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Streetinvestor2:Amen ooo. In 5 years' time, this will be true. |
Agbalowomeri:Now that you tried being bullish, see how you hit the bull's eye 😁😁 So so bear bear Everytime. |
SonofElElyonRet:💯💯💯😁😁 |
Agbalowomeri:No, I merely tried my hands in prediction markets since the promoters claim it's a subset of the financial markets 😁 |
Good morning guys, for those who might have picked interest in my mention of prediction market, here's my update: I grew my 10k to about 27k within 9 days. So I decided to scale up by adding 60k over a few days, making my capital input 70k. Now both my 70k and all the gains I made are completely wiped off. The reality is: any position where being wrong costs you 100% is simply too risky. No matter how good you try to be, just a few wrong calls will be enough to wipe you out. That's my reality. Other people might be better at it, but for most people, 100% in cost of being wrong is the fastest way to guaranteed failure. I learnt the soft way, cos I only put an infinitiseminal amount 😁 However those who want to bet on January's election outcomes should still go there and put their money where their mouth is. There's already about N138m of open positions on who wins. 😎 |
Streetinvestor2:💯💯 |
Streetinvestor2:What do you see as a support for the ASI by the end of this quarter? Especially if Alhaji proceeds with his IPO? 220k? 230? 200? Would you advise one sells down now and possibly renter cheaper (have more units) or is it better to just do nothing? What if MPC surprises us with a 200bps cut next month and translate same trimming to fixed income yields, do you think people will start finding potential dividends yields for FY '26 more attractive at current prices? As per this exact post I quoted, I will respond to it any other day we talk go there. For now I think I've reached the threshold of thread derailment, so let's talk market more. |
Streetinvestor2:Ohh.. I understand your point about small businesses generating their own power now. It's exactly right. The political angle about shadiness and possible falsehoods in the government, I can't confirm nor disprove. Since we agree on each other's points now, I'd say we call it a wrap so it doesn't constitute a derailment to the thread. |
crownprince2017:I'm glad we share thesame perspective 😁 |
megawealth01:Yes sir 😁 |
megawealth01:Sure, meanwhile like i've previously said, those of us who have been on the other side of these same reforms i.e made massive loots from the stock market should try helping the masses too so that this doesn't become mere hypocrisy. With just N30m anyone can do a 60kva solar installation, tgat will be enough to solve power problems for 50 people. But some people are sitting idly on 100x that amount and complaining about the masses. It's just more effective to do something to alleviate their situation, especially if thesame reforms that hurt them have given some of us billions. |
If the market maker was spending reserves to defend the share price for years, then a new MD comes in and says, we'll use our reserves for more meaningful purposes, let the shares trade freely, and let's gradually buy back some of our OS. The stock price falls, then you start blaming the new MD as being responsible, forgetting that it was someone else that foolishly diluted the OS without growing the balance sheet. |
Streetinvestor2:I agree with you on this. On the other posts though, your points aren't as sound. You said big companies generate their own power, but they do use diesel or natural gas which have long be deregulated, so what you're saying there I don't get. Your public transport point though is taken, and the govt should make good on their cheap mass transit promises. I never said the currency was pegged, so no agreement there. When a country had 40trn in entire money supply but printed extra 30trn cos they were spending money they didn't have, you and I know that was the root cause of the 2x value loss of the currency. Abi from this our stock market business, what happens to a company's eps, if it had 40bn OS and created additional 30bn shares and allotted it all to insiders without collecting any cash, their balance sheet would at best stay stagnant while eps would crash by half, then the market if rational would reprice the stock at half the previous price, same exact thing with currencies. If they had continued printing, the currency would simply have continued sliding, That's how we got the worthless Zimbabwean trillion dollars. |
megawealth01:i understand your point. The answer to your question is No. However the question in itselft isn't fair. A fair question is: Given the place the economy had been put before 2023, has the actions and policies of this govt made things better for the masses than they would have inevitably been? The answer to that is "Yes" |
Streetinvestor2:let me see a few points I can address from your post: 1. Crude prices were around $100 for the most part of GEJ's tenure until US shale in 2014 crashed the market. How come reserves still got depleted druring his time?, now you want to make light the achievement of growing net reserves by 700% just caus crude was over $65? that opinion is bias 2. It was not the government that took it to 1900, it was headed there and far beyond anyways, it's a natural consequence of having no reserves. the currency wouldn't be worth the paper it's printed on. Zimbabwe has a currency note of $1,000,000,000,000 that couldn't buy a loaf of bread. 3. If the economy improves to a point where 1000 to the dollar is sustainable then the rates will naturally move there, in the meantime, stabilising at 1300 is achievement enough. 4. securing the vast borders is not about cheap talk, it requires manpower that's either unavailable or already far stretched. If you can buy a N100m car, you should be able to fuel it, don't expect your lavish consumption to be subsidized, the common man doesn't consume anywhere near the big man. plus diesel that affects cost of transporting goods has always been deregulated for decades now. 5. If fuel in already cheaper in Nigeria than in neighboring countries, asking for any meaningful subsidy is exactly asking for it to be 3 to 5x cheaper. 6. I do not dismiss the fact the people are going through a lot, what we're saying is previous administrations only kicked the can down the road, and they were more responsible for the root causes. there was no reason our reserves shouldn't have exceeded $100bn under GEJ. |
mikeapollo:How much is PMS in Niger, and Cameroon and Benin republic? July figures put our consumption at just over 32m litres daily do you think it would be possible to keep that figure below 100m litres if fuel became 3 to 5x cheaper in Nigeria, wouldn't the massive reward make the risk of smuggling worthwhile for a lot of people? Now at just 32m litres, we're able to still sell more crude in USD and grow reserves to almost $53bn now, if we had to be supplying a 100m litre daily consumption, wouldn't all our crude production be given to dangote with zero Fx inflows from crude? Then what do you think would happen to the exchange rate if reserves were today at $17bn? how would the masses cope with N4700 exchange rate to the dollar or 190k for a bag of rice? Nobody seems to be mentioning the fact that food is now even cheaper in some cases that Buhari's time, and in most other cases, it's less than 50% more expensive. since OBJ took reserves to $60Bn largely possible due to debt waivers, no other goverment has been able to grow the reserves beyond what they met in office, these folks have grown it to 200% of what they met. Net reserves growth is even closer to 500%. people like to think these do not matter to the masses, but while small income is terrible, what's much worse is for the income to not be worth much!! Again i'll give Buhari's trajectory for the currency: 2020: 360 2021: 450 (1.25x) 2022: 600 (1.33x) 2023: 750 (1.25x) then let's extrapolate using a conservative 1.25x 2024: 940 2025: 1200 2026: 1500 2027: 1900 it was a choice between slow, gradual and pertual loss and a steep one-off loss, the latter is much better. 2026 rate is already lower than it would have been, 2027 will even be much lower. The problem is they even had to deplete over $30bn in reserves to keep the depreciation as low as 25 -33%. At the point they were in 2023, the reserves had been drained to just $3bn, there was no more firepower, and so the 25% depreciation projection might have in reality been anyhwere from 50% to 500%, cos they had simply run out of dollars. Zimbabwe, Venzuela, Argentina, and Iran are examples of countries where currency crisis has happened so it's not just theories. Helping the people maintain their purchasing power is an achievement this government has made and it's one that over 99% of the populace benefits from. It's the reason the common man doesn't need 200k for a bag of rice, or N200m for a car. This might sound strange especially given the sharp depreciation between 2023 and 2024. No one denies that everyone lost purchasing power significantly in that one year period, what we're saying is if the buhari trajectory had been maintained the loss in purchasing power by now would have been much worse!!!!, so in that regard everyone in the entire country is better off. And now between 2024 to date, everyone has gained more purchasing power, imagine if the 1900 exchange rate of February 2024 was the reality today, almost everything would be 50% more expensive, not to mention that it was heading for 5k. I believe we're all informed enough to understand this analysis, subjective bias is the problem. |
Streetinvestor2:Nice 😁😁 |
vacanci:Thank you ✊ |
Streetinvestor2:I don't think we're calling thesame outcome foe the election though, so maybe your election spirit isn't same as mine. |
mallamOmonile1:Market will be bullish from November though. Possibly earlier. But super bull will be by January. |
Market fighting to hold 240k. Good time to start buying especially if you intend holding till February. |
July inflation at 15.43%. Glad I got paid for being right. |
Anyone else experiencing connection issues with the market? |
ghm:If something tastes bad, shouldn't you spit it out? That's why I suggest you block me so you don't get such poor taste anymore. What was the last stock pick you gave? Aren't you seeing the flaw in your over anxious position? Of your last 10 posts here, how many of them had stock picks, and how helpful were they? Obviously I agree derailing is bad, but at thesame time, there's a reasonable threshold before you should start jumping. Plus, the original post on the subject sef was to tell people who debate politics here they could put their money where their mouths are and reduce how much they debate here. As long as you can't prove that 100% of the posts here have stock picks, then you need to relax sometimes or Just block my moniker and rest. |
ghm:Calm down. Go to my profile, you'll see a block button you could use there. I don't think the post count are enough for your flagging yet, neither do I think you've contributed enough here to wield this policing you're trying on the thread. |
Bayoonanuga:Bayse. But note that I'm only experimenting there, they're neither established nor regulated as far as I know. Technically, funds in your wallet may evaporate with no one coming to your rescue. I intend checking out Signal which is a similar product by Busha. Busha is regulated by the SEC as a VASP. |
Streetinvestor2:It was an experiment. 10k is too lean a position to "cash out" 10890 grew to 11787 despite one very big loss though. I'm considering opening a position on today's inflation numbers based on Coronation's forecast. That's the difference between trading and gambling - Your bets have basis. You also hedge with other positions should your call go south. Beginners would go all in chasing maximum gains, they often end up with maximum losses 😁 If I can sustain a 20% gain at the end of 1 week, I will judge this experiment as showing viability.
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chimex38:3 of 4 predictions were right. But those 3 were altogether 50%. The other heavy weight of 50% was completely totally red 😁😁😁. People really turned out. Almost 40% voter turnout. |
WhizdomXX:That was my biggest position o. 50% gone to flames. But I used my trading experience to correct though. Currently +8.13% up overall. |
megawealth01:He's winning so far. 87.48% of results uploaded. |
My experiment is paying off .And I don't even know much about Osun state politics.
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