Ways GameStop can/should reinvent itself and take over the entire gaming industry

Imagine you're GameStop. You've been slowly losing your market in a rough and changing world when, all of a sudden, you get an unimaginable windfall of good will and stock value. You have the spotlight and the resources to do something amazing. Here are some ideas for you to take advantage of it all.

Solve the Gen9 Console availability crisis.
That's right. How can you sell games when no one has the hardware to play them? Scalpers have stolen as much as 15% of the console supply according to some reports, and literally none of your competitors give a shit because they're still making money in the process.

You you as GameStop have massive and reputable shipping lines already established. You have direct contacts with Sony and Microsoft and their manufacturers. You have an already existing massive database of card-carrying members that you can leverage to ensure these consoles actually get into the hands of gamers instead of opportunists. This immediately makes you more desirable than even WALMART because, after all, Sony and Microsoft aren't making much money on the hardware itself, and you can guarantee the stock will be distributed to customers who will go on to pay for games and subscriptions.

When the stock is still low, you limit sales to just your PowerUp members, x-amount per payment method. Because your stores are distributed around the nation, you can manage waiting lists more efficiently than Sony's Direct program. Because you know where the actual demand is, you can distribute the stock quickly to areas that actually stand to buy and use the consoles.

It's a win-win for you and the gaming companies, and as an added bonus the scalpers get stuck holding the bag. The scalpers then sell their consoles back to you at a discount, which you can sell as legitimately brand new and unsealed.

Get into the PC market.
Good news, you're already doing this. You can even use your powers detailed in the last section to help get RTX cards to gamers instead of bitcoin miners. However, the real draw here is to partner with places like PCPartPicker to keep stock of parts for DIY PC builds. Considering Best Buy got out of this market years ago, and many places still have no access to a Fry's Electronics, you'd be tapping into the most excitable gaming sector with the deepest pockets, and it would shore up the times between major console releases as PC inevitably and always outpaces the market mid-cycle.

Community: Partner with local game developers.
Take it from me, we NEVER have enough play testers. We've actually gone and asked our local GameStop if they'd let us demo upcoming games there, but the local managers always have their hands tied. Here's the thing, though, game dev studios are everywhere now. If you interface with us, you will always have something new and exciting, and REGIONAL, to share with your customers. Meeting game developers, even small-timers like us, is a really cool thing for a lot of gamers. Then, if you manage to be near one of the AAAs, you'd have customers lining up out the door to try their latest tests, and each one of those customers is a potential sales vector.

This also opens opportunities for education in our industry. I would personally hold weekly programming and art workshops at your stores to teach future devs how the sausage is made. Better yet, you have literally all of the required reading sitting right there on your shelves. Hey kid, now that you know about how to build progression systems, you should really buy that used copy of whateverthehell on the shelf there and study it. BOOM. More sales.

Community: Event days.
There's some new Pokemon you have to trade for. There's a new Call of Duty multiplayer map. Even the smallest GameStops tend to have room for 3-4 demo stations where people can gather to get their hands on the cool new thing you want them to buy. This would be a million times more effective than those cringe-inducing "new release" videos you torment your employees with on loop. Besides, there is no greater marketing than watching someone else trying a game right in front of you.

Futures Tumblr as Tech Stocks and Crypto Crash

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Futures Tumble As Tech Stocks, Cryptocurrencies Crash TUESDAY, FEB 23, 2021 – 7:44 Global stocks, US equity futures and cryptocurrencies all tumbled on Tuesday as the recent surge in inflation, bond yields and commodity prices continued to hammer technology shares while investors awaited fresh reassurance from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the path for monetary policy in United States.

The MSCI world equity index fell 0.1% to fresh two-week lows, having earlier risen on gains in commodity-heavy equity indexes in Asia. After rising during the Asian session, S&P 500 futures also fell once Europen came online, and were last down 0.4%.

Nasdaq futures tumbled as much as 2%, and were last down 1.4% a day after the tech-heavy gauge posted its longest losing streak in four months. Heavyweight tech stocks slid premarket, with Apple -2.7%, Amazon -2.4%, Tesla -7.5%, Alphabet -1.6%. Tesla crashed 6% in pre-market trading, sliding below the $695 level at which it entered the S&P500. Tesla shares were set to plunge into the red for the year, hit by a fall of bitcoin, in which the electric carmaker recently invested $1.5 billion.

Adding to the risk off mood, Bitcoin resumed its recent plunge, plunging as much as 17% below $46,000, down over $12,000 from recent highs after a bout of volatility highlighted lingering doubts about the durability of the token’s rally.

“The prospect of a less dovish tone from central banks, sparked by rising inflation, is causing stock traders to reduce their exposure to equities, especially overbought sectors like tech,” said Pierre Veyret, analyst at ActivTrades in London. Another concern among investors is that broad benchmarks have already priced in much of the prospective global recovery spurred by vaccines and U.S. stimulus. Alongside rising inflation, another is that central banks may eventually start reconsidering emergency programs that have supported global markets.

Europe’s Stoxx 600 was down -0.8%, sliding as much as 1.6% earlier, with Tech stocks leading losses. European tech stocks were on set for their worst day in four months, down 2.7%, and the worst-performing index in Europe, as chip-equipment makers plunged amid market rotation out of more expensive sectors. Pandemic winners also dive. The index fell as much as 3.9% to a three-week low, the steepest intraday drop since Oct. 26. Chip- equipment makers, which have benefited amid a global shortage of semiconductors and are among the best-performing tech stocks in Europe this year, declined sharply: BE Semi -7.2%, ASMI -6.1%, ASML -3.4%. On the other end, mall operators, office landlords and events companies rose in Europe on increasing optimism about the prospects for reopening the Covid-hit economy following news that Germany mulled loosening the rules for easing lockdown restrictions. That followed the U.K. having set out an aim to gradually ease restrictions in stages over the next four months.

Here are some of the biggest European movers today:

Chip stocks fall on Tuesday, weighing on the Stoxx Tech Index, reflecting declines across U.S. semiconductor peers late Monday, as market rotation out of more expensive stocks and sectors gathers pace. Covestro shares jump as much as 3.4% before erasing gain in Frankfurt; Commerzbank says the company published a “strong” 1Q outlook, but a cautious view on 2Q to 4Q, leaving upside to consensus. U.K. domestically oriented stocks gained on Tuesday as travel and entertainment shares surged after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to reopen the economy. KPN shares tumble as much as 10%, their biggest one-day drop since June 2016, as America Movil sells around EU2.2b of bonds exchangeable into shares in the Dutch phone company. Adyen shares drop as much as 4.5% to a two-week low of EU2,056, after a pre-IPO investor sells shares in the payments firm. Earlier in the session, Asian stocks rose clearly unaware of the shitstorm that was about to be unleashed by European traders, with equity benchmarks in Thailand and Hong Kong the biggest gainers in the region. The SET Index jumped as much as 2%, with tourism and leisure stocks rallying the most on the gauge amid optimism over the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines and relaxation of pandemic-led restrictions. Casino operators Galaxy Entertainment Group and Sands China surged to be among the top gainers on the Hang Seng Index, after Macau reopened to quarantine-free travel from mainland China. Energy was the top-performing sector in Asia as oil surged toward $63 a barrel. Investment banks and traders predicting the market will tighten further and push prices higher. Technology was the worst performer. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index headed for its first gain in four sessions, with equity benchmarks in Australia and Singapore also rising. Stocks were lower in South Korea and Malaysia, while Japanese markets were shut for a holiday.

India stocks ended little changed, after swinging between gains and losses several times in the session. The S&P BSE Sensex closed marginally higher at 49,751.41 in Mumbai, while the NSE Nifty 50 Index added 0.2%. Both gauges had retreated more than 4% through Monday from record highs on Feb. 15. Reliance Industries Ltd. gave the biggest boost to both measures after saying it plans to spin off its oil-to-chemicals operation into an independent unit. A gauge of metal companies was the top performer among the 19 sector indexes compiled by BSE Ltd

Rising inflation bets spurred by the global economic recovery have hammered stocks in the past week. The level of angst was also reflected in various equity volatility gauges which rose to multi-week highs, while on bond markets German and U.S. yields moved in different directions, even though both remained just below the highs hit on Monday.

After being knocked off from eight-month high by European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde signalling discomfort with the recent surge in yields, 10-year Bund yields resumed their upward trend and were last at -0.297%.

In rates, Treasuries steadied on Tuesday, below Monday’s one-year high of 1.394% and were last at 1.360%. Yields were cheaper by ~1bp across long-end of the curve, steepening 5s30s by ~2bp after the 5s30s touched the highest level in more than six years. A wider bear-steepening move in under way in bunds, which trade 4bp cheaper vs Treasuries. The curve steepened, pivoting around a little-changed 10-year sector. Month-end re-balancing flows are moving into focus as traders anticipate rotation into bonds. Auction cycle begins with 2-year notes, while Fed Chair Powell delivers semi-annual monetary policy report. Most peripheral and semi-core spreads widen to Germany; Italy outperforms, tightening ~1bps at the long end

Traders will be waiting to hear from Fed Chair Jerome Powell when he testifies to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and the House Financial Services panel the following day. He’s expected to be reassuring on the central bank’s dovish stance when he gives his congressional testimony at 1500 GMT in Washington, and to play down the risk of inflation despite the size of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal.

“Fed Chair Jay Powell will be torn today,” ING analysts led by Padhraic Garveywrote in a anote. “A bit of inflation is a good thing; it’s what the Fed has wanted. But too much anticipation of it is not good, as it tightens policy prematurely.”

“If there were already any expectations that Powell could try to calm down rates, then (Lagarde’s remarks) have just further cemented them,” said Giuseppe Sersale, strategist and fund manager at Anthilia in Milan.

In currency markets, the dollar briefly dropped to its lowest since Jan. 13 before advancing against most G-10 peers, with traders waiting to see if Powell will address the selloff in Treasuries. The pound led G-10 gains, nearing $1.41 as investors digested the U.K.’s plan to open up the economy. The Canadian dollar outperformed most peers as oil prices continued their ascent. The dollar index was up 0.1% at 90.137, with the euro flat at $1.215.

Commodity prices strengthened again with Copper extending gains, while WTI crude rose toward $63 a barrel. Oil prices jumped by more than $1 at one point, underpinned by optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and lower output as U.S. supplies were slow to return after a deep freeze in Texas shut in crude production last week. Brent crude was last up 0.7% at $65.7 a barrel after earlier hitting a fresh 13-month high of $66.79, while U.S. crude rose 0.8% to $62.17 a barrel.

“Oil has been caught up in the broader commodities move higher, with a weaker USD proving constructive for the complex,” ING strategists led by Warren Patterson said in a note. “Meanwhile, there is also a growing view that the oil market is looking increasingly tight over the remainder of the year”.

Copper prices meanwhile hit a 9-1/2-year high as tight supply and solid demand from top consumer China boosted sentiment.

To the day ahead, and the highlight will be the aforementioned appearance of Fed Chair Powell before the Senate Banking Committee. Otherwise, data releases from Europe include UK unemployment for December and the final Euro Area CPI reading for January, while from the US there’s the Conference Board’s consumer confidence indicator for February, the Richmond Fed’s manufacturing index for February and the FHFA house price index or December. Lastly, earnings releases include Home Depot, Medtronic and Intuit.

Market Snapshot

S&P 500 futures down 0.3% to 3,860.50 SXXP Index down 1.2% MXAP up 0.1% to 216.65 MXAPJ up 0.3% to 725.81 Nikkei up 0.5% to 30,156.03 Topix up 0.5% to 1,938.35 Hang Seng Index up 1.0% to 30,632.64 Shanghai Composite down 0.2% to 3,636.36 Sensex little changed at 49,720.21 Australia S&P/ASX 200 up 0.9% to 6,839.17 German 10Y yield up 4 bps to -0.30% Euro little changed at $1.2155 Kospi down 0.3% to 3,070.09 Brent futures up 1.2% to $66.03/bbl Gold spot down 0.2% to $1,806.15 U.S. Dollar Index up 0.1% to 90.14 Top Overnight News from Bloomberg

The U.K.’s finance minister Rishi Sunak is set to spend billions of pounds in extra support for the economy over the next four months, as pandemic curbs pushed unemployment to its highest level in almost five years Copper rose to the highest level in over nine years as a rally in industrial metals showed little sign of abating amid a global recovery from the pandemic European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said her institution is “closely monitoring” the market for government bonds, in a sign that she might act to prevent rising yields undermining the economic recovery from the pandemic Oil extended gains near $62 a barrel with investment banks and traders predicting the market will tighten further and push prices higher Commodities rose to their highest in almost eight years amid booming investor appetite for everything from oil to corn. The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, which tracks price movements for 23 raw materials, rose 1.6% on Monday to its highest since March 2013 In Brazil, investors unloaded everything from state- run companies to bonds and the currency after President Jair Bolsonaro ousted the head of oil giant Petrobras, sparking worries of government meddling and a break with his administration’s market-friendly pledges Japan is planning to lift the state of emergency in places outside the Tokyo metropolitan area earlier than planned, with falling numbers of coronavirus cases easing the strain on hospitals, the Asahi newspaper reported Tuesday U.S. deaths passed the 500,000 mark on Monday. Global deaths related to Covid-19 have surpassed 2.46 million, with the U.S. leading all countries with more than twice the number recorded by the next closest, Brazil, according to Bloomberg’s virus tracker

Algo that tracks the most hyped stocks on Reddit. Here are the results for this week - 2/23/2021

I've been running this algo for the past year, and after recent redacted game store events, thought others might be interested in what stocks are talked about across reddit. This algo scans DD and Discussion posts and calculates based on how popular the post is in the subreddit. Not all of these are penny stocks but plenty are so I hope this is useful still.

How to use this

This list is great for following popular stocks, learning new trends, catching growing stocks early, and develop strategies around them before they go parabolic. I've listed popular posts from across reddit with their ticker along with how quickly their mentions have grown from last week to this week. Cheers.

Most Popular Stock Tickers (from across Reddit)

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Article Titles	Correlated Tickers	Avg Hype %
Today, Interactive Brokers CEO admits that without the buying restrictions, $GME would have gone up in to the thousands	GME	300%+
Blackberry just can’t catch a break	BB	300%+
Shorting TSLA!	TSLA	300%+
BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, is starting to "dabble" in Bitcoin	BLK	300%+
Due Diligence of Bitcoin Mining stock valuations: RIOT and MARA	MARA, RIOT	300%+
PSA: CCIV is insanely overvalued, even if you're an EV megabull.	CCIV	300%+
ARK buying DraftKings and adding them to 2 of there ETF'S	DKNG, ARKF, ARKG, ARKK, ARKW	300%+
I draw with crayons so you don't have to. The grind up continues. Tickers on the watchlist this week: NET, PLTR, FSLY, ARCT	NET, ARCT, PLTR, FSLY	300%+
Uber Loses U.K. Top Court Ruling on Drivers’ Employment Status - Bloomberg	UBER	298%
Taking a look at Corsair Gaming $CRSR (5 min read)	CRSR	278%
$T - AT&T Short Term Bull Thesis - Insider Trading Galore	T	275%
I got in Facebook at $18. I'm thinking of selling half of it for ARK funds.	FB	189%
Michael San Nicolas was the first time I've seen anyone mention (between Reddit, MSM, and the hearing) how Vlad directly benefited from the ...	MSM, GME	148%
Be careful following Cathie Woods and ARK ETF's blindly!	ARKG, ARKW, ARKK, ARKF	100%
ARKK Just bought the dip on PLTR	ARKK, PLTR	97%
Now is the best time to buy cruise ship calls (NCLH)	NCLH	74%

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Most Mention Equities This Week (in a certain subreddit)

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Ticker	Comments	Bullish %
PLTR - Palantir Techno...	11,374	86%
GME - Gamestop Corpor...	5,284	76%
TSLA - Tesla Inc	3,715	76%
RIOT - Riot Blockchain...	2,251	71%
AAPL - Apple Inc	2,197	83%
BB - BlackBerry Ltd	1,725	73%
APHA - Aphria Inc	1,479	81%
SNDL - Sundial Growers...	1,446	68%
TLRY - Tilray Inc - Cl...	1,037	78%
AMC - AMC Entertainme...	933	81%
AMD - Advanced Micro ...	752	80%
NIO - NIO Inc - ADR	707	86%
CRSR - Corsair Gaming ...	588	86%
SENS - Senseonics Hold...	586	88%
AMZN - Amazon.com Inc....	568	80%
MARA - Marathon Patent...	548	90%
MVIS - Microvision Inc...	498	88%
DIS - Walt Disney Co ...	493	95%
PLUG - Plug Power Inc	493	69%
ICLN - BlackRock Insti...	445	82%
QS - QuantumScape Co...	405	76%
UVXY - ProShares Trust...	391	61%
GLD - SSgA Active Tru...	353	69%
SPCE - Virgin Galactic...	324	85%
EBON - Ebang Internati...	318	100%

Feb/23/2021: (1) Lake Sevan quality & bio-filters (2) IDEX weapon expo: Armenian manufacturers get contracts (3) Armenian jet "hijacked" from Estonia to Iran (4) Pashinyan interview. Re:Serj/Kocharyan, Amulsar=yes (5) Trial of Kocharyan & Gonzalez: kidnapped club owner (6) Foreign affairs (7)Protest

Your 20-minute Tuesday report in 5001 words.

Azerbaijan violated UN resolutions / Foreign Minister Ayvazyan during UN Human Rights meeting:

Azerbaijan violated the Security Council's Resolution 2532 and launched large-scale military aggression against the Artsakh population, by taking advantage of the global pandemic.

The use of force to suppress the right to self-determination is a violation of UN conventions, which state that all international disputes must be resolved peacefully.

The Azeri leadership did not hide the fact that their goal is to eliminate the Armenian trace from Artsakh. Atrocities were committed by Azeris, Turks, and the terrorists hired by them.

Azeri state officials circulated videos showing the torture of ethnic Armenians, which are akin to ISIS practices. Those who committed the crimes later received rewards.

To this date, Azerbaijan has not fulfilled its commitment to return all POWs.

The lack of UN presence in Artsakh allowed Azerbaijan to act in this manner. Humanitarian aid to Artsakh should be apolitical and be based on human rights principles, regardless of geographic location.

Full: https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044212.html , https://youtu.be/HP6pZZgPWZQ

Azerbaijan wasn't ready for peace / Foreign Minister Ayvazyan about past negotiations:

Azerbaijan had repeatedly proved that it was not ready for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, each time coming up with a last-minute demand with new preconditions.

There have been periods of hope in the past when it seemed to everyone that the parties were very close to reaching an agreement. It is not OSCE nor Armenia to blame for failures. I can refer to the Kazan documents. At the last moment, Azerbaijan made it clear they weren't ready for peace. They had been preparing for war for a long time.

(Statement made during an interview with journalists, after the aforementioned UN meeting): https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044229.html

Foreign Minister Ayvazyan about POWs:

The topic of POWs is our top priority. We work in various directions, 24/7. The international pressure grows. Azerbaijan's practice of intentionally delaying the POW repatriation is becoming a headache for them.

We are hopeful that Azerbaijan will abandon this policy of hostage-taking and will immediately provide a positive solution to this crucial humanitarian issue.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044225.html

Defense Minister meets female officers

MOD Vagharshak said the role of women in the army is important, during a meeting with female military academy graduates. There will be routine meetings from now on.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044244.html

1000plus.am Soldiers' Fund reveals stats

Armenian workers make a mandatory monthly contribution from paycheck to 1000plus.am, the official fund that helps wounded soldiers, and families of deceased soldiers.

To this date, the Fund has received ֏32B from mandatory payments, and ֏9B in donations (80% of which came after the war).

To this date, the Fund has helped 1528 families, 1111 of whom after the 44-day war.

֏12B ($23M) has been spent after the war so far. Some aid is one-time, while others are monthly.

They have a new aid program called "Bridge" for soldiers who sustained heavy wounds, and families of missing soldiers. This program allows wounded soldiers to receive help immediately, without waiting for official aid, which would require a lengthy process to receive the status of a disabled.

"Bridge" has aided families of 803 missing soldiers so far. They receive ֏300K for 6 months. There were initially 1,600 missing soldiers but the numbers continue to decline as the DNA identification of bodies and POW repatriation continues.

55 heavily-wounded soldiers receive the ֏300K/mo aid.

 

1000plus.am: We had a new program called "Let's Double". It allowed employers to double/match the contribution fees paid by workers. Many employers joined this program during the war, however, it had some negative consequences. Some businesses, which would often donate large sums, thought that it was no longer needed to donate separately.

We have another program called "$50 challenge". We aim to find 1 million people who can pledge to donate $50/mo. Over 1,000 donors have joined.

Another program is a donation of $2,000 every year, for 3 years.

We rely heavily on diaspora because local workers have already seen their mandatory payments increase progressively, based on salaries.

We will launch another program soon. A donor pledged to donate $100,000 if the Fund can find 100 diasporans who can donate a combined $500,000.

(Daily reminder that Elon Musk earned $1 billion in a month by trading bitcoin)

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044238.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044253.html , https://factor.am/340996.html

Russia sends humanitarian truck convoy to Artsakh

50 tons of construction materials are being shipped to help locals rebuild their homes.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044224.html

Pashinyan's interview to 1in.am / war & aftermath / trade unblocking / Amulsar will likely operate / weapons purchases / Artsakh negotiations

We are in the process of overcoming the aftermath of the war. In general, we have internal and external challenges today, both associated with security. This is why immediately after the war I launched the agenda of ensuring stability in and around Armenia. The clarification of Syunik borders will make Armenia more secure by involving CSTO in the event of military actions.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044293.html

There are no problems that cannot be solved in settlements on Syunik borders. There is a system of certain security guarantees in Syunik. The tensions caused by the new reality will subside over time, especially since we plan to launch massive socio-economic infrastructure projects in Syunik.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044295.html

Every country is interested in lifting the trade blockade in the region. It can bring long-lasting peace to our region, in addition to economic benefits to Armenia. After the January 11th meeting in Moscow, the talk began about resuming Abkhaz railways, and about connecting the Black and Caspian seas with railways.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044296.html

Azerbaijan wants to use POWs as a bargaining chip. That's inappropriate. The November 9th statement applies to all prisoners, regardless of when and how they were captured, so it doesn't matter how Azeri authorities label the POWs from the Khtsaberd incident. We should continue the work without causing a deadlock. We have a real possibility to resolve this. There are regular trilateral meetings. It's another question on when it will be resolved. 69 POWs have returned home already.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044298.html

(About Kocharyan's claim that had he been the leader, Armenia would not have lost the war.)

Any individual, who was not the leader during September-November, could have made such a statement. We must understand the deep origins of the defeat. If this is a defeat that had its origins in the last 2 years, then let's record that and prove it.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044301.html

(About Serj's criticism that Iskanders weren't used on the 4th day of the war.)

Perhaps the rejected person [Serj] should explain why the Iskander did not explode, or only a fraction of it did? [referring to missiles being of low quality]

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044302.html

We offered to hold snap elections but the opposition rejected it. They are now using it as a platform for radical activities. It could lead to the worsening of security internally and externally. This is why, after receiving a rejection, I decided to return to the implementation of the Roadmap I proposed on November 18th.

We aren't giving a hard rejection to snap elections. We could still hold it, but if a large portion of opposition is against it, it defeats the purpose of holding the elections.

Those politicians, who use the most vulgar language against the public today, realize that it is not a good path for them, so they choose radicalization over elections.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044299.html

We implemented 17 programs as part of the November 18th Roadmap. It's important to note that we've spent ֏23B on Artsakh projects. It'll reach ֏50B soon.

We're also doing projects in Armenia, in Syunik. Aid for soldiers, families, etc. We're drafting a bill about a large-scale mortgage subsidy program for bordering settlements.

In the first 1H of February, the trade turnover increased by ֏44B YoY. This is before the pandemic. That's a 13% increase. And in 2020 February, we had a big increase over 2019 February.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044300.html

We increased military expenditures by ֏50B (+23%) in 2019. One of the first actions was the increase in the combat readiness of troops.

Q: is it because you knew the war was inevitable?

We can look back and see what Serj said in 2018. He said that the negotiations had stalled and we cannot hope that Azerbaijan won't attack. The negotiations had reached a deadlock. We could no longer hope that Azerbaijan wouldn't attack.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044304.html

(About Serj's claim that he needed to be elected as Prime Minister in 2018 to implement the Lavrov Plan, the giveaway of 7 regions.)

What did prevent Serj from doing it sooner? And where are the guarantees he would actually do it? And why didn't he announced it publicly from the Parliament floor? Instead, he was saying we don't have time and war can start any moment. How many missiles did we have in the Spring of 2018?

Anyone can claim that had they been given 3 more days, they would have resolved a problem. But we have an entire history of negotiations in front of us. They [Serj/Kocharyan] came into power in 1998. They saw that it was reckless to give away lands for a phased resolution (Armenia gives lands, gets nothing, gives more lands, maybe or maybe not gets a status).

No negotiation package existed after 1998 that did not talk about the return of 7 regions to Azerbaijan. This was the bare minimum. That was the priority.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044307.html

(About Serj's criticism that Pashinyan did not recognize Artsakh independence during the war.)

The question is not whether Armenia recognizes it, the question is whether the international community would recognize it.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044307.html

(About accusations that Serj's weapon purchase plans were altered by the Pashinyan administration.)

There were no changes in the weapons and equipment purchase plans. Those who were making such claims ended up publicly retracting the claims. It's also important to understand what the former General Chief of Staff said. OK, we write on paper that we intend to buy weapons, but from whom? Some purchases can be interpreted as hostile by allies. Many nuances here.

When I became a Prime Minister, I appointed a Defense Minister (Tonoyan) who was a long-time Deputy Minister. He was the only person in my administration who also held a title in the Ministry under the former administration.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044304.html

Back in 2018, there were felony investigations launched over weapon purchase processes. There were massive contracts that weren't delivered. If we arrested everyone, the fate of those dozens of billions of Drams would remain unknown. Instead, we demanded them to deliver the products.

Second. If you have a bad channel for purchasing weapons (Patron Davo, recently charged w/delivering bad product), you cannot close it until you find an alternative delivery channel.

There have been dozens of felony cases in the army since 2018.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044305.html

(About Serj's claim that he wanted to pass the rule to Karen Karapetyan and not Pashinyan in 2018.)

It's the public who decides whom the power is transferred. Who was the reject [Serj] to transfer power to someone?

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044306.html

My stance hasn't changed over Amulsar, but there is a big chance the mine will operate. I have always emphasized the security that the mining industry brings to our economy.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044308.html

Full: https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/207395

Tags: #interview #PashinyanInterview #PostWarInterview

bill to reform Economic Competition Commission / educate the business / free consulting to avoid violations / statute of limitations / anti-collusion

The Commission has recently busted several businesses with colluding to fix prices. The Commission drafted a new bill to better regulate the field. It has passed the preliminary hearing in Parliament.

Commission member Marcosyan: to prevent violations, we will provide free consulting to a business if they aren't sure if some of their actions would be anti-competitive. There will be public information campaigns to educate businesses and the general public about competition.

The reforms will ensure predictable and efficient enforcement. Businesses often do not understand what they are accused of violating. Sometimes our investigation concludes that the business did not violate the rules, so the case is dropped.

After the reforms, a petition to investigate won't automatically launch an investigation. The Commission will launch a preliminary hearing to find signs of violations, before launching the main investigation.

During the investigation, if the business confesses to wrongdoing, they will receive leniency by paying only 50% of the penalty.

Under existing law, a violation has no statute of limitation. Something done in 2003 could become a subject of investigation today. The reforms will introduce a 10-year statute, or possibly shorter.

Question: will there be felony punishment or harsher penalties for violators?

The existing law already has felony punishment for some anti-competitive practices. Currently, an action is defined as a felony, regardless of the outcome. The reformed law will take into account the damage/profit after the illegal action, and define an act as a felony based on that.

If there are no large ֏1-5M damages, it won't be a felony. We aren't adding more felony cases. We are ensuring the businesses by making the law more clear.

Question: then why do some businesses complain about this bill?

Maybe they haven't read the bill, or they aren't familiar with the existing law, or they just don't want to acknowledge the positive change. We expect constructive suggestions from them.

Question: sometimes businesses collude with each other to manipulate the market. Will the new bill fight against it?

Anti-competitive agreements are the most serious violations. It can be done verbally between two individuals without a way for us to tell what they agreed on.

In the bill, there is an opportunity to initiate operative-investigative measures by the Commission. The Commission will contact [law enforcement], which may or may not result in an investigation.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044168.html

Tags: #EconomicCompetition #Competition #CompetitionReform

2020 stats: economic crime busts

Prosecutors: we recorded fewer economic crimes last year. 844 cases, which is -10% YoY. However, there were 16 more cases that were sent to court.

The workload has not ddecreased. 23% more open cases were transferred from 2020 to 2021.

We counted ֏20B in damages to the state. Collected ֏2.5B of it. Froze additional ֏13.5B in assets.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044228.html

police accountability

Today the Disciplinary Committee fired 5 cops and issued a warning to 2 others for various types of inappropriate conduct.

https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/207376

a jet registered in Armenia is "hijacked"

There was a report that a Boeing 737, which was registered in Armenia, was "hijacked". It allegedly flew from Estonia but instead of landing in Yerevan, it decided to land in UAE to fix technical issues but had to land in Tehran for emergency reasons, according to a preliminary report.

Armenia's Civil Aviation said they are working with multiple countries to investigate. They know where the jet is. They learned that the jet had no passengers; there were only pilots who were foreign citizens. The flight was technical in nature. The flight and landing info are still being investigated.

Another expert, Suren Sargsyan, claimed that the jet was sold to Iran under unknown circumstances.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044235.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044261.html , https://factor.am/340939.html

tenno no tanjobi

Japan celebrates Emperor's Birthday. President Sarkissian called to congratulate Emperor Naruto.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044226.html

COVID stats

2872 tested. 166 infected. 231 healed. 4 deaths. 4366 active.

The US embassy donated infrared thermometers to be used by Education Ministry on 500,000 students.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044214.html , https://factor.am/341236.html

Hamshen Armenian song Քուզիմ Նէննին, by Nare Gevorgyan

https://youtu.be/I8tSu4FX7MQ

a book will be published about Byurakan Observatory

... dedicated to Observatory's 75th anniversary. It'll be the first of its kind and written in cooperation with international scientists, said director Areg.

More: https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044250.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044257.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044281.html

Armenian weapon manufacturers found customers during IDEX-2021 expo in Adu Dhabi

Reporter: There is great interest in the Armenian side. There are many visitors holding discussions with the manufacturers.

Weapon producer: we had a productive day today. We agreed with 3 companies to launch joint production in Armenia. Full details later. Today we agreed to sign a memorandum with the URAL-Vagon factory. We will produce items jointly with the Russian company and buy components from them.

Second weapon producer: we made agreements with Belorussian optics producers. Another agreement over missile shells and complex devices. We might have a joint production in Armenia. They've been invited to Armenia's ArmHiTech to sign a memorandum.

Third manufacturer: we met many old friends to present them our new products. We had [logistics delivery] issues earlier but we took steps to find alternative ways to present our products.

Fourth manufacturer (Davarro?): we forged important ties and presented our products. There was great interest in Armenian drones. We'll try to develop the ties.

https://youtu.be/H8unn4LwCqY , https://factor.am/341049.html

Serj's nephiew Franklin Gonzalez trial / ֏5M racket collections / bodyguards sentenced

Serj Sargsyan's nephew Franklin Gonzalez (Narek Sargsyan) recently confessed to several crimes. He asked the court to expedite the trial.

A victim from the nightclub industry was present during the trial today. He claimed Gonzalez used to travel around and "collect" ֏5M from clubs. "They kidnapped me for a day to prevent the operation of the club. I was assaulted by [Gonzalez] and his bodyguards. This is a proven fact, the bodyguards were tried." He complained that the authorities did not press those charges against Gonzalez.

Gonzalez's three bodyguards were earlier sentenced to prison time but were released for time served, combined with Pashinyan's 2018 mass amnesty.

https://youtu.be/k8kS95fyVNw , https://factor.am/341172.html , https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/207379

rumors and rebuttals: former regime continues to circulate false data about war casualties

Former HHK Justice Minister Arpine Hovhannisyan claimed 10,000 people had amputations as a result of the war. As a fact-checker notes, as of January 2021, the total number did not exceed 150. All of them will receive modern prosthetics with the help of a new lab and Dutch expert.

9094 people were injured/wounded during the war. Total confirmed deaths are 3577, and it's expected to increase as more bodies are discovered.

https://fip.am/14811

Kocharyan's trial delayed again / lawyer's no-show / Prosecutor wants sanctions / Judge is fed up

Kocharyan and co-defendants are going through the March 1st trial. They have been intentionally dragging the process since 2018 by using various means, such as not showing up, making repeated claims for judge's or prosecutor's recusal, etc. As a result, the trial has not yet reached the phase where each side presents hard evidence to make their case.

Today the trial resumed but was immediately suspended again because one of the defense lawyers was a no-show. The defense claims it's not their fault because the lawyer warned last time that he had another trial to attend to on that date. The judge responded by saying "you know that these March 1st trials are always on Tuesdays. You can contact Appeals Court."

The judge decided to issue a warning. The lawyer will be held in contempt (disrespect) of court if he misses the trial without a valid excuse. The final decision to handle the lawyer's absence will be made on March 2nd, so the trial has been delayed again.

Prosecutor about the delays: It cannot continue like this. We are dealing with abuse of law. The defense turned the entire trial into a discussion on why the trial began 20 minutes late.

The judge had found out that the other trial, which the defense lawyer was supposed to take part in, did not take place [so the lawyer could have attended this trial]. The defense, in turn, criticized the judge for making efforts to learn details about the other trial's status.

Another defense lawyer about delaying accusations: the defense has not violated any laws. We haven't submitted similar petitions about the same topic. There are 4 defendants, and each one of them can submit petitions.

More: https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044237.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044247.html , https://factor.am/341082.html , https://youtu.be/_fAK96MakW8 , https://factor.am/341097.html

opposition resumes protests / circles govt building / police makes arrests / Pashinyan sneaks into Nature Ministry building

As promised yesterday, ARF and other activists allied with the former regime encircled the government building this morning to prevent Pashinyan from entering the Nature Ministry facility for a session. "The citizens have gathered to show that Pashinyan has no public support in the country," said ARF co-leader Gegham Manukyan.

By afternoon, 25 people were detained in front of the building for ignoring police orders. The opposition complained about police brutality and breaking someone's foot. The police responded saying one of the detained individuals fell sick and an ambulance was called. The doctors diagnosed "left calf sprain". An investigation is launched.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044220.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044251.html , https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044267.html

Azatutyun media outlet says the former regime activists attacked its crews and equipment during the protests. There have been several attacks against this outlet, which is often an anti-former regime in its coverage.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044303.html

Non-former-regime opposition LHK Marukyan criticized the non-parliamentary (former regime) opposition: "When Pashinyan offered to meet and discuss snap elections, you vehemently rejected elections organized by Pashinyan. You even cursed anyone who would agree to such a thing, by using your experts and media outlets as a mouthpiece.

Two Parliamentary opposition parties met Pashinyan and informed him that the opposition demand isn't the organization of snap election, but his resignation. On February 7th, the ruling party said they'll delay the issue of snap elections until June.

After all this, the non-parliamentary parties today accuse us - the parliamentary opposition - of being the ones to prevent the Parliament from being dismissed.

Dear friends, please make up your mind about what you want: snap elections? Resignation? Resignation then elections?"

https://factor.am/340953.html

QP MP Alen: the opposition [former regime] knows very well that in the event of snap elections, the ruling party will win again. That's why they rejected the elections. Pashinyan has the highest rating among politicians. Vazgen Manukyan has ended his political career; they just don't want to tell him not to upset him.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044239.html , https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/207321

Despite the opposition's efforts, Pashinyan was able to sneak into the Nature Ministry building. "The problems of the environment are most acute in the 21st century. It must be stated that any activity of human civilization is in some ways anti-environmental. The consensus of modern civilization is that the rational use of natural resources is inevitable," began Pashinyan.

He noted that Armenia is by far not in an ideal shape when it comes to environmental standards, "but at the same time, we cannot suspend the economic activities in Armenia."

Nature Minister Romanos: illegal fishing dropped by 75% as a result of enforcement. 265 fishers caught 205 tons of sig per legal allowance, since September. This allows them to legally export, too. We intend to improve the fight against illegal fishing soon.

It's been two weeks since we resumed the removal of 1,600 buildings that were built too close to lake Sevan. Three dozens were removed.

Sevan has the highest water levels in the past 5 years.

We still have high levels of illegal deforestation (it increased in 2020). A new round-the-clock monitoring and economic aid for residents are being discussed.

We restored 123 hectares of forests in 2020. We expect this number to triple in 2021. We're discussing the implementation of the "10 million trees" project that was canceled in 2020.

We plan to count the number of animals and create a database. The hunting industry will be reformed; hunting farms (տնտեսություններ) will be formed. We're taking back 16,000 hectares of lands with wildlife that were given to private entities in the past.

An online ticket system will be introduced for Khosrov Forests.

Businesses operating on Lake Sevan shores will pay 15% tax to Sevan National Park.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044240.html , More https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1044268.html

water quality in Lake Sevan / what do regular tests reveal? / trash and chemicals in rivers / biological and mechanical filtering stations

aww, isn't that cute?

Global climate change finally reached Armenia in 2018, when the population woke up to realize Lake Sevan was green. It was "romantic" green, lots of couples took wedding photos, but the algae-filled water quality was no laughing matter.

That is partly because people and factories dump their day-to-day trash and chemicals into the rivers that pour into the lake. Some pollutants serve as "food" for algae, which turns the lake green and endangers the ecosystem.

what to do

Solution one. Raise the lake levels to increase its protective/cold layer to act as a natural barrier against algae. To raise the levels, you have to make sure you don't make things worse by submerging nearby forests and facilities, thus increasing more "food" for algae. To fix it, the government sharply increased the Sevan shore cleanup operations in 2019, while the buildings that were built illegally too close to the shores were told to "get lost". The work continues.

Solution two. Improve the quality of rivers that pour into the lake. In 2019, the government said they're working with European and Japanese experts, which could lead to the installation of biological (not just mechanical) filtering stations. Restaurants and other businesses on the shores were told to install drain/sewer mechanical filters.

Hetq outlet investigates water quality:

Sevan's blossoming became the #1 environmental concern since 2018. One of the reasons is the unfiltered chemicals brought by the rivers. A warmer climate also made algae growth easier.

Due to Lake Sevan's water-level reductions in the past, the Big Sevan section's cold layer (hypolimnion) was completely destroyed. This cold layer was acting as a shield against biomaterials and algae. In comparison, the Small Sevan is deeper, so the cold layer partially survived. This is why Big Sevan blossoms more. There are also more rivers that bring more pollutants to Big Sevan.

sounds fishy

Another pollution contributor is the fish breeding industry. There was a plan to create multiple artificial breeding facilities in Sevan (it's a big net with fish floating in the lake), but the government agreed to one facility with 12 nets.

The facility operator says the environmental activists were upset when they learned about its toll on the lake water quality, caused by excretion, nitrogen. etc. However, he says there are many pig farms on the lake shores, and when the farmers clean the area up, it all goes into the lake, and "the entire fish facility does as much damage as 4 pigs do," said the fish-man.

prove it, fish-man

Scientists won't take his word for granted. Beginning in 2018, the National Academy of Sciences cooperated with German experts to take water samples in fish facilities once a month to more accurately assess the impact.

In 2019, the German Helmholtz Nature Protection Center and its Armenian colleagues discovered high levels of phosphorus in the fish facility during one of the tests. "The question is, how much does this localized area affect the entire lake. It could be negligent." No such widespread examination has been done yet.

բայց ինչ քաքլան լակոտ դուրս եկաք

The rivers that pour into Sevan are trashy and contain human waste. This is by far a bigger problem than the fish facility. When it comes to climate change, we cannot control the weather, but we can control the pollution.

The rivers' quality is regularly tested. It's either excellent, good, average, unsatisfactory, or առավոտը որ կռանթի ջուրը բացում ես տռուբի համը գալիս ա (class 1-5). The classification takes into account the temps, oxygen level, biomass, metals, chemicals, etc.

Nature Ministry tests the river quality every 3 months, in 19 different observation sites located on rivers Dzknaget, Masrik, Sotq, Karchaghbyur, Arpa-Sevan Tunnel, Vardenik, Martuni, Argichi, Dzakqar, Shoghvaz, and Gavaraget.

The data from 2015-2020 shows that the quality has never been Excellent (Class-1). The best was Class-2. Details here: https://youtu.be/fUKO_G80agk (more in the link below).

It appears that the cleanest was Dzknaget (originating north-west of lake), with almost all readings being Class-2. Masrik (south-east) became very polluted beginning in 2017. Usually, the quality gets worse as the river gets closer to the lake because it encounters more human waste along its journey.

Gavaraget river delivered a big surprise with a positive score, while experts had predicted the opposite.

In almost all examples, the independent environmental organization's tests showed cleaner results than the ones conducted by Nature Ministry. "The discrepancy could be due to testing devices. However, we did not test for all of the pollutants tested by the Ministry. These pollutants could have reduced their scores [narrator: you are onto it, Sherlock]."

some filtering stations do exist, but they are mechanical

7 settlements dump sewer into rivers, while only 3 of them have a mechanical filtering station that removes large pieces of waste. Experts say every river needs not only a mechanical but also a biological filter.

The German expert Dr. Karsten Rinke from the aforementioned Helmholtz Center said that wastewater produced by each individual contains enough phosphorus to turn 20,000 m³ freshwater into low-quality water full of cyano-bacteria.

what should the government do?

First. Resign (Source: Vazgen).

Second. The modernization of filtering mechanisms should be the top priority, believes the German expert. Some of the collected waste could be reused in agriculture.

Settlements must have dedicated sewers so the waste won't pour into rivers or even worse, get mixed with spring waters in lower layers.

Gegharqunuq province has 57 settlements, but only 5 of them have sewers, with only 3 having mechanical filters. These mechanical filters don't make much difference because they don't filter-out chemicals with tiny particles.

real cleanup stations

Lately, the emphasis has been on filtering stations immediately on Lake Sevan shores. In 2020, the Nature Ministry asked businesses on the lake's shores to install filtering stations. As of right now, 7 large businesses have installed one. Nature Ministry also met businesses that produce filtering stations to negotiate.

In 2020, Nature Ministry announced plans to install biological filters in 3 large settlements: Gavar, Sevan, and Martuni. A Gegharquniq official recently mentioned that they are working with the German KfW bank to receive funding for the biological filter's construction.

https://hetq.am/hy/article/127287 , Karsten Rinke https://hetq.am/hy/article/121074

Tags: #LakeSevan #SevanWater #WaterQuality #Algae #SevanQuality #poopfilter

donations to Artsakh & recovering soldiers

www.1000plus.am (recovering soldiers & their families)

www.HimnaDram.org (for Artsakh & Armenia)

www.ArmeniaFund.org (U.S. tax-deductible)

archive of older news

http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Daily_Anti-Corruption_Reports

disclaimer

All the accused are considered innocent unless proven guilty in the court of law, even if they "sound" or "appear" guilty.

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Most Popular Stock Tickers (from across Reddit)

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Article Titles	Correlated Tickers	Avg Hype %
Today, Interactive Brokers CEO admits that without the buying restrictions, $GME would have gone up in to the thousands	GME	300%+
Blackberry just can’t catch a break	BB	300%+
Shorting TSLA!	TSLA	300%+
BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, is starting to "dabble" in Bitcoin	BLK	300%+
Due Diligence of Bitcoin Mining stock valuations: RIOT and MARA	MARA, RIOT	300%+
PSA: CCIV is insanely overvalued, even if you're an EV megabull.	CCIV	300%+
ARK buying DraftKings and adding them to 2 of there ETF'S	DKNG, ARKF, ARKG, ARKK, ARKW	300%+
I draw with crayons so you don't have to. The grind up continues. Tickers on the watchlist this week: NET, PLTR, FSLY, ARCT	NET, ARCT, PLTR, FSLY	300%+
Uber Loses U.K. Top Court Ruling on Drivers’ Employment Status - Bloomberg	UBER	298%
Taking a look at Corsair Gaming $CRSR (5 min read)	CRSR	278%
$T - AT&T Short Term Bull Thesis - Insider Trading Galore	T	275%
I got in Facebook at $18. I'm thinking of selling half of it for ARK funds.	FB	189%
Michael San Nicolas was the first time I've seen anyone mention (between Reddit, MSM, and the hearing) how Vlad directly benefited from the ...	MSM, GME	148%
Be careful following Cathie Woods and ARK ETF's blindly!	ARKG, ARKW, ARKK, ARKF	100%
ARKK Just bought the dip on PLTR	ARKK, PLTR	97%
Now is the best time to buy cruise ship calls (NCLH)	NCLH	74%

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WallStreetBets - Most Mention Equities This Week

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Ticker	Comments	Bullish %
PLTR - Palantir Techno...	11,374	86%
GME - Gamestop Corpor...	5,284	76%
TSLA - Tesla Inc	3,715	76%
RIOT - Riot Blockchain...	2,251	71%
AAPL - Apple Inc	2,197	83%
BB - BlackBerry Ltd	1,725	73%
APHA - Aphria Inc	1,479	81%
SNDL - Sundial Growers...	1,446	68%
TLRY - Tilray Inc - Cl...	1,037	78%
AMC - AMC Entertainme...	933	81%
AMD - Advanced Micro ...	752	80%
NIO - NIO Inc - ADR	707	86%
CRSR - Corsair Gaming ...	588	86%
SENS - Senseonics Hold...	586	88%
AMZN - Amazon.com Inc....	568	80%
MARA - Marathon Patent...	548	90%
MVIS - Microvision Inc...	498	88%
DIS - Walt Disney Co ...	493	95%
PLUG - Plug Power Inc	493	69%
ICLN - BlackRock Insti...	445	82%
QS - QuantumScape Co...	405	76%
UVXY - ProShares Trust...	391	61%
GLD - SSgA Active Tru...	353	69%
SPCE - Virgin Galactic...	324	85%
EBON - Ebang Internati...	318	100%

I created an algo that tracks the most hyped stocks on Reddit. Here are the results for this week - 2/23/2021

I've been running this algo for the past year, and after recent redacted game store events, thought others might be interested in what stocks are talked about on wallstreetbets and across reddit. This algo scans DD and Discussion posts and calculates based on how popular the post is in the subreddit.

How to use this

This list is great for following popular stocks, learning new trends, catching growing stocks early, and develop strategies around them before they go parabolic. I've listed popular posts from across reddit with their ticker along with how quickly their mentions have grown from last week to this week. Cheers.

Most Popular Stock Tickers (from across Reddit)

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Article Titles	Correlated Tickers	Avg Hype %
Today, Interactive Brokers CEO admits that without the buying restrictions, $GME would have gone up in to the thousands	GME	300%+
Blackberry just can’t catch a break	BB	300%+
Shorting TSLA!	TSLA	300%+
BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, is starting to "dabble" in Bitcoin	BLK	300%+
Due Diligence of Bitcoin Mining stock valuations: RIOT and MARA	MARA, RIOT	300%+
PSA: CCIV is insanely overvalued, even if you're an EV megabull.	CCIV	300%+
ARK buying DraftKings and adding them to 2 of there ETF'S	DKNG, ARKF, ARKG, ARKK, ARKW	300%+
I draw with crayons so you don't have to. The grind up continues. Tickers on the watchlist this week: NET, PLTR, FSLY, ARCT	NET, ARCT, PLTR, FSLY	300%+
Uber Loses U.K. Top Court Ruling on Drivers’ Employment Status - Bloomberg	UBER	298%
Taking a look at Corsair Gaming $CRSR (5 min read)	CRSR	278%
$T - AT&T Short Term Bull Thesis - Insider Trading Galore	T	275%
I got in Facebook at $18. I'm thinking of selling half of it for ARK funds.	FB	189%
Michael San Nicolas was the first time I've seen anyone mention (between Reddit, MSM, and the hearing) how Vlad directly benefited from the ...	MSM, GME	148%
Be careful following Cathie Woods and ARK ETF's blindly!	ARKG, ARKW, ARKK, ARKF	100%
ARKK Just bought the dip on PLTR	ARKK, PLTR	97%
Now is the best time to buy cruise ship calls (NCLH)	NCLH	74%

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WallStreetBets - Most Mention Equities This Week

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Ticker	Comments	Bullish %
PLTR - Palantir Techno...	11,374	86%
GME - Gamestop Corpor...	5,284	76%
TSLA - Tesla Inc	3,715	76%
RIOT - Riot Blockchain...	2,251	71%
AAPL - Apple Inc	2,197	83%
BB - BlackBerry Ltd	1,725	73%
APHA - Aphria Inc	1,479	81%
SNDL - Sundial Growers...	1,446	68%
TLRY - Tilray Inc - Cl...	1,037	78%
AMC - AMC Entertainme...	933	81%
AMD - Advanced Micro ...	752	80%
NIO - NIO Inc - ADR	707	86%
CRSR - Corsair Gaming ...	588	86%
SENS - Senseonics Hold...	586	88%
AMZN - Amazon.com Inc....	568	80%
MARA - Marathon Patent...	548	90%
MVIS - Microvision Inc...	498	88%
DIS - Walt Disney Co ...	493	95%
PLUG - Plug Power Inc	493	69%
ICLN - BlackRock Insti...	445	82%
QS - QuantumScape Co...	405	76%
UVXY - ProShares Trust...	391	61%
GLD - SSgA Active Tru...	353	69%
SPCE - Virgin Galactic...	324	85%
EBON - Ebang Internati...	318	100%

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20% dip? 🤷‍♂️ Looks pretty normal to me.

It's April 2011, I am mining on some number of Radeon 5850s making around 1.1 BTC each day. The price is crossing $2.

It's May 2011, I am mining on some number of Radeon 5850s, doubled. Mining difficulty is climbing quickly, and so is the price. We're almost at $10 by the end of the month and I'm still making around 1 BTC per day, somehow managing to stay on par with the difficulty as I buy more graphics cards.

It's early June, and as I am powering on even more GPUs, the price hits roughly $32 before halving over that weekend.

November 2011, we reach $2 after several months of everyone declaring it dead. I am on something like 8 5850s now, probably still making around 1BTC, maybe a bit less, it's difficult to remember after 10 years. After the monstrous crash of about $30, things begin to pick up by the end of the year and we enter 2012 at about $5.

We crash from $7 to $4 between January and February, then from $13 to $8 over one weekend in August. It's dead, each time.

It's 2013 and things are batshit insane. We have some minor 10% drops through the year but everyone is buying. Everyone is mining. I heat my new rental property with Radeon 7990s and only heat the house with graphics cards during the entire winter from 2012-2013. About 11 steps up the stairs, you go from freezing cold to being blasted with heat, like when you exit the plane into Spain.

By April we all lose our shit and people are buying bitcoin for $100. By the 9th they are paying $200 and within a week decide that $70 is more reasonable - a 66% drop in a week. Of course, people can't make up their minds whether Bitcoin is a scam or if it's the future of humanity, so the price goes haywire and we see regular gains and drops of 10/20/30%.

It's November 2013. Bitcoin is not a scam. Clearly, because it's now worth $200. Or is it worth $650? No, it's worth $550. Now it's $700. Nope, $1,100. Now it's $950.

Now it's December and it's $1,100 again. But what the hell is going on, MtGox won't let me log in despite me not sleeping and spending the last 15 hours through the night trying. Now I'm late for work and I've lost 20% of my money, even though I've actually gained 1000% this year, I'm only bothered about losing 20% of what I had a day ago, just like literally everyone else.

It's 2014. It's also most of 2015. The entirety of both years. Bitcoin is dead. Never coming back. We're down to $200. Mining still makes me the same $2-3/day that it ever has, even though the 1BTC/day from 2011 is now worth $200+/day. I give up. Everyone else gives up after buying these new things called shitcoins. I forget, not bothering to sell what I had left as it's barely enough to buy a small used car.

It's 2016 and apparently Bitcoin has tripled since I last looked at it. What. You what. What. Everyone now wants Ethereums. It's like Bitcoin, but it'll fit on my hard drive. Everyone's shitcoins have disappeared. The however many thousands of Doggo coins I mined before I quit have disappeared along with the exchange. Ethereums are bringing out these new shitcoins that actually do something, like Golem, which is like Seti@home but will eventually literally do everything and generate an income for you. Great! Ethereum shitcoins are not called shitcoins. The world of cryptocurrency is very different to how i remember it. I swap half my BTC for ETH and then 80% of that for various tokens.

It's 2017. Nothing bad is happening. Everyone is investing in ICOs for non-shitcoins. Everyone's making $2k/day just trading. Everyone's also making $500-2k/day just holding. Everyone has bitcoin and ether, as well as a tonne of ERC-20 tokens. Some people also have Bitconnect which seems very much like the HYIPs I used to join during my PTC/PTS days as a teenager. Seems like a scam, no good. Ethereum has several 20-30% drops throughout the year. Seems normal, I'm no longer phased after 2013. Everyone in my office is interested. They all discuss it at $10, but ask me about investing $15k when the price hits $300. Finally, they enter at $600 and no one does any work for the rest of the year. We just talk crypto.

It's the second half of 2017. I make more on crypto in one day than at my day job in a month. Literally everything is going up. No one considers that it'll ever drop again. I'm like: "🤷‍♂️ Looks pretty normal to me, but I better sell some soon else.."...

Actually, it's January to April 2018. New York bonuses or Chinese New year or some seemingly random event makes everyone sell literally everything. Everyone had put all their bitcoin into ether, and then all their ether into ICOs. What was once 25BTC was now 400,000,000 various ERC-20 tokens, or kittens, worth around $200. Not only did everyone sell their tokens, causing them to crash, but everyone sold everything else, making everything else crash. Crashception. Every second word on reddit is "crash".

Ether went from $1,200 to $75 in a year or so. Declared dead by everyone.

It's 2018-2020. I'm like, well, not sure. Probably will repeat the cycle of dips, moons and crashes, but probably should have sold. How many Deloreans could I have bought? Better not check my "How many Deloreans I can afford if I traded all of my cryptos for deloreans.xlsx" spreadsheet. My heart and soul must be dead. I have felt no emotion or regret during the crash. 2013 had used up all of that. All of my colleagues are bored and stop talking about crypto. Despite what they said, they weren't interested in the tech, only the money. One buys a folding phone for $1,500 with what was once $10k of Galaxy Ripple chocolate bars, I think. I buy more Ether, deciding to not exchange any for other tokens. From now on, only BTC and ETH for me. I buy some occasionally, but not as much as I should. I pretty much leave crypto will the expectation that we'll just repeat it all again in a few years.

It's 2021, things are batshit insane again. Already?Woopdedoo. Everyone's talking to me about crypto. Fgs. I just decided to try the real stock market where people cry over a 3% crash. Everyone is jumping back in. What is defi and nft? Are cryptokitties nft? Is my kitty still alive? Who knows. Give it 5 years and there'll be a yet another new equivalent to shitcoins.

Bitcoin drops by $10k in January, I'm like, meh. I play with Coinbase Earn and shortly make a mint.

It's the present: Bitcoin drops another 10k in February, even though it's still higher than the last drop. I'm like, meh. Everyone panics. For some reason I decide to write a 20 word reddit post and it turns into whatever the hell I'm writing now for whatever point I'm trying to make. Something about not declaring it dead over a $10k drop when we're still up by $20k this year.

It's mid 2021. Bitconnect is back and they want your doge. Bitcoin hits $80k but crashes by 20% down to $64k. The world is on fire and shit is hitting the CPU fan. It crashes by another $5k before hitting $85k. Ether was $4k but now deemed dead because it's only $2k. Soon it'll be $5k. Elon tweeted about doge being the national currency of Mars. It's a joke, but now doge is $42 and I remember that old exchange that vanished with probably $420,000,000 worth of my doge, and 50 LTC. Twelve seconds later it's back to $0.10. Everyone is mad because it is now only worth double of what it was worth yesterday, even though it is down from ,12 seconds ago.

It's every other year from now until the end of eternity.. Everything crashed by 50% overnight. Now it costs me 250 satoshis or less for my latte. Ether is $1²⁶ or something and no one knows what is happening anymore. The price went so high because 10 billion people on Earth use it daily, either directly or because their car automatically pays for tolls on the Ethereum network with that project from Oaken Innovations that hasn't been updated in years, that now no exchange can display it correctly or something. Everyone is now an NZT or NFT or POS or some other acronym. While I'm working, my phone earns me 0.2 GLM, my fridge earns me 4 MYST, my washing machine earns me a few E-DOGE, all while I process medical simulations and allow some family in China to access wikipedia without their government seeing. My family on Mars send me some DOGE to keep me afloat. Ripple is still being investigated by the SEC while their owners siphon another $100m each year. The price of all cryptos goes 10x every other year but it's all dead when it drops 10-20%.

It's the end of this post. I've no idea what's going on. Has the crash reverted in the time that I've written this? How many Deloreans worth of crypto have I lost today? How many Deloreans worth of crypto have I gained since the start of the year? I look at the price of literally every crypto and see a 10% drop after an unlimited % gain since inception and several hundred percent just this year or so.

Its the end of the end of this post. I consider how to end it, but instead have two endings. Things don't make sense. I consider changing the title to reflect my original intention of pointing out how a 10-20% drop is pretty much to be expected with crypto and that by looking at the bigger picture, you won't even see this dip on a chart next year. Instead, I do whatever I am doing now. I give up and decide to post this so I can use the reddit app to check if anyone has posted anything meaningful about NuCypher, even though I expect the usual pump posts.