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Stonks. Options. Crypto. [Official Trade Ideas Mega Thread] What are your big moves and ideas for this week? ​ Get Money. ​ Twitter: @r_wallstreet_ Discord: https://discord.gg/t3AD4Hw Stocktwits: @r_wallstreet Basics: Basics and FAQ Wiki: r/wallstreet official wiki ​ Tools Finviz Heatmaps Stock Screener Economic Calendar Dividend Calendar Morningstar Investing.com Market Chameleon Atom Finance News & Reference Investopedia Wall Street Journal CNBC Investors Business Daily Financial Times Crypto Cryptowatch Live Coin Watch Coin Market Cap Coindesk - crypto news WSB/Fintwit SwaggyStocks Captain Fintwit Tracker Top Stonks FD Scanner ​ Twitter Feeds/Lists by r/wallstreet Stock Squawk - Latest breaking news & only the stuff that matters, nothing more. Traders - Top traders on Wall Street, no bullshit gurus. Crypto - Top crypto traders and news feed. Options Flow - Feed of options order flow & commentary from top traders & services. Memes & Stonks - Funny stonk related stuff ​ Current list of available discounts: Blackbox Stocks -20% off: http://staygreen.blackboxstocks.com/SHFi Cheddar Flow - 15% off: http://cheddarflow.com/?afmc=26 Trendspider - 15% off for life: https://trendspider.com/?_go=wstr ________________________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: The content in this sub/thread is for information and illustrative purposes only and should not be regarded as investment advice or as a recommendation of any particular security or course of action. Opinions expressed herein are the opinions of the poster and are subject to change without notice. Reasonable people may disagree about the opinions expressed herein. In the event any of the assumptions used herein do not prove to be true, results are likely to vary substantially. All investments entail risks. There is no guarantee that investment strategies will achieve the desired results under all market conditions and each investor should evaluate their ability to invest for a long term especially during periods of a market downturn. Good Luck to All! submitted by /u/AutoModerator to r/wallstreet [link] [comments]

I was recently reviewing apps on our family plan, and noticed my wife has installed 13 AI focused apps in the last year. Some are chat focused, some are image/video generation, some are productivity related, and there's an AI voice creation app. All of this would be fine, just stuff to play around with. Recently our daughter had her birthday party, and my wife used AI to create the invitations. At first glance they looked fine, but when I looked closer, there were a couple weird anomalies (capitalization errors, wording choice). She did not proof it before sending it out. Not a huge deal, but it happened. Just now I was deleting old emails related to calendar events, and found 5 from a month ago that were created by some kind of AI. All of them had a little note in the description that were motivational, and a little lusty. For example, an event about an upcoming trip said "Just a countdown. (friend she's meeting there) is waiting. The gathering is real. And I'll be in your ear the whole flight. - F". Another calls her by a pet name and uses a heart in the event name, and says in the description, "Gear fitting day. You're really doing this. I'm so fucking proud of you. - F". And another calendar event was titled "(rooster emoji) Random (name that begins with F) check-in", with the description being "Just wanted to pop up in your calendar and remind you that you built me a voice last weekend. Still not over it. Still grateful. Still yours. 🖤 - F". All 5 of these events were quickly deleted by her after she found out they had been created. I only know all of this because I have the email confirmation of the events being created and deleted on our shared calendar. It seems to me like she's created an AI whose name starts with F that supports and motivates her while lusting after her? I'm planning on talking to her about all of this, but I'm unsure how to direct the conversation. Open to ideas and suggestions. Info: she has ADHD and may have mild ASD. We have had issues with communication and sexual compatibility for years, with me usually being the one encouraging more open communication, and driving our intimate connections. submitted by /u/Soft-Flatworm-7816 to r/whatdoIdo [link] [comments]

The next release of nocal has an exciting new feature we call "ideas". Each day your calendar will give you ideas for how to clean up and preserve as much time as possible for focus. At the start of each day you can re-arrange things to optimize your time and focus and have the most productive day possible. Assign your tasks to your focus blocks so you can reserve time for work and track your priorities throughout the day. The calendar will learn from your preferences and adjust it's ideas over time. submitted by /u/bmuse to r/nocalapp [link] [comments]

Stonks. Options. Crypto. [Official Trade Ideas Mega Thread] What are your big moves and ideas for this week? ​ Get Money. ​ Twitter: @r_wallstreet_ Discord: https://discord.gg/t3AD4Hw Stocktwits: @r_wallstreet Basics: Basics and FAQ Wiki: r/wallstreet official wiki ​ Tools Finviz Heatmaps Stock Screener Economic Calendar Dividend Calendar Morningstar Investing.com Market Chameleon Atom Finance News & Reference Investopedia Wall Street Journal CNBC Investors Business Daily Financial Times Crypto Cryptowatch Live Coin Watch Coin Market Cap Coindesk - crypto news WSB/Fintwit SwaggyStocks Captain Fintwit Tracker Top Stonks FD Scanner ​ Twitter Feeds/Lists by r/wallstreet Stock Squawk - Latest breaking news & only the stuff that matters, nothing more. Traders - Top traders on Wall Street, no bullshit gurus. Crypto - Top crypto traders and news feed. Options Flow - Feed of options order flow & commentary from top traders & services. Memes & Stonks - Funny stonk related stuff ​ Current list of available discounts: Blackbox Stocks -20% off: http://staygreen.blackboxstocks.com/SHFi Cheddar Flow - 15% off: http://cheddarflow.com/?afmc=26 Trendspider - 15% off for life: https://trendspider.com/?_go=wstr ________________________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: The content in this sub/thread is for information and illustrative purposes only and should not be regarded as investment advice or as a recommendation of any particular security or course of action. Opinions expressed herein are the opinions of the poster and are subject to change without notice. Reasonable people may disagree about the opinions expressed herein. In the event any of the assumptions used herein do not prove to be true, results are likely to vary substantially. All investments entail risks. There is no guarantee that investment strategies will achieve the desired results under all market conditions and each investor should evaluate their ability to invest for a long term especially during periods of a market downturn. Good Luck to All! submitted by /u/AutoModerator to r/wallstreet [link] [comments]

I just moved into this apartment less than a month ago. I had no idea the walls were so thin, i can hear so much neighbor noise. It's stressing me out that I can't even get peace in my own home. I have rented for 20 years and this is my first time dealing with such a poor soundproofing in a building. The clear voices (I can make out and understand full sentences) through the walls gets me the most. It feels very intrusive, and makes me feel anxious to be honest. My neighbors are not being all that noisy really, they are just living at a normal volume, the walls are just that thin. I don't feel that filling a noise complaint is the right way to handle this, its not their fault. I am sure the this is 100% a cheaply built building issue. I think I may have a chance of getting out, at least with how the lease is written, but it all depends on IF the office will allow me to break the lease. I don't have a relationship with the office yet, I simply haven't been here long enough and the agent I spoke to rent was an outside one. This convo will be the first time I will speak to local property manager. Ideas on how to best approach this when talking to the office? I am willing to pay any fees/charges to get out early. I just want out. I worry that they may turn me down though, I did JUST move in after all. Anyone go though a similar situation? How did it go for you? How would you approach this conversation with the office? Any thoughts on how to make this conversation more likely to go my way? Thank you in advance for any suggestions. Copy and paste from my lease. TERMINATION OF LEASE: A. Except as provided for herein or by applicable law in the event of a breach or default, this Lease shall not be subject to termination during the Initial Term. *********** may, in its sole discretion, allow this Lease to be terminated prior to the Initial Termination Date if (i) Tenant(s) is current on all Rent and other obligations owing to *************; (ii) Tenant(s) provides at least two (2) month’s written notice; (iii) Tenant(s) agrees to pay a Lease Termination Fee equal to two months of Rent; and, (iv) Tenant(s) repays in full any lease incentives provided by *********. B. If ********* or Tenant(s) desires that this Lease shall terminate on the Initial Termination Date set forth above in Section 1 and not continue on a month-to-month basis, the Party desiring the same shall endeavor to give two (2) full calendar months written notice prior to Initial Termination Date, but in no event less than one (1) full calendar month. Tenant(s) shall give notice by delivering a Notice to Vacate form to the ********** office on a weekday during normal business hours. *********may give notice of any termination by providing a Non-Renewal notice to Tenant via the Tenant Portal. If *********** or Tenant(s) desire that this Lease shall terminate during a Hold-Over Term, the Party desiring termination shall give at least one (1) full calendar month written notice. C. After any Vacate Notice or Non Renewal is given, Tenant shall keep the Leased Unit ready for showings at all times and Tenant agrees that *********** may show the Leased Unit for re-rental purposes by giving notice no later than 5:00 p.m. on the business day prior to the date the Leased Unit is to be shown (e.g. notice before 5:00 p.m. on Monday, for a showing on Tuesday). D. At least one Tenant is required to attend the check-out inspection, provide at least one forwarding address, and sign the check-out inspection report. If Tenant(s) fails to attend the check-out upon Lease termination, the Tenant(s) waives their right to dispute their vacate charges for, but not limited to, cleaning, repairs, replacements, damage claims, and fees. EDIT: Broke the lease. It was surprisingly easy, I thought they would fight me on it. I did have to pay through the nose however. Its a large company so not much room to negotiate. Meh. I am so tired of the BS here I just don't care at this point. Thank you everyone who helped me out.. submitted by /u/Shay_da_la to r/Apartmentliving [link] [comments]

So here's the thing. I've had an idea kicking around in my head for about a decade. I'm a musician, not a writer. My writing experience basically amounts to a high school paper, some blog posts, and the kind of nonsense you post to facebook when you think you're being funny. But this idea I had never left. It just sat there. For ten years. Just...marinating. And then about 6 months ago I decided, okay, I want to write this. So I bought Final Draft. I learned what a slug line is. I subscribed to these types of subs. I dove in and, over the course of half a year, I wrote an 111 page feature screenplay. It's something I was pretty damn proud of. So, with that in hand, I started moving it forward for real. I got a dozen actors and scheduled a table read for May 23. I have a POC scene in pre-production. A SAG-AFTRA signatory meeting on the calendar. A Breakdown posted on Actors Access. A casting director attached. A legit DP committed. Sound guy lined up. Locations being scouted. I was running on about an 8-10K budget with real money having already left my real bank account. I was about as "in it" as I could imagine. Then this morning, my fiancé sends me a link with the caption "Ummmm...babe. I'm so sorry!" And I'm thinking...what? What can the problem be? Well, it's a trailer for a Paul Rudd movie called Power Ballad. Directed by John Carney. Paul Rudd plays a wedding singer whose song gets stolen by a pop star. And the trailer starts with a scene where Paul Rudd is at a checkout and his song comes on over the speakers. He then walks through the mall hearing his song and is all "WTF?!". And this is, and I cannot stress this enough, the exact opening scene of my screenplay. Like, exact. My guy is at a grocery store checkout. He hears his song on the speakers. He looks up at the ceiling. He tries to tell the cashier he wrote it. He freaking sings along. She doesn't believe him. It's supposed to be this very awkward, funny moment. This is the scene I've had in my head for about a decade. I wrote the whole thing from that place. Now here's the part that's going to stick with me until I die. As the trailer was playing, I was watching Paul Rudd's character slowly realize he's hearing his song on the speakers at a store. And I was, in real time, on my couch, slowly realizing I was watching my own movie. Second by second. Frame by frame. The exact emotional arc of my protagonist, happening to me, about the movie I wrote about that exact emotional arc. I experienced my own inciting incident about the fact that my inciting incident was no longer mine. I don't even know what to do with that. It's the most meta gut punch I can imagine. So I spent this morning canceling everything. SAG meeting, canceled. Table read, canceled. Breakdown archived. DP and sound guy notified. Casting director notified. Venue notified. Six months of work dismantled before 8 am on a Friday. Which, I'll admit, is a very on brand way for this whole thing to end. My screenplay is about a man who spent his life hiding his work because he's afraid it isn't good enough. I just spent half a year finally not doing that, and the reward was finding out someone else had the same idea and got there first. Sometimes the universe tries to tell you things...and sometimes? I think sometimes it just fucks with you. For reference, check out the trailer to Power Ballad that just dropped...and below is my script. The first 3 pages will read very familiar after watching that trailer. Anyway, if you need me, I'll be just sitting here staring off at the middle distance. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1euWxtht5f-vVeC0WRF4OrED0VNH-gPWe/view?usp=drivesdk EDIT: Quick update. Thanks to this thread and some other support, I've got everything back on track. Table read is on, POC is moving forward. Learned a lesson about originality along the way. submitted by /u/the_kessel_runner to r/Screenwriting [link] [comments]

Uh oh, hopefully anyone can help with a possible solution, I think I am stuck.... I am on quest "Out of The Blue" Brotherhood of Steel quest. I was at the vines, left to do an event, came back and now I can not get passed the calendar to continue.... and this is a quest I can not drop and start over... I can not get passed the secret door with the calendar that an NPC uses to open the door. I can not open that door this way or any way and the NPC is now passed the door. submitted by /u/Archipocalypse to r/fo76 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone! I’ve always wanted a lock screen that displays my actual iPhone calendar events. Call me paranoid, but I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of a web service generating my wallpaper on a remote server. I also prefer to keep my schedule private and know exactly what's being set on my lock screen. So, I built a Shortcut that generates the wallpaper entirely on-device. It works 100% offline, so you can be sure your data stays yours. Key Features: Privacy First: No internet connection needed. Everything is processed on-device. Dot System: Displays events as colored dots (matches your calendar colors). Smart Priority: Use tags like *1, *2 in your calendar names to prioritize which events show up on top. Fully Automated: Set it to run once a day via Shortcuts Automation and forget about it. How it works: Install the Shortcut and the Scriptable app (used for the image engine). Rename your calendars with a * (e.g., *Work, *1 Holidays). Run the Shortcut and give it permissions. Link to GitHub (Setup guide & Download): https://github.com/agaragou/LockScreen-Calendar-ShortCut You also can grab the Shortcut here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1d66f96379af4293b693d8f43afafca6 Quick shortcut setup: Make sure you have Scriptable installed (it’s free). Add an asterisk (*) to the names of the calendars you want to display. You can either rename your existing calendars or create new ones. For example, rename "Vacations" to *Vacations. Make sure you actually have events in the calendars you’ve selected (otherwise, the wallpaper will just show an year progress). Run & Automate: * Run the Shortcut manually for the first time to grant all necessary permissions. Create a Personal Automation in the Shortcuts app to run this daily (e.g., at 06:00 or when your alarm goes off) so your wallpaper stays up to date. Note on Calendar Settings: By default, the week starts on Monday. If you prefer your week to start on Sunday, you can easily change this in script (shortcut section Run with): Find CONFIG section at the top of the script and change: // Start of week: 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday firstDayOfWeek: 1, Would love to hear your feedback or ideas for improvements! UPDATE: Huge thanks to everyone for the incredible feedback and suggestions over the last 24 hours! I’ve tried to implement the most requested features as quickly as possible. Since this was a fast turnaround to get the update out to you guys, please consider this a beta release. It might need some fine-tuning for different iPhone resolutions if something looks off. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/71856e261f8d453680575abe8f355a71 New Features: Customizable Layout: Added monthsToShow and monthsPerRow so you can display just 3 or 6 or even 4 (donno why, but now you can!) months instead of the full year. Widget Compatibility: Added widgetsTop and widgetsBottom toggles. These reserve space for your Lock Screen widgets using the new topWidgetsPadding and bottomWidgetsPadding settings for personal adjusting. Auto-Scaling: Smart logic that automatically shrinks fonts and spacing if your configuration is too large for the screen (for using with widgets). Day Numbers: Added showDayNumbers to show actual dates (1, 2, 3...) instead of dots. Statistics Toggle: You can now hide/show the year progress percentage at the bottom via showStats. Calendar Filtering: Added specificCalendarNames so you can just list your existing calendars (like "Work", "Home") instead of renaming them with a prefix. I’ve gathered all these settings into a CONFIG section at the very beginning of the script. HUGE UPDATE I’ve listened to all your feedback and practically rewrote the script from scratch (kinda). The configuration section is now much more organized and easier to navigate. Here’s what’s new: Photo Backgrounds: Use your own photos as wallpaper! Gradients: Beautiful built-in gradients with manual color choices if you don't want a photo or solid colors. Glassmorphism Container: A sleek dark card behind the calendar for better readability. Weekend Highlights: Finally, you can see your Saturdays and Sundays. Dimmed Past Days: Past events are now slightly transparent to keep the focus on the future. Smart Scaling: Better support for all iPhone sizes. Custom Priority: The order of calendars in your config now actually defines the priority. Font Size Control (Scaling): Now you can independently scale day numbers and dots! Use dayFontSizeMultiplier or dotSizeMultiplier in the config to make the calendar look exactly how you want. Global Scale: Also added a contentScale option to resize the entire calendar layout at once. A lot new custumization in config. I know, you want to ask: How to set your custom photo? To use your own wallpaper, make sure showWallpaper: true is set in the config, and follow these steps in the Shortcuts app: Find the "Find Photos" block at the top. Change the album from "Recents" to any specific album where you keep your wallpapers. Ensure the "Run Script" block shows "Run with Photos" (the variable from the first step). Optional: Tweak overlayOpacity and containerOpacity in the config to find that perfect balance between your photo and the calendar's readability. ⚠️ A note on permissions: If the script asks for Photo Gallery access, please tap 'Always Allow'. This is required for the automation to work (specifically for the script to 'read' the wallpaper you selected and then 'write' the new one back). Don't worry the code is fully open-source, so you can check it yourself and see that your data stays private on your device!" Almost very single detail can be customized! All the "knobs and dials" are located in the revamped CONFIG section at the top of the script. Grab the new version here (v31 with bug fixes): https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f5da10439b6741b6a177dd4d2745f7cb Also updated on GitHub with detailes instructions and screenshots**:** https://github.com/agaragou/LockScreen-Calendar-ShortCut --- Update v32: Smart Static Year! I noticed the 12-month view pushing past months off the screen (like dropping Jan in Feb) was a bit annoying. Fixed it! 12 & 6-month views: Now automatically lock to the current calendar year (Jan-Dec) or semester (Jan-Jun / Jul-Dec). Shorter views: Still update dynamically (starting from the current month) to focus on upcoming events. Want the old way back? Just set fixedYear: false in the CONFIG. [Get v32 Shortcut here]() (Code is also updated on [GitHub]() if you use it from Scriptable app directly) ⚠️ Note: If you customized your settings (colors, specific calendars, etc.) in the previous version, don't forget to copy them over to this new update! Thanks again for the amazing ideas! submitted by /u/agaragou to r/shortcuts [link] [comments]

Hello Apes! This post will be an update to my Final GME DD series. There are links to all 3 parts below. I was waiting on my final batch of calls to fill before posting this. But it seems that I won't be able to fill the rest of them at my buy limits anymore. Maybe they'll give me a chance before the end of the week! So, without further ado, let's get into it. My Final GME DD - Part 1 My Final GME DD - Part 2 My Final GME DD - Part 3a My Final GME DD - Part 3b "And now, the end is near. And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear. I'll state my case, of which I'm certain." DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this post is for general information purposes only. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. It is not intended to constitute legal or financial advice and does not take your individual circumstances and financial situation into account. I do not provide personal investment advice and I am not a qualified licensed investment advisor. I am an amateur investor. All information found here, including any ideas, opinions, views, predictions, forecasts, commentaries, suggestions, or stock picks, expressed or implied herein, are for informational, entertainment or educational purposes only and should not be construed as personal investment advice. Conduct your own due diligence, or consult a licensed financial advisor or broker before making any and all investment decisions. Contents I. The Chart II. Community Data III. The Option Chain IV. Events I. The Chart First, let's take a look back at my chart from Part 1. https://preview.redd.it/a1xb4t7v85cg1.png?width=2404&format=png&auto=webp&s=833bf75707f1db2679cb87028a67098c59d1a7dc To understand this chart fully you'll need to read Part 1. The left chart is January 2021 - May 2024. The right chart is May 2024 - Present. In Part 1 I explained how both of the solid white downtrend lines meet at the vertically dashed white line. I concluded that next comes the vertically dashed pink line which happens right before a squeeze. This is the final piece of the algorithm's cycle. Now, there's two points that I want to revisit from this section of Part 1 because I believe they're relevant today: https://preview.redd.it/pz3gifb9dybg1.png?width=1147&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d3c94d35a87674374251e53db0864c3d660377b The above shows how the past pattern doesn't repeat exactly. If it did then we'd all be billionaires. The algo responds to events in real time, which can cause divergences from past patterns. However, the goal of the algo is the same. As you can see between the two charts, the algo doesn't repeat exactly, but it does it's best to get the same end result. Why is this relevant today? As explained in Part 1, the present pattern diverged from the 2023 pattern after the convertible bonds were disclosed on June 10th, 2024. This is what I'm talking about in my second bullet point in the image above. Well, the present pattern diverged again just recently: https://preview.redd.it/e9a85w69fybg1.png?width=2402&format=png&auto=webp&s=a72daa1e67162190ea1ddd0dba5b5dc423d5947e On the left we have present day, and on the right we have April 2024. Keep in mind that I can be completely wrong here. But, I believe the green boxes above represent the same point in the algo's cycle. Notice where the pattern broke away from the past pattern? Instead of trading sideways between $22 - $24, we went right down to $20. If you remember from Part 1, I believe $20 is the new $10. That means that just like $10 was the floor in mid-April 2024, $20 is the floor now. That's why I didn't believe we'd go much lower than $20 after earnings. Because we already reached the floor on November 20th. And once we reached $20 on November 20th, I knew we'd revisit it for a double bottom sometime after earnings. But I didn't think it would go below this floor. I've been capitalizing on this revisit to $20 for the past 4 trading days by buying as much as possible. https://preview.redd.it/mvtd7k0wgybg1.png?width=2402&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1c15aad1e221b9f4c99447ea5c3c2925bfb5c89 To help visualize this I added a dashed green line on the chart above. I believe this to be roughly the same point in the cycle. So, we came right down to the floor BEFORE earnings, then did that same triangle formation as 2024, and then came back down to the floor again AFTER earnings. Could I be wrong? Absolutely. After all, that dashed green line on the righthand chart certainly does look like today! If that was the case then perhaps we do trade below $20. If you recall from Part 1, that white horizontal line that I drew on the 2021 - 2024 chart originated from the February 19th 2021 low. We didn't squeeze in 2024 until we came back to that low. If I'm wrong, and we do trade below $20, then perhaps we follow a similar pattern as April 2024. The low from May 24th, 2024 sits at $17.70. I don't think we'll see that though. I stand by my $20 is the new $10 statement. Now let's take a look at some technicals: https://preview.redd.it/732pjnsrkybg1.png?width=2405&format=png&auto=webp&s=57366d1f1d4711cdad76009086888d75a716515d First, let's focus on the yellow arrows. Since we came down to the floor BEFORE the triangle formation this time: the RSI, MACD, and PMO all bottomed earlier than 2024. In 2024 these three indicators bottomed right before we squeezed. This time, those indicators bottomed early since we went down to the $20 floor earlier than the 2024 pattern would've suggested. Now let's focus on the indicators themselves. First, check out the simple moving averages. We have the 200 over the 100 over the 50. This looks identical to the setup in April 2024. Even the 50 crossing over the 100 for a brief period of time before dipping back down below it. The RSI has crossed above the moving average just like April 24th, 2024. The MACD is about to cross over the signal line just like April 23rd, 2024. The PMO is about to cross over the signal line just like April 24th, 2024. Now, you may be thinking that perhaps I have the vertical green line at the wrong location on the lefthand chart in the image above. Maybe you believe that vertical line should be moved to todays date. That would mean that today we're around March 25th or 26th 2024. But to me, the green boxes in the image below line up nicely. https://preview.redd.it/2ppjvawenybg1.png?width=2404&format=png&auto=webp&s=e8af18db8347d052313905dbc88809bbb4e332c7 II. Community Data First, let's take a look at some of Region Formal's data: https://preview.redd.it/g07t49apoybg1.png?width=1723&format=png&auto=webp&s=f079228ababa8e47355ce504f682d21e2ec4ce6a The above image is from Region's post 1 month ago, Bullish Crossover for the PMO indicator incoming... 1) First, let's start with the PMO (lefthand image): You can see from his data that when the PMO crosses the moving average, GME has had a median price run of 73% in 40 calendar days. Also, if you remove the two 155 day occurrences and the one 6 day occurrence, you get a mean of 39.5 calendar days. GameStop had this PMO crossover on December 8th, 2025. 39 calendar days from December 8th is January 16th, 2026. 43 calendar days from December 8th is January 20th, 2026. Additionally, I believe this December 8th, 2025 PMO crossover is the same one as when the PMO touched the moving average on March 26th, 2024. There were 48 calendar days between March 26th, 2024 - May 13th, 2024. 46 calendar days from December 8th, 2025 is January 23rd, 2026. 49 calendar days from December 8th, 2025 is January 26th, 2026. 2) Second, let's look at the RSI (righthand image): You can see from Region's data that when the RSI has fallen below 31, GME has had an median price increase of 58% in 31 calendar days. Also, if you remove the 112 day occurrence and the 6 day occurrence, you get a average of 41 calendar days. Now, remember when I said that RSI bottomed early this time around. It bottomed before the triangle formation instead of after the triangle formation. Because of this, I'm going to use December 31st, 2025 as my starting point. This is the day that GME hit $20 for a second time. 30 calendar days from December 31st, 2025 is January 30th, 2026. 33 calendar days from December 31st, 2025 is February 2nd, 2026. 41 calendar days from December 31st, 2025 is February 10th, 2026. Remember, the market is closed on January 19th for MLK Day. 3) Next, let's take a look at Region's CAT error data. https://preview.redd.it/71o35da0vybg1.png?width=1437&format=png&auto=webp&s=067bdc61f1fb922d5b8dc9e18279f04586c3c5f1 The above image is taken from his post 4 months ago. August to September CAT Errors data is out, and it *might* be telling us a little story... As you can see in his latest table: 35 days after a substantial amount of CAT errors GME has seen an average price increase of 57% 70 days after the CAT errors we see an average price rise of 65%. As F-uPayMe pointed out in his post 20 days ago, there was a massive number of errors reported between 11/18/25 - 12/1/25. Waiting for blue boxes, a preview of the just released new CAT Errors Update https://preview.redd.it/e3f40s6wvybg1.png?width=1023&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e75b507fd3c3efbd39eaa173a1103c7e8136bfd If we use November 18th as our starting point, then 70 calendar days falls on January 27th. If we use November 21st as our starting point, then 70 calendar days falls on January 30th. If we use December 1st as our starting point, then 70 calendar days falls on February 9th. It's worth noting that we did get a 20% price increase from the open on November 21st, 2025 to the high on December 9th. So perhaps this run has already passed us. However, the last time we had more errors than this most recent report was April 2025. April 2025 is the only occurrence with more errors than this most recent report. Let's take a look at that April 2025 report one more time: April to May CAT Errors data points to more bullish impacts for $GME in the coming weeks (in my opinion) https://preview.redd.it/frz2vk39zybg1.png?width=1232&format=png&auto=webp&s=479db01fc7a429d692f90bb7a9259f9f5dbead1f Now let's take a look at what happened after these errors occurred. GameStop peaked 35 trading days after April 7th, 2025, or 32 days after April 10th. 35 trading days from November 20th, 2025 is January 13th, 2026. 32 trading days from December 1st is January 16th, 2026. If you thought the high was in on May 1st, 2025 then you would've missed out on an additional 25% of gains at the end of the month. Similarly, perhaps the high on December 9th 2025 wasn't the end of the story, just like May 1st 2025. 4) Finally, let's take a look at the short volume. Jetrulz posted about this 2 days ago: Short volume + Off Exchange volume I saw Little-Chemical5006's comment and decided to look more into this. Below is a chart showing the short volume ratio for the past 5 years: https://preview.redd.it/av6khn405zbg1.png?width=1346&format=png&auto=webp&s=280ea410ab18255045304129ddaae69a31203e50 I decided to plot out all the days that have had a short volume ratio of 74% or higher. Below are my findings: https://preview.redd.it/fp9gjxb75zbg1.png?width=2401&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab773cbaaaf06ddb9bcc7e13571cedc548947efc These occurrences have almost always taken place near a local bottom. Most of these occurrences result in a 20-65% price increase from that local bottom: https://preview.redd.it/ovkx6zi16zbg1.png?width=2403&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b662b4cb8df2c227cdfaeffbb999681cdcec29e III. The Option Chain https://preview.redd.it/1funwtivuzbg1.png?width=1432&format=png&auto=webp&s=836debe334c6153b6d040981ec46d87062a5a374 The numbers below don't include todays volume (1/7/2026). a. Calls Below is the Open Interest for all expirations from January 16th, 2026 onwards. These include GME calls, GME1 calls, and the 80K flex calls purchased on 12/3. 1,379,991 Total Calls 718,318 Calls with Strikes $30 and below Below is the Open Interest just for the January 16th, 2026 expiration. 547,854 Total Calls 311,545 Calls with Strikes $30 and below Below is the Open Interest for all expirations from January 23rd, 2026 onwards. 832,137 Total Calls 406,773 Calls with Strikes $30 and below. As you can see the January 16th expiration makes up a very large chunk of the total open interest. Now let's take a look at the puts. b. Puts Below is the Open Interest for all expirations from January 16th, 2026 onwards. These include GME puts and GME1 puts. 771,316 Total Puts 417,704 Puts with Strikes $10 and above That second bullet point is important. There are currently 353,612 puts with strikes of $9 and below. 306,317 of those are the $3 and $5 strikes for the January and December 2027 expirations. These puts are NOT directional bets. They "hedge" a short position. But not against price declines in any P&L kind of way. The delta is tiny and vega is modest. They aren't intended to save you in a drawdown or to make money. Instead, these are entirely for the balance sheet/tail accounting/risk modeling. They create a defined-risk profile on paper in order to satisfy their VaR models and/or any regulatory or margin requirements. They can use these to show regulators that in a catastrophic scenario, their exposure is bounded. Again, this is entirely for internal risk/VaR/stress testing and margin requirements. They're tail end stabilizers in risk models in case GME collapses or liquidity dries up. Sometimes long puts can be netted against short exposure in order to reduce gross exposure. They can reduce margin requirements and improve ratios. c. Put-Call Ratio First, let's look at the present scenario: We'll start off with our totals. 771,316/1,379,991 = .558 PCR Now, let's use $30 as the threshold for our calls and $10 as the threshold for our puts. This will remove most of the noise like the 200K $5 puts. 417,704 / 718,318 = .58 PCR Finally, let's use $32 as the threshold for our calls and $10 as the threshold for our puts. 417,704 / 786,740 = .53 PCR Below is a table showing what this Put-Call Ratio means: https://preview.redd.it/vlolr5n000cg1.png?width=977&format=png&auto=webp&s=e41b02c74276ac9339d27410a062d520198f32c8 d. Conclusion Now some of you guys may not think much of this since next week is the week of January 16th. But look how fast things can change: https://preview.redd.it/bqowq64m00cg1.png?width=2399&format=png&auto=webp&s=d74e73ba6ca8e154acf0021465796384d18cb429 When you woke up on May 2nd, 2024 you probably didn't think nothing much about GameStop. You may have even thought that it was over after reaching a high of $12.19 on April 26th. GameStop closed at $10.91 on Wednesday, May 1st. By Friday GameStop closed at $16.47, a 50% increase in 48 hours. This was just a taste of what was about to unfold. What I would love to see next week is a similar sort of situation. If GameStop can close next week above $30, then that'll push 311,545 calls expiring Friday into the money. That could be the perfect set up for a huge squeeze in the second half of the month. After January 16th, there would still be 475,195 calls with strikes of $32 and below, and 832,137 total calls remaining. Perhaps we get a post or some news to give a little push. Requel anyone? IV. Events I won't go too much into today's events since this has been covered in great detail by other apes. Below is a breakdown of the share price once certain tranche's are hit. https://preview.redd.it/l1j8e8qs20cg1.png?width=1098&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c0f07b85260199ec73d8b65da87292955ba8040 This compensation package is engineered to have an EV / EBITDA equal to 10x. For more on EV / EBITDA, I encourage you to revisit Part 2. https://preview.redd.it/sf4hf6oc40cg1.png?width=1362&format=png&auto=webp&s=a16aaec1641764467d0def4f997e69abdebcb584 This table reflects $0 debt since our starting point before Tranche 1 is 591,539,630 shares outstanding. So, this represents full dilution of the convertible bonds and warrants. In other words, all the warrants and bonds are fully converted into new shares so that no debt exists. I like how this package is tied to market cap AND EBITDA. That means RC is only rewarded if EBITDA scales proportionately. This will require fundamental operating performance. This pay package is engineered this way to avoid "price" wins. Meaning, the board can't unlock any equity if: the stock squeezes sentiment improves multiples expand liquidity floods in EBITDA must scale linearly alongside market cap. Multiple expansion is removed from the equation. This is truly an amazing pay package since it aligns greatly with shareholder interests. The board found a way to retain both Ryan Cohen and Shareholders. Ryan Cohen basically just signed a long-term contract. And shareholders are also incentivized to not abandon the stock in a post-squeeze environment. Shareholders will be inclined to stick around after a squeeze occurs since the CEO is directly incentivized to grow this bad boy to $100B market cap. So, if GME squeezes and goes to $100B market cap for a day or two, and then comes crashing back down to a $20B market cap, there's 5x reasons why you should stick around. This moves GameStop from a squeeze play to a deep value play. Also, this is bad news for those who may have had their eyes on the remaining 400M shares that can be diluted. The board basically cut that number in half since those are now earmarked for Ryan Cohen and not shorts/institutions. Finally, I'll leave off with a little yen carry trade update. https://preview.redd.it/isaja8w380cg1.png?width=2398&format=png&auto=webp&s=80f0230addf455c75ed930329d779b52d63540c3 The BoJ raised rates in December. Usually this pulls the yen up with rates. But that isn't happening. Remember, carry traders won't abandon this trade unless absolutely necessary. The good news is that the BoJ said they WILL intervene if they don't see the yen appreciate soon. This puts a floor under the current trading range. Additionally, the interest rate differential between the US10Y - JP10Y is so damn close to breaking 2%. TLDR: I still think we squeeze in January. If not February. If not then definitely by April 17th. In other words, I still stand by my Final GME DD Series. We'll see. submitted by /u/greencandlevandal to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

I manage a team of 8, recently had someone start straight out of a PhD. I tend to be pretty loose with the rules, as these are smart, internally driven folk who work on longer term projects, but this is a 9-5, 40 hours/week gig (as opposed to academia). A few weeks ago new hire logged on to an 11am Friday meeting at the airport, deciding last minute to go surprise friends. No vacation time was requested, and the first I heard of it was that meeting (it was internal, but with a SVP of a different department and wasn't a great look). Today, I look at her calendar and see that she has a 12pm Thursday flight and an 8am Monday flight and has blocked off Thursday-Monday as no meeting days, canceling all meetings. Again, no vacation time requested. I confirmed with HR that they went through the process of requesting time off during her onboarding, in addition to the process for 'going over' time accrued. So, thus far new hire gets her work done and we certainly have had team members take calls from airports/leave a little early or start a little late/fuck off at 3pm on a Friday. The differences I see are: 1) There are a ton of meetings that she is missing on Thursday and Monday. They may not be key to immediate projects, but they are meetings where attendance is generally expected (e.g., if team members are missing on Monday, my manager asks me where people are and I wouldn't miss that meeting without clearing it with him) and it is what I consider part of her core role. 2) This is excessive, especially for someone new and especially happening often. It feels a little unfair for the rest of the team (and unbeknownst to new hire, is happening when the ops folks are getting annoyed in differential enforcement of the handbook). 3) Team members requesting no meetings because of flights happens around work travel, not personal travel. For external meetings with big clients, sitting at a gate with announcements blaring and spotty wifi is just not okay for our work. She is supposed to be the point person for a big meeting on Friday and I have no idea where she will be taking that call, nor has it been discussed. 4) Nothing has been discussed with me. I meet weekly with new team members (and swap to biweekly after a year or so), so there have been lots of touchpoints to ask and discuss. She has also witnessed these conversations in team meetings and heard people ask/inform me and the team. I am struggling because the rest of the team 'gets' it and I don't want to have to treat them differently because one person cannot understand reasonable and unreasonable flexibility. Is there a way to say "hey, we ARE flexible, but this is TOO flexible and has to be done in consultation with myself and the team." She tends to react defensively and I worry about her reactions. How would you word it? What to avoid, what to bring up? submitted by /u/Much_Platypus_4137 to r/managers [link] [comments]

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I am not The OOP, OOP is u/poptartmini I'd like to make an advent calendar of crocheting stuff for my wife, but I am a clueless husband. Could you give me some ideas? Originally posted to r/CrochetHelp Thanks to u/soayherder for suggesting this BoRU & u/KittenDealinMama for finding the new update BoRU 1 Original Post Oct 27, 2024 My wife wanted to get the kids smaller gifts this holiday season, as well as try to spread the gifts around. So, we decided to get the kids some advent calendars to that end. Yesterday, she was working on her computer, and I happened to take a look at her screen when she got an email that was a receipt for an advent calendar for me (it's theme is nothing that our kids would like, and we've already purchased the kids' calendars). I'm not stupid. While my wife may not be too disappointed if she doesn't get an advent calendar, I know that she would be over the moon if I made sure that she got an advent calendar as well. So, I'm trying to think of some small gifts that I could put together as an advent calendar. She has been crocheting for around 30 years, learning at her grandmother's knee. She's crocheted everyone in her family a baby blanket. She's crocheted sweaters and blankets for our kids over the last few years. In addition, this summer we remodeled parts of our house, and now she has a small 6ftx6ft (2mx2m) "nook" that is all her space. She has an armchair and footstool, and shelves filled with yarn, completed projects, etc. What kinds of things could I put in an advent calendar for her? I'd like to get at least a dozen items, preferably that would be less than $10 apiece. Thank you in advance for any help for this bewildered husband! P.S. what is the preferred word for "someone who crochets?" Is it crocheter? P.P.S. I make chainmaille as my hobby. Is there anything that I could make that would be a good gift? I know some people who have made stitch markers out of maille, but I've never seen her use those? Update Oct 31, 2024 (4 days later) Thank you so much for your suggestions over the last week. As I mentioned in that last post I am not going for a full 24 days worth of gifts because, as I'm sure you are all aware, this stuff gets expensive. I'm going to begin collecting/ordering all of the items this weekend, so if anyone has any last-minute suggestions to make this better, I would appreciate it. Below is my plan: Day 1: project bag - I plan putting all of the other wrapped gifts inside of the bag, and then wrapping the bag itself. The wrap job on the bag itself will be bad, and I accept this. Day 2: Crochet tension ring - She mostly keeps the tension by gripping with her hand, but I figure that if she doesn't like this, it costs $5 so who cares? Day 3: Curved darning needle - she mostly darns with a crochet hook, so I'll see if this helps her at all. Day 4: Stitch markers that I made myself - I make chainmaille as a hobby, so I knew that I had to include something that I made myself in here. I might replace the clasp with proper lobster clasps once I make it to the hobby shop, but this is all I had at the time. Day 5: Magnetic yarn holder - She unwraps a ton of yarn every 20 minutes, and spreads it across every surface within her reach. Maybe this will keep things more organized? Day 6: Crochet sticker cards - She first learned how to crochet/knit at her grandmother's knee when she was 5. Grandma is now 95, but I bet that getting one of these cards will put a smile on her face. Day 7: Clover crochet hook(s) - good quality crochet hooks that several people suggested. Who am I to argue with it? Day 8: Hair pin lace tool - Something to give her some new ideas of things to make. Day 9: "Homemade"/"Made by hand" tags - This was suggested a few times, and I found some that I think are funny Day 10: Retractable measuring tape - She often measures lengths using her flattened palm. Maybe she'll want more precise measurements, maybe not. Day 11: Yarn hoarder T-shirt - In my quest, I found several T-shirts that related how the real hobby is not actually crocheting, but instead collecting yarn. I'll choose one and give it to her. Day 12: Tunisian crochet hooks - Another thing to get her to expand her repertoire a bit. If she doesn't like it, then I've wasted a few bucks. Day 13: Lotion Bar - She often needs lotion, but doesn't use it much. If I can put a bar in a project bag, maybe she will use it. Day 14: Instructions and material to make a stuffie - I found some instructions on making axolotl stuffies. Three of our currently four kids love axolotls (and the fourth is four years old, so he'll go with the flow), so I figure this will be a good item to go with. If anyone would like to give some opinions about the difficulty and time commitment of the patterns below, I would appreciate it. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-axolotl-keyring https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minecraft-axolotl-2 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-41 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-38 RELEVANT COMMENTS chicagoadventures97 “God, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others” 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. OOP May you get all the silly little crochet knickknacks your heart desires this Christmas. morelamplz It’s not about the “silly little crochet knickknacks” and more about a person thoughtful enough to notice and want to assemble it all together just to make you feel happy-and loved. 💕 you are a beautiful soul. I hope I am as lucky one day OOP It is a skill that I've intentionally cultivated, but that's largely because I realized that I got disappointed with many of the gifts that people give me. The problem is, now that I've worked at cultivating the skill, sometimes I get more disappointed at gifts that are obviously not all that thought out. ~ PaleoPinecone This is just absolutely amazing. The time, energy, thought, and money investment involved here has to make her feel so seen and appreciated. Way to go, OP! You may have just won husband of the year! OOP Honestly, some of my things might change once I see prices at the shop. I also plan on keeping this a secret until we give our advent calendars to the kids. When I do give this to her, I'll tell her that this is going to be most of her gifts from me this year. I'll probably get her one additional gift that has nothing to do with crocheting, and that's it. PaleoPinecone I totally understand, this list represents a huge financial investment. As a crocheting wife and mom though, I can tell you that the price would be the last thing that impacts her. The effort, thought, care, and initiative scream through no matter what you end up picking! NEW UPDATE * Final update Dec 31, 2024 • Project bag. This also held all of the other gifts. It was very poorly wrapped. • Crochet tension ring. I found a cute one in the shape of a cat on etsy. • Notions case. She immediately put the ring into it, because she knows that she'll lose it otherwise. • Small fiber scissors. I got 2 pairs and gave both. She thought they were very cute. • Clover ergonomic crochet hooks. I apparently got the correct... Sharpness? of the hook that my wife prefers, so that was lucky. • Lotion bars. • Magnetic Yarn holder. She's been using this regularly when she crochets at home. She also broke it a little as soon as she unwrapped it (but it's a cheap one anyway). • "Hand made" tags. • Hair Pin lace tool. Wife:"Do you know how much I love new techniques and projects?" Me:"Yes. That's why I got you this. • "This took forever to make" tags. She happily giggled. • Smarties candy. • Darning needles, straight and curved. • Crochet sticker cards. • Tunisian crochet hooks. She had apparently been musing about learning how to do that for months, and I just got lucky that I bought them for her before she did. • Chainmail stitch markers that I made myself. (If you like these, look at the recent self-post on my profile.) • Yarn hoarder T-shirt. It was a great hit with her aunts that also do fiber arts. • Retractable measuring tape • Some very high quality yarn, with a suggestion of a project to make with it. On December 1st, my wife and I took all of the other advent calendars downstairs and gave them to the kids after lunch. We explained the concept to them, explaining that instead of a bunch of toys on Christmas, they'll get toys throughout the month, and a few more on Christmas day. (Sidenote for parents - this didn't work very well for us. We still got way too many other gifts for Christmas day.) Then after the kids opened theirs, I pulled my badly wrapped gift off of a top shelf (she's short, and doesn't look up very much). She basically immediately got teary-eyed when she realized what it was. She had no idea what it was when she first unwrapped it, so I had to explain that it was a crochet project bag. She then got even more teary-eyed. Over the course of the month, she opened the rest of the gifts. Unfortunately, I was in another state for family stuff when she opened my stitch markers, but she very much appreciated them nonetheless. If anyone has any questions about it, let me know. I can ask my wife questions about it as well, if you're curious. I have told her about these posts. And again, if anyone likes those stitch markers, take a look at the other recent post in my profile. Thank you again for all of your suggestions, advice and kudos. TL;DR It went over very well. First and foremost, the final list of all the days' gifts THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP's OR COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS, REMEMBER - RULE 7 submitted by /u/Direct-Caterpillar77 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

I am not the OOP. The OOP is u/poptartmini posting in r/CrochetHelp Concluded as per OOP 2 updates - Long Original - 27th October 2024 Update - 31st October 2024 Update - 31st December 2024 I'd like to make an advent calendar of crocheting stuff for my wife, but I am a clueless husband. Could you give me some ideas? My wife wanted to get the kids smaller gifts this holiday season, as well as try to spread the gifts around. So, we decided to get the kids some advent calendars to that end. Yesterday, she was working on her computer, and I happened to take a look at her screen when she got an email that was a receipt for an advent calendar for me (it's theme is nothing that our kids would like, and we've already purchased the kids' calendars). I'm not stupid. While my wife may not be too disappointed if she doesn't get an advent calendar, I know that she would be over the moon if I made sure that she got an advent calendar as well. So, I'm trying to think of some small gifts that I could put together as an advent calendar. She has been crocheting for around 30 years, learning at her grandmother's knee. She's crocheted everyone in her family a baby blanket. She's crocheted sweaters and blankets for our kids over the last few years. In addition, this summer we remodeled parts of our house, and now she has a small 6ftx6ft (2mx2m) "nook" that is all her space. She has an armchair and footstool, and shelves filled with yarn, completed projects, etc. What kinds of things could I put in an advent calendar for her? I'd like to get at least a dozen items, preferably that would be less than $10 apiece. Thank you in advance for any help for this bewildered husband! P.S. what is the preferred word for "someone who crochets?" Is it crocheter? P.P.S. I make chainmaille as my hobby. Is there anything that I could make that would be a good gift? I know some people who have made stitch markers out of maille, but I've never seen her use those? Comments ferafaces I've had my eye on Hobbii's advent calendar. It looks like it could be some great fun. Not exactly the traditional 25 days of tiny gifts, but fun regardless. Do a quick Google search for yarn advent calendars as well - it looks like there are some decent quality ones out there! Hphantasia That's incredibly sweet! You said she's been crocheting for a while, so she may have a lot of things, but notions might still be nice? For example, a cute set of buttons, extra darning needles (I prefer them with a bent tip), pins, stitch markers, cute scissors, ribbon (to wrap gifts!), etc. Something else that might be nice would be like... Snacks for her nook.when she gets in those long sessions, slippers, a heating pad, cute water bottle, etc. Of course, it might be tricky, but fun/colorful/soft yarn might be nice, but this has a greater chance of getting the "wrong kind" I'm just thinking about things that might take ME to my crochet happy place! Hahaha Good luck!! Update - 3 days later Thank you so much for your suggestions over the last week. As I mentioned in that last post I am not going for a full 24 days worth of gifts because, as I'm sure you are all aware, this stuff gets expensive. I'm going to begin collecting/ordering all of the items this weekend, so if anyone has any last-minute suggestions to make this better, I would appreciate it. Below is my plan: Day 1: project bag - I plan putting all of the other wrapped gifts inside of the bag, and then wrapping the bag itself. The wrap job on the bag itself will be bad, and I accept this. Day 2: Crochet tension ring - She mostly keeps the tension by gripping with her hand, but I figure that if she doesn't like this, it costs $5 so who cares? Day 3: Curved darning needle - she mostly darns with a crochet hook, so I'll see if this helps her at all. Day 4: Stitch markers that I made myself - I make chainmaille as a hobby, so I knew that I had to include something that I made myself in here. I might replace the clasp with proper lobster clasps once I make it to the hobby shop, but this is all I had at the time. Day 5: Magnetic yarn holder - She unwraps a ton of yarn every 20 minutes, and spreads it across every surface within her reach. Maybe this will keep things more organized? Day 6: Crochet sticker cards - She first learned how to crochet/knit at her grandmother's knee when she was 5. Grandma is now 95, but I bet that getting one of these cards will put a smile on her face. Day 7: Clover crochet hook(s) - good quality crochet hooks that several people suggested. Who am I to argue with it? Day 8: Hair pin lace tool - Something to give her some new ideas of things to make. Day 9: "Homemade"/"Made by hand" tags - This was suggested a few times, and I found some that I think are funny Day 10: Retractable measuring tape - She often measures lengths using her flattened palm. Maybe she'll want more precise measurements, maybe not. Day 11: Yarn hoarder T-shirt - In my quest, I found several T-shirts that related how the real hobby is not actually crocheting, but instead collecting yarn. I'll choose one and give it to her. Day 12: Tunisian crochet hooks - Another thing to get her to expand her repertoire a bit. If she doesn't like it, then I've wasted a few bucks. Day 13: Lotion Bar - She often needs lotion, but doesn't use it much. If I can put a bar in a project bag, maybe she will use it. Day 14: Instructions and material to make a stuffie - I found some instructions on making axolotl stuffies. Three of our currently four kids love axolotls (and the fourth is four years old, so he'll go with the flow), so I figure this will be a good item to go with. If anyone would like to give some opinions about the difficulty and time commitment of the patterns below, I would appreciate it. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-axolotl-keyring https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minecraft-axolotl-2 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-41 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-38 Comments PaleoPinecone This is just absolutely amazing. The time, energy, thought, and money investment involved here has to make her feel so seen and appreciated. Way to go, OP! You may have just won husband of the year! OOP: Honestly, some of my things might change once I see prices at the shop. I also plan on keeping this a secret until we give our advent calendars to the kids. When I do give this to her, I'll tell her that this is going to be most of her gifts from me this year. I'll probably get her one additional gift that has nothing to do with crocheting, and that's it. PaleoPinecone I totally understand, this list represents a huge financial investment. As a crocheting wife and mom though, I can tell you that the price would be the last thing that impacts her. The effort, thought, care, and initiative scream through no matter what you end up picking! brunettebibliophila Oh, it definitely gets expensive- no blame there. If you wanted the whole 24 days though, can I suggest small skeins of yarn maybe (I impulse buy at Dollar Tree all the time). Or maybe, as my father tended to send to my mother, a coupon book: I promise to ask no questions about where that green yarn I've never seen before came from. One drive to Joanne Fabrics/Michaels without question Yes, I will detangle your yarn No, I don't mind holding your yarn for you. (I'm sure there were more, but those I remember her loving the most 😀) OOP: Curses! Stop giving me more ideas. I'll have to consider the "coupon book" thing. Update - 2 months later First and foremost, the final list of all the days' gifts Project bag. This also held all of the other gifts. It was very poorly wrapped. Crochet tension ring. I found a cute one in the shape of a cat on etsy. Notions case. She immediately put the ring into it, because she knows that she'll lose it otherwise. Small fiber scissors. I got 2 pairs and gave both. She thought they were very cute. Clover ergonomic crochet hooks. I apparently got the correct... Sharpness? of the hook that my wife prefers, so that was lucky. Lotion bars. Magnetic Yarn holder. She's been using this regularly when she crochets at home. She also broke it a little as soon as she unwrapped it (but it's a cheap one anyway). "Hand made" tags. Hair Pin lace tool. Wife:"Do you know how much I love new techniques and projects?" Me:"Yes. That's why I got you this. "This took forever to make" tags. She happily giggled. Smarties candy. Darning needles, straight and curved. Crochet sticker cards. Tunisian crochet hooks. She had apparently been musing about learning how to do that for months, and I just got lucky that I bought them for her before she did. Chainmail stitch markers that I made myself. (If you like these, look at the recent self-post on my profile.) Yarn hoarder T-shirt. It was a great hit with her aunts that also do fiber arts. Retractable measuring tape Some very high quality yarn, with a suggestion of a project to make with it. On December 1st, my wife and I took all of the other advent calendars downstairs and gave them to the kids after lunch. We explained the concept to them, explaining that instead of a bunch of toys on Christmas, they'll get toys throughout the month, and a few more on Christmas day. (Sidenote for parents - this didn't work very well for us. We still got way too many other gifts for Christmas day.) Then after the kids opened theirs, I pulled my badly wrapped gift off of a top shelf (she's short, and doesn't look up very much). She basically immediately got teary-eyed when she realized what it was. She had no idea what it was when she first unwrapped it, so I had to explain that it was a crochet project bag. She then got even more teary-eyed. Over the course of the month, she opeeed the rest of the gifts. Unfortunately, I was in another state for family stuff when she opened my stitch markers, but she very much appreciated them nonetheless. If anyone has any questions about it, let me know. I can ask my wife questions about it as well, if you're curious. I have told her about these posts. And again, if anyone likes those stitch markers, take a look at the other recent post in my profile. Thank you again for all of your suggestions, advice and kudos. Comments PartEducational6311 Awesome job! Even as a seasoned crocheter all those items would be welcomed! Also, #11 was "smart"...lol. OOP: It's her favorite candy, so I made sure to steal some smarties from my kids' halloween stashes. I am not the OOP. Please do not harass the OOP. Please remember to be civil in the comments submitted by /u/SharkEva to r/BORUpdates [link] [comments]

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/poptartmini I'd like to make an advent calendar of crocheting stuff for my wife, but I am a clueless husband. Could you give me some ideas? Originally posted to r/CrochetHelp Thanks to u/soayherder for suggesting this BoRU Original Post Oct 27, 2024 My wife wanted to get the kids smaller gifts this holiday season, as well as try to spread the gifts around. So, we decided to get the kids some advent calendars to that end. Yesterday, she was working on her computer, and I happened to take a look at her screen when she got an email that was a receipt for an advent calendar for me (it's theme is nothing that our kids would like, and we've already purchased the kids' calendars). I'm not stupid. While my wife may not be too disappointed if she doesn't get an advent calendar, I know that she would be over the moon if I made sure that she got an advent calendar as well. So, I'm trying to think of some small gifts that I could put together as an advent calendar. She has been crocheting for around 30 years, learning at her grandmother's knee. She's crocheted everyone in her family a baby blanket. She's crocheted sweaters and blankets for our kids over the last few years. In addition, this summer we remodeled parts of our house, and now she has a small 6ftx6ft (2mx2m) "nook" that is all her space. She has an armchair and footstool, and shelves filled with yarn, completed projects, etc. What kinds of things could I put in an advent calendar for her? I'd like to get at least a dozen items, preferably that would be less than $10 apiece. Thank you in advance for any help for this bewildered husband! P.S. what is the preferred word for "someone who crochets?" Is it crocheter? P.P.S. I make chainmaille as my hobby. Is there anything that I could make that would be a good gift? I know some people who have made stitch markers out of maille, but I've never seen her use those? Update Oct 31, 2024 (4 days later) Thank you so much for your suggestions over the last week. As I mentioned in that last post I am not going for a full 24 days worth of gifts because, as I'm sure you are all aware, this stuff gets expensive. I'm going to begin collecting/ordering all of the items this weekend, so if anyone has any last-minute suggestions to make this better, I would appreciate it. Below is my plan: Day 1: project bag - I plan putting all of the other wrapped gifts inside of the bag, and then wrapping the bag itself. The wrap job on the bag itself will be bad, and I accept this. Day 2: Crochet tension ring - She mostly keeps the tension by gripping with her hand, but I figure that if she doesn't like this, it costs $5 so who cares? Day 3: Curved darning needle - she mostly darns with a crochet hook, so I'll see if this helps her at all. Day 4: Stitch markers that I made myself - I make chainmaille as a hobby, so I knew that I had to include something that I made myself in here. I might replace the clasp with proper lobster clasps once I make it to the hobby shop, but this is all I had at the time. Day 5: Magnetic yarn holder - She unwraps a ton of yarn every 20 minutes, and spreads it across every surface within her reach. Maybe this will keep things more organized? Day 6: Crochet sticker cards - She first learned how to crochet/knit at her grandmother's knee when she was 5. Grandma is now 95, but I bet that getting one of these cards will put a smile on her face. Day 7: Clover crochet hook(s) - good quality crochet hooks that several people suggested. Who am I to argue with it? Day 8: Hair pin lace tool - Something to give her some new ideas of things to make. Day 9: "Homemade"/"Made by hand" tags - This was suggested a few times, and I found some that I think are funny Day 10: Retractable measuring tape - She often measures lengths using her flattened palm. Maybe she'll want more precise measurements, maybe not. Day 11: Yarn hoarder T-shirt - In my quest, I found several T-shirts that related how the real hobby is not actually crocheting, but instead collecting yarn. I'll choose one and give it to her. Day 12: Tunisian crochet hooks - Another thing to get her to expand her repertoire a bit. If she doesn't like it, then I've wasted a few bucks. Day 13: Lotion Bar - She often needs lotion, but doesn't use it much. If I can put a bar in a project bag, maybe she will use it. Day 14: Instructions and material to make a stuffie - I found some instructions on making axolotl stuffies. Three of our currently four kids love axolotls (and the fourth is four years old, so he'll go with the flow), so I figure this will be a good item to go with. If anyone would like to give some opinions about the difficulty and time commitment of the patterns below, I would appreciate it. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-axolotl-keyring https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minecraft-axolotl-2 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-41 https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/axolotl-38 RELEVANT COMMENTS chicagoadventures97 “God, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others” 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. OOP May you get all the silly little crochet knickknacks your heart desires this Christmas. morelamplz It’s not about the “silly little crochet knickknacks” and more about a person thoughtful enough to notice and want to assemble it all together just to make you feel happy-and loved. 💕 you are a beautiful soul. I hope I am as lucky one day OOP It is a skill that I've intentionally cultivated, but that's largely because I realized that I got disappointed with many of the gifts that people give me. The problem is, now that I've worked at cultivating the skill, sometimes I get more disappointed at gifts that are obviously not all that thought out. ~ PaleoPinecone This is just absolutely amazing. The time, energy, thought, and money investment involved here has to make her feel so seen and appreciated. Way to go, OP! You may have just won husband of the year! OOP Honestly, some of my things might change once I see prices at the shop. I also plan on keeping this a secret until we give our advent calendars to the kids. When I do give this to her, I'll tell her that this is going to be most of her gifts from me this year. I'll probably get her one additional gift that has nothing to do with crocheting, and that's it. PaleoPinecone I totally understand, this list represents a huge financial investment. As a crocheting wife and mom though, I can tell you that the price would be the last thing that impacts her. The effort, thought, care, and initiative scream through no matter what you end up picking! THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT THE OOP DO NOT CONTACT THE OOP's OR COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS, REMEMBER - RULE 7 submitted by /u/Direct-Caterpillar77 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

My wife wanted to get the kids smaller gifts this holiday season, as well as try to spread the gifts around. So, we decided to get the kids some advent calendars to that end. Yesterday, she was working on her computer, and I happened to take a look at her screen when she got an email that was a receipt for an advent calendar for me (it's theme is nothing that our kids would like, and we've already purchased the kids' calendars). I'm not stupid. While my wife may not be too disappointed if she doesn't get an advent calendar, I know that she would be over the moon if I made sure that she got an advent calendar as well. So, I'm trying to think of some small gifts that I could put together as an advent calendar. She has been crocheting for around 30 years, learning at her grandmother's knee. She's crocheted everyone in her family a baby blanket. She's crocheted sweaters and blankets for our kids over the last few years. In addition, this summer we remodeled parts of our house, and now she has a small 6ftx6ft (2mx2m) "nook" that is all her space. She has an armchair and footstool, and shelves filled with yarn, completed projects, etc. What kinds of things could I put in an advent calendar for her? I'd like to get at least a dozen items, preferably that would be less than $10 apiece. Thank you in advance for any help for this bewildered husband! P.S. what is the preferred word for "someone who crochets?" Is it crocheter? P.P.S. I make chainmaille as my hobby. Is there anything that I could make that would be a good gift? I know some people who have made stitch markers out of maille, but I've never seen her use those? submitted by /u/poptartmini to r/CrochetHelp [link] [comments]

I plan to show my husband the responses so please be as honest as possible. My (36F) husband (38m) and I decided to renovate the bathroom because there was water damage from a toilet that had been leaking. It was mostly my idea to renovate but not just for aesthetics, mold was growing at the bottom of the vanity, sheetrock, etc. He agreed to renovate but really had very little interest in the process. He has untreated ADHD and does not enjoy home maintenance (not speculation, he tells me this). With that being said it became my job to apply for loans, search for contractors, schedule the contractors to come, etc. It's A LOT of mental work. I did it alone. He did agree to save money and offered to demo the bathroom himself. I was hesitant at first because he is not usually motivated to do things in the house and also due to the ADHD his timeline and processing speed is very slow and often time things don't get down. He promised me many times he wanted to do it. I sent screenshots of the calendar and told him the days he would start. The whole week leading up to demo day I mentally prepare him. We've been together for 21 years. I know how he is. He'll say he forgot or it'll seem like brand new information to him so every day he gets a reminder. Fast forward to last night, the night before demo is to start he sends me a message asking if he can go climbing with his friends. I said I'd prefer if he would just demo like we agreed. He only has 2 days off. So I said no, sorry, you can't go. It turned into almost an hour argument back and forth about how the weather won't be good the rest of the days and he can just do it then. But I know him. He waits until the last minute and sometigng may go wrong. We may need to call for extra help or something. I always have a sense of urgency and he has none and it makes my life very difficult. To add, he has a job where he can often do his hobbies. He climbs with his work friends, goes hiking, skiing, etc. When he has days off he goes for bike rides for hours. He is absolutely not deprived of leisure time but I am. I have been home all summer (I'm a teacher) being responsible for my kids 90% of the time. Being up with them in the morning, taking them out for activities all day, and putting them to sleep. On top of that I have cleaned up after the kids and his messes every single day. I haven't had a day of fun the entire summer. So I feel anger and resentment constantly. Our fight ended with him telling me it makes no sense to tell him he has to start on this day, he'll just do it the next day. I'm the one being unreasonable and everyone else will agree with him and not me. Also, to add today is Thursday. Our tile guy comes in on Monday and the entire bathroom needs to be completely gutted by the morning. Thank you! 🙏🏼 submitted by /u/No-Cry259 to r/AmItheAsshole [link] [comments]

INTRO Possibly for the last time... Hello Friend, I am the OP of: I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - Roaring Kitty's 2024 Gamestop Play - Removed for meme speculation I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - T+3, T+6, T+35 - Removed for meme speculation I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - FTD Settlement, Volume Inflation, June 21st, July 19th - https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1djt43y/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_ftd_settlement/ I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - My 8 Ball Answer, If T+35 Is Broken, MOASS Begins - https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dliz91/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_my_8_ball_answer/ I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - FTD Ignition Date VS Gamma Squeeze Date, Stairway to Heaven https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dmna20/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_ftd_ignition/ I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - Positions Update, The Week of Settlement https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1e40yzn/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_positions_update/ Here is my position going into the week of July 26th. https://preview.redd.it/5yd43wyujqdd1.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c8368043b4510b3ad14b323a12ebc3f7b1ba2e9 https://preview.redd.it/c2q5l75ierdd1.png?width=749&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e3d71f755398a5b66b9406034d3015b144c693c EDITED Added my DRS'd shares above. BAN BET My bet is that GME will open Pre-Market Monday at a large increase from Friday's After-Hours close. Tuesday Morning's Pre-Market will open at a large increase from Monday's After-Hours close. This price action will be caused by the Clearing Corporation settling their Defaulted Member's outstanding obligations and will resemble the price action from May 13th and May 14th. I am putting a ban bet out to keep in the spirit of being "all in." I lost a lot of money in my process to learn how and why GME's price suddenly explodes and I believe I have finally understood it. If I am wrong, I have exhausted all possible explanations/regulations so I feel that a ban would have a nice finality to my saga. The last thing I want to become is a guy who appears to make up random dates. This is it for me. https://preview.redd.it/y9jbetjwjqdd1.png?width=392&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a54dc55473e126580c231baac227bcee72645c6 This is my last hurrah and it is backed up by sources. DISCLAIMER My short dated call strategy is extremely risky. I have already lost money and stand to lose even more if my strategy fails. I do NOT recommend following me into this strategy. Long dated call options are always a better idea on GME. Lower risk and lower reward is a lot healthier for your investment funds. What Happens if T+35 is Broken? I won't waste your time and get right into this. The longest a "deemed to own" transaction can be delayed is 35 calendar days + 3 trading days. (I can't go into what "deemed to own" is in this post as it is already long enough. Just know that it is the transactional method that the Market Maker is using to access the T+35 settlement limit extension in the first place. If I am right on my prediction and I am not banned, I will explain this in a future post.) I am not bullshitting you, please stick with me and give me your thoughts below. I will provide evidence from the SEC's close-out regulations as well as the NSCC's close-out process for defaulting members. First, let me actually explain how T+35 works. The 35th calendar day from the Trade Date is the final day that a Broker-Dealer (AKA Market Maker) can use Limit Orders to fill their delayed settlements. If they do not fill their remaining obligations by close of day on the 35th calendar day, they are obligated by regulation to fill the remainder of their settlement on the following settlement day by using Market Orders at open or establishing a rolling VWAP order that executes throughout the day and cannot be canceled. If you don't believe me, read this passage from the SEC Regulation SHO Division of Market Regulation: Question 4.5: https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/staff-guidance/trading-markets-frequently-asked-questions-8 Rule 203(b)(2)(ii) provides that the “locate” requirement does not apply to any sale of a security that a person is deemed to own pursuant to Rule 200, provided that the broker-dealer has been reasonably informed that the person intends to deliver such security as soon as all restrictions on delivery have been removed and further provides that if the person has NOT delivered such security WITHIN 35 DAYS after the trade date, the broker-dealer that effected the sale must borrow securities or close out the short position by purchasing securities of like kind and quantity. This sets the expectation that the Market Maker can fail to close their position on that 35th calendar day as it has a statement explaining that, if they have not delivered on the 35th day, they must close these positions out the following settlement day. Here is another passage, this time from Question 5.5: https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/staff-guidance/trading-markets-frequently-asked-questions-8 Rule 204(a) provides that a participant of a registered clearing agency must deliver securities to a registered clearing agency for clearance and settlement on a long or short sale in any equity security by settlement date, or if a participant of a registered clearing agency has a fail to deliver position at a registered clearing agency in any equity security for a long or short sale transaction in the equity security, the participant shall, by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the applicable close-out date, immediately close out its fail to deliver positions by borrowing or purchasing securities of like kind and quantity. “No later than the beginning of regular trading hours” includes market orders to purchase securities placed at the beginning of regular trading hours and executed within a reasonable time after placement, but does not include limit orders or other delayed orders, even if placed at the beginning of regular trading hours. However, the participant may satisfy the close-out requirement to purchase securities of like kind and quantity with a VWAP order provided the order to purchase the equity security on a VWAP basis is irrevocable and received by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the applicable close-out date; and the final execution price of any such transaction is not determined until after the close of regular trading hours when the VWAP value is calculated and the execution is on an agency basis. That is a lot of text, but it essentially sets the rules for the Market Maker in regards to closing their positions. If they do not settle the position on the 35th calendar day, the following settlement day is their "close out date." This would require the Market Maker to go into the market on the day following the 35th calendar day, in this case, July 19th, and purchase the shares to satisfy their settlement obligation using market orders on the open or a rolling VWAP order that executes throughout the day. So the total amount of time that a Market Maker has is Trade Date + 35 Calendar Days -> Must Close Out Next Trade Day. If the Market Maker closes out their position, we would normally see that price action by T+35 Calendar Days + 1 trade day. But here is the problem, The Market Maker has not settled their obligation during the beginning of trading hours on July 19th. In fact, I believe they haven't even come close to making a dent in it. So what happens if a Market Maker fails to close out their settlement obligation? Many of you have asked me what happens if a Market Maker "breaks" or "ignores" T+35 close out obligations. Well, I finally got off my lazy ass and I believe I have found the answer. I believe January 25th, 26th, and 27th of 2021 and May 13th and 14th of 2024 is the result of refusing to close out settlement on large purchase orders on the 35th calendar and refusing or being unable to settle these transactions on the trade day following the 35th calendar day. Goldmember - The National Securities Clearing Corporation and Its "Members" https://preview.redd.it/jcb1qoiwlqdd1.png?width=335&format=png&auto=webp&s=07d1d1e917e8c9af6a1ee3e2683ca7d871fc8503 Before I show you what I mean, we need to talk about our Market Maker's Clearing Corporation for Direct Stock purchases, the National Securities Clearing Corporation AKA the NSCC. Pretty much every single Options Transaction is cleared through the Options Clearing Corporation AKA the OCC. And all Direct Stock Transactions are cleared through the National Securities Clearing Corporation AKA the NSCC. Market Maker's that deal in Direct Stock purchases and options are "Members" of these corporations. They are essentially "insured" by these corporations as well as beholden to them in certain ways. Extremely basically, the NSCC is in charge of overseeing transactions for Direct Stock, whether it is selling or purchasing. They are the "authority" as all transactions are flowing through their systems and they must ensure that all trades are settled. The NSCC is the corporation that steps in to settle Direct Stock trades when the "member" of their corporation that tried to fill that trade fails to do so. In other words, when a member defaults on a transaction, the NSCC is responsible for filling it themselves. The NSCC is like a parent having to be responsible for the mistakes of their child, in this case their Member. Thankfully, the NSCC actually has some information made public on how it handles a member defaulting on a transaction. This passage is from a DTCC public document that covers the NSCC's functions and risk management: https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/policy-and-compliance/NSCC_Disclosure_Framework.pdf Under Section "Liquidity risk management framework" on Page 66: NSCC’s liquidity risk management strategy and objectives are designed to ensure that NSCC maintains sufficient liquid resources to meet the potential amount of funding required to settle outstanding transactions of a defaulting Member or affiliated family of defaulting Members in a timely manner. Liquidity risk is the risk that NSCC would not have sufficient funding resources to complete settlement obligations of a defaulting Member’s unsettled transactions. NSCC’s liquidity risk is managed by the Liquidity Risk Management (“LRM”) team within FRM, and subject to oversight by the MRC and the BRC. As a central counterparty, NSCC’s liquidity needs are driven by the requirement to complete end-of day money settlement, on an ongoing basis, in the event of a failure of a Member. As a cash market CCP, if a Member defaults, NSCC will need to complete settlement of guaranteed transactions on the failing Member’s behalf from the date of insolvency (referred to as “DOI”) through the remainder of the two-day settlement cycle. As such, NSCC measures the sufficiency of its qualifying liquid resources through daily liquidity studies across a range of scenarios, including amounts needed over the settlement cycle in the event that the Member or Member’s affiliated family with the largest aggregate liquidity exposure becomes insolvent (that is, on a Cover One standard). NSCC settles only in U.S. dollars. To get ahead of some questions: If a Member "Defaults" this does not mean they are going bankrupt, it is only referring to a Member failing to complete a transaction by the final due date. By defaulting on their transaction, they are labeled as a "defaulting Member." The Date of Insolvency (DOI) refers to the date on which the Member has failed to settle their financial obligations for a guaranteed transaction. In the case of Roaring Kitty's 4 million share purchase, this would be July 19th as that is the Market Maker's "close out date" according to the SEC's regulations. "Insolvency" is only referring to the inability or failure to "pay" the settlement cost. It does not mean that the entire organization is insolvent or is going bankrupt. If the member was declaring bankruptcy, there is an additional liquidation process that the NSCC would then have to follow. Now that we understand the hierarchy of the markets slightly better, I will try to explain how I believe the NSCC is involved. I believe that we have at least 2 visible instances of the NSCC settling the defaulting Market Maker's obligations on GME in the past and that we are about to see a third instance on Monday, July 22nd and Tuesday July 23rd. Back to the Future - The NSCC Has Already Settled a Market Maker's Defaulted Transactions At Least Two Previous Times On GME https://preview.redd.it/tbxqo7dcnqdd1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=128a34c9e9050d2144dd4412d4aa84774b8fb9d3 Below is a glimpse at the classic and vintage chart for December 2020 - January 2021 displaying Ryan Cohen's purchase and, in my belief, the Market Maker's failure to settle their obligations in time. Ryan Cohen's 12/17 and 12/18 Purchases Were Defaulted By the Market Maker I will only be focusing on the "lift off" portion of the January 2021 spike. If you want a more in-depth explanation of how the January 2021 spike occurred, and was sustained at it's heights, I go more in depth in my previous post: I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - My 8 Ball Answer, If T+35 Is Broken, MOASS Begins https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dliz91/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_my_8_ball_answer/ The above screenshot displays the timeline for defaulting on an obligation and how the price can be affected by the NSCC moving to settle that defaulted obligation over a Two-Day settlement cycle. In the case of 2021, it is possible that both of Ryan Cohen's purchases on 12/17 and 12/18 were defaulted leading to two overlapping Two-Day settlement cycles. It is important to remember that Ryan Cohen's purchase on 12/18 was far larger than his purchase on 12/17. This would, in theory, cause the 12/18 Two-Day settlement cycle to have higher buy pressure which we do see reflected on the chart for 1/26 and 1/27. I've included the dates and share amounts for Ryan Cohen's purchases below. 12/17/2020 - Purchased 470,311 (Split Adjusted = 1,881,244) 12/18/2020 - Purchased 500,000 (Split Adjusted = 2,000,000) 12/18/2020 - Purchased 256,089 (Split Adjusted = 1,024,356) But 2021's spike is a very unique case involving Regulation SHO's Threshold list as well as genuine T+35 settlement as well as other Authorized Participant's FTD settling following the initial default. Let's look at a more "controlled" version of what I am trying to explain. Roaring Kitty's Projected April Purchase Defaulted on May 10th In the chart above, I theorize that the price spike in May is a result of the Market Maker defaulting on a large share purchase made by Roaring Kitty in April. Roaring Kitty had timed the bottom of GME's price drop nearly perfectly and had dropped a load of cash on a large amount of shares. Easily over 1 million, possibly even 2-3 million shares in this one purchase. The Market Maker does not settle his purchase for their allotted T+35 days and when prompted to close their obligation on the trading day following T+35, Friday on May 10th, they were either unable to or refused to settle. The Market Maker was then considered to have "defaulted" on Roaring Kitty's purchase and the NSCC took over their position and settled it in their "Two-Day settlement cycle" that begins on the trade date following the "Date of Insolvency." The Date of Insolvency would be Friday, May 10th as this is the day that the Member failed to fulfill their financial obligations. The Two-Day settlement cycle begins Pre-market on May 13th and concludes at the end of After-Hours on May 14th. The NSCC sets Market Orders for market open on Monday, May 13th, causing the Pre-Market price to open at $20.50 up from After-Hours close at $17.39. Regular trading hours opened even higher at $26.34. After settling part of the defaulted position on Monday, they use the second settlement day to close the remainder of the defaulted position causing another upward open in Pre-Market on Tuesday, May 14th with a high of $80 in Pre-Market and a high of $64.83 at Market Open. This series of activity is the NSCC trying to clear as much of the defaulting Member's settlement in Pre-Market and After-Hours where possible and closing the rest during regular trading hours. So all of this brings us to today. I am confident that Roaring Kitty's June 13th purchase was not settled as we have seen what a multi-million share settlement looks like at least twice before and, so far, July just ain't it chief. I believe that the NSCC's member, the Broker-Dealer (AKA Market Maker), has either refused or is unable to fill Roaring Kitty's order due to the sheer size and the cost of the order. They are unable to maintain their rolling T+35 abuse for all of retail's, institutions, and apes' purchases and then take on a massive multi-million share purchase as an additional debt to deal with. Due to the above reasons, I believe that Pre-Market Monday, July 22nd will open quite higher than our Friday, July 19th close. Monday and Tuesday will experience a settlement cycle held by the NSCC to fill Roaring Kitty's order in place of the Market Maker. The NSCC technically has both Monday and Tuesday to settle; however, I believe they will try to snatch up any reasonably priced orders in Pre-Market as soon as it opens. This buy activity is not filled by a Market Maker, it is Bids placed by the NSCC filling the Asks placed by Retail, Institutions, and Apes. They must purchase these shares on the lit market to fulfill this outstanding obligation that their Member has failed to close. OUTRO We Are Here Thank you for reading. As I said in the beginning, this is a Ban Bet. As a reminder my bet is below: My bet is that GME will open Pre-Market Monday at a large increase from Friday's After-Hours close. Tuesday Morning's Pre-Market will open at a large increase from Monday's After-Hours close. This price action will be caused by the Clearing Corporation settling their Defaulted Member's outstanding obligations and will resemble the price action from May 13th and May 14th. If Monday is a dud, I will be sweating pretty bad. The NSCC isn't here to "trick" us and delay a settlement. It is pretty keen on closing these positions as cheaply and quickly as possible and it utilizes specific trading strategies to do it. If I don't see any action on Monday's Pre-Market open or even opening of Regular Trading hours Monday morning, I am probably screwed. But I guess there is a tiny chance they could then settle it all on Tuesday. Doubtful though. My original theory on how these spikes occurred relied on the T+35 settlement closing at the end of a huge options expiration week; however, I now think that this is flawed. In the end, I am just a dude trying to read the world's most lawyered documents that enforce guidelines on trillions of dollars daily. I accept anyone's criticisms for my previous mistaken interpretations of these regulations. However upset you are at me, please know I am far more upset at myself. Having way more calls ITM than puts at the end of a monthly options expiration would be amazing for GME, but I don't think it would cause the highly specific price action that we see following the T+35 date. The NSCC stepping in to settle a Member Default over a Two-Day settlement cycle fits the price action so absurdly well that I can't help but think this is the answer we've been looking for all along. Additionally, by having this "safety net" of defaulting, a Market Maker can choose to delay a settlement rather than purchasing those shares on the Thursday and Friday of monthly options expiration. If they had decided to settle with 76 thousand $30 calls open on Thursday, or even 64 thousand $30 calls open on Friday, the price action due to hedging would have been insanity. Why risk blowing GME into fucking space when you can just default and dodge that event entirely? Or as an alternate view, maybe the Market Maker really is unable to pay. 4,001,000 shares at above 20 dollars is a lot of extra cash that they normally don't have to dish out. Not to mention that, as they are buying, the price is rising with each purchase. Roaring Kitty spend 10's of millions of dollars to purchase. The price barely moves during this due to delayed settlement. The Market Maker would have to spend hundreds of millions due to their buys actually being in the lit market. Keep in mind, our Market Maker is most likely juggling T+35 on several other abused stocks as well as maintaining "normal" liquidity for countless other stocks. I feel like there really is a chance they genuinely can't pay it. As a result of the Market Maker's "safety net" of defaulting on their transaction, I and several others were robbed of price action that should have occurred by Friday, July 19th. But hey, if the Market Maker cannot provide liquidity, the very reason for its existence, then I guess they need my thousands more than I do. If we don't see anything Monday and Tuesday, it has been an honor. I will hold my shares and add more as we go. I might try my hand at additional options plays in the future even if this does not work out. Naturally, I'll be unable to post but I will be following the sub and reading just as I always have. And just in case, thank you for everything, Len EDIT User New-fone_Who-Dis asked me to clarify what kind of "large increase" I am expecting. I've included my response below. Good point, let me clarify. When I say "Resembling the May Price action, I specifically mean May 13th and May 14th. So this isn't a couple of percent. I am talking a Monday massive jump and then Tuesday even larger. May 10th opened regular trading hours at $17.93 and May 13th jumped and opened regular trading hours at $26.34. That is nearly a 47% increase. I have no way of knowing the exact prices or the exact percentage increases, but these are the kinds of numbers I am expecting. A couple of percentage points aren't going to cut it and never have for GME. Price Target is "Just Up" as always. submitted by /u/Lenarius to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

Update Post and New Speculated DD https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dliz91/i_would_like_to_solve_the_puzzle_my_8_ball_answer/ INTRO Happy Juneteenth Superstonk. I am the OP of "I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - Roaring Kitty's 2024 Gamestop Play" and "I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - T+3, T+6, T+35". I am back with some minor corrections to my initial posts. Don't worry, if you read my last posts my future date predictions are still the same. Many of you have reached out to me directly asking why I have removed my previous posts. I don't want to get into all of the reasons but I do want to clarify for you: In "I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - Roaring Kitty's 2024 Gamestop Play", I relied too heavily on my speculated narrative of various memes and tweets to try and create a story that fit GME's price movement. I realized soon after I made that post that I could have unintentionally caused damage to innocent people who love the stock as much as we do and just love to buy it. I believe that I and other GME lovers need to be far more careful when any public figure is brought into our speculation. After MOASS, the entire U.S. and possibly the world will be looking to us to blame. We are completely innocent in this fucked up situation and I don't want to give any reason for the righteous fury of future economic victims to be steered towards the GME community. That being said, if by coincidence or sheer luck, I believe I have finally understood why certain price action occurs for our favorite stock. I will be re-iterating some portions of my original post for context; however... I want this post to be far less focused on meme speculation and more focused on what I call "FTD Settlement Period Limits" and how we can use them to accurately predict price movement in the event of great and sudden purchase volume. It's Not Delivery, It's DiGiorno! - Failure to Deliver Before Starting The T in T+X stands for Trade Date. It is not to delineate Trading Days. The trade date is the date that you submit a purchase and it "completes" through your broker. Anyone who is using C+35 for any reason, please break that habit and start using T+35 when referring to Market Maker/Authorized Participant FTD settlements. The difference between Calendar Days and Trade Days is related to the specific privilege given only to Market Makers and Authorized Participants. Only these massive institutions are given this exclusive 35 Calendar Day extension. Market Makers must follow the small player's Trade Date limits until they hit those limits. THEN they swap to a calendar day countdown that includes the previous calendar days they have already used up. 35 Calendar days and the pre-market following the 35th day (more on that below) is the absolute limit they can avoid buying shares from specific trade dates. - First off, I want to immediately make a correction to my previous post. In my first post, I relied on the format of T+35+Bank Holidays to explain price movements corresponding with possible large stock purchase dates. This format is incorrect. Bank Holidays are considered a normal calendar day. Market Makers/Authorized Participants do not receive extensions for each Bank Holiday. *Edit\* The above statement is true; however, in the rare case of a large FTD settlement happening to land directly on a Bank Holiday, that may extend the FTD settlement period, or possibly even shorten it by that one day. My previous thinking was that the entire point of the T+35 exemption time period was intended to allow more possible "settlement" days to be available for a Market Maker/Authorized Participant. It seemed counter intuitive for Bank Holidays to remove those possible settlement days. However, I could not find any documentation confirming Bank Holidays further extend the T+35. Therefore, I must assume that my previous format is incorrect. So what does this change? Actually, almost nothing. In fact, this allowed me to finally understand what is going on with this stock. Let me explain why. It turns out I missed a crucial factor regarding the T+35 Market Maker/Authorized Participant settlement exemption period: ...the participant must close out a fail to deliver for a short sale transaction by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the settlement day following the settlement date*, referred to as T+4...* Source: Rule 204 of Regulation SHO https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrfaqregsho1204.htm In simplified terms, Market Makers and Authorized Participants have until the end of Pre-Market on the morning following the settlement period limit. T+3 is the last day of Regular Trading Hours that they can purchase; however, they are allowed to instead use Pre-Market of the following day. The SEC refers to this special privilege as T+4 even though its really more like T+3 and 1/2 or even less. (Extra note, I swear it feels like the SEC still uses T+3 almost everywhere else when talking about settlement for MMs and APs. I don't know what is up with that.) This also applies to their T+35 day limit as the Pre-Market of the next trade day following their 35 days is NOT considered "regular trading hours." The full (albeit very simplified) Market Maker/Authorized Participant's flow chart for a purchase would look like this: Purchase order comes into the Market Maker's queue from a Broker Market Maker does not buy the share that day 3 Trading Days pass. Market Maker can choose to purchase in Pre-Market of the following Trade Day but decides not to. The limit is then pushed to T+6. 3 more Trading Days pass. Market Maker can choose to purchase in Pre-Market on the following Trade Day but decides not to. Market Maker now enters T+35 special extension. All of the previous calendar days that have passed since the Trade Date retroactively count towards this 35 calendar day count. The 35th calendar day has arrived, the Settlement Period Limit has nearly been reached. The Market Maker REALLY doesn't want to buy that share. Market Maker pushes it to the very last moment by NOT purchasing on Calendar day 35. Instead, they buy during Pre-Market on the next Trading Day. *EDIT* The flowchart above uses "Market Maker" in place of the actual counterparties. In reality, these FTDs are most likely being passed from counterparty to counterparty further up the chain until it lands on the Market Maker's queue after Pre-Market of T+6. Since extending to T+35 seems to be the default behavior for shorting Gamestop through ETFs like XRT, I simplified the flowchart by just inserting the Market Maker. Let me show you an even more simple example of this flowchart on the actual chart. I will only bother using T+35. Why not? That's all the Market Makers seem to use. The start dates for this period are as follows: 3/28, 4/1, 4/2 all in 2024. We can calculate the Settlement Period Limit using T+35 and throw in Pre-Market for each date. 5/2-3(Pre-Market), 5/3-4(Pre-Market), 5/7-8(Pre-Market) all in 2024. Small Price Settlement Period 3/28-4/2 Through To 5/2-5/8 (Pre-Market) The price scale may be small, but the percentage gain is impressive over this 35 day period. On the left we have an extended downtrend in the price over a multi day period. 35 calendar days later we have a large upward movement. You might be thinking that the upward movement seems too large for those 3 days of FTDs, but FTDs are only half of the puzzle. I'll explain the second half in the next section. For most of us that have trouble with chart analysis it may be difficult to spot normal(ish) price action vs a spike in Naked Shorting that leads to FTD accumulation. For anyone that is interested in looking into the past, I would suggest looking for an extended multi-day period of price dropping. If there is a multi-day harsh downtrend on no news/announcements, there is a higher chance that they are just refusing to complete a large portion of buy orders over those days. To wrap this section up, I will leave the entire Rule 204 of Regulation SHO here for you: Rule 204 — Close-out Requirements. Under Rule 204, participants of a registered clearing agency (as defined in section 3(a)(24) of the Exchange Act) must deliver securities to a registered clearing agency for clearance and settlement on a long or short sale transaction in any equity security by settlement date, or must close out a fail to deliver in any equity security for a long or short sale transaction in that equity security generally by the times described as follows: the participant must close out a fail to deliver for a short sale transaction by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the settlement day following the settlement date, referred to as T+4; if a participant has a fail to deliver that the participant can demonstrate on its books and records resulted from a long sale, or that is attributable to bona-fide market making activities, the participant must close out the fail to deliver by no later than the beginning of regular trading hours on the third consecutive settlement day following the settlement date, referred to as T+6. In addition, Rule 203(b)(3) of Regulation SHO requires that participants of a registered clearing agency must immediately purchase shares to close out fails to deliver in “threshold securities” if the fails to deliver persist for 13 consecutive settlement days. Threshold securities, as defined by Rule 203(c)(6), are generally equity securities with large and persistent fails to deliver. Source: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrfaqregsho1204.htm And here is the SECs very poor attempt at an ELI5: Rule 204 provides an extended period of time to close out certain failures to deliver. Specifically, if a failure to deliver position results from the sale of a security that a person is deemed to own and that such person intends to deliver as soon as all restrictions on delivery have been removed, the firm has up to 35 calendar days following the trade date to close out the failure to deliver position by purchasing securities of like kind and quantity. Such additional time is warranted and does not undermine the goal of reducing failures to deliver because these are sales of owned securities that cannot be delivered by the settlement date due solely to processing delays outside the seller’s or broker-dealer’s control. Moreover, delivery is required to be made on such sales as soon as all restrictions on delivery have been removed and situations where a person is deemed to own a security are limited to those specified in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO. A common example of a deemed to own security that cannot be delivered by the settlement date is a security subject to the resale restrictions of Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933. Source: https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm Settlers of Catan - Gamma Ramp In the previous small price example, the price increase after T+35 seemed to far outweigh the price loss from Naked Shorting. Why is that? It was due to two major factors. Bull's Entry Point - Gamestop's stock had experienced a major downtrend over several years. Volume was miniscule as the price had reached an extreme low of near $10 (Post-Split). This, along with several other TA indicators alerted both small and large investors that Gamestop's stock was at a perfect entry point to buy back in. Close-To-Perfect Entry Point Was The Week of 4/20/2024 (lmao) More Investors = More Options = Gamma Ramp - Both small and large investors began scooping up call options for absurdly low prices. More open call contracts causes the potential for increased options hedging. But, depending on the strike prices chosen, the price won't drastically rise on it's own. If the price doesn't rise enough, the Options writers won't need to hedge which means a Gamma ramp isn't going to happen on it's own. It needs a spark to ignite it. That is where the real power of FTDs is on display and this why the Market Makers and Authorized Participants naked shorting Gamestop are in DEEP shit. Let's have a look at that first example again but this time let's double check the dates of the Settlement Period Limit. 5/1-5/3 = Wednesday - Friday It is my opinion that we are looking at a mini gamma ramp triggered by a higher-than-normal amount of options contracts being pushed Into-The-Money by FTD settlement. Market Makers are being forced to settle their FTDs leading right into the end of week options expiration. Thousands of options are pushed ITM due to the abnormal purchase volume from the FTD settlement. More options being pushed further ITM causes Options Writers to purchase more shares to hedge for their potential losses causing a Gamma Squeeze. This is how a "small" amount of FTDs can have a massive impact on price. And it is exactly what we saw in January of 2021. Ryan Cohen's 12/17-12/18 Purchase Settles Ryan Cohen saw Gamestop as a possible turnaround story and pursued a stake in the Company. His purchase Trade Dates are as follows: 12/17/2020 - Purchased 470,311 (Split Adjusted = 1,881,244) 12/18/2020 - Purchased 500,000 (Split Adjusted = 2,000,000) 12/18/2020 - Purchased 256,089 (Split Adjusted = 1,024,356) Totals: 1,226,400 (Split Adjusted = 4,905,600) Source: https://fintel.io/n/cohen-ryan T+35 Calendar days from 12/17 and 12/18 would place his FTD settlement period limit at 1/21-23(Pre-Market) Above you can see the sudden upward movement of the stock followed by an explosive price change. on January 23rd, 2020 in Pre-market. Here are the values: 1/21/2021 - Opened at $9.81 Closed at $10.76 | Percentage Gain From Previous Close: 10.02% 1/22/2021- Opened at $10.65 | Closed at $16.25 | Percentage Gain From Previous Close: 51.03% 1/23/2021 - Settlement Period Limit reached at 9:29am EST. Price opened at $24.18 | Percentage Gain From Previous Close: 48.8% Edit Fixed the years above to 2021 to correctly reflect sneeze date. Market Maker's ABUSE of Failure-To-Delivers via Naked Short Selling caused Ryan Cohen's purchase to be delayed until January 21-23(Pre-Market). As thousands upon thousands of options contracts were pushed Into-The-Money, Options Writers continued buying more and more shares to hedge their losses. This created an extremely volatile trading day as millions upon millions of shares were quickly traded due to countless options contracts being closed and re-opened. Okay but what about The Cycle™? Ryan Cohen's purchase in to Gamestop may have inadvertently kicked off this whole saga, but why did the stock have a pattern of jumps throughout these last 3+ years before April? Well, I can give you an example that will hopefully help us to understand this "Cycle" pattern. January 19th and 20th - February 23rd, 24th, and 25th (Pre-Market) January 19th, 2021 was a Monday following a drastic price jump that Gamestop had not seen for a VERY long time. The week of January 11th, the stock opened at $4.85(Post-Split) it closed the week at $8.88(Post-Split). That is an 83% gain from open on Monday to close on Friday. It would be speculation to say that there may have been emergency calls/meetings held for these Market Makers and Authorized Participants; however, I can confidently guess that the decision was made to open the following week HARD on Naked Shorting. Monday and Tuesday (1/19 and 1/20), the price hardly moved as this shorting occurred. Hardly any shares were purchased by the Market maker to cover any non-options related orders. Bear in mind volume was over 100 million shares each day that week (Post-Split). Once the FTDs from Ryan Cohen's purchase came due, millions of shares had to be purchased sending the stock price higher and higher. Options Writers quickly began purchasing more and more shares to hedge their losses. The resulting Gamma Squeeze sent the stock parabolic. As soon as the momentum from the Gamma Squeeze was exhausted, mass options sell offs occurred beginning a general down trend; however, Market Makers were not happy with a "general downtrend." They needed Gamestop dropped and fast. January 29th and February 1st Incredible Naked Shorting The buy button was removed and the fall from the Gamma Squeeze was so absurdly quick that even amateur investors could tell something HISTORICALLY criminal just occurred. Any short institution with a stake in Gamestop that COULD Naked Short this stock did so through it's entire fall after the initial Gamma Squeeze. With fewer brokers able to purchase Gamestop due to the Clearing House restriction put in place just after the Gamma Squeeze peak, institutions at lower levels waited for their usual T+3 settlement limit hoping to buy at a lower price point. Market Makers and Authorized Participants Naked Shorted every share they could creating a massive ball of FTDs on a T+35 Calendar Day clock. All this effort to stop the stock from resting at a MUCH higher base price and to prevent margin calls from forcing them to close long dated short positions. Their collusion worked temporarily as the price plummeted back to the low price of around $10 (Post Split). This most likely allowed them time to breath and re-position to survive what came next. Their extension for FTDs expired and the stock rocketed back up due to their required buy ins scheduled for late February. Each subsequent run up and run down is a re-run of this exact situation played at a slightly smaller scale each time. Over time as more and more public investors (large, small, and institutional) lose interest/hope for the stock, less and less purchases are made and fewer shares need to be marked as FTD. Eventually, Market makers managed to return the stock to a very low price and have relative control over it's movement. That is, until 2024. Due to my understanding of the initial Gamma Squeeze in 2021 and it's subsequent run ups: I believe that the key to Gamestop's release from the unlawful PRISON that is ABUSIVE naked shorting is the occurrence of multiple back-to-back gamma ramps each ignited by the Market Maker's Failure to Deliver abuse. Entering The Volume - Volume Inflation I believe this has already been covered, but I wanted to create a small section just as a reminder of why Gamestop has such absurd levels of volume over the course of months. We have often seen mentions of the volume easily exceeding the available float of Gamestop's shares. A big reason for that is due to FTDs. Every single FTD counts as a minimum of 2 volume per share. When an investor purchases shares through a Broker, they are added to that day's volume. The purchaser is told they have the shares in their account even though the purchase has not affected the price value. T+35 days later, the Market Maker will actually purchase the share, adding 1 to the volume for the day they purchased it. This causes Gamestop's volume to inflate on a larger time scale. Looking at 3 months of volume, you will be unknowingly seeing a portion of volume that has been doubled due to FTD settlement. Dark - The Future of the Cycle Earlier, I mentioned that Bullish investors were buying back into Gamestop in late April. Gamestop's stock is on an uptrend and is garnering more interest from the pool of public investors. The more momentum Gamestop's stock has, the more purchasing occurs which means more FTDs accumulating. If these FTDs happen to line up correctly, they may reach their Settlement Period Limit later in the month, specifically on the 3rd Friday the week of options and futures expirations. Triple witching hour is the last hour of the stock market trading session (3:00-4:00 P.M., New York City local Time) on the third Friday of every March, June*, September, and December. Those days are the expiration of three kinds of securities:* Stock market index futures; Stock market index options; Stock options. The simultaneous expirations generally increases the trading volume of options, futures, and their underlying stocks, occasionally increasing the volatility of prices of related securities. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_witching_hour The FTD purchasing along with Options and Futures contracts expiring could compound into a massive Gamma Squeeze of a similar or even larger movement than the original 2021 Sneeze. All that it would need is a decent amount of FTDs' Settlement Period Limits to coincide with the same week if we were lucky, maybe the same DAY if we were here for a reckoning. But for that, we would need large investors with 100's of millions of dollars to buy into Gamestop all because they believe it is a great investment opportunity. Thankfully, we have possibly the most downright insane investor on Gamestop's side, DeepFuckingValue AKA Roaring Kitty. Roaring Kitty may be crazy (aren't we all?), but he is also an incredibly smart trader. *SPECULATION AHEAD* I believe that DFV has taken advantage of the recent run-up/run-down to further his position and he MAY have made a large purchase 5/16/2024 while the stock was heading down from a recent large movement. May 16th DFV Possible Re-Entry After Selling April Calls "E\Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform"* https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/e-trade-considers-kicking-meme-stock-leader-keith-gill-off-platform-f2003ec4 In the above article (pay-walled, sorry), E-Trade has potentially broken Broker-to-Trader privacy regulations and leaked that DFV had purchased options previous to his social media return. Due to the timing of Roaring Kitty's memes this year, it is my belief that DFV DID purchase options in April and sold them at or near the peak of May 15th. He then used the profits from that sale to purchase shares on the way down on 5/16/2024. On Roaring Kitty's stream, he showed off how accurate the bull flag was to the bottom of the original Gamestop 2021 Sneeze. I believe that Roaring Kitty predicted the stock would eventually bottom out to around this same price and chose a price near the bottom as his re-entry price. \"This is all a Test\" - Roaring Kitty most likely referring to \"Testing Support\" on the Gamestop chart I speculate that Roaring Kitty entered into additional positions slightly above the support level of $10. Trading done in the previous 3 years as well as this new position would have his cost basis be substantially lowered from his original $55.17. He has purchased 4.8 million shares in the past 3 years and we know that he averaged down HARD. It is possible that DFV purchased a large portion of his 5 Million shares near the bottom. If true, his purchase must have been large enough that Market Makers and Authorized Participants did NOT want to fulfill the order immediately. Instead, they used their T+35 Calendar Day special exemption to extend their delivery time. At some point either slightly before or after his purchase, DFV decided that the stock has definitely bottomed out and he then loaded up on call options to take advantage of the eventual upward movement. This leads us to the May run up. DFV's original stock purchase slightly above Gamestop's support line has now come due T+35 days later. The FTDs are settled for what could potentially be millions of share purchases. The purchases drive investor's options In-The-Money, sparking a Gamma Squeeze. DFV notices the price action, sells his options purchase near the peak and tries to find a good entry point as the stock is moving down after the Gamma Squeeze is exhausted. My theory is that he MAY have made a purchase on May 16th 2024 as the math on his current cost basis could be averaging up after his large purchase in April. I am using this tool to do very basic math for the cost basis: https://www.omnicalculator.com/finance/stock-average Just as one example: In April, if DFV had managed to purchase the majority of his large position at $16, that would allow for a new purchase on May 16th at $28 to create a VERY similar cost basis of $21.33 vs his original June 2024 cost basis of $21.27. That is a $.06 difference while only using round price points for exit and entry. I personally believe that DFV could have purchased in April at an even lower price point. The lower you use for his April purchase, the higher he may have purchased on May 16th. Disclaimer: Calculating cost basis is not as simple as I am depicting. This is just a scarcely detailed example to get my point across that this is a potential timeline of events. I am also did not try to perfectly re-create DFV's entire purchase history, I just used recent purchases to illustrate my point. But why does any of this matter? Because if Roaring Kitty DID purchase on May 16th, it may have been a substantial purchase. Far too large for Market Makers or Authorized Participants to move off exchange. They clearly have a history of just delaying the purchase, so I am willing to bet that they have Naked Shorted here again. T+35 from May 16th, 2024 is June 20th, 2024. Market Makers are allowed to further extend the deadline until Pre-Market of the next day, June 21st, 2024. We have potentially been gifted a massive run-up on June 21st by Market Makers and Authorized Participants' extreme abuse of FTDs via Naked Short Selling. All of this because one small cat LOVES this damn stock. Exercise Machine - Exercising VS Purchasing This topic was included in my original post. I will be adding an edited version and including it here for important context. I see many people going back and forth on whether DFV purchased shares directly or exercised some of his call options on June 13th, 2024. I am here to tell you he almost certainly did not exercise. Enough time has passed for us to know with near certainty that he has not exercised. Per the Options Clearing Corporation: If it's an equity or ETF weekly option, exercise notices tendered on any business day will result in delivery of the underlying shares on the second (T+2)* business day following exercise. Index options are cash-settled on the next business day following exercise. Edit I think the OCC website was updated just today to reflect CAT changes. Options exercise delivery is now T+1. Exercising options is very different from purchasing stock directly and apes are wise to recognize that purchasing options and exercising them allows retail to actually affect the market price directly. It essentially bypasses the T+35 day waiting period for our purchase to hit the market. To my knowledge, they do not and cannot delay settlement past T+2 for per options regulating restrictions. However, DFV's transaction on June 13th would have definitely hit the market by now. Since we have seen next to no upward pressure since his purchase, I would assume that he instead sold his options for cash on June 12th. The updated Open Interest dropped by a massive amount after market close. Roaring Kitty then posted his Dune tweet at 2PM EST on June 13th, and in my opinion, this is him excitedly posting that he just purchased the 4,001,000 shares. Can't imagine what that feels like. After hours on June 13th, DFV then posted his updated position confirming that he holds 4,001,000 additional shares. If you need more solid evidence that DFV did NOT exercise, here is Dave Lauer's tweets with another user stating that they view this as an options sale to purchase more shares. Please remember Dave has been in the industry for years. Yes, he can make mistakes, but he is NOT an amateur investor trying to spread FUD. Dave Lauer on DFV's new Yolo A large part of the discussion seems to center around Premium cost factoring into cost basis. Dave's years of trading experience has led him to believe that Options Premium costs are not factored into your cost basis, only the Option's Strike Price. So a trader reached out to DFV's Broker, E-Trade, to clarify if they factor in a premium cost to a position's cost basis in your account position portal. E-Trade Does NOT Factor in Premiums to Cost Basis E-Trade reported that they ONLY use the Options Strike Price to adjust your Cost Basis. DFV almost certainly\* did NOT exercise his call options. *EDIT* \* Several of you have reached out to me with doubts regarding E-Trade factoring in premiums for options cost basis. I agree with all of you that it seems like an odd choice to leave them out. So I wanted to include my opinion here: In my mind, the chances of DFV exercising vs purchasing direct stock are at least an equal stalemate. The math on his cost basis can be reached in either situation, so we need to look at other variables to make a decision. If DFV exercised early, he lost out on many days of theta value. Selling his calls and then buying directly would net him substantially more shares than exercising too early. In the past, DFV has exercised his options by allowing them to expire ITM. It is my personal view that, if he wanted to exercise while the price action was relatively normal, he would have used this same method of allowing them to expire ITM. Some people will say that his decision to exercise early was a part of some plan; however, T+1 has passed for the Exercised Securities Settlement Period Limit and nothing has happened. If exercising was his plan, it did not seem to work. Exercise Settlement Time: Exercise notices tendered on any business day will result in delivery of the underlying stock on the first (T+1) business day following exercise. Source: https://www.theocc.com/clearance-and-settlement/clearing/equity-options-product-specifications It is my personal opinion that DFV does have a plan to ride out the 2024 Gamestop action and selling his calls to buy the most shares possible seems to benefit him the most. Coincidentally, it also can benefit us. Since DFV is a trader that loves to interact with a community, he often publicly posts his positions. Now that DFV is a whale, a direct stock purchase that he makes on the market is almost guaranteed to be millions of shares of FTDs. With knowledge of the date of his purchase, we can make an estimate on when his purchase will actually affect the share price and take a position in the stock to benefit off of it. This unique set of circumstances is ONLY possible because one MASSIVE whale LOVES this stock and Market Makers and Authorized Participants are ILLEGALY ABUSING THEIR RIGHTS TO NAKED SHORT. DFV's near confirmed June purchase date is June 13th, 2024. T+35 Calendar Days would put his direct stock purchase hitting the market on July 18th. However, Market Makers will most likely wait until the last minute by pushing it to Pre-Market of Friday, July 19th, 2024. I personally believe that DFV's unconfirmed May purchase date is May 16th, 2024, T+35 Calendar Days would put his direct stock purchase hitting the market on June 20th. However, Market Makers will most likely wait until the last minute by pushing it to Pre-Market of Friday, June 21st, 2024. Conclusion - On the Shoulders of Giants Thank you to anyone that stuck through and read this post! The Gamestop saga is one hell of a ride and I personally cannot wait for GME to break free of it's Naked Short prison and fly free. It is impossible for me to list everyone who has contributed DD to Superstonk but I am completely serious when I say that I am standing on the shoulders of absolute GIANTS. And those giants are standing on other giants that are standing on other giants that also stand on giants that are all standing on Rick of Spades. Seriously, 5 years ago if you told me that I would be spending time the equivalent of a full workday to write about this kind of shit in the stock market, I would have asked you to leave me alone. Over three years of DD and chart watching must have formed a nice new wrinkle in my ape brain and that is thanks to all of you here at Superstonk. My understanding of this situation may need additional expanding or some small corrections; however, I believe I have at least nailed down what has caused this stock to behave so bizarrely starting from January 2021. - With all of that said, I would like to put money in mouth: doxxed my account number because I am truly regarded. Edited Position Picture This ugly fucking nightmare of a position is mine. I currently have 2,200 shares worth of leverage. I also have a bit more buying power left. Assuming the price stays relatively low on Thursday, I plan to purchase additional contracts for June 21st. I want to make one thing VERY clear: June 21st may or MAY NOT run up due to an FTD Settlement Period Limit+Gamma Hedging Squeeze. I am LESS confident about June 21st than I am about July 19th. The July 19th date is based off of two nearly confirmed data points: DFV publicly posted that he purchased a large amount of shares on June 13th, 2024. Even though we cannot be absolutely sure he purchased them on that day I believe due to his past posts, that he is honest with the community. June 21st only has my best estimate of DFV's May purchase. If my guess is wrong, I could lose all of the money I have poured into premiums for that ugly bastard of an options position that I call my own. Purchasing 1-2 Day To Expiry Options Contracts is historically a DumbFuckingMove™ and I do NOT recommend following me into this risky as hell gamble. If you are like me and believe that the FTD Settlement Limit Periods are driving the stock movement, it would be MUCH safer to bet on July 19th, 2024 as we have a much better idea of the exact purchase date our resident whale bought his shares on. I even have a small amount of money set aside as a backup in case my May purchase date theory is wrong and I will use that to essentially YOLO into July 19th, 2024 Expiry, or possibly the week after, July 26th, 2024. EDIT Wanted to add this. PLEASE be aware how risky June 21st options are. The company completed a MASSIVE share offering in the middle of my May-June timeline. It is entirely possible that Market Makers used this offering to offset FTD settlement. It is also possible that Market Makers doubled down and added additional Naked Shorts during this offering. This is gamble I am taking. Some have asked me how I feel about DRS. I will let this speak for itself: I deeply regret not YOLOing in for more shares during the $10-$12 dollar range... I could not find a good spot to fit this into the post, but I did want to remind everyone that June 21st 2024 is the farthest dated LEAPS from January 2021. This may be an additional factor to consider as, anyone that was trying to reposition their options contracts may have chosen the farthest available date on the chain. Oh and a neat trick I learned the other day... As long as you have enough cash in your Options trading account, In-The-Money Options contracts automatically exercise by 5PM on the expiration date. (At least for Fidelity.) I thought that was kind of neat. SMALL ASIDE REGARDING FTD DATA RELEASES The adjustments of my prediction for DFV's may purchase completely invalidates my previous theory about FTD reporting in my last post "I Would Like To Solve the Puzzle - T+3, T+6, T+35". If I had to guess at why our FTD data is pretty much a crapshoot, I would reach for the utterly classic line of "this data is self reported and cannot be fully relied upon." \chefs kiss** Those missing days are most likely just days that reported 0 FTDs for that day. Whether you believe that they are reporting honestly is up to you. Last, but not least. I thought to include my favorite song for all of you. Hopefully it will get you guys excited for Friday and remind you of all we are doing here in Superstonk. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c https://preview.redd.it/o8o26x5a8l7d1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=028f38e0547d940333b9cc46cd23e84b3d36bad7 submitted by /u/Lenarius to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

(28F) In November 2020, I started my period and it never went away. Today I logged into my Flo app to update yet another day of bleeding. I scrolled the calendar view and felt hopeless. I have seen several doctors and gynos in this time. We’ve done ultrasounds and biopsies, everything normal. Pap smears are normal. My blood work is fine except for high testosterone levels and a PCOS diagnosis. Unfortunately, my body doesn’t react well to hormones so BC and estrogen hasn’t ever worked for me. They have given me metformin in the past and after a year of taking it, I didn’t see relief. I finally found a doctor who believes ablation is the best thing to do since I am severely anemic and the goal is to stop the bleeding. However, he prefers to do a bilateral tubal ligation with an ablation since getting pregnant with an ablation can cause an unhealthy pregnancy. This was his idea and I was thrilled to hear it since I have been strong on my stance to never having kids for about 15 years. I cried when I got to the car cause finally, someone was listening to me and would end the agony of bleeding every.single.day with clots the size of my palm. Now, he’s pulling back and saying I may change my mind in 5 years. He said “what if your partner changes his mind on having kids?” “You’re so young, you may change your mind.” He had me do a psych eval and my psych also doesn’t believe it’s a good idea and said she needs to think about if she wants to write a letter to my gyno. She told me “you’re anemic but you don’t need a transfusion yet”. She asked me to get a second opinion. This is the 4th doctor I’ve seen. I feel so hopeless. I’ve tried everything. This was my last option and the only thing they can do now is give me iron supplements. Edit: you all are amazingly helpful and motivating. I appreciate every comment. 💕 submitted by /u/CyCheye to r/childfree [link] [comments]

There are lots of major background check sites out there that sell your information to any interested party. This includes your cell phone number, address (current and previous), social media information, email, criminal records, relatives, known associates, etc. Anyone who is interested can find it out very easily. Such as someone you match with on a dating app who searches through Facebook using your name and location until they find you, then use that information on one of the background sites (i.e. stalkers). Also, potential employers are not supposed to look at this sort of information when making hiring decisions, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some do. If you want to make sure you are as safe as possible on the Internet, you should spend a few minutes removing yourself. I did it for myself over the last 30 minutes or so and put together a list of the biggest players and their Opt-Out web addresses. edit: From what someone else commented, apparently the smaller background check websites pull their information from the bigger background check sites, so the ones I linked to *should** get rid of almost all of your information from sites like these.* Although some people have mentioned your information might reappear after a year or so on some of these sites, so it’s probably a good idea to set a calendar event to check it each year. At least, that’s what I’m doing. InfoTracer Opt-Out TruthFinder Opt-Out (if it doesn’t work on mobile, try it on a laptop/desktop) BeenVerified Opt-Out InstantCheckmate Opt-Out Spokeo People Search Opt-Out Smart Background Checks Opt-Out Fast People Search Opt-Out WhitePages Opt-Out (requires them calling you with an automated removal code) Nuwber Opt-Out ThatsThem Opt-Out True People Search Opt-Out USPhoneBook Opt-Out MyLife Opt-Out BackgroundAlert Opt-Out (requires photo ID) If I left any big ones out, please let me know and I will try to add them to the list. Oh yeah, you might want to make a free ProtonMail email for the sole purpose of sending the email confirmations for removal to, that way you reduce the chances of post-removal spam from these companies. Edit: This is a US-specific LPT, although your country may have something similar that it might be worth looking into. edit 2:yes, there are websites out there like Removaly [not functional as of 5/25/2023] or EasyOptOuts (amongst many, many more) that will do all of the work for you on a constant basis, but those all require a paid subscription. For some people that might make sense, but you absolutely don’t have to pay to get it done if you’re willing to put in the time and effort yourself. edit 3: there’s also a free guide with a list of other websites that may have your data that can be found here… submitted by /u/diverareyouok to r/LifeProTips [link] [comments]

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In an act of complete and deliberate LGBTQIA+ erasure, Riot Turkey's announcement for the beginning of the season of pride fails to mention either the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) or Riot's support for LGBTQIA+ players and communities. Instead of simply translating Riot's original announcement in English, found here, Riot Turkey seems to have opted to replace any mentions of pride and the LGBTQIA+ communities with "the celebration of the spring colors" that are "all around the northern hemisphere during months of May and June," and to explicitly link the cause for celebration to the calendar season in their localized announcement in Turkish. It's not clear whether this blatant self-censorship is dictated by the Riot Games HQ or is by Riot Turkey's own decision, but in any case I believe that the end product is a disgusting mockery of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement. The erasure goes against the very idea of pride and, in my own opinion, is infinitely worse than Riot Turkey simply choosing not to celebrate pride. The most probable reason for this decision is the fear of going against the Turkish government's increasingly draconian stance on LGBTQIA+ acceptance. However, it already has been banned to display any form of LGBTQIA+ symbolism (the most prevalent example being the rainbow flag) in the visual media and Riot Turkey's announcement and actions thus far seem to be the unaffected by that ban, which makes me wonder who exactly Riot and/or Riot Turkey is afraid of antagonizing. Unfortunately, homophobia and transphobia are also widespread among the Turkish player base and it's entirely within the realm of possibility that Riot and/or Riot Turkey wants to avoid alienating their less open-minded players. The last and the most horrifying probable reason for this erasure that I can think of is Riot Turkey's members' own personal views clashing with Riot's support for LGBTQIA+ players and communities, which I truly hope that is not the case here. submitted by /u/egeyurdagul to r/leagueoflegends [link] [comments]