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Author: Joel Gross
Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.
BLNK – Garbage Stock
Read this Bloomberg article about BLNK – a company with only $5m revenue and massive losses that somehow is trading with a market valuation of $2b. Absolute insanity.
Robinhood GameStop Saga Pressures Payment for Order Flow – Bloomberg
Corruption Is Inevitable
Corruption in systems built by humans happens everywhere. Systems that hold corruption to a minimum or are able to self heal from corruption are truly amazing. The only two systems I have seen that generally can heal from corruption are the free market, which heals through removing corruption by natural selection and bankruptcy, and democracy, which heals through periodic elections and purges.… read more “Corruption Is Inevitable”
Why Robinhood Disabled Buys but not Sells
Risk of Broker Bankruptcy?
Robinhood had to take a billion dollar emergency loan to meet it’s requirements. We have seen Robinhood is a very shakily run brokerage with lots of downtime and was fined last month for illegal activity in how it handled client accounts. Interactive Brokers CEO pointed out that if one brokerage goes bankrupt, the other brokerages are obligated to pay off its debts.… read more “Risk of Broker Bankruptcy?”
Cautionary Note on Stock Mania
Cautionary note to my friends: As a longtime investor, I am seeing a lot of stock newbies getting sucked into a very overhyped markets and falling for scams. A lot of people right now online are doing a variety of pump and dump type schemes on a variety of stocks (Gamestop, AMC, Blackberry, etc). These people are persuasive, but they are hoping to con you into buying their shares.
Short Selling Is Not Immoral
Why are people saying that short selling is immoral? You buy a stock if you believe a stock is undervalued, you short it if you think it is overvalued. In either case, you believe in something and take a risk based on that. Short sellers help price discovery and often uncover frauds like Enron. Short sellers take more risk and lose money more often than buyers, and short selling itself is not immoral.… read more “Short Selling Is Not Immoral”
Why Robinhood Stopped Trading on GME
This will probably be my least popular post ever, but the explanation needs to get out there for why Robinhood stopped trading on GME.
Selling a stock short is NOT illegal. It is a perfectly valid type of investment according to the SEC:
“D. Are short sales legal?
Although the vast majority of short sales are legal, abusive short sale practices are illegal.… read more “Why Robinhood Stopped Trading on GME”
Toddler Climbing Toy Indoor – DIY Framed Lumber
I built a toddler climbing toy for indoor use. It is very simple and just made from 2×2 lumber and closet dowel rods I bought from Home Depot. I think the total cost of the materials was $50-100. I cut the lumber to size, then screwed together everything. The base is 8′ long, the back side is 4′ long, and the long side of the triangle is around 9.4′ I believe.… read more “Toddler Climbing Toy Indoor – DIY Framed Lumber”