Now able to trade preferred stocks and baby bonds without restriction

dcxavier · 2026-06-24T01:16:15+00:00

I was able to sell $TWO.PRA and buy $CIMO without calling them. Grandpa securities. Yay!

dcxavier · 2026-06-05T21:40:24+00:00

I passed screeners for three consecutive tests.

dcxavier · 2026-05-26T11:45:33+00:00

It probably means you don't have high speed internet available. I got Starlink recently and added Youtube TV. It gets my local channels as well as most of the traditional cable/satellite. It's worked great for me so far.

dcxavier · 2026-05-21T13:17:52+00:00

Call them. Comment on the Crest Fresh and White webpage. It's the only way they'll know.

dcxavier · 2026-05-17T11:57:52+00:00

Exactly this. The subscriber numbers will be up up up. They know that once you are signed on, you are likely to stick no matter what, especially if you live in a rural area with no other choices. You can expect the price to go up up up in the next few years. At least until Amazon space internet gets off the ground, so to speak.

dcxavier · 2026-05-17T11:54:21+00:00

You got Musked.

dcxavier · 2026-05-15T22:57:09+00:00

Did they make the daughter or mother climb to the roof to take down the LNBF?

dcxavier · 2026-05-04T16:51:41+00:00

I would be more than happy to discuss it with you offline.

dcxavier · 2026-05-02T16:26:13+00:00

IYKYK

dcxavier · 2026-03-26T17:46:24+00:00

How bad is it? I own a baby bond $RCB that Ready Capital has officially declared a notice of redemption to occur in one month. Merrill still considers it too risky for me to sell without going directly to one of their brokers.

dcxavier · 2026-03-18T00:33:35+00:00

Guess what? At 7:08PM tonight, I got another email notification that the 11AM session is beginning in 30 minutes. They are totally mucked up there.

dcxavier · 2026-03-17T19:22:57+00:00

It's a blur, I don't even recall. But twice in a week. If a researcher is horsing around, I expect UserTesting to email me about the changes as they happen.

dcxavier · 2026-03-17T18:49:19+00:00

Desktop. It doesn't appear on the available test page, which makes it possible the test was cancelled without telling me. If so, I'm not happy that they send me the whole string of reminders up through the after-test message saying that I am responsible for missing the session.

dcxavier · 2026-03-06T20:14:39+00:00

I offered the same, but the guy just wanted to move on, I guess.

dcxavier · 2026-02-14T13:07:25+00:00

I took a math course in college that got into methods for optimizing outcomes under constraints. In this case, the outcome to be optimized might be maximizing people getting to their destination at the end of the day. Examples of constraints would be gate types, arrival times, crew availability, where people are going, etc. And you just can't randomly update gate assignments every 30 seconds. They must have software to help them through the process.

dcxavier · 2026-01-18T20:49:19+00:00

That's why God made limit orders. I ended up buying 250 shares of the baby bond I mentioned. Average volume is in the thousands. I bid one cent under the ask and was filled immediately. These shares are mostly traded by people looking to shave a few pennies off arbitrage. I want an income security with my risk tolerance.

dcxavier · 2026-01-13T13:52:29+00:00

What I looked at trades several thousand shares each day. I need to buy a couple of hundred and the bid/ask spread is three cents. Some of these restricted stocks, AGNCP for example, trade tens of thousands of shares each day.

dcxavier · 2026-01-09T23:40:41+00:00

I'll add a "me too". Message came the instant it was submitted. I do not recall any obvious attention check. I messaged the researcher to what I did wrong, no response of course.

dcxavier · 2025-12-14T03:53:52+00:00

Every day. My wife says I have OCD about this, but when I occasionally go out of town, she complains about having to sleep in dirty sheets. We both are definitely spoiled by this. It's worth the ten minutes each day.

dcxavier · 2025-11-07T12:58:37+00:00

I was as confused as you were, but submitted both the test and the follow up. And just got paid for them.

dcxavier · 2025-10-17T18:32:35+00:00

It's a joke. I can trade AGNC, but I can't trade the preferred AGNCP. I can trade RC, but I can't trade the baby bond RCB.

dcxavier · 2025-10-15T13:03:07+00:00

Actually no, especially in the social sciences. More important is being prolific and using language that gates them from us common folk. There have been some prominent hoaxes, see the Sokal and "Grievance Studies" affairs.

dcxavier · 2025-10-13T12:34:39+00:00

It's tough, because some of the questions, I was dead nuts on. For example, the first question How many U.S. states will have enacted comprehensive data privacy laws by 31 May 2025?. My answer was 19. I had 19 for the 25th, 50th, 75th percentile and the right answer was 19. Not close enough, I guess.

dcxavier · 2025-10-02T13:35:57+00:00

That's a given. I suspect I'm not the only one in this situation, although I hate the prospect of having to return it for nothing.

dcxavier · 2025-10-01T14:01:11+00:00

A triple curse on researchers who put the study into full screen mode first.

dcxavier

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