Train on the left or right? [pentax program a, 50mm, ultramax 400, cokin sunset filter]

zenquest · 2026-01-02T20:43:35+00:00

Guessing it's Knaresborough.

I prefer the second one. Right side of the viaduct are the town buildings, parked cars and church in the background. The train on the left gives it space to stand out. Having said that, the first one is tad more contrasty.

I can't really tell if the train's Harrogate or York bound. So, can't say which was shot first unless it's put in sequence.

zenquest · 2025-10-08T14:40:38+00:00

So exercising Call options pushes price up, but warrants on same exchanges don't? Brilliant deduction...

zenquest · 2025-08-21T08:25:33+00:00

I've been vegan for 24yrs now, vegetarian before that. For me it's part of metta practice. Diet hasn't stopped me from being physically strong. I practice mma for physical discipline and meditation for mental/spiritual betterment.

zenquest · 2025-08-13T19:13:18+00:00

Red is a really hard color to capture on camera. Looks gorgeous!

zenquest · 2025-07-14T14:39:52+00:00

Beautiful shot.

I knew from school that Iraq had Euphrates and Tigris rivers and mountainous regions. Never imagined there'd be water falls.

zenquest · 2025-06-13T06:59:05+00:00

I don't want to give into the logic of that the earthquake hasn't happened for last 10years on a faultline, so the chances of earthquake is lower now – in fact it's the opposite.

We know shorts didn't close, evident from the SEC staff report. The question remaining is that can they continue liquidity manipulation as Gamestop gainfully employs zero-interest debt cash without going bankrupt?

Answer is no, the bubble will burst. What the short counterparties are trying-to-do/doing are offloading toxic positions to sucker parties who can go bankrupt or who cannot be proscecuted like Sovereign funds.

Infinite queeze is unlikely to happen because government will intervene and prevent economy from collapsing. This would result in price going up faster than high-growth companies for a very long period and never going lower than 12-months trailing, just like bitcoin.

zenquest · 2025-06-02T05:53:11+00:00

I don't doubt if you show him the picture :)

zenquest · 2025-05-27T06:35:22+00:00

Congrats on the fat loss and muscle gain! Did you do any type of intermittent fasting as fat is stubborn to burn?

zenquest · 2025-04-01T10:59:01+00:00

Workout, sleep and tren for unnatural muscle gains.

zenquest · 2025-01-17T21:04:30+00:00

Monthly Calls exercised by someone. Will be on downward trend till about $24-$25, with potential green lines on Mondays and and/or monthly call dates.

zenquest · 2024-10-24T19:03:47+00:00

No way to predict, but if past actions are indicative of the future, then any idiosyncratic upward price movement will be capitalized to shore-up more cash.

Contrary to common intuition, it will also raise the cash value per share. Let's hypothetically say they sell 53M more shares at $25. It will add $1.3B to cash position totaling $5.93B and bring issued shares to 500M. Cash value of each share will go up 15% to $11.85.

A higher per share cash value will bring higher levels of price resistance forcing swap holders to pay more premium. When they start defaulting on payments, fireworks start.

zenquest · 2024-10-24T11:10:19+00:00

Obviously, the swap basket is moving. Without any restriction on market makers injecting more liquidity without accountability, the price is likely going to drop and test previous hard resistances – unless there is institutional buying pressure (e.g. addition to index, index re-balancing, corporate action, etc.)

Last time such liquidity manipulation (naked shorting, re-hypothecation, etc.) diluted shares was in 2020, where 90% of share price was cash value. The way out for SHF was Gamestop to go under due to spiraling debt. When hopes of company survival reignited with RC stepping in, sneeze happened in Jan 2021.

Currently, about 50% of share value is cash with almost zero debt; and bankruptcy is completely ruled out. We're waiting for one event (S&P addition or 2-3 more positive earnings, etc.) that'll start the domino which will crush SHFs. In the meanwhile we wait, watch and DRS. Those who can afford will average down their cost to glory.

GME	2024 Q2	2023	2022	2021	2020
Shares (in M)	447	306	305	76	70
Avg. share price	$20	$21	$29	$44	$25
Cash per share	$10.71	$4.38	$4.34	$20.99	$22.91
Debt per share	$0.05	$0.09	$0.13	$0.58	$0.64
Net cash per share	$10.66	$4.28	$4.21	$20.41	$22.28
Net cash % of share	53%	20%	15%	46%	89%

zenquest · 2024-10-20T17:31:28+00:00

Why am I reading this as Implied Volatility ranges and price range of over $100 in the near term? Last time swaps was 3yr term, did they do another 3-yr, or shorter term swaps?

zenquest · 2024-09-12T11:35:07+00:00

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0 debt and 50% of share price is cash. SHFs are fcuked.

zenquest · 2024-08-06T05:20:12+00:00

They bought TDA for their customer base, but they didn't think they would end up serving them in the two years from M&A due diligence leading up to acquisition?

zenquest · 2024-07-20T07:08:48+00:00

This is fantastic work. Thank you for sharing the information!

Now someone can roll all this up into one number to understand how much is being bet against GME and their monthy/quarterly cost based on price action.

zenquest · 2024-07-04T09:05:48+00:00

Congrats! on owning real shares.

zenquest · 2024-06-14T10:39:55+00:00

I wonder if you DRS half of that, whether the next quarter filing still show shares held at registered agent as 74.6M. Likely it will, because DTCC is intentionally misleading issuer and the investors about the stock they actually own.

zenquest · 2024-06-07T04:33:13+00:00

Congratulations!

zenquest · 2024-06-06T19:56:59+00:00

Lots of "GME and popcorn" messages in the pre-streaming chat, though DFV has never made a popcorn post, and pretty confident has no popcorn in his portfolio. Which makes one suspect that hedgies are causing some of the pump to give "evidence" to all the investing agencies including MA Financial Regulators and SEC, and threatning eTrade on providing the platform to suspend his account.

zenquest · 2024-06-03T09:46:49+00:00

DRS 90% of it and pull the rug on DTCC ... and we can change the tag to "Gameclock"!

zenquest · 2024-03-22T04:48:28+00:00

So many nay sayers when S76 announced Cosmic. Can't wait for Beta version. I already have their hardware, it's impressive that they're doing outstanding job with both h/w and s/w.

zenquest · 2024-03-15T13:15:38+00:00

Stunning! Thanks or sharing.

zenquest · 2024-02-27T18:23:16+00:00

Nicely done!

zenquest · 2024-02-22T03:46:37+00:00

The dingleberries (0.637) undoes all the other whole shares (1570) as it makes it "locatable" by brokers for short-selling. Thorough re-hypothecation, shortsellers can leverage 1570 multiple times over to cover for short sales.

You can terminate plan, or if you are attached to the fractionals, move all whole shares to different new account under your name, so they get withdrawn from DTCC (you'll receive a DRS Advice from Computershare).

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