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They’re now crying because the broker has stopped them out because their losses got so big they tripped the stop loss function and they’re claiming it’s a conspiracy on part of the “establishment” to protect themselves
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Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.0
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Have few drinks/smokes/both and start reading Pooh Bear.orraloon said:😊 introduced to In The Night Garden by grandkids. Wtf are the writers on?
Might have just been a time and company though...The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Do you think people should be allowed to pay £500 for a £5 note? Generally, financial regulators don't think that sort of thing should be encourage, because they it is something done out of ignorance.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
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I would imagine when a customer buys a share they are able to use that cash (no longer the customer's) to cover any margin required for settlement risk. This is not the reason they will have stopped purchases of shares.rick_chasey said:(Since they’re not allowed to use customer money to do so...)
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No they’re not.TheBigBean said:
I would imagine when a customer buys a share they are able to use that cash (no longer the customer's) to cover any margin required for settlement risk. This is not the reason they will have stopped purchases of shares.rick_chasey said:(Since they’re not allowed to use customer money to do so...)
It is 100% clearing obligations which make it tricky.
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That doesn't make sense. When buying the obligation is to deliver cash in T+2. This isn't affected by volatility, because the price doesn't change. The only possible explanation is that they suddenly had large volumes of trade that they weren't set up for being a small player.rick_chasey said:
No they’re not.TheBigBean said:
I would imagine when a customer buys a share they are able to use that cash (no longer the customer's) to cover any margin required for settlement risk. This is not the reason they will have stopped purchases of shares.rick_chasey said:(Since they’re not allowed to use customer money to do so...)
It is 100% clearing obligations which make it tricky.0 -
And if you think that is trippy, try the 1970 feature film spinoff "Dougal and the Blue Cat".veronese68 said:
It's quite disturbing in places.0 -
There are some who think the primary goal of the rebel alliance leadership is personal enrichment and that they don’t care about the impending catastrophic losses coming the way of their uneducated and already impoverished followers.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
You may see similarities with Brexit0 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_IMBhDy1Jk
I guess Michael Burry will be in the film made of this situation as well as the big short.0 -
We had the record of that, but I never saw the film. The record was terrifying.d00d4h said:
And if you think that is trippy, try the 1970 feature film spinoff "Dougal and the Blue Cat".veronese68 said:
It's quite disturbing in places.
"Blue is beautiful. Blue is best. I'm blue. I'm beautiful. I'm best."1 -
I've got it on VHS somewhere. It has since been released on DVD.kingstongraham said:
We had the record of that, but I never saw the film. The record was terrifying.d00d4h said:
And if you think that is trippy, try the 1970 feature film spinoff "Dougal and the Blue Cat".veronese68 said:
It's quite disturbing in places.
The lovely Fenella Fieldingkingstongraham said:
"Blue is beautiful. Blue is best. I'm blue. I'm beautiful. I'm best."0 -
(Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry’s bullish stance on GameStop Corp. in 2019 helped lay the foundations for an epic retail-investor frenzy. Now the famed fund manager is warning that the rally has gotten out of hand.
“If I put $GME on your radar, and you did well, I’m genuinely happy for you,” Burry, best known for his prescient bet against mortgage securities before the 2008 financial crisis, said in a tweet on Tuesday. “However, what is going on now – there should be legal and regulatory repercussions. This is unnatural, insane, and dangerous.”
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-burry-calls-gamestop-rally-032530172.html
I wonder if he did hold on to them?0 -
morstar said:
What? The Spain team playing fluid give and go after 90 minutes against a destroyed opposition chasing ghosts.Ben6899 said:surrey_commuter said:
A good chunk of Spain hates them for very similar reasons and the conspiracy is meant to include the Spanish National teamrick_chasey said:
Is it not just that it's very difficult to get anyone to talk? What's in it for them? Everyone loves Barca, it's the gem in the separatist crown, etc etc.Ben6899 said:bompington said:
Maybe low-hanging fruit but it's protected by a lot of vested interests...Ben6899 said:You know what comes back to intrigue me, every so often?
How come an investigative sports journalist hasn't properly gone after the connection between Dr Fuentes and the Barcelona / Spain teams that were quite clearly juiced off their t1ts in the late 2000s / early 2010s.
Like David Walsh after Lance or Paul Kimmage after the UCI itself. It's surely low-hanging fruit to someone with those kinds of skills and contacts.
You may have a point. Probably end up either financially ruined or "missing".
The national team was definitely juicing.
Was talking with a couple of mates, last night. I used to play in an amazing team on a Sunday morning. We all played Unibond, Northern Counties Premier on Saturday afternoons and used Sundays a bit of a warm down before a few Sunday afternoon pints.
We walked the league and cups, head and shoulders above everyone else in terms of ability. But also the fitness level difference was staggering - I'd walk off barely needing a shower and opposition players were shadows of their former selves. We ruined them.
Those Barcelona and Spain teams made Germany, Brazil, Real, Sevilla etc look like those ruined Sunday morning pub teams. Bjarne Riis on Hautacam, every week.
When you see top level football teams doing this to other top level football teams, you smell a huge rat.
Not sure what you mean.
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Wombats are awesome.
In Australia we were advised to be very, very careful driving at night because you don't want a roo through your windscreen, but also that hitting a wombat would cause a disproportionate amount of damage to your car, as wombats are so solid.0 -
A wee tinge.Ben6899 said:morstar said:
What? The Spain team playing fluid give and go after 90 minutes against a destroyed opposition chasing ghosts.Ben6899 said:surrey_commuter said:
A good chunk of Spain hates them for very similar reasons and the conspiracy is meant to include the Spanish National teamrick_chasey said:
Is it not just that it's very difficult to get anyone to talk? What's in it for them? Everyone loves Barca, it's the gem in the separatist crown, etc etc.Ben6899 said:bompington said:
Maybe low-hanging fruit but it's protected by a lot of vested interests...Ben6899 said:You know what comes back to intrigue me, every so often?
How come an investigative sports journalist hasn't properly gone after the connection between Dr Fuentes and the Barcelona / Spain teams that were quite clearly juiced off their t1ts in the late 2000s / early 2010s.
Like David Walsh after Lance or Paul Kimmage after the UCI itself. It's surely low-hanging fruit to someone with those kinds of skills and contacts.
You may have a point. Probably end up either financially ruined or "missing".
The national team was definitely juicing.
Was talking with a couple of mates, last night. I used to play in an amazing team on a Sunday morning. We all played Unibond, Northern Counties Premier on Saturday afternoons and used Sundays a bit of a warm down before a few Sunday afternoon pints.
We walked the league and cups, head and shoulders above everyone else in terms of ability. But also the fitness level difference was staggering - I'd walk off barely needing a shower and opposition players were shadows of their former selves. We ruined them.
Those Barcelona and Spain teams made Germany, Brazil, Real, Sevilla etc look like those ruined Sunday morning pub teams. Bjarne Riis on Hautacam, every week.
When you see top level football teams doing this to other top level football teams, you smell a huge rat.
Not sure what you mean.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not!1 -
That it has taken a research project to find out that people are exercising less in this lockdown than in the first one.
So the first one was in spring/summer and there was a heat wave. This ones in December/ January and its p*ssing down.0 -
webboo said:
That it has taken a research project to find out that people are exercising less in this lockdown than in the first one.
So the first one was in spring/summer and there was a heat wave. This ones in December/ January and its p*ssing down.
The wombat poo study is considerably more interesting.0 -
I wonder how uneducated and impoverished most of the followers are though?surrey_commuter said:
There are some who think the primary goal of the rebel alliance leadership is personal enrichment and that they don’t care about the impending catastrophic losses coming the way of their uneducated and already impoverished followers.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
You may see similarities with Brexit
I should think a large number of the investors are just seeing it as betting entertainment.
It does feel like "the little man" has been able to make a mockery of the game and it will be intresting to see whether new rules are needed. I still have underlying questions about the social utility of shorting shares.0 -
Some of these little guys will do it for a living and will make a fortune, some of them will play at it and do alright whilst having a bit of fun. There will also be a bunch of clueless desperate followers who want to believe they have found el dorado.Jezyboy said:
I wonder how uneducated and impoverished most of the followers are though?surrey_commuter said:
There are some who think the primary goal of the rebel alliance leadership is personal enrichment and that they don’t care about the impending catastrophic losses coming the way of their uneducated and already impoverished followers.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
You may see similarities with Brexit
I should think a large number of the investors are just seeing it as betting entertainment.
It does feel like "the little man" has been able to make a mockery of the game and it will be intresting to see whether new rules are needed. I still have underlying questions about the social utility of shorting shares.
A common tactic on these boards is for seemingly unconnected but respected forumites to ramp shares they have already bought into, if trading volumes are low enough then this will move the share price upwards so allowing them to gain kudos and sell out their position. The last people to jump on the bandwagon will lose money.
Share trading is a zero sum game, for every winner there is a loser.
I imagine a large majority of the millions who joined that forum this week are financially uneducated asset poor people who are about to get royally fvcked.
The share price will return to where it came from and there will be tales of woe and probably at least one suicide. Still all good jolly japes sticking it to the man.0 -
There are other more serious consequences too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55849192surrey_commuter said:
Some of these little guys will do it for a living and will make a fortune, some of them will play at it and do alright whilst having a bit of fun. There will also be a bunch of clueless desperate followers who want to believe they have found el dorado.Jezyboy said:
I wonder how uneducated and impoverished most of the followers are though?surrey_commuter said:
There are some who think the primary goal of the rebel alliance leadership is personal enrichment and that they don’t care about the impending catastrophic losses coming the way of their uneducated and already impoverished followers.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
You may see similarities with Brexit
I should think a large number of the investors are just seeing it as betting entertainment.
It does feel like "the little man" has been able to make a mockery of the game and it will be intresting to see whether new rules are needed. I still have underlying questions about the social utility of shorting shares.
A common tactic on these boards is for seemingly unconnected but respected forumites to ramp shares they have already bought into, if trading volumes are low enough then this will move the share price upwards so allowing them to gain kudos and sell out their position. The last people to jump on the bandwagon will lose money.
Share trading is a zero sum game, for every winner there is a loser.
I imagine a large majority of the millions who joined that forum this week are financially uneducated asset poor people who are about to get royally fvcked.
The share price will return to where it came from and there will be tales of woe and probably at least one suicide. Still all good jolly japes sticking it to the man.
"Confused investors inundate Robin Hood society"- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Share trading isn't a zero sum game and that is an important point. There are fees for every transaction, so whilst some traders make profits before fees, most make a loss after fees.surrey_commuter said:
Some of these little guys will do it for a living and will make a fortune, some of them will play at it and do alright whilst having a bit of fun. There will also be a bunch of clueless desperate followers who want to believe they have found el dorado.Jezyboy said:
I wonder how uneducated and impoverished most of the followers are though?surrey_commuter said:
There are some who think the primary goal of the rebel alliance leadership is personal enrichment and that they don’t care about the impending catastrophic losses coming the way of their uneducated and already impoverished followers.Pross said:Interesting that the regulators seem to be taking the side of the big boys in this battle and restricting what the Rebel alliance are able to do.
You may see similarities with Brexit
I should think a large number of the investors are just seeing it as betting entertainment.
It does feel like "the little man" has been able to make a mockery of the game and it will be intresting to see whether new rules are needed. I still have underlying questions about the social utility of shorting shares.
A common tactic on these boards is for seemingly unconnected but respected forumites to ramp shares they have already bought into, if trading volumes are low enough then this will move the share price upwards so allowing them to gain kudos and sell out their position. The last people to jump on the bandwagon will lose money.
Share trading is a zero sum game, for every winner there is a loser.
I imagine a large majority of the millions who joined that forum this week are financially uneducated asset poor people who are about to get royally fvcked.
The share price will return to where it came from and there will be tales of woe and probably at least one suicide. Still all good jolly japes sticking it to the man.
I don't disagree, for once, with your sentiment though.0 -
Learning about the work 'pwned'. For a while I just thought it was a typo... and it kind of is, except it's a word in its own right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Owned_and_pwned0 -
Back in 2004...briantrumpet said:Learning about the work 'pwned'. For a while I just thought it was a typo... and it kind of is, except it's a word in its own right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Owned_and_pwned
https://youtu.be/WqWFYOxjZ54 - Genesis Croix de Fer
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You guys never played Call of Duty online?0
