Stock Tank Pool Ideas

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Finished my deck and pool situation. I spent countless hours in this sub getting ideas. Deck is approx. 20’x9.5’(at the widest point). I used tuffblocks and 2x8’ framing. Pool is 6’ diameter. Hardest part was digging the pool hole and cutting the opening. submitted by /u/tom_theninja to r/Decks [link] [comments]

I’m trying to find if there’s a reasonable and budget-friendly way to turn a 150 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank into a clean and safe pool for lounging. I don’t have an electric hookup outside, so are there are good solar powered pumps/filtration systems that would work for this size? Has anyone here done this before? No idea what I’m doing, just interested in the idea and trying to figure out any possible options. Also will accept if this is just a bad idea and won’t work. Have no experience in this field. Thank you! submitted by /u/rampagerach to r/pools [link] [comments]

Hello cold plunging people! I'm in the process of building a no-fuss cold plunge out of a 100 gallon 2x4 galvanized stock tank. I want to wrap it in cedar but am struggling to find much in terms of online resources and am admittedly not the best carpenter/handyman. A few questions.. Do you use T&G or shiplap (will it curve around the edges) or just cedar pannelling/fence boards/equivalent? Is it worth adding a bit of refelctive insulation underneath? or just attach it straight to the tank (we live in the PNW, so not wildly cold winters, but summers get hot) I was planning to attach the boards with adhesive to the tank, but most of the builds I've seen have some kind of steel wrapping/tension strapping like a barrell.. I've seen ones that seem to have a little adjustable tension piece where the strapping comes together on the back, but cant for the life of me find anything online.. I've sen people use a black pool-noodle type edging, but thinner, around the upper lip to cover the lip, but no idea what it is or where to buy it.. Hoping someone has done a similar build and might be able to offer some insight, thanks for your time! Link below is roughly what I'm trying to achieve without dropping $850... https://www.instagram.com/p/DNwH6xM5Jfi/?hl=en submitted by /u/That_Guy_With_Pie to r/coldplunge [link] [comments]

**When I started this piece, I didn't expect it to be this massive. It snowballed into a history of market abuse starting in 1969 to today. After many hours, I am done listing the history, people, and outlining the corruption that is currently in place. I sign off for now. But will be back with a deeper look into Jefferies. Over the weekend, I posted a screenshot of an email in the Epstein Files that mentioned reddit being on the right track to systemic market corruption and mass fraud. This led to a deep dive of reading through all the files. On Sunday I posted an overview of the first few files and set the stage for what was to come. Here is a brief recap. Around 2009 Scott Rothstein was busted for running a Ponzi scheme that claimed to sell the structured settlement of Epstein sexual assault survivors. However, there were no actual victims and therefore no settlements. He sold these imaginary settlements to hedge funds who then used them elsewhere to make money. Once the jig was up, it led to a counter suit by Epstein and the US Govt going scorched earth to recover the funds for the victims. Many hid their money in GameStop stock in 2013-2014 during the super cycle then flipped it to short positions. You can read more detail in the link above. Ok! All caught up. So why was Ken Griffin, GME, and the sneeze in these files? A guy named Chris Dilorio Dilorio was an investment guy in the early 2000s. He managed his own investments on Wall Street as well as worked from big time companies and did analytics on the side. He was an expert in rule 204 - Reg Sho (that should sound familiar). In 2006 he lost about $1 million on EMobile - a penny stock. This was a telecom company that raised a massive amount of capital to startup, but collapsed almost instantly. How do you just lose $359 million dollars in a few months? Dilorio wanted to figure it out. It turns out EMobile was owned by EAccess. EMobile was an established business in the sense that it had all the right paperwork, it had great fund raising, and it looked the part. But, in reality it was little more than a shell company. EAccess was selling phantom shares of EMobile with the intent of just bankrupting it. It was easy way to siphon money into the parent company. Dilorio filed a whistleblower complaint in April 2011, but nothing happened. His investigating continued but expanded. And it turned out this model was EVERYWHERE. By 2013 he filed a thorough Tip, Complaint, Referral (TCR) to the SEC which identified Knight Capital Group (Now Virtu), and UBS (surprise, surprise) as rampant short sellers engaging in this scheme. Additionally, he continues to pursue some level of investigation to be done for nearly 10 years! He was in communication with the SEC and Southern District of New York (SDNY - the legal body with state-level jurisdiction over Wall Street). His communications were something very close to Epstein's circle and seem to have been monitored by the estate. The emails There were 15 documents containing Dilorio's emails. These documents were reverse chronological order which was very annoying. And each document had significant overlap with the others. Instead of 15 documents with 50 emails each, it was more like 1 document with 50 emails and 14 with 1 or 2 new correspondences. I took each unique email and put them into chronological order which boiled down to 51 pages. Many of the pages are telling judges about what's going on. Some are to the SEC demanding his whistleblower reward. But between all of that there is really good information. Early in 2020, Dilorio shares his thesis: Companies are abusing shell subsidiaries. It works kind of like the EMobile example. Parent companies print and sell shares of a shell company. Hype it up a bit in the media, the shares fly out. Then they issue new shares to the parent which are nearly free (think $0.0001/ea). This clears the old short sales in the book, then they just sell the new issuance. It dilutes the float even more which drives down the price. Rinse and repeat till bankruptcy. It's so sure-fire that they mark their short positions as assets! This is of course fraud, but who cares?! It's not like anyone will check. This is just occurring with shady hedgefunds and evil corporations, right? Nope. Dilorio implies that this is industry standard and the primary money-making strategy of Virtu. Remember Doug Cifu? This is his main game. Pennystocks and MemeCoins. Sell and crash all the worthless ideas. Ok, so what will the SEC do? Literally nothing. The SEC sat on this info for over 10 years with no meaningful action. However, in that timeframe the SEC did petition the DTCC to open the Obligation Warehouse (OW) - a shadow clearing system for firms to hide their short positions to avoid close out requirements. That's not helping main street. It's quite the opposite with a dash of obstruction. This was the main point Dilorio was making. SEC has abdicated their duty to protect citizens. The Players A recurrent theme through the emails is the idea of Milikan Flunkies. This is the web of people perpetuating the scam Michael Milikan Leon Black - Apollo/Epstein Rich Handler - Jefferies Doug Cifu - Virtu SEC Chair Jay Clayton - law firm for Virtu. Mike Milken Milken was born in 1946 and is still alive today with about $6 billion and a presidential pardon. His first job was in 1969 at Drexel in the low-grade bond department with a small amount of capital to invest with. He went on a 17 year run with only 4 months failing to net a profit. Surely this was honest. Then in 1976 a merger occurred and Milken ended up in convertibles and started a high-yield bond department. He made 100% return in about 1 year. This was unheard of. Through the 1980s, Milken grew his bond market to nearly every aspect of the market. But how was he so successful? He quickly realized that no one was paying attention to bonds. He essentially made a feedback loop where he would package and sell others debt as a high yield asset. He would sell these bonds at up to 5x the legal maximum markup. But, if the bond price kept rising, the buyer was also happy. Both of their balance sheets looked good. In the 80s this was so strong that he began to use it as a threat. He would offer bonds to corporate raiders - smaller businesses looking to take over larger ones through leveraged buy outs - simply as a threat. With inflation in the late 70s and early 80s, investment laws were loosened, so Milken began selling his junk bonds to S&L banks - boring banks who held average citizen accounts and mortgages. In 1987 the FIRREA law was set to end this suddenly, so Milken gathered the leaders of the banks he was stuffing with junk bonds and paid $1.3 million to 7 lawmakers to kill the bill. Unfortunately, he only delayed the bill by 2 years. This bill forced all banks to sell their risky assets and realign with safer investments. So the junk bonds flooded the market, which crashed valuation, which led the to the collapse of 2900 financial entities. The government solution was to prop up the dead banks until all assets were unwound. In the end this cost tax payers $132 billion. This blow up also finally got eyes on Drexel and Milken. It turns out Milken set up a side business called MacPhearson Partners for his department to invest in their own dealings. For example he siphoned warrants from a business into his MacPhearson while denying shareholders. This is what eventually got him busted and collapsed Drexel. Milken was sentenced to 10 years in prison for securities fraud and $1.83 billion in forfeitures. But like any good rat he took a plea deal to name names. In the end he served 22 months in prison and paid $600 million in fines. Milken had aggressive sales approach where he controlled the entire pipeline of buyers which cornered the markets. He then leveraged his position to extort through threats. He created self-dealing on the side. Then he bought political favor to hide his scheme which was coined the, "Milken Technique." Leon Black Leon Black was born in 1951 and still alive today with about $13.7 billion. He started as an accountant but got his big break in 1977 at Drexel. He would help corporate raiders structure a takeover plan, then send them to Milken to generate the bonds. Weird. In 1989 when Drexel blew up, he arranged himself a nice like $16 million severance package then jumped ship. He, along with Josh Harris and Marc Rowan founded Apollo. They took their Drexel knowledge and founded Apollo to be a full vulture company. The banks that just collapsed had rocked the market and there were tons of businesses out there who were still packed with worthless junk bonds and they had sold them! So, Apollo leveraged this to transform from facilitators of corporate raiders to becoming the raiders themselves. Side note: an important client at this time was Carl Ichan. He was something of a client/financial backer that gave Apollo a lot of strength at the time. More on him later. Their model was to use debt to buy businesses then saddle that debt to the newly acquired business while extracting management fees, dividends, and any other form of profit. Places like Claire's, Chuck E' Cheese, and possibly soon-to-be 7-Eleven are all victims of this practice. The main model for Apollo finalized in 2022 and is a thing called Athene - a service that basically manages annuities for retirement. Normally, insurance and structured businesses need to invest in solid, low risk assets and any ownership extracts management fees. But since Apollo owns them, it now uses Athene's balance sheet how it wants. Apollo takes the money and invests in higher yield bonds, that it originates. That's right... Apollo makes Athene buy bonds that are packaged debt for the new businesses it will buy. It also scrapes arbitrage. Since the higher bonds are yielding >6% but annuities are only about 4%, Apollo keeps the difference. Grandma gets her money as expected, but Apollo extracts about 7% more out of it that she could have had. Leon Black also has a personal family business named Elesium Management who looks after his personal wealth. It was started by his father (Eli M. Blachowitz). Guess who the acting Director of the fund was?! Jeffery Epstein. Epstein managed the portfolio and all of Black's personal assets like the yacht, private jet, and $1 billion art collection. So, it's not surprising that Black had his own... special section in the Epstein Files. Basically, Apollo sits on both sides of the table as it manages investments for its subsidiaries by selling junk bonds that it makes. It's just Drexel turned up to 11. He has institutionalized aggressive selling and control of the pipeline of buyers to corner the market. There are no threats, just complete take overs. He funnels self-dealings to his own business which was run by Epstein. And he spends millions on political favor. Rich Handler He was born in 1961 and got his big break as trader at... you guessed it! Drexel! Black would structure a takeover, Milken would pump up the bonds for it, and Handler would move stock to maximize profit. In 1990 when Drexel blew up, Handler jumped to Jefferies (a small firm at the time) and essentially brought the junk bond market with him. This grew Jefferies from a small firm to 8th largest in the world. Clearly this strategy works for those on top. In 2012 Knight Investment Group (NITE) - a high-speed electronic trading market maker - had a technical error that created $440 million trading error in minutes. This was dubbed "The Power Peg Disaster" or, more commonly, "The Glitch." NITE was run by Thomas Joyce who was supposed to be the clean face of the company who got busted for front running client trades among other things. The glitch happened and Joyce went to SEC-Chair Mary Schapiro and asked them to cancel the erroneous trades, but she said no. This left Joyce with 48 hours to find $400 million cash. The desperate time crunch led Joyce to meet with the Drexel Group. Hander structured a package to save NITE. Between Jefferies, a young Blackstone, and a company called Global Electronic Trading Company (GETCO), they infused $400 million into NITE to save it from insolvency while becoming the biggest shareholders at a massive discount which wiped out the smaller investors. It was basically bought up. A few months later in 2013 NITE and GETCO merged to form KCG. Joyce left and Daniel Coleman was put in charge as CEO. Daniel was a Chicago native (who worked at O'Conners with a young Ken Griffin, then at UBS) was now in charge of the biggest high-speed market maker in the world. They implemented things like payment for order flow, and internalization to fill orders, and front running orders. Cool. It's important to note that KCG had split off and started Citadel by this time. He was a direct competitor to Jefferies and KCG. Dilorio reports that NITE was an abusive naked shorter and the glitch and merger were both points which cleared the books of phantom obligations. Things didn't change since Drexel, it just took on a new form with a new name. So, Handler looks like a hero at Jefferies for acquiring this growing Market Maker. But in 2017, they sell it Virtu (run by Doug Cifu) for $1.3 billion. That seems low for one of the biggest market shares in electronic trading... The official report was marked as Virtu buying KCG at a premium. But Jefferies claimed they sold below fair value because of promise of a role in another virtu endeavor. Dilorio claims it was a discount for Virtu to take on liabilities of the massive naked shorts NITE racked up. Doug Cifu Doug was born in 1966 and is alive with $9.14 billion. Initially Doug was a lawyer who worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Remember that name for later. Cifu was considered part of an elite team that advised on complicated mergers, acquisitions, and private equity deals. He made partner in 1999, and in 2007 he met Vincent Viola and Graham Free who founded Virtu - a high tech, minimal overhead, market maker. They operated for about 5 years before going public where they revealed they had 1 losing day since their launch. They were really good, but they had a small base. So in 2017 they struck a deal to acquire KCG to go from 4% market share to about 20%. They very publicly claimed that KCG was a mess and an incomplete merger, so they migrated everything on their proprietary platform. Dilorio asserts that Cifu was not an investing genius, but rather a legal buffer to protect the system. The "migration" was not monitored, and it was another way to clean the, once again, insolvent KCG/NITE/GETCO mess. Now here's the crazier part, imo. In 2019, Virtu purchased Investment Technology Groups (ITG) for $1 billion. ITG is a "solutions company" that owns POSIT - a fucking dark pool. Dilorio states that Virtu owning POSIT made a closed loop where Virtu could internalize anything to hide their short positions. Right now, the SEC is lightly enforcing transparency with Form ATS-N which makes "Alternative Trading Systems" explain their matching process and any conflicts of interest. There are also Rules 605 and 606 for better reporting of trade execution data. As you can imagine, there is very little penalty for failing to comply, so we get a 2-tiered market where retail sees the lit-market and big institutions see the dark and lit exchanges. Thanks Doug. SEC Chair Jay Clayton Born in 1966 and is still alive with a net worth of $50 million. That's oddly poor compared to the rest of the list. He was not an investor, but another Lawyer who first worked at Sullivan & Cromwell. This law firm represented most of the people during Drexel's collapse and maintained ties with them after they jumped ship to other ventures. He was referred to as the master architect for Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Deutch Bank, and the Bear Sterns collapse. His expertise was "complex navigation" where he could structure things like mergers and acquisitions to pass SEC regulations. In 2017, he was nominated to be the chair of the SEC. Here he helped facilitate Virtue to acquire KCG and ITG and explode their reach, control, and create the bullshit ecosystem that is now our economy. Did you guys' really thing Dougie boy was going to escape the Drexel Diaspora? I got you with the delayed fuse. Oh, and after Clayton stepped down from the SEC he went to work as an advisor for Apollo with a huge salary as an advisor. But in 2025 he got bored, so he took the role as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). He's the person responsible for investigating claims of abusive short selling. Perfect.... His team is now full of Sullivan & Cromwell attorneys who are the same people who defended naked short sellers until this past year. Does anyone think they are going to change their stance and risk losing a client? Hell no. He offers a self-reporting program where firms can report criminal misconduct on themselves in exchange for delayed prosecution (indefinite) and reduced fines (zero). And the whistleblower program now requires the person coming forward to give up all money related to the issue. It seen a huge drop in tips. There has been 1 charge of market fraud by the Clayton's SDNY office and it was against Patrick James of First Brands. This company used a secondary business to buy his inventory. He would borrow money, send it to this second company to buy things from himself, then take the money and inventory back. This made the money flow on the balance sheets look twice as good. This looks exactly like one of those Drexel closed loops with junk bonds, or naked shorts, so why is he getting punished for it? Because he used the sheets to defraud Jefferies, UBS, and Blackrock. This is not punishment for doing something illegal. It's punishment for stealing from the club members. The SDNY is now Wall Street's legal hit squad. Dilorio states repeatedly that this is a "closed ecosystem", a "revolving door" where they all work together, or a "unified club" where they protect each other. I can't say he's wrong. Carl Ichan Carl was born in 1936 and is still alive with about $4.3 million. He did not work for Drexel, but he was a big client. In the 1980s Ichan was a raider who took over TWA and Phillips (petrol) with Drexel financially supporting him. He hired Leon Black as his personal banker and mentored him to go into private equity by starting Apollo. Ichan also controlled, temporarily, Ladenburg Thalmann - an investment firm that absorbed most of Drexel's assets (through Gruntal & Co.) after their collapse. He's also known to have a friendly working relationship with Rich Handler. Dilorio asserts that Ichan, Black, and Handler operate as one entity. In 2017, Ichan was appointed Special Advisor on Regulatory Reform where his role was to select which regulators should be cut. His choices seemed to benefit his company Ichan enterprises. He also helped interview Jay Clayton for the SEC. Cool. Blackrock At this point I have shared the big players Dilorio's emails. But, you're probably wondering where a few specific names fit into all of this. The following people are important players in this saga, but only briefly mentioned in the files. Their roles are important but the research will stray from the files. The Blackrock we know today started in boston in the 1980s as a company named First Boston. They were the competitor to Drexel in the bond market. But instead of packaging corporate debt into junk bonds, they packaged mortgages (MBS). Larry Fink was kicked out for losing $100 million in a quarter due to changing interest rates. But he realized that Wall Street was good at making risky bets but bad at measuring that risk. In 1988, he met with a freshly founded Blackstone whom was loaded with former Drexel execs including Stephen Schwarzman. Schwarzman gave Fink $5 million to fund his new business in the bond market in exchange for 50% ownership. This kept Fink's Blackstone Financial Management under the Blackstone umbrella. Schwarzman continued the corporate raider strategy with Leveraged Buy Outs, while Fink sold fixed income investments and risk management. By 1992 his Blackstone Financial grew faster than the rest of Blackstone. In order to poach talent, he offered new equity to big hires. This effectively reduced Schwarzman's equity from 50% to 36%. Schwarzman was not happy and bailed. He sold his entire stake to PNC bank for $240 million. Fink rebranded to avoid confusion. He chose Blackrock to seem like a stable offshoot of Blackstone. Blackrock built the Aladdin system as a response to Fink's $100 million loss. Through Sun Systems they built a platform to stress test portfolio against thousands of hypothetical scenarios. This was internal through the 90s, but became an external tool in the 2000s. Dilorio claims that Aladdin is no longer a risk assessment tool, but after Bear Sterns it became a tool to hide toxic assets. In 2020, PNC sold its stake in BlackRock for $14 billion. Ken Griffin The man, the myth, the mayo. Born in 1968 and worth about $51.2 billion. He has no formal ties to Drexel that I can find. As mentioned above he did work with Daniel Coleman at O'Conner & Associates where they both had an interest in high speed trading. Coleman merged his firm with the Drexel crowd and became the CEO of KCG and had a niche in the Virtu world. Griffin stayed solo and built his own evil empire based on math, physics, and speed trading compared to the Drexel junk bloat. Citadel runs about 40% of all market volume while Virtu runs about 25%. And both market makers internalize an absolute ton of volume (60-70%). Fink and Griffin feud constantly. Fink runs Aladdin with AI (because of course everything has to) and Griffin runs on proprietary "market indicators." Fink wants to be the market while Griffin wants to be ahead of the market. Citadel, Virtu, and Blackrock spend insane amounts of money to shape the SEC. Dilorio uses Griffin as a second example of how the SEC is complicit in helping big firms and describes Citadel and Virtu as a duopoly that ultimately works against retail. The Ecosystem So Milken's flunkies Black and Handler jump ship and make their own businesses. Ichan rides Black's financial backing. Cifu swoops in off Handler's big show to provide legal cover. Fink takes the junk bonds to the mortgage world and starts Blackrock who grows so big they provide liquidity to everyone in the junk bond system. They all help install Jay Clayton to jam up investigations on Wall Street. So what about GME? GameStop was the moment the Drexel style naked shorting feel into the mainstream. It was never supposed to be revealed to the public. All of the abovementioned people took legal risks when they thought no one was watching. The bond markets in the 80s. The MBS and penny stocks in the 90s and early 2000s. Now it's in mid-caps and people are finally getting eyes on it. The 140% short interest was mathematically impossible unless naked shorting occurred. Market Makers are allowed to naked short in order to provide liquidity and they are incentivized to internalize orders to keep the price from rising, especially if they have subsidiaries like melvin capital about to tank. They take the FTDs from the internalization and hide in the Obligation Warehouse where they sit in a private ledger as "unsettled" but are marked on the public ledger as "settled" to look covered. What now? In 2025 Genius Group filed a claim that Citadel and Virtu were spoofing and naked shorting 98% of trading days since the 2021 sneeze. It currently sits before the SDNY.... Fuck. But keep eyes on it. This will be a huge signal about future Wall Street Corruption. But what about DRS and locking the float? It creates unquestionable evidence that naked shorting is occurring, it puts shares in our actual name, and it provides stability to GameStop. But Rich Handler runs Jefferies who both issues GamesStops shares and effectively runs Computershare. Fuck. Jefferies also utilizes analyst Simon Fitzgerald to move the stock price. Handler is playing both sides to milk as much money as possible from this situation. In fact, it is incredibly likely that Jefferies is always the first to know DRS numbers. After all of this, I suspect Jefferies is the one to watch to know where this will go. Their investment subsidiaries include: Business Development Company (BDC) and Leucadia Asset Management which is an umbrella investment company. These will be the focus of my next DD. Till then, please read and share. We're on to something massive. submitted by /u/ACat32 to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

I've been doing sauna and cold plunge for about 20 years. I guess we're calling it contrast therapy. I got this outdoor 4x6 Finlandia sauna in my zen garden and a stock tank ice bath built on top of my redwood meditation deck. I want to upgrade to a proper cold bath with a 1/2 or 1 hp chiller (probably leaning towards active aqua) and UV filter and Ozone filter as well as some type of hair and dirt filter so I can keep the water cleaner for longer without draining all the time. I'd love to keep it clean and running all the time with minimal chlorine and make it as professional as possible. I was thinking of going go a local pool and spa store nearby somewhere here in San Diego and get equipment if necessary. So my idea is to upgrade from approx 100 gallons in my current stock tank to 150 gallons from this clean water tank | already own. I was gonna cut it down to that level. I also already own some nice pumps but I know nothing else about building a cold bath. Any advice would be great. Thanks All! First time postina on Reddit submitted by /u/Willing-Ad-8623 to r/coldplunge [link] [comments]

I want to do a planted tank (mainly interested swordplants and giant val) for my 180. ive done walstad method on my 55 and its cool and all but im wondering if i should also do that for my 180 or just do pool filter stand and osmocote plus. maybe even co2 i dont know hopefully someone out there has personal experience with big planted tanks and whats best to do. tank stock: 1 synodontis nigrita 2 synodontis eupterus 1 pantadon 3 nandus nebulosus 2 L397 pleco 1 royal pleco submitted by /u/twistgothacked to r/PlantedTank [link] [comments]

I have been trying to figure out how to do this for at least a two years now. I would love to have a pond and a pool however my backyard is not big enough for both and only has one real viable location. I have been playing around with the idea of buying two stock tanks one 8 feet wide, and one 12 feet wide and putting the 8 foot one inside the 12 foot one. However I keep running into the idea or rather worry that both a buried body of water, if placed in saturated ground will float to some degree causing erosion. Or that 8 foot pool would float around/lead to problems with the pond. Has anybody seen or heard somebody who’s done this/has any insight on how to do this? I feel like there are problems I just don’t know what they are. submitted by /u/PlantDaDe to r/ponds [link] [comments]

Changes: Passive: New: provides an execute icon on monster healthbars when the DoT will kill the unit. New: After applying 2 Quake Stacks, Shattered Earth’s Final Attack, or Seismic Bastion final shockwave will additionally slow the closest champion or large monster hit by 25% for 1 second. Targets affected slowed by Threads of Vibration’s slow cannot be affected by it again for 14/12/10/8 seconds, scaling down at levels 1/6/11/16. ------------------------------------- Q- Shattered Earth: New: Skarner marches forward in the target direction over the cast time. Removed: Final hit no longer applies a slow. Q - Upheaval: Nerf: Max hp ratio reduced. Buff: AD ratio increased in some manner (+ %AD or + % per 100 AD) Nerfed: AoE slow removed. Now slows the first target hit by 40% for 1 second ------------------------------------- W: Removed: AoE Slow Nerfed: Shield down from 8% max hp to 7% max hp for 2.5 seconds Nerfed: radius reduced to 525 Adjusted: Skarner gains a shield and slams his claws into the ground releasing a shockwave that expands over a short duration in a radius around him to deal magic damage to enemies. New: Skarner releases an aftershock shockwave that mimics the first in a smaller radius after a slight delay and deals reduced damage. NEW: If Shattered Earth is active, casting W grants a 14% max hp shield for 2.5 seconds. ------------------------------------- E: Adjusted: COOLDOWN: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 -> 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 New: Ixtal's Impact now stores 1 stock up to 2 stocks, meaning the full CD is 28 / 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 New: When Skarner has 1 Stock he cannot go through walls. When he has both stocks he can traverse walls. New: Skarner gains slow immunity, and sets his movement speed to 250+ X% current movement speed. Nerfed: Duration - 2.75 seconds -> 2 seconds Adjusted: Skarner gain 150 movespeed every 0.264 seconds, up to a cap of 750. Adjusted: If Skarner collides with an enemy champion or large monster during the charge, the charge duration is set to 0.5 seconds, Skarner's movespeed is set to 750, and the charge turn rate is set to the maximum. Removed: There is no longer any speed or grab duration difference based on WHEN Skarner grabs an enemy. Adjusted: If Skarner's attached target collides with terrain, the charge ends, detaching them, dealing physical damage, slowing them by 99%, decaying over 1.25 seconds and reducing Ixtal's Impact cooldown by 35%. If Skarner’s target has 2 Quake stacks when the target collides with terrain, Skarner deals additional physical damage, and stuns the target for 1 second. ----------------------------------- R: Removed: AoE Suppression Adjusted: Stuns 1/2/3 enemy champions based on rank Adjusted: Damages and Stuns up to 3 of the closest enemy champions for a short duration. After using the ultimate Skarner gains 1 unique empowered basic attack for 1.25 seconds with increased range and the ability to suppress and drag one stunned enemy champion for a duration. (Imagine rework Swains old passive) ------------------------------------- Explanation: Goals of these Adjustments Get Skarner out of Pro-Jail Reduce CC spread Improve use/focus of each ability - improve benefits of using abilities, focus and adjust detriments - weaken non-focused unneeded strengths Weaken toxic, non-interactive gameplay Improve consistency Find a good balance for allowing Skarner to be tanky enough Maintain a good satisfying feeling of weight Reduce unintuitive skillchecks These changes are primarily oriented around changing what makes Skarner disproportionally stronger and more valued by Pro-Players; Making those features weaker and strengthening mechanics that will be more appreciated by more players and hopefully achieving a less divisive design. There is also a focus on lowering the skill floor, decreasing the barrier of knowledge and increasing satisfaction from interacting with Skarner’s abilities. A key feature of this concept is focused on lowering the amount of CC Skarner has available in his kit. Riot originally sold Skarner as a fighting tank. However after a series of nerfs he no longer accomplishes that. That is because he has too much CC coverage. Aside from Maokai every other tank with a focus on direct offensive pressure has at LEAST one ability that lacks CC. However Skarner has some of the strongest CC on a base kit, and has multiple AoE CC’s and has CC on every ability. This is a STRONG indication of a lack of focus in his design as it puts priority on being a CC tank rather than a fighting tank. Additionally power could be taken out of full HP builds which allows Pros to reliably scale with him. The passive now functions to reduce the amount of CC available to Skarner. The Slow present in his Q’s final hit and W have been moved to the passive, and restricted to requiring him to engage in melee combat to enable the slow from either source, but he can only use 1 slow on a target at a time. The passive now also has an execute indicator for monsters in the Jungle. Part of the reason Skarner is less popular is bc he’s different, unique, and challenging. The Skills Skarner asks new players to master often are not transferable from other champs in their pool, and Skarner has MULTIPLE of these esoteric skillchecks, such as his passive demanding players learn when to leave champs and let the passive kill monsters. Skarner already currently has a lack luster jg clear, and an unoptimized path is even worse, this change is one of the ones that seeks to lower that knowledge barrier of entry. Decreasing skill checks also decreases performance between high lvl players and others. Q now features a short forwards march during the cast time. This is to help Skarner feel more satisfying. Riot has already run into this issue b4 with Galio “When you’re a tank, it’s not enough to be big. You wanna feel big. Champion designer Sol “Solcrushed” Kim wanted Galio players to feel like god-sized monsters. Solcrushed discovered that not all “heavy, deliberate” gameplay ends up feeling fun. In its earliest iterations, Galio’s E ability (Justice Punch) had a long charge-up period before its dash. That, Solcrushed says, felt sort of bad.” They already KNEW this so the same thought process needs to be applied to Skarner as well. He was designed around feeling big, heavy, and powerful, and they gave him abilities that would be strong, but that came at the cost of making him clunkier. At the same time he doesn’t have exactly the same lv of bulk as dedicated tanks who are “designed to feel slow+powerful.” That was a bad combo for release Skarner having a “feel good ability.” Q’s CD mechanic could also be assessed to make it more intuitive and easier for new players to pick up and optimize. RN it is another mechanic that adds another unintuitive skill test and it's up for debate whether its worth keeping it or not. Shattered Earth changes are focused on reducing CC availability Always having a slow on the final hit was removed due to redundancies. Why does Q3 need to slow if Skarner is in range to use W or E? That means the kit has to be balanced around this excess in CC power and Skarner is trading in his fighting potential to be a CC bot. With the slow attached to the passive Skarner has to choose between Q or W, and it will only be applied to one person. Additionally while Q-Upheaval can still slow it only slows the first target struck by the AoE damage. This allows more power to be put into parts of his kit that more can be appreciated like defense or damage. W’s changes are focused on encouraging a more close quarters engaging fight style and dis-incetivizing a poke based playstyle This will help people use the intended playstyle and make the ability less of a problem to balance and buff to function as a proper defensive tool. W’s issues are its ease of application and its slow providing Skarner too much positive momentum in comparison to his targets especially for the ease of application it has on multiple targets. Removing the AoE slow and putting a gating mechanism on it so its not always available opens up a chunk of his power budget. Removing the slow and introducing a more noticeable travel time to the shockwave means its function as a poke and outmaneuvering tool has been reduced. Very few shield abilities actually HAVE dmg and CC attached, bc a combo of all three is way too strong and eats too much power budget. When a shield does have all 3 mechanics it also usually comes with delay or aiming restrictions (Voli, Urgot, Ivern). W is secretly a lot more powerful than people think thanks to its ease of use, range, and instant application of all 3 parts. W gains a secondary shockwave which encourages him to close the distance. Additionally W increases its shield value if Q is active which further encourages Skarner to fight in close range. This all make Skarner need to be more committal. E - overall the power available that is maximized by the pro’s is reduced. The ability to traverse walls is more greatly utilitzed by pro’s who have better pathing and map awareness and teamwork so utilizing a stock mechanic that increases the wallhack CD lowers its availability. Additionally its duration and max speed has been reduced making these strengths they value weaker for them. However his base movement speed has been increased and it now scales with his movement speed, this is something other players will appreciate more. Changing the wall stun into a slow reduces Skarner CC chain reliability which pros rely on, making use of Skarner CC to provide opportunities for allies, instead of himself. Skarner can still achieve the stun but it requires investment and fighting the target first, which makes his pro-play ganks less effective. Additionally the design of the ability has been adjusted to not waste its own power budget. A higher base movement speed and lower max speed removes the need for a close range grab to function differently than a long range grab. This also helps lower the knowledge barrier. Also the ability can now be used only for a wall slam without always wasting the powerbudget of the wallhack. Having less on command CC makes Skarners ganks and jg strength against invades pre-6 less potent. And being less strong pre-6 makes him less reliable in pro-play especially compared to other tanks. R - is now less valuable for pro-play AoE CC is valuable in proplay, and Skarners current focus on AoE CC over fighting has placed his kit in pro-jail. Removing the ability to apply this strong CC to multiple enemies greatly reduces his value to pro teams. I would even consider going further and only applying Kinematics to enemies with the unique basic attack applying the full suppression and Drag to the target enemy, but that might reduce his reliability TOO much. With more of the strength locked up in later levels this also makes 6 less immediately powerful and useful in pro-play submitted by /u/OriginalChimera to r/SkarnerMains [link] [comments]

So I run an ad agency. We have a nice big office, and also a somewhat nautical theme where we could realistically kinda sorta make the argument that a humongous tank is a marketing expense. We'd document it all, etc, make it a whole campaign, use it as a way to get people into our studio. The ground is literally concrete, main floor, used to be a factory so we could have as big and as heavy a tank as we wanted with zero support concerns. Cost isn't too much of a concern. I don't want to spend a billion dollars, but I also don't think I'll be getting out of this for hundreds of dollars - it'll be a lot. I have a strong knowledge base of the basics. I've got a lovely 20g Long Walstad-ish style running. Lots of healthy breeding shrimp, lots of healthy breeding fish, healthy plants, no algae, great water parameters. Its a balance, I've been maintaining it, so life is good for me and my aquatic friends, and I feel confident I could repeat my success. In terms of timelines, I would expect the set up period to be 3+ months minimum before ever considering livestock. Between planning, planting, cycling, establishing microfauna, etc, it'd be a long haul. Minimum tank size - 180 gallons, but larger would be cool. In theory I could get away with 12 feet+ in length, and 24 inches + in width. Depth I probably would want to stay under 3 feet. I have an awesome localish source of live plants that are shipped from a tank, and in very similar water parameters. So I can get high quality, super healthy, pre-submersed plants that don't go through much melt on planting. My main questions that I'm trying to crowd source my thinking on are: 1) At 200+ gallons, is it reasonable to think that I could achieve a "self sustaining" ecosystem. By self sustaining, I mean creating a thriving population of microfauna/feeder critters (daphnia, scuds, black worms, cyclops, etc) to keep a natural food source available for the fish? If so, how long would it take to establish that before adding fish to it? I'd be tempted to go scoop some local pond muck and water to kick it all off, but it might be tough to keep only the desired critters, and keep things like planaria out. 2) On the topic of living critters - what livestock? I'd want a community tank, and one of relatively similar biome style. I don't really care for huge fish. I'm a big fan of Scarlet Badis (which are absolutely tiny I know) and most of the smaller freshwater species. Would I need to keep most of them within a "slot size" to keep predation in check? If I had a number of 4" max fish, would they be relatively cool with 1-2" fish, or would they still be looking to make snacks out of anything small enough? My main goal would be to try to get the fish to express as much of their natural behavior as possible, so tons of space in a big tank for shoals, etc, would be awesome. Would love to hear your wishlist stocking recommendations. Bottom dwellers, mid column, upper column. Give me your best ideas! 3) Filtration. Is this a case of even if it's freshwater, I should set up a sump similar to saltwater? I imagine this would give me the opportunity to provide refuge and breed out space for the microfauna, and also probably cheap out on a "proper" filter. What ratio of sump to tank size would make sense? 55gal tanks are a dime a dozen around here, that'd probably be more than enough. Would setting up an input on one side of the tank, a return on the other be enough? I'd probably have to add a power head on the return to push enough water across the tank. I'm a big fan of over filtering a tank, so would love to hear what the best case scenario would be. 4) Substrate for longevity. I'm down with dirted tanks. Loading it up with dirt and capping with pool filter sand would be where I went to, as that's what I did with my current tank successfully. What is the best way to go to ensure a long time of nutrients in the soil? With a 3 foot deep tank, I'd probably do 3-4" of soil capped with 2-3" of pool filter sand. 5) Once dirt is establish, what plants? I'd almost want to scape it in a way that had a mangrove style driftwood and plant section on one side, open swimming, rocks, and "river bottom" section in middle, and then just a lush jungle bottom to top forest of plants on the otherside. Again, I want this relatively low tech - nothing that requires CO2. I've had good luck with jungle Val, anubias, etc. just stick with "beginner" plants? My source has really good deals on mystery beginner plant packs, which would significantly reduce the cost upfront for plants, while ensuring I get a huge amount of them. 6) Lighting. This is probably an area one can't cheap out on. But what's the best option for a big fuck off light that can deal with the depth? Are there shop lights/non-fish tax lights available that would make more sense economically? Landlord covers electricity and we're already running some power hungry computers, so a couple fish lights won't make a dent. We can also hang just about anything in any configuration we want - space is not a limiting factor. 7) Once it is up and running, I have to imagine that something that large is kind of just on its own, beyond feeding, fertilizing, and adding water every now and again. I'm not going to be digging out corpses, etc. With enough hiding spots and places to hang, what are some species that might be able to start working out self-sustaining breeding populations (that aren't live bearers, I don't really care for most of those)? 8) Are there other considerations/thoughts/etc I'm not taking into consideration for something this size? I appreciate any insight (or dreams!) you might have for this. And yes, if I do go forward with it. I will absolutely document and share with you all! submitted by /u/DevoPast to r/PlantedTank [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, hope it’s alright to ask this here...posted in the Perth subreddit as well but figured I’d try my luck with a wider WA crowd. We’re a family with kids who are starting to get a bit older, and our backyard isn’t massive. I keep going back and forth on whether a small pool is a good idea or not. I’ve looked into plunge pools and those galvanized stock tank pools you see popping up online, since the big concrete and fibreglass ones just seem impossible (and way too pricey) for our space. I’m hoping to hear from anyone in WA (especially with families or smaller backyards) who’s actually put one of these in: Did you end up using it as much as you hoped? Any hassles with council approval, fencing, or ongoing maintenance? Go the DIY route or use a local company? Anything you wish you’d known before starting? If you tried different companies, who was easiest to deal with? I’ve come across Village Plunge Pools, West Coast Plunge Pools, and Terra Tanks for the stock tank pools, but open to any other suggestions. I’m also wondering if these smaller pools get much use outside of the hottest months, or if you regret going down this path at all. Happy to share what I’ve found so far if anyone else is curious...appreciate any real world tips or stories! submitted by /u/EntireDaikon4956 to r/WesternAustralia [link] [comments]

So this is pretty basic. I have a well-cycled(1 month of setup, 2 months of good parameters, shrimp pellets as ammonia source) 29 gallon that is light-to-medium planted with some Anubias Nanas, some Java ferns, and some floating Guppy Grass. I use a Hygger day/night 24/7 cycle light with an adjustable timer and my plants have taken very well attached to some spider wood. Occasional doses of Thrive C every few weeks. The substrate is half Aqua Natural Iwagumi Gunsmoke river gravel and half white pool filter sand with a pretty natural gradient. Filtered using a 40g rated sponge filter and a 40g rated air pump. I am fairly strict about weekly ~20% water changes. The only downside is my local water has a high PH at about 8.2. I condition with Seachem Prime. I keep a batch of Bettas in an array of 5.5g and 10g tanks and they are all doing wonderfully. I am a beginner aquarist but pretty mechanically minded. I know for sure I can handle medium difficulty fish without much trouble but would like to avoid complicated species. So far my main idea is something like a school of 8-10 Bronze Corys(for water hardiness) and a pair of Honey Gouramis. Or perhaps in place of Gouramis one of my more peaceful Bettas. Does this seem like a reasonable bio-load for a 29g tank? I was thinking Corys because even a light-duty cleanup crew would help a lot with tank maintenance. Any other stocking ideas for easy to medium difficulty fish? Would rather understock than overstock. Less work is better. A friend offered me a pair of big Ranchu goldfish but I know this tank is borderline for size and they would need frequent water changes. I know they would tolerate the PH however as they were born and raised in 8.0 water. submitted by /u/Estuansis to r/Aquariums [link] [comments]

TL;DR: Citadel has a bargaining chip to keep the GME price at bay—the threat of a market crash if GME were to MOASS. This bargaining chip, however, is only valid until the market actually crashes. And based on several indicators, the market has a few years left max before it collapses and massive liquidations begin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recommended Prerequisite DD: Burning Cash Part II ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Burning Cash Part III §1: Citadel's Bargaining Chip §2: The Inevitable Market Crash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ §1: Citadel's Bargaining Chip Citadel, along with SHFs in general, have a primary bargaining chip to ensuring cooperation towards keeping the GME price at bay, and that it the threat of a market crash. If the government (DTCC, SEC, regulatory agencies, etc.) prevent SHFs from continuing to keep the GME price low to sustain their margin (whether the shorting is via synthetic shares, short ladder attacks, dark pools, etc.), and GME squeezes as a result, the market will defacto crash. No administration or government agency wants to be responsible for a market crash. This is why Reagan signed EO 12631 in 1988 [establishing the "Plunge Protection Team" (Working Group on Financial Markets)], which is designed to keep the market artificially propped up, if possible, which really only delays a market crash until the hot potato is passed to an unlucky successor. While the government may temporarily stave off a market crash for the time being, the disconnect in the market will accumulate until it cannot be supported anymore, and the crash will be much worse than it if hadn't been artificially propped up to begin with [e.g. 2008]. The government knows GME squeezing threatens the stability of the financial markets as a whole, and as such, they will not vehemently act to step in and prevent the publicly obvious manipulation of GME, whether or not it's illicit manipulation. Their priority is to protect the infrastructure of the financial system, a system that would be at high risk of collapse if they stepped in to shut down the chronic manipulation of GME. This is why it's not as easy for gov. agencies to ascertain a solution when someone says "why doesn't the government do anything about the manipulation against GME"? Citadel recognizes this and has played into it in the past by equivocating buying GME to helping wipe out teacher's pension plans: https://reddit.com/link/17cc2yd/video/mli4z3bmncvb1/player And let's not forget when IBKR Chairman Thomas Peterffy said the GameStop rally in Jan 2021 almost crashed the entire market and complained that the SEC didn't take action against GME: https://preview.redd.it/3rc9qbyolcvb1.png?width=1322&format=png&auto=webp&s=04078f482735313a108c1ad6ba02f0509346b22d It's highly likely that SHFs have been and continue to remind the government the 'danger' that GME poses to the market, when in reality it was their actions hyper-synthetic-shorting GME that put the market at risk of collapse. Regardless, GME (and "meme stocks" in general) do pose a risk to the stability of the greater financial market, which is why the government is being very careful here. The Federal Reserve's Financial Stability Report in November 2021 illustrates this succinctly. The report talks about the risk "meme stocks" pose on the financial stability of the market, going over how the GME run up in January 2021 was, luckily for them, limited, and "did not leave a lasting imprint on broader markets," but they do address the possibility that GME could become more volatile in the future, and that financial institutions should be more resilient with their risk-management systems to protect the financial system: pg. 21 of the Fed Financial Stability Report Again, the government's priority is to protect the financial stability of the market. Protecting the collapse of the financial market, while shutting down illicit manipulation of GME (which would initiate MOASS [i.e. crash the market]), are both mutually exclusive. That's why you don't see the government taking heavy action to protect retail invests (yet), despite the publicly obvious fraud and manipulation on GME, but you see SEC ads like these instead designed to discourage retail from purchasing GME (or other "meme stocks" which have the potential to collapse the market if they were to short squeeze). https://i.redd.it/057q92brkdvb1.gif Their obligation is to protect the market, which is understandable. That's why I don't see MOASS happening until the market crashes (or GME were to reach ≥ 90% DRS, but the market will likely crash before then). This is Citadel's bargaining chip. This is why the government lets GME continue to stay under SHF's critical margin levels, as I discussed in SHFs Can & Will Get Margin Called, which isn't actually such a bad thing for new and veteran Apes, especially when it comes to locking the float, as I had previously illustrated. If you look at GME's entire price timeline, you realize how crazy stupid the current price of GME really is. For instance, 1 GME share was worth approx. $10.63 on December 24, 2007, which is actually $15.74 when adjusted for inflation: https://preview.redd.it/80bdpirvlcvb1.png?width=752&format=png&auto=webp&s=13f13b8619dea701d7d6c9508a28d96c793cee02 This means that GME was worth more in 2007 ($15.74) than yesterday's price of $13.16 at market close (October 19). 16 years ago GME had a significantly higher price than the price now. GameStop currently has significantly more cash than it had in 2007. In 2007, there was no Ryan Cohen, there were no millions of Apes, and 30% of all GME shares [50% of the free float] weren't locked and inaccessible to the open market. How can anyone look at the current GME price and think "yup, this is definitely Adam Smith's invisible hand playing out. No manipulation whatsoever..."? Even Yahoo Finance agrees that GameStop is significantly undervalued, based solely on fundamentals. But, of course, GME's price can't stay too high, or SHFs' collateral drop and they might not meet their margin requirements for their prime brokers. The GME ticker price is completely artificial. Citadel & Co. have had GME on this continuous downwards slope since they were able to establish tight algorithmic control over the stock in 2021, and I do think we can deduce when they established this algorithmic control over GME by examining Citadel's tweet history, believe it or not. If you actually noticed with Citadel's tweet timeline, the last time they tweeted before the GME Jan 2021 run up was on January 26, 2021. After that, they stopped tweeting for 8 months, until late September (September 27, 2021), when they went full defensive tweet mode, sending several tweets in the span of a few days denying any allegations which linked them to Robinhood shutting off the buy button, all while comparing Apes to "Twitter mobs", "moon landing deniers", and "conspiracy theorists" for no reason. They didn't start tweeting normally until mid November (November 17, 2021). If you were to superimpose Citadel's tweet timeline to the GME price timeline, it tells us a story. https://preview.redd.it/s3uji4wwlcvb1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ad78e771222019f010648fa4fa4be615710ad15 Citadel stopped tweeting amid and post-Jan run up, because they were unsure if they were even going to survive anymore if they weren't able to control the GME price. If you remember, the period from January, 2021-September, 2021 was the most highly volatile period for the GME price. Citadel's algos were most likely still working on establishing control of the price around that time. There was one more run up that happened in November, but by then Citadel had their algos locked in on the price, able to manipulate it in a downwards trend, compatible with their critical margin levels (at that point Citadel begins tweeting normally again). After November, 2021 GME's price continued on a progressive downwards slope, and you can see they now have a tight grip on the price, regardless of the FOMO. Kenny knew what he'd do to GME's price, he knew its future, which is why he hired a Top Secret Service Agent to protect him in the beginning of December 2021, worried that GME investors might freak out about the price drop and potentially 'go after him'. But nobody really cares. We recognize that his algorithmic control over GME merely bought him years of delaying MOASS, but eventually he'll lose algorithmic control if the price goes too low and the float gets DRS'ed, or when the market crashes. GME won't be properly valued until SHF manipulation against GME stops. The government is not incentivized to stop it, because in doing so GME will MOASS, which will beget a market crash. Citadel uses this information as leverage, being able to continue being allowed to naked short GME, as doing so "protects the market". It's moreso about politics and ensuring financial market stability than "providing liquidity to the market". The good news is that once the market crashes, Citadel loses their bargaining chip. The government will no longer have any incentive to allow the continued naked shorting of GME to "protect the market from destabilization" if the market is already destabilized. Now, one could argue "what if the government still wants to continue keeping GME low to protect the market from 'further' collapsing?". And I'd say that there's no point, because when the market crashes, you'll already have major firms defaulting and getting liquidated. The domino effect will already be present, and at least a few of those major firms will have GME shorts tied up, which will need to be liquidated (e.g. UBS—see Burning Cash Part II). If there is a bailout (and that's a big if considering the government is very hesitant of any sort of bailout since the backlash in 2008), the bailout wouldn't be for SHFs to keep holding those GME shorts so that they can keep kicking the can. It would be for them to be able to close those short positions without going bankrupt. That way all the toxic overleveraged shorts are gone, and this shit will be less likely to happen again. The government definitely don't want this shit to happen again, that's why regulatory agencies were approving new rules primarily in 2021 after the Jan GME rally, such as NSCC-002/801, which switched a monthly requirement of supplemental liquidity deposits to a daily requirement for short positions, making it highly risky and much more challenging for any hedge fund to ever want to go crazy naked shorting a company post-MOASS/market crash. Until the market crashes, however, the government will try to keep things under wraps, and that means keeping the GME price at bay. This delay allows them to preserve the financial integrity of the market for the time being. But make no mistake, the bubble is only getting larger and larger until it there's no other alternative but for the market to crash. Before I move onto §2, there is another critical edge that SHFs have on their side, one much more obvious, that I feel should be taken into account and properly discussed, which is their ability to allocate their massive resources into lobbyists, and, essentially, buying out politicians. For anyone that disagrees that these high-level politicians can't be bought, I should point out that the elite buying out politicians is part of American history. Take, for instance, the U.S election of 1896. This election was amid the industrial revolution, when elite businessmen like John D. Rockefeller (who owned a monopoly on the oil industry), J.P Morgan (banking mogul who also owned a monopoly on electricity via General Electric), and Andrew Carnegie (who owned a monopoly on the steel industry), were thriving while most workers under their plants were getting paid miniscule amounts and dying under their harsh working conditions. Williams Jennings Bryan, a southern Democrat, ran for the Presidential election in 1896, promising to dismantle the monopolies. This made the elites nervous, which prompted them to fund their own presidential candidate, Republican William McKinley. Their money and influence outweighed Bryan's, and he ended up losing the election. It wasn't until Theodore Roosevelt became President many years later when the monopolies began getting dismantled. The History Channel's series "The Men Who Built America" do a good job of illustrating the election of 1896: https://reddit.com/link/17cc2yd/video/ycfly42q5dvb1/player Any politician has the potential of getting bought out—representatives, senators, heads of regulatory agencies, even the President of the United States. Ken Griffin, Jeff Yass, Steven Cohen, etc., they are some of the wealthiest people in America; they have a lot of influence in the political world, and they most likely have a fair amount of politicians in their pockets. For example, SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce, who voted "no" for market transparency, used to work for a firm that has worked as legal counsel for Citadel in the past (WilmerHale). Although I obviously can't confirm 100% that she's bought out, I can make a reasonable inference that she is, based on her links to Citadel, the fact that lobbyism is still thriving in the political sphere, and because it's illogical to vote against market transparency for no reason. As for SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, I actually don't mind him. Prior to being appointed to SEC Chair in 2021, he was teaching at MIT. In uni I've been taught by professors that have served as significant or high-ranking politicians in the U.S and abroad, and what I've noticed personally is, just like with regular professors, they can form strong connections with students; they empathize and care about the futures of the next generations. Unlike Hester Pierce, Gary voted "yes" for market transparency. He admitted that 90-95% of retail trades get sent to Dark Pool. Gary's SEC Report in 2021 on GME stated that there was no GME short or gamma squeeze in Jan 2021 [see pg. 29 of the SEC Report for reference], which is what many of us knew, and why we're waiting for the real squeeze. Gary talked directly to SuperStonk. He's even tweeted about DRS, and he recently brought forth a new SEC Rule designed to add more transparency to short sale-related data, although their rule (Rule 10c-1) only applies to securities lending (not synthetic shorts), and only certain terms of the securities lending transaction will have to be made public (not to mention the reports will be anonymous); regardless, it's a good step forward to market transparency. Gensler also specifically mentioned the SEC GameStop Report in his press release. That's why I get standoffish seeing calls to remove Gensler, whether on SuperStonk or elsewhere, because that's what hedge funds want. There's even some Congressmen that have been trying to get Gensler removed from the SEC. And if you look into the Congressmen going after Gensler, such as representative Warren Davidson, you'll notice that their funding is tied to Citadel and friends. If Gensler hated Apes and was working for SHFs, there were many options he could've taken to go after us. He could've tried to shut down this sub, saying that Apes are engaged in market manipulation, but instead he defended retail investor activity on online forums, deeming it free speech. His support was further shown by reaching out to SuperStonk. I think that Gensler just can't do as much for retail as he'd like to, because, while he's head of the SEC, he's probably surrounded by colleagues and other agencies infested with lobbyists and possibly working against him. So, while politicians can get bought out, I think Gensler isn't against us, and if WallStreet does end up getting him removed in the future, the alternative SEC Chair to Gensler would probably not be good for Apes. That being said, going back to my point that SHFs can buy out politicians, I want to point out that it can only go so far. Sure, Citadel can pay some regulatory agencies to turn a blind eye for the time being, or SHFs can use their vast resources to convince regulators/legislatures that they're trying to stave off a market crash by shorting GME, but once the market crashes, that's it. The GME shorts have to close, so even if Citadel and friends were able to, with all their money and influence, convince the U.S government to bail them out, that bail out would only be for them to close their positions and still keep their heads. It wouldn't be free money to keep shorting GME down and keep holding onto toxic swaps and synthetic short positions. And that's in the small probability of the U.S bailing out these SHFs when the market crashes. Moreover, the DOJ has been honing in on SHF activity since 2021, as I pointed out in Part I of my Burning Cash DD (Attorney General Merrick B. Garland specifically called out market manipulation as a DOJ priority). Although most of the arrests and federal indictments will likely take place once the market crashes, the federal probes will no doubt make SHFs more paranoid and keep them more risk averse from trying out anything too openly fraudulent that'd catch unwanted federal attention. The DOJ did recently announce a "Corporate and Securities Fraud Task Force" designed on combatting fraudulent activity from WallStreet. This is on top of the DOJ probe that was previously launched. Here's an excerpt from the DOJ press release on Oct. 4th: https://preview.redd.it/x2yxqzlylcvb1.png?width=1047&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2588cf2492731173000888cb823e61e1295919d Don't expect to hear much from their investigations until the indictments start coming in, like with Archegos' Bill Hwang. However, multiple federal prosecutors are working jointly on this probe. Market manipulation and securities-related fraud is a threat to national security, and although it's a challenging situation to prosecute now, considering everything we've went over, the DOJ is definitely preparing to make prosecutions once the market crashes and the bargaining chip dissipates. §2: The Inevitable Market Crash Considering how everything is revolving around the market crashing, it's imperative to evaluate how close we are in terms of the financial market's proximity to a market crash. There's a variety of ways we can look into why the market is bound to crash. Firstly, we can look at the perpetuity growth formula to get a better idea of why, mathematically, the market is currently overvalued. Here's the simplified version of the perpetuity growth formula: https://preview.redd.it/utmoy701mcvb1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=25225f3cc4473986b380a007ddde7cdb3bf56723 Essentially, the value of a company (P₀) is equal to how much cash flow they generate (C₁), how risky they are (R), and how much they're expected to grow in the future (G). "R" is really just the discount rate (or "required rate of return"), which goes up when the cost of capital required goes up. But we can just look at "R" as "risk" for simplistic purposes. In the past 1 and a half years, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates 11 times. Rates have been the highest since early 2001. And yet, the market remains resilient. The S&P 500 is up approx. 17% in the past year. This alone violates economic principles. Interest rates have gone up, meaning that the opportunity cost for investors go up when they choose to invest in a company. Furthermore, lending rates for companies are going up, so their capital required to manage their business/projects goes up, and as such investor's required rate of return has to go up as well. In other words, "R" (risk) has gone up. If "R" goes up in the perpetuity growth formula (and all other independent variables have remained consistent), P₀ has to be smaller; hence, the valuation of companies must decline. But we are not seeing this. In fact, we have continued to see the exact opposite. It's clear to me, as well as most economists for that matter, that there's a big disconnect in the market. Whatever's going on that's making the market violate economic principles and continue to inflate like this, it's not natural. It's most likely artificial pumping, whether from the PPT (government intervention), big firms, or both. Although the market might not be reacting to the substantial increase in interest rates (yet), the NAR (National Association of Realtors) has already recently voiced their concern to Fed Chairman Powell: https://preview.redd.it/23msn242mcvb1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=5966981f1349e9dd4ff02456d777767db0df39c1 The NAR's concerns are accurate. 30-year fixed mortgage rates alone have risen exponentially in the past few years, opening the doors to a potential housing crisis: https://preview.redd.it/gok91xe3mcvb1.png?width=613&format=png&auto=webp&s=024a36539fd254ced4fd6e56b390a0bc61252390 The NAR sees how devastating the Fed's current monetary policy is to the housing market, as well as the potential crisis looming from these rate hikes. But this isn't merely limited to the housing market. The Fed's rate hikes have been adversely affecting banks as well as households. If you look at the Federal Reserve's Economic Data on the Delinquency rate on Credit Card Loans for most banks, there have normally been spikes in delinquency during a recession or period of economic turmoil (e.g. 2001, 2008, 2020). Delinquency rates have spiked once again, signaling another potential adverse financial event in the horizon. https://preview.redd.it/rpeqg9f4mcvb1.png?width=1138&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d3529168cfad6cfce47b7874bc17bb6ee52aeac Goldman Sachs further corroborates these reports, stating that "Credit card companies are racking up losses at the fastest pace in almost 30 years, outside of the Great Financial Crisis". But Goldman Sachs really isn't in a position to be talking, since they're one of the big banks putting the financial market at risk of collapse, as they're overleveraged by a factor of 110:1, which brings me to my next point— analyzing bank derivatives to assess our proximity to a market crash: We can further analyze our trajectory to a market crash by taking a look at the the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) "Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivative Activities", this being for Q2 2023, on page 17 you can find the derivatives of the top 25 commercial banks, savings associations, and trust companies as of June 30th, and the top ones (JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi Bank, & Bank of America) are heavily overleveraged. I added the leverage ratio to the right of "total derivatives" column: pg. 17 of OCC Report JP Morgan is leveraged at a ratio of 17:1, Goldman Sachs at 110:1, and Citibank 32:1. The top 4 banks hold about 85% of the total derivatives (and swaps as well, in particular) compared to the other 21 banks listed in the report. If even one of those top banks collapses, it's game over. The domino effect will be catastrophic for the rest of the market: https://preview.redd.it/cxw5dtl8mcvb1.png?width=882&format=png&auto=webp&s=c98f49989c0245196c419244b5feae27ea7864fa Another critical sign that signals we're heading towards a market crash is the T10Y3M Chart (10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 3-Month Treasury Constant Maturity). To understand what the chart entails, it's important to recognize investor preference. Investors will prefer the 10-Year T-bonds if the future of the U.S looks stable and they don't think their T-bonds will lose value in the future. Investors, however, will prefer the 3-Month T-bills if they feel the future of the U.S economy is uncertain and they think there's a significant risk that the Fed will continue to hike rates (T-bonds lose value when the Fed hikes rates). As the Fed continues to hike the rates, investors will feel more concerned having their money locked up in T-bonds, or having to trade them for a lower valuation, and investors will gradually prefer the 3-Month T-bills which have a lower risk, short-term commitment, where they're in a better position to pull their money out before anything more drastic happens to the market. The T10Y3M Chart is the 10-Year T-Bond minus the 3-Month T-Bill. If the chart is positive, that means investors generally prefer the T-Bonds, which signifies trust in a stable U.S economy. If the chart is negative, that means investors generally prefer the T-Bills, which signifies that investors view the U.S economy's future as uncertain (potentially unstable). This is the T10Y3M Chart today: https://preview.redd.it/gipjkfo9mcvb1.png?width=3703&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a950c8cf1c3e6bcb57cc31689745897b082d81d We have an inverted yield curve (T-bonds [long-term debt instruments] have a lower yield than T-bills [short-term debt instruments]). Every single period we've have an inverted yield curve was amid or in the cusp of some recession or bubble burst. And now here we have it once again. The 4 week moving average for bankruptcy filings is also spiking, as it does in periods of distress in the financial market, with the 12 week moving average tagging along: https://preview.redd.it/3mpgnttamcvb1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=33dc6b474a41b86a068cdc45190532b66f6770bd Despite all this data, the concern from the NAR, etc., the Fed is planning to potentially continue increasing the interest rates, citing that inflation is still a threat (to be fair, their massive quantitative easing in 2020 did threaten the stability of the dollar, which of course was going to have adverse effects in the long-run). So where does this leave us? Well, according to Billionaire Investor Jeremey Grantham, who correctly predicted the dot-com crash in 2000 as well as the financial crisis in 2008, the situation is dire, and the market has a 70% chance of crashing within the next 2 years [this was stated in his interview with WealthTrack]. He stated that his probability of a market crash was even higher, but only decreased with the emergence of artificial intelligence, which may slightly delay the crash, due to new speculative investments that could possibly keep this bubble going a bit longer. 70% is still a strong probability of a market crash within the next 2 years, as he pointed out, and the advent AI in the market won't be enough to prevent the coming crash. How hard will the market crash? Well, Grantham stated on an interview with Merryn Talks Money that the market will crash between 30-50%, possibly over 50% (the S&P 500 will likely hit 3,000, but can go down to 2,000, depending on the circumstances): https://reddit.com/link/17cc2yd/video/jsw624lzncvb1/player Even Citadel's Ken Griffin is "anxious" about the potential market crash, and is hoping for a soft landing, as he states in an interview on CNBC: https://reddit.com/link/17cc2yd/video/l94bf26focvb1/player I'm sure he'd like a soft landing. With a soft landing, you can avoid big players in the market from collapsing, but that's not going to happen here. This bubble should've been deflating by now, but it hasn't. The stronger the disconnect in the market grows, the worse it's going to be when it all comes crashing down. Now, in terms of signals that will tell us we're in a market crash, I'd argue that the market crash has begun when a big firm or bank goes bankrupt (and doesn't get absorbed), but there are other indicators that can allude that we're in a market crash, such as the VIX reaching and maintaining a at least 40. With every adverse financial event in the market, the VIX will normally maintain 40+. https://preview.redd.it/bsoydozbmcvb1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae4c141fc0c48d2e6df3b823911f551536dab2b9 I do believe that past 40, these hedge fund trading algorithms are programmed to begin significantly auto-liquidating, due to the market being deemed as "high risk". Now, I'm sure someone could argue that investment firms could simply recalibrate their algorithms to not auto-liquidate past 40, but that wouldn't change the fact that the market is still high-risk if the VIX is 40, and many of these firms are going to get risk averse, wanting to be the first ones out. The liquidations past 40 will be a snowball effect that even the government would have trouble slowing down, which is why we haven't seen a VIX past 40 in a long time. For reference, the VIX reached a high of 37.51 on January 29, 2021 (the day after the buy button for GME was shut off). The last time the VIX passed 40 was in 2020, during the time of the coronavirus crash. Now, how will GME play out during the market crash? I believe that GME will crash while the market is crashing, and I'll explain why. You can take a look at GME and the S&P 500 back-to-back whatever trading day you'd like. Generally, if the S&P 500 rises 1% on any given day, GME will normally after go up a few percentage points as well (or will at least remain green). If the S&P 500 drops 1% on any given day, GME will normally drop a few percentage points as well. As long as shorts haven't closed, GME is still, in many respects, linked to major stock indexes. GME joined the Russell 1000 in 2021. The stock gets traded in bundles with other ETFs, so it very much is linked to the future of other stocks, and so if the market crashes, and investment firms liquidate these index funds/ETFs, GME, which can be packaged in these funds, will go down as well. Below is a chart to illustrate my theory on GME's price behavior during the market crash. https://preview.redd.it/xuxr135dmcvb1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=86b91abb1a50c60393cfa7526d23dc2bf9b7c53f So, yes, GME will crash amid a market crash. I already know that when the market crashes, and GME crashes as well, this sub will be at peak FUD levels, shills posting "see? GME crashed! There is no short squeeze", or "I give up, the SHFs have won". No, GME won't MOASS until short positions start closing. In the firsts months in the market crash, GME will tank, but as these SHFs begin getting liquidated and the regulatory agencies determine how to proceed and begin the process of closing of these toxic shorts, GME will have its short squeeze. It will be so massive, the government may end up trying to settle it when GME reaches 7 figures (not trying to spread FUD, but, yes it will be that massive). This is a spring that's been coiling up for years, and never got unwinded, even in 2021. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additional Citations: “Federal Reserve Board - Home.” Financial Stability Report, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Nov. 2021, www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/financial-stability-report-20211108.pdf “Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities.” OCC.Gov, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 14 Sep. 2023, www.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities/index-quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities.html Sec.gov. 2021. Staff Report on Equity and Options Market Structure Conditions in Early 2021, 14 Oct. 2021, https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf submitted by /u/-einfachman- to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

Good Morning Apes! I see options FUD is running rampant again. Misinformation surrounding them is being pushed to the absolute limits and I just want to say, I saw it coming. I presented a macro view of the GME thesis, and there will be deviations on a day-to-day basis. This cycle is a months long event and we are only 2 days into it. I knew people would get burned and look for someone to blame. Whether it be me u/criand, or u/Leenixus, nobody said yolo into weeklies. Greed is a powerful motivator. Some people took profits on weeklies and made solid gains that they can use to grow their GME position, some people bought far dated contracts. The difference between them and the people shouting "FUD" is they made money. I just want to remind people of what I said Friday before market open. From MOASS the Trilogy: Book 2 (Yes, I have proofs this edit was made last Friday) Options are not evil, they are not bad and they are not FUD. They present retails greatest tool against SHFs, if used wisely and responsibly. An option is a legally binding and enforceable contract for 100 shares. I tried to present a long term, low risk way for retail to create their own margin call. Not a way to yolo into weeklies. For those of you that didn't listen, lost money, held too long, and are down 80% on options you bought chasing the price action. T+2 isn't over yet there is still some hope, but don't count on it. Make sure to check out MOASS the Trilogy Video on my current theory... talk with Houston Wade here explaining my current theory For more information on my futures theory please check out the clips on my YouTube channel. Join us in the Daily Livestream https://www.youtube.com/c/PickleFinancial Or listen along with our live audio feed on Discord (save these links in case reddit goes down) Historical Resistance/Support: 116.5, 125.5, 132.5, 141, 145, 147.5, 150, 152.5, 157 (ATM offering), 158.5, 162.5, 163, 165.5, 172.5, 174, 176.5, 180, 182.5, 184, 187.5, 190, 192.5, 195, 196.5, 197.5, 200, 209, 211.5, 214.5, 218, 225.20 (ATM offering) 227.5, 232.5, 235, 242.5, 250, 255, 262.5, 275, 280, 285, 300, 302.50, 310, 317.50, 325, 332.5, 340, 350, 400, 483, moon base... After Hours It's possible that the delayed settlement times this week are effecting the covering of gamma exposure but with the arbitrage on GME continuing to diverge I have to ask myself if there any shares for them to cover with in the first place. Liquidity is bone dry. A viewer called up CME and they said no delayed settlements are pushed to Monday, which means if this was effected by a settlement delay that should be obvious on Friday. Happy turkey day, as always thanks for following along. - Gherkinit https://preview.redd.it/oi3ty0f7zl181.png?width=690&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c3e2d9f2780d5f2510b1e4f2d225b9ed00b7f6e Edit 4 2:57 Going up on red candles now? Liquidity gone? ... https://preview.redd.it/rhhapektml181.png?width=1599&format=png&auto=webp&s=535c48012a80834e97761adf6f5113d428a14b6e Edit 3 2:36 Found a floor around 210 seems to be holding support here, still no volume but CV_WAP continues to diverge. https://preview.redd.it/ankdggm3jl181.png?width=1619&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dd10204820d4b7d5f2a6cd4cb25734471e2c38e Edit 2 12:23 Volume tanked significantly riding down to the resistance at 210. If they packed orders in dark pools we should be approaching the mid-afternoon time where they print. Example: Feb 24 and Aug 24. https://preview.redd.it/t2uxr4ievk181.png?width=1609&format=png&auto=webp&s=be57d3dd9d7fb4c9c07cc8a0b0809929bd18fc0d Edit 1 10:16 Morning double bottom bounce to re-test the 215 resistance. If GEX covering is over we have found a nice support at 215 if it isn't and they have placed orders this morning through dark pools we could see some serious volume come in around 12-2pm. https://preview.redd.it/f1ko6rex8k181.png?width=1578&format=png&auto=webp&s=742c39e5b830b9a41cf9b7c4a4d55d769d183263 Pre-Market Analysis About 20k volume traded so far and .39% up from close. Today will be telling in regards to sufficient volume. there is still a large discrepancy between this run and previous runs in terms of volume traded. Whether retail buying into options last week and the massive spike in OI drove the price increase and they still have to cover, or if they have been covering for the last two days and are done. has yet to be determined. There are some settlement issues with CME due to the holiday as well that could be effecting this as well. https://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/holiday-calendar/files/2021-thanksgiving-advisory.pdf After yesterdays massive drop there was strong divergence in arbitrage between various markets indicating a lack of liquidity. This happened shortly before the VW squeeze, and is why we have watched CV_VWAP all these months. Shares to borrow: IBKR: 30,000 --- 370,000 borrowed this morning Fidelity: updating.... GME pre-market 1m CV_VWAP There is still some spread in arbitrage going into market open this should resolve itself quickly but if it overcorrects we may see even more divergence follow and to a greater degree. CV_VWAP @ 15m Disclaimer \ Although my profession is day trading, I in no way endorse day-trading of GME not only does it present significant risk, it can delay the squeeze. If you are one of the people that use this information to day trade this stock, I hope you sell at resistance then it turns around and gaps up to $500.* 😁 \Options present a great deal of risk to the experienced and inexperienced investors alike, please understand the risk and mechanics of options before considering them as a way to leverage your position.* \My YouTube channel is "monetized" if that is something you are uncomfortable with, I understand, while I wouldn't say I profit greatly from the views, I do suggest you use ad-block when viewing it if you feel so compelled.* My intention is simply benefit this community. For those that find value in and want to reward my work, I thank you. For those that do not I encourage you to enjoy the content. As always this information is intended to be free to everyone. *This is not Financial advice. The ideas and opinions expressed here are for educational and entertainment purposes only. \ No position is worth your life and debt can always be repaid. Please if you need help reach out this community is here for you. Also the NSPL Phone: 800-273-8255 Hours: Available 24 hours. Languages: English, Spanish.* Learn more submitted by /u/gherkinit to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

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https://preview.redd.it/tet1xowj8wk71.jpg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db0726b4dc4d3024200d97eaf68ffd0e4d67c79 SPRTan's, ​ Hear these words. Yesterday, I called out that it was going to be a rough day when everyone else was calling for the moon. I've seen this dog and pony show many times in my years of Volatility trading. I have added over 30k on each dip. So let me break this down for everyone. ​ Shorts have mastered the art of making you doubt a sure thing. Blackjack analogy: you just got dealt two 10's giving you a 20/21. You have a winning hand. Your odds of winning are 92%. Shorts have mastered the art of telling you that your hand is shit and you should walk away from your winning hand. ​ SPRT is a winning hand. You just have to have to understand the game. So you watched as SPRT got dragged down on a hyped up day. Everyone but ME told you it was going to moon yesterday. https://www.reddit.com/r/SPRT/comments/pf5ve3/important_for_sprtans_going_into_today/ So now your confidence is shaken. You were up big or you never were up.....and now you are worried you are going to lose it all.....even when you are sitting on a winning hand. So let me explain how this game works for anyone not as experienced. ​ ​ https://preview.redd.it/bt2i73nk8wk71.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6395c9b50e598afff57aebdcc2d6890a84aa39cf Keys to understanding the Game ​ Shorts have borrowed shares that are not theirs and need to return those shares back to their original owners. They are paying interest on these shares. A lot of interest. The borrow fees are as high as 392% and as low as 90% from what I seen. So, they are paying a shit ton of money to borrow about 6 to 7 million shares at this point. That is at least what is on the surface. Based off how much volume is traded, there are naked shares in this stock and a good amount of them too. The same thing happened with GME when you saw at time 5x daily float being traded. ​ The entire unaccounted for float is only 7.7 million, at least the ones who aren't on the 13F filing. That means there are shares which are most likely that are synthetic. The options chains have also more share spread across the next couple months than are available in the entire float and the FTD (Failure to Deliver numbers are growing. **Shorted shares they borrowed that weren't returned). ​ What all this means is SPRT is now a cluster fuck for shorts and prime brokers have nightmares about. They don't want another GME (GameStop). However, because nobody is ever fucking regulating anything ***COUGH COUGH*** SEC, DTCC, CFTC, FINRA, etc ​ So now we have a situation where there is evidence that people have broken or used loopholes in the current system. You have some long hedge funds like RenTech and Vanguard sitting on their SPRT shares and most likely they are the ones building the gamma ramp. What do I mean by that? ​ If you look at Open Interest on Sept 17th and Oct SPRT calls, you will see OI (Open Interest) from like $1 up to $85 dollars. When a contract is "In the Money" the shares SHOULD be started to be delta hedged so a Market Maker/CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) can remain what is called Delta Neutral. ​ As the stock price climbs they will have to continue buying shares on the LIT exchanges to remain Delta Neutral and it just keeps feeding back into itself rising the stock price. It happens quickly like on Friday. ​ ​ https://preview.redd.it/3821wn3l8wk71.jpg?width=870&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cf5bda5792ab07663fe2064e3354072e1b6fee1 ​ I don't understand, how did they lower the price yesterday when all this stacked against them? Simple, there are completely legal ways of dropping a stock price. Bid slamming- People have a lots of names for this that most retail doesn't understand (Aka short ladder attacks) but basically they use their High Frequency trading machines to slam the bid side making it look like a huge sell off. It doesn't even require that many shares to do this, and was created to exit a position as quickly as possible for a market crash but Shorts use it to drive fear into retail. They buy some stocks long and then unload them this way is the typical MO (Most people don't understand this and think their retail buddies are bailing on them and they will be left bag holders. In truth, it's just a way for shorts to scare novice investors) Shorting - They can borrow shares to sell on the market at the same time as they are bid slamming or on it's own. I noticed yesterday afternoon right before the MACD was about be cross over, they shorted the shit out of the stock to keep it from crossing into the green. They borrow shares and that immediately sells them onto the LIT market exchanges Buying ITM Puts - Another way retail doesn't understand how they can lower the stock price is to make the Market Makers/ CBOE do it for you. So if you have billions of dollars at your disposal, you start throwing that weight around and make someone else do it for you. So there aren't a ton of shares left to borrow. No problem at all. The CBOE always has options they are willing to sell you. So you buy a shit load of ITM Puts that the market maker will immediately hedge for you. That creates selling pressure. Creating a waterfall creates Paper Hands - So pretend you never read this DD or don't understand how this stuff works. You buy 2k worth of SPRT at 45 dollars and now its sitting at 30. You start freaking out. How dumb of you to jump in and now you are going to lose all your money.....you see the stock go from 30 to 24 and you jump out. You were down like over 50% and you said fuck it, I'm out. Dark Pools - Fuck Dark Pools. Yesterday, the Dark Pool amounts were 60% for SPRT. That means they took away 60% of the buying pressure. So if you only saw 40% of buying pressure, and all these other things happening of course the price will drop. Along with people paper handing because they don't understand what is really going on. This just allows shorts to cover cheaper and legally lower the SI (Short Interest). ***There are other ways of lowering Short Interest I'll address later There are more ways but I'm just showing you there are some easy LEGAL of ways to lowering the price. ​ ​ ​ Holy Shit: I had no idea about some of this stuff. Yeah, most retail investors don't. So you are Charlie: You just opened a golden ticket with a HUGE squeeze potential and you are thinking about throwing it in the trash cuz you see some red. Guess what, I've invested more. Today you will see GME, AMC, and BBIG probably run. My guess, is that they will short/bid slam the shit out of SPRT first thing in the morning. They are going to try to push it down into the 25 level of support. ​ ​ ​ https://preview.redd.it/va7a3uvl8wk71.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=172d1543c5c064e2cdf2efc1e0068d5177b7a82b ​ Why aren't whales helping right now? Because they could care less about you losing 2k. They are building a SERIOUS gamma ramp for themselves. They could fucking care less about your peanuts. They are here for the entire goddamn Sundae for themselves. They still have till Sept 17th for these options contracts to expire. As the price goes down and the volume dies down, options get cheaper. It's called IV Crush. So they can build their ramp cheaper. Why would they want to pay more to build their ramp to keep retails confidence when if you sell, it gets cheaper for them. They care about making money. Not babysitting retail investors who are to dumb to understand the actual game being played. ​ ​ ​ DO NOT Day Trade or buy Out of the Money Options at this point- Common shares and holding is the most sure fire way to cause the brokers and market maker to freak out. Options can go in and out of the money but common shares are yours. There appears to be naked shorting on this stock or you wouldn't trade 5x the float in the day. ​ ​ ​ So darks pools took away 60% of retails buying pressure, they shorted, they bought ITM Puts, they got retail to paper hand, and they probably ate the FTD's yesterday. What is next? ​ They still have 6 million shares to return which means they need to buy back 6 million shares over the next couple weeks. **This is not including any potential naked shorts which is something I suspect because the sheer amount of volume that traded in the last couple days. Today starts new margin requirements and the shorts can't use the Reverse Repo market as collateral anymore. So some of the smaller firms that shorted this may get margin called or forced liquidated if retail stick on SPRT and doesn't chase some other shiny penny in front of steam rollers. If you can , buy and HODL. If it dips, buy more and HODL. ​ https://preview.redd.it/4k4xjfum8wk71.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a0950028e3055087b1268159850805d627d11b0 ​ ​ FTD's ​ Ok, so Yesterdays FTDs for T+35 were 896,257 (They probably covered some through paper hands and ate the rest with fines/penalties) Today (9/1) FTD for T+35 is 890,067 9/2 FTD for T+35 is 655,189 9/3 FTD for T+35 is 258,027 9/4 FTD for T+35 is 885,608 ​ ​ Shorted Info - ​ Today Short Interest went over 85% which means they keep adding to it to drop the price. When volume goes lower, they can manipulate the stock through the means I mentioned before. Especially, when they hide 60% of Retails trades in Dark Pools to wash out the buy pressure. ​ ​ https://preview.redd.it/ie5ncwjn8wk71.jpg?width=506&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3bbdf3a089a3d44c0b7a3d4dec22dd021bb0975 My best guess would be they try to tank the price to 25 level of support today to shake the retail tree as hard as they can (If the longs let it drop that low) but sometime this afternoon or maybe even tomorrow, you will see a reversal once the long whales have built their ramp for the next 2 months. At that point, they will start exercising their ITM calls and forcing the Market Makers to deliver real shares to them on LIT exchanges. ​ If you have cheap deep ITM call options you are hugely up on and you want to see the price go up, exercise them and see what happens. If everyone that has deep in the money call options start to exercise them into real shares, the Market Markets are likely fucked because I don't think they are properly Delta Hedging. ​ You want to paper hand today or tomorrow. Cool. Do it and when this squeezes, you will forever remember that huge mistake when you could have made XXX,XXX amount of dollars. But hey, at least you will have a killer party story to tell about how you could have made a shit load of money but you got freaked out at a 15% to 40% drop. See ya on the moon SPRTan's! https://preview.redd.it/y1lsr3xo8wk71.jpg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac10e1b2e79bb483c780423904e8e50557146210 ​ ​ "It is always darkest before the light." Just remember that and you will be feasting on the riches of those who broke the Rules. ​ ​ How to win: You buy common shares and you HODL. If you have to play options, buy DEEP in the Money Calls not OTM calls. If you have deep in the money Calls already, exercise them so they can see if the Market Makers really properly Delta Hedged. ​ ***Not financial advice. Just a old crusty Marine who trades Volatility and have been day trading for years. submitted by /u/anonfthehfs to r/Shortsqueeze [link] [comments]

It was a little surreal. After nearly a year where the only other human face he might see was his own, to see so many all gathered in one place. The 1st Terran Marine Regiment stood in its entirety on the parade grounds of Shil Capital Base Three. Rows upon rows of black clad infantrymen – and women. There are rather a lot of women, he noted curiously from his position atop a makeshift stage. To his surprise, the ranks seemed to be made up of about a seventy-thirty split of men and women - in favor of men. Because, while he wasn’t entirely sure of the numbers, he was pretty certain that pre-Imperial invasion, men outnumbered women in the armed forces by a much wider margin. So, to see such an even split-suggested someone had done some number fudging somewhere. Though, if he was totally honest, part of him was surprised that the Imperium hadn’t gone with an entirely male regiment. Demeaning as it was, he was familiar enough with the culture to realize that an entirely male regiment would have been a hell of a statement for the male-definition Imperial culture. Especially as a parade regiment, he thought. Because I’ve no doubt some Shil’vati military enthusiast might just cream herself at the sight of a regiment composed entirely of men. In this case though, he had to wonder if good old-fashioned prejudice had won out over titillation, resulting in some Shil’vati analyst skewing the recruiting process in favor of ‘real’ soldiers. Or perhaps it was our new colonel, he thought, looking over to where the woman was surveying the troops from her spot at the podium. She did say she wanted a combat regiment rather than a parade one. Would she skew the results in favor of what she thought was the more combat capable sex? He didn’t know, and it didn’t benefit him to dwell on it. To the left of him were the regiment’s senior officers; a scar covered Rakiri major, two Shil’vati captains, and one remarkably timid looking plant woman whose rank markings read as first lieutenant. All women, naturally. Finally, the colonel stepped up to address the troops, striding over to where the microphone stood, causing four thousand men and women to snap to attention as one. "At ease.” Another synchronized snapping of boots rang out. "Ladies and gentleman, in the course of forming this regiment, I have had cause to hear some disturbing hearsay. From my colleagues. From crotchety old nobles. From the average woman on the street.” She scoffed. “Hearsay that humanity is not yet ready for this step. That Earth is still a divided world. Not truly a part of the Imperium. And that forming an entire regiment of soldiers from that world is to invite discord and conflict into our own military.” She paused significantly. “All of which I believe to be true.” Though her previous words had failed to elicit little more than the slightest hardening of expressions in the men and women below, those words caused just a hint of muttering among the ranks. Even as he watched, sergeants began to wade in to correct those few ‘troublemakers’, but they stopped in their tracks as Cleff raised a single solitary hand. “Humanity is discord! It is rage and fury and chaos!” She roared. “Just look at Earth. For seven years the full might of the Imperium has tried to grind down those last few bitter embers of resistance that still fight. And for seven years they have failed. Despite a hundred ships in orbit. Despite millions of boots on the ground. Despite armor that resists anything humanity can muster. Despite it all, that savage hateful surge of human resistance remains.” Jason glanced at his colonel, more than a little bewildered by her rhetoric. A sentiment he knew he wasn’t alone in. “And I think that’s beautiful,” she said finally. “As a commander, what more could I wish for? A people that will never accept defeat. A people who know no respite. A people who will fight in the face of impossible odds, because giving up is unthinkable to them. What luck! What fortune I have, to be able to command that indomitable will!” She grinned in a manner that did little beyond expose her razor sharp teeth. “Follow me, my soldiers. Follow me and I shall unleash you upon a cosmos that has yet no words for the chaos you shall inflict upon it. Show them. Show them all what humanity is. Show them what real war is, and I promise you this, no one shall ever again question humanity’s place in the Imperium.” Men and women alike roared in approval and glee, their competitive spirit, or perhaps even simple tribalism, stoked to new heights by the fiery colonel’s words. Cleff watched it all, that same shark-like grin upon her face, before finally raising a hand to motion for quiet. A quiet that quickly fell. “Our champion, the Hero of Gurathu and an example of the human spirit in action, will now unveil our standard." Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Jason reached over to pull on a piece of rope attached to a nearby pole. In a single motion, the black flag unfurled to reveal an image of Earth surrounded by teeth and claws. “It took me a long time to decide on the words of our regiment. I read many of humanity’s greatest works. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The memoirs of the great Patton - and then Rommel. All great men. All with great ideas." She paused a moment to let the notion sink in, before taking a deep breath and continuing. “In the end though, it was a simple phrase that resonated most with me. That encompassed all I felt that made humanity great.” Glancing at him, she nodded, and Jason tugged the rope again, unfurling the second part of the flag. Revealed beneath the emblem of their new regiment stood the proud words, ‘Tooth and Claw’. At the sight of the words, the troops formed a thunderous noise, one generated by thousands of electrified soldiers cheering and stomping as one. Even the non-humans among the crowd seemed swept up by the fervor. This time, Cleff was content to let the noise taper off by itself. Something that took nearly a full minute. "In a month the regiment shall embark on a journey to the very edge of the Periphery, to an Imperial world that has recently been infested by a band of pirates whose arrogance has far outgrown their good sense. May the goddesses have mercy on their poor deluded souls, for they have no idea the storm that is about to befall them. Mark my words, humans, this is the beginning of your legend. A legend that will span the length and breadth of the cosmos, a lesson on why you do not cross the Imperium. For they may see fit to unleash humanity upon you.” Another roar of approval leapt from the crowd, before they were summarily dismissed. Something that took some time, as moving four thousand troops was not a small number of people, and disciplined as they might have been, moving a large number of people out of a relatively small place took time. A fact that demonstrated just why a large cadre of no-nonsense experienced non-coms were a requirement for any military to function. However, the task was eventually accomplished, and only when the last soldier had departed the area did the colonel finally turn around from her spot on the pulpit, strange black eyes roaming over her fellow senior officers – and Jason. Then the triumphant smile she’d been sporting morphed into a scowl. “Now that that’s over with, we have a problem.” She said, turning and marching off the stage without preamble. “Follow me.” Her fellow officers quickly moved after her, though he couldn’t help but notice that the first lieutenant flinched at the colonel’s tone, her leaves shivering, before following. Not that he really cared about her problems. He had one of his own. Specifically, if that last ‘order’ included him. In the end though, he decided it better err on the side of caution. He figured it was better to be accused of being too eager to follow orders than to accidentally ignore one. As they strode across the base, enlisted troops stopping to salute the woman as she passed, Jason found his thoughts wandering to just how strange a role he found himself playing. The role of Champion held no true command authority. At least, none above that of a Sergeant. Yet within that context, he was still expected to accompany the command unit at all times - and have his own color guard when on deployment. Yet, in all ways that mattered, it was a symbolic role. Which was anathema to what he understood of a modern Earth military, but reinforced that the Shil’vati did things differently. Where everything had its place on Earth, things tended to be more fluid for the Shil’vati. Probably to avoid stifling some petty noble scion who wants to do things ‘her’ way, he thought as they stepped into the massive warehouse that was the regiment’s motor pool. The row of exos he was walking past were proof of that. Most were uniform, but a few stood apart. Whether older or newer, he wasn’t sure, but certainly of a different make and model. Some held heavy slabs of riveted armor across their forms, while others looked almost as sleek as a ballerina. Still, logistical nonsensicality aside, it was an impressive scene. The interior of the building was a bustle of activity, the sound of power tools, and the low thrum of powered fusion engines echoing throughout. To some, he imagined it might have been overwhelming, but to Jason the constant noise was soothing. The exo racks were arrayed in long rows, leaving just enough room between them for engineers – specifically human engineers - to rush back and forth as they ran checks on the large humanoid machines. Above each machine trailed long cables from the ceiling above, slotting into the machine’s various ports or hanging loose like some manner of great fat snake dangling from above. One didn’t need to be an engineer to know that some cables were for diagnostics, some were charging systems normally kept separate from the onboard generators, and some were refueling maneuvering thrusters. Even as he watched, a Shil’vati pilot spoke with her human engineer from the open cockpit hatch of her machine, before bringing up an arm and giving the rotary laser cannon on it a spin. Personal exos, he thought as he looked at the mech’s strange dimensions when compared to its counterparts. He didn’t even want to imagine the logistics complications that those things created. Though it did make him wonder just how long it had been since the Shil’vati had fought a real war against a true peer. One where the, admittedly massive, sinews of the Shil’vati industrial machine were really stretched to meet a war time demand. Here’s hoping I never live to see it, he thought, as his eyes roamed over a gaggle of exo pilots as they arrogantly strutted over to where the repair crews were working. They were nearly all Shil’vati, barring the single Helkam amongst their number. It seemed the exo corps was to be the exception to the mostly human make-up of the unit. I wonder if that’s a permanent arrangement, or if it will be changed as the first human exo pilots graduate? He’d need to ask Raisha if there were even any humans in training at the Aviary? Though surely she would have mentioned it if there were? Distracted by the exos as he was, he nearly bumped into the Shil’vati captain in front of him when she came to a stop, before arresting his momentum at the last minute. It seemed they had reached their destination. Turning around, he came face to bumper with a true behemoth of a machine. At a guess, it had to be at least twelve feet tall – and nearly half again that in width. It had a sloping angular hull - clearly designed to help deflect enemy fire - the large composite plates sporting a mottled grey camo paint job. There was no visible canopy or windshield – as he had come to expect with Shil’vati craft – instead he had no doubt that the exterior was dotted with an innumerable number of cameras and sensors. Rather than tracks, it instead had a system of six wheels, but rather than using a rubber outer coating like most vehicles on Earth – and indeed in the Imperium itself – it instead had a strange honeycomb structure that looked to be formed from some kind of plastic. Though it’s obviously not plastic, he thought, resisting the urge to run his hands over the material. Truth be told though, that wasn’t what was really catching his attention. “Are those… tanks?” the rakiri officer asked, a scowl forming on her features as she unknowingly echoed his own thoughts. Indeed, for just a split second, he had thought he was looking at an oversized APC or IFV. Mechanized infantry fit well with the notion of ‘speed was life’ that Shil’vati combat doctrine subscribed to, and he’d seen news reports of them being deployed on Earth - to devastating effect. Hell, he could see some off to the back of the building, stowed bumper to bumper. The vehicle in front of him, and it’s compatriots to either side clearly weren’t APCs though. As evidenced by the gigantic turret on top, sporting an equally lengthy barrel. No, these were definitely tanks. Actual Shil’vati tanks, he mused. I didn’t think they had any. “Which mothball did they pull these out of?” one of the Shil’vati captains asked – the shorter one, whom he was only just noticing had metal studs running through her tusks – whose name tag he quickly read as, ‘Friska’. “I don’t know,” Cleff said. “They arrived this morning, along with the rest of Fourth Company. All human crews had to train in their use.” "Rather than the Exos we were expecting,” the other Shil’vati sighed. Tall even for a Shil’vati – if a bit slimmer than average – she had a hint of an upperclass accent that pegged her as being from the capital. Of course, he’d already pegged her as noble stock well before she’d spoken. Ignoring anything else about her, the fact that she was wearing an exo-piloting suit had pretty much made that a foregone conclusion. A quick glance at her nametag told him her name was ‘Gremp’. A name that was, to his mind, totally at odds with her faintly aristocratic demeanor – and more than a little comical as a result. “Politics,” the Rakiri hissed. “They’re trying to sink us before we even start.” “What else is new?” Friska shrugged irritably. “Though, credit for pulling a long con. No idea how they managed to justify training an entire company of humans to use outdated hardware.” That was… actually a bit of a relief. Jason had actually been quietly panicking, thinking that this was an attack by Hela’s family on his new regiment – and that somehow he’d be blamed for this, given that Cleff was well aware of the troubles that might accompany his presence in her regiment. Fortunately for him, it was exactly as the ornery captain had said. This scheme would have had to have been put into action months ago, long before his ‘heroics’ at Gurathu. Of course, then Cleff had to go and burst his bubble. “Not as hard or as long as you might think,” Cleff said tiredly. “Most of those crews are ex-tankers. They needed more familiarization with the vehicles than training from scratch.” To his surprise, Friska’s mood seemed to improve a bit at that. “Well, that’s not ideal, but it’s something. At least I’ll be the only one present whose command isn’t entirely composed of baby faces.” Jason had no idea what she meant by that, but judging the irritated expressions the rest of the captains made at Friska’s grin, it was clear the others did. “Can you use them?” Cleff asked finally. “Both Gremp and I know the theory,” Friska said, unconsciously running a finger along the studs in one of her tusks. “But most of what we learned at the Aviary was about destroying tanks, not commanding them…” Jason was a little surprised. He really should have figured it out sooner, but it seemed that Friska was also an exo-pilot – and had been expecting to command the second exo-company. She just wasn’t wearing a suit. And doesn’t act much like a noble, he thought, wondering if the woman was one of those rare few ‘plebians’ like Raisha that had managed to slip into the exo program. The woman in question ran a hand through her short spiky purple hair. “Fuck it. I’ll do some reading. Brush up on armor tactics. I figure, hell, given where we’re going, they might actually be useful.” Given the expression on Gremp’s face, it looked like the other exo-pilot doubted it, but kept her opinion in check. Cleff nodded. “Alright, do what you can. Consult with the humans if need be. We’ll get through this, and once we finish this deployment, I’ll try and trade them out for exos as soon as I can.” She paused. “No idea what I’ll do with the crews, but I’ll snap that branch when I get to it.” First / Previous / Next Another three chapters are also available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bluefishcake We also have a (surprisingly) active Discord where and I and a few other authors like to hang out: https://discord.gg/RctHFucHaq submitted by /u/BlueFishcake to r/HFY [link] [comments]

Hi Everyone, I'll try to keep this brief since most of you already know what this is all about. And of course, I'm not a financial advisor and nothing you are reading here is financial advice. If you do not know what this is all about, your nearest rabbit hole can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/of9pys/google_consumer_survey_followup_1937_million/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 The TL;DR: I used Google Consumer Survey to survey the U.S. population about their GameStop ownership. I used randomized, representative surveying which allows a researcher to extrapolate results to a broad population. In the case of GameStop ownership, this allows us to model some very interesting numbers that are tough to get at otherwise. If you have any questions about methodology, sample size, survey biases ... anything along these lines, I invite you to check out this post with extensive discussion about all of these things: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o2cnd4/using_randomized_representative_surveying_data_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 ​ Also, to be a transparent in the process as possible, you can look at the results for yourself here.NOTE: There are actually some very interesting tools that allow you to slice and dice the data if you want to know things like ownership by age, gender, etc.: https://surveys.google.com/reporting/question?hl=en-US&survey=sv2uhkuhypyl6olmiokx2zzkma&question=1&raw=true&transpose=false&tab=chart&synonyms=true https://surveys.google.com/reporting/question?hl=en-US&survey=gei6t23feekehqpuxr5woosr5a&question=1&raw=true&transpose=false&tab=chart&synonyms=true https://surveys.google.com/reporting/question?hl=en-US&survey=emu6442dcciv66jbwetrmxrea4&question=1&raw=true&transpose=false&tab=chart&synonyms=true So here we go ... The big data set of 1,500 has finished! This gives us a whooping total of 2,200 samples for this research across three surveys. Huge props to the individual who set up and paid for the 1,500 sample size! They wanted to remain anonymous, but they are a massive contributor to our collective search for the truth! Big kudos! Before I start, and since I know this question will come up ... yes, we can combine these three samples so long as we understand they took place during different times (which is important because market dynamics change [sometimes dramatically] over time). Furthermore, these samples were collected randomly and from a massive pool (tens of millions), and since a person can't be served the survey more than once in any instance, we can confidently combine these results knowing there's very little, if any, impact on the overall conclusions we can draw from this data. So here's how things shook out: https://preview.redd.it/p5pu9p9b4ub71.png?width=2684&format=png&auto=webp&s=65ef6e35c93e7170bfc49d49feb91fc4feabcd43 So the first thing you're going to notice is the drop. The prior readout came in at 194MM, and this is down to 164MM, a drop of 15%. For this type of research, that's a big number. But the thing two things to consider are this: 1 -- There is a margin of error in all this ... probably 2-3% based on the current sample size. 2 -- More importantly, there are market dynamics at play here, which is why I included the charts. We must also consider the wider context of this research (in terms of market dynamics), and I think the image below is worth considering. https://preview.redd.it/uwdigsr09ub71.png?width=1692&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a4561374a97d4fb0d8906f0d30c852cd1bf2056 Certainly there are a lot of diamond-handed apes out there, but there are still market dynamics at play. This was a bearish time to survey, and results bore that out as the % of paperhands increased, ownership % fell, and even avg. shares tanked. So I don't think the drop is an indictment of the methodology or the platform. In fact, the drop makes a lot of sense. In other words, imagine if we surveyed again as we come out of this cup that's forming. Of course we'd expect these number to fluctuate up, and it wouldn't be surprising if the increases were tens of millions of shares. I think the other thing to consider is the overall economy. The further U.S. retail investors get away from there last big round of stimulus, the more likely people are putting their resources elsewhere, or even selling to cover shortfalls due to inflation, reduced benefits, etc. Something New For This Final Update In the past, I have struck strictly to the data in hand. If you've read my earlier posts, you'll see I've deliberately designed this research to be ULTRA conservative. In other words, I intentionally took a "Tip of the Iceberg" approach. I completely remove half of all coupled individuals to ensure shares would never be double counted. I capped the response buckets at 101 shares owned, essentially Thanos snapping every share held beyond 101. I took the most extreme approach I could to support the idea that the extrapolated number would be a bare minimum. Well, I'm curious about the total number of shares. I'm done surveying. So now it's time to make same guesstimates and worry less about being conservative, and worry more about trying to come up with a precise figure. **********Before the comments flood in, please note that everything beyond this point is based only in part on hard data, but also involves some best guess on my part. If you're not interested in best guess, just stick to the content above because what's below is speculative.************** So to come up with this Guesstimate at the total number of GameStop shares in existence, we have to first address two critical biases ... the 101+ penalty and the couple household penalty. Okay, so 101+ and coupled households. If I were trying to be more precise, here's what I'd do with these two. First, the 101+ folks: https://preview.redd.it/1znujdd5hub71.png?width=1468&format=png&auto=webp&s=d18bfc3033d941e0837dda6de34c27d15e3f5b67 Yeah, that's right. The average ... double it! Well, almost. This might still be conservative, but it's almost certainly more precise. I mean, think about it ... if I had a room of a 123 random GME holders from all around the U.S., what are the chances of there being being 1 person with oh, I don't know, 4,000 shares? Even this one person showing up half the time would increase this average still a bit further. So there are still some things we just don't know, but we know we don't know them, which is good. So again, I have to cap this (1,000). Conservative? Maybe. Maybe not. It is what it is, and it gives us an average of 64.3 shares to work with. For coupled households ... my instincts tells me there are plenty of households were both individuals in the couple own GME. What percent? I don't know, but 20-30% seems reasonable. I also believe there are couples who might respond as if an individual (i.e. a husband answers no because the shares are in his spouse's 401K, or a wife says yes, but responds indicating only the shares in her brokerage account, even though she in and her spouse own shares together in a separate account). There are a lot of different scenarios here, but the model I've been using take the most conservative approach by lopping the coupled households in half. So instead of that draconian of an approach, let's reduce the penalty down to 80% versus the full 100% penalty. When we do this, and we use the new average share calculation, we get something like this for our Guesstimate-based U.S. adult population extrapolation: https://preview.redd.it/32vvpajojub71.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=dba8959ecf8808f877711fb6380aba1fa4306a97 And then, we can use the above and start adding in everything else, like foreign retail investors, insiders, institutions, etc. https://preview.redd.it/p4pxwgwtjub71.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2b4f1ce035768fc74c64ac43b4152748f9d585f **EDIT (July 19) -- I did just see a Bloomberg terminal readout and it has U.S. ownership at 89%, so the above Non-U.S. Retail number is probably quite a bit larger than it should be. If Bloomberg is accurate, and the above number I'm using for U.S. Retail is accurate, Non-U.S. Retail would probably be closer to 44-45MM, not 84MM. So my revised global total would be closer to 487MM total GME shares worldwide. Still a ton of shares, but to keep myself honest and be as accurate as possible, that Non-U.S. number needs to come down a little. I'm just too lazy to redo the image. [End Edit]*\* So to answer my big, red "Have I missed anything?" question ... there is one bucket totally missing (Family Firms), and also, I have no idea how accurate the Small Institutions number is since they don;t really report anywhere (that I know of). Also, it's always possible for even the big firms to report confidentially. So there that. I'm a little sketchy on the ETF numbers too after watching Charlie's Vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIDaSv47u-Y8uXfbkmEGaxw What about anything else? Shorts? Options obligations? Anyway, 521MM shares of GameStop is my best guess at this moment for universal ownership of $GME. Furthermore, I'm 99.99% certain retail (especially global retail) owns way, way more than what's being reported as the total Outstanding shares of GameStop. It's encouraging that the paper-handing has been so low overall, even during the toughest downturn since March. What do I think this all means? For a long time I've stuck to the data and kept my wider opinions to myself. But I'm ready to share what I think this all means, and it means nothing has changed. It means we're looking at the exact same picture we've been looking at all along. So long as retail continues to buy and hodl (even just hodl at this point, although I'm still buying), this is the scene: Running and escaping are not the same thing. There literally is no escape from this based on the fact the market is a zero sum game. The price of GameStop will continue to rise and fall. But as DFV pointed out, only up. From a TA standpoint, this has been exactly correct. What I see is a stock forming a massive bowl and building a massive amount of energy. A caldera perhaps. In my mind, this whole saga can only end in one of a very few ways: A Slow Burn Think Tesla. GameStop keeps getting stronger. The rollercoaster keeps rolling, ever higher highs and higher lows on the monthly. A year or two from now, we're much higher than we are now, and the shorts still haven't closed. A Fast Burn Think Overstock. GameStop initiates some sort of scenario that necessitate a recall, or perhaps a novel dividend scheme that forces shorts, FTDs, and synthetics to all close. The squeeze is squoze in the way many of us envision it, with dramatic increases and rapid liquidations. New DTCC Rules Do Their Thing Slowly then all at once, the dominoes start to fall. Maybe it starts with a family firm, or a small hedge fund. This might play out over days, weeks, or months ... but basically, this would be a cascade of margin calls and liquidations, getting ever larger until the banks can no longer hide it. Federal Indictments We do know there is an SEC investigation, but what if the FBI is already involved. If there is criminal behavior behind all this, there could be a negotiated deal of some sort, particularly if a large market maker is brought down by charges. I'm not sure what precedent exists for this scenario, but court proceedings, etc. would change things dramatically I assume. At any rate, I know my strategy. It's to add shares using cash as I can afford them. It's to hodl. It's to shop at GameStop if and when I can. It's to share the GameStop story with whomever might be interested to hear about it. And it's to wait, knowing I'm holding shares of a company that I believe to be undervalued, even without the potential for a squeeze. In a nutshell: https://preview.redd.it/fzu4gdoxrub71.png?width=3410&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d168081265f58be343d29f9ef66d57fbf801788 submitted by /u/Get-It-Got to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

​ By Nova ​ General Introduction ​ (Shout out to TomatoeHaven who helped with this DD, HorrorCarob and every other ape that contributed. I love you all.) Hello again my fellow Apes. Guess who's back? No, it’s not Slim Shady even though that would be way better. It’s not Kenny fuckface. Who knows where the fuck that guy is. As a matter of fact, where is he? Hmm… Anyway, it’s neither Slim nor Kenny dipshit but rather your very own retard, Nova, responsible for creating DD’s like, (The AMC Squeeze Will Surpass Older Brother GME - Long DD for every kind of Retard - In Depth Technical Analysis - Not Financial Advice; Financial Observation at best.), (A Mask off Citadel; Great Men Embezzle (AMC; GME)), (American Market Collapses; Greedy Men End (AMC; GME) - Cutting off Ken's Support Line) and my personal favorite, (Master Level God Tier DD - Facts Only + New Strategies for Apes) The real price of GME is currently around 900-1k RIGHT NOW BASED ON OBV Look at those beautiful graphs this beautiful ape put together. The OBV for GME looks like Picasso designed that shit. The OBV during January, specifically when the price was $482 was around 356.22 million. 2 months ago the OBV of GME was roughly 730.11 million. So if you did the most basic of basic rough estimates using these numbers based on percentage proportions, then the real price for GME should’ve been about $1,000 2 months ago. But now what would it be? Now? Go ahead. Do the math. I won’t even do it for you. Ya’ll do the math. My retarded ass can’t do math. The OBV is significantly more than the OBV in January's peak. sIgnIFcanTLy MORE. --------------------------------- Intermission - Enjoy some pictures =P ​ This picture is showcasing the short interest increasing for all meme stocks ​ This picture clearly displays the way they move in a similar manner. If they could hide this, would they? ​ E- Trade ​ ​ Compare this one with the Photo Below ​ If you compared successfully you'll have noticed that AMC has the HIGHEST holdings of shares by at least double in notional value if not 10 fucking times the amount of shares it should contain ------------------------------- Problem A So that brings us to problem A or as I would like to refer to it, the Houdini problem. Now, lying to traders about the value of a stock is already pretty fucking nuts. Lying to the entire fucking world? FUCKING NEXT LEVEL MAGIC! This is straight wizard shit, he who shall not be named type of fuckery. Because the lie isn’t just to us apes. It’s to everyone whose watching this debacle on the news and there are A FUCK TON of people watching this shit. I have family in retirement homes calling me like what’s going on with GME and AMC? My little 12 year old cousins are asking me about this shit. So it’s safe to say at this point, most of the world is watching. That would make this, the greatest fucking illusion of all time. But does that mean it can’t be done? Fuck no. You can lie to the world EASY BRO. Easy. Just look at the Pandemic. Okay let me stop. But the point is, just look into magicians. The shit they have pulled off with audiences and cameras and other magicians looking dead at them, is ridiculous. We can all be fooled and that’s the secret ingredient. We doubt that shit. We’re like, “no way bruh, they can’t lie to all of us and show us some bullshit number on all of our devices? The news? The government? They can’t possibly just make up a number. What about technical analysis? What about the synthetics? What about the other stuff? It’s all a show. So now what? If the Squeeze has possibly already started then how the fuck are we ever going to know? When are we ever going to see the real number? Should’ve seen it last week I think. FTD were overdue overdue I think. So when then? Today? Monday market open? This week? Next week? When will we see the fucking squeeze? And how can we see the fucking squeeze? Can we depend on the integrity of the market? hmmm…………………. uhhh……………………….. yeah………………… No. no. That’s not a thing. So then what? Well, let’s go back to the housing market crash of 2008 as the best indicator of the future is the past. Usually. See what I did there? Because of the OBV? Ah, forget it. So when the shit hit the fan the thing that happened that no one could believe happened was that every fucking criminal involved got bailed the fuck out with little to no consequences. They made deals. They shook hands behind the scenes. They said, I’ll cover your ass because your ass is connected to my ass and I don’t want to go down for your bullshit. I want to live to fuck another day and I want you to owe me because favors are everything when it comes to power. So one option could be this. The criminals all get bailed out yet the fuck again. Given, riots may start and who knows what the fuck else but this is a real possibility. In my humble retarded opinion it would even explain why shit didn’t pop off last week or the week before. Negotiations take time motherfucker! Remember how long it took for us to get our stimulus checks? This is way bigger than that. Way fucking bigger than that. And what would this look like? This would look like a CONTROLLED SQUEEZE. And I’m fucking saying that, not to scare the shit out of any Apes but to let you know what my dumb ass thinks so we can consider all the fucking possibilities and be prepared for whatever go down. I don’t want any apes being blindsided by these pieces of shit. ------------------------------------- Long Ass Recap SO TO BE AS CLEAR as the most beautiful Crystal in the world, they have not covered shit. Not in the exchange market we can all see, not in the dark pool, not in a black bears asshole, nowhere, did they cover any fucking thing. Looks like the recent RobinHood Class Action SI Report just proved /u/broccaaa's data. That the shorts haven't covered, that they hid SI% through Deep ITM CALLs, and SI% is a minimum of 226.42%. DD’s are coming out about this. YouTubers are talking about this. You know what the fuck is up. So, what does this mean for Monday? You got 2 fucking options. That’s it. Just 2. 1 + 1. That’s it. There’s no other options. It’s either, at this point, with the media attention and the apes talking about this shit ALL OVER, that they feign ignorance and call the whole shebang a technical error and we see the real fucking price for the first time this week or...we know these motherfuckers made THE DEAL. The reason being for this is due to all of the regulations that are currently in place and in effect along with the amount of calls that have expired in the money. They owe so much that regardless of any Algo shorting, they should have been margin called or forced to cover. Neither of these happened. The deal would protect them in stalling. At least temporarily. THE DEAL is simple. The squeeze will still happen. But...they are prepared to go up against every fucking retail investor invested in this shit. If they can’t stop the squeeze, they will manage the squeeze so we don’t get to the ceiling we know we should. And how can this happen? By forgiving the FTD’s. Fuck it. They don’t have to cover. They’ll let this shit go. We won’t. If this happens then they’re betting that Apes will take the bit of profit they make and move on but APES AIN’T MOVING THE FUCK ON. Oh hell to the fuck no. Some investors will move on. But those were never real apes to begin with. Those were some nice people who rented out ape outfits to make a little money and go about their lives. But real fucking apes? Diamond handed apes? The elitist of elite. Tried and true, our blood is the shit that’s used to make crayons, these kinds of APES ARE NOT GOING ANY FUCKING WHERE. Letting them cut this deal means letting them get away with it. It gives them an out. A way to save some face and throw us a bone for fighting back for the first time. Kind of like a bribe. They're bribing us. And do you want to know why? Because in their minds every one has a price and you poor fucks will take whatever you can get and move on and fall back in line. I can only speak for myself as an individual retail investor but to that I say go fuck yourself. My price is justice, pay it or I'll come for it myself. I think Apes will feel the same given the bullshit they've done but... That’s just my 2 cents. 1 cent + 1 cent. I’m a dumbass ape but I’m fucking holding and I’m buying more. And I’m suing everybody if they don’t have to cover. I don’t give a fuck anymore. My fucks disappeared in January. Now as always, this is not financial advice and I’m not suggesting anybody go on the streets and start rioting like some psychotic apes. All I’m saying is we need to be paying the most attention we ever have and we need to consider every fucking possibility. Continue to learn and read your DD’s. Don’t get lazy. Don’t just read the TLDR’s. Save the DD and then when you go to the bathroom to take a massive ape shit, whip out your phone and read these things. Make a comment. Call someone out on their bullshit. Provide support if you can. Spread these fucking things like wildfire. You know someone who works at Buzzfeed? Send them this filth. Send them every fucking DD that makes even a lick of fucking sense. So I’ll wrap things up here because my DD’s are usually long as fuck and I know apes will bitch about it. You guys have lives and I love you all so I will now kindly shut the fuck up, and try to enjoy my weekend before whatever crazy shit comes this week. Prepare yourselves for whatever. Don’t set dates. Don’t get caught up in FUD. Don’t fear the system, make the system fear you. Deals can be made and deals can be broken. But as I said many times, I am the most retarded ape you will ever know so, take that for what it is. See you on the moon you sexy motherfuckers. Mic drop on foot. Ow. submitted by /u/TheNovaeterrae to r/amcstock [link] [comments]

In Devstream #152, DE acknowledged the problem of "Guns vs Melee", but they only talked about Damage (which is just a part of the whole issue), and something that I found personally concerning: They listed Melee Attack Speed specifically as a problem, when its not, and in fact is one of the reason some melees are so fun in the first place. In Devstream #155 they reiterated the disbalance issue and said "Melees need a nerf", "Primaries won't get stat increases across the board", "Buffs will come in the form of Mods". Below I'm gonna list some of the components of Warframe (and any Shooter with Melee for that matter), how and why they clash in the current state of Warframe's gameplay and how this is an issue which emerged from the evolution of the game, and not something inherently good/bad about these weapons. But before I wanna clarify I've been playing for over 6 years, I'm MR 30, +5000hs on Steam, so I've pretty much experienced every weapon and gamemode in this game. Dynasty Warframe: Hordes and Cover So in the beginnings, Warframe was a Shooter like any other, couple of shots got you killed, getting in Melee range was a risk and using Cover was THE way of killing enemies and staying alive. A slower, more methodical gameplay. But because the AI has always been pretty much braindead, DE didn't have a way to scale difficulty but to make MORE enemies, with MORE Stats. Fast forward to today and using Cover is a joke, as enemies spawn constantly and from every direction, and for that reason even the act of Aiming puts you in a disadvantage unless you are paying constant attention to the minimap so you don't get flanked. This is what is usually known as "Horde Enemies". And of course, the way players play the game changed to adapt to this playstyle: AoE is king, and survivability depends on using abilities non stop, to either nuke, perma cc or tank, because if you don't you will get overwhelmed and killed. As you might have noticed, this lines up with the most used items, which could be considered "meta": Heavy hitting AoE (Bramma, Nukor, Khora), anything that can Tank and/or Buff Itself (Inaros, Nezha, Rhino) and whatever can Perma CC (Vauban, Nova, Khora). So naturally the game shifted from a "Slow -Clean rooms shooter" to a "Fast -Stay alive hack and slash", meaning the only missions that can be played purely as a shooter are those that don't spawn enemies constantly (Exterminate) or involve long distances between players-enemies (Open Worlds). Sadly there is probably no way to revert the "Dynasty Warframe" enemy Hordes gamestyle the game has now. Enemies killed per Swing/Shot This one is pretty simple: Melee will ALWAYS affect more enemies than (non AOE) guns, which means as long you are using a gun and actually aiming you are losing time, and there are more enemies spawning than being killed, meaning you are getting closer to be overwhelmed and die. And even if the mission doesn't have quick spawns, you are still playing slower by using a gun, and in a looter game, specially with such amount of RNG and mission time adding up to a massive grind, you will ALWAYS want to complete missions as fast as possible. Evolutive Mods: Awful for Build Diversity, Awesome for Gameplay Now this what I think DE should address first, because this is the actual reason Melee dominate the meta, not because they have INHERETLY better stats, but because they have Evolutive Mods (Blood Rush, Condition Overload) which makes them stronger the more you actively use them. And I know what you might be thinking "Just add the corresponding version of each Evolutive mod to Guns" and I ask "What will happen? How will builds look like?" the answer is simple, the same copy+paste build on everything. So no, Evolutive mods shouldn't be added to Guns, but the Evolutive mechanics should be BASELINE in ALL Weapons. This will require some rebalancing across the game, for sure, but making the Weapons get stronger the more you ACTIVELY use them, is fun, rewarding and FAIR. Also the removal of Evolutive Mods would make room to actually diverse builds, because currently if you are not using either Blood Rush or Condition Overload you are doing it wrong. And this has to do with the Melee Attack Speed which [DE]Geoff listed as a problem, it is not that Melees have too much Attack Speed, is that players build for it so the Evolutive Mods scale faster. In Devstream #155 [DE]Geoff acknowledged Evolutive Mods and the willing to add them for Primary and Secondary Weapons, but said they wouldn't buff Guns stats across the board which in my opinion is a mistake, because even with Evolutive Mods Primary and Secondary total damage is much lower than Melees, meaning that Evolutive Mods will take longer, and have a harder cap of "evolution" compared to Melees, because Evolutive Mods scale based on raw stats. Pick Ups and Vacuum, the never ending battle between DE and the Community Guns use ammo, some have VERY small ammo pools, to get ammo you need to pick up loot, to pick up loot you need to get in melee range. Melees don't use ammo, in melee range you pick up loot instantly, so you get HP/Energy Orbs sooner, which adds to your survivability. So: Melees are inherently more convenient to use because of how Pick-Ups work, even if they were equally strong to Guns. Melee and Datamass, an Unbreakable Bond. This is a subtle yet very important matter here. Melees are our default Weapon when carrying a Datamass, or when we are Fishing, Mining or Hunting, or when using the Omni Tool in Railjack, or carrying Coolant Cells, etc. When we are performing these actions, we only have Abilities and Melee to kill the enemies and keep doing what we were doing. A nerf to Melees will subsequentially make all of these activities suck even more than what they already suck now. Now pair this with the leaked Gun Mods, the ones adding % Damage if you DON'T have a Melee equipped, and you will probably understand my deep concern. Difficulty: Mechanical Skill vs Superior Stats All of the consecutive changes that led to "Dynasty Warframe", SPECIALLY the lack of ANY AI update whatsoever, made it so the only way DE can ramp up the difficulty is making more enemies, harder to kill, with layers upon layers of Invulnerability Phases or Ability Nullification. Basically in Warframe you don't need to learn attack patterns and aim to weak-spots, you just need to pass the "Stats Check" meaning that Player's Skill and Weapon Mechanics are secondary to Raw Stats, so naturally the meta changed from "Git Gud" to "Git the Items that Make you Gud". The best example I can give is Steel Path, Kuva Fortress Disruption: The Demolisher Units have BOTH Ability Nullification and Stats Layers (and Invulnerability if you count the shield), so it doesn't matter the frame you have, you need the biggest DPS dispenser in your arsenal and you need to find a way to uber your build to not die because otherwise you are not gonna be alive for long enough to even damage the Demolishers, which cant be stopped as they are not affected by abilities. Below are some comments I got the last time I discussed these ideas on the sub: So the comments are pretty clear about something: Melee Attack Speed mods need to be additive and not multiplicative. This shouldn't be done to "nerf" Melee, but instead because ludicrous attack speed makes Combos (ergo Animations) completely irrelevant. DE should balance this change to Melee Speeds, by giving us more compelling Combos, with some kind of scaling and polishing the ratio Animation Time / Damage. Playtime This is something that came up here and in the forums. Basically the fact Warframe needs to be fast and have relatively easy enemies, because the grindy nature of the game makes its so you will need to run missions repeatedly most of the time. I think this is part of a bigger issue, Playtime is not respected as it should, RNG is either extremely easy or extremely hard, no in-between (I've never seen a single Braton Vandal Stock in over 4 years of almost daily ESO runs). But (and this is important) DE seems to be aware of this, because the "medallion" system Deimos embraced is one of the best ways to reward Playtime: "You get the Loot with luck, or you grind enough Medallions to buy it". Now the connection between Playtime to Melee Attack Speed is a long one, but I think the middle point is Missions Requirements, we need more "Clean this map of enemies" and less "Stand here for 3 minutes" Evolutive Mods (Blood Rush, Condition Overload, Weeping Wounds) were stated as the 1# factor for most of the disparity in "Melee vs Guns" powercreep. Personally I think they should be removed and ALL weapons should be given Evolutive Attributes. This is how I stated it in another comment: "​​​​​​Remove all Evolutive Mods. Every Weapon has different Evolutive Attributes that scale. For some Crit Chance, for others Status Chance, or Multishot, Fire Rate, maybe even stuff like +Elemental Dmg." This opens a LOT of possibilities, and a new Layer of Balance DE can make. Like "Well all players build this weapon for crit but it has good status chance, what if we lower the crit chance but give it +Elemental dmg on hit, so they could run it as an elemental weapon too?" Best way to balance is to give nerfs and buffs equally, and for that you need a variety of interactions. As it is now DE only have: Dmg, crit chance and riven disposition to balance the meta, that's why everytime a good weapon comes out, it overshadows all the ok weapons. The blazing fast gameplay was an emergent phenomenon to a heavy grind game. This is simple, players will always try to run missions as fast as possible, so Kill-Time will always be king. Is not just that Melees kill too fast, is that Guns kill too slow. Dynasty-Warframe Hordes and braindead AI, the reason the game rewards "Stat Checks" and not Attack Patterns learning or Weakspot Aiming. There is probably no going back from this, but better enemy design, and less reliance on massive spawns and layers of dmg reduction for difficulty is the road to take to start improving on this aspect. Is not that Dynasty-Warframe is bad, is that the game wasn't designed as such in the beginnings and the older systems are starting to show their cracks. Ludicrous Attack Speeds on Melees abolish Combos and disregard Animations A lot of people talked how the bind Melee Attack on Mouse Wheel so they don't destroy their keys, and how they would like to actually learn and use combos (if they actually behaved as combos and had scaling properties). Combo Counter time is a BIG issue here. Personally I think the Timer should be removed, combos should have scaling properties (Evolutive Attributes) added to combos, and DE should balance Speed and DMG, slower attacks should be stronger than light attacks. The combo counter should be STILL consumed on Heavy Attack tho, as it is now, Combos and Heavy Attacks are 2 completely separate things. Well, this took WAY too long and my time ran out, so I couldn't include everything or grammar check the whole post. Please comment down below your thoughts on this matter. Tomorrow I'm gonna edit the post with anything I missed and with any valid additions from comments. Hopefully this gets traction, because we need to Discuss this before DE starts working on changes, so we have better chances of being heard. And.... That's pretty much it. Remember to keep the discussion civil, that's how we keep a healthy community and make sure our Feedback is heard. Remember Tenno We All Lift Together Good Luck, Have Fun and Take Care ​​​​​​​ Thank you VERY much for reading Tenno, have a nice day and take care. Peace 🙏😊 submitted by /u/RobleViejo to r/Warframe [link] [comments]

TL;DR: DTCC / OCC / ICC etc. & Wall St want key things in place before GME unwinds, and we're now looking at a list that's been mostly checked off. This rocket is just about cleared for launch. Last updated: 2021-06-23 | Original post from 2021-04-22 Go / No-Go For Launch Opinion - Status: Hold ❌ We're on a scheduled hold. Preliminary system checks are good enough to launch, and now we are being held for atmospheric conditions to be just right. GME ignition needs to appear from the outside to be organic, or it will be fairly obvious to the public that The System is built on lies, and run by liars, completely unfair, and this stock was just being flat out controlled for months. Even if Wall St survives financially by implementing all these rules, if they lose the public trust then it is literally "game stopped." They need plausible cover to launch now, the rest is in place. 1 - Rules of Engagement ✅ 2 - Funding ✅ 3 - Cover Story for Timing ❌ 4 - Avoiding Perception of Responsibility ✅ --- End TL;DR ---     Busy few weeks, eh Apes? Figured I'd give this a brush up and post it again since it was a month ago I posted the original. So here's the refreshed, reviewed, reassessed, reformatted, and return of the Go / No-Go Checklist. Freshness stamp at the top, changes by date at the bottom. Please comment with any additions and corrections as always.     Official notice that this is not financial advice, etc etc. I have no idea if any of this is indeed why these things are happening, or if they are even what I think they are. I bought a handful of shares before DFV's Congressional hearing because something seemed fucky, and that was my first stock purchase EVER. If you make financial decisions off of this speculation, you probably do eat crayons like me. I am literally just some Ape on the internet mashing buttons and you're gonna have to explain to your wife's boyfriend why you took this as advice and then spent your whole allowance already this week. So this post from u/c-digs is about as close as anyone has come to my personal theory that there is a literal checklist somewhere that is getting marked off before this is allowed to unravel. The DTCC and Wall St (and probably the SEC) definitely do not want this spring to unwind before they are ready, and certainly not in a way in which they don't feel they are in control. These players are Big Corporate dicks with Big Corporate mindsets, and its my bet that they don't do anything without a plan that at least addresses all eventualities. However, as it is now probably alarmingly clear to them this isn't just gonna go away on its own (cue Apes waving from the windows of the rocket sitting on the launchpad), the DTCC and pals are now scrambling to get the last things in place before somebody trips over the cord to the shredder at 3am and lands on the launch button. I think the list goes something like this, but am intending this to be a crowdsourced document because there is no way I can keep this all straight on my own, and the GME Investor community has done so so much great DD already. There is definitely more to add in terms of DTCC / OCC / NSCC / SEC rules, and please comment with additional items & sources and I'll try to keep up with editing them into the list. Compiling it here can possibly help determine just how close GME probably is to liftoff. It feels like we aren't that far from it now.     1 - Rules of Engagement Opinon - Status: Go for Launch ✅ The System would benefit most if new rules about payments in a member default situation are in effect prior to launch, and as far as we know at this point, all rules to cover that scenario that were filed are now in place. They can use remaining days to shore up a few more monetary rules, but there aren't any disaster-level rules still pending out there. My opinion is at 100% Go for rules being in place. Let's cover some basics before getting into each specific rule. Whose rules cover what: DTCC stands for Depoisitory Trust and Clearing Corporation which is made up of 3 self-regulating bodies: DTC - The Depository Trust Company NSCC - National Securities Clearing Corporation FICC - Fixed Income Clearing Corporation and handles: Physical Stock Certificates and ownership records, big institutional trades (DTC) Securities trades, clearing, and settlement for nearly all transactions involving US based marketplaces (NSCC) Government Securities and Mortgage-Backed Securities (FICC) OCC - Options Clearing Coroporation handles: Options (shocker, I know) ICC - Intercontinental Exchance (ICE) Clear Credit handles: Credit Default Swaps, or CDS for short. Naming Scheme (yes the whole thing is important) example: SR-DTC-2021-005 SR - Type of document filed, SR = Self Regulation DTC - Name of self regulated entity filing it 2021 - Year regulation was filed 005 - Sequence filed in (5th, so far) ✅ = in effect now ❌ = pending review / revision Rules To Protect The System Stocks/Securities SR-DTC-2021-003: Obligation to Reconcile Activity on a Regular Basis ✅ The "You're gonna report your risk daily now, you little shits" Rule. Filed 2021-03-09 Effective 2021-03-16 src SR-DTC-2021-004: Amend the Recovery & Wind-down Plan ✅ The "We'll liquidate your asse(t)s if you default, then make your pals chip in, before we pay a dime ourselves" Rule. Also stipulates what the DTCC is willing to cover when reconciling, as in only shares on the books, and why you (yes you Ape) should have a cash account and not a margin account. Filed 2021-03-29 Effective Immediately src SR-DTC-2021-005: Modify the DTC Settlement Service Guide and the Form of DTC Pledgee’s Agreement ✅ The "We're tagging the shares you lend out so you can't do it more than once" Rule. While this won't help prevent the current GME squeeze scenario, and would likely ignite the engines on its own, this will prevent a GME-like scenario from happening again in the future. u/Leenixus has posted lots of info around DTC-2021-005 if you'd like to follow the saga. Filed 2021-04-01 archived original Removed for further review src-1 Refiled 2021-06-15 src-2 Effective Immediately upon re-filing src-1, src-2 SR-DTC-2021-006: Remove the Security Holder Tracking Service ✅ The "We're dropping the old way of tracking shares, cause it didn't work well, and DTC-2021-005 will do it better" Rule. It was speculated in another post that the old system of tracking needed to be removed so there was no conflict in implementing DTC-2021-005 (I can't find that post here on reddit anymore, src needed!). It's likely that this could pave the way for 005 to be implemented. As if 2021-05-20 I am more inclined to think that it was removed to keep anyone from implementing share tracking prior to 005 being implemented. Filed 2021-04-22 Effective Immediately src

CLICK HERE to go to the April 28 update. ​ Apes, our saga is gettin' juicier than Minute Maid! Who's thirsty? I hope that you enjoy my educational "AMC Timeline." My goal was to compile and clearly explain the chronology of events in recent AMC stock history in order to: provide a permanent point of historical reference for "all things AMC stock"; educate new and veteran apes alike on exactly how we got to this point; paint a picture as to why/when/how shorts and hedge funds are getting increasingly desperate; show that all happenings along the way thus far are squarely in apes' favor, slowly contributing to—and virtually guaranteeing—our moon landing; give existing AMC apes the confidence that they need to buy and hodl more AMC bananas; give potential AMC apes the confidence that they need to become first-time investors in glorious AMC shares . . . and hodl them sumbiches with kung-fu gorilla grip! Learn, enjoy, and spread the word! ​ NOTE: If you think that something is missing from the timeline, please send me a message. I'll gladly add it! ​ -------------------- ​ March 18, 2020: Due to COVID-19, AMC CEO Adam Aron officially announces the temporary (but, ultimately, much-longer-than-expected) closure of all AMC theaters nationwide. The resulting loss of income was so extreme that the company was "a couple of weeks away" from bankruptcy multiple times before the squeeze on January 27, 2021 (per AMC CEO, Adam Aron in his April 14, 2021 interview with Trey's Trades). https://www.amctheatres.com/covid-19-update ​ December 17, 2020: SEC states that Robinhood misled its customers about how it was paid by Wall Street firms to pass along customers' trading data and that the start-up had made money at the expense of its customers. Robinhood agrees to pay a $65 million fine to settle the charges, without admitting or denying guilt. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321 ​ January 26: AMC secures $917M in new capital to avoid bankruptcy through at least the end of 2021, the breaking news of which was the catalyst for the squeeze the following day https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amc-secures-%24917m-lifeline-to-avert-bankruptcy-shares-pop-26-2021-01-26 ​ January 27: 1- The first AMC squeeze took place. The stock price jumped 310% overnight, from $4.96 at the close on January 26 to $20.34 at the open on January 27. (The price briefly reached almost $25 in pre-market on January 27.) ----- Robinhood screwed apes by restricting apes' ability to buy shares of AMC. Only selling was allowed, which directly benefitted hedge funds by tanking the share price. That is arguably the main reason why Vlad was dragged before the House to testify. Robinhood also implemented a 100% margin requirement for equity in AMC and GME. https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/stock-market-news-012721/h_f037344e14a037160cc724607ff72da0 ​ January 28: 1- Robinhood blocks apes from buying shares of AMC, GME, and other stocks https://www.barrons.com/articles/robinhood-blocks-buying-in-gamestop-amc-and-other-stocks-51611844496 ----- Robinhood (followed by other lemming brokers) institutes stricter, 100% margin collateral requirements https://www.barrons.com/articles/robinhood-blocks-buying-in-gamestop-amc-and-other-stocks-51611844496 ​ February 18: Robinhood CEO (Vlad Tenev) testifies about Robinhood's January 27-28 fuckery against AMC and GME apes during a House Financial Services Committee hearing Video: https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000007612057/robinhood-ceo-gamestop-hearing.html Text presentation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/testimony-of-vlad-tenev-ceo-of-robinhood/e75581fb-2849-4fdc-b8cc-0e193c554998/ ​ February 26: In a ridiculously intense, back-and-forth battle between apes and HF turds that literally wasn't decided until the finals seconds of trading, Apes emerged victorious by securing a closing price of $8.01 after rallying from $7.90 within only 4 minutes remaining. Finishing the day above $8.00 was very significant because it forced shorts and hedge fund pantywaists to have to purchase hundreds of thousands of shares via options contracts. The figure of "$8.01" has since become a rallying cry for the AMC ape movement. ​ March 3: Per AMC's proxy statement, ". . . 63,096,124 shares (including 3,732,625 treasury shares) of the total number of shares of Common Stock currently authorized remain available for issuance or may be reserved for issuance prior to any amendment to increase the authorized shares of Common Stock." (Ape Translation: Adam Aron clarified in his April 14, 2021 interview with Trey's Trades that 20 million of those 63 million shares are accounted for. Still, that leaves AMC with 43M already-approved shares available to introduce to the market WITHOUT apes' permission. So, if apes approve the 500M new shares, that will make Aron much more inclined to actually use those 43M already-approved shares that are CURRENTLY the only bullets in his holster. Just because he vowed to not use any of the 500M new shares in 2021 doesn't mean he won't use any of the 43M. In fact, getting the 500M new shares gives Aron much more freedom and ability to dilute with those 43M already-approved shares. That's why my vote is "NO." After we moon, Aron can dilute to his heart's content, and at a much higher price per share, too!) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411579/000104746921000518/a2243000zpre14a.htm ​ March 7: SEC requests public comments (until April 8) on proposed Rule NSCC-2021-801 (i.e., "the straw that will break the hedge funds' backs") https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nscc-2021-801/srnscc2021801.htm ​ March 16: SEC approves Rule DTC-2021-003 https://www.dtcc.com/legal/sec-rule-filings ​ March 26: Credit Suisse, Nomura, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley forced hedge fund Archegos to liquidate $20 billion in assets (most notably, shares/swaps of Discovery Channel and ViacomCBS, which caused the PPS of each stock to plummet) https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/what-is-archegos-and-what-does-it-mean-for-indian-markets-explained-6709061.html ​ March 29: 1- SEC approves FICC-2021-002 https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/FICC/SR-FICC-2021-002-Approval-Notice.pdf ----- SEC approves DTC-2021-004 https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/DTC/SR-DTC-2021-004-Approval-Notice.pdf ----- SEC approves NSCC-2021-004 re: "To address the risks of (a) uncovered losses or liquidity shortfalls resulting from the default of one or more of its Members, and (b) losses arising from non-default events, such as damage to NSCC’s physical assets, a cyber-attack, or custody and investment losses, and the strategy for implementation of such tools." https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/NSCC/SR-NSCC-2021-004-Approval-Notice.pdf ​ March 30: Susquehanna International Group, LLP ("SIG") and Richard J. McDonald formally oppose the OCC's new "Skin-in-the-Game" rule (OCC-2021-0003) https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-occ-2021-003/srocc2021003-8561059-230781.pdf ​ April 1: Heath Tarbert (Ex-Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) joins Citadel Securities as "Chief Legal Officer" only 27 days after leaving the CFTC "[It's] the latest in a long list of hires [away] from US regulators by [Citadel CEO, Ken] Griffin." https://www.ft.com/content/dc1d1ddd-4940-4a58-a2de-0ba434927505 ​ April 4: "Godzilla v. Kong" sets pandemic and pre-pandemic records, disproving shorts' FUD that "people will never go to AMC theaters again" https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/mkarix/applestoapples_godzilla_vs_kong_just_beat_the/ ​ April 5: "B. Riley Financial" upgrades AMC and raises price target from $7 to $13 https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/04/20478244/b-riley-fbr-upgrades-amc-entertainment-to-buy-raises-price-target-to-13 ​ April 6: Trey gets death threats ​ April 7: 1- SEC approves "Skin-in-the-Game" rule (OCC-2021-801) https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/occ/2021/34-91491.pdf ----- Trey's Trades interview with Jordan Belfort (Let's just pretend that it never happened, OK? Link intentionally excluded.) ​ April 8: 1- New SEC filing confirms plaintiffs' assertion that "Apex, along with over 30 other brokerages, trading firms and/or clearing firms, including Morgan Stanley, E*Trade, Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, Barclays, Citadel and DTCC engaged in a coordinated conspiracy in violation of anti-trust laws to prevent retail customers from operating and trading freely in a conspiracy to allow certain of the other defendants, primarily hedge funds, to stop losing money on short sale positions in GameStop, AMC and certain other securities." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001834518/000119312521109685/d121216ds4.htm ----- Matt Kohrs gets banned by Youtube https://twitter.com/matt_kohrs/status/1380144656596541440?lang=en ----- SEC warns SPACs to cut the dirty shit https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/spacs-ipos-liability-risk-under-securities-laws https://news.yahoo.com/sec-wall-street-spacs-aren-192916403.html ----- SEC's Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower, Jane Norberg, to Leave Agency https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-59 ----- Last day to submit your comments to the SEC in support of the approval of Rule NSCC-2021-801! Rule NSCC-2021-801 is the proverbial "nail in the coffin" that reeeeeeeeeeeally has the hedge funders shitting their fancy little britches. A decision will be imminent after April 8. The SEC is currently deliberating whether to approve this SUPER CRITICAL Rule SR-NSCC-2021-801, which would allow the NSCC to assess the risk of members (i.e., hedge funds) on a daily basis and also demand a higher Secondary Liquidity Deposit (SLD) on a daily basis if a member risks defaulting. If approved, this rule will force hedge funds and market makers to pay more if they are "playing too risky." It will also allow the DTCC to liquidate a member’s positions if those positions jeopardize the NSCC’s ability to complete that day’s trades. Furthermore, the arguably most important aspect of Rule NSCC-2021-801 is that hedge funds would no longer be able to take advantage of an inexplicable lack of scrutiny to hide naked shorting, FTD shares, dark pool trades, ladder attacks, trading amongst themselves to artificially lower the price per share, etc. They will no longer have 30 days to "get their affairs in order," either. Transparency could be our newest and greatest weapon! ​ April 9: Melvin Capital hedge fund announces amusingly catastrophic losses of 49% and billions of dollars in the first quarter of 2021 https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/gamestop-investor-melvin-capital-lost-49-on-its-investments-in-first-quarter-source ​ April 10: Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) begins its "convenient," unsustainable pump in what many argue is a calculated effort by hedge funds to fool apes into dumping AMC shares https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/DOGE-USD ​ April 12: 1- "Better Markets" files an amicus brief (lawsuit) against Citadel to prevent Citadel from succeeding in stopping the SEC's plan to implement a new type of order ("Delimit Order") developed by IEX. This new "delimit order" would essentially prevent Citadel and other hedge funds from engaging in high-frequency trading and stock price manipulation via the use of sophisticated equipment and non-public information that give them a huge, unfair advantage over retail investors in the marketplace. https://bettermarkets.com/resources/better-markets-amicus-brief-citadel-v-sec ----- April 12: Steve Cohen (manager of Point72 Asset Management hedge fund) sells penthouse for a massive 74% price cut https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9466905/Mets-owner-Steve-Cohens-Manhattan-penthouse-sells-29-5million-74-price-cut.html ​ ​ April 13: 1- Arclight and Pacific Theatres permanently closing in California, boosting AMC's future business and value ----- "Roensch Capital" predicts the squeeze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgjAldrX1aE ----- Hedge funds start to "spoof" shares: https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/mq6612/you_mfers_they_started_with_spoofing_now/ ​ April 14: 1- Gary Gensler, notorious supporter of "the little guy," confirmed 53-45 by Senate to lead the SEC as Wall Street’s top regulator; plans to investigate SPACs and market manipulation by hedge funds (particularly in relation to Gamestop and AMC) "The GameStop saga has led congressional Democrats to ask the SEC to reexamine the practice of payment for order flow, whereby stock brokers are paid to direct customer orders to market makers, as well as features in trading apps that critics say exemplify the use of so-called gamification techniques to encourage harmful overuse of those apps by retail investors. . . . The blowup of Archegos, meanwhile, could encourage Gensler to propose new rules for institutional investors that require the disclosure of short positions in stocks as well as derivative positions that mimic stock ownership." https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-confirms-gary-gensler-as-sec-chairman-11618417804 ----- Phenomenal 97% buyers and only 3% sellers for the day (at market close)! https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/mqzp71/97_buyers_vs_3_sellers_with_almost_100/ ----- Adam Aron interview with Trey's Trades! Notable Adam Aron quotes from the interview, in sequential order: "I am in this for the long haul [as CEO], 5-10 more years." "I am a fellow shareholder." "Long-term, I am a bull. I own over 3,000,000 shares of AMC stock." "I want to continue growing the company each year moving forward." "Our main goal is to increase shareholder value." "Our company is under attack by short sellers." "I haven't sold a single share in 5 years, and don't plan to. I am a believer in this company." "The last time we authorized 500,000,000 shares, we didn't use any shares [32,000,000] until 3.5 years later! We didn't use shares again [300,000,000] until 3.5 years after that! Each time, AMC's stock price rose 200%-300%." "Flooding the market with 500,000,000 shares woud be crazy and foolish." "If AMC shareholders authorize the 500,000,000 shares, we will pledge in writing that we will not issue a single share in calendar year 2021!" "I'm tired of playing defense. I want to play offense." "We would only use shares to acquire other theater chains to instantly increase value for shareholders. Or to buy back debt at a significant discount to increase value. Or to entice landlords to accept stock NOW (at a discount) instead of waiting on cash over the course of 24-36 months." "If you don't vote at all, your vote will be counted as a "No" by default. "You own AMC. This is YOUR company!" "I will give you one prediction: 50 years from now, analysts will be claiming that XYZ is going to put AMC out of business. Why [will AMC still be here]? Because there is something magical about going to the movie theater! . . . Watching at home just doesn't have the same impact." "Going to the movie theater is a cheap date. The average movie ticket in the U.S. is about $10. Where else can you go to be entertained for 2-3 hours for only $10? You can't!" "In 2019, the movie theater industry sold 7 times as many tickets as the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS combined!" "I think that AMC's best days are still to come." "I say to those people who are betting against us: I don't think it's a good idea to bet against movie theaters. It's certainly not a good idea to bet against AMC. And I'd like to think that it's not a good idea to bet against Adam Aron, either." ​ April 15: J.P. Morgan sells a record $13 billion in bonds to raise cash https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-joins-bank-bond-115538870.html ​ April 16: 1- A massive 57,000 contracts due to expire at $10.00 contract price! https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/mqs0oo/why_has_nobody_mentioned_the_57000_contracts_that/ ----- SEC approves FICC-2021-001 https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/FICC/SR-FICC-2021-001-Approval-Notice.pdf ----- SEC approves DTC-2021-002 https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/DTC/SR-DTC-2021-002-Approval-Notice.pdf ----- SEC approves NSCC-2021-003 https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/NSCC/SR-NSCC-2021-003-Approval-Notice.pdf ----- Goldman Sachs sells $6 billion in bonds to raise cash https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-joins-bank-bond-115538870.html ----- One day after J.P. Morgan sold a record $13 billion in bonds to raise cash, Bank of American breaks the record by borrowing $15 billion through the sale of its own bonds. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-america-tops-charts-with-15-billion-bond-deal-the-biggest-ever-from-a-bank-11618606409 ----- Citigroup is expected to announce its own bond sale soon https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-joins-bank-bond-115538870.html ​ April 17: 1- Gary Gensler sworn in as SEC Chairman, where he will serve as Joe Biden's enforcer, the "top cop on Wall Street." It’s very telling that he was quickly sworn in on a Saturday, which had not happened since 1973 (recession) and 2008 (recession) in order to address fraud. This is a clear indication that Biden and the SEC are preparing to take similar, emergency action against fraudulent actors and market manipulators. ----- Bitcoin dropped 15%, as institutions are likely selling Bitcoin to raise the massive collateral that they now require—starting on April 22—to fully insure their lenders, including apes. (See "April 22" below.) ----- Is somebody in a hurry? LMAO! Lights in Citadel's corporate building suggest that employees worked feverishly at all hours throughout the weekend, including Sunday. Hmmm . . . . Desperate much? The stock market was closed, but guess what was open for trading: Bitcoin. I suppose that it could be a total coincidence that Bitcoin dropped 15% on Saturday, but I doubt it. The more likely scenario is that Citadel and other hedge funds caused Bitcoin to plummet by selling Bitcoin to raise a small portion of the collateral that they will need to at least partially insure the lent/borrowed synthetic shares that they overleveraged, as required on or before April 22. (See "April 22" below.) ​ April 19: Morgan Stanley sells $6 billion in unsecured bonds to raise cash. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-joins-bank-bond-115538870.html ----- Infinity Q liquidates its hedge fund amid ramped-up U.S. regulatory probe into hedge fund valuation practices https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/exclusive-new-yorks-infinity-q-winds-down-hedge-fund-valuation-issues-spread-2021-04-19/ ​ April 20: 1- Date by which the share count—which will expose the number of synthetic shares—must be completed, which is 14 days before the shareholder meeting on May 4. (HUGE NEWS: After the audit finished on Tuesday, April 20, there were suddenly zero (0) shares available to short the entire rest of the week, Wed-Fri! Did the count uncover an insane number of synthetic shares? Seems likely. That would obviously disallow additional share lending, which is what we saw.) ----- DTC-2021-007 proposed ". . . market transparency to accurately determine the number of shares loaned, identify proper share ownership, and calculate the risk associated with share loans (all of which is currently self-reported) to prevent over-leveraging in the future." https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/rule-filings/2021/DTC/SR-DTC-2021-007.pdf ​ April 21: 1- AMC reaches all-time high in short interest at 23.5% (Keep in mind that the short interest was only 11% before AMC's first squeeze on January 27! Plus, there are far more apes now.) ----- AMC reaches all-time record highs of 152,000,000 shares on loan 100% utilization ----- Borrow fee skyrockets to 26.7% https://amc.crazyawesomecompany.com/ ----- Shredding trucks appear outside of Citadel headquarters "Iron Mountain: Secure Destruction Your Can Trust" https://twitter.com/KongPosting/status/1384959402965340163 ----- Charles Schwab raises margin requirement for shorting AMC to 300%! https://www.schwab.com/margin-updates ​ April 22: HUGE! Rule 15c3-3(b)(3) goes into effect. It "requires broker-dealers entering into agreements with their customers (e.g., apes) who lend the broker-dealers fully-paid or excess margin securities to provide the securities lenders (e.g., apes) with collateral that fully secures the loans." (Apish: "You overleveraged bastards must now have the cash or collateral ON-HAND to fully cover every share that you borrow/lend, including unrealized losses! And, if you fuckers need to borrow more each day, you must also sufficiently increase your cash-on-hand and collateral to be able to FULLY COVER each day. Yeah, it's not yet an official law or regulation, but we're going to enforce it on your asses starting April 22.") https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/staff-fully-paid-lending https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/occ/2021/34-91445.pdf ​ April 23: 1- Hedge funds have 3 business days to eliminate (i.e., purchase) ALL synthetic shares that they shorted, or those shares become "FTD" (failed to deliver). The purchase deadline is April 28. ----- Notable movies (average of 2.5 per month) releasing in AMC theaters from April 23, 2021 through April, 2022 (in order of premier date): Demon Slayer Mortal Kombat Cruella A Quiet Place Part II Peter Rabbit 2: the Runaway Black Widow Space Jam 2 Cinderella Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Hotel Transylvania: Transformania Suicide Squad Paw Patrol Candyman Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage Dune Eternals Ghostbusters: Afterlife Top Gun: Maverick Resident Evil West Side Story Spider-Man: No Way Home The Matrix 4 Sherlock Holmes 3 Sing 2 Scream Morbius Uncharted The Batman Doctor Strange 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ----- ETF shares available to short dropped from 3,800,000 to only 10.940! (Read why in April 20 entry above.) ​ submitted by /u/Few_Campaign8623 to r/amcstock [link] [comments]

[first] [prev] [next] The Atrekna rallied, quickly, only a few seconds were they stunned and unable to react. That was enough for the Confederate firepower to kill a fifth of them. The Atrekna had taken massive casualties, half of their force was gone. The War Machines had arrived, but the feral ships were already engaging, forcing the War Machines to slow down, defend themselves, expend resources to keeping the feral ships from destroying them within minutes. The remaining ones rebound into new Quorums and Conclaves, bringing up psychic defenses, bringing up protections, attempting to shift themselves slightly out of phase by a microsecond. All they got was the face of a multitude of Mantid green savant servitor heads, all laughing at them. Something had happened. Time had been damaged. It had run forward and backwards and frozen all at the same time the ripples from the orbital shot had caused time to go crazy for nearly three whole seconds, chopping those seconds up and the pieces running forward and backwards, slower and faster, but still exiting the other side with the same amount of time having passed. The Atrekna couldn't reach forward, couldn't reach back, couldn't reach sideways. With horror, they realized some very basic facts very quickly. The slavespawn they had was all they were going to have. The resources they had in their possession were all they were going to have. The War Machines were all they were going to have. But finally, and worse... They couldn't get away. Which left only two options. Victory. Or Death. And they were determined to achieve victory. ----------------- "Podnaughts have reached 90% deployment," Ensign Shugruth said. "Targeting solutions firm and in red zone. Warboi hash stable, optimum cooking and baking time has been achieved," the Kobold continued. "Temporal lensing has compensated for planetary distortion. Capital weapon systems are at max capacity." Admiral Shtuklar nodded, splitting his attention between three holotanks. One showing the status and positions of his own fleet, the second showing the same for Bogey Alpha, the third showing the entire system with layer annotations. He could see the shockwaves across the temporal zones from the planet, but here the data made perfect sense for him as a planet's mass and speed affected the time/space fabric. "Status of temporal and stellar stabilizers?" Admiral Shtuklar asked. "Deployment at 100%, power at 100%, creation engine heat at 15%, slush at 3%, pod-nanoforge warmed up and ready, templates laid in, we're merely waiting on your word," Commodore Dthetrek hissed. "Hold activation," Admiral Shtuklar said. "Status on getting Ma Bell's Bad Touch's main firing array at full operation?" Ensign Ululu'ululU looked up from her board. "Ship's complement is at 15% of trained officers," she started. "I know. Status, not clarification of reasons," Admiral Shtuklar said. "Main battery one, five, nine, eleven are operational and running on automation for reloading. Main battery two, three, seven are currently offline but loading," the Ensign said. Admiral Shtuklar nodded. "Tell the Master Bosun to crack the whip on the Marines, have those lazy dogs load the guns by hand if they have to!" he snapped, turning his attention to the carriers. "Carrier group status?" "No clone war troops available," Commodore Tranakakrept said, staring at his board. He looked up. "Admiral, I must, for the record, state my objection to allow close engagement light craft engage with no SUDS or clone tank backup despite the fact it is only volunteers." "Objection noted, Commodore," Admiral Shtuklar said. "Launch on my authority, under protest." "Launch order recieved and transmitted," the Commodore stated, looking uncomfortable. "The board of inquiry will have quite enough to feed on after this fight, but we have to win it first," Admiral Shtuklar said. He turned to his hyperlane officer. "Any resonance?" The officer checked his boards and sensor. "Some kicking in Hellspace, looks like the Crusade's engines so I'm keeping an eye on it, but nothing aimed at us yet." "Keep stringspace lanes open," Admiral Shtuklar said. "If the Mercy or the Comfort have to jump out, I want those lanes open." "Aye-aye, sir," the officer said. Admiral Shtuklar kept the status reports flowing in, including the three subspace foam cruisers that were still operational already manuevering for clear shots at the rear arcs of the PAWM machines coming in. He lifted his chin slightly, making sure that his profile was confident and assured. The battle was not yet joined, but unless the PAWM unleashed some kind new tactic, strategy, or weapon system that proved to be highly effective, he knew that his preperations were moving along. He wouldn't say he had it under control. Those officers who thought they could ultimately control a battle completely forgot that the enemy had a say in the outcome of the battle and eventually lost. When they lost, they lost big. Admiral Shtuklar had been reminded, pointedly and recently, that he was capable of making mistakes. He would not repeat the mistakes he had made groundside. ------------------ Trucker snarled, spitting blood and bacca juice over the side of Cry Little Sister, holding down the trigger on the quadbarrel, raking the side of a Dwellerspawn. Something overrode training and experience and he held the trigger down as Cry Little Sister kept roaring forward, ripping open the entire side of the massive pillbug-esque creature, blowing huge divots out of the spongy and fibrous tissues inside despite the fact the Dwellerspawn was been dead in the first ten rounds. He gave a wordless roar of raw triumph as Cry Little Sister surged over a hive full of crabs the size of a manhole cover, the tracks grinding chitin into paste, even the glittering biological armor of the crabs. His crew gave wordless cries back, his driver gurgling where the shipboard MP's had crushed his throat trying to control the Enraged Terran. Trucker gave out another roar, swinging the gun around, hitting a flatworm the size of a semitruck as it reared up. The battlefield was fluid, moving around him, but he still understood it, could still feel it. He knew what he was looking for. The malignant heart that he could feel ahead. Unnoticed, blood ran from his ear and mouth, thick and black. Third Armor (Dead Blood) advanced fully into the mass of Dwellerspawn, uncaring that the horde of creatures closed behind them. Victory in death. If that's what it took? That was fine. ------------------ Vuxten saw the field collapse, heard the howl of rage ring across everything. Holotanks shorted out, psychic dampeners whined and struggled to compensate. He could taste blood and strawberries and lime. He didn't pay it attention, focusing instead on the fact that the interdiction was down. Now he had to kill the Atrekna. You thought that constantly rewinding would only benefit you, Vuxten thought, reaching for the "all units" icon. It gave me nine hours to adapt to your methods, nine hours to figure out how to find you and kill you. You can see the river cards, the flop cards, but you've got no idea what kind of cards I've got in the hole. The icon flashed. "All unit commanders, you have your orders! DISMOUNT THE CUBES!" Vuxten yelled. He grabbed his heavy SMG, moving toward the exit of the ad hoc TOC. (Tactical Operations Command) He cut the link and looked at Corporal Trekmurt. "Throw an aye-em grenade in here on your way out. Blow it all in place." 471 climbed up his back, got into the cradle, and closed the protective housing. --online ontime go for papa palpatine-- the green mantid transmitted. He pushed through the sterifield. "We advance into the enemy." In the distance there were white flashes that cut through the howling dust. The ground rumbled and Vuxten felt a flutter in his guts. He tabbed open the channel as he moved out, joining his men as they left their temporary shelters. He was leaving all non-combat personnel to hold the operations base, with a pair of heavy weapons fire teams to support them. His HUD showed that the strikers were getting airborne, the air mobile power armors were launching off the ground, and the armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery systems were leaving the bunkers they'd been sheltering in. "Sergeant Casey," Vuxten said. His armor's HUD blinked the icon three times then a white X popped up. "Sergeant Casey," he tried again. Another set of flashes lit the howling dirt. The shockwave shifted the wind, rumbled the ground, and one of his graviton generators whined. "Casey here," the Terran's face appeared in a small window. The warsteel flexible cable was still embedded in his eye socket, there was still dried blood under the empty socket, with a thin trickle of bright red blood worming through the blackish brown patch. His face was sweaty and his remaining eye was burning red. "Regroup, meet up with me at this grid coordinate," Vuxten said. "Break contact with the enemy, pull them into Delta Company, 4-1." Casey's jaw firmed up and Vuxten could see the rage and stubborness in the human's face. "There are billions of Welkret on this planet," Vuxten snapped. "We're here to save them, not blow their fucking planet out from under them, Sergeant. This isn't the Ringwars or the Mar-gite War. We're here to save these poor bastards." Casey growled. "I don't have time for any bullshit, Sergeant," Vuxten snapped, unaware of the purple sparks visible dancing in his teeth. He snapped the visual of the podling dissolving in the Marine's hands to Casey and could see the reflections of it playing in the sweat on the Terran's face and the play of light on his face. "We couldn't save them, couldn't save podlings, but we can save the Welkret. Now get in formation and interlock, or Vat Grown Luke so help me, or I'll fucking hang you for desertion myself." Casey took a slow inhaled breath, the muscles alongside his jaw rippling. He blinked once, slow. "There's going to be enough carnage for everyone, Sergeant," Vuxten said, waving his arm to get his men's attention, then pointed at the fast attack grav-skimmers idling nearby. "We're going to drive straight into the Atrekna's teeth and choke them with our fists." "On my way, sir," Casey ground out. The window closed as the link closed. --ballsy brother-- 471 said. --casey worldbreaker scary scary-- "Yeah, well, the Welkret kind of need this world intact, not broken by a rampaging Terran," Vuxten said, tabbing up a piece of stimgun and chewing it. "Drones find anything?" --yes yes yes-- 471 answered. Fuzzy circles appeared on the map in the upper right of his vision. Places where there was chronotron equalization radiation. "Who's handling the city nearby?" Vuxten asked. The icons popped up. The 1192nd Treana'ad Mobile Infantry Horde (Reinforced) was sweeping into the streets. --nahd rush-- 471 said, sending a grinning emoji. -kekekekekek--- "Any signal from command or the Fleet?" Vuxten asked. --no-- 471 said. Vuxten grabbed the edge of the flitter's open troop bay and pulled himself inside. A private was manning the heavy rotary laser cannon pointing toward the back, the two on the sideboards were in computerized point defense mode. "Where's the nearest Dwellerspawn arrival point?" Vuxten asked, watching the icons for the various units start to flash as commanders ensured everyone was loaded up. The data came back right away from the military intelligence unit. There were a few light ones around them, but the largest spawning point had Third Armor and Eighth Infantry right in the middle of it, with warnings to stay away and not to interlock or communicate with the two divisions. The next largest was between two cities, a large area of farmland that the Dwellerspawn were appearing only to rush out. "There. Drive toward that spot. Guns free, but verify your targets, there might be locals making a run for a shelter now that we're not pounding the area with atomics," Vuxten said. He assigned several rifleman companies to the lighter ones. The lifters started moving, cruising forward at a steady pace. Now lets see how many of the Welkret we can save. -------------- The Autonomous War Machines gleamed with newness. Their hulls were unblemished, their stores full, their interior spaces according to design. Their auxiliary machines were exactly alike and their code identical. Within their Strategic Intelligence Housings their thinking arrays were cycles up, with battlecode loaded and subprocessors operating at maximum efficiency. Manufactured by the Atreka, the massive machines had masqueraded as resource gathering until the time had come to strike. These ones had no veneer or camouflage of industrial mining machines. They were war machines, manufactured and designed for the sole purpose of eradicating any rivals to the Atrekna's desires. They moved forward steadily, knowing they were still out of range of nCV cannons or anything else the enemy could hope to bring to bear. They computed their own firepower against the size of the ships they had on their scanners, measured drive power and estimated shield strength. Victory was without a doubt. Their programming dictated that it would only take two to three salvos to completely wipe out the ships heading for them. They ran their targeting solutions, further refining them, noticing that the enemy was making the mistake of allowing their forces to separate into three distinct crescents, with the first being the widest, thickest, and deepest. The rear line was the thinnest, a merely twenty ships, obviously massive enough that their engines couldn't keep up with the lighter vessels that were rapidly pulling ahead. Those in the rear were deploying small parasite vessels that vanished from the AWM's scanners. The AWMs had no worries. Any craft small enough to be deployed from a vessel smaller than their mid-sized ancillary machines would be no threat. They dedicated a bare minimum of subprocessor power to keeping track of those ships when they reappeared and concentrated on the ones that, based on speed and trajectory, they would engage with first. At the current speeds, the AWM's computed it would take at least twenty-three hours before the first wave of the enemy would be within range of nCV weapons, with a distance of three light minutes. They moved forward, sweeping deeper and deeper into the system, running targeting solutions and updating their tactical data. Incapable of feeling emotion, with no prior battle experience in their databanks, and no knowledge of the Confederate Space Force, they computed a 99.99998% chance that the battle would be over and the system would be under their control within 23.17 hours. They reached the optimum number of secondary vessels that would be needed to quickly subdue the primitives and ceased activating any more. They would wait to see how many were damaged or, as slight as the chance was, destroyed before worrying about manufacturing any more. They computed less than a 09% chance that they would have to consume much more than 1.28% of their onboard resources to defeat the primitives. If A Feral Drew a Dick on My Housing had been there, she would have recognized the exchanged tactical data for what it was. Overconfidence. ------------- Captain Hvrekult looked around the bridge, the red light painting his crew in lurid color. The entire bridge was silent as the Slide It In moved through the quantum foam that layered between distinct dimensions. "Above" them the massive ships of the Atrekna Autonomous Fleet slid by, unaware of the slim and lethal vessel silently moving below them. Passive sensors aboard the Slide were pulling in data. The bigger ones, the Harvester and Goliath classes, matched Type-IV across the board. The sensor and analysis techs all noted that all of the engines were identical signature, not enough time on the drives to create distinct energy profiles. That the shield frequencies were the same, shield strength was the same, and there was no 'turbulence' to show that there was damage to the hulls. The entire ship was silent. Everyone moving about in slippers, being careful how they moved. They were under full EMCON, even their datalinks and datapads turned off. The only electronics that were active were ancient, wire tracing and wiring, filament lights. The modern stuff required to drive a Foam Drive were heavily shielded, more shielded than the munitions lockers that held the heavy torpedoes. The DS aboard the ship was curled in a ball, eyes closed, 'floating' in a digital pool of data in the fetal position. The Slide slowed down, the engines going to minimum power. It 'heeled over' and slowly turned, taking long minutes. In front of it the Atrekna ships moved steadily forward, crossing the orbit of the third outermost planet, still making a direct line for the Task Fleet. The Slide started moving forward, slowly gaining speed, catching up, until it slowed to match the speed of the Atrekna vessels. A hand signal from Captain Hvrekult was passed and the lights in the forward gunnery bay went yellow. The crews used the heavily shielded powered assist units to load the guns. The Atrekna fleet kept cruising in-system. Completely unaware they were already in range of the Task Force's guns. ---------------- Smokey 'No lit a cigarette, inhaling gratefully. Like the reports from Hesstla and other conflicts involving the new species, communications were almost completely down or hashed and garbled garbage. Satellite images showed that 8th Infantry and 3rd Armor were tearing apart the area the Atrekna had been unopposed in. Atomic detonations were flashing repeatedly as massive lakes that had been turned to spawning pools were obliterated. The Treana'ad Infantry Hordes were sweeping into the cities, providing defense, and slowly pushing the Dwellerspawn and the Atrekna mechanical out of the cities. First Armored Recon had reached the last remaining base of the military forces that had been present on the planet, spread out, and started hammering them. General Ekret had disposed of his normal slash and dash attacks, instead just firing directly into the massed Dwellerspawn from behind. The ground forces inside the base had gone from huddled down to endure the assault to crawling out of the rubble with a gun in their hands and counterattacking the Dwellerspawn from the rear, turning the entire thing into a swirling mess. The Atomic Hooves were engaged across a vast front, A'armo'o's sheer numbers forcing the Atrekna to try to stop him by throwing everything at him. A'armo'o just ran it over and kept moving, leaving anywhere from a hundred to a thousand tanks at each spawning point to kill anything the Atrekna brought in before they could do much more than take a breath to screech. The Dwellerspawn horde in front of him had given up trying to attack and was now trying to run. A'armo'o was faster, his tracks wider, and his tanks heavier. NoDra'ak looked at the map. Where Casey had been going crazy was starting to clear up, the wind tugging apart the huge mushroom cloud. There were no flashes inside, and NoDra'ak could see the icons for First Telkan were on the move, heading at an angle toward the mountains. The Sisters of Wrath were forcing the Dwellerspawn toward the sea, five thousand sisters moving forward with air and artillery support as well as orbital fire. General NoDra'ak watched carefully. The battle wasn't won, but it wasn't lost either. ----------- The flitter bobbled as Casey pulled himself up onto the back of it. The two Marines on that side shifted so he could move up next to Vuxten. Vuxten could see the radiation warnings on his armor jump. "We've got a massive Dwellerspawn entry point about a hundred miles out, Sergeant," Vuxten said, without looking away from where he was staring at the front end of the flitter. "Dwellerspawn from that entry point are pushing at two cities. We break that entry point, kill the Atrekna using it, and we move on." "Roger that, sir," Casey said. Vuxten could see the human was still sweat soaked, still had the datacable in his eye socket. His one eye still glowed a hot angry red. "You want revenge. I get it," Vuxten said. "But the Welkret, they don't need revenge, they need professionalism and discipline if they're going to have a planet to live on." "I understand, sir," Casey said. "You don't have to agree, Sergeant," Vuxten said. He drew on one of his officer's candidate classes. "You just have to follow my orders." "Yes, sir," Casey said. "Good. You're going to work with our brand new greenie scanning section. They detect any Atrekna, I want them quickly and cleanly eliminated without any threat to the civilian population. Can you do that?" Vuxten asked. Casey just nodded. "I can't hear you, Sergeant," Vuxten said. "Yes, sir." "Hold on to that anger," Vuxten said. "You can see the Atrekna with the naked eye with that anger," Vuxten tensed slightly. "You see one, you kill it. You don't wait for permission, you don't ask for authorization, you kill it, you make sure it's dead. Just keep collateral damage down." "Yes, sir." "Let's go teach the Atrekna that they are not welcome here." ----------------- On the ground the Atrekna felt confidence. Within a planetary rotation the primitive feral's orbital assets would be swept away and the Atreka would no longer have to concern themselves with any attempts at orbital fire support or the deployment of more forces. The forces on the ground could be reinforced as soon as the planet fully swept out of the temporal damage zone. They could feel the edge of the zone approaching and were already working to reach back and bring forward more slavespawn. The primitives would not prevail. ---------------- "Podnaughts have finished deploying second tier, creation engines have refurbished their munitions stock and have cooled and deslushed to optimum levels," Ensign Shugruth said. "Temporal and stellar stabilization arrays are charged and ready," Ensign Drugranth said. The Admiral nodded. "Open channel, all ships," he said, his voice calm and unruffled. "Channel open, sir," Midshipman Wargkwarg said, feeling a flutter in her stomach as the moment of her first battle approached. "All ships," the Admiral took a deep breath. "OPEN FIRE!" [first] [prev] [next] submitted by /u/Ralts_Bloodthorne to r/HFY [link] [comments]