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by jw1224 5y ago
Former Citadel employee, /u/dlauer — https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o28tm9/udlauers... And here’s Dave’s interview with Superstonk: https://youtu.be/AYct0XX0uTU —
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Well, yes… If you search Superstonk, it proves a bunch of Superstonk users have left. But I also linked to an article in Fortune, suggesting 56% of users want to leave. This was not a survey of Superstonk users. Until they release any num
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If there was a significant retail sell-off right around now that caused the share price to plummet, it would directly affect their business transformation plans. They are currently completing an at-the-market offering for 5,000,000 shares
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This is a well-recognised phenomenon. “Forget GameStop” is a running joke by this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/mhc9vf/dont_forget_to_... — and that post was from nearly 3 months ago. Thes
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by jw1224 5y ago
I don’t think they’ve publicly disclosed their user counts, but a quick search for “Robinhood users leaving” brings back countless articles like these: https://fortune.com/2021/02/19/robinhood-brand-damage-gam
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Both fair points, thanks for your comment. GameStop’s filing did note the following [1]: “the inquiry is not expected to adversely impact us” I feel this is a statement they would be unlikely to make if they felt the SEC’s investig
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Thankfully users at Superstonk are generally very open to “conflicting DD”, and have reached out to several industry experts to conduct interviews and learn more about the mechanics. The interviews so far have been extremely helpful in conf
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by jw1224 5y ago
I wasn’t sure whether you’re asking for resources about options trading in general, or info about the GME situation specifically. Presuming it’s the latter, I would start here: https://reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comme
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There are plenty of career hedge fund traders actively supporting this “conspiracy theory”. One of the most well-known contributors at Superstonk is a former Citadel employee — he’s even spoken publicly about these events in an interview wi
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The $30m floor price is a long-running meme, and clearly a joke. But it helps to know the historical context… https://www.gmefloor.com/ was set up around 4-5 months ago. Back then, the price displayed on the site was around
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by jw1224 5y ago
> the vast majority of retail are buying calls This is almost certainly NOT the case. Do you have any data to back this statement up? The MOASS theory relies simply on retail investors buying and holding shares. On the rare occasion when
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by jw1224 5y ago
Last week’s 8-K filing revealed GameStop are actively assisting the SEC with an investigation into ongoing manipulation of their share price. They even disclosed to investors the risk of a further short squeeze on their stock. If they don’t
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I’ve tried to explain this on HN twice before and been immediately downvoted, despite my best attempt at explaining the nuances. Your comment sums things up well, thanks for sharing. For anyone else who’s curious to learn more, as mentioned
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Magic quotes were removed from PHP entirely back in v5.4… and we’re now on v8. It’s just as valid a language for shell scripts as any other.
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I just re-read my comment and saying Citadel was Robinhood’s prime brokerage was definitely an error (too late to edit the comment now). I should’ve said market-maker. Nonetheless, all the conflicts-of-interest between Citadel, Robinhood, a
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by jw1224 5y ago
Thanks, that’s the first I’ve heard of that. I’ll have a read, cheers.
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Yes, that's what I'm referring to. For context, last year's 8-K showed 66% of shares voted. The 8-K also reported a total of 42,886,817 shares voted last year. This year's 8-K, issued 2 days ago, showed 55M votes out of
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> The only people allowed to naked short are market makers The SEC made naked short selling illegal after the 2008 financial crisis. Market makers are not allowed to naked short. > Clearing houses don't lose anything during a sho
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No, Robinhood’s collateral requirements were increased by their clearing house only because their clearing house were on the hook to lose billions to retail investors during January’s short squeezes. The same clearing house used by Robinhoo
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This is very important to know. Robinhood actively colluded with their hedge fund owners, by blocking buy orders — but not sell orders — under the guise of “increased margin requirements”. In fact, those margin requirements were being set
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You are the universe experiencing itself.
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> I'm worried about the amount of people (apparently 50%) who left Basecamp Are you saying Basecamp lost half its users? Source?
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Those following the GME saga believe it’s Wall Street banks scrambling to find liquidity in response to emergency rule changes by the OCC. It’s fascinating stuff to follow — watch the VIX today, a measure of stock market volatility. It’s ab
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I wonder how many other common assumptions we might have wrong…
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It's marketing (and effective, too). I became a Backblaze customer after reading one of these reports (many years ago!).
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It’s popular with UK emergency services, and is starting to catch on slowly with the general public over here. In an emergency situation, when every second counts, 3 words are much easier to convey than 15 numbers. Besides this, I have no i
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Sofar Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
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Um... what?! Laravel has extremely comprehensive documentation: • General purpose docs: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/ • API-specific docs: https://laravel.com/api/8.x/index.html Laravel
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I’m not too sure, I was just quoting the figures Taylor gave after his Laracon demo. I think the beta is being released next week.
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Performance keeps getting better, particularly with PHP 7 and 8. And just last week, “Laravel Octane” was announced... it lets you serve a Laravel app using Swoole, and early benchmarks on a MacBook Pro suggest 25k+ HTTP requests served per

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