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Eastwood

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  1. I'm about 18 hours in from Pfizer 2 and definitely feel it. Nothing major, but definitely dragging the day out and generally unpleasant. Serving as a good reminder of what sick actually feels like and that a lot of my worry over every little thing going on with my body was hypochondria.
  2. Market doesn't know what it likes. EIA report could show a 35 million barrel draw, Hurricane Katrina 2 could steamroll up the Texas coast and hook to the NE to slam every offshore asset East of the Mississippi, and the price would drop 5% because the secretary of the Exxon CEO made a joke that Exxon is going to start investing in fusion power plants.
  3. Because he blew through a stop sign and t-boned a pregnant woman, breaking her arm, fled the scene, and then came back to the scene like a dumbass because he left 5 figures of cash in the car. Then, he doubled down on being an all around asshole by not even showing an ounce of concern. And that was just the beginning of his character and legal issues. So, he's a S-Tier shitheel and a moron. If it wasn't for fighting, this dude would be prison with zero prospects outside of crime. Why cheer for him when there are other great fighters who are at least halfway decent human beings?
  4. https://news.yahoo.com/most-gamestops-board-step-down-194419019.html?guccounter=1 The ship is starting to turn. Just hope it isn't in the Suez Canal.
  5. It's my understanding that they can only recall shares for legitimate reasons, such as a shareholder vote on firing the current CEO before the end of his contract and appointing a new one. That's what the hype was around Ryan Cohen. This current line of speculation was originally fired up around Sherman being tossed and Cohen being installed. The path of least resistance to burn shorts, albeit temporarily, would have been issuing a one time dividend. They had the cash on hand to do it. Anyone short GME is responsible for paying the dividend to the holder of the shorted share. This would have possibly caused the institutional shorts with shallower pockets to close out, which could have caused a chain reaction of closing until you hit the funds with deep enough pockets to ride it out.
  6. The funds who wanted to fight it out got it all done in January. We saw the winners and losers there. Now, what we have going on is hedge funds maximizing what is known as "copperative surplus." Cooperative surplus is when two parties who are in a position to compete actually cooperate to maximize the total amount of profit available. Say there is $100 to split. If they compete against each other, they get $35 each and the remaining $30 is lost to other parties. If they cooperate, they get $45 each and $10 is lost to other parties. The total cooperative surplus realized was $20 split between the two. If they continue to fight like the others in January, that allows retail to pick off profits at the fringes of the trade. That's what I did and that's what a lot of you did. This group of hedges now are probably cooperating to rein in the lost surplus. This will continue until GameStop releases more shares. Which they will. I'm buying the dip when the offer comes out and holding long. I bought 1 share just before close on Monday for old time's sake. Keeping the rest of my powder dry for the real dip.
  7. In my 15 years in this business, it's never been a smooth ride. I'd take two years of a $5 range around $65 in a heartbeat.
  8. You could roll the dice and see if Cedar Bayou is opened up. Better take some cans of gas with you if you put in at Rockport, though.
  9. If you feel like driving to San Antonio, try this link: https://schedule.utmedicinesa.com/
  10. Absolutely. I know that would catch some bids.
  11. Might be because when GME goes up, those on the wrong side of it have to liquidate other positions. We saw that when the first rocket launched and the big boys threw the private abort switch. I am absolutely convinced we saw the market shudder under the weight of the possibility of $1k per share and a broad sell-off occurred that afternoon. That evening, the various brokers announced the restrictions around GME.
  12. This is the way. Shots in arms is the SOP going forward, apparently. I got mine yesterday afternoon, fully disclosing that I don't meet any of the criteria. They scheduled me so fast my head spun. I think some facilities are tired of seeing unused vials dumped into trash cans every day.
  13. San Antonio's COVID dashboard showed a doubling of daily cases yesterday. This evening after 7 is when it will update and show if that was a one-off spike, which is common due to data reporting quirks, or the beginnings of a possible trend up.
  14. Also, people would be less willing to buy his work for asking price if he has a reputation for turning around and selling another one. I'm still not 100% sure, as pointed out above, just WHY the Top Shots are so valuable. I can google the clip that they are selling. Is it essentially an ownership of the copyright of that moment? For example, if they release a Legends Pack and I get the moment of Jordan shooting the game winning shot with Bird walking away with his hands on his hips in the background, do I own the right to broadcast that moment whenever I want? What are my rights with that moment? Or is this just another form of sports memorabilia that we can gamble with under the hopes that it sticks around like physical cards?
  15. Reminds me of the old Lewis Grizzard joke: What the difference between Baptists and Methodists? Methodists will wave at each other in liquor stores.
  16. I've always said they are one step above Mennonite. They're one more Restoration Movement away from special clothing and isolated communities.
  17. Well, people aren't showing up for the Rolling Stones tickets. The HEB my wife was at was saying that they have to solicit people in the store at the end of the day to get one so they don't have to throw out the vaccines for the no-shows. I'm actually going to test this theory out today at my HEB.
  18. And just after I type that, 29 spots opened up for the Cypress Market HEB. It happens several times a day, just gotta grind the F5 key to get one.
  19. Nope. Can't hoard vaccine. Also, just because you can't get it immediately on the HEB website doesn't mean you can't get it at all. You're actually competing with the same bot programs that are used to scrape the internet for video cards and the new video game consoles. That's why a lot of the appointments are going so fast. But if you dedicate about 30 minutes to the HEB vaccine website, you absolutely will get an appointment. You'll just have to drive for it. My wife got her shot yesterday, she just had to drive 2 hours to get it. Small price to pay, especially if you're 1B like she is.
  20. I mean, he did say that one day it would just go away like a miracle after denying for a month that it would become a problem in America. I'm ready to be under promised and over delivered for the first time in a few years rather than over promised and under delivered.
  21. I'm on the waitlist to get in to Top Shots. The possibilities are endless on this. NFL, MLB, NHL, UFC, and WWE will quickly follow suit.
  22. I'll be honest, on the long run ups like last week I start to get the FOMO itch and get a little bummed that I'm out, then something like this happens and I get reminded just how much stress I'm saving myself from. I'm not a fan of Jim Cramer for all the obvious reasons, but he was right when he said that people need to take profit here. You did it. You were a part of something they will write about for centuries in finance classes. You also made some money along the way. 99% of people will not nail the top. Make money.
  23. And it screams back to immediately reclaim almost half of what it lost into another halt. If this continues into Friday, I think it is possible that the SEC finally steps in to long term halt the trade.
  24. The free market isn't free, especially in GME. Act accordingly.
  25. My wife has asthma and a couple of places said she qualified, a couple didn't, so we're erring on the side of caution and just stating she is 1B. More than one medical professional has told us that she qualifies, so that's good enough for me. As for me, I'll have to be on the lookout for waste avoidance shots until they open up the next phase.
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