Anyone Dabbling Stock Trading ??

[djefferis]

O isn’t a bad stock to hold - but are office buildings really a place to be long term? We know retail real estate is dead - how long until office parks begin to follow ? Sure, they own and hold only the best - but like they say - last thing you want to own is the highest price house in a depressed neighborhood.

VDOR not familiar with - but just reading on it feels like a scam. Crypto tied to oil futures…if I want to invest in oil/resources look at names like TPL, NRP or EOG and FANG. I hold some GPOR too - only because I see what they are doing daily and they do have some decent wells going online with a low cost of production. If Nat Gas stays over $3 for any period and these data centers do develop nearby in Appalachia it could be a winner.

Coal is being largely slept on by retail investors - but you see the big boys buying in. As these data centers grow - so do power needs. The Midwest is ripe for development - take hefty tax incentives to build a data center in some former factory, infrastructure is there to supply the massive power needs already and future power generation can be added quickly using the plentiful natural gas from the Utica fields as well as supplemented by cheap coal now that the complaints from Canada about pollution aren’t a concern. Utilities like AEP and DUK are worth watching too.

 

[JDS]

O isn’t a bad stock to hold - but are office buildings really a place to be long term? We know retail real estate is dead - how long until office parks begin to follow ? Sure, they own and hold only the best - but like they say - last thing you want to own is the highest price house in a depressed neighborhood.

VDOR not familiar with - but just reading on it feels like a scam. Crypto tied to oil futures…if I want to invest in oil/resources look at names like TPL, NRP or EOG and FANG. I hold some GPOR too - only because I see what they are doing daily and they do have some decent wells going online with a low cost of production. If Nat Gas stays over $3 for any period and these data centers do develop nearby in Appalachia it could be a winner.

Coal is being largely slept on by retail investors - but you see the big boys buying in. As these data centers grow - so do power needs. The Midwest is ripe for development - take hefty tax incentives to build a data center in some former factory, infrastructure is there to supply the massive power needs already and future power generation can be added quickly using the plentiful natural gas from the Utica fields as well as supplemented by cheap coal now that the complaints from Canada about pollution aren’t a concern. Utilities like AEP and DUK are worth watching too.

Your gut feeling on VDOR could be spot on it screams meme coin hype more than a serious investment. It’s a Solana-based token launched recently that tries to ride the “Real World Asset” wave by claiming some loose tie to oil reserves, futures, or energy collateral.

In reality, it’s mostly speculative narrative with anonymous unclear actual backing in physical oil barrels, and heavy promotion that smells like pump-and-dump tactics. Totally agree on the traditional energy names instead. If you’re bullish on oil and resources, the producers you mentioned make way more sense.

 

[djefferis]

I mean - I guess if your actively monitoring, ready to sell the moment you make a sizable profit and not the type that gets greedy - it could be worth taking a few hundred dollar flyer on.

Just wouldn’t recommend stuff like that for investing - it’s pure speculation and odds are there are a few suckers left and ready to fall into that trap still.