This is big. Uncomfortably big.
She was investigating two Russian nationals involved in some pretty big fraud.
Russia has no hard power. We know this. But they excel at the psychological game.
She is a beautiful, white, blonde woman.
They took advantage of "Missing White Woman Syndrome" to send a message. This is terrifying.
The message is: "the US isn't going to punish you. The Kremlin is."
You're right. I think I just smashed the thoughts into one sentence at the beginning
Oooooo that's good to
I think the important thing to note here is that there are multiple ways to bet against a stock:
A. Buy a "Put" contract at a lower strike price than the current price in the future. At any time between the contract purchase and the expiration date you can exercise it and take your winnings.
B. Short Sell on Margin. Don't do this. Essentially you borrow the stock, sell it right away, then buy it back to return at the lower price.
Maximum loss:
2A: The fee per contract. One "Put Option Contract" is 100 shares * the fee. Say the fee for your strike price is $9. Then you pay $900 for one contract. That is your max loss.
2B: Your margin cap. If you borrowed and sold a share for $245, but it turned around and went up, your loss can be arbitrarily large. Don't margin. It's stupid.
Edit: Short selling big dumb, but shorting is not what this big dumb was explaining, this big dumb wanting to explain betting against stock. Fixed
Sublemmies is a fun name tho
Why does this make me incredibly uncomfortable
:P
Nah the puts im buying are out to this summer, I'm not a weeklies guy. I've just been following it and when I decided to transfer the funds the fee was $13.50 for a break even of $181 on June 20. Right now it's down to like $9 for $181 on June 20. But fat lot of good it does if it crashes before I can buy the puts.
Could you guys wait until Wednesday? I want to take advantage of the current bump has on my put target
But
What?
This is one thing you don't fuck with. Every time it has been tried, senior citizens say "fuck it, if I'm dying I'm bringing the bastards down with me."
Boomers don't need us for this fight. If the government skips out on social security, the absolute worst people to piss off, get pissed off.
You know what Boomers have? Free time. You know what Boomers are acutely aware of? They're running out of time.
Medicaid? Honestly, they can cut that with minimal fear. Medicare? Same thing.
Social Security? That's pulling the pin on a grenade and playing hot potato with it.
DELIRIUM !!! WOOO
I do not recommend experiencing it.
I do recommend reading on it, so people who are curious can change that opinion themselves.