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NVIDIA stock price => forgetting history

Remember these 2 high-flyers? 

JDS Uniphase Corporation was an American company that designed and manufactured products for optical communications networks. JDSU split into two different companies – Viavi Solutions and Lumentum Holdings.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and created the Java programming language. On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle Corporation would acquire Sun for $7.4 billion. 

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Exiting I Bonds in May

2 reasons: terribly designed web site and poor returns for the next 6 months.

A username, a password, and two factor authentication work for every other web site. At Treasury Direct, a member ID is the starting point. Then you have to key in a password from your mouse. Then scroll through to get to your investments. Then select. C'mon man!!!

Based on inflation data from the past six months, the variable portion of the I bond rate could drop to 3.38% in May. While the fixed portion of the rate, currently at 0.4%, may increase a little in May. If the fixed rate remains at 0.4%, the new annual rate may drop to 3.79%.

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April 2023 Dividends + Interest Income

100.709639 shares of TBIL, received a dividend payment of $18.20.
607.1448 shares of AGNC, received a dividend payment of $72.86.
200.738194 shares of HRZN, received a dividend payment of $22.08.
237.334104 shares of SDIV, received a dividend payment of $54.59.
Interest payment March 31st in the amount of $50.88.

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Lend out your shares and get paid. This is from my $TBIL investment

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Trading cryptos w/o trading cryptos

My proxy for BTC has been  MicroStrategy Inc. I wanted to give my wife exposure to crypto in her retirement account.  And ALLY INVEST doesn't let you buy bitcoin.

But I found a better way. The miners of bitcoin. You can scale in much easier because the price allows for easy LEAP OPTION trades. See my day trade below:

The Safety Dance >> Treasury Bills in a brokerage account

Normally you would have to buy t-bills through broker / dealers or thru treasury direct. So most people settle for bond funds. But bond funds never reach maturity and hold more than one bond.

T-bills are considered nearly free of default risk because they are fully backed by the U.S. government. And it currently yields 3.38%. 

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