sorry..doggo and dinner prep.
BUFFS=Big Ugly Fat Fellow
B-52s
>tankers
yes at times you can see ones from Okinawa heading into s china sea with PEARL calls
>SAM
it may have already come back and not remembering.
GameStop Shares: Dark Pools Owned by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS, et al, Have Made Tens of Thousands of Trades
Dark Pools owned by the biggest names on Wall Street – such as Goldman Sachs’ Sigma X2, JPMorgan Chase’s JPM-X, UBS’ UBSA, Morgan Stanley’s MSPL, and Credit Suisse’s Crossfinder — have been making tens of thousands of trades in the shares of GameStop on an ongoing weekly basis. FINRA, Wall Street’s highly compromised self-regulator, reports the Dark Pool data on a stale basis, two to three weeks after the trading has occurred. It is then lumped together for the whole week, rendering it useless in terms of monitoring price manipulation. The chart above is taken from the latest available information from FINRA. (See our previous reporting on Dark Pools in Related Articles below.)
It’s a fair guess that you haven’t heard a peep about Dark Pools on the evening news. The fact that you haven’t is a perfect commentary on why mainstream media is failing the American people when it comes to exposing Wall Street’s serial looting of the little guy. But when a bunch of quixotic posters on a Reddit message board can be parlayed into the exciting narrative of a Robinhood band taking on the evil hedge funds, it goes viral on the evening news – sucking in hundreds of thousands more unsophisticated retail investors. It’s important to remember who has been pumping the GameStop/Reddit story on CNBC. That would be none other than Andrew Ross Sorkin, who created a completely false narrative about who and what caused the crash of 2008 – appearing to be intentionally protecting the reputations of the mega banks on Wall Street. Sorkin’s reporting on the 2008 crash looked even more suspect when we repeatedly asked the New York Times to correct his outrageously incorrect reporting and they failed to change one word.
Key Point
What’s being ignored in all the current hoopla is that the largest federally-insured banks in this country, that now double as trading casinos and Dark Pools thanks to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, have every incentive to suck in the small investor at the top of a market bubble in order to create an escape route for themselves. It’s called “distribution” and it occurs, by hook or crook, at the top of every market bubble.
It’s also important to remember who doesn’t like hedge funds that expose fraudulent stocks or over-valued stocks. That’s the same mega Wall Street banks that may have just issued buy ratings on these fraudulent or over-valued companies.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/01/gamestop-shares-dark-pools-owned-by-goldman-sachs-jpmorgan-ubs-et-al-have-made-tens-of-thousands-of-trades/
If you want to know a lot moar about High-Frequency, DarkPools, Exchanges etc. and the massive amounts of fuckery that have gone on please visit this site.
It's all from the Flash crash and onwards to early 2013.
These strategys were tested out in the options markets in 2006-07 when the HFT's really began to proliferate.
I know becasue I saw them while trying to not place market orders using limits.
They knew 2008 was coming so they also began to bring ETF's to the markets at the same time. They then grew into the monsters they are now becasue you never own anything that it represents-even equity ETF's are like this
Perfect really because the stealth bailout began shortly after Hussein re-elected in 2012 and anything after that was just hot air.
http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/OngoingResearch.html
This guy was on this from the start and the SEC eben gave him a reward.
Critic of High-Frequency Trading Receives SEC Whistleblower Bounty Award
https://www.whistleblower-defense.com/2016/03/09/critic-of-high-frequency-trading-receives-sec-whistleblower-bounty-award/
another rec'd is the Michael Lewis book "Flash Boys"
moar detail there as well.
Algerian AF 7TWIP Ilyushin 76 ne from Algers and heading to Moscow most likely
They operate about 4 of these AC types that I can tell.
Transport
be if you pull it up and isolate it you can keep track of any ac when it passes over dead zones
you'll see how the signal freezes for several minutes etc.
regular stuff over Japan but nuffin seen there
Silver Seizes the Spotlight Following Reddit Day-Trader Frenzy
A silver frenzy calmed on Friday as investors weigh whether a push by Reddit posters to create a short squeeze has legs.
The entire market from miners’ shares to exchange-traded funds and even the physical metal has emerged as one of the latest targets of the r/wallstreetbets board now famous for fueling a short squeeze in Gamestop Corp. that sent its market value soaring. Posts encouraged people to pile into IShares Silver Trust, the largest silver exchange-traded fund, and one described it as “THE BIGGEST SHORT SQUEEZE IN THE WORLD”.
“It is true that the combined efforts of those on the Reddit forums can dramatically influence the price of individual stocks, but if you compare the size of the entire silver market to the market cap of the individual companies that forums have recently targeted, we don’t see this as having potential to significantly move silver into a short squeeze scenario,” said John Feeney, business development manager at Guardian Vaults, a Sydney-based dealer. “Silver’s market cap is too large and those on the forums typically want to see quick gains, so I wouldn’t read into it too much,” he said. Spot silver was 1% lower at $26.2317 an ounce by 9:50 a.m. in Singapore on Friday, heading for a monthly loss.
Gold, which was largely spared from Thursday’s trading frenzy, was little changed at $1,843.51 an ounce. Prices are heading for their biggest January decline in a decade as the dollar strengthened after the Federal Reserve kept its monetary policy unchanged without promising any more aid. “Gold has tentatively lost its mojo as U.S. stocks resume their climb higher and as ‘little sister’ silver gets an endorsement from the Reddit army of traders,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp. “Gold has weathered waning demand as institutional investors focus more efforts on the recent volatility that stems from the retail traders who are trading heavily shorted stocks and now silver. Gold needs to recapture and hold the $1,850 level otherwise bearish momentum could trigger a tentative plunge below $1,800.”
In other markets, palladium and platinum were steady. Asian stocks followed their U.S. peers higher. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rose 0.1% and is heading for its first monthly gain since September.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/silver-seizes-the-spotlight-following-reddit-day-trader-frenzy-1.1555908
This is mostly correct but it doesn't point out that in order to have any impact on the spot price you need to trade the paper contracts via COMEX to make any progress here.
This is the holy grail of manipulative bullshit and potential powder keg moment (they lose this and it's pretty much over) and will be defended till they can't-bet on wild swings and moar delivery issues as most will put money into the many metals ETF's thinking they are covered by that.
At some point all that fakery will be uncovered then they'll want the real thing.
What Happened At MF Global?
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/what-happened-at-mf-global.aspx
The Collapse of MF Global: Summary & Analysis
https://causeofaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MF-Global-Summary-and-Analysis1.pdf
attached
GHOST53 USMC G4 on ground at North Island completing a rt inbound from Whidbey
departed Honolulu Int'l on 0125 to Miramar
depart to Lemorre NAS for ground stop then se to Wahiawa, Oahu Wheeler Army Airfield
depart earlier today nw to Whidbey Island NAS
Biden bolsters North Korea team with Korean American ex-CIA agent
The Biden administration has beefed up its North Korea team with the appointment this week of Jung Pak, a Korean American scholar and former Central Intelligence Agency agent, as deputy assistant secretary for East Asian & Pacific Affairs at the State Department.
Pak's appointment comes as talks between the U.S. and North Korea remain stalemated and Pyongyang continues to bolster its nuclear and missile arsenal. A critic of former President Donald Trump's showy summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, she argues that Washington should keep sanctions on the isolated nation to achieve full denuclearization.
Pak will work under Acting Assistant Secretary Sung Kim, who is also a Korean American as well as a former ambassador to Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea.
Pak grew up in New York City and graduated from Colgate University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul before working as a history professor at Hunter College in New York from 2006 to 2008.
She boasts an impressive track record as an analyst on both North and South Korea. From 2014 to 2016, she served as a deputy national intelligence officer at the National Intelligence Council in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. During her time working for the DNI, Pak led the U.S. intelligence community's production of strategic analysis on Korean Peninsula issues.
Pak has also held senior roles in the CIA, where she won awards for her analytic accomplishments and service, and until recently was a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Biden-s-Asia-policy/Biden-bolsters-North-Korea-team-with-Korean-American-ex-CIA-agent
'''Ontario Teachers Pension Plan sold Azek Co. and Macerich Co: $943.57m-Jan 26-27
AZEK Company Inc., formerly CPG Newco LLC., is a designer and manufacturer outdoor living products. The Company's outdoor living products include deck, rail, trim and accessories. Its segments include Residential and Commercial. In its Residential segment, it designs, and manufacture engineered Outdoor Living products that includes deck, rail, trim and moulding and accessories. Decking manufacturers to offer both capped wood composite and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) decking products, and manufacturer to offer narrow and wide-width PVC deck boards. Commercial segment, it manufactures engineered sheet products and bathroom partitions and lockers. Commercial segment includes its Vycom and Scranton products product lines. Number of employees : 1 663 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-AZEK-COMPANY-INC-108052091/company/
Macerich is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in shopping centers. It is the third-largest owner and operator of shopping centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned interests in 52 properties comprising 51 million square feet of leasable area. The company name is a portmanteau of its founders, Mace Siegel and Richard Cohen. Number of employees : 737 people.
dey did not do berry well on this.
look at the buy-in prices green on linky below
What Is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=937567&tc=7&b=2
Azek Company sold by Ares Capital Mgmt.: $460m-Jan 26
Ares Management Corporation is an alternative asset manager. The Company offers its investors a range of investment strategies. It operates through three segments: Credit Group, Private Equity Group and Real Estate Group. The Credit Group segment manages credit strategies across the non-investment grade credit universe in the United States and Europe. It offers a range of credit strategies across the liquid and illiquid spectrum, including syndicated loans, high yield bonds, credit opportunities, structured credit investments and the United States and European direct lending. The Credit Group provides solutions for traditional fixed income investors. The Private Equity Group segment categorizes its investment strategies as corporate private equity, the United States power and energy infrastructure and special situations. The Real Estate Group segment manages public and private equity and debt strategies. The Company also provides annuity and life insurance products. Number of employees : 1 200 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ARES-MANAGEMENT-CORPORATI-50061101/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1543148&tc=7
There was something else in this bldg but cannot recall wut or who.