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my entire feed is like "the CEO of Starbucks just quit and is joining OpenAI to serve coffee, here are the 4 microcap South Korean companies I am buying on IBKR to escape the permanent underclass"

JUST IN - UAE withdraws from OPEC and OPEC+, effective May 1: "As a country that has no obligations under the organization, this will provide us with flexibility," said UAE Energy Secretary.

New identity, same conviction. Meet the new Blockworks.

🚨 THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL What happened to CAR this week should not be legal. A company with $8.6 billion in debt, losing money, no major news, no earnings beat. Stock goes from $107 to $850 in a month. Then crashes 80% in 2 days. Here’s exactly what happened, read it twice: Two funds, RS Investment and Pentwater Capital, quietly bought up over 71% of the entire freely traded float. At the same time, 86% of that same float was shorted. Once they controlled that much of the supply, short sellers couldn’t buy back their positions without pushing the price up themselves. THEY WERE TRAPPED. So the stock went vertical. Not because Avis suddenly became a great business, but because two players engineered a situation where the other side had NO EXIT. That’s a corner. In most markets, cornering a stock is ILLEGAL. In the US equity market in 2026, it just gets called “a short squeeze” and ends up on CNBC. By the time retail saw the headlines, it was too late but they bought it anyway. Every single person who bought above $300 because they saw a number going up fast is now underwater, waiting for a recovery that WILL NEVER HAPPEN. The funds that built the position are GONE. THEY SOLD INTO THE “SQUEEZE”. Into the retail buying. The SEC will probably open an inquiry, write a strongly worded letter, and close the file in 18 months. Absolutely NOTHING will change. And the next one is already being set up somewhere else. If you want to know where I AM deploying capital, turn on notifications and pay close attention. A lot of people will regret not following me.

BREAKING: Traders placed a series of bets worth $430 million on a drop in crude prices just 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump ​said he would extend a ceasefire with Iran. It is the third ‌time this month, and the fourth in total, that large, well-timed directional bets on the oil price have been made shortly before major announcements on the Iran war. The traders gained millions. Unusual.

Reports of a resumption of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran are currently assessed as non-credible, as pro-Iranian channels claim that explosions and working air defense systems are the result of air defense exercises.

STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.

@TheFlowHorse Holy smokes she’s getting big!

Advice to parents. Take the pictures. Spend a little extra to make your wife happy and hire that photographer. You will be happy you did looking back on them.

oh look another person found a way to pull stonks from yahoo finance into a browser with a black background they finally did it fam, they killed bbg campbellramble.ai/p/california-v…

I can’t believe it. This is absolutely insane. We are currently in uncharted territory.

@TheFlowHorse Dessert cereal is elite

I don’t really eat cereal anymore, but when I do, it is not around breakfast, and I pour like 7 refills.

@neetintel @HerazPhil @ianawren @livsanns46868 @IpowpowUnownow Douchebag reply.

@HerazPhil @ianawren @livsanns46868 @IpowpowUnownow that sounds like a skill issue on your end, not mine

EAM broadcasts from the HFGCS ground stations and from the Mercury E6Bs are now happening at the same time and overlapping with each other.

Pattern Day Trader rule removed. Stocks at all time highs. Major Thanksgiving feast of what is likely be be extremely overpriced companies IPO'ing Lock in.

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Maybe bullish. Via @econcallum

Paradox of skill...the smarter markets are the more random it feels. If lines to a game are well set you win some, you lose some and either way you pay the vig The market not making sense ...makes sense Your making money shouldn't depend on it making sense because if it did it would violate the idea that most people cannot make money trading (assuming the notion of sense was something shared) This feels like some corollary to trading broadly...trading is about making money in the absence of knowing what is going to happen. Trading is a practice that be adapted to any environment. Sometimes you inherit a departed trader's position. You deal with it. You manage the risk. Your ability to do this shouldn't depend on the market behaving according to your opinions. I'm guessing that the needs to make sense crowd sees the market like a physics or cause and effect problem rather than what it is. Positions and flows (In the long run whatever that means it probably does make sense but nobody wants long run edge because it has long feedback loops and doesn't maximize throughput of an actual edge like higher turnover, better sharp strats. But short term movements have no reason to make sense in any economic or textbook ways) Anyway just my reaction to the word sense

@TheFlowHorse Same same

Easily a few hundred k. Covid bull was something special, at one point I was just helping out anyone who had a sob story. But with some closer friends, I gave and never heard about it again. If you give, just never expect it back. Unfortunately.

Folks, I hate to tell you this. But nearly ALL your clothes are wildly toxic when they're new. And then most of you wash your clothes in more cancer-causing toxic chemicals (detergent). Then you tumble your clothes in highly toxic cancer-causing solvents in the dryer (fabric softeners). I estimate that 99% of Americans are wearing cancer chemicals every day in their clothing, new or otherwise. This isn't a Lululumon problem, it's a toxic laundry detergent and dryer sheets problem. And almost no one changes their laundry habits, because they are already too poisoned to function in a rational way. I'm one of the very few people who isn't wearing cancer chemicals on a daily basis. And I can smell YOU when you walk near by, because you are a walking cloud of turbo-cancer chemicals in your clothing, your lotions, your shampoo and your fragrance.

You think you're unhappy because life is hard. Wrong. You're unhappy because you're still operating at infant-level selfishness with adult-level expectations. Happiness isn't found in gratitude journals or positive thinking. It's found in the INVERSE relationship between your talent stack and your need to be selfish. When you're born, you're 100% selfish, 0% capable. Perfect equilibrium. Society expects nothing from you. They age chronologically but not competency-wise. They hit 30, 40, 50...still operating from scarcity, still locked in survival mode, still taking more than they give. The stress you feel? That's the cognitive dissonance between where you ARE (high selfishness, low talent) and where you SHOULD BE on the developmental curve. Your path to meaning is mathematical: Accumulate talents → Eliminate personal scarcity → Reduce selfish need → Turn outward → Experience meaning Every moment you stay below the curve...high selfishness, low capability....you're in psychological debt. The interest compounds as stress, anxiety, emptiness. The solution isn't to "be less selfish." That's premature morality. The solution is to BUILD POWER through talent acquisition until selfishness becomes *optional*, not necessary. Only then does happiness become accessible. Only then does meaning emerge. You can't transcend selfishness through willpower. You transcend it through competence.