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Market manipulation at its finest.
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Oil will run out sometime.
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More likely it'll just stop being profitable to pump, refine, and export.
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That's what peak oil is: the point where production peaks because it's now too expensive to continue. There will always still be some, it'll just not be worth the money to get the last bits out.
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It will happen when solar/wind/battery technology outpace it and nobody wants it anymore, not because the wells run near-dry.
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Aww shit is this why my portfolio is taking a midday dump? Almost completely recovered from last week too.
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Yep.
This is the equivalent to a fucking 5 year old who doesn't get his way saying "I'm taking my ball and I'm going home!" Guess you can't really have a council when everyone is jumping ship regardless. Note to self:. Always unequivocally disown white supremacists and the KKK.
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You can disown them 10 times and they still say you're not doing it sincerely enough. Or quickly enough. Or you were reading a script.
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The trick is to disown them at some point within 2 days and then to not reverse that specificity within 36 hours
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Reverse by stating the fact that Antifa and other leftist thugs acted violently as well just as we've watched leftists riot and burn cities to the ground over the past few years? This isn't about white supremacy, it's about power and control of the narrative.
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>Reverse by stating the fact that Antifa and other leftist thugs acted violently as well just as we've watched leftists riot and burn cities to the ground over the past few years? This isn't about white supremacy, it's about power and control of the narrative.
LOL
It's funny how you actually believe it's all crazed leftists that have rioted, and that cities have actually been burned down. Do you ever go outside?
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Dont you remember Occupy Wall Street? The most dangerous political demonstration ever assembled?
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What a horrific time. Pot smoking bums flooded the city and had sex EVERYWHERE! They never even bathed once. :'(
#NeverForget
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Are you saying that a yearly U.S. ~ 1 TRILLION $ Account deficit with China is sustainable?
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TIL 566B = 1T
But yeah, a $1T trade deficit is sustainable as long as we continue to consume. Prove otherwise.
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If you are borrowing the money to sustain the consumption, you can bet your ass its unsustainable. Simply, them more you borrow, the more your credit rating drops. The more your rating drops, the higher the action on the money you borrow. So, long and short, its a death spiral. Eventually your creditors will not consider you creditworthy, and boom! It's over.
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You’re treating the US economy like it’s an individual and not an economy. You’re ignoring the role huge influxes of cash to China will have on their currency and ability to export. It’s not a matter if the yuan will rise; it’s a matter of when.
The trade deficit is sustainable because if America continues to consume it will be because American output continues to rise and American credit hasn’t faltered.
Your initial assertion is loaded.
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You left out the part where the value of Yuan is artificially manipulated by the Chinese Government and many Chinese products are heavily subsidized by their government with the sole purpose of hurting American industry.
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You selling tin foil hats?
It’s no more artificial than American monetary policy. China just has more explicitly prescribed goals.
I didn’t leave that out at all. I was very explicit in saying the peg can’t last forever.
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spy calls
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Oh good, people are talking spy calls. This means I might actually finally make some money on my VTI.
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VTI is buy and hold, bruh
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I've been holding but where the money at babe?
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When did u get in? Shit is up like 20% since I bought it. VTI is like the teddy bear you snuggle with every night to comfort you after your anus took a beating from your dumb short term trades.
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Babe, you know me so well. Got prison yard gang banged on JDST, lost 5k. Total market ETF's are like the sponge bob band aids that I put on my anal tears and apple is like the saline solution that i squirt up into my ass to reduce the swelling of the anal contusions.
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Fuck sold too early
Edit: I'll watch you guys from the Earth :(
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Lol im holding till 40
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I'm holding til AMD buys APPL
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Nah, on that day I'll be buying the dip.
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If it makes you feel any better his bloodline hasn't exactly lived long rich lives:
* Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr., dead age 29
* John F. Kennedy, dead age 46
* Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy, lobotomized age 23
* Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Kennedy, dead age 28
* Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, dead age 43
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Cursed money
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Then all the Bush's would be dead too, since Prescott dealt with Nazi's and stolen jewish gold.
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Bush Sr was skull and Bones, so he played ball and waited his family's turn.
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My dad was in skull and bones. One of the few black members. I posted a pic
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My friend who went to Yale said it's just a really elite debating team. Since Yale is the educational center of the rich and powerful of the US, it makes sense that
Multiple politicians and business men.
Then I said, "that's what they want you to think!".
Edit: I'm just fucking with you. I don't have any friends.
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To be fair /r/options at least had a passing understanding of what options are. Here it’s just leverage for YOLOing... as it should be.
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what are options? isn't it that little gear icon in the corner?
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Options are this great new feature on robinhood. They're relatively new to the world of investing, having just been created earlier this year, so don't worry if you haven't heard of them yet. So, basically, if you "buy" an option, robinhood is promising to give you a shitload of money if the stock does the thing you're saying it's going to do. For some reason, though, robinhood shows options at 1/100th of their actual price. It's probably just a harmless bug, but keep that in mind when you're trading. Unlike stocks, when you "buy" an option, you aren't actually buying anything. Robinhood is just promising to give you a ton of money if the stock goes up. So, even though robinhood has a button for "selling" options, you should never press it. They just put it there to trick noobs into giving them money. Also you'll notice that when you buy an option it has a date associated with it. This is known as the "expiration date." Legally, robinhood has to give you more money than you spent on the option at this date (how much more depends on how much the stock went up), so the sooner the expiration date, the better. You'll also notice a price on the option different than the price you pay for it. This is called the "strike price," and pay attention because this is a little tricky. Essentially, if the stock rises to this price (or for puts, falls to this price), robinhood will "strike" the option from your account, and you won't get anything back (you can always use your monthly refund to get back what you paid, but you don't want to waste that if you don't have to). So, obviously, you want a strike price that's as far away from the current stock price as possible. Luckily, though, these are also usually the cheapest options.
 
Alright! Now you're all set to start trading options! Also, use my robinhood referral code for a free stock when you sign up!
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tl;dr, but did you seriously type that out? there's something fucking wrong with you
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Adderall
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wtf is this some kind of Craigslist scam?
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Because I touch myself at night.
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Don't you dare stop
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wait I wasn't even replying to you
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You 3 better keep stroking. Everyone is counting on you
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## Speaker_0: ##
Why are tariffs so popular in the news lately?
now before you call me retarded, please have patience i have autism.
what i mean is, previous presidents, did they impose as many tariffs? obama?
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Tarrifs are retarded. People who are using them are ignoring the impact they are having on the whole country. Most American businesses didn’t use American steel which employs like 20,000 people. Trump is pinching almost the rest of his industrial base and putting 3/4 of a million jobs at risk for 20,000 people?
The impact of tariffs is lowering future outlooks because of the increased costs associated. Some businesses are trying to absorb them to stay competitive but that just lowers their share prices and it sucks to be their shareholders.
## Walls1337bot: ##
Tarrifs as a long term strategy to protect domestic companies are retarded.
In the short term, they might be a useful tool to pressure asshole countries into trade agreements that help everyone... if it works.
## Speaker_1: ##
He picked on China, second largest economy in the world with anything goes for economic policy and monetary controls.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/china-monetary-policy-how-pboc-controls-money-supply-interest-rate.html
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He picked on them using the largest economic empire in the history of human civilization while it's still on top. Not saying I would have done it, but at least he did it while the US economy was strong and can survive the hit and while the Chinese economy might be in a bubble propped up by wacky economic policies and shady monetary controls.
The trade war is only a good idea if it ends up working of course, but at least be honest about the reasons why he's doing it.
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## Speaker_0: ##
dipshit beaches his shitty boat sailing drunk at night, gofundme collects enough to bail out his towing costs and a new shitty boat...
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Sounds like stupidity is the best catalyst for profit. Why does this sub continue to fail?
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Because we're not *completely* shameless.
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speak for yourself nigga
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Sucking off old men for spare change is several steps above begging people on the Internet to bail you out of your own retardation.
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Washing windows at stoplights is a growth industry too
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>Rubbing dirty rags on clean windows at stoplights is a growth industry too
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## Speaker_0: ##
Bro what is this brokerage? Switch to like TD ameritrade and use think or swim. Their customer service is top tier. These guys are using your money to Schwab their ass
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It's true, TD Ameritrade is top notch as far as brokers go but fuckkkkkkkk those commissions suck so bad.
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An email or phone call to TD will get them cut. Mine are $3.99.
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Did you just call and ask for a lower commission?
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Robinhood is asking for trouble here...
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OP is not a bank, he WILL have to pay the money back.
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If RH isn't careful they could end up getting sued by all of the dumbasses who fuck themselves with this
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and what would be the excuse legal enough to sue them?
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Ignorance of the law, stupidity, free collage
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Did you attend a free collage?
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Well it just ended sooooo
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F
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It doesn't even matter though, just wait for guidance
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Oh this isn't the micron ER thread lol
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Everything in this sub is a Micron thread
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J to da nug!
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you dont think its priced in?
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What is there to be priced in?
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Potential buy out faggot
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By AMD?
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By Snapchat
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Buy Snapchat?
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All in on Snapchat?
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Don't fret - I watched the footage of the crash and it was almost certainly unavoidable. Once investigation is released it will fizzle out... BTFD
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What crash?
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Uber's self driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizon.
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What does that have to do with nvdia?
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NVDA is powering UBER's self driving car with their tech. Look at my post history for a writeup
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What do you mean powering? Their lidar? Their software? If it's just the SoC, then this self off is absolutely retarded.
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Yep, just the SoC Xavier chip from NVDA
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If NVDA's only expusure is hardware, then this is complete non event.
And anyone selling because of this is short a chromosome.
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daddy bezos please buy twitter and kick off the orange man
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Maybe Bezos should just pay a standard corporate tax rate instead.
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They do and Trump just passed a massive tax cut and is mad they are not paying max taxes? Trump personally hasn't payed taxes in 18 years
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Lol. They pay around 10% federal.
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You're talking as if Amazon doesn't play by the same set of tax rules that all other corporations do. Maybe if Trump's dick wasn't so far up your ass you'd have room in that skull for a brain? kys faggot
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More salt, faggot. Please give more.
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That's all it took to get you to pull the salt card? You're even more of an obese small dick basement dwelling virgin than I thought. Now be a good cumbag and put back on that downsie helmet.
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YES! YES! More delicious salt! Please give more, faggot...
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WSB isn’t even a left leaning sub and you’re getting buried in downvotes. You should consider the possibility that you’re an asshole
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edit: goddamn it i wanted a FUNDING SECURED chain but you idiots wont do it
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It's not a loss until you sell
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Until it expires worthless anyway
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What the fuck kind of attitude is this?
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We either get rich or die trying
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Oh you mean our lives expire worthless and early.
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meth
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Come on, the dude has money, don’t dis respect him like this. You know it’s primo cocaine or nothing.
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fentanyl
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What sort of hillbilly shit do you think he is into ?
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This is Kramer we're talking about here. He's one n word, a trucker hat and a sexual harassment suit away from being Trump's next cabinet pick.
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#thankful I'm not losing money today #PPT #pensions
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I heard they are doing another round on Monday
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oh yah says who
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CNBC article read Friday
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Oh yah what friday
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Ur boi is a fuckin stable genius. He inherited Obama's bull market and may be cratering it.
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Obanga never had a bull market. Just his election alone plunged the US into one of the worse elections of all time. In contrast to Trump who ushered us into the greatest bull run of all time. Not to mention that Obanga sold us out to the China, muslims, Jews and Russia, runing our strong national and letting the SJWs take over
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Jesus christ look at Milton Friedman over here. Can you point me to a good (((SJWs))) controlling the market index?
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Soros and Disney. Also Tesla. Look at how many Jews own the top multiconglomerate companies.
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http://ir.tesla.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors
He's right. Look at all those classically Jewish names, like Gracias, Jurvetson and Buss.
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damn your rent is TOO DAMN HIGH
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maybe if your rent wasnt so high you wouldnt be so poor
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Well, it's two months worth of rent (Oct and Nov), including my 3 roommates' rent. Should I tell my roomies I made 80% gainz on their rent checks? Even then, my portion of the rent is still more expensive than my sister's mortgage payment.
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You complete asshat.
You fit right in.
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Whatever, not once have they ever paid me rent on time, but I (usually) pay rent on time, so I front like $2500 every damn month. Payback.
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Good job.Time to get a job and fund the option gambling addiction like us.
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Oh I only did this after signing my offer letter.
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The fuck is this kind of responsibility doing in this sub?
(Grats on the gains man)
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Lmaaaao at least I'm not on the vanguard target 2060 fund
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Wait is the vanguard 2060 fund bad? (Sorry I'm new to this) I started putting money towards it is why I'm asking.
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Not if you’re a pussy that considers 10% annual returns good.
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What would the premise of your 50k loan be?
Considering the rise in interest rates. What do you fair your rates to be?
I believe you’re suppose to disclose the purpose of the loan and it’s fraud? If used inappropriately.
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Would the pursue litigation as long as you pay back, though?
I’m absolutely not recommending this but my guess is they won’t sue your ass unless you file for bankruptcy then all bets are off.
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But you need to disclose at application.
I mean it’s illegal.
But, if you’re able to get a 5% 5-year 50k loan and outperform, go nuts.
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Would disclosing the purpose of "investment" result in an automatic loan denial? I'm thinking of applying through TD Ameritrade.
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I mean you could say small loan for a business investment. I am essentially qualifying to not tell you to do something illegal.
“I mean you could.... but I wouldn’t.... just saying”
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This is exactly what margin is.
You guys are all retarded thinking this is illegal
A general purpose loan can be used for whatever you'd like.
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Should we be guessing which $22bn company this is or something?
My guess is snap, yah?
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yeah ofc
do you know of any other $22B company losing that much ^^ ^^
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Uber?
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Uber is $60 billion, and private
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Yes I am aware.
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Then why did say it?
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Because I don’t read rhetorical questions fully before responding with retarded answers. I’ve got $MU to buy over here.
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What a fuckin loser. I like pharma bros that don't get captured.
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Oh damn now that they locking me up is when you decide to talk shit.
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Guys I just noticed that it isn't really him commenting here lol. Check out the 5 in the username
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Nah I'm real 100%, don't be talkin shit to me alright i'm already having a rough day u handsome-ass nigga.
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Wu tang or not true.
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Wu tang only for my realest niggas and you not there yet
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respond to almost any thread with an adult opinion.
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Literally the quickest way, the automod says that the sub is a safe space and dissenting opinions will be banned.
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I get that subreddits can make their own rules and I support that but why would anyone *want* to be a member of a community that bans any diversity of thought?! They have 300,000 subscribers for fucks sake. It's like one big ideologue sycophant circle jerk. #MU #AMD
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I am banned from both r/the_donald and r/LateStageCapitalism for the most stupid reasons.
In LSC I got banned because there was a thread where they were insulting CEOs about how much they earn, how easy their job is and how easy it is to get there, so I asked the LSC users what is stopping them from becoming a CEO.
In T_D there was a thread insulting Muslims saying how they all hate dogs and want to murder them or some shit and I just commented that I have a Muslim friend with a dog so it is not all of them. I got banned and when I asked for a reason a mod told me that I "speak Mexican" probably because I had a Spanish flair.
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TD is nationalistic pride to the point of annoyance in my opinion. All caps, do-no-wrong-if-you’re-on-our-side pride.
It made sense when it was a meme sub.
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I think that's the thing. You shouldn't just accept the bias, you should try to change it.
Your bias comes from your background as a people. Most Trump voters are white males, so you haven't felt the struggles of, for example, POC. It doesn't make your strict immigration policy wrong—it's not wrong. It's not the only defensible policy, but you're not wrong.
Racism is wrong. And you do see that there.
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I used to be just like you, and then after a lot of lurking and seeing everybody making easy money on SPY options, I got into options around December. Now I've lost it all.
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When I first started investing I carried The Little Book of Common Sense Investing around like it was the book of Mormon and followed all the reasonable guidelines it set forth. But investing in index funds was just soooo fucking boooring. There was nothing to look forward to, just little baby steps further into financial stability each day. After I got into options everything changed. There is something to look forward to now. There are things to fear now. The cold sweats I've been waking up in recently remind me that I am alive. I would take colossal, life altering losses over boring index funds any day of the week .
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This sub cracks me up just because of the absolute reckless abandon of self preservation. I was hooked as well when 25k magically turned into 50k due to options. It was all gone within a week because I decided the next step was week out options over earnings night. We go for broke.
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Where do I learn about options?
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Trial and error is generally the best way to learn
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Uhhhhh movie pass is at 52 cents. How’s a call at 3$ up
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Was at $2 earlier
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wouldn't it still be OTM at $2?
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You have no idea how options work. Just be quiet.
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No. Jesus, your entire comment history is just cussing at people asking questions. Who hurt you?
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I bet it's JNUG. Muh baby.
I had similar gains, except it was a ~40% and in the course of ~10 days, not just one day.
Nice trade btw
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Mostly UVXY Puts actually. Closed them all out today. Added GPRO Calls. It may not reach it's previous high of 98+, but at 16.05, with the first product refresh in years, and volume coming in strong, it should have legs.
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Honestly, I think GOPRO will have a nice pop. Like... Really nice. Next earnings. People who like Drones will buy GoPro's drone because it's a good product (Portable, etc) And cheap, and people who don't own drones but were thinking about it will buy it because it's cheap and good.
I think they will absolutely explode the earnings. I might do options then.
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I think I know 2 people with drones and they sit in a closet.
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How do you know these people if they're stuck inside all day?
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Everything you need to know about GS: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
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A president could win my vote on the sole promise of firing the Sherman Anti-Trust cannon at them.
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If only the average voting idiot knew what that meant.
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Exactly. Education, education, education is the only thing that is going to fix this mess. But that requires spending money on public education, which our society cannot do, because it requires delayed gratification.
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>But that requires spending money on public education, which our society cannot do
GOD I HATE THIS FUCKING MEME
America spends MORE ON EDUCATION PER CAPITA THAN ALL BUT 4 NATIONS ON EARTH you dumb shits. More money won't solve the *quality* of our education, if the last $5000 per capita didn't, another $5000 won't.
There are systemic issues to solve, and money will not fucking solve them.
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We will officially be in a bear market before the end of next week.
Edit: https://wifflegif.com/gifs/650296-the-eric-andre-show-hannibal-buress-gif
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lol no chance
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your a faggot dude. you don't know shit
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Yup. 3 years of hedge fund experience, 2 years of valuation experience, a year of corporate development, and on level 3 of the CFA exam this summer. I don't know anything.
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You clearly don't know how the world works. Keep buying that dip son.
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Idk sounds like you're talking out your ass to someone way above your pay grade.
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At first I misread you had a net loss of $850.
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DUDE HOLY FUCKING SHIT MAN
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Yes, I agree, holy fucking shit. Man
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I e been in shock for 2 months now. In all honesty, being upset isn’t gonna help me any.
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Your SFIX short is something else man. The market short squeezed the fuck out of that stock, fucked you, then plummeted 60%. The market is a ruthless fucking bitch and this proves it.
## Walls1337bot: ##
At least one of the fucking idiots who commented on my post understands. Thank you.
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As a lefty I just want to say how much of a loser Clinton is for not being able to beat trump. Like holy shit. Anyone else would’ve easily beaten this guy. Stupid bitch
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All the Dems had to do was send somebody to the election who wasn't one of the most hated people in america. I'm not even convinced that she had a better chance to win than Bernie did. And no way was that dude getting in
## Walls1337bot: ##
The polling showed sanders was more favorable vs trump than clinton was.
## Speaker_2: ##
Ironically, the super-delegate system that fucked Sanders was originally designed to prevent nominating an unelectable candidate. Kind of hilarious how that backfired.
## Walls1337bot: ##
Right. Since it wasn't used then, its only purpose is going to be to screw over a progressive candidate in the future. Which would piss off enough people to ensure another loss. Maybe they should just get rid of it instead of screwing themselves over with it eventually. (Note, I think they did scale it back a little now but it's still there)
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Da fuck? How much? How? Show me your ways...
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damn man, did you do this in the morning right after open?
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Cashed out $1.3M and went all short?
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Sorry man, I couldn't hear that over the sound of your huge brass balls dragging across the floor.
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I'd hate to be his lawyer. Tells him to stfu, but he can't help but continue running his mouth. "Hey congress, why are my goons harder than yours?"
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yeah, congress is not a group of people I would want to make public enemies with!
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Second most powerful group of people in the world after the US Federal Reserve. Great idea to just openly fuck with them.
## Speaker_3: ##
Yeah right. Why don't you look up the video of Congress fellating Jamie Dimon.
## Walls1337bot: ##
To be fair... it's Jamie Dimon. I mean... You wouldn't?
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This just hit me, but whichever company is doing accounting for tsla, the balls of that.
## Walls1337bot: ##
It's PwC, and I assume they don't already have a going concern issue because PwC wants to continue being their auditor.
## Speaker_1: ##
Hasn’t PwC recently been embroiled in a controversy of its own? (Might be thinking of EY)
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You’re thinking of KPMG.
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No, they're a golf apparel company.
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[I love the smell of five figure gains in the morning (~4%)](https://imgur.com/gallery/PcJrF)
## Speaker_0: ##
You going to hold those calls through December earnings?
## Walls1337bot: ##
Yes. Jan’s are ‘19. Might sell Aprils if the share price blows through $60
## Speaker_1: ##
Yo Marty is it worth it to wait for a MU dip, and if so, what would that even look like? Down .5%?
## Walls1337bot: ##
I waited for a dip into the high $30s and missed out on over 10% run. I decided to buy calls last week and it’s up over 6% since. I’d recommend buying in and holding for a while, should be $60+ sometime early next year
## Speaker_1: ##
Thanks man. Their PEG is .36 based off of expected earnings over the next 5 years. Obviously I'm here so fundamentals aren't really my thing.... but I think that actually implies it should *already* be at least twice the price at this very moment.
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They should earn $9-10 per share in FY18, at their current PE the PT would be $90-100. If PE multiple expands, rocket time (but I'm not holding out hope for that).
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Yuge buy at $12 yeesh
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Probably triggered a bunch of stop-losses from shorts.
## Walls1337bot: ##
The fuck is a stop loss
Edit: I know guys, just keeping it funny.
## Speaker_1: ##
An "order" placed to stop your loss.
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Sounds low energy.
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## Speaker_0: ##
2017 is the best year of all time
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Worst year for trolls
## Speaker_2: ##
Trump is still trolling..
## Speaker_1: ##
You think he doesn't hate his life right now? And it's clear he can no longer fuel his ego with the assurance of envy
## Walls1337bot: ##
All he wanted was a tv network/show and to bitch about Hillary for 4 years or more and rake in those ad dollars.
Now he has to try and act like an adult and "work."
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## Walls1337bot: ##
After the run up it just went through. Yes. Study charts. Don’t buy at highs.
## Speaker_0: ##
But the market is almost always at an all time high.
Maybe study a little harder?
## Walls1337bot: ##
It’s a little early to be drunk
## Speaker_1: ##
When would such a time be? Asking for a friend.
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Now is fine
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## Speaker_0: ##
Bought 10 Nov 17 calls for $15 yesterday. Currently up 30%!
Also bought 1,000 shares at $21.916 back in April. Currently down 30%!
## Speaker_1: ##
Congrats now you're currently down.. a metric shit ton!
## Speaker_0: ##
DOWN 20% AH WHAT THE FUCK
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lol it's cool bruh just another "learning experience"
## Walls1337bot: ##
This whole wsb is a "learning experience"
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## Speaker_0: ##
I can't figure out if he's kidding or having a Britney Spears-style meltdown.
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Did his super hot actress girlfriend break up with him again? Edit: anyone remember that really fucking weird Rolling Stone article from a few months ago?
## Speaker_2: ##
There’s Something odd about her. She keeps bouncing around between highly successful/desirable men. She cracked some sort of code to get them to worship her.
## Speaker_3: ##
she sucks dick good, key to all success in life
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How do you explain your lack of success?
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## Speaker_0: ##
You want us to believe that you're able to read?
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Yeah nobodies falling for that shit.
## Speaker_2: ##
How would he post to reddit if he was illiterate?
## Speaker_3: ##
Probably his mum posts for him, just like mine!
## Speaker_2: ##
That doesn't make sense. Does your mom then read every post for you, too?
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You must be new here
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## Speaker_0: ##
I truly hope this guy inverses himself if he still actually controls his portfolio. Better yet hopefully he pays someone else to manage it.
If the report was false wouldn’t JNJ just sue the living shit out of Reuters? Seems to me the best course of action would be prove it’s false and hten put that out instead of inflaming one of the biggest news networks in the world but I don’t know.
## Speaker_1: ##
It’s correct though and they’ve lost lawsuits before because of it.
## Walls1337bot: ##
Fake news, $4.62 bln award is of course being appealed. But, that trial is gonna be amazingly boring with science and numbers and jury's hate that shit, so appeal could go down in flames.
## Speaker_2: ##
You act like a jury would settle this. This is probably a bench trial.
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I don't know how it would work and you're probably right I was talking out of my ass.
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## Speaker_0: ##
Palms sweaty, indicators weak, bag is heavy, the NUG has dropped so much already, portfolios unsteady, I'm nervous.
## Speaker_1: ##
but on the surface he look calm and ready, to buy the dip, but he keeps on forgetting, that he's broke now
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Tickers dropping, Pow!
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$SNAP back to reality
fucked by volatility
## Speaker_4: ##
He knows it's not that easy
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Peas and spaghetti
## Walls1337bot: ##
You brought shame to WSB. We only accept autism here not downs.
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## Speaker_0: ##
yeah pm me your SSN
## Speaker_1: ##
457-55-5462
My name's Todd. Please send me some inflation, thanks.
## Speaker_2: ##
Mother's maiden name?
## Speaker_3: ##
But what was your favorite pet growing up?
## Speaker_4: ##
Harambe
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rip
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Saved. If it follows this relatively close and I make some easy rebound cash I'll gild you.
## Speaker_2: ##
this shit is bad. the stock is not rebounding for shit this week
## Speaker_1: ##
I think we get a dead cat bounce tomorrow and then a prolonged run back up down the line. We'll see
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I need that dead cat to bounce of a fucking trampoline.
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## Speaker_0: ##
Only losing 200k in a year? Those are rookie numbers gotta pump those up
## Speaker_1: ##
only losing ~20% a year? Half this sub lost 20% in a day when $HMNY tanked. What a fucking amateur.
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20%? He started with 1.2 million and ended up with 1 million so he'd have lost 16.67%. I might be wrong. I kind of have a sinking feeling that we're all in WSB losing all our money because we suck at 6th grade math.
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No, you did it wrong. 1.2 is 20% more than 1. You just did it backwards. It's better to realize and accept your mistake than make it again and again.
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Trump said rates are being kept lower to bolster Obama's legacy. "Any increase at all will be a very, very small increase because they want to keep the market up so Obama goes out and let the new guy ... raise interest rates ... and watch what happens in the stock market."
dude just hits the nail on the head every time.
OH WAIT NEVERMIND MARK CUBAN JUST TWEETED ITS ALL TRUMPS FAULT.
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Can't wait to have a president who just calls everybody out on all this bullshit
## Speaker_2: ##
You guys are kidding right? I know this sub is retarded, but Trump supporter retarded?
## Speaker_1: ##
You're kidding right? I knew this sub was retarded, but "all trump supporters must be retarded" retarded?
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All trump supporters are retarded, this much should be obvious by now.
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Oh look we found ourselves a Bernout trying to make money from all the donations he gave out.
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"No refunds."
-Barney Sandals
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wait i thought opec was increasing production to drop the price of oil so demand doesn't go down
## Speaker_1: ##
yes but what you're forgetting is that the president is retarded
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Haha, I know, right? A self-made billionaire who become President of the United States is retarded.
I’m honestly shocked at how far leftard cuckoldry has spread across Reddit. Even places like r/worldnews think Trump is a moron. Hell - I went on 4chan yesterday, and most people seemed to think Trump is an idiot. Where the fuck are Trump supporters welcome now?
Edit: PLEASE, continue to downvote me. Looks like I triggered some libcucks. I take it as downvotes of honor.
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Wonder where they got that idea. His base is so full of bright individuals like yourself.
Butt seriously, I can empathize with you because it has got it be hard to hear anything with your head up your ass.
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Hahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahah! Hey guys, he called us globalist cucks! It’s over for us! Wow! I’ve never heard that word before!
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I’m 99% sure this guy’s a troll, look at his profile. All downvotes.
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## Speaker_0: ##
If I made less than $200k I'd kill myself so it wouldn't matter anyway
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Lol sad. I can live off 40k a year easy and comfortably.
## Speaker_0: ##
please don't tell me you bathe yourself
## Speaker_1: ##
Hell no. Leave that for the meek. Did i say 40 a year i meant 40k a day now get of my back i have a world to rule!
## Walls1337bot: ##
40k a day? You can't even afford an air yacht with that kind of money. Pathetic tbh.
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I’d backtest your theory with historic stocks that are in the same situation as Tsla and see how it works
## Speaker_0: ##
I honestly don't know how I'd even begin to go about doing that. I mean, how do I determine if a company was in the same situation as Tesla? There has likely never been an exact match. I imagine if I did find a way to back test this strategy though that it would be horribly ineffective.
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Hmm you can start by googling companies with the same bond rating at tsla with a similar P/E level at its peak
## Speaker_0: ##
Tesla doesn't even have a P/E because they've never been profitable. They are trading at about 4 times sales though
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Thanks for correcting me
Use some kind of metric like that which you can peg across all of the companies
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VTB for not showing positions
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[https://imgur.com/LJ1rPMr](https://imgur.com/LJ1rPMr)
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And what were your other positions to get to that $30k?
## Speaker_3: ##
All you have to do is blow 60,000 dicks it's not that hard man.
## Speaker_4: ##
You give blow jobs for 50¢ ?
## Speaker_3: ##
Yeah it's a net loss but I'll make up for it in volume.
## Walls1337bot: ##
Switch to 25 cent hand jobs. You can give 4 hand jobs at the same time.
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Never invested before, just saw this on /r/all, but can somebody explain why SNAP is a joke?
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Haven't made a profit, hardly any revenue
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Are they usually expected to make a profit in a matter of days? I saw the story that they first went public last week.
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Companies still exist before there public
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[jesus christ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJyRQ3GsKcQ/UJWl3Dzc6iI/AAAAAAAAGW8/EqMpRAfA6ew/s640/facepalm-bert.jpg)
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All this ass had to do was denounce Nazis and White supremacists in the strongest fashion and we'd be eating peoples lunch right now. But suddenly this dude feels as if he's in a re-election year in the first year of his stupid ass Presidency? Everyone is running for the fucking hills.
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Yeah he said that one day, and then the next said pretty much that both sides are to blame, and that there were some good people marching with the neo nazis.
## Speaker_3: ##
Precisely.
First response: "many sides" to blame.
Days Later (under duress): Nazis are bad, mmkay.
Next Day: some neo-nazis are "good guys" and lots of antifa & "alt left" people are "very very bad" and I'm the only one with the courage to stick up for white nationalists.
Also, in regards to this statement:
> But suddenly this dude feels as if he's in a re-election year in the first year of his stupid ass Presidency?
He's not doing it to get re-elected. Dude is straight up racist.
## Speaker_4: ##
Can you link to where he said some neo-nazis are good guys? I've never seen this and I have trouble believing it.
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Probably because it didn't happen.
## Walls1337bot: ##
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/
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RIP u/kmoh74 the guy who put 100k into it
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HE ISN'T EVEN AWAKE YET LMAO
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In for a rude awakening
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I hope if someone is dumb enough to dump 100K in a meme stock merger they were at least smart enough to hedge their position with a few puts.
## Speaker_4: ##
Stop putting the word meme in front of everything you dumb faggot.
## Walls1337bot: ##
So are you a sad excuse for a human being irl or do you just play one on the internet?
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I’m up like 150k this week.
Edit: ended the week up 177k and some change.
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[womp womp](https://baddaytrader.tumblr.com/post/174216326266)
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It’s 7d range, so technically back to last friday.
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All good. Just takes time. Last year I this time I was at about 500k
## Speaker_1: ##
What did you start with?
## Walls1337bot: ##
I’ve put money in over the last 4 years. Started with 30k traded to 150k, fucked up and yolod my account on a loser and went back down to like 8k. Saved some money by working 3 jobs and put it all into my account and traded up from there. I think I have put in about 300k of my own money in total over the 4 years.
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proof this isn't a paper account f4gg05
## Walls1337bot: ##
http://imgur.com/a/pN2Da
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Congrats OP, you are officially a retard.
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OP just made 600k in one day, how does that make you feel?
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Looks like at least 48 people agreed with him
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I am a poor faggot. Pls post paywall bypass
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All my money is tied up in fnma. Please post the paywall bypass too.
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A fight is brewing between the U.S. Treasury department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Investors would do well to ignore it.
Instead, investors and other housing market participants should focus on a promising consensus that is beginning to form about the ultimate future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The recent news around these two government-controlled housing giants has focused on an intragovernmental dispute over whether they will continue to pay their full quarterly profits to the U.S. Treasury, as they have since 2012.
Less noticed has been Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s opening of the door for the first time to an explicit government guarantee for the mortgage market.
In an exchange last week with key Senators Mike Crapo (R., Idaho) and Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), Mr. Mnuchin said he would consider a government backstop for the mortgage market. “If there is a guarantee, we would want to make sure that there is ample credit and real risk in front of that guarantee, so that taxpayers are not at risk,” he said.
These comments suggest the Trump administration’s thinking is in line with a range of compromise proposals put forward by private think tanks, the Mortgage Bankers Association and others. These plans would dramatically restructure Fannie and Freddie, and put in place a federal guarantee on certain mortgage securities. This protection would kick in after private investors have taken initial losses through the new “credit risk transfer” market.
Under most of these plans Fannie and Freddie would still exist, but with a more limited role, perhaps as utility-like mortgage guarantors.
That may not be the most profitable outcome for Fannie and Freddie shareholders, but they are far from the only stakeholders in this debate. The new government guarantee would ensure a steady flow of investment into the trillion-dollar mortgage-backed securities market, keeping mortgage rates low.
Investors willing to take on some repayment risk in exchange for higher returns could do so in the new credit-risk transfer market. Fannie and Freddie have been unloading credit risk on mortgage pools with securities and reinsurance contracts through this experimental market since 2013.
There remain important questions on compromise plans like these, notably how the system would cope with a pullback of private risk capital during a housing downturn.
It is also unclear if conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives would support any federal role in housing finance. But a limited, explicit guarantee would strike many policy makers as preferable to the alternative arrangement of huge implicit government backing for Fannie and Freddie.
Housing market participants across the board should look past the weekly Washington battles over Fannie and Freddie, and be encouraged that a long-term solution is now emerging.
## Speaker_3: ##
> Investors willing to take on some repayment risk in exchange for higher returns could do so in the new credit-risk transfer market.
What does this mean... Are they saying we will have a chance to either take Junior preffereds at Par Value? Or transfer Junior preffereds into Commons? Or what? Sorry, am semi-retarded
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Preferreds? Commons? Son, are you sure you're in the right asset class?
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You must be new here...
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No, just back after a long break with a new account. So some inside joke I'm not getting then.
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God damnit. At close yesterday I was looking at 250% profit. How does this fucking happen.
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You should take your gains instead while they're their. I learned this lesson last year.
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I dont normally trade after hours
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Me neither. Didn't realize you only hit after hours sorry.
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Also you can't trade options after hours. If he had a 250% profit he definitely was holding calls.
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[Help](http://i.imgur.com/AbrjLEH.png)
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https://i.redd.it/qtoi57inab5y.png
fucking savages
## Speaker_0: ##
Literally wanted Trump in office as a fuck you vote. Idc what he does. As long he's there shitposting and Triggering msm and liberal I'm happy. If he build a wall and renegotiates trade deals and becomes butt buddies with Russia while Nigle Farage and him call out the slow collapse of ~~USSR~~ EU I'm happy.
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these violent delights have violent ends
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## Speaker_0: ##
Ban me faggot
## Walls1337bot: ##
#I don't want to be rude but..[You have the charisma of a damp rag](https://youtu.be/bypLwI5AQvY) and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask, is ***"Who are you?"*** I'd never heard of you. Nobody on /r/WSB had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, u/SIThereAndThere, who upvoted for you, and what mechanism? Oh, I know democracy isn't popular with you lots, and what mechanism the people of /r/WSB have to remove you? Is this /r/WSB democracy?
Well, I sense, though that you are competent and capable and dangerous, and I have no doubt in your intention, to be the quiet assassin of /r/WSB democracy, and of the /r/WSB subreddit-nation-states. You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of us subreddit-nation-states - perhaps that's because you come from /r/investing, which is pretty much a non-subreddit.
tl;dr sftu no body cares and fuck u/dsbtc
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## Speaker_0: ##
https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5030883/amp/Cops-handcuff-crying-nine-year-old-autistic-boy.html
## Speaker_1: ##
What a shit article. There was a fight in school because the autistic kid was killing bugs and another kid with compassion didn't like that, autie hit a teacher who tried to break up the fight, cops were called because no teacher who wants to keep their job for another nanosecond will touch a kid anymore, autie got handcuffed and brought outside. Think they could get some quotes from the teachers, or police, or school administrators?
No, they decide to use an interview with the kid's dad. Who might be a bit biased. And wasn't there.
Garbage.
## Speaker_2: ##
Compassion for a bug, get the fuck out of here
## Speaker_3: ##
I can see it. The bug didn’t do anything to the kid.
I’m more concerned that the cops get called over an elementary slap fight. Since when could kids not fight anymore?
## Walls1337bot: ##
>Since when could kids not fight anymore?
Starting in the late eighties. Zero tolerance has become the norm. I got a pink slip for smashing the shit out of a kid in the head with a book for picking on a girl that I liked in grade school after two weeks of bullying. Dude was picking on me, too, and had been for the whole school year. I said fuck that, and I'm pretty sure that I said "Fuck you" in class when I did it. The kid didn't change, but I learned that most adults don't give a flying fuck that day. So all in all, it wasn't a terrible experience.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/rise-and-fall-zero-tolerance-schools/
Basically, schools got sued a lot, and so to maintain appropriately low legal liability (en loco parentis is something I heard a lot about), they just let the cops deal with it. When I was in grade school, cops got called to the school about once a year. That amount increased as I went through public school, until they started putting a school police officer on duty. Then the cops didn't get called, and fights were just let to happen. My guess is that their school cop was off duty or wasn't available that day.
As for why the cops arrested them, they open themselves up for lawsuits (at least in their minds) whenever they don't arrest someone.
At least when they arrest someone, the onus is now on the person arrested to sue in civil court over wrongful arrest, not assault/harassment/etc., as a starting point. Plus, the cops play numbers games with fucking everything - 95% of people plea guilty anyway.
>In 2013, while 8 percent of all federal criminal charges were dismissed (either because of a mistake in fact or law or because the defendant had decided to cooperate), more than 97 percent of the remainder were resolved through plea bargains, and fewer than 3 percent went to trial. The plea bargains largely determined the sentences imposed.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/
I reckon that the number of lawsuits over false/wrongful arrests is also quite low. After all, who's going to pay the $200+ dollars an hour, minimum 4 hours to file the case, plus court costs? And what if you lose? That's easily $3000 for 'justice', when you know in the back of your mind that nobody gives a shit if you or your kid lives or dies.
Plus, if the cop did indeed fuck up, well, the dept will just send him on paid leave. Or the cop can leave the force and then sign up a neighboring county, where they might not check *why* he's signing up there.
shit forgot this was wsb
uhhhhhh
i will donate a tendie to the glorious gods of autism for this autie
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No clue what an option is lol
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Please be joking
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I swear I'm not.. only used robinhood
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Wow I thought I was dumb. This is almost just sad at this point
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that can't be real. there's no way he doesn't know what an option is. this has to be some hyper elaborate photoshopped troll job.
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Disclaimer: no current position in Oil / CL / etc
sometimes experience is not of much help...I'm a professional trader for well over 20yrs with options.
With CL right here at $50;
on one hand CL should pause here around $50 after this up move
however, CL could just as easily blow over $50 and form a short squeeze of some size
Smart Money (if flat) will simply wait a bit until the above is answered then tag along for the ride.
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Someone's been paying you to trade full time for 20 years?
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And *that* is the Art of the Deal. ^^^TM
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Up 15k in the past two weeks. Had two big losers this morning but came out 3.5k ahead today.
I've had RH options for 2 months but have been trading options for about 1 year.
I've done nothing but do intra-day trades on SPY and SPXL/S itm options. Buy enough contracts to be 10% of my account and ride upwards or downwards trending momentum.
I try and cut my losers quickly as options losses accelerate more quickly but still having trouble selling and not holding losers too long.... Also have issues selling at the top. I've watched a few K in profit evaporate in minutes.
Overall, very happy.
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whats your signal for buying calls or puts usually? and most importantly what are u buying tmr?
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I buy when I can see the shift in momentum heading in one direction, trading trends. If the market seems like it's heading in an upwards direction I'll buy a weekly itm call with a delta of around .75. Same for puts, but opposite.
With just a .5% movement in the SPY you can capture a lot of delta exposure if you're betting in the right direction. But you have to cut your losers and take your profits quickly if you sense the trade is reversing. I also sell everyday so I don't eat a few hundred dollars on
No clue what I'm doing tomorrow.
## Speaker_0: ##
Why is buying .75 delta ITM calls better than buying slightly OTM calls on spy?
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Okay so lets say I decide tomorrow the stock market is going up (I have no clue if it's it's going up), so I decide to buy 10k worth of calls.
Let's assume the SPY opens tomorrow morning at today's close, 266.
I'm going to look at the Feb 16 262 Call and the Feb 16 270 Call.
The 262 Call is marked at $5.20 and has a Delta of .73 and a Theta of -.37.
I buy 20 Calls for a total of $10,400.
The 270 call is marked at $.81 and has a Delta of .2475 and a Theta of -.29.
I buy 129 FD Feb 16 270 calls, in true WSB-fashion, for $10,449.
Scenario: The SPY goes up $1 tomorrow, which is a ~.3% move.
So, SPY goes to 267
ITM Option:
(($1 Gain)(.73 Delta)+5.2)*(20 Contracts) = $11,860
With a .3% movement in the SPY you made 14% on your investment and there was little risk for the SPY to drop below it's strike as long as you got out in a reasonable fashion. If you chose to hold through expiry you will only lose 37 cents a day if you believe it is going to keep going up. So you would want an additional dollar in movement upwards on your option price if you were going to hold through expiry.
FD Option
(($1 Gain)(.25 Delta)+.81)*(129 Contracts) = $13,674.
This is roughly a 30% gain on your investment. But the same downwards movement would've blown your position up by 3k AND you're option is going to 29 cents to time decay if you don't sell before close and that would take away more than all of your profits made that day.
Hope you can see how leverage can amplify small gains in the underlying security (.3% movement in SPY generated 10 and 30% movements) but it's even more important to understand why you need to cut your losers short as you don't want a 3k loss.
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Thank you for the thorough explanation and the breakdown for the gains, this is a quality post
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Thanks!
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Same with The Wolf of Wall Street. Everyone is a millionaire penny stock trader.
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That movie did help create the best spring ever for penny stocks though...You could literally buy anything and make huge profits.
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RIP January 2014-May 2014 Marijuana penny stock boom. So many 1000%'rs
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You are absolutely fucking retarded. He was right twice so he is sec. Lolol
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not the main evidence..
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im pretty sure it was the main evidence.
the sub going private for a few hours was the main evidence? theres like a million possibilities for that, and you think you picked the one thats right? they wanted to plant a spy, to feed us insider info, to entrap us, and write down user names of who takes it?
dont quote me, but if you dont know its insider information, is that even insider trading?
whats different about him vs the 100 retards saying buy mstx?? how is it any different? you have to be in possession of nonpublic material. this is just a public post that you are following with no material information relevant to 10k.
yea i got insider information from cramer. he said BUY BUY BUY.
ab so lutly
## Speaker_1: ##
main evidence is that he first started posting right after the private fiasco, his language, obvious hinting (or to be fair, joking) about insider info, etc
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Like a Candle in the Wind -- Elton John, I'm so deeply sorry.
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Good stuff, this is what I like to see on this subreddit. Please invite me to your yacht party!
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i'm dreaming of yachts, but it's more than likely I lose the whole thing. But let's focus on the YACHTS!
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I don't get why you would do it if you think it's more than likely gunna lose, why don't you go for something that you think is more than likely going to win?
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Because that's how it works broski. High risk = high reward. Something you think will win isn't going to provide the same return, that's just the nature of the game
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High risk high reward yes, but using the brain, by the end of the day it's called investing and not gambling for a reason.
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Umm /r/investing is that way ....
This is a gambling sub
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Wtf did you buy?
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probably MU.
## Walls1337bot: ##
He probably bought, panic sold, bought when it recovered, panic sold again.
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... you are a god damn Nostradamus... how do you know my trading strategy?
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Because when I started trading that is what I did because it was painful to see my money go away. Then I put the majority of my money into solid stocks that I stopped looking at (MSFT, LMT, AMZN, AAPL, BAC, BA) and used 1/4 of my portfolio for volatility plays (ETFs, VIX, semis, cloud, pump and dumps) so I wasn't bored.
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I'm in the core audience that they want to buy their bikes.
I can't think of a single reason why I need to look like a faux-degenerate noisy jackass on the weekends, driving around without a helmet, hoping that nobody drives over my ass because they're texting on their mobile phone.
I've seen enough crushed bikes and half-dead "badasses" laying on the ground in Phoenix to last a lifetime.
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I'd love to buy a Harley to have next to my sport bike. I'm also in the core demographic. I also can't (shouldn't) afford a $30,000 toy.
They're massively over priced for what you get.
## Speaker_2: ##
this right here. why pay for a Harley that fits my 6'5" body in the 15k-30k range (including used) when I can get a new Honda fury (vtwin btw) for 7k?
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Seriously, I have better things to drop 30-40k on then a loud ass bike that will piss off my neighbors. Cant even drive that shit in the rain, and about 40% of the year here the roads are covered in 50 shades of fucking black ice. Kind of impractical.
That being said, those trike things are fucking bad ass and I want one.
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> those **trike** things are fucking **bad ass** and I want one
I don't think I've ever seen those words in the same sentence before
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They're almost as cool as those Richard Simmons workout videos.
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Ask him if he remembers when GE wasn’t in the DOW
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I remember selling GE when they spun off their financial division for a quick 10% gain right after I bought it.
Probably my best sell move now that it lost >50%.
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Spring 2015.. I sold it a day or two before that announcement
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Well thanks, it's probably your shares that I flipped! ;-P
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Could you taste his load?
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Am I still in r/suddenlygay?
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Hes right tho
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I bet that dudes broke
No I guarantee that dude doesnt make anything impressive
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and you're not?
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Read my name
Then read the monthly chart on SPY
BTW poor I made this account because people were shit talking my housing construction puts on here. Housing construction ITB is down 40% since last year MFW.
Fucking kill your self
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Wow you are an angry and irrational person
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Omfg close some of that shit off
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Close *all* of those positions. None of these will expire in the money.
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what makes you say that
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MU is trading at $51 and China just banned sales of their chips which accounts for 50% of their revenue. What makes you think this will get to $65 in the next month?
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.... autism?
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Correct Answer.
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I was really thinking that this was a shit post, but in case it’s not, your position didn’t really have a massive increase in value, your broker is using the midpoint between the bid and the ask as a proxy for value.
There’s actually no bid (no one wanting to buy these) and an asking price of $4.80. There was no volume today and it looks like your contracts make up the entirety of the open interest on this option.
Someone please mod this autist!!!
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Wait so I'm still down like that, why the fuck do I have the money then wtf
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better take out that money b4 they catch you
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I can't take it out! WTF do I do
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do you have a good lawyer?
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For those who haven't passed algebra, this is roughly a $516,550 gain from an initial investment of $32,975.
You god damn savage.
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Algebra is for faggots, all i need is two colors red and green.
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Yeah but you can generalize any stock market chart into a continuous function. And from there you can apply the stone weirstrass theorem, which is pretty reliant on studies in algebra. You can uniformly approximate any such curve on any compact Hausdorff space X, with the sub-algebras of C(x).
It's basically free money you're missing out on, for being an uneducated dumb fuck.
Edit: Take your gold back faggot.
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Can you ELI5?
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> Compact Hausdorff space
Just think of the closed interval [a,b] or from the IPO to the present.
> sub-algebra of C(X)
Just think of polynomial equations. ax^n + ... + bx + c. Some function. For example, f(x) = x^2 + 2x + 1.
The theorem is saying that for any continuous function (a graph that you can draw without picking your pencil off the page), on an interval [a,b], there exists a polynomial equation that will approximate your graph within an error as small as you'd like. Basically a formula that will show how that graph moves exactly.
Bonus points if you can figure out why it isn't useful for the stock market, even though it sounds like it would be incredibly helpful.
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like him or not, props for calling out the fed for holding interest rates low for political reasons
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I think they're holding them low so the country doesn't collapse...
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i agree with you to some degree but in acting as they have, they've become a political prop for the dems to point to the "strength" of the economy during an election year
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The president is the only democrat with a majority. The House and Senate are heald by Republicans. So who's responsible for propping it up? I really don't give a shit just saying. As long as markets go up and down daddyrango goes for the green.
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correct---but the average voter understands jack shit about the economy which makes it is an easy win for the democrats to take credit for a 'strong' economy because the fed will never come out and say "we're trying our hardest to keep you robinhood fags afloat"
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Lol we're all doomed anyway. TeflonHilldog got this in the bag. Trump can barely speak in complete sentences God bless him.
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He was drunk or on that white girl I skeem
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Pics of mom or didn't happen
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https://gyazo.com/5ca790dd6e9c817f923144054604ecd3 She said no real pics so here is my interpertation
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This man just drew his mothers tits... what a sick fucker.
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I am autistic, not sick. Asshole
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I own 85 shares, so nothing big time but it is 35% of my portfolio. Seeing as I perfectly executed a classic buy at ath I'm not selling for a while.
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I'm a student, and I took some pretty heavy losses in October and November. Buying in Canadian dollars also hurts
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15 more shares and u coudlve been selling calls every week.
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Ya but then I would have actually made some money
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Bought 1 ITM AMZN call last Thursday during the huge gap down. Sold Friday morning.
Bought two more Friday during the EOD dip and sold yesterday morning.
The small downtrends during the day was from holding some shitty MU calls. Sold them yesterday, might have broken even if I held until today.
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What expiry
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Weeklies. The ones I had last week expired last Friday. The ones I got rid of yesterday expire this coming Friday.
Gotta get that sweet AMZN delta.
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What does it mean the delta? Delta is good?
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The delta is how much an options premium will increase if the stock price goes up $1.
ITM weeklies will typically be about 0.5 to 0.6
AMZN will regularly move +/- $10 in a day. So...
$10 * 0.5 * 100 shares mean you will gain $500 if AMZN moves 10 points of the correct direction of your call or put.
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But there is also theta or something the value of options value will decrease by days right
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The article’s first line says it all. The Chinese want to resolve the trade dispute calmly and rationally. Threatening to delist Chinese companies is neither of the two. The news last month was that US and China would keep matters civil to which Trump didn’t keep his end of interim truce. The Chinese won’t be fucked with and Trump is not going to back down. Any news to the contrary is the attempt to calm markets and it usually works.
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Trump will deal.
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no deal
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Trump can't have the economy tank before the election. If the trade war fears are resolved, the foreign capital will continue pouring in and the bull market will continue. He's hinged his presidency on the economy, the market drops before election day and he's fucked.
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maybe be done "trading" (lol) as you call it, and actually put your money in quality, reliable, but slow growth stocks instead. And keep maybe 2k +gold to continue gambling with like what youve clearly been doing with your entire account
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But that's no fun
Also obligatory..../r/investing is that way buddy
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no, thats the difference between not being an moron and being moron. Nothing wrong with gambling, but risk managment is key.
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We literally have no idea what this dude's portfolio is though
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i mean... look at his graph. We bassically know his portfolio. We at least know its not in blue chips. Im gonna go with x3 bull/bear gold etfs.
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I started out with VTI, AMD, APPL, CSCO, and a few others. It wasn't until last week that i started gambling on JDST and JNUG with hopes of being on the right side of the rate hike. I switched sides 3 times and lost every damn time.
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> APPL
Well there's your problem.
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How so? I made a bit of money off apple more than once.
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The ticker is AAPL you fucking retard
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So basically hedge with puts, a month out, the very second it shuts down (which it will, this govt has more autists then this sub)
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> this govt has more autists then this sub
I bought 250k shares of MU yesterday because of a thread on this sub. I'm already seeing gainz. Autistic as WSB can be, i'll always trust my WSB Rainman brothers.
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Proof or gtfo
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I'll type it as I cant upload pics from work.
$MU - 250,000.00 - $44.39
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If you could really afford to blow $10M+ on a meme you wouldn't be at work
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maybe he counts doing lines, and spanking it on his yacht "work"
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The FED does not care about profit. Quite literally. It's an institution that can increase their balance sheet as they see fit. There's no ceiling except political pressure.
The goal of the FED is to keep inflation and unemployment low. This is their success criteria, not profit. If they had to, for whatever insane reason, buy defaulted Argentinian bonds at par value and then promptly write off the losses - they would do so.
Or in other words - the FED is a non-profit organization. Much like the federal government.
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Well that’s great for banks unloading trash
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This is the political pressure part.
Also, money isn't real, it's a virtual tool/story. The sooner you realize that the sooner things make more sense.
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It makes sense I’m just mad I been busting my ass a decade and can’t afford anything at all
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Inflation has never been lower over a decade than the last ten years so you’re blaming the wrong people.
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False
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Mods - 15 day old poor fuck who seems to be retarded. Can we get a ban here
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least your flair is accurate in real life
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Yeah no shit bitch.
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Get on my level bought 100 shares at $30 sold at $27.
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holy shit LOL
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Proof: http://imgur.com/Mv0rjG3
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WSB legend. why did you sell at the time?
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I ~~was~~ am a pussy
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damn son you faggot, to date you missed a $32,900 gain
what have you sold recently?
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Nice one, you wana inverse him huh?!! ;)))
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Don’t let Bernie Sanders see this he is gonna be so pist
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Bro I hate it when my fellow liberals attack Jeffy B, Zuckdawg, Musk, and Kylie Jenner.
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Yeah, I just kinda hate when my fellow liberals just blindly attack the rich in general. I'm a liberal Democrat who voted for bernie, and all these " oh this CEO gets paid too much" things piss me off to no end. What they get paid doesn't matter, it's what they pay people under them that does.
Don't punish success, just make sure it's not built on people's backs.
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I mean, they wouldn’t be getting paid as much if they were paying employees more in the first place. Your argument doesn’t make much sense in that way. But I get what you mean.
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Are you retarded?
It's not like CEOs make 100% of profit and it's not like the board has the choice between paying the CEO or spreading that money out among everyone else.
CEOs can continue to make what they make *and* entry-level employees can get paid more. They are not diametrically opposed ideas.
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When people say “CEOs” they usually are referring to executives in general, not just the one person, lol. And it is no secret that employee wage cuts are usually at the expense of executive payment packages. There *is* a finite amount of profit to be shared and every cent that goes in the executive’s pockets is a cent that won’t go to the employees. People are angry because executives and boards continue to raise their own wages but not employee wages even when they already make millions.
Obviously, this isn’t the case with Bezos who made his wealth from share prices skyrocketing. But to ignore the issue between lower-level employee wage stagnation and executive compensation, and the clear negative correlation between the two, is retarded.
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> When people say “CEOs” they usually are referring to executives in general, not just the one person, lol
So these people don't know anything about this topic and yet they somehow have strong opinions on the matter?
>And it is no secret that employee wage cuts are usually at the expense of executive payment packages. There is a finite amount of profit to be shared and every cent that goes in the executive’s pockets is a cent that won’t go to the employees.
Not really. The top level executives make a fraction of what the rest of the workers make as a sum. A 10% increase on top level executives might be something like 0.1% of the total pay of the rest of the workers.
> People are angry because executives and boards continue to raise their own wages but not employee wages even when they already make millions.
People are making more money, especially office jobs. Median income in 2016 (last year reported) was highest ever, adjusted for inflation. Sure, there is a concern that the top are taking more of the increasing larger pie, but that doesn't excuse the lies and misinformation.
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> So these people don't know anything about this topic and yet they somehow have strong opinions on the matter?
haha are you surprised? This is reddit after all, where people that have never taken an Econ course can say with a straight face that going full communism is a good idea.
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Yeah, this is annoying. You won't see me going into /r/Nepal and complaining about their politics without knowing crap about it. People really should educate themselves before forming strong opinions on a topic.
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Lol I put ~30k in every single thing I buy every single time. Diversification is for 401ks. 1 dollar per share gains = 10 bills almost always. ALL IN FULL MARGIN BB
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Not sure if you are serious?
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I'm absolutely serious. I set stops at exactly my entries to avoid things getting bad. I've got 25k in XIV as I type this, 12k of that being margin dollars. Don't act like I'm weird homie, you do the same thing!
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this is cool until you get cucked one day
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Yeah its risky as balls but the stops have been working for me really well. I've been doing this since 2015, haven't blown up yet. When you put shitloads of money in something, it hardly has to move at all for you to get a decent chunk of change. I don't have to hold out for huge moves, 25-50 cents is usually more than enough.
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Damnnnn, girls hot
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It's this kind of degeneracy that makes women feel disempwoered in finance ;)
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Yo word check on disempowered.
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Spelling is a tool of the patriarchal oppressor
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Fucking stop
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Ive said it b4, but I stand behind my convictions... Good, let it all fucking fall... Americans did this shit to themselves, let them drown in their own corrupt bullshit... Fuck this country, as soon as I’m debt free, I’m out... Fuck America
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Where you gonna go?
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Elsewhere, Its a big fucking world out there... Does it really matter. Americans are the worst, so Ill just go anywhere that doesn’t offer fast food and Ill be good
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>Ill just go anywhere that doesn’t offer fast food
You have in-n-out, wendy's, popeyes, large portions and low prices. Stop taking it for granted. There are many of us out there can only dream about it.
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Wanna trade places then
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I have no doubt you'd find every reason to hate my country too, so nah. I owe them this much.
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I worked for millionaire at this time, did three seasons overall. This was the most tense episode we did, he guessed his way to the top pretty much.
He cried afterwards
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Do you have the link to the real episode?
Edit' https://youtu.be/NHmpLT7RNHE
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Lemme get this straight; even *after* seeing the question, he could’ve said “naw” and taken the $500,000?? And he still went for it??
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he even said himself he would regret walking away when he could have won more than he would losing what he already had.
I wonder if he really thought that one through.
Because I think I would definitely regret losing a guaranteed 475,000$ more than I would regret missing my chance at a possible extra 500k on top of it. Half a million dollars when you have nothing is a big deal, not getting another half a million when you already have half a million is more of a first world problem.
Hell, I think I wouldn't take the risk in that situation even if was like 90% sure of the answer. He was just *guessing*.
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I would absolutely take the $500,000 if I had no idea on the answer after seeing the question. That’s like a free pass.
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Mods, can we get this guy banned? We don't need this normie trash around here
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Risking $425,000 worth of gainz on a question you don’t know the answer to isn’t anywhere close to the same thing as betting on stocks using options...
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But he had a 25% chance, much higher than ppl here with their MU 90 calls for July...
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Cant afford a decent hooker, will drive around the track tonight, pick up something I can afford.
If I catch aids I'll blame elon
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Go get a run and tug bro.
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Around here those go for 80.
After what elon did to my fd calls, my price range is 20-40$
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Put the massage on your credit card throw her a 20 afterwards and report the transaction as fraudulent. You can’t lose!
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Got to shop around for a place that takes credit cards.
But that's a dope idea, please PM me more clever ideas
Edit(I'm not a fed)
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Press F to pay respects
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I don't believe in Roku. I know it's a great pump & dump at this moment, but I don't think it'll break trough.
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I didn't know they still existed until they had an IPO.
Threw it in the dumpster years ago for a $20 Amazon firestick.
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Every fifth TV sold in the US comes built in with Roku.
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Wish I knew how shit it was before I bought mine.
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IDK what kind of furry midget porn you guys are watching that is breaking your Roku but I've had mine since 2011 and it works great.
Seriously, what kind of porn are you watching?
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The TV force restarts at least once per night when watching Netflix or Sling.
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Stop downloading a TB of gay Russian horsefucker porn to your TV then
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Volume moves the market. Volume consists of buy and sell. If there's more buy, then price goes up.
Super advanced stuff.
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At least I'm not a poorfag
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damn someone is salty af
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respond to almost any thread with an adult opinion.
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Literally the quickest way, the automod says that the sub is a safe space and dissenting opinions will be banned.
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I get that subreddits can make their own rules and I support that but why would anyone *want* to be a member of a community that bans any diversity of thought?! They have 300,000 subscribers for fucks sake. It's like one big ideologue sycophant circle jerk. #MU #AMD
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I'm banned from both but I will say that, at least in my case, it took less time to be banned by LSC than TD. For LSC my first post was just a question that I thought was very non-confrontational and sincere and I was almost instabanned. For TD I had some responses and back and forth to a comment before being banned.
I'd love to see a subreddit that just combined TD and LSC users. People would be threatening genocide in minutes.
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I got by banned because they were having a giant circklejerk about how making guns harder to access wont reduce gun related crime, and we should arm more people instead, so I pointed out Australia banned guns and gun crime went from fairly high levels to basically zero in a decade (with the stats to back it up). BAN
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Yeah, but do you know how hard it is to smuggle anything into Australia? Meth costs $500 a gram there. Plus people actually did the voluntary buyback program.
Banning the sale of weapons in the US would just ensure that ammo would start going for hundreds of dollars a round
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So the only people with guns would be insanely rich people who have little motivation to commit blue collar crime?
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No, the only place to affordably buy a weapon would become the black market, further incentivizing the illegal weapons trade. Yeesh.
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Why would it be illegal? Unless you can prove they are intentionally putting out incorrect information, nothing they are doing is illegal.
They are in a fortunate place where anything they say will change the price of the stock. However, they don't have insider information(they do their own research and publish it), and they have never been accused of putting out false info after they get burned on a short(facebook).
Warren Buffet sharing a negative opinion on a company would have the same results.
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yeah but that's warren fucking buffet....citron looks like some half assed youtube channel....why are they given so much weight?
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They had one very very good call.
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Followed by a bunch of pure garbage. But you're right, the Valeant call was good.
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It seems like after Valeant they got a rep for being easy to make money on, they still had the pull to tug a price down (as seen with $shop), but all they do now is screenshot instagram ads and youtube videos, so we know buy the dip, they know shorting will be profit, and the other firms know not to take them too seriously.
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Tanking SHOP by more than 10% means more than a few firms are believing this nonsense.
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Tesla has never been rational. What’s better a company that currently makes 10 bil or a company that could make 10 bil? Sums up F vs tesla
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Ford. I think ford will make more money
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Too bad Ford's investors won't...
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Why do you think so?
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In the last 5 years they have lost 16%. It burns.
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Shoutout to /u/off21z00 for the great fucking tip! You are a true inverse hero.
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Currently in the process of scheduling an IRL 1v1 death match between /u/iamablubfish & /u/off21z00
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Sry everyone! Thought they weren't gonna cut the dividends and the layoff announcements would pick it up
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Ahaha who knew right? You were just pumping darts out of your ass. Who the fuck knows where it lands right? Hell you don't know even if there's a board for those shitty darts to land on. Put a disclaimer when you post a suggestion next time saying you actually have no fucking clue what you are talking about and just flipping a coin really
No but seriously, next time you have a thought. Let me know. I need free inverse money you nimrod.
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Did you actually buy that shit based on the in depth analysis the well known, talented, and proven u/off21z00 provided you? What a fucking scam. You and u/IAmABlubFish should file a class action lawsuit in my professional opinion. Trust me.
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I love that statue. Nothing conceptualized how annoying dumb women got in the way of productivity and progress for no other reason than to project their insecurities to the world, than that statue did. Hope it makes a return!
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That statue was fake news considering the company that put it up got sued for female wage gap
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reeeeeee female wage gap. why don’t firms hire all women if the gap is real? lmao
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Kitchen can only fit so many
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It's funny because your dumb ass got triggered
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