I've had one LSD trip, back when I believed in christian heaven and hell and hadn't considered other philosophies, which showed me the possibility of being in a cycle of rebirth. I'm wondering if any of you have experience using shrooms for "enlightenment".
I remember reading this claim in an essay about Early Modern England (the author noted that the term mirror was usually reserved to denote a written instruction for good governance (A Mirror for Princes), as actual mirrors of the day were hazy and of poor quality. The book Millennium by Ian Mortimer makes the claim as well. Not to be tendentious, but this sounds like an exaggeration. Aren't self-portraits described in antiquity? Aren't there Ancient Greek popular novels told in the first person, not to mention diaries (Japanese pillow-books) and correspondence from long before the perfection of the mirror? Or is this somewhat of a Euro-centric perspective, given that individual identity is still composed from a variety of sources (one's family, relationships, belief system, personal politics, etc.) even by those in countries with "democratic, individualist" values? Could the preoccupation with personal appearance/self presentation have just as much to do with the growth of a merchant class with disposable income concerned with social mobility as with the invention of a working mirror? Any resources on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! (:
We say that the third step of glycolysis is irreversible but we certainly can revert it. So what am I missing?
To me this is the discussion that no one seems to be having (saw a sensible observation on this DEEP in the comments on SS that was downvoted to hell; I don't fit their requirements or whatever and now can't comment). Will Citadel's shorts tied into option chicanery ever have to be processed as FTDs? Is that why there was no T-21/35 upswing last cycle? Are all the rest of Citadels shorts just in options chicanery that they manipulate? Asking real questions here. I don't see a lot of good discussion on this and I'm not super-clear on the process of what they're doing to hide shorts in options. Thanks in advance and love this sub.
I made a comment yesterday on a post that did some technical analysis on GME, and several people asked that I turn that comment into a post, so here it is.
Obviously I'm going to start by saying all of this is based on my opinion of what needs to happen to spark the squeeze.
First, the comment as it was:
*I've seen lots of bullish TA on GME. Keep in mind, ALL TA requires volume to play out how it should. We haven't had any volume on GME in over a week.
Holding shares simply isn't enough - needs constant (all day every single day) buying of shares and IN THE MONEY options.
If you buy options that are 20-30% in the money they literally can't price pin because they can't get and keep the price 20-30% below current market. So you force immediate share buying by market makers to hedge, and virtually eliminate their means of counter-attack which has been price pinning at the point of maximum pain (price at which most contracts expire worthless).
If you are intending to help push the squeeze, buy shares throughout the day every day. If you are playing options, mostly buy calls in the money. If you're buying OTM calls, buy as close to current price as you can afford. The more imbalanced OTM calls are, the more they're just going to price pin at maximum pain. They literally cannot do this if there is a ridiculous amount of new ITM call interest that they have to buy shares to hedge.*
Essentially, we cannot rely on normal technical indicators for movement with Gamestop. There are two major reasons.
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Manipulation. We cannot do anything about this really, aside from buy and hold. Technicals actually have a tendencies to work in reverse when a stock is being manipulated at these levels. The shorts, while stuck in a stupid position, aren't stupid. They know when the TA is indicating a bullish setup, and that is the best time for them to attack the stock to break the setup.
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Volume. All technical setups require volume to play out. If volume doesn't follow, the technical setup fails and the price action is unpredictable. Except in this case, it goes down because it's being shorted at every chance.
So what do we need to do? Hold? Yes. But that can't be it. If we are doing nothing but holding, this will be a stalemate that they will probably win as sections of retail gets bored or impatient. They can literally hold us in a stalemate for months/years if volume never shows up to move the price. *Yes, they pay more interest the longer they have to wait. They
... keep reading on reddit β‘Step 1: Open a 2nd (or 3rd...) brokerage account, if you don't have one.
Step 2: Start transferring GME shares back and forth between brokerages.
Reading about the guy who's trying to transfer from Fidelity to Computershare had me thinking. What if even Fidelity doesn't have real shares? Et tu, Fidelity? This fukery has no bounds. They have to get real ones before they transfer, right? RH has all those screwed up cost-basis issues because they don't have real shares, right? Don't the brokers have to obtain real shares before they can transfer?
If everybody started transferring their shares between brokers that don't have any real ones, what do you think might happen?
