First of all: Pain is no reason for expediency. I'm not even gonna list the empirical evidence for that i'll be here all day.
But, what i wanted to talk about is the conversations i *just* had with my GP and my father.
Ysee, the doctor asked me what i wanted to look at next.
And i said my gut, because if there's nothing wrong with my blood/stomach, then maybe that's the reason why *i can't eat anything*.
I'm on a diet of eating nearly only french fries cause it's the most i can handle.
She said she was worried about that, saying i should vary it up
I told her "fine, then come cook for me" because at this point it's hard to stay standing for more then 20 minutes. I've got stacks of dishes i haven't even put in the dishwasher yet.
Whatever, she argued it wouldn't take me as much effort to eat an apple.
And i had to remind her, i can't eat anything else. I *was* eating just sandwiches for half a year because i couldn't eat anything else cause it'd tire me out.
Then my stomach went critical and the GP's left me screaming in pain over a weekend. So i thought maybe it's gluten.
It's not, the food test would've shown. So i'm still in the dark (but bread's back on the menu pain or no).
But this next part shows you how FUCKED UP the #netherlands is.
I told her what i really needed was a high resolution full body scan to check my nervous system.
She said "we cannot refer for that. That's something you can do on your own, but we don't have that capability".
I asked her couldn't she refer me to somebody who could refer me then. No doctor can.
One of those things costs north of €1000. I don't have that. So they're out.
"We work with a system of specialists here in the netherlands"
So i asked instead then to be refered to a #Covid19 specialist, somebody who deals with the long term effects of it.
She said "well every specialist here by now knows how it applies to their area"
-_-'
SO they don't exist here either.
"Alright fine. How about then you refer me to both the stomach/gut/liver specialist AND the neurologist cause i can't remember anything".
"I can't do that".
"What? Why?"
"Because we look at one thing at a time here in the #Netherlands"
I argued with her "WHAT do my brain and my gut have to do with each other?! They're completely separate organs! Why can't i have both looked at now?!"
"well food patterns could affect memory"
"MY EATING HABITS AREN'T THE REASON WHY I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING I SAID YESTERDAY!"
Short of it is. No Neurologist appointment.
Even though you guys know about my memory problems. I literally HAVE to get through the gut doctor ENTIRELY before i can have *MY BRAIN* looked at. Or anything else.
I called my father to update with the news. And here's the thing.
We had a small talk about my niece, who *works in a hospital*.
My comment was that a bloomberg terminal is expensive, but spending rent money on options is no problemo.
But that made me think...
Hang on. I've seen news posts before about how options volume has exploded, even exceeded normal share trading. People are ACTUALLY doing it, i'm not just being facetious here.
Now i don't use options myself, but i *have* looked into them.
@MacleodFinance Help me out here. I'm reading more and more that "hyperinflation is defined as 50% a month" - but that's *new*.
Years ago when i looked it up i found "economists don't agree on where it starts, but the general line is 10% a month".
I can't remember *EVER* reading about ANY consensus for the decade i've been studying economy and looking up US financial history and general world economic history.
And i'm sorry, but 50% a month is 600% A YEAR!
I'm pretty sure the common man isn't gonna wait that long.
IMO this is just another warping of the economic language by the establishment.
Hyperinflation *cannot* be defined as having a set boundary, because it's largely *psychological* in nature.
LONG BEFORE you lose 50% of your purchasing power a month are you gonna exit the system!
So there's some confusion between short volume and short interest. I pretty much made the same mistake the first time around, because believe it or not.... there's just a fuckton of data to track at this point.
So, short volume is NOT short interest, but, it does tell us things.
Very simply put, "what isn't there cannot be traded".
This goes for us, as we're literally buying silver to take it off the market. Whatever's part of "market volume" doesn't include *my* PSLV shares, because i'm not actively trading them.
With 28k on the docket, probably reducing to -19,5k/-20k on the final report, they're about 10k away from their previous high, with today and tomorrow to go to roll over.
WHATEVER OPEN INTEREST IS LEFT ON THE 25TH, STANDS FOR DELIVERY!
Today, the 24th, is of the biggest import.
As i said, the biggest rollover day happens 2-3 days before the end. We just had it.
Under normal circumstances, i would imagine anywhere between 3 to 8k rollover today and then 2-3k tomorrow, putting final delivery around 15k - Quite substantial but probably not enough.
THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE! I say this because i've never done this before; And i wanna see if i can find absolute dogshit at or near the top as good as i find absolute gold at the bottom, based on fundamentals alone.
AND THE TICKER IS 🥁
$IRM
As you can see, 1,100%+ debt to equity is quite excessive. Combined with my favorite measure, Book value per share, at an eye popping -16.8, i decided to immediately take a closer look. Especially at $32.26 a share! This is no penny stock.
There's more that didn't line up.
Market cap is $9,27 billion, but enterprise value is $20,27 billion. This is quite a spread, and usually indicates undervalue (which is how i got attracted to it in the first place).
However. P/E ratio is 69.91!
Now they can't both be right. There's gotta be a reason.