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gangsterkathryn

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BlackBerry and Siemens were the only companies who have ever made phones capable of withstanding the demands of my barbaric lifestyle.
What are your barbarian activities?

I do not have a screen protector, but I have a case. I drop my phone pretty often because I’m super clumsy.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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What are your barbarian activities?
Manual labor occupation, many outdoor activities in my somewhat limited free time. I use phones in dusty, wet conditions, but truthfully very rarely drop a phone. The one time my phone did fall on the floor I wasn't even holding it, it slid off a table. It fell face down onto it's screen protector which apparently didn't work at advertised.
 
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Manual labor occupation, many outdoor activities in my somewhat limited free time. I use phones in dusty, wet conditions, but truthfully very rarely drop a phone. The one time my phone did fall on the floor I wasn't even holding it, it slid off a table. It fell face down onto it's screen protector which apparently didn't work at advertised.
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gangsterkathryn

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Manual labor occupation, many outdoor activities in my somewhat limited free time. I use phones in dusty, wet conditions, but truthfully very rarely drop a phone. The one time my phone did fall on the floor I wasn't even holding it, it slid off a table. It fell face down onto it's screen protector which apparently didn't work at advertised.
That happened to me, as well, just a few days after I got it. Had it fixed the next day, though. I have only broken one other phone, and that was five years ago now.
 

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kaladin stormblessed

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Will be interesting tomorrow to see if the winter storm which has just begun has any unintended operational effects due to possibly a limited staff in the trading floor, middle office trade support working remotely due to buslines being cancelled for tomorrow, senior management possibly staying home in Connecticut and thus handling escalations remotely or deligating to whomever from their desk who makes it in is senior. Etc

Basically, fingers crossed, let's home shit goes smoothly tomorrow to avoid adding new wrinkles to this saga
 

MMAPlaywright

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jason73 @jason73 , I bought $3K of SLV and then to balance it out due to being a coward-type, I bought $3K of some five-star rated Fidelity mutual fund that I feel pretty sure is safe but not going to make me tons.

I just wanted you to know that.
 

ThatOneDude

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Will be interesting tomorrow to see if the winter storm which has just begun has any unintended operational effects due to possibly a limited staff in the trading floor, middle office trade support working remotely due to buslines being cancelled for tomorrow, senior management possibly staying home in Connecticut and thus handling escalations remotely or deligating to whomever from their desk who makes it in is senior. Etc

Basically, fingers crossed, let's home shit goes smoothly tomorrow to avoid adding new wrinkles to this saga
What wrinkles could those things add?
 

Robbie Hart

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Maybe we’re not dorks, though I do like watching the GameStop chick blow someone in the work bathroom
 

kaladin stormblessed

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What wrinkles could those things add?
Answering that question is.pandoras box. The most likely impact will be internal. Let's say sao Paulo desk is covering the new york desk, there may be trade misbookings, which fucks which fucks the firms risk postion, and causes the desk to have to cover with unfavorable trades

In terms of it affecting retail investors, I can't speculate. Cuase I was always dealing with other brokers and dealers.

But I do know that thin staffing causes issues. And I'd imagine that the same applies to an online brokerage. But something like robinhood may not even be housed in nyc. And on top of that, their step in the process is more systematic. The terminals processing trades won't go down on their end

But who knows. In theory, the weather could affect sell side bid/ask spreads maybe? And if so, that indirectly affects retail investors
 

kaladin stormblessed

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What wrinkles could those things add?
Here's abetter answer. The storm is unlikely to affect retails investors. But if it were to do so, my guess would be that it relates to a firm having tech issues with its software, and limited IT coverage in house

So most likely, nothing. But if by bad chance, a rare tech glitch happens, then the trading floors will be chaotic as hell until the issues are fixed
 

ThatOneDude

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Answering that question is.pandoras box. The most likely impact will be internal. Let's say sao Paulo desk is covering the new york desk, there may be trade misbookings, which fucks which fucks the firms risk postion, and causes the desk to have to cover with unfavorable trades

In terms of it affecting retail investors, I can't speculate. Cuase I was always dealing with other brokers and dealers.

But I do know that thin staffing causes issues. And I'd imagine that the same applies to an online brokerage. But something like robinhood may not even be housed in nyc. And on top of that, their step in the process is more systematic. The terminals processing trades won't go down on their end

But who knows. In theory, the weather could affect sell side bid/ask spreads maybe? And if so, that indirectly affects retail investors
So when you say desk.....
 

kaladin stormblessed

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So when you say desk.....
Have you seen the relatively new HBO show called Industry? They do a very good job of representing the energy. Culture, and personalities on a trading floor

If not, picture a big room. The entire floor is an equity trading floor. It will look like just a bunch if rows of long physical desks. But within all those people, there are groupings of 4 to 10 people who are considered a "desk." Lets say a domestic (usa) large cap trading "desk" or team. A foreign mid cap trading desk. Yadda yadda.

Yeah actually it's just a term for a "team" that covers a specific type of product. Usually an MD or 2. A could EDs, a couple VPs, and an associate and analyst or two

(Managing director, executive director, vice president, associate, analyst... which goes from total baller MDs, to 1st year out of school "analyst" level newbies)
 

ThatOneDude

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Have you seen the relatively new HBO show called Industry? They do a very good job of representing the energy. Culture, and personalities on a trading floor

If not, picture a big room. The entire floor is an equity trading floor. It will look like just a bunch if rows of long physical desks. But within all those people, there are groupings of 4 to 10 people who are considered a "desk." Lets say a domestic (usa) large cap trading "desk" or team. A foreign mid cap trading desk. Yadda yadda.

Yeah actually it's just a term for a "team" that covers a specific type of product. Usually an MD or 2. A could EDs, a couple VPs, and an associate and analyst or two

(Managing director, executive director, vice president, associate, analyst... which goes from total baller MDs, to 1st year out of school "analyst" level newbies)
Gotcha, Thanks