As long as you have an existing developer certificate or jailbreak the phone you can. You could use something like isign. https://github.com/sauce-archives/isign
Or altstore https://altstore.io/ which is literally a locally run alternative App Store.
A chaulkboard / whiteboard costs fuck-all and is a one time expense. I've seen innumerable small businesses using such on the sidewalk. They seem to be very popular and have a homey authentic aesthetic you will never get with Facebook ads.
Sure, if I pass next to your business you get cheap advertising.
But what if you’re off my path? Or just off the main street of the town? Also note that being on my path to work costs even more money - location is expensive and businesses will pay extra to be in high visibility spaces.
Facebook ads work for physical businesses because they’re competitive on price with their other options.
How do you think those of us not using facebook manage to not starve to death for want of a bakery? Trust me, I can find local businesses just fine without Zuck crawling up my ass.
Bakery A feels compelled to buy ads from Facebook because Bakery B does. Bakery B has to because Bakery C does. Bakery C has to because Bakery A does. Facebook isn't providing value here. Facebook is a parasite that specializes in creating prisoner dilemmas used to bleed small businesses dry. Facebook is lower than mosquitoes, who at least provide nourishment to birds.
No one ever starves due to lack of advertising, advertising is not needed to let you know you need food.
And your contrived bakery example is unlikely. Ads are about letting you know a business exist, or convince you to give them another chance. Once everyone in town knows of all the bakeries, people will just pick favorites. If you’re the most famous bakery in town, you don’t need advertising. If you just started your cookie business, you do. Choose whatever advertising that works for you: signs, flyers, word of mouth, vitality stunts or just online ads. You will find that online ads are astoundingly cheap.
Again, if you serve the best croissants in town, customers will come back. (Reality is more sophisticated than that due general demand generation ideas such as just reminding you of croissants vs inferior pastries)
To be fair, solving a great many murders is probably a simple matter of finding the family member with literal blood on his hands and a history of domestic abuse. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.
A calm tone won't necessarily make the cop calm, but a bold/agressive tone will almost certainly make the cop respond in kind. When I decline a request from a cop, I make sure to do it with a sugared tongue. The cop isn't entitled to the 'sorry' in "No, sorry", but that little indignity might make the difference so I'm willing to suffer it.
I don't know if it's a good idea in general, but I've gotten good results from even more flowery language -- "I'm sure we'd be great friends in other circumstances, but while you're on duty I need a lawyer present for any further discussions." Anecdotally, not taking the effort to reaffirm that it's nothing against them personally tends to lead to a lot of pushback.
I've never tried going that far, but once a cop looked offended when I said he couldn't search my car, like I had impugned his honor, so I volunteered the explaination 'It's nothing personal, just a matter of principle." That seemed to satisfy him.
Even randomized numbers wouldn't liberate you from the complainers. 69 and 420 would probably be the first to fall. 13, 88, and 14 would also likely get some people upset. And if you remove 13 but not 4, 17, 39, 616, or 666, you'll leave an opening for the complainers to accuse you of all sorts of biases.
"As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment. These requirements exist to protect investors and the markets and we take our responsibilities to comply with them seriously, including through the measures we have taken today."
and at the same time their own CEO made statements that they dont have liquidity issues. They also sent that communication well after the market closed. They should have sent a much more detailed explanation right at market open thursday
It can be argued that they don't have liquidity issues - they have collateral deposit issues (Due to the massive user growth, and the delay between when an ACH transfer to Robin Hood clears the banking system (a few days), and the time they permit you to trade on your account (less than a few days))
As I understand it, even for executing regular buys, the settlement houses require RH to maintain a large deposit of dollars as collateral.
This collateral requirement goes up when a stock becomes heavily traded, or more volatile.
Because of the insane volume & volatility of GME, RH's cushion of collateral was exhausted (And they've now replenished it, by borrowing & raising money.)
The reason that sells were permitted to execute was because each sell by one of their users reduces the collateral requirements in their settlement accounts. (So the settlement houses allowed sell orders to go through.)
The tl;dr is - when you are trading through a discount broker, you get a discount service. Serious brokerages, that are used by institutional investors don't have these problems, but they also charge a lot more for their services.
So this seems like a pretty easy way to stop a stock - change the collateral requirements.
From what I heard from the WeBull CEO, what you described sounds right. And he said the whole market could not function.
So in order for other stocks to trade (which have much lower requirements) they had to shut down several stocks.
So I'm sure the big shorts would know that if they get super screwed (price going higher and higher) this collateral requirement would cause this (and the stock to drop big like it did to $112 the other day)?
And this is basically all because of the risk that some hedge fund may not be able to pay (which causes collateral requirements to change)? Seems like the rules should change for these big shorts.
No, the risk is that Robinhood's users won't be able to pay, which would put Robinhood on the hook. The settlement house will only trust Robinhood as far as Robinhood has collateral.
This is not a problem for most stocks, because they have a balanced flow of orders (for every one of RH's customers buying, there's another one selling, which raises and then lowers their collateral requirement.) This is not a problem for bigger brokerages, who have larger cash reserves, to keep as collateral.
The tl;dr is that if you're going to do an uncoordinated mob short squeeze, with unprecedented volume and volatility, don't use a discount broker to do it.
My serious money is invested through Morgan Stanley. They have institutional investment services I do not qualify for, but I'm on their registered investor account, and it's usually $7 to $15 for simple trades. It's not that much more if you're actually planning on executing in volume.
If the commenters here mostly can’t understand that explanation how are even more regular people going to ? Instead they will just “not buy” the explanation and look for conspiracies
Take a closer look at roadkill the next few times you see it. You'll often notice the eyes, tongue, etc are missing. Sometimes the corpse will look like a skeleton with skin but no organs.
These are circumstances commonly attributed to aliens or cuppracabra attacking cattle. However it's very common in roadkill when you start to look for it. It's pretty mundane, though I understand some people will find it startling the first time they see or hear of it.
The „conspiracy theorists“ often seem to dismiss multi-factor explanations. When in fact they may be rare when you calculate for a single event, but if you consider how many events are happening across the globe it’s just not that improbable that a medial sensation was in fact the result of an - individually unlikely - chain of events
When George Mallory was found on Everest, scavengers had eaten his internal organs from one hole in his (frozen) skin. He was like a human-shaped shell.
What scavengers would that be? No small animal capable of doing that is known to be able to survive at that height. small number of birds can fly that high, that's about it.
"ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break.
