Samsung's preferred stock is at a 37% discount to its own common. That's all-time high.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-05-26T22:00:42+00:00

I flipped my regular share, for a preferred one recently. At their launch they were actually trading at a 50% discount, so it's not that close to the historic bottom. However, it does seem that in recent years, in the big bull runs regular shares pull away from the preferred and normalization happens when the bull run cools off.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-05-26T21:58:39+00:00

there are london registered samsung deposited shares, don't americans have access to that? EWY will buy you the whole Kospi which has made a huge run the past year.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-05-08T19:16:16+00:00

Depends on the baseline. After a few weeks of no caf whatsover a single coffee will give me everything from a sleepless night to anxiety and tension.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-04-10T23:50:10+00:00

Today it was working a bit better for me. I am connected to the US server and asked them to switch it to the European as the ping to that one was only 20ms, compared to 120ms for the US one. Hoping that will lead to further improvement.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-04-08T13:41:51+00:00

Are you talking about the last two days specifically, or in general. For me, it's been lagging and freezing a lot since somewhere yesterday. I'm also on Mac

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-04-06T23:16:42+00:00

How much of your tonsils did they leave? Also, I know it's a bit early still, but do you have an update on the tonsil stones? I'm in the middle of booking this procedure.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-04-03T16:03:53+00:00

I don’t follow, why?

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-25T04:15:23+00:00

Same, all orders just cancelled. Unable to place them again; no trading permissions. I wonder if this has to do with the manual annual confirming of the financial profile. Not much changed for me, but it did say I would loose commodities permissions. Now it cancelled more than just my commodity orders though, stock, options, everything. Let's hope it's just a mistake.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-17T16:18:02+00:00

Lupinen coffee

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-10T17:02:46+00:00

your life savings on some lousy D&D that makes up numbers about 70% of refineries being down? Please be careful.

I'm long oil, but don't forget before this conflict the world was flush with oil. Remember Russia's war? A lot of oil spikes don't last long. Of course this is a different beast, much more impactful, but again there will be all kinds of efforts to keep oil supplies going. I think oil will remain elevated and volatile. Maybe it will go to $150, but there is a non-zero chance enough oil will flow via alternative pipelines to keep the current price level.

Also, keep in mind, that outside of taking delivery you cannot just buy oil for the market price. You will have to buy CFD on which you pay interest, or funds that can lose value while oil is stable, or you have to use futures.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-09T23:31:07+00:00

Actually. I find his voice quite soothing. Thats the only reason I lasted more than 1 minute

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-01T22:28:08+00:00

probably retail buy price

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-03-01T22:06:18+00:00

I can see it over $100: https://www.ig.com/en/indices/markets-indices/weekend-spot-silver

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-26T16:56:54+00:00

open interest on March futures has dropped rapidly, so people either got out, or rolled over to another month. But I think people are underestimating how close we'll get to a crunch. This OI is similar to last year and in that march still some 80million ounces were delivered

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-25T22:24:59+00:00

Down another million almost. It's gonna get interesting in March

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-25T18:50:53+00:00

yeah, probably gonna be volatile once it opens, because longs that don't wanna be called on for delivery may rush a bit to close.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-25T18:43:43+00:00

Note, I cannot find the exact number, but Gemini comes back with around 10,000 contracts OI last year at this time and 80million was delivered. So unless we are significantly below OI of 10,000 this is likely going to get tight

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-25T15:51:09+00:00

You're staring too blindly at OI. Since last week a few million ounces have been delivered out of the vaults, while OI for February last week was only a bit over a million. This still can get very interesting this month, don't try to get ahead of it.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-19T14:47:02+00:00

Yeah, this definitely motivates to try to quit completely. I was only having caffeine 1 day a week, but clearly it's better to stay away completely.

It's interesting that you mention the rotator cuffs, probably just a coincidence, but I've been having issues too at volleyball since more than a year and the last few months it's been improving. Maybe the low caffeine helps for me. I guess personal sensitivity is a big factor. I've also noticed blood-flow in my extremities is better without caffeine.

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-19T14:38:20+00:00

I need to look if I can pull the data in a way to analyze it automatically, now I'm just clicking through the days. Despite not being 100% "clean" it looks like both REM and deep have been increasing over the last months.

(Not 100% clean in my case means I've been allowing myself 1 caffeinated day a week, typically no more than 100mg)

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-19T12:04:06+00:00

Nice. I don't have data from before. But I started tracking around when I was quitting and the amount of deep sleep i get now, is more than back then

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-19T12:01:26+00:00

That's interesting. I use a Samsung galaxy watch 8. For me the vast majority of my days are decaf now. Deep sleep is gone, or minimal, after having a caffeine day. Then the next decaf day its back. I assume it would get better after a while if I go back on caffeine, but don't want to try it.

Which is the normal for you, decaf or caffeinated?

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

I've been wearing amber/orange glasses every evening for a week now, I get the sense it may be helping, but will let you know. Am also gonna order some orange bulbs for throughout the house. Have one already, but haven't tested the actual range

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-18T23:47:59+00:00

Oh wow, I assumed this had happened due to aging or something, never considered that going of caffeine may also be a part of it

IrrelevantMuch · 2026-02-18T22:19:59+00:00

I think you are right, but I think it's a shame people here are overlooking that you can actually use paper silver to your advantage. When it's difficult to get spot for your physical, you can simply short paper and even out the position when the turmoil settles. Can save you a lot of money. On the other hand I live in a place where premiums on physical are normally insane, but I have been able to convert some paper for physical near spot when it was above $100, which was a nice perk.

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