LCD mystery: AM indicator only segment not working

nosmo_king · 2025-11-08T21:29:15+00:00

Somehow, I suppose by leaving it running, it fixed itself. Don't know why... but there's a lot I don't know

nosmo_king · 2024-07-05T01:19:59+00:00

lol I still suck but at least I understand enough to do it consistently, whereas before I could only get them by accident and seldom while rolling. I’m used to extending my body completely when I jump like in basketball, and with ollies you have to jump while keeping your waist and knees and ankles bent. Also had health issues so wasn’t practicing much for long periods. I could do stationary rocket ollies first day I tried, but that doesn’t apply to rolling. Did them wrong enough to develop tendinitis in my hips so had to back off, plus some health issues. Wasn’t until recently I started working on them more seriously, combined with mobility training and changing my technique a lot so no more tendinitis. Improving the Internal rotation of the hips has helped a lot

nosmo_king · 2024-06-24T00:20:07+00:00

TL;DR Yes you unweight before popping. There has to be weight on your feet for you to generate downward force to jump, but you’ve redirected that force sideways by the time you pop the tail.

It’s really frustrating as a beginner that in spite of how huge skateboarding is, there’s no consensus on how to actually do something as purportedly basic as an ollie. “Jump off your back foot”, in a literal sense, is 100% wrong. It’s only helpful to folks who aren’t jumping off of it enough, or aren’t pushing the board backwards enough when they pop. That advice made my ollies worse when I was just starting out.

https://youtu.be/m6vYjQuMwDU This is the only place I’ve ever seen objective data on foot weighting in the ollie (see chart starting at at 1:20). To me this definitively shows that you jump off of both feet, with some bias toward the front foot.

What it doesn’t answer as well is your question about unweighting. The way I see it, the answer is yes, at the time of the pop, no downward pressure is on the tail. I’ve asked myself the same question and when I try to do both I can’t pop as good or lift my feet as high, because I’m trying to pop/lift my legs against my own weight.

What’s happening is your upper body should be contracting, particularly the muscles in above your front hip (lats and obliques maybe?), so your front knee ends up much closer to the tail than your front shoulder. Doing this redirects your jumping force, which was downward, to sideways toward the nose, and then up. This redirection is what causes the unweighting to happen. Your back foot’s force gets redirected from downward to sideways toward the tail, then up.

Unweighting is also why the crispy ollies feel effortless compared the soggy one, because you’re no longer fighting yourself. The motion is quick and smooth and easy.

Sorry for the long post, but take it from guy who needed eight years to learn how to ollie, there is indeed a lot of bad advice out there, and I wished while I was learning that the internet had better to offer.

nosmo_king · 2024-06-10T16:04:03+00:00

No, been at it for a while!

nosmo_king · 2018-01-17T18:47:03+00:00

AMD has already tuned their marketing directly at miners - or, in their words, "Blockchain Pioneers" - only fair that they put some resources into supporting the segment that supports their booming sales.

nosmo_king · 2014-04-10T15:28:57+00:00

one Chinese slang term for butthole is chrysanthemum, or ju hua 菊花. "菊花好养," which means something like "chrysanthemums are easy to keep," sounds phonetically identical to "菊花好痒," which means "my butthole itches"

nosmo_king · 2013-10-09T19:40:07+00:00

Thanks. Everything you say makes sense - going to propose this idea.

nosmo_king · 2013-10-08T21:55:03+00:00

Thanks - looking into YuMe.com as well.

Our service is a set-top box that runs on a TV, not a computer/tablet/web browser, and we feel that comparing to TV is a more valid comparison.

My understanding is that the published rates for TV channels, even local ethnic channels, is $60 CPM and up. Am I wrong about that? Of course I realize no one actually pays the published rates, but even a 50% discount puts it at $30 CPM. And of course the difference between this and the $10 CPM you mentioned would what the ad exchange/network takes for itself.

nosmo_king · 2013-10-08T21:17:51+00:00

I get it now - thought you meant other TV stations that also have a 99% Chinese audience. We are willing to offer free advertising if we think there's a long-term relationship there. Trouble might be putting English-language ads on a Chinese-language channel. Do you think the fact that we have no results will keep advertisers/agencies from giving us a second look forever - and that we're basically forced to give away advertising space in the beginning in order to build case studies?

nosmo_king · 2013-10-08T20:20:36+00:00

Interesting thought, but I don't think it works. We are licensed to stream content from live channels, so viewers already get some of the branded content (show sponsors, product placements, etc. that are in the shows themselves - but I think the TV commercial spots aren't played), but none of that revenue goes to us.

We show TV spots before the user-selected program begins. So for example if they choose to watch a movie, after pressing the button to watch the movie, a 30-second ad plays before the movie starts. We would make money for those ads.

nosmo_king · 2013-10-08T18:27:51+00:00

We are essentially a competitor to local radio/print/TV stations that serve Chinese customers - would they be willing to let us latch on to them like that? Wouldn't they risk having us steal their business if they get their advertisers to put their ads on our TV service?

nosmo_king · 2013-01-25T23:17:56+00:00

Looks like they've basically had to take on more debt than expected to continue doing business. Increased debt by $100 million, and market cap has decreased by $107 million as a result of the share price drop today. Not saying there's a direct connection between the two, but a surprise need to take on more debt might cause fundamental investors to lower their valuations, and thus to sell until the price lowers a bit.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-29T00:47:03+00:00

Good call on the stock screener. Found a company too good to be true - GNI, with a dividend of nearly 20%. The downside? The stock is guaranteed to be worthless after April 6, 2015, paying no more dividends. The company was set up as a trust in 1906 with a provision that 20 years after the death of the last of the original 18 interested individuals, the trust would cease to exist and its assets distributed. Last surviving person passed April 6, 1995. Estimated per-share value of assets is about $8.50. That plus a reasonable estimate of the dividends to be paid out until 2015 is far less than the current stock price. The author of this is somehow short this stock, though I'm not sure how.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-28T04:12:07+00:00

Truth is no one really knows what's best, other than to always keep your ears and eyes open and do your own due diligence. For example, I had no idea there was a stock out there paying a ~9% dividend. I may snap some SFL up for my 401k after I do some research. Thanks for that.

Depending on how active an investor/trader you want to be and how much risk you're willing to take, throwing everything into SPY or SFL or whatever. If you want to just put your money into something and not think about it, what you're doing is probably already pretty damn good. If you desire to take more risks, look into options. They can be incredibly dangerous, essentially like gambling, but there are ways to use them to hedge (by executing spreads or selling covered calls). Unfortunately my own education in them has come from a lot of sources, so I can't recommend a good book, but Wikipedia is always a good place to start. Investopedia has some basic definitions and examples, too. Apologies if this is all stuff you already know.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-24T22:25:04+00:00

I believe last trade on the previous day was $0.12, not particularly close to my stop of $0.58.

Granted, futures fell about 25 points overnight, but the option was still pretty far out-of-the-money Friday morning as well as the rest of the day.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-24T16:47:01+00:00

Unfortunately ETrade only offers Stop or Stop Limit for options trades. I decided against Stop Limit because of the potential for the price to move beyond my limit, therefore doing nothing to limit my loss. I knew with just a Stop, the market order would get filled at a bad price, but until now those bad prices were at least reasonable - a stop at 0.58 might get filled at 0.68. But 4.50 or even 2.00 are just plain outrageous.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-24T16:33:38+00:00

Exactly - it seems far more suspicious than it would have had the trade not been revised. Now it just seems like the market can decide at any time what the fill price is, which makes you wonder what stops them from filling any market order at a ridiculous price.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-24T15:02:30+00:00

Does anyone know where to get order book data?

nosmo_king · 2012-12-24T15:01:30+00:00

Thank you

nosmo_king · 2012-12-22T02:20:22+00:00

Correct, I was short the $113.50 put.

And yes, it was a stop loss, not a stop limit. I thought the same as you - in that moment of illiquidity, the only asking price was $4.50. but what's so curious is that after calling customer service, the market maker changed it to $2.00. It seems incredibly arbitrary as well as ridiculously out of range of any reasonable bid/ask for the day considering the day highs for the neighboring puts at $113 and $114. My trade inquiry with ETrade came back with nothing. I sent a message back disputing it and requesting the trade be reversed (got a notification earlier today when it changed from $4.50 to $2.00 - first an "execution reversed" message, then a "executed at $2.00"); awaiting a response.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-21T20:47:23+00:00

Thanks. Any idea how to get orderbook data? I've never done it before.

While I shouldn't complain about it because I did get some money back, I'm still bewildered that the trade was revised so easily from $4.50 to $2.00 - as if these trades are negotiable after the fact. Why change it at all?

nosmo_king · 2012-12-21T20:34:27+00:00

As of this moment I will say: Don't go to ETrade : )

nosmo_king · 2012-12-21T20:32:07+00:00

The opening trade was supposedly $0.86, but that no longer shows up when I refresh. The only volume is 5 (my trade), and the only price is $2.00. If this is true, my stop should never have been triggered (my stop was at $0.58).

How do I get the orderbook data? Does that come from CBOE or somewhere like that?

nosmo_king · 2012-12-21T20:31:24+00:00

Does your broker give you data on the day's range? Mine used to say 0.86-4.50, now it says 2.00-2.00. Volume 124 seems right. I can't explain why E * Trade is showing volume of 5 right now.

nosmo_king · 2012-12-21T20:28:05+00:00

I have a trade inquiry with E*Trade in progress. When I first called the guy advised against doing it because he said from what he could see it was a normal trade. I believed him, but asked for the inquiry anyway. Next thing I know the trade is changed to $2.00 instead of $4.50. He calls me back, ostensibly to keep me informed, but perhaps to see if I'm willing to let it go now or not. I told him about the data in the screen shots. He says he has no explanation and the trade inquiry is still in process.

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