One major term you have heard is "shorting" - which is just placing a bet that a stock will go down in price. #velshi
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By now you have undoubtedly seen the craziness going on in the stock market, with a selection of stocks surging hundreds if not thousands of percent in a matter of days or even hours, along with a whole bunch of financial jargon. So what exactly is going on? #velshi
One major term you have heard is "shorting" - which is just placing a bet that a stock will go down in price. #velshi
An investor can make money on this type of gamble by borrowing shares from a broker, w/o initially paying for them, selling them immediately & then later buying the shares at a lower price & returning them to the broker, keeping the difference in price as profit. #velshi
For example, an investor borrows 1 share of stock XYZ at $200 & sells it. The investor now has $200 at an initial cost of $0. However, the investor stills owes the broker that 1 share. #velshi
The gamble is that the price of the stock XYZ will go down - let's say to $100 a share. The investor can then buy the 1 share that it owes the broker at that lower $100 price. #velshi
This means it costs the investor less to buy XYZ than what it has already sold XYZ for & the investor can keep that extra $100 difference from the $200 sale price. #velshi
Of course, the price of the stock could increase - and the investor still owes the broker the share XYZ, in which case the investor loses money. Potentially a LOT of money. #velshi
Using our example, let's say stock XYZ increases to $220 dollars. The investor still has to buy the owed share, but it now cost $20 more than it was initially sold for, and the investor loses that money. That's the basis for what has been going on. #velshi
What basically happened was within the last week or so some people on the Reddit 'WallStreetBets' noticed that some hedge funds were placing massive “short“ bets on several distressed widely known companies. #velshi
Short bets were placed mainly on Gamestop but also Bed Bath and Beyond, American Airlines, AMC Theaters, Blackberry, and others. #velshi
These redditers then essentially crowdsourced a whole bunch of people to bet AGAINST the hedge funds, buying shares at increasingly inflated prices in order to prevent the stock prices from going down. #velshi
As the price kept going up, some of the hedge funds were forced to start buying shares to replace the ones they had borrowed when they initially expected the stocks to drop in value, in order to cut their losses, in what is known as a 'short squeeze'. #velshi
And all that buying - that new demand - has the effect of dramatically increasing the price of the stocks. #velshi
There has also been a lot of talk & consternation that some brokerage & trading firms popular with newer traders, including one called 'Robinhood', cut off the average person's ability to trade in some of these volatile companies. #velshi
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🔸 50 ema on 3 min timeframe
🔸 Supertrend 10 , 3
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🔸 Entry 9:20 to 3:00
🔸 Max 3 Entries per day
🔸 Premium nearest to 200 Rs only
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🔸 Less theta decay compared to weekly options
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Fake chats claiming to be from the Irish African community are being disseminated by the far right in order to suggest that violence is imminent from #BLM supporters. This is straight out of the QAnon and Proud Boys playbook. Spread the word. Protest safely. #georgenkencho
There is co-ordination across the far right in Ireland now to stir both left and right in the hopes of creating a race war. Think critically! Fascists see the tragic killing of #georgenkencho, the grief of his community and pending investigation as a flashpoint for action.
Across Telegram, Twitter and Facebook disinformation is being peddled on the back of these tragic events. From false photographs to the tactics ofwhite supremacy, the far right is clumsily trying to drive hate against minority groups and figureheads.
Declan Ganley’s Burkean group and the incel wing of National Party (Gearóid Murphy, Mick O’Keeffe & Co.) as well as all the usuals are concerted in their efforts to demonstrate their white supremacist cred. The quiet parts are today being said out loud.
The best thing you can do is challenge disinformation and report posts where engagement isn’t appropriate. Many of these are blatantly racist posts designed to drive recruitment to NP and other Nationalist groups. By all means protest but stay safe.
There is co-ordination across the far right in Ireland now to stir both left and right in the hopes of creating a race war. Think critically! Fascists see the tragic killing of #georgenkencho, the grief of his community and pending investigation as a flashpoint for action.
Across Telegram, Twitter and Facebook disinformation is being peddled on the back of these tragic events. From false photographs to the tactics ofwhite supremacy, the far right is clumsily trying to drive hate against minority groups and figureheads.
Be aware, the images the #farright are sharing in the hopes of starting a race war, are not of the SPAR employee that was punched. They\u2019re older photos of a Everton fan. Be aware of the information you\u2019re sharing and that it may be false. Always #factcheck #GeorgeNkencho pic.twitter.com/4c9w4CMk5h
— antifa.drone (@antifa_drone) December 31, 2020
Declan Ganley’s Burkean group and the incel wing of National Party (Gearóid Murphy, Mick O’Keeffe & Co.) as well as all the usuals are concerted in their efforts to demonstrate their white supremacist cred. The quiet parts are today being said out loud.
There is a concerted effort in far-right Telegram groups to try and incite violence on street by targetting people for racist online abuse following the killing of George Nkencho
— Mark Malone (@soundmigration) January 1, 2021
This follows on and is part of a misinformation campaign to polarise communities at this time.
The best thing you can do is challenge disinformation and report posts where engagement isn’t appropriate. Many of these are blatantly racist posts designed to drive recruitment to NP and other Nationalist groups. By all means protest but stay safe.
