🇺🇸 Roger DeReu 💵📈

The day I bought NVIDIA for about six bucks a share, oil crashed 22% and the stock market tripped its circuit breakers for the first time in 23 years. In March 2020, the stock market nose-dived 20-something percent in a few weeks. I called a couple of exited founder friends who prided themselves on being serious investors. "Hey guys, what are we buying today? The market's on sale." Silence. "I don't know man, seems pretty scary out there. Maybe we should wait and see.” I said: Guys, we talked about this. If we took the emotion out of it, we'd be buying hand over fist right now. I forced myself to buy, even though it felt like crap. It seriously felt like crap. And one of those positions turned out to be one of the best trades I've ever made: I damn-near bottom-ticked NVIDIA. NVDA hit its split-adjusted low of around five bucks a share on March 18 that year. I bought on the 6th and then again on the 9th at around 6 bucks a share. Both times felt terrible. March 9 was the day the S&P fell over 7% and tripped a circuit breaker for the first time since 1997. The Dow lost 2,000 points before lunch. Oil crashed 22% the same morning over a Saudi-Russia price war. I bought NVIDIA into that. When I called the trade into my banker Steve and told him the amount to buy, he paused for a moment and then said "my man". (Yes I only trade by phone. Zero electronic trading.) And it kept falling. For nine more trading days after my second buy, the market triggered circuit breakers three more times. My position drew down roughly 20% in a week and a half. Now I felt even worse...of course in retrospect I should have felt great and bought more, but even I was too spooked at that point to add. So I missed the bragging rights of buying NVDA with a $5 handle. The WHO declared a pandemic. Italy went into full lockdown. Every headline said we hadn't seen the worst of it yet. Look, I'm not the world's greatest investor, and I've made plenty of bad bets. I don't trade very much. I hang out without doing anything for long stretches of time. But every few years I have a good idea and go into it with size. There's this example they give in psych courses I remember vividly. You're sleeping by a fire and hear rustling in the darkness. It's better to assume that's a wolf than a fluffy lamb. If you're wrong, no harm done. If you're right, you just saved your life. That instinct is thousands of years old and it works great in the wild. The problem is it also runs your business decisions, your investing, and every call where there's something to lose. The fear of losing overrides the clear upside 9 times out of 10. In the moment, fear feels like your gut telling you something important. And sometimes it is. But a lot of the time it's just the wolf detector firing at a fluffy lamb. Buying $NVDA seems obvious at $6.28 right? But if the shit hits the fan and it actually falls to that level, is it obvious then? No it is not. Living longer helps too. At 52, these calls are easier than at 32. I've seen more cycles. I've watched markets crash and recover. When you're young, every crisis feels like the one that ends everything. When you're older, you've lived through enough of them to know it's probably going to be fine on the other side. But the point holds at any age. You can't turn off the evolutionary response. You can learn to hear it fire and say: "okay, is this real, or is this the wolf detector going off again?" I still hold those shares. It was one of the cleanest entry points I have ever had into a generational large cap stock.

When I was 13, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend with big tits... When I was 16, I got a girlfriend with big tits, but there was no passion, so I decided I needed a passionate girl with zest for life. In college I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency; she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide. So I decided I needed a girl with stability. When I was 25, I found a very stable girl but she was boring. She was totally predictable and never got excited about anything. Life became so dull that I decided I needed a girl with some excitement. When I was 28, I found an exciting girl, but I couldn't keep up with her. She rushed from one thing to another, never settling on anything. She did mad impetuous things and made me miserable as often as happy. She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless. So I decided to find a girl with some real ambition. When I turned 30, I found a smart ambitious girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground, so I married her. She was so ambitious that she divorced me and took everything I owned. I am older and wiser now, and I am looking for a girl with big tits.

CALLER: I put all my business expenses on an Amex card. I collect points and fly business class for free twice a year. The flights would cost me $8,000. DAVE RAMSEY: Cut the card. Points are a trap to make you spend more! CALLER: I spend the same amount either way. I just get $8,000 in flights free. DAVE RAMSEY: Use a debit card and a budget! CALLER: So give up $8,000 in free flights? DAVE RAMSEY: That’s not how you get rich! In reality, if your spending doesn’t change, travel rewards are free money. Full stop. Every dollar matters.

I’m sorry but if you’re incompetent to stand trial you should be incompetent to ever be in society ever again

“I keep my money in the bank, the dollar is stable” “1$ = 1$” Meanwhile the dollar: 🧊

Predicador islamista palestino: "Las vírgenes del Paraíso no tendrán menstruación, saliva, moco, orina ni excrementos. Los hombres musulmanes tendrán la fuerza sexual de 100 hombres. Tendremos varias esposas y esclavas sexuales en el Paraíso."

Biden didn’t destroy the Rose Garden. He rebuilt the economy, created over 15 million jobs, cut the deficit, lowered insulin costs, and passed historic climate & infrastructure bills. His conscience is clear and so is his record. Do you agree with me? Yes Or No

And no one will ever see it.

🚨 PUTIN HUMILIATES BRITAIN AGAIN Putin has just sent a heavily armed Russian warship, the Admiral Grigorovich, to escort sanctioned oil tankers straight past the British coast through the English Channel. A British naval vessel trailed behind... and did absolutely nothing. Starmer gave special forces the green light last month to seize shadow fleet ships. Since then? Over 300 sanctioned Russian tankers have sailed through UK waters completely unchallenged. Not one has been seized. Meanwhile our only deployable destroyer was sent to the Middle East, took three weeks to get there, and had to limp home with basic water system failures. Trump called our aircraft carriers “toys”. Hegseth openly mocked the “big, bad Royal Navy”. This is what weakness looks like. Russia sails through our front door with a warship escort while we stand by and watch. Starmer’s Britain is a global joke.