Brexit, for once some facts.

[Woosh]

Methinks this is all a scam.

robinhood is revolutionary - zero margin trading and they lend you the cash to gamble.

wiki sums it up:

Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[3][4] Robinhood is a FINRAregulated broker-dealer, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.[5][3] The company's revenue comes from three main sources: interest earned on customers' cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders (a practice for which SEC opened a probe into the company in September 2020[6]) and margin lending.[7][8] As of 2020, Robinhood had 13 million users.[9][10]

The dangers come from the default execution mode and margin lending. I doubt that many of their customers pay a hoot until the company changed margin requirement to trade in Gamestop or AMC.

 

[flecc]

Had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab this morning at 9.20am at the regional Health Centre, all very efficiently organised with controlling ushering through the stages and good separation throughout. Stage one was a controlled admission reception cabin with well spaced seats for the initial paperwork and questions, then outside for a few metres walk into the health centre building and a large reception area with very widely spaced seating. A number of nurses were then collecting a patient each from there and taking them to one of a battery of individual rooms to give the jab.

We'd previously been an all Pfizer area but this was the Astra-Zeneca vaccine which needed no 15 minute wait afterwards if not driving. So I was released immediately since I'd used a taxi to get there as parking nearby is impossible and it was raining heavily.

No cabs available to get back though, so it was tram and bus trip to get home, first one for ten years.
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[Wicky]

robinhood is revolutionary - zero margin trading and they lend you the cash to gamble.

wiki sums it up:

Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[3][4] Robinhood is a FINRAregulated broker-dealer, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.[5][3] The company's revenue comes from three main sources: interest earned on customers' cash balances, selling order information to high-frequency traders (a practice for which SEC opened a probe into the company in September 2020[6]) and margin lending.[7][8] As of 2020, Robinhood had 13 million users.[9][10]

The dangers come from the default execution mode and margin lending. I doubt that many of their customers pay a hoot until the company changed margin requirement to trade in Gamestop or AMC.

Seems a to be merry but confused band of followers...

GameStop: Confused investors inundate Robin Hood society

Thousands mistake the group for a US trading platform that curbed the buying of shares in GameStop.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[oldgroaner]

I’m sorry you don’t like it, I spent 45 seconds writing that little piece and now you throw it back in my face! How ungrateful.

Ah well I will admit it was good and original

 

[oldgroaner]

Seems a to be merry but confused band of followers...

GameStop: Confused investors inundate Robin Hood society

Thousands mistake the group for a US trading platform that curbed the buying of shares in GameStop.

www.bbc.co.uk

Probably turn out to be more
Robin Everybody than Robin Hood

 

[Jesus H Christ]

Had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab this morning at 9.20am at the regional Health Centre, all very efficiently organised with controlling ushering through the stages and good separation throughout. Stage one was a controlled admission reception cabin with well spaced seats for the initial paperwork and questions, then outside for a few metres walk into the health centre building and a large reception area with very widely spaced seating. A number of nurses were then collecting a patient each from there and taking them to one of a battery of individual rooms to give the jab.

We'd previously been an all Pfizer area but this was the Astra-Zeneca vaccine which needed no 15 minute wait afterwards if not driving. So I was released immediately since I'd used a taxi to get there as parking nearby is impossible and it was raining heavily.

No cabs available to get back though, so it was tram and bus trip to get home, first one for ten years.
.

Great news and I’m pleased you didn’t suffer too much disruption. Hopefully you’ll get your second jab in a timely fashion. Noises are starting to be made that the extended wait may not be as long as initially thought.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

Ah well I will admit it was good and original

Thank you. I’ll write you another if you like?

 

[oldgroaner]

Eu contract with Astra Zeneca

 

[Jesus H Christ]

The EU still have not made up their minds as to whether they want the AZ vaccine. I hope they make a decision soon because I guess they are slipping further down the queue, and it’s in our interests in the U.K. that mainland Europe is vaccinated ASAP.

 

[oldgroaner]

Thank you. I’ll write you another if you like?

Why not, you are clearly on a roll as we say in the trade

 

[Woosh]

Mark Twain said it best with his story of the picket fence painting.

Mark Twain:
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

the 2021 version of that:

Lana Swartz, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia about reddit WallStreetBets:

"Let it come. Let it go. Because the kind of secret that the elites know is that money is. B.S., and only by knowing that money is B.S. can you accumulate a lot of it, which should be your goal.
It's not even the ends that matter. It's the means. It's the fact that you're placing this bet, that's where the value in all this is. Sure, you may get money, or you may end up broke, but you played the game, and you did it in some crazy way".

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/29/investing/wallstreetsbets-reddit-culture/index.html

 

[oldgroaner]

We will be needing a flag day or two

 

[flecc]

Great news and I’m pleased you didn’t suffer too much disruption. Hopefully you’ll get your second jab in a timely fashion. Noises are starting to be made that the extended wait may not be as long as initially thought.

They said 12 weeks at the centre. The official leaflet they gave me says 3 to 12 weeks.

12 weeks will be awkward around here since both the Pfizer and AZ 12/14 weeks second jabs will be overlapping in April which is when the next Pfizer consignment arrives.

It means they'll be handling the two vaccines at the same time when giving the second doses.
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[Jesus H Christ]

We will be needing a flag day or two

That’s a lot of cheese.

 

[oyster]

Not so wonderful. There again, anything "Johnson" tends to be at best disappointing.

Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is 66% effective in global trial, but 85% effective against severe disease, company says
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/29/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-results/index.html

 

[flecc]

That’s a lot of cheese.

It certainly is, £4106 for every man woman and child in the UK.

Or put another way, £11,061 for every full time worker.

Ouch !
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[Zlatan]

Anybody remotely interested in sailing must watch Americas Cup this year.. Big foiling monohulls racing in New Zealand... Hitting 60 mph almost (53kts)...crazy...its on Sky Arena now... Uk doing well... USA versus Italy today.. Incredible..

 

[Woosh]

Not so wonderful. There again, anything "Johnson" tends to be at best disappointing.

it's a pretty good vaccine, excellent result on hospitalisation and deaths, considering that it is single shot. A second dose is desirable.

RESULTS
After the administration of the first vaccine dose in 805 participants in cohorts 1 and 3 and after the second dose in cohort 1, the most frequent solicited adverse events were fatigue, headache, myalgia, and injection-site pain. The most frequent systemic adverse event was fever. Systemic adverse events were less common in cohort 3 than in cohort 1 and in those who received the low vaccine dose than in those who received the high dose. Reactogenicity was lower after the second dose. Neutralizing-antibody titers against wild-type virus were detected in 90% or more of all participants on day 29 after the first vaccine dose (geometric mean titer [GMT], 224 to 354), regardless of vaccine dose or age group, and reached 100% by day 57 with a further increase in titers (GMT, 288 to 488) in cohort 1a. Titers remained stable until at least day 71. A second dose provided an increase in the titer by a factor of 2.6 to 2.9 (GMT, 827 to 1266). Spike-binding antibody responses were similar to neutralizing-antibody responses. On day 14, CD4+ T-cell responses were detected in 76 to 83% of the participants in cohort 1 and in 60 to 67% of those in cohort 3, with a clear skewing toward type 1 helper T cells. CD8+ T-cell responses were robust overall but lower in cohort 3.

 

[vfr400]

Methinks this is all a scam. Say you have an ailing company in which you have excess shares and you start pumping up the share price, the lemmings rush on board and the shares explode in value. You then drop your stock, the lemmings still buy them, you have cashed out, and then the inevitable occurs ...someone looks at the balance sheet.
Meanwhile you have pocketed or throusered it as the term is and smile at the lemmings. And of course the professional stockbrokers don't care whether the stock went up or down, they make profit on the trade.
Mark Twain said it best with his story of the picket fence painting.

That's not how it works. It's basically a scheme to take money from the hedge funds. You find out what they've short traded on, then get everybody to buy the shares, which makes the price go up. Everybody that bought holds until the hedge fund is forced to close. When they close, they're forced to buy the shares at the higher pricefrom the guys that bought the shares against them. So the little guys get their profit from the hedge fund. As you can see, the hedge funds lost $70 billion. That money is now in the hands of the Wallstreetbets guys, so they don't lose. If there are a million of them, each has gained $70,000.

You could just as easily say that it's a false flag campaign by our Great Reset friends. One of the key points on their agenda is financial restructuring. This is very convenient for them.

The reason it's happening doesn't really matter. The fact is that it is happening is going to have a significant effect on how the financial institutions work. They've been manipulating markets for a long time. Now the little people have the power to manipulate against them and take their money. Short trading should never have been allowed. It's flippin obvious to any intelligent person that it's crooked. I heard that 140% of Gamestop shares had been short traded.

 

[Nev]

12 weeks will be awkward around here since both the Pfizer and AZ 12/14 weeks second jabs will be overlapping in April which is when the next Pfizer consignment arrives.

I overheard someone on the radio saying that the EU plan to suggest to the individual governments of the EU 27 that they individually decide if they want to allow vaccine made in their countries to be exported to a country not in the EU. Have you heard anything about this?

If this is correct (I may have miss understood it), then it will be up to the Belgian Government to decide if they want to let supplies of the Pfizer vaccine to be delivered to the UK.