Everyone has good insight so far - I would add that this video[1] from CGP Grey comes to mind about picking a theme for the year ahead. It's easy to get bogged down in the details but I try to follow a heuristic of taking action is infinitely better than sitting down and endlessly ruminating about it (of course easier said than done).
This looks great! I found a bug on Safari on my iPhone where the sidebar download button leads you to the TestFlight beta download instead of the actual app. I'm glad the wellness space is being explored more and more with technology.
This rings true for myself and a couple of my friends who grew up relatively poor in a wealthy area - our test scores on the SAT and relevant subject tests boosted us into private schools that we would not have gone to otherwise, which then led us to well-paying jobs right out of college. Last I checked, my high school implemented affordable/free SAT tutoring for all students and I hope to see more of it nationwide as I believe it helps immensely in socioeconomic mobility.
I didn't even know it was a thing, until my father did it when moving for work, while looking for a permanent house to purchase.
Can't offer any details, but this [0] seems to have a range of links and the basics. I gather it's something like Airbnb, but in reverse (homeowners looking for quality person). I imagine it's mostly person and reputation based (e.g. I present as a responsible professional + here are some expensive houses I have been entrusted successfully with).
If you know any real estate agents, you can also ask them where they find temporary placements (i.e. home currently on the market, which are usually paid) as a "resume" starter. But I imagine you'd probably be looking for non-real-estate listings long term. As they usually those require you to be available on short notice to vacate for people to walk through.
And the bigger points are (1) must be flexible in "finding somewhere else" or "vacating within a few months" & (2) be able to live in a place with a light touch (no parties, destructive living, pets, etc.).
This is ONLY if you enable margin trading via Robinhood Gold - they increased their margin requirements recently on GME and this will not happen to you if you are trading on cash.
All accounts are "Robinhood Instant" by default. You need to permanently opt-out of Robinhood Instant (or wait for deposits/trades to settle) to opt-out.
Yes, but "Robinhood Instant" is limited to a subset of the funds you are depositing. It is set up as a margin account to allow them to trade on your behalf before the money hits your Robinhood account. But the money will be hitting, so you will have cash to cover the trade. It's not the same as actual margin trading (where, for example, in this case, the user did not have cash to cover and so his position was liquidated by the broker.)
I honestly feel bad for all the employees, especially the early ones with equity that were looking forward to cashing out after the IPO - now they have to deal with immensely negative PR and federal investigations.
For this reason I imagine that the first unconfirmed leak mentioned in another post will be far from the last. As if WSB vs. hedge funds wasn't a crazy enough story itself, the sequel to The Big Short is pretty much writing itself as the other players in the system expose exactly where they stand. Regulators and the Federal Government chapters incoming...
This makes no sense - if they had closed their short positions of millions of shares and had the squeeze happen, the share price would have spiked far higher than it is now.
Why is that so? Trading volume was over 175 million each of Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. Do we have some way of knowing exactly what the price should be when they exit?
Robinhood would not put themselves in such a precarious position if they had already exited - also as for the price target of when they actually do start covering their shorts, they are still currently short more than the available amount of shares on the market - the current trading range of around 200-300 cannot be the squeeze.
You’re misunderstanding what a short squeeze means. There’s no singular “the squeeze” - no specific point in time where everyone who holds a short position has to simultaneously obtain the underlying stock. If everyone who wants out of their short position has gotten out, there’s no guarantee that any further squeeze will be forthcoming.
I don't think you understand - the assumption that they already got out doesn't hold because shorted shares/float data is publicly accessible[1]. Now I'm sure what happened today allowed them to cover some of their losses partially, but not even close to all of it.
As a college student who often pays for or pays others through Venmo for various expenses, the splitting/combining transactions seems super useful for not losing that information. Will definitely try it out!
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE