Stocks where I spend my money 230726
As part of my Stocks where I spend my money series,
I looked at SPCX [Ch] on June 18th, June 24th & July 20th 2026.
also noticed WEN [Ch] on June 24th & July 3rd 2026, now $7.17 USD.
Then I looked at NVDA [Ch] On July 10th & July 16th 2026.
So let's take a broad look at what's going on in the market, and at some specific stocks.
S&P 500 Screener
looking at 1 day
zoom out, 1 week
zoom out, 30 day
I am no expert, but I am trying to keep my eye on things, and due my research before diving in.
What is Up this Month? NVDIA +3.91%, MSFT +2.17%, AAPL +8.86%, META +8.02%, META +8.02%, Visa +6.77%, Mastercard +8.17%, LILY +6.7%, JNJ +8.13%, ABV +9.11%, MRK +8.78%, RTX +11.9%, XOM +12.9%, CVX +11.08%, SPGI +11.09%, SCHW +9.05% .. And so on.
What is Down this Month? GOOGL -7.81%, MU -5.89%, MRVL -25.99%, INTC -24.6%, -QCOM -17.15%, ORCL -27.41%, SNPS -19.18%, SNDK -15.86%, CSCO -7.01%, IBM -22.23%, NFLX -5.12%, APP -14.61%, TSLA -15.98%, WMT -9.66%, CAT -8.66%, EQIX -7.58%, AMT -8.14% .. And so on.
Further Exploration..
Of the companies that made gains this month,
the top stocks for the long term are likely;
NVIDIA (NVDA)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Meta Platforms (META)
with strong contenders;
Eli Lilly (LLY)
Visa (V) & Mastercard (MA)
S&P Global (SPGI)
Raytheon (RTX)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Merck (MRK) & AbbVie (ABV)
Google is probably a good buy, if you think Google will be around in ten years. Personally I have been looking at Cisco, and eventually will want to buy some Netflix. Tesla is likely a good long term hold, and Walmart is one of those places where I actually spend my money each month.
What will happen? I don't really know. This is just exploration and taking notes over the summer, while I build up my cash balance and prepare to dip my toes into stocks. I also feel like I will regret it if I don't go at least 50% in on Bitcoin during this final part of the bear cycle. When the BTC bottoms, we will see. However someone like me who has no traditional investments looks back to middle school when they had us pretend to buy stocks, and I see clearly that had I done it for real I would be swimming. Back then they had us looking at companies like Apple, Microsoft, and others.
Apple was under a dollar. Microsoft under $30. Why oh why did I not dive in when I was just a teenager? Regrets, are little profit. Action, sustained over time, carry risk but also reward. I decided to open a new dedicated Wealth account, and to commit to depositing just $50 every two weeks. Dedicated to building up some buffer cash before investing, and also dedicated to buying stocks for the long term, applying the resilience and endurance I have learned with Bitcoin to traditional finance. Can I invest wisely through the looming crashes everyone is afraid of?
I don't know if this will lead to financial success as it is termed. I need to build a portfolio of at least $800,000 to 'retire' and at $50/biweekly that will take about 640 years. But with advances in medicine and biohacking trends, maybe I will get to live that long to see the results.
