u/cadublin

If you want to actually invest long term, I think you better stay away. If you want to gamble, welcome and grab a chair.

I hate to see people, especially those with a family, to lose their hard-earned money because they are uninformed.

If people here encourage you to buy, think twice. If after that you still want to buy, then go for it. None of us here know whether SNDK will go back to 2000+ or not.

I'm not shorting the stock. I'm just trying to divest as quick as possible, so I'm praying for it to go up too, but I won't be holding too long.

Good luck!

SNDK was spun off April last year. The results of that was many investors get stocks for cheap including the one-third share from holding WDC stocks. We are talking about $50 cost basis here for many investment houses and employees.

If you research a bit you would easily find that 20-40x gain within a year is unheard off for a multi billion dollar company. Even at today's price many have already gained 20x. A lot of SNDK employees already made 2-3 millions out of their $100k RSU, some who have been holding since WDC made north $5m. Those are just retail investors. Many investment bankers invested a few millions right after the spin-off and they have easily made a couple billions. So that $2000/share price a couple months ago was just the cherry on top.

That's the explanation.

I'm NOT saying you should sell, but the recurring theme here is that people are holding on desperately trying to make up for what they have missed out or people putting money in hoping to make more, which might not be the right move for you.

I'm saying you should know your exit point, whatever that means depending on your situation. Even if you want to go long, you still need to have exit plan. Exit does not always mean selling all 100% at once. You could exit gradually.

Mine is after SK hynix earnings announcement tonight/tomorrow morning and SNDK announcement next week.

I came back from an vacation and brought a large quantity and assortments of snacks. All the snacks are individually wrapped and in boxes. Instead of bringing 5-6 boxes of total 100+ pieces for 8 people, I just opened the boxes, mixed them up and put them in a single box. That way each person can try all different varieties.

Somehow I got a feeling that this is frown upon. Is it better just to bring 1-2 unopened boxes? Is it better to just get a small individual boxes for each person next time?

I don't blame people want to make money. Everybody got to survive. But this is a zero sum game. For you to win, someone has to lose. Hopefully the big investment banks who will lose, but unlikely. Swing greater than 5% daily, that's just crazy. So just be careful. Stick to the fundamentals. PE at around 50 is a really good thing for stock this hot.

Edit: to clarify, I am talking about SNDK here since that's the topic of this sub. It's valid for other speculative stocks too. For more established companies their valuations go up and that's how the stocks holders get some of their gains from, I understand that.

What did you do? Where did you go? Did you just stay in Sapporo? If you explore the island, how did you do it?

Thanks!

I posted about a week ago after coming back from our almost 4-week trip that I kind of had enough. Mainly because I don't speak Japanese. I think if I did speak Japanese, I could've enjoyed a lot more. My wife told me that she misses Japan already and wants to go back next year. I told her I'll think about it. I haven't told her that I'm already missing it too because I really thought I had enough. But not even 10 days, I am kind of ashamed to say that I actually started missing it too.

Someone mentioned about going to off-the-beaten-path places, and I think that's a good idea. But that also means I want/need to be able to speak Japanese. I've been learning it on and off, but now I have to really get serious about this.

Those who have been to off-the-beaten-path places many times, how much Japanese do you speak? Anyone ended up learning Japanese and able to speak because their desire to keep going back?

I thought 8 weeks was enough for me to become tired of Japan, but somehow that place keeps calling me back.

Edit: I can pass as a Japanese from appearance. This last trip I tried to speak Japanese a bit more but my skill is very low, ended up making things more confusing. After that I tried to start conversation with "Hello" just to hint them that I'm a foreigner, they still spoke to me in Japanese. It seems that if they know we are tourists (i.e. westerners or non-east-asian) they are actually more ready and accepting. I guess that what motivates me more also.

Does anyone know where I can find the Onitsuka Tiger Italian Made shoes in Tokyo? Some YT videos mentioned the Shinjuku store, I am hoping I can find them in Giana or Tokyo Station stores. Do you know if the Nippon Made or regular stores carry them? Thanks!

If you’re thinking to get some soccer jerseys while in Japan, a few fyis:
- Kamo has a lot of Japan NT home jerseys, but the popular ones like Nakamura and Ueda are mostly sold out.
- Unlike in the US where you can only find US, Mexico, maybe Canada and some major countries like Germany, you can find other countries like Norway, Senegal, Morocco etc.
- If you’re like me looking for J League local teams jerseys, I found Sports Depot by Aspen have the best prices. They had more sales too.
- I don’t know if because the WC is going on, but the stores sell more NT jerseys than J League jerseys. I haven’t been to Tokyo yet, so maybe they have more stocks there.

If you travel in June like me, you are probably a bit worried about the rain. I did a bit of research and found these couple Japanese websites that are hopefully accurate:

• Japan Meteorological Agency: https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/34.5/135/&contents=forecast&lang=en
• Tenki.jp: https://tenki.jp/ . This one is in Japanese but you can use Google Translate plug in if you use Chrome.

Benavidez is currently one of the best boxers. I admit that, but I just don't see him beating those 4. He's been fighting smaller or/and older guys until and been calling out older and smaller 5'8" Canelo for the longest time.

His resume is less impressive than you think:

• Lemieux: old/over the hill middleweight
• Plant: ok fighter
• Andrade: old/over the hill
• Gvozdyk: old/over the hill
• Morrell: decent win at a time. arguably lost to Khataev.
• Yarde: average fighter with less than average resume.
• Zurdo: tbh I'm not really sure how good Zurdo is, but he's a slow fighter and perfect matchup for Benavidez.

Which one of those fighters at the level of those 4 above? Or even close to them?

People said his blazing hand speed will overwhelm even Bivol. His hand speed only work for a stationary target like Zurdo. Do you think he can keep up that rate against Bivol? It may work against Beterbiev and Opetaia assuming they don't overpower him first.

Rationally, how you think Benavidez would beat those 4? Especially Bivol and Usyk?

Some people even said that Benavidez might be better than RJJ.

Would taxi vans be willing to take passengers from CTS all the way to Sapporo and (vice versa)? The reason I'm asking because in some countries taxis would not be willing to go too far if it means they have to drive back without passengers.

The timing will be around noon on a weekday. Considering there are buses and trains, I'm wondering if they might refuse service since they might not get passengers coming back from Sapporo. Also being a van, which is more expensive, will make it harder to find customers.

In case you are wondering why taxi, the answer is for convenience reason especially going to airport in the morning.

Thanks!

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It comes in X-Wide women which is 2E. I wear Men 8 2E, I guess just pick 9.5 X-Wide?

Thanks!

SFO Long Term parking daily rate is $27. Last year our trip was in June, I kept checking for the price started in April, on May 20th they posted discount price of $15/day. This year I did the same thing, and they just posted the same discount today.

You can always cancel or change your booking up to 2 hours prior to the booking time.

website: https://www.flysfo.com/passengers/parking

We went twice, 10 days and 22 days. We went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Hiroshima. We visited the standard/common tourist spots.

Going this summer again for 24 days. Current plan: Tokyo -> Sapporo -> Fukuoka -> Himeji -> Osaka -> Kyoto -> Yokohama -> Tokyo.

We've NEVER been to Mt.Fuji, Hakone, Enoshima (went to Kamakura and the train was jam packed), Nikko, etc. We never stayed at a Ryokan.

We are planning to do daytrip to Nikko (from Tokyo) and/or Hakone (from Yokohama).

Our last leg will be a week in Tokyo. We are going to shop like crazy then.

We are not planning to rent a car. We are a family of 4 with two teenagers.

We like Japan a lot, but I think this third time will be our last for a while.

Where would you go, and what would you do there if this were your last trip?