#delta stock market

[rjmbaboonbooks]

Daily Comic Journal: July 19, 2021: "Hypocrites. They're All Lying Hypocrites."

For months, these hypocritical talking heads have been steering their viewers from getting these free, safe vaccines to help get the country out of this pandemic. They’ve been telling their viewers to not do the simple act of wearing a covering over their mouth & nose when out in public, especially if they’re not vaccinated. Wearing a mask that could help prevent the spread of the virus and help…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

AI is a WMD

I'm in TARTU, ESTONIA! AI, copyright and creative workers' labor rights (TOMORROW, May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building, Lossi 3, lobby). A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (TOMORROW, May 10, 3PM, University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037).

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

Get that? If control over a key resource is diffused among the people who rely on it, then (Garrett claims) those people will all behave like selfish assholes, overusing and undermaintaining the commons. It's only when we let someone own that commons and charge rent for its use that (Hardin says) we will get sound management.

By that logic, Google should be the internet's most competent and reliable manager. After all, the company used its access to the capital markets to buy control over the internet, spending billions every year to make sure that you never try a search-engine other than its own, thus guaranteeing it a 90% market share:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Google seems to think it's got the problem of deciding what we see on the internet licked. Otherwise, why would the company flush $80b down the toilet with a giant stock-buyback, and then do multiple waves of mass layoffs, from last year's 12,000 person bloodbath to this year's deep cuts to the company's "core teams"?

https://qz.com/google-is-laying-off-hundreds-as-it-moves-core-jobs-abr-1851449528

And yet, Google is overrun with scams and spam, which find their way to the very top of the first page of its search results:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

The entire internet is shaped by Google's decisions about what shows up on that first page of listings. When Google decided to prioritize shopping site results over informative discussions and other possible matches, the entire internet shifted its focus to producing affiliate-link-strewn "reviews" that would show up on Google's front door:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

This was catnip to the kind of sociopath who a) owns a hedge-fund and b) hates journalists for being pain-in-the-ass, stick-in-the-mud sticklers for "truth" and "facts" and other impediments to the care and maintenance of a functional reality-distortion field. These dickheads started buying up beloved news sites and converting them to spam-farms, filled with garbage "reviews" and other Google-pleasing, affiliate-fee-generating nonsense.

(These news-sites were vulnerable to acquisition in large part thanks to Google, whose dominance of ad-tech lets it cream 51 cents off every ad dollar and whose mobile OS monopoly lets it steal 30 cents off every in-app subscriber dollar):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Now, the spam on these sites didn't write itself. Much to the chagrin of the tech/finance bros who bought up Sports Illustrated and other venerable news sites, they still needed to pay actual human writers to produce plausible word-salads. This was a waste of money that could be better spent on reverse-engineering Google's ranking algorithm and getting pride-of-place on search results pages:

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

That's where AI comes in. Spicy autocomplete absolutely can't replace journalists. The planet-destroying, next-word-guessing programs from Openai and its competitors are incorrigible liars that require so much "supervision" that they cost more than they save in a newsroom:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/#dont-you-understand

But while a chatbot can't produce truthful and informative articles, it can produce bullshit – at unimaginable scale. Chatbots are the workers that hedge-fund wreckers dream of: tireless, uncomplaining, compliant and obedient producers of nonsense on demand.

That's why the capital class is so insatiably horny for chatbots. Chatbots aren't going to write Hollywood movies, but studio bosses hyperventilated at the prospect of a "writer" that would accept your brilliant idea and diligently turned it into a movie. You prompt an LLM in exactly the same way a studio exec gives writers notes. The difference is that the LLM won't roll its eyes and make sarcastic remarks about your brainwaves like "ET, but starring a dog, with a love plot in the second act and a big car-chase at the end":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

Similarly, chatbots are a dream come true for a hedge fundie who ends up running a beloved news site, only to have to fight with their own writers to get the profitable nonsense produced at a scale and velocity that will guarantee a high Google ranking and millions in "passive income" from affiliate links.

One of the premier profitable nonsense companies is Advon, which helped usher in an era in which sites from Forbes to Money to USA Today create semi-secret "review" sites that are stuffed full of badly researched top-ten lists for products from air purifiers to cat beds:

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

Advon swears that it only uses living humans to produce nonsense, and not AI. This isn't just wildly implausible, it's also belied by easily uncovered evidence, like its own employees' Linkedin profiles, which boast of using AI to create "content":

https://housefresh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Advon-AI-LinkedIn.jpg

It's not true. Advon uses AI to produce its nonsense, at scale. In an excellent, deeply reported piece for Futurism, Maggie Harrison Dupré brings proof that Advon replaced its miserable human nonsense-writers with tireless chatbots:

https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

Dupré describes how Advon's ability to create botshit at scale contributed to the enshittification of clients from Yoga Journal to the LA Times, "Us Weekly" to the Miami Herald.

All of this is very timely, because this is the week that Google finally bestirred itself to commence downranking publishers who engage in "site reputation abuse" – creating these SEO-stuffed fake reviews with the help of third parties like Advon:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/#site-reputation-abuse

(Google's policy only forbids site reputation abuse with the help of third parties; if these publishers take their nonsense production in-house, Google may allow them to continue to dominate its search listings):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

There's a reason so many people believed Hardin's racist "Tragedy of the Commons" hoax. We have an intuitive understanding that commons are fragile. All it takes is one monster to start shitting in the well where the rest of us get our drinking water and we're all poisoned.

The financial markets love these monsters. Mark Zuckerberg's key insight was that he could make billions by assembling vast dossiers of compromising, sensitive personal information on half the world's population without their consent, but only if he kept his costs down by failing to safeguard that data and the systems for exploiting it. He's like a guy who figures out that if he accumulates enough oily rags, he can extract so much low-grade oil from them that he can grow rich, but only if he doesn't waste money on fire-suppression:

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Now Zuckerberg and the wealthy, powerful monsters who seized control over our commons are getting a comeuppance. The weak countermeasures they created to maintain the minimum levels of quality to keep their platforms as viable, going concerns are being overwhelmed by AI. This was a totally foreseeable outcome: the history of the internet is a story of bad actors who upended the assumptions built into our security systems by automating their attacks, transforming an assault that wouldn't be economically viable into a global, high-speed crime wave:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/24/automation-is-magic/

But it is possible for a community to maintain a commons. This is something Hardin could have discovered by studying actual commons, instead of inventing imaginary histories in which commons turned tragic. As it happens, someone else did exactly that: Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom:

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons/

Ostrom described how commons can be wisely managed, over very long timescales, by communities that self-governed. Part of her work concerns how users of a commons must have the ability to exclude bad actors from their shared resources.

When that breaks down, commons can fail – because there's always someone who thinks it's fine to shit in the well rather than walk 100 yards to the outhouse.

Enshittification is the process by which control over the internet moved from self-governance by members of the commons to acts of wanton destruction committed by despicable, greedy assholes who shit in the well over and over again.

It's not just the spammers who take advantage of Google's lazy incompetence, either. Take "copyleft trolls," who post images using outdated Creative Commons licenses that allow them to terminate the CC license if a user makes minor errors in attributing the images they use:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/

The first copyleft trolls were individuals, but these days, the racket is dominated by a company called Pixsy, which pretends to be a "rights protection" agency that helps photographers track down copyright infringers. In reality, the company is committed to helping copyleft trolls entrap innocent Creative Commons users into paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars to use images that are licensed for free use. Just as Advon upends the economics of spam and deception through automation, Pixsy has figured out how to send legal threats at scale, robolawyering demand letters that aren't signed by lawyers; the company refuses to say whether any lawyer ever reviews these threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/13/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats/

This is shitting in the well, at scale. It's an online WMD, designed to wipe out the commons. Creative Commons has allowed millions of creators to produce a commons with billions of works in it, and Pixsy exploits a minor error in the early versions of CC licenses to indiscriminately manufacture legal land-mines, wantonly blowing off innocent commons-users' legs and laughing all the way to the bank:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/02/commafuckers-versus-the-commons/

We can have an online commons, but only if it's run by and for its users. Google has shown us that any "benevolent dictator" who amasses power in the name of defending the open internet will eventually grow too big to care, and will allow our commons to be demolished by well-shitters:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/#advon

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[thesims3help]

Masterlist - Gameplay enhancing mods pt 2. [100+ Sims 3 mods!]

Part 1 || This is everything that didn't fit in part 1.

Celebrity:

Testers Wanted: Harder Celebrity Difficulty & More (Late Night)

Food/Cooking/Eating/Drinking:

Cooking and Ingredients Overhaul + More Nectar Ingredients

Let them eat cake! - Non-Birthday Birthday Cakes

Toddler Food Bowl

Quicker Cooking & Eating OverRide

Breakfast At Twinsimming's (Update 7/8/23) - No Cooking Overhaul Version

Baby Food Default Replacement

Pasteurize Milk Mod (Update 7/18/23) - Tunable Hunger Motive Delta

Buy Takeout And Order Food At Restaurants

Nectar Combinatorics

No More Acrobatics! - bartending animations tweaks

Better Bartending!

Eat & Put Away Your Leftovers

Coffee Ingredients Made Choosable

Gain Cooking Skill Faster At Work!

Winter Holiday Cookies

Quicker Cooking & Eating OverRide

Pets:

Pets Don't Eat Plants

Bathe Animals Correctly

[Pets] Improved Beloved Pet, and other Animal-Related Traits - 1.63 - 1.67 by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

[Pets] Improved Relationship Gain with Pets by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

New Pet Genetics - No More Skinny Clones

Minor Pets Won't Run Away

Dogs collecting shinies fills Destruction motive

Cats stalking for crawlies fills Scratch motive

University:

Lost & Found: Honors Scholarship (Plus Other Aptitude Test Tweaks)

Write Scholarships for Money

New Scholarships (Update 10/26/23) - Talent Scholarships & No Store Version

Attend University Online (Update 10/26/23) - Wish Fix

University Life Visual Fixes (Send Insulting Text, Texting Idle, Heat of the Moment Kiss)

Studying Tweaks

Jobs/skills:

Check For Work In Rabbitholes

Observatory Assistant -- Part-Time Astronomy Job

Flower Arranging - Interaction and Skill

Knitting for TS3 - Interaction and Skill

Writing, Painting, Gardening, Tinkering More Fun

Study Skills Online V37

Yoga Mod (Update 3/1/23) - New Features!

Scribbling Pad + Buzzler's Scribbling Pad - Fixed

TS2 > TS3 Functional Sewing table [BETA V2.0.0]

Programming Skill

Investment Mod (Update 9/3/23) - MultiTab Compatible

Lost&Found: Stock Market

Sim State - The Sims 3 Open For Business Mini Expansion v1.4

Layoff Mod

Ultimate Careers (Version 4.3)

Objects:

Functional Washboard - Sims 4 Conversion

Harvestable Tree Default Replacement

Same Energy Gain For Every Bed

Super Hampers -- Automatic Laundry Pick Up (Plus Bigger Hampers) by Nona Mena (simlogical.com)

Spring Harvest And CookBook

Harvestable Flowers

Better Hoverboards

Canning Station Overhaul

Build/Buy:

One More Slot Please! (with vertical shifting)

[TS3] Catalog Search Mod | Patreon

Add Any Lot Size

TS3 HD Textures Series - Terrain Pack [UPDATE: Fixed road tiling]

No more ugly snowprints

Builder Stuff

Reworked & Improved EA Lights

More Light Coming Through Windows

Other:

Write Thank You Notes Fix

Futuristic Transportation Charge

Advice Social Interactions

Have Sim Arrested Mod

No (or fewer) automatic memories (with custom tool to make your own mod) Edited 01/16/2014

nraas - OnceRead

nraas - Woohooer

Retuned Attraction System

More Traits for All Ages

Lot Population Mod

No Social Groups

Random Sim Fixes 2.0

SetHour Cheat

Let Me Take a Selfie (Update 9/3/23) - Pets Fix

Sunscreen

Burglars Steal Simoleons Too

Tooth Fairy Mod

Dirty Laundry Mod (Update 8/8/23) - Maid & Butler Tweaks

Acne Mod (Update 7/22/23) - Version 2.2

Enhanced Hospitals(Updated 30/1/23)

More Senarios Upon Moving

The Journal Mod

[Public Beta] The Randomizer Mod - REWORKED!

Moar Interactions

DouglasVeiga's Dancer Service

Aging Manager

No Car Relationships

Lightning Enhanced Mod (Lightning in the Sky and Strikes)

Realistically Slower Cars, Taxis, and Bikes

Take Sims To Court - Sue Sims, Become a Lawyer, Have Court Weddings and More!

Social Clubs Mod (+ banking) - Grow Memberships, Push Activities, Make Bank Accounts and More!

Deep Conversations

Sleep on the couch, new interaction

o violet on Tumblr - Pure CAS lighting mod

Reduce/Remove Lag caused by Houseboats

[thebeeshaveknees]

Uhhhh so I decided my first attempt at a trolls fic would be a rewrite of the whole third movie because I'm Silly and I wanted to put JD x DD as like frenemies but romance but I ended up going heavy on the romance and it made me sad so I'm throwing it to the wolves for judgement

When John Dory had fallen into Delta Dawn's pod yet again, he hadn't expected to wake up with a ladybug on his chest.

He nudged her with his foot to wake her up. "Uh. DD."

She grumbled some alliterate curse at him, but rolled over and also saw the ladybug. "John, on my life if you don't get that vermin out of my bed I'll make you walk to the jailhouse in your underthings."

He picked it up, rolled out of bed and was about to put it on the floor when he got smacked upside the head. "Not on my floors neither', John, it's your woods' bug."

John sighed dramatically, waddling to the window with the bug held at arm's reach. "Could you get the window?"

Dawn opened the window latch and John tipped the insect up trying to fit it through, and he noticed the note. "It's a messenger ladybug?" He showed her the underside with eight squirmy legs and a note tied to it with a string. Dawn cringed but grabbed the note around its spindly legs and JD put it out the window. "Sheriff mail?"

She gave him a short look. "Yes, you snoop, now put on a shirt." She said, sitting herself down on the bed to read the letter.

JD threw on his leather jacket, before peeking over DD's shoulder at the note.

"Nothin' interesting, interloper." She teased, looking up at him. "A troll from Pop Village is missing, I'll up patrols for a little while, but it's already been a month - really, ladybugs for messengers.

Something in John's gut twisted, and he'd been following his gut for two decades without fail. "What's their name?"

She opened the letter again. "Branch. Dark blue hair, teal skin, dull coloured." She read, before looking back up at him.

John Dory froze. He felt his stomach twist in knots. "From Pop Village?"

"You look pale, darlin."

"Did it say anything about his disappearance?"

She put her hand on his shoulder, but went back to reading the letter. "Says he was taken from Pop Village by something, it left a trail to the big folks' road but no farther." She looked at him. "You know the troll?"

"He's my brother." John blurted before he could really think it through, leaning into Delta, eyeing the cardstock in her hand. "My baby brother."

"I'm sorry, darlin." She said very softly, wrapping her arm around his shoulder. "When are you leaving?"

"As soon as the market opens, I need to stock up."

"Any ideas where he could be?"

"Not yet, but it's Bitty, I'm sure I could… Maybe I could ask my other brothers for help."

DD sighed, but put her head on his. "Should I come along, interloper?"

JD let his eyelids droop. "I wish, but it seems a traveler can only ever chase the Dawn."

She snorted. "How on earth did I fall for a poet?" She pulled John further into her side. "Don't go chasing what's waiting for you, cowboy."

"If I didn't, how would I keep you on your hooves, Sheriff?"

She sighed, and both just enjoyed the warmth for a moment. "Be safe, you hear?"

"As safe as I usually am." John replied.

They waited for the market to open, for John to leave, in warm silence.

[carnutzphoto]

1946 Stinson V-77 Gullwing - ACD Museum, August 2023

The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio in 1920 by Edward Stinson. By 1927, Northwest Airlines (now known as Delta Airlines) utilized Stinson aircraft in their fleet. E.L. Cord acquired 60% of Stinson stock in September 1929 through the Cord Corporation, which allowed Stinson to offer six aircraft models in 1930 and gave Cord his first foray into the world of air transportation. This Stinson V-77 was built for military use in WWII as a utility aircraft. Under the At-19 designation, it was used by the United States Army for training. Following the end of WWII, the surplus Stinson aircraft were sold on the civilian market as the V-77 Gullwing. This Stinson was completely restored with a wood instrument panel, leather seats and lace curtains.

SPECIFICATIONS Model: V-77 Gullwing Engine: Lycoming R-680-E3B 9-cylinder radial Horsepower: 300 at 2,200 rpm Wingspan: 41 feet, 3 inches Length: 28 feet, 3 inches – Height: 8 feet, 7 inches Maximum Speed: 145 mph Ceiling: 14,000 feet – Range: 575 miles Crew: Up to five – Armament: None Weight: 4,150 lbs.

MOVING A PLANE INSIDE Moving a plane inside a building is no easy feat. It took planning, scale drawings, and figuring out just the right angles to move the plane inside. The wings needed to be removed prior to installation inside the museum, while the horizontal stabilizers stayed on. Once the plane was inside, the wings were carefully installed using a forklift, soft moving cloths and a team of knowledgeable volunteers.

[thewriteroflucifenia]

Ideas from the Fanfiction Nursery

The Domestic Battles of Juri Han

Juri dealing with domestic bullshit in the most chaotic way possible.

Set in the same continuity of The Spider and the Bee, but during her relationship with Crimson Viper.

Juri Fights the HOA - Crimson's neighborhood has a really shitty HOA and Juri decides to fight the power by throwing a massive party where she and the other fed up neighbors rev their engines, play loud music, and paint their fences garish colors. She also vandalizes the HOA leader's fence and car, giving them pink and blue cheetah print. This all started because they started giving them fines over the pride flag on the porch, then Juri's bike, then the trash, then the length of the grass, and Juri isn't patient enough for malicious compliance.

Juri Fights the School Board - Juri doesn't approve of the School Board's ruling on local book bans and decides to be a menace about it.

Juri Fights River Creek Methodist Church- Crimson is trying to kiss up to her boss by going to the same church as him, and it would really help if Lauren would get baptized for her, but Lauren gets cold feet so Juri decides to step in and pretend to have a religious epiphany for the sake of her girlfriend's promotion. The baptism is held in the pool of a neighborhood full of mansions and is decorated with fancy statues and waterfalls. The line "Lauren, Mommy needs you to suck it up, talk about Jesus, and go get dunked in that bougie pool by the preacher" gets said.

Juri Fights the County

Juri Fights the Manager of a Local Hardware Store

Working Title - Why you shouldn't kidnap Cammy's family members

Set before SF2 when Cammy's 18. She's living with her new, adoptive family, got literally no idea where she spawned from other than vaguely in Eastern Europe, and she's just kinda training for her career working for her adoptive father.

She and George are stuck slumming it at the house while everyone else is on a mission they ain't qualified for.

Cammy's bummed her family is away during the anniversary of her adoption, with the exception of George Ginzu, who's like "we should go do something fun in town"

Famous last words, he gets abducted by Shadaloo. Cammy's fucking pissed.

She's playing Rambo now. She tracks their asses down to break out her little brother and give everyone hell.

The Dolls recognize her and become horrified that she's alive, but not responding to her own name or recognizing them. It's like she's been brainwashed or something!

Juri is mad Akuma gets to Bison before she does, proceeds to sulk all the way to SF4.

Rather depressing oneshot about Decapre mourning Cammy after her "death" between Alpha 3 and SF2.

I kinda just want an excuse to write backstories I came up with for minor characters like the Dolls, Lauren, and Delta Red.

Why Marz was so willing to yeet herself to death

She fell in love with Rashid's friend, friend got the ax, now she's decided to be a Sister Repentia and just fucking die.

Rashid's friend is rewritten to be his sister

She and Marz were both massive Warhammer nerds and decide they'll meet again in space.

Marz imagines herself and all her loved ones as Sisters of Battle and Space Marines watching the Imperium crumble before she flatlines and she smiles.

Fuck yeah, she gonna play Orks in the next life.

Lauren and Li-Fen Try Wrestling

These two rascals hunt down Poison and try to pitch themselves as wrestlers

It's a weirdly dramatic plotline

Li-Fen's character is a pirate who's parents were brutally slaughtered by Lauren's character so she turned to piracy and stock market fraud to fill the void. She's hellbent on revenge until she realizes Lauren's character is kinda hot.

Lauren's character is a super soldier with cat ears that is totally not her GI Joe oc. She works for totally not Cobra but secretly thinks clubbing baby seals kinda sucks, but they match five percent to her 401k so she's stuck morality be damned.

Their characters are in a situationship and most of their wrestling is the girls waxing poetically on the meaning of life and love while body slamming each other.

They're just larping at poor Poison who can't find a way to leave discreetly, she's just trapped with these hyper teenagers who really want to tell her all about their OCS.

[doonarose]

I have been 100% on board with the 'oh no don't make them humans that'd be the worst' discourse around good omens' ending since i got here (with the caveat that I do roll my eyes and think - actually, there are many worse things, like them dying/being unwritten/world ending/hating each other/etc. because I have been In Fandom and it could be Worse) but anyway.

And like, I do get it. We want them to live forever, with their powers, with the kind of 'above it all' ness. Which is warranted projection. I think, by us, as humans, who want something ineffable and something eternal and above it all.

But I just started turning it over in my head - Well what if that is the ending we get? Them, made humans by god (or at least something ineffable, for some ineffable reason... as reward? punishment? a lesson? idk, probably doesn't matter) and they're just dumped - human, skin and bones and aches and no miracles - in their south downs cottage and it kind of actually...

works for me? (I know, I'm sorry, bad fan)

Especially if you throw in a scene with Aziraphale all dewy eyed and "And what about the end? When these bodies wear out and we inevitably succumb... What then?" And ineffably there's something... like that's the whole drawcard of religion. "Well then you get to discover what's next for humans!" (Frances McDormand voice obvsly)

And then it's just... "Well what on Earth (literally lol) are we going to do with just a few more decades, angel?"

And goodness I kind of... like that? For them?

Like the press of time is kind of riveting? Because with the endless, sure they potter around their cottage until they go actually mad. But with four or five decades, tops, they fuck like bunnies, or bake and garden and bask in it for like, two years tops. And then they go and live in an old russian palace and hold elaborate balls. Or spend six months seeing every kind of living thing they can find in the Okavango delta. Or Crowley fucks up the stock market just for shits and giggles and Aziraphale becomes deeply invested in drag readings at libraries in some little Australian town and they go days without each other just to excitedly come back together and share updates and wine and grins. I don't know. They'd Do Stuff.

Anyway I don't hate it and I've given myself feelings because something about limited time and being human is important. Immortality gets... idk... watch The Good Place *gestures wildly* it kind of gets it.

[alpinefury]

Free City of New Salamanca

New Salamanca is a port city on the southern coast of North Hesperida, originally founded in the early 17th century by Castilians.

New Salamanca occupies a crucial position on the lower Mishisipone river, representing the last port on the river navigable by heavy draft ships. Almost all goods trafficked down the length of the Mishisipone river eventually make their way here. It is the only European founded city on the Gulf of Hesperida's entire northern coast.

Should one find oneself in New Salamanca it is very easy to eat well there. It is a favoured port of call for many Hesperidine and European vessels, with well stocked markets featuring all sorts of provender from across the Hesperides, but the wider regio of New Salamanca and its allies is also well provisioned, not only with maize and prodigious hauls of seafood, but also with rice, hesperidine grape, and batat nuts, among many others. The city's 'abiernas do their best to combine the multitude of culinary influences mixing in New Salamanca, to great success.

The site upon which New Salamanca presently sits was formerly a boundary between at least two Hesperidine nations, which according to local legend and backwater history was marked with a standing red pole, a practice sometime associated with the Mascogine speaking peoples. The Mishisipone river itself is a great artery that links the very heart of North Hesperida with its south-eastern coast, and there is plentiful evidence of contact and trade between the cultures along its banks long before Europeans ever set foot upon the continent. The great Mantac mound to modern New Salamanca's west was already built in this earlier period.

Thus, though no city occupied what would become New Salamanca, the region was certainly no empty quarter beforehand, but a rich, well managed landscape, whose peoples held complex court. That the city was founded at all was only due to the largesse of the Hesperidine peoples of the region, in part due to the sorry state of those who sought to settle there. And the story of those settlers had been very sorry indeed.

During King Juan IV's reign in Castile a somewhat ill-considered scheme was hatched to both leech some of Castile's domestic turmoil and increase the kingdom's prestige when reckoned against its neighbour, and rival, the Crown of Aragon. Goffredo d'Escors, the expedition's commander, was only given limited resources, as King Juan didn't want to give the impression of an armed expedition directed against Aragon. This was the inauspicious start to what soon became a complete misadventure. After a series of disasters, including being fired upon by Kuban coastal batteries, the arrival of d'Escors' bedraggled survivors into the mouth of the Mishisipone delta in April 1612 was the only good stroke of fortune they had experienced.

There was never any question of the new arrivals attempting to conquer or otherwise subjugate their Hesperidine rescuers. Whilst the expedition's gratitude towards their new neighbours was genuine, particularly after the Citimasha people not only helped to feed the starving Castilians but showed them how to grow Hesperidine crops, any remaining temptation to become a latter day Alexander was snuffed out by the twelve years it took for any Castilian ship to find them. New arrivals soon started to trickle into New Salamanca, little more than a palisaded village at this time. These new arrivals did not only come from Castile. New Salamanca's relative isolation, coupled with Castile's hands-off governance, made it an ideal destination for certain Europeans fleeing religious persecution or other forms of hardship.

A substantial number of the original founders of New Salamanca had married into local Hesperidine nations, and more than a few of the new arrivals did the same. Martim de Sousa, a Portuguese trader said in 1638, that he recognised very little in the developing settlement as 'evoking a purely Christian character'. This was meant to be an invective against New Salamanca, but it accurately reflected both its principles of religious toleration and cultural diversity. Indeed, New Salamanca was increasingly untethered from Castile, who had provided the colony with only intermittent financial support. This resulted in the growing settlement briefly soliciting Aragonese financial interest, which allowed New Salamanca to complete its first stone fortifications in 1645. Whilst this resulted in Castile banning Aragonese traders from New Salamanca in retaliation, it succeeded in its short term aim of acquiring resources for the town, and in drawing loose Castile's purse strings, at least for a time.

When Castile's attention and finances were inevitably drawn elsewhere once more in the 1660s, New Salamanca turned to another, somewhat unlikely backer; the United Commonwealths. New Salamanca's religious tolerance aligned with the principles of the U.C, but the latter had spent much of the past century preying on Catholic-owned colonies, and New Salamanca was still at least a nominal demesne of the King of Castile. However, the U.C was in no position to maintain any kind of garrison or governance over the city. Backing the city's continued quasi-independence and seeing how the dice fell was a more promising enterprise. This secured the city's mercantile future, but also enabled the purchase of a few obsolete warships. These ships' nominal purpose was the prevention of piracy, but they also decreased the city's nominal dependence on the king of Castile yet further.

Matters would come to a head in 1686. King Bermudo IV was facing a Castilian financial crisis that threw the New Salamanca situation into sharp relief. Either the crown had to restore a Castilian monopoly on the city, due to the proportion of its trade ending up in other European states, or abandon the expensive ambition of the colony altogether. King Bermudo made his choice, and sent an armed expedition under the command of Roque de Menga. This was the first time Castile had ever attempted to mount a cross-continental military expedition, with predictably disastrous results. The expedition, its forces much reduced by disease and one sunken ship, was forced to make for the Aragonese port of La Mercè on Nema island. The Aragonese governor, Ferran Geribert, essentially strongarmed de Menga into accepting Aragonese 'assistance', which would have likely led to New Salamanca passing into the hands of the Aragonese crown.

However, New Salamanca had not been idle in the intervening years. New Salamanca had further fortified the Mishisipone Delta. Its batteries and small navy were enough to prevent any realistic attempt at a sea-led assault. It had also begun to conduct formal treaties of defense, at times even alliance, with many neighbouring Hesperidine peoples, most of whom already had friendly relations with the city. Those Aragonese-Castilian forces that landed on the coast found themselves under near constant arrow and musket fire. The invaders found themselves forced to retreat within an hour, leaving numerous casualties behind them. Among them was Ferran Geribert. His death was was the harbinger of a revolt against Aragonese rule on Nema within less than a month.

The battle marked the beginning of de facto independence for New Salamanca, along with the foundation of the Mishisipone Confederacy. The Castilian crown could not simply keep throwing expensive expeditions across the Atlantic in the hopes of recapturing what was, at the end of it all, simply one successful merchant town. New Salamanca's independence was formally recognised in 1697 in the same Treaty of Lorraine that brought Europe's Wars of Religion to their end. It was the first European-founded settlement to have its independence diplomatically recognised in such a fashion. It would not be the last.

Whilst New Salamanca remains free to conduct its own foreign affairs, it is also a component of the Mishisipone Confederacy, acting as the Confederacy's main commercial hub and sometime political capital. As trade along the Mishisipone has increased over the past century and a half, so also has it increased across the Atlantic, not only between the Hesperides and Europe but between the Hesperides and most other continents of the world. New Salamanca gained its independence as a bustling market town, but has become a substantial city every bit the equal of its European peers. Both the city and the Confederacy have grown prosperous and powerful, and are now a crucial component of the Haudenosaunee's diplomatic wall arrayed against any newly introduced European 'interest' in North Hesperida (and, where possible, the Hesperides as a whole). New Salamanca has recently become a major exporter of Japanese goods. These originate from the Tokugawa possessions on the west coast of North Hesperida, officially termed Koganeyama Domain by the shogunate. These include both the growing agricultural bounty of Koganeyama proper and Japanese textiles. This has added yet further to the complex cultural layers that make up New Salamanca's population. The city is also home to the largest Jewish population in the Hesperides, the only Hussite knightly order to have arisen from the Iberian peninsula, and the largest urban population of indigenous Hesperidines north of Meshiko.

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The Ultimate HFT & Delta Neutral Playbook: Underground Tactics for Smart Traders The Little-Known Secrets of HFT & Delta Neutral Strategies High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Delta Neutral Strategies are like a financial ninja’s toolkit—stealthy, effective, and designed for precision. If you’ve ever wished your trades could be faster than a caffeine-fueled Wall Street intern, HFT might just be your best friend. But let’s be honest—without the right strategy, it’s like bringing a pocketknife to a sword fight. Here’s where Delta Neutral Strategies come in: a risk-adjusted method designed to keep your portfolio balanced, regardless of market swings. Think of it as financial aikido—redirecting market momentum rather than fighting it head-on. Let’s break down the myths, advanced tactics, and untapped opportunities that most traders miss. Why Most Traders Get HFT & Delta Neutral Strategies Wrong Most traders think HFT is just about speed. Sure, being fast helps, but if speed was the only factor, every teenager with a gaming PC would be a hedge fund manager. The real edge comes from market structure insights, liquidity arbitrage, and, most importantly, risk management. Here’s what separates the pros from the amateurs: - Not Understanding Market Microstructure – Knowing how orders flow through exchanges is just as important as having a fast execution. - Ignoring Latency Arbitrage – Being a fraction of a second ahead can be the difference between profit and loss. - Misapplying Delta Neutral Hedging – Most traders hedge incorrectly, failing to adjust positions dynamically as market conditions shift. The Hidden Formula Only Experts Use Let’s cut straight to the good stuff. Here’s an insider breakdown of how you can leverage HFT with Delta Neutral Strategies for maximum profit: 1. Order Flow & Market Microstructure Mastery The key to dominating HFT is understanding how orders interact within the market. Most traders see prices; professionals see liquidity pools, iceberg orders, and dark pool movements. - Look for hidden liquidity. Some institutions hide their true order sizes to avoid market impact. - Watch for spoofing & layering. If a large order suddenly disappears, you just witnessed market manipulation. - Use footprint charts & depth of market (DOM). This reveals real-time market imbalances and allows you to react ahead of the crowd. 2. The Delta Neutral Edge: Playing Both Sides Delta neutral strategies allow you to profit in any market condition by offsetting directional exposure. Here’s how you can apply it: - Pairs Trading: Go long on one asset while shorting a highly correlated asset. Example: Long EUR/USD and short GBP/USD if correlations are misaligned. - Option Hedging: Use options to hedge against adverse price movements. Example: Buying a put option while holding a long futures position. - Market Maker Tactics: Profit from bid-ask spreads rather than predicting price direction. This is how firms like Citadel and Virtu crush it. The Forgotten Strategy That Outsmarted the Pros One of the most underutilized HFT strategies involves exploiting latency arbitrage—the art of front-running inefficiencies in market data transmission. How It Works: - Different exchanges process trades at different speeds. - Traders with faster data access can react to price movements before slower competitors. - If NYSE updates stock prices before NASDAQ, you can buy low on NASDAQ before it adjusts. Pro Tip: Use co-location services—installing your trading servers directly within exchange data centers—to minimize latency. Every millisecond counts! How to Predict Market Moves with Precision Most traders rely on traditional indicators like RSI and MACD, which are about as reliable as a weather forecast in a typhoon. Instead, use these: - Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP): Institutions use this to execute large trades with minimal impact. - Order Book Imbalances: Large bids and offers tell you where price is headed next. - Tick-by-Tick Analysis: The more granular the data, the better the prediction accuracy. Why This Matters Now More Than Ever With the rise of AI trading algorithms, markets are evolving rapidly. Retail traders who don’t adapt will get left behind. By leveraging HFT principles with Delta Neutral Strategies, you’re playing the game at a higher level—one where risk is managed intelligently, and profits are extracted efficiently. Next Steps: Get the Competitive Edge Want to go deeper? Here’s how: ✅ Stay Updated on Market News: Get the latest updates at StarseedFX Forex News. ✅ Master Advanced Strategies: Enroll in free forex courses at StarseedFX Education. ✅ Join the Trading Community: Gain access to expert analysis and insider tips at StarseedFX Community. ✅ Get a Free Trading Plan & Journal: Optimize your trading process at StarseedFX Trading Journal. The market is evolving—don’t just keep up, stay ahead.Create wide image for the article above HFT & Delta Neutral Strategies: The Underground Tactics Pro Traders Don’t Want You to Know" —————– Image Credits: Cover image at the top is AI-generated Read the full article

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Trusted & Best Beverage Distributor and Supplier in UAE

We see different types of beverages that capture consumers’ attention. From Red Bull energy drinks to Coca-Cola, we have some of the best beverages in the UAE that are in high demand and known to most people. Local retailers, online stores, and supermarkets look for top beverage distributors. This allows you to order a large stock of beverages directly from an FMCG manufacturer quickly and efficiently. If you’re looking for the right beverage distributor, this guide will tell you about the most trustworthy and best beverage distributors and suppliers in the UAE. Let’s get started!

Top 4 Best Beverage Distributors and Suppliers in UAE

In the UAE, beverage distributors and suppliers act as middlemen to export and import beverages from top brands directly to consumers. The primary advantage of these companies is they accept bulk orders while providing huge discounts on their products. Many FMCG companies are regarded as the top beverage distributors globally. After conducting in-depth research and consulting with experts, we have compiled our list of four trusted and leading beverage distributors and suppliers in the UAE: 

Treasure Orbit 

Treasure Orbit is the best beverage distributor and supplier in the UAE. It is a leading brand that offers a wide range of beverages, including energy drinks, soft drinks, juices, sparkling water, and more. They sell premium-quality FMCG products to individuals and small- to large-sized wholesalers. Its international team of trade experts is flexible, responsive, and adaptive to the demands of its customers. 

This FMCG company has provided cost-effective export and import services for years and helped local and international wholesalers receive their beverages on time. The company emphasizes a customer-centric philosophy and makes lasting connections with its customers. Online retailers, supermarket chains, wholesale distributors, e-commerce platforms, restaurant chains, private label brands, and more order the high-quality products from them. 

Today, Treasure Orbit has established a respected and top presence in the UAE. This is because of its skilled team and strong logistic network. That enables the company to provide fresh, high-quality, and well-packaged FMCG products in different parts of the world. They provide beverages, including Red Bull Energy Drink, Prime Energy Drink, Monster Energy Drink, Nescafe Coffee, Chupa Chups Soda, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Evian, Perrier, and others. 

A robust export system backs the company for products and ensures responsiveness and customer satisfaction by providing high-quality FMCG products. You can simply build partnerships with Treasure Orbit to receive their quality services.

SAFCO BEVERAGE DIVISION

SAFCO Beverages Division is a renowned global supplier and distributor of beverages. The company was founded in 1962, which makes it a trusted and experienced FMCG distributor worldwide. Juma AI Majid Holding Group helps the company to show reliability and trustworthiness in its export and import services. 

Countless small and large wholesalers have benefited from the company’s distribution services. The company has comprehensive trade coverages, including modern trade, traditional trade, HORECA, e-commerce channels, and others. Their partnerships with top FMCG brands guarantee a consistent supply of high-quality products. 

SAFCO Beverage Division provides a diverse range of beverages, including flavoring syrups, purees, frappe powders, soft drinks, mixers, non-alcoholic wines, organic beverage solutions, and others. The company provides popular brands like Rubicon Drinks, Delta Cafés, Nestle Professionals, and more. With the help of effective marketing practices and a strong logistics network, the company delivers its products in the Middle East and beyond. They connect with respected small and large businesses and accept bulk orders.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island is another top beverage distributor and supplier on our list. The company has a strong global presence with offices in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and Africa. This makes its export and import services available across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The company is known for its high-quality products and prompt service built over 12 years of innovation.

At Treasure Island, the company offers a wide range of beverages, including soft drinks, energy drinks, juices, water, sports drinks, coffee, and tea. With a strong distribution network, they enable seamless global procurement and distribution. All of their products come with premium safety and high-quality distribution services.

The company provides its popular beverages, like Red Bull, Heineken, Corona, Nestle, Ferrero, Pringles, Monster Energy, and others. You can purchase these products in bulk from the company and expect timely delivery with quality. Their team is constantly developing and adopting the latest local and global strategies for trusted FMCG supplier services.

RS Foods

RS Foods is the last but not the least in this list. This company is also a big name in providing the best beverage delivery services all over the world. They have a global reach and supply products worldwide, covering regions like the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and others.

 A wide variety of beverages, such as energy drinks, soft drinks, juices, tea, and cider, make up the company’s diverse portfolio. The company provides Red Bull, Monster Energy, Heineken, Corona, Ferrero, Pringles, and more. They supply demanding FMCG goods worldwide, ensuring consistent product availability.

At RS Foods, they have strong local and global marketing connections. It has extensive experience and established relationships in global trade and beverage distribution. One of the significant attributes of the company is helping clients develop new flavors and launch products with private labels. The company provides competitive pricing and high-quality products at reasonable prices.

The Bottom Line

The beverage market in the UAE is huge, and people are extremely passionate about their drinks. These FMCG products have become a prominent part of our lives. They are greatly used in social gatherings, celebrations, and cultures as a dominant form of happiness and togetherness. As a wholesaler, having a large stock of these products helps you to avoid being out of stock, especially in demanding occasions and seasons. Connect with a reliable FMCG distributor to help you experience useful services. We have mentioned the top beverage providers in UAE that will help you make the right decision in choosing the best FMCG provider in the world.

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Top Indian Real-time Market Data API Provider for NSE/BSE/MCX

True Data offers real-time data of Indian Stock Markets through robust APIs that provide up-to-the-minute insights for investors and traders alike. This innovative platform serves as a powerful tool for accessing accurate and reliable market information, enabling users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. The live stock market data feed and live market data APIs offered by True Data not only drive their own cutting-edge data products but empower individuals and organizations to enhance their financial strategies and stay ahead of market trends. Whether you are a seasoned investor or a novice looking to navigate the complexities of the stock market, our comprehensive data solutions cater to a wide range of needs, ensuring that you have access to the latest market data at your fingertips. With a user-friendly interface and seamless integration capabilities, our market data APIs make it easy to retrieve and analyze market data in real-time, allowing you to stay ahead of the curve. 

Streaming Live Data API

Our  Level 1 (L1) data is provided at a one-second interval, giving real-time updates on the single best bid and ask details for a particular financial instrument. This vital information reflects the most competitive prices at which buyers are willing to purchase and sellers are willing to sell the asset at any given moment. By having access to this data, market participants can make informed decisions based on the latest market dynamics, allowing them to execute trades effectively and stay ahead of the curve.

Live Options Chain API

We offer streamless access to retrieve the complete option chain for any underlying asset with a single query. This feature delivers detailed, real-time data on strike prices, expiration dates, and trading volumes for all associated options. By consolidating information into a single request, users gain a comprehensive view of the market without needing multiple queries, enhancing analysis and decision-making process.

Real-time Option Greeks API

Access crucial metrics such as IV, Delta, Theta, Vega, Gamma, and more with one effortless call. This API simplifies the process of gathering critical data for options trading, saving time and enhancing the analytical capabilities of traders. Providing over 16 essential matrices, it ensures users have the information needed for data-driven decisions. 

Real-time Exchange Snapshot API

Gather up-to-the-minute information on the entire exchange segment with a single call. This feature provides a comprehensive overview of market activities, trends, and fluctuations, enabling users to monitor the broader market efficiently and effectively.

Why We Stand Out as India’s Best Stock Market Data API Provider?

TrueData's Market Data API is not only a powerful Indian stock market API but also a highly versatile tool that allows users to access a wide range of functionalities. With this API, users can seamlessly retrieve live stock market data, delve into real-time Options Chain data, monitor order status over WebSocket, implement automated trading strategies, and constantly watch over their portfolio in real-time. Moreover, this API offers comprehensive market insights and analytics that can assist traders and investors in making well-informed decisions. 

The real-time data provided by True Data’s real-time data API enables users to stay updated with market trends, track stock movements, and respond promptly to market changes. By leveraging this API, traders can optimize their trading activities, enhance their decision-making process, and ultimately improve their trading performance. Whether you are a seasoned trader or a beginner in the stock market, Our Market Data Feed API is a valuable tool to stay ahead in the dynamic world of stock trading. Make the most of this API to gain a competitive edge, streamline your trading operations, and achieve your financial goals efficiently.

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Best Penny Stocks to Watch in 2025: CytoMed Therapeutics May Be the Upcoming Game!

While the United States' equity market struggles to enter into the year 2025, a few clever investors are scrutinizing the penny stocks that could potentially result in handsome returns. In that respect, CytoMed Therapeutics has emerged as the outstanding one!

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CytoMed is a biopharmaceutical innovator currently developing advanced cell-based immunotherapies against cancer and degenerative diseases. With a market capitalization of $39.24 million and promising developments regarding their ANGELICA Trial, which investigates gamma delta T cells for the treatment of cancer, CytoMed is primed for disruption in the biotech space.

But that is not all! Other potential winners on the watchlist include Inter & Co (fintech), QuantaSing Group (online education), and Kiora Pharmaceuticals (eye care).

Are you considering making investments in some of the emerging companies with high growth potential? Well, now is a good time to start researching for penny stocks, and CytoMed could be among the top in your list!

Continue reading to understand why CytoMed may stand at the forefront of cancer treatment in the years to come and what makes it an interesting catch for investors around the world.

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US Index Futures Lower, Oil Rebounds

US stock markets were closed on Thursday for a day of mourning to honour the late former President Jimmy Carter who died at the age of 100.

However index futures fell, indicating fresh falls on Friday, amid ongoing concerns over a slower pace of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve in 2025, amid uncertainty over incoming President Donald Trump’s policies.

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Minutes of the Fed’s December policy meeting, when the central bank slashed its outlook for rate cuts in 2025 citing concerns over sticky inflation, were released on Wednesday night. These showed policymakers were concerned over the inflationary impact of Trump’s planned trade tariffs.

Treasury yields and the dollar surged after the Fed minutes were released and continued to rise on Thursday. The benchmark US 10-year Treasury note yield hit an 8-1/2 month high of 4.73% on Wednesday. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, rose 0.12% to 109.15

There was also nervousness ahead of Friday’s US December non-farm payrolls report. Strength in the labor market could give the Fed even more headroom to cut interest rates at a slower pace, although fears over a labor market slowdown were one of the main motivations for the Fed cutting rates by 1% in 2024.

Futures for the Dow Jones lost 0.2% to 42,809, while those for the S&P 500 shed 0.3% to 5,942, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.3% to 21,287.

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The fourth-quarter corporate earnings season is set to begin in earnest next week, with several major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup all set to report on Wednesday.

Before that, Delta Air Lines and Walgreens Boots Alliance will report earnings on Friday.

The key though will be whether heavyweight technology stocks - the key driver for Wall Street’s gains in 2024 – are able to maintain their earnings growth.

On commodity markets, oil prices rose on Thursday as cold weather gripped parts of the US and Europe, boosting winter fuel demand.

UW WTI crude was up 0.4% to 74.24 a barrel, while UK Brent crude rose 0.4% to 77.21 a barrel.

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Analysts at JPMorgan expect oil demand for January to expand by 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) year-on-year to 101.4 million bpd, primarily driven by the increased use of heating fuels in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Momentum in the Option Market Part 4-Intraday Case

Momentum in the Option Market, Part 4-Intraday Case Momentum in the options market is an emerging and active area of research. For example, Reference [1] demonstrated that delta-hedged straddle positions exhibit momentum, where firms with strong option performance over the past 6 to 36 months are likely to experience high option returns in the subsequent month. Reference [2] extended this line of research to focus on intraday options returns. The authors pointed out, In this paper, we uncover novel seasonal patterns in intraday returns on individual stock option straddles. These returns display the same persistent seasonality pattern as those of their underlying stock, even though straddles are delta-neutral. We find straddle return in a given half-hour interval today to positively predicts the return in the same intraday interval tomorrow, especially at the market open and close. These two momentum patterns are driven by different economic forces. While the morning momentum reflects investors’ underreaction to volatility shocks, afternoon momentum is driven by persistent inventory management by option market makers. In summary, it was shown that a straddle's return during a particular 30-minute trading interval today positively predicts its return during the same interval on subsequent days. Morning momentum reflects a continued under-reaction to overnight volatility news. Afternoon momentum, on the other hand, is attributed to persistent price pressure caused by inventory management from option market makers. Two important observations were made: First, it remains unclear whether the delta-neutral straddles are dynamically rehedged after the trade is initiated throughout the day to maintain neutrality, Second, while Reference [1] argued that option momentum is a distinct factor unrelated to stock momentum, the authors of Reference [2] linked morning momentum in options to the underlying stock momentum, suggesting a connection between the two. Let us know what you think in the comments below or in the discussion forum. References [1] Heston, Steven L. and Jones, Christopher S. and Khorram, Mehdi and Li, Shuaiqi and Mo, Haitao,  Option Momentum (2022). https://ift.tt/Zyzv9T8 [2] Da, Zhi and Goyenko, Ruslan and Zhang, Chengyu, Intraday Option Return: A Tale of Two Momentum (2024). https://ift.tt/wleYGBK Post Source Here: Momentum in the Option Market, Part 4-Intraday Case via Harbourfront Technologies - Feed https://ift.tt/tiGgVvm January 03, 2025 at 12:26PM

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Derivatives and Risk Management in the Best Share Market Courses

As financial markets become increasingly complex, understanding derivatives and risk management is essential. The best share market course provide insights into these advanced concepts, empowering traders to navigate modern markets effectively.

1. What Are Derivatives?

Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is derived from underlying assets like stocks, commodities, or currencies.

Options: Provide the right to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price.

Futures: Contracts to buy or sell an asset at a specified future date and price.

Swaps: Agreements to exchange financial obligations.

2. Importance of Derivatives

Derivatives play a crucial role in modern financial markets:

Hedging: Protect investments from adverse price movements.

Leverage: Amplify potential returns with a smaller initial investment best share market course.

Price Discovery: Reflect market expectations and influence asset prices.

3. Risk Management Strategies

The best courses teach practical risk mitigation techniques:

Stop-Loss Orders: Set predefined levels to limit potential losses.

Portfolio Diversification: Spread investments across asset classes to reduce risk.

Delta Hedging: Offset risks associated with options trading.

4. Derivatives in Modern Trading

The growing popularity of derivatives among young investors underscores the need for education.

Retail Participation: More retail traders are exploring options and futures.

Technology Integration: Platforms simplify derivatives trading with user-friendly interfaces.

Conclusion

The best share market course equip participants with a deep understanding of derivatives and risk management, preparing them to tackle the challenges of modern financial markets with confidence.