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@Jphil I've got COPD/ Empysema and am on 6L/min O2 therapy 24hrs/day. and I wouldn't say I'm 'exempt' and can't imagine any disability wher it would apply more.
The problem in the UK is far too many want 'rights' but don't want to exercise those rights 'responsibly'. All politicos are scared of alienating voters to make a law that enforces 'common sense' safety measures, too many non productive 'industries' which rely on punters to put a 'no mask no entry' policy into place. And to top the madness off we have an economy based on consumerism requiring dumb fashion consious, brand crazy, hedonistic lemmings in BS jobs to keep on buying/consuming carp they don't need and being broke each month. So glad I saw the Emperor was naked decades ago.
@ Lemmyaquid "Govt central bank controlled crypto will give the government total surveillance and control of everybodys money and finances. That is what is in it for them. Very sinister."
No difference to a cashless fiat system, mobile payment apps gives the same level of control, track & trace with facial recognition as payment verification, cctv can track you in real time (5G) already used in China.
Control has been the 'must have' for just about all forms of government, ever.
Now repeat after me the first lie "I am free"....
@Chaebol
"Without shorts you don’t have free markets." -If you think free markets exist you must be naive. If insider trading is not allowed that's at least one restriction, just as there are restrictions on free speech. Free markets with 'Negotiatores sit honestus' as the standard instead of 'Cavaent emptores' I would have no objection. "Knowledge is power whether it’s on the upside or the downside." So where's the objection when the information, 'knowledge' isn't factual but generated by IIs to manipulate prices?
[If a] "Company doesn’t want to be shorted then run it correctly and that will help you".- If only it were that simple and the information bandied about by analysts, brokers and a whole raft of 'advisers' was based on truth, the fact that MMs exist at all is a good indicator that trading and not investing is what is being promoted.
I agree with your analysis re price manipulation whether it be up or down, with one important caveat and that’ it’s the ‘manipulation’ itself which is the elephant in the room and needs addressing. Whether it’s by rumour, sentiment or any other intangible ploy or practice, this is not the domain of ‘us’, the private investors who are at the mercy of large financial institutions, brokerages, etc. who have the financial clout to influence such price movements.
All the invented instruments such as trading in futures contracts (rather than the contracts themselves) are a pox on the face of financial markets. There's not enough tradeable asset wealth on the planet to settle the derivatives market if the bell was rung on it.
@Action ThisDay
I don't see the CPC letting Evergrande go belly up and that seems to a fairly widely held view and a whole lot of face to be lost if it does. And with $3.2tn in foreign currency reserves I can't see it either.
@SupremeSpod, yes I know about Volz. I've been invested and have averaged down from 2.8p so I'm not wet. I even tracked down the machine type in the early days and knew as a retired design engineer in the process industry it was never going to make 5m a month, it would take too long to respool. I saw the building where it was housed when I was up in that neck of the woods and wondered how they would handle the logistics, storage of materials and shipping whilst they were saying 5m a month. This was before Volz were in the picture The idea and tech is sound, but where's the advertising? There's never been any. If Volz can't satisfy the 350,000 supply to India in less than a couple of weeks, I ask again, how are they supposed to handle orders for millions?
@ Lottohopes, there's more of an existential threat it's called a Carrington Event when a solar storm fries electrical equipment, the gold will still be there but there'll be no trace of Bitty anywhere, who owns what, the blockchain, zilch. AFAIK there's no way of protecting against it. Maybe if there's enough time to record the info on hard matter, but nothing magnetic is likely to be safe either.
Why some of the money wasn't spent on advertising I'll never understand. Even clinical and Hospital staff have never heard of the products! Two or three static advertising hoardings in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester ought to suffice. Word of mouth will do the rest.
Investors could help as well by posting and sharing on FB, Insta, etc. word would quickly spread.
"Wear the mask, stop the spread,
All Covid variants killed stone Dead"
Give the project to Nottingham's School of Art and Design as a Competition Item. How hard can this be.
Problems start when NNN get orders for millions of orders they can't presently fill.
Note the date.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9003-antiviral-coating-may-help-fight-epidemics/
@FranklyS1971
What you have written is what I'm on about. about 11% of my portfolio is tied up here and I'm currently 36% down on GDR. I really believe in this tech, else I wouldn't be invested in the first place.
Yes I get it that Jayce's almost same daily message is getting to you, albeit I can't see how it's psychotic to keep repeating the truth. The constant groundless speculative optimism hits me in much the same way as Jayce does with you, except there's more than just one person at it here and most of the BBs I read are just the same.
Wish this, hope that, RNS coming soon and countless other groundless opinions and beliefs, month in month out, hope doesn't seem a rational position except for the terminally fearful. Am I wrong in not being interested in anything but the truth?
Even your speculation about me making a profit has no rational basis outside of a suspicious mind. I don't do ramping or deramping and defo no BS, albeit the markets and BBs are often full of it, I'm not.
@FrankyS1971
At least Jace speaks the truth unlike many who speculate with more than just money. The truth is neither a ramp or deramp. The silence from GDR really is deafening and it's what fuels all the verbal speculation. The amount of factual information is also sadly lacking from posters on this board and takes ages to wade through. Beliefs and opinions are just noise. Maybe you find the truth too hard to handle and prefer fairy stories instead because they reassure you more.
@Chaebol
Bandit is correct about the food in Thailand but little else. Pattaya is a cesspit, wild horses and all that.
I do understand Thai culture well 'now', but that's after years of talking to Western educated Thai academics who know the cultural divide and can explain things in terms a Brit can understand. The truth is as rare as hen's teeth. We say "tell the truth and shame the devil" the Thai equivalent is "telling the truth can get you killed" and depending on how much 'loss of face' telling the truth causes it can prove very hazardous indeed.
That said there are some very genuine people there and there are kind and generous souls about. But I've found very few except out in the boondocks away from the bright lights.
@ Cane Toad
As you're from the industry I'm not surprised you support and using shorting as a strategy and I do follow what you and a few others on this BB say, but I'd like to know if the same people would still be scum bags if the prices were manipulated upwards? I really enjoyed the squeeze that Reddit caused. I initially bought into ARB at about 10p and have certainly made enough to cover what losses I've incurred by day trading, it's just the principle of wanting an SP to fall to make money I'm against, especially as small timers like me tend to go long and hold. Price manipulation has always been part of the market and how it's achieved I have a real problem with any of it, ditto quants and algo trading. I've no problem taking a punt based on my own research but the FCA and especially the SEC turn too many blind eyes to what is fairly common everyday corrupt trading practices from compliance officers upwards. GL with your efforts.
I'm a small time investor and I use both, day trade on T212 it's give me something to do in retirementand & long term with H&L but their prices are way too high for the amount I have to punt with. But I do have faith in ARB and hold shares on both platforms.
Shorting has been around a long time and whilst Governments, Brokers and MMs want it, it t will stay. None of us would lend our shares out and basically it's that which ought to me made illegal. No doubt it's like Fiat money and banks. There's something in the agreements we sign up tothat allowa them to use our largesse but still be liable to us upon demand. It's sick and corrupt. The rumour mill I'll put up with but not for shorters benefit.
The bottleneck didn't provide the profits and no it's not worth the wait for new chips as even old machines and old chips will turn a profit. "limitations of technology" can just as well mean a chip/machine shortage. And as for breaking ground in Texas? If it's not up and running in 3 months they should get Musk in to show them how to build a factory.
Speculate with money - no problem but cut out the guesswork and block the trolls, none of it affects the SP. The RNS was like a politicians words, far too ambiguous with plausible deniability. Argo knows why the SP is so low and should explain why.