Anyone buys deep out of money SPY puts to protect against a big market sell off?

What's your take on mid and small cap growth funds such as VOT and VBK? Meaningful to maintain a good portion of my investment in there? (About 20-25%)

Instead of targeting a high downpayment for a house, my wife and I are planning to look for a house once we hit HHI >= $250K. We think this will be mid next year. Reason being is want to target a house in the $700K range. Thoughts on the approach?

I'm 1 year out of college and recently inherited $400k and have another $120k saved up from internships and work.

I know the standard thing to do is DCA into an index fund/ETF but is there anything else I should be doing to invest my money and hedge against inflation. I'm just concerned with the political turmoil going on and trying to figure out what ETFs I should be investing in and how much I should be putting in every week.

How would you recommend investing the money?

Has anyone tried UPS or Fedex pick up for moving boxes without a car? How’s the pricing? Hard to get an accurate quote

RE Equity Crowdfunding platforms, what criteria do you use to decide between them? Number of investors already on? Number of unicorns or IPOs they have on their track record? Or recommendations for alternative investing via other vehicles?

Hey - Might be moving from Florida to Illinois. Is there any way I can avoid changing residency and IL income tax? Realistically, will I be audited?

Just heard FY23 partners at PwC are getting only 40 shares vs.60 last year. Looks like new partners are being shown the middle finger by Tim Ryan in favor of increasing stock price and getting more catalyst hires. Sucks!!

When do we think the crypto currency bubble pops?

🐠

Need your inputs.

I used to work in India and have Investments in EPF accounts. Which are basically tax free gains in India.

I am filing my taxes first time this year in US, do I have to report the gains on the EPF accounts?

And would I be taxed in US for that??

Implications of a PE firm selling and a company bringing on a new investment partner?

Does anyone know how to declare in my individual tax return, RSA and Stock Options from a US Company that I have? Non exercised yet.

Would you say Austin’s real estate market will go through a correction in 2022? I am considering there in a few months (wife and 3 kids) from a normal-priced city. While we can afford a house there, I am scared of getting into an extremely risky investment seeing such fast growing prices in 2021. I’ve read both bull and bear scenarios online and I’d like to get some “Bowl’s” thoughts. Thanks!

This is a post to reach out to Indian professionals working in US. How do you feel about investments in India vs Investments in the United States, all inclusive - real estates and stocks ETFs
TIA

What do you do and how much you made in 2021?

Has anyone refinanced their student loans on h1b visa? Is common bond the only option?

I'm a younger teacher in a high COL area. In terms of wealth building, how does home ownership stack up to other methods like investing in stocks?

If anyone here is wondering how to best use their GI Bill... I HIGHLY recommend using the GI Bill comparison tool. Has anyone else here used it??

I’m leaving my job soon but I’m wondering if I should be truthful when I hand in my letter of resignation. There’s a ton of reasons but it boils down to: I’m worth more than they can pay me and I need to pay off these student loans. What should I say?

friends I have 1-2 hours spare time with me,
I want to earn a little bit more say 100 rupees per day.

what should i do ?
any genuine leads are welcome, Kindly share.

Heard from me:

“Oh, junior person, you have edits to the monthly activity report 3 days after your deadline to review the report, and after I sent it to the client? How lovely for you."

What salary can be targeted with 20years of experience in the IT channel management in HP, Hewlett Packard ? I am looking at a permanent role , I had taken the enterpreneur ial break and have rejoined HP and have been working again since last 3 years.

How much time does Naviga global take to send offer letter. My HR round was done on 3rd of September.

Hey CGI folks, from where can I see current year holiday list for 2021 in India?

Could use some insight on what the average salary is for a PA in philadelphia? Could you list salary and specialty please? Im in gastroenterology and IBD.

Recommendations on the best podcast, book, or other medium to learn more about “entrepreneurship through acquisition”?

Is it a good time to join Mastercard Pune? How is the WLB?

How many times has an interviewer no-showed and the recruiter profusely apologizing on their behalf?
Happened to me with Mindtree recruiter, for an IoT leadership position where the interviewing VP chose to no show twice… after which I thanked the recruiter that I was impressed by their book of busi-ness and that it was intimidating to be thinking about the prospect of working for Mindtree… as I’m too incapable for those performance standards… 😂😂

For those managers and senior managers who are directly working with new staff and interns - how are you maintaining the quality? I am at a breaking point now as I have no seniors on 3 of my clients. How am I supposed to concentrate on complex allocations if I have to do all the updates on basic M-1s. All the experienced S2 and S3s I trained got pulled into other engagements as acting managers. I am about to smash my laptop into pieces 😫

Where should a data and insights team sit within a company org?

Hey fishes, Need referral in pharma compaines, so looking forward for the same

Yoe-1year 8 months in pharma domain

My friend in FFO has been asked to come back to office by 2023 beginning and it was announced in their townhall too..Anyone from CONEXTS FFO who can confirm this..also any updates if this will be done in other CONEXT functions/teams too.

Tips for saving/mocking up social posts of your work once it’s posted? Like is it easier to take a screen grab or what? Sorry I’m not super tech savvy. Haha

Hi fishes,

Comment your total hike, VP , ctc current, level, designation, tech stack you have received as per Nov 22.

Hi is there any year end bonus / appraisal for the employees who are joining in December?

4/6/2022 check in. What are your workout plans today?

Guys when is the induction mail for day 2 is received?Nov 2 is my DOJ still didn't receive induction mail for day 2?

Hi, Can anyone tell me if I make an internal switch in TCS as a Salesforce developer, will there be any hike?

What’s been the sentiment on MARA? Is the blip gone?

What should I do? My 401k went from gaining 38% year after year for the past 4 years, now I'm losing money rapidly. I lost over 11k twice this week already. I been down almost every day this week. Please offer some good advice. What should I do? Should I put everything into safer stocks or just sit tight and ride it out?

My 401k technology stocks are down 27% as I started beginning of last year!
Hold and ride OR some other recommendation?

What's going on today? I thought stonks only go up?

Penn or draftkings?

Anyone else feel like the markets always conspire against them? I.e. I have a “fun money” day trading account and bought two stocks about a year ago. Sold them because they weren’t doing anything and I found a more attractive investment and then they’re up literally 60% over the next three days after a year of 0 movement.

Best stock plays right now?

Good idea to buy some more AAPL right now?

How much lower can allbirds go damnit

Sell Shopify or hold? Already 14% down today after the vaccine news. Will it recover?

Thoughts on Transfix? Anyone invested?

Interested in investing in real estate. How to even begin and what apps should I be using?

Michael Burry comments make me want to run to cash

Curious if anyone has invested a big amount in one stock let’s say buying 150k of CRWD in may based on gut or conviction however you may put it. Want to have a discussion around lessons learnt and ways to derisk.

Tax Loss Harvesting worth it - if the future cap gains exceed what you may save now? Torn between adding more vs harvesting (gains on individual stocks/etfs are minimal to none this year) lol

Analysts seem to like TJX but looking at the long term debt/equity I can’t get comfortable. What am I missing?

Should I take loan on my 401k to complete 20% down payment for home that I am buying or should I just go with 5% down payment and pay mortgage insurance?

Thoughts on Peloton? I bought at $32 but recent rise make me think I should buy more...