $QQQ tracks at plain 1x). The myth to drop: "the stock doubled this year, so the 2x fund must have quadrupled." Maybe more, maybe a lot less. It depends on the path the stock took to get there, and the SEC and FINRA have each published an investor warning about exactly that gap. Ever held one of these for longer than a few days? Did it land anywhere near what you expected? 👇 Educational, not financial advice. Just my read.read more
this morning my wife daughter and I all finished our 8km race in the Victoria weekend event in under 1 hour. we all are happy. her bf doing the full marathon. crazy 17500 registrations... a record for the event.
