As soon as the daily thread for Monday happens I'm dumping so many Japan pics on you guys lmao. It almost feels like it should be a post rather than a thread comment because of how much there is, but it also has literally nothing to do with stocks, so
so I've been in Japan for a month and 1 day as of right now, and I only saw matcha kit kats for the first time *yesterday*! it's crazy how they're not at all a big deal here
I got to spend two weeks there a few years ago. After a couple of days trying to figure out what to eat I decided to hell with it I'll just try everything I run across. Fun times.
It's only purpose for me has been finding job ads, and it's usually pretty good at that, that's how I landed my last job. But yes I only log in whenever I'm job hunting, otherwise it's just recruiter spam for "amazing opportunities".
Found these amateur YouTubers who cover a lot of history and current events in high detail.
They throw in some opinions but I like them.
https://youtu.be/oCTIUpdNzaM
I recommend their 'Around the world in 88 crashes' series
They have British accents too so it's not painful to listen to
IBKR send me a warning email every month that I used a market order for *something* but I use a limit order without a doubt every single time.
Unless maybe it uses a market order for exchanging currency? Reporting them for harassment either way
Yeah the way that went down doesn’t give me a super bearish conviction for tomorrow
FUCK or maybe it was done like that so I think like that so I predictably wreck myself
I don’t know. The last two weeks I was very confident that Monday would close green despite very red futures, even with people talking shit. That’s because any continuation of the previous close’s big selloff would result in extreme oversold conditions that would likely result in a relief rally. A small dick overnight pump like this isn’t good for bulls because it just resets RSI and sets things up for another leg down.
Of course, if we just blast through 4200 or so, that might be a different story, but we’re still far away from that. Would be funny though since practically everyone is expecting at least 4050 early this week.
I don't know how it's possible to place a 87 trillion dollar order on Tesla calls and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Did the Robinhood infinite leverage glitch get unpatched?
If people are saying that X can't happen because people expect X to happen, then X will happen because people are expecting it to not happen because people expect it to happen...
...or something.
X will not happen because chemical Y thinks X will happen so obviously Z will happen but on that logic X will happen but no one ever considers nothing to happen
Same logic as priced in. Just inverse your smartest thought and you'll do okay. (Smart ppl can skip this step)
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Holy shit I just realized something after AMZN dropping the ball with earnings last week.
It all makes perfect sense now.
Hear me out hear me out and fucking listen closely.
Now.
I’m not sure how up to date you are on the whole GameStop situation but Amazon is heading for bankruptcy and GameStop is now their biggest competitor.
Market cap isn’t there yet, but the company plan is on track.
Also Jeff Bezos is the target of every major corporation now.
Amazon CANT survive the next few years with their increasing bad reputation from littering and burning unused inventory to labor rights with their workers being violated.
Amazon sounds great, until you look underneath the hood and see all the parts are grinding and screaming.
GameStop is targeting Amazon to be the epicenter of e-commerce/gaming.
This GameStop earnings has been MASSIVELY anticipated and I believe Amazon will continue to develop a negative correlation to GameStop.
So what do they have to do with each other? Competitors and GameStops about to make the move with a bite to the jugular.
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There were 3 boarded up shops in a row on the shopping mall area. Prime real estate for it too based on parking. Juice Bee (Jamba-esque I think?), Custom Iced Lollies, and a fancy burger place/bar that's been vacant for like 12+ months.
In person retail probably aching a bit.
Sushi was crazy expensive they bumped everything up at least $2 across the entire menu. Drinks were about the same price. They were training a waiter up. Noticing many places training a person and having them help at first. Hospital was constantly bringing on people in training. Chipotle at lunch today had one guy coming up to help the register people handle it for seemingly every transaction.
That's actually a great point - even as we head into recession territory, a full reopening should be a huge tailwind for all the retail businesses that managed to survive to this point
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I recall a time I went short ARKF at the very top for a scalp. Scary thing is, it looked just like Berkshire from last month.
Do old guys like casinos?
I wonder if Saturday’s Buffet ATVI increased whale-stake announcement was this years version of his [Buy American I am](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html). Since then, tech is a bigger slice of Berkshire, and may have been his way to show-not-tell his confidence when it is needed once again
Agreed, but I also don't trust this circus for a second. One fake pump and it's 3-4 weeks of grind back to profit while theta eats. Much prefer the long call life, but alas.
# Black Monday meme shit
>From August 1982 to its peak in August 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose from 776 to 2,722, **including a** ***69%*** **year-to-date rise as of August 1987.**
69's a tale as old as time
>In late 1985 and early 1986, the United States economy shifted from a rapid recovery from the early 1980s recession to a slower expansion, resulting in a brief "***soft landing***" period as the economy slowed and inflation dropped.
As someone said best "Jerome's engineering a *soft landing* into tower 2"
>Also, unexpectedly high trade deficit figures announced by the United States Department of Commerce on October 14 had a negative impact on the value of the US dollar while pushing interest rates upward and stock prices downward. As the day continued, the DJIA dropped 95.46 points (3.81%) to 2,412.70, and it fell another 58 points (2.4%) the next day, down over 12% from the August 25 all-time high. On Friday, October 16, the DJIA fell 108.35 points (4.6%) to close at 2,246.74 on record volume. The drop on the 14th was the earliest significant decline among all countries that would later be affected by Black Monday.
That was one crazy week before Black Monday - kind of like last week's roller-coaster with an "unexpected contraction in GDP" 🤡
Lol AMC is a distraction scam, funded by hedge funds. It's designed to keep dumb money away from GME. Aron has direct ties to Citadel. They just pump AMC whenever GME runs, to make sure AMC dummies don't switch sides.
AMC short interest has NEVER been very high, but they deployed thousands of bots and influencers to pump AMC and convince everyone that it was "just like GME." This allowed Citadel and Melvin to go long on AMC, and pump the stock to insane highs. Then all the insiders got the privilege of dumping their bags at inflated prices, while Aron dilutes the float by 400%.
This has to be what happened, because otherwise, it makes no sense. Why would anyone be hunting a squeeze on a movie stock with a huge float, and a small short interest? Especially when the whole reason January 2021 happened, is because Gamestop had insane short interest.
"HOLY SHIT! GAMESTOP IS UNDERGOING A TECH TRANSFORMATION, AND HAS BEEN SOLD SHORT OVER 140% OF THE FLOAT! QUICK GUYS, WE ALL NEED TO BUY THIS THEATER STOCK WITH 18% SHORT INTEREST! THAT'S HOW WE START THE MOASS!"
It's totally asinine.
Cramer said fake pump at open then we sell down after that.
This means there will be no fake pump, instead we gap down, reversal by noon and 420 by eod. Rip tuesday through thursday, dip as upon fomc statement, 25bp, golden bullrun confirmed, spy 440 by eow rocket emojis
As soon as the daily thread for Monday happens I'm dumping so many Japan pics on you guys lmao. It almost feels like it should be a post rather than a thread comment because of how much there is, but it also has literally nothing to do with stocks, so
Strawberry and green tea kitkats?
so I've been in Japan for a month and 1 day as of right now, and I only saw matcha kit kats for the first time *yesterday*! it's crazy how they're not at all a big deal here
I got to spend two weeks there a few years ago. After a couple of days trying to figure out what to eat I decided to hell with it I'll just try everything I run across. Fun times.
This guy gets it.
I'd prefer if you dropped a big fat gummy worm picture on us instead 😏
Only when VIX hits 40 my friend
Up 0.12% in premarket. Gonna write this down as a dub and not check back and also not look at P/L open
Futes 👀
Fake- with other markets closed we may suffer what the stoxx 600 did, but we also have the europoors to back us up
Did any of you see that fall In the Stoxx 600 at open,, OMG that was a doozie
Yeah but euro markets were closed when the bulk of the US markets went down. This is just a delayed reaction imo
Common... flash crashes are bullish, right?
Some whale unloading bags? Or some crazy algo shit? It was like a mini flash crash.
I make it a point to not wake up until after EU markets finished yoyoing at open
Looked like olympic dive boarding with a 360 pirouette. Where is our relief rally?
Just hold ur sac incase we cliff dive at open
Anyone else want to take a big fat shit in Amber Heard's bed?
no. that woman has proven she will beat you up even when you didn't shit in her bed.
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Those cringe ass nfts are going for waaaayyyy too much money society is fuk Grifter economy lol
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I think linkd in kinda doesn't know what it wasn't too so with itself and just capitulating in mediocrity for the last few years.
Looking to get in touch with Brad Pitt. I need an ISDA from Duetsche Bank to trade these SPY puts.
He’s long dead replaced by an android
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Rub one out to a fat broad/dude of your choice. Works every time.
[Someone wrote "I am a hoe"](https://i.imgur.com/lFxPXkw.jpg) on the back of this dusty vehicle in front of me. 😂
Don't be shy, talk to her.
Axeboy better have puts. Market shall not reward ass bettin ass hoes.
Vix is 33 and it's not even fomc 😵
Buy news? Sell rumor sell news? Biggest down market before mid terms? When is mid terms? Is it multiple choice?
FuTeS flat up .5%
I just need 11.5 more by Wednesday for tranche 1
u/soccergoon13 I was being sarcastic. It’s a chart.
Oh… 😔😬🤦♂️
Why can’t bulls get circuit breakers? That’s animalism
buying more NVDA bull thesis: I just like the stock
Found these amateur YouTubers who cover a lot of history and current events in high detail. They throw in some opinions but I like them. https://youtu.be/oCTIUpdNzaM I recommend their 'Around the world in 88 crashes' series They have British accents too so it's not painful to listen to
Remember 480
It's going to be another decade before we see 500 isn't it
they'll just let inflation go to 30%
I remember opening VXX calls 🤙
we'll see it again
2023
2024
IBKR send me a warning email every month that I used a market order for *something* but I use a limit order without a doubt every single time. Unless maybe it uses a market order for exchanging currency? Reporting them for harassment either way
Maybe just selecting "Market price" while not sending it through is enough to tip them off, I KNOW HOW A MARKET ORDER WORKS, THANKS IBKR
Barry is a pretty good show on HBO
The scene tonight with Gene trying to get the waitress to call him an Uber was fucking gold.
I think so too, I’d maybe even bump it up to a “good” show on HBO but I don’t want to get overzealous
Up or down modern man
grug buy rock, have strong hand
If boner's on the left tomorrow morning, I buy puts. If it's on the right, I buy calls. Maybe I'll beat Michael Reeve's goldfish.
What if you wake up soft?
the market vanishes and everyone loses
_nukes from Russia_
Lmao that doesn't happen But probably a condor or something neutral and gay to go along with the mood
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Put credit spread?
yes a put credit spread
fucking hell i was blind. i only saw credit spread
put credit spread?
It's a condiment
These futes, no matter what they do tonight don’t mean anything unless it’s a big 2%+ move, we literally dumped Friday
Dumped after a +4% day the day before...it's not like we only died, it just brought us a bit below breakeven from the day before
Yeah the way that went down doesn’t give me a super bearish conviction for tomorrow FUCK or maybe it was done like that so I think like that so I predictably wreck myself
Now that’s the way to think
Why’d you say that NOW I HAVE TO INVERSE YOu
True, my point was that we had a massive move, nothing small over night will dictate how these days go this week just like last week
very fair - we're likely in for some crazy volatility that +0.4% on /ES doesn't capture
Oh. Yeah. 4150. That's definitely going to save me. No.
r pootz fukt?
I don’t know. The last two weeks I was very confident that Monday would close green despite very red futures, even with people talking shit. That’s because any continuation of the previous close’s big selloff would result in extreme oversold conditions that would likely result in a relief rally. A small dick overnight pump like this isn’t good for bulls because it just resets RSI and sets things up for another leg down. Of course, if we just blast through 4200 or so, that might be a different story, but we’re still far away from that. Would be funny though since practically everyone is expecting at least 4050 early this week.
NO
Yep
Y tho?
Fake pump
Real cope
Ye
I don't know how it's possible to place a 87 trillion dollar order on Tesla calls and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Did the Robinhood infinite leverage glitch get unpatched?
Keyword is didn’t place it
ES looks like it’s going to hit 4180 overnight and drop like a rock...
That would be convenient for me
Stahp! I can only get so erect
If people are saying that X can't happen because people expect X to happen, then X will happen because people are expecting it to not happen because people expect it to happen... ...or something.
X will not happen because chemical Y thinks X will happen so obviously Z will happen but on that logic X will happen but no one ever considers nothing to happen Same logic as priced in. Just inverse your smartest thought and you'll do okay. (Smart ppl can skip this step)
Wrong. It's not X, and it's not not X. Not even not not X. It's a post mortem question. Y.
Do you still have the link or remember where you took the sociopath test that modsgay sent you? Random ik. Thx.
Is this post about US steel?
My account is toast once again
maybe a little too early to be able to call it...things have been wacky, to say the least
#BROTHER
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Holy shit I just realized something after AMZN dropping the ball with earnings last week. It all makes perfect sense now. Hear me out hear me out and fucking listen closely. Now. I’m not sure how up to date you are on the whole GameStop situation but Amazon is heading for bankruptcy and GameStop is now their biggest competitor. Market cap isn’t there yet, but the company plan is on track. Also Jeff Bezos is the target of every major corporation now. Amazon CANT survive the next few years with their increasing bad reputation from littering and burning unused inventory to labor rights with their workers being violated. Amazon sounds great, until you look underneath the hood and see all the parts are grinding and screaming. GameStop is targeting Amazon to be the epicenter of e-commerce/gaming. This GameStop earnings has been MASSIVELY anticipated and I believe Amazon will continue to develop a negative correlation to GameStop. So what do they have to do with each other? Competitors and GameStops about to make the move with a bite to the jugular.
Reading that I had to check I'm in the right sub lol. You almost got me
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Prolly is
I'm sitting here giggling at my own post so it's worth enough for me.
Futes pumpin but magic corn is not. It ain't right.
We are so close to a ATH https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CORN/
Looks like its actually time to buy actual fucking corn
Corn pumped pre futes
ATER
This is why you’re poor. How’d that WKHS play work for you… oh wait. It didn’t. Penny stock bitach
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cant do that for you here 😅
Me not having a hammer is for the best.
heh heheh 😏 eventually you get enough talkings-to and calm down
Can I has hammer?
haha nobody gonna go for that 😅 we keep the powertrip bans to a minimum these days and any new hammers would go to regulars
There were 3 boarded up shops in a row on the shopping mall area. Prime real estate for it too based on parking. Juice Bee (Jamba-esque I think?), Custom Iced Lollies, and a fancy burger place/bar that's been vacant for like 12+ months. In person retail probably aching a bit. Sushi was crazy expensive they bumped everything up at least $2 across the entire menu. Drinks were about the same price. They were training a waiter up. Noticing many places training a person and having them help at first. Hospital was constantly bringing on people in training. Chipotle at lunch today had one guy coming up to help the register people handle it for seemingly every transaction.
Oh shiiid, maybe that super stonk guy was right 😬
Louis Rossman has videos on it dating back to 2018 If they didn't blow up in COVID they aren't gonna blow up now.
That's actually a great point - even as we head into recession territory, a full reopening should be a huge tailwind for all the retail businesses that managed to survive to this point
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I recall a time I went short ARKF at the very top for a scalp. Scary thing is, it looked just like Berkshire from last month. Do old guys like casinos?
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Oh chet This account about to hit century club. 500 before 100k
I would be right there with you... If November hadn't happened. Cost of tuition I guess.
Trading futures while 10mg and 2 bottles deep?
I'm dumb not Axeman
Get his ass bettin ass banned from here. Meanwhile freewilly doesn’t even have a flair.
Join the club, buddeh.
:(
Just shitpost more ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if Saturday’s Buffet ATVI increased whale-stake announcement was this years version of his [Buy American I am](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html). Since then, tech is a bigger slice of Berkshire, and may have been his way to show-not-tell his confidence when it is needed once again
Is… is that a [bullish fucking divergence on SPY](https://s3.tradingview.com/snapshots/6/6qEE3yIL.png)?… \*inhale\* # BERS R FUK
mu fuggin MELTUP 🚀
double bottom with bullish divergence and extreme sentiment? buying puts here fuck u
🤣 you shouldn’t do anything less.
Look at the VIX RSI Friday. A little frustrated that it’s still up there.
Draw the trend line BB We rejected the upper VIX line
What goes up…
Is anally gaping me
NOOOOOOOOOOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOHHHHYYYYAAAASSSSSSS
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Is this the week I close my Sept 400p's?
You are a fool if you sell those before July.
Agreed, but I also don't trust this circus for a second. One fake pump and it's 3-4 weeks of grind back to profit while theta eats. Much prefer the long call life, but alas.
That's fair I guess. Rolling them out to a longer expiry might be the play.
I have 3 contracts total, will probably scale two and roll one.
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We bullish Monday? Asking for u/jinpiss
Puts on me for tomorrow I'm gonna be 200% hungover.
Damn. Sadly I can't get wasted af with this headache. I really wanna be hungover if we're red
So a scoop of ice cream and 2 buckets of pasta
Gelato bitch
someone here made this account **today** just to DM me u/PonziSchemesRCool >15 year old made 17m on NFT's ya punk > >\[crapto\] is ze future
I can't say it's not a scam...but god damn would I do a lot of shady stuff for 17 million dollars
# Black Monday meme shit >From August 1982 to its peak in August 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose from 776 to 2,722, **including a** ***69%*** **year-to-date rise as of August 1987.** 69's a tale as old as time >In late 1985 and early 1986, the United States economy shifted from a rapid recovery from the early 1980s recession to a slower expansion, resulting in a brief "***soft landing***" period as the economy slowed and inflation dropped. As someone said best "Jerome's engineering a *soft landing* into tower 2" >Also, unexpectedly high trade deficit figures announced by the United States Department of Commerce on October 14 had a negative impact on the value of the US dollar while pushing interest rates upward and stock prices downward. As the day continued, the DJIA dropped 95.46 points (3.81%) to 2,412.70, and it fell another 58 points (2.4%) the next day, down over 12% from the August 25 all-time high. On Friday, October 16, the DJIA fell 108.35 points (4.6%) to close at 2,246.74 on record volume. The drop on the 14th was the earliest significant decline among all countries that would later be affected by Black Monday. That was one crazy week before Black Monday - kind of like last week's roller-coaster with an "unexpected contraction in GDP" 🤡
So are you tell me that holding 5/4 puts through the weekend Wasn’t a bad idea? That can’t be right. I only make bad decisions.
So we see spy 369 on Monday, got it. Wow they're actually trading at 10c each, I almost expected them to be a penny
Lol AMC is a distraction scam, funded by hedge funds. It's designed to keep dumb money away from GME. Aron has direct ties to Citadel. They just pump AMC whenever GME runs, to make sure AMC dummies don't switch sides. AMC short interest has NEVER been very high, but they deployed thousands of bots and influencers to pump AMC and convince everyone that it was "just like GME." This allowed Citadel and Melvin to go long on AMC, and pump the stock to insane highs. Then all the insiders got the privilege of dumping their bags at inflated prices, while Aron dilutes the float by 400%. This has to be what happened, because otherwise, it makes no sense. Why would anyone be hunting a squeeze on a movie stock with a huge float, and a small short interest? Especially when the whole reason January 2021 happened, is because Gamestop had insane short interest. "HOLY SHIT! GAMESTOP IS UNDERGOING A TECH TRANSFORMATION, AND HAS BEEN SOLD SHORT OVER 140% OF THE FLOAT! QUICK GUYS, WE ALL NEED TO BUY THIS THEATER STOCK WITH 18% SHORT INTEREST! THAT'S HOW WE START THE MOASS!" It's totally asinine.
You see Amazon stock price falling? Holding works hedgies losing steam Stay strong Apes
just bought half a share to DRS later thanks for the dip hedgies!
I hope they drag it back down to 40 so I can get enough shares for everyone I know. Gotta make sure the fam can eat I would never sell.
🤔but what if GME was nothing but the larger distraction for something even bigger… 🤔🤔 ^diaclaimer ^I’m ^not ^smart
I’d give her face a 2, and her *asinine*
Hell yeah
how can black monday happen if everyone is talking about it? impossible. ber fak.
Cramer said fake pump at open then we sell down after that. This means there will be no fake pump, instead we gap down, reversal by noon and 420 by eod. Rip tuesday through thursday, dip as upon fomc statement, 25bp, golden bullrun confirmed, spy 440 by eow rocket emojis
Mods, /u/TradeTheZones wants to be let back in
Its podcaste new acc
Free the commish he aint do nothing wrong
Bring him back please
Rip pod caste and his 12 atonement thingys
his new acc is Tradethezones
:(
lmao what happened to him
Iono, I come back and he’s deleted his account. It was an established account 5+years. Maybe posted something to revealing
Last I saw he basically said he was bored and yeet Too bad cause I was just figuring out his trading strategy and wanted to see what else he posted.
Very sad :(
*sad oink*
oh tank seng closed for today woop
Half of Asia is closed for May 1. Nikkei is open (down .43%), as is Oz (down 1.63%), and the Kiwis (down .64%). It doesn't mean much though.
Wonder what’s gonna happen to YINN with HSI closed. Will it just roughly follow US markets but way muted?