I typically get to the office at 8 AM and leave at 4 PM ET. I work from home 2 days a week. I use tradovate as my platform to trade. The issue is that I don't really have a cubicle and work in an open office setting so everyone and their grandmothers can see your screen and you staring at your phone.
I'd love to trade MES but it's difficult to do so during the day unless I go somewhere during lunch or when i go take a shit in the bathroom and scalp a few points.
I also try to trade Globex but have found it to be very tough with the low liquidity and I have lost much more than wins.
I spent the weekend paper trading BTCUSDT and have been pretty good at it. I really like it and wish i can trade this all the time Best thing is that I can trade essentially 24/7 so i can even trade it on the weekend. Issue is that Tradovate does not let me trade that in Tradingview.
I also thought about Forex, but then I can't do forex tickers like EURO/USD because tradovate seems to only do futures like M6E or Nano Bitcoin BIT.
What I'm looking for are two things:

1. Something that i can trade that has small contract options like MES or MCL or MNQ.
2. something that gives me the flexibility of trading it whenever I can without shitty liquidity problems.

Issue is that BTCUSDT offers me both of those and yet tradovate won't let me trade it.

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Memory transcription subject: Slanek, Venlil Space Corps
Date [standardized human time]: October 3, 2136
Accompanying Marcel to visit his tormentor was my overarching desire, but persuading the predator proved an impossible task. It baffled me why he believed this confrontation was something he needed to tackle alone. The worry I felt for my human was tremendous; I couldn’t imagine how traumatic it was to encounter Sovlin, with the roles reversed.
Beyond that, it was terrifying to be stranded on Earth, without him to protect me. Whenever something frightened me, there was the comforting assurance that the vegetarian would fix it. I was beginning to understand that Marcel shielded me from the predatory side of humanity, to the best of his ability. Who was there to filter the stimuli around me now?
You need to get used to humans on your own, Slanek. Toughen up, I chided myself. That orphan toddler is twice as brave as you!
Nulia seemed anxious without her scarred predator; the poor thing must be fearful of being abandoned again. Tyler landed babysitting duty for the Gojid child, while her guardian was away. The meat-eater had finally retired to his room, trying to get both of them some shut-eye.
As babyish as it would have been, I wished I tagged along. Every shadow that danced on the wall seemed like a dog sneaking up on me. There was no chance of getting a wink of sleep, knowing I was trapped in a land of predators alone. How could any sane species leave their varmint alive?
With a frustrated sigh, I jabbed a claw on the remote. It was a bad idea to watch their television without supervision, but the boredom was stirring up the dark side of my imagination regardless. The screen opposite the bed flickered to life, set to a news channel by default. A stern-looking female had her intense, predatory eyes fixed on the camera.
“…ever trust the Federation?” she asked. “None of their information about predators has been correct. The continued survival of the human race is due to their astonishing incompetence; their fundamental lack of curiosity. You, your children, and your loved ones are vermin to be killed to them. These aliens take offense to your existence.”
“Not the Venlil!” I yipped, knowing that she couldn’t hear me.
“The UN ambassador and the Venlil governor never returned, from a summit where they tried to negotiate with these genocidal maniacs. At this point, we have to presume that Noah Williams was murdered. Maybe it’s time to give the Feds a dose of the predators they’re asking for. Is this why the Arxur turned on them? How were they really treated at first contact?”
That statement made my blood boil. How could any human argue with the mountain of footage, depicting Arxur sadism? It was an undisputed fact that the Federation uplifted those predators, gifting the means to blaze a trail of destruction. Hadn’t the Terran soldiers returned with stories of the grays rounding up cattle, and snacking on living Gojids mid-battle?
Surely, no humans bought this outrageous line of thinking. This had to be a sensationalist take to garner publicity for her broadcast. That, or it was satire. I failed to see the humor, but then again, I always took a literal interpretation of things. Terran comedy could be pretty dark and tasteless, from the jokes I heard on my deployment.
“Nothing excuses cannibalism and xenocide, to those who will inevitably take my words out of context. I just don’t see a reason to accept a bigot’s narrative, without any critical thinking. Recent intelligence suggests ship movement in the Krakotl…”
The hotel door clicked open without warning, which startled me upright. What if it was UN security guards, coming to secure my room with a dog? That creature was going to be my nightmare fuel for months; I could vividly picture it ripping off a Venlil limb, with a toss of its ugly head.
My fear morphed to relief as I saw it was Marcel, who bore an exhausted look on his face. The predator’s emotions must be depleted, after such a taxing journey. He flopped back-first on the bed, allowing the residual tension to ebb from his shoulders. I assaulted him with a hug, and ignored the groan as I knocked the wind out of him.
“Easy, buddy,” the human grunted. “It’s only been a day!”
I emitted a happy mewl, as he settled me onto his chest with his uninjured arm. The room’s dark environment felt much brighter, with my friend to shepherd me. Nothing could harm me when he was around; not even a dog. The human tickled my chin with a low chuckle, and I rested my paws atop his stomach.
My eyes met his piercing gaze. “I was worried sick about you. How did it go? Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. I…I think I’m ready to move forward,” he replied. “But I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s talk about something else, alright?”
“Sure. How about what kind of predators humans are?”
“Shit, Slanek. Do we have to discuss that now? It’s 1 in the morning—”
“Yes, we do. You promised, and I think I deserve the truth. It’s like you don’t trust me, even after all we’ve been through together.”
Marcel searched my expression, a mix of concern and affection in his eyes. The human seemed reluctant to answer. His fear of losing me was palpable, from how his fingers tightened around my fur. What could be so sinister that it would alter my view of him, after all this time? I trusted him with my life; if my stupid instincts didn’t get in the way, I would take a bullet for him.
“It’s complicated,” he growled, after several seconds of silence. “Humans have employed every predation strategy in the book. Like Tyler said, dogs have helped us. We’ve set traps, used ambush tactics, fished, raised livestock…yes, I know you hate that word. But you asked.”
I tilted my head. “You said you weren’t ambush predators.”
“We’re versatile. Anyhow, what people claim we are, is one of the oldest hunting strategies known to mankind. It’s called persistence hunting.”
The human paused, as though expecting a dramatic reaction. My blank stare seemed to disappoint him; his lips curved downward even further. I could tell how much he disliked this topic, but we had already gotten this far.
Is that ‘persistence hunting’ phrase supposed to mean something to me?
“Continue? I don’t get it,” I pressed.
“Humans possess a high endurance, because of our sweating ability. We can run a lot longer…especially in the hot climates we originated in.” Marcel closed his eyes, unable to meet my gaze. “We were never faster than our prey. We just had more stamina. We chased them until they stopped running.”
A chill ran down my spine, as I processed the meaning of those words. Was he telling me that humans pursued their prey for hours… maybe even days? That they never tired, or gave up on a pursuit? Such an ordeal meant their quarry had an eternity to contemplate their demise. The victim spent their last day in a desperate, agonized flight. Their terror lasted much longer than the split second of an ambush.
My brain began to imagine running from a human, feeling the burning of my muscles and my lungs. The savage predator would draw closer, every time I paused to rest or dampened my pace. Knowing all the while that the second my legs gave out, my death was a certainty. There was no hope of escape, short of confronting the hunter.
What an awful way to go. Having your own body betray you, and languishing in a pool of chemical exhaustion. The predator would slowly approach, bloodlust in its eyes, signifying the end…I thought humans showed mercy? They conducted themselves like reasonable, kind, and feeling people; not relentless beasts that inflicted torment on the weak.
Tears streamed down my face, at the thought of my human partaking in that sort of predation. It felt awful, to think of him in that regard. If he was born a few thousand years ago, would he have chased helpless creatures through the scorching heat too? Was that what was coded in his instincts?
“Slanek? Gosh, you’re shaking.” Marcel rubbed my ear comfortingly. “Say something, please. Even if it’s that you hate me.”
Sadness seeped onto his expression, which knocked some sense back into me. It was painful to see how heartbroken he looked. I resisted the urge to swat his hand away, and attempted to regain my wits. The predator’s honesty was admirable, when he foretold precisely how I would react. I knew, in my soul, that my human would never dream of harming me.
It was time to stop fixating on their heritage, as much as anything predatory frightened my instincts. Humanity left their gruesome past behind, and had proven themselves more than capable of empathy. My reactions were the product of a stupid, irrational phobia. I wanted to love them fully, without awful thoughts creeping into my head all the time.
“O…okay. P-persistence. Got it,” I stammered.
The human blinked. “What?”
“I accept you, f-for whatever you are, because I care about you. No matter what.”
The predator clutched me tighter, and restrained his own tears. It was important for Marcel to know that he didn’t have to apologize for his existence. After wrestling with wretched self-doubts, my acceptance was essential for his mental welfare. Humans didn’t need to alter themselves to prove they were worthy of our friendship.
“Thank you,” he whispered. “Keep it between us, please. I’ll get in trouble for telling you.”
I flicked my ears. “Okay. That is an awful form of predation, which doesn’t exist on our world, so I get why you avoided the subject. But Tarva deserves to know. She would still stand by you; I’m certain.”
“I’d hope the governor would take heart, knowing the fruit our roots have borne. We just do the best with what we have in our toolset. Humans are survivors; whatever it takes, we have the resolve and the dedication.”
“How is that encouraging in any way, Marc?”
“Maybe it will help you to realize the lengths we would go for you, our Venlil friends. And you’ll know that we will hunt the Arxur to the ends of the universe; that there will be nowhere they can hide. We’ll battle a scourge like that as long as our species survives.”
Marcel’s argument was persuasive enough, when he phrased it like that. The Terran pledge to liberate sentient farm worlds, and all of their military aspirations, felt much more feasible. An arduous war wouldn't daunt humanity like it did for us.
I suppose there was another positive to their hunting methodology, in that it wasn’t a deceptive art. They had no reason to employ trickery, or extend a hand in a false friendship. This could be conveyed as a reason to trust humanity, if they played their cards right.
“You should get one of the UN people to ‘tell me.’ You’ll need to be more tactful with most Venlil; framing is everything.” I pinned my ears against my head, trying to keep a storm of negative emotions at bay. “I can think of a way to make your ancestry more palatable. Maybe just say you can withstand heat better, so you’re desert pursuit predators. Or shift the focus to your recent cattle practices.”
“Er, I’m not sure a close examination of factory farms is a good idea either. Never mind that. You took that better than I expected, by far, Slanek.”
“I want to stop panicking, but I don’t know how. My kneejerk reactions aren’t what I really think, once my brain comes around. But sometimes…usually, I can’t control it! You deserve a better friend.”
I ducked my head, feeling shame roll down my spine. Despite my constant efforts, my brain refused to forget that these lumbering primates were predators. My subconscious reminded me at every turn that humans weren’t like us, and that they could morph into feral beasts at any second. Marcel did deserve so much better.
All that time he wastes comforting me, and trying to calm me down. I’m a burden. A loser.
“Are you kidding? I got paired with the best Venlil.” Marcel offered his signature snarl, which was menacing yet gentle. “I wanted to be a part of the first contact program so bad. Do you know how many questions we had to answer?”
“30? 50? How many?”
“200, plus an in-person interview, a background check, and a psychological exam. All of my communications were analyzed since first contact, for any red flags. What was your selection process like?”
“I volunteered.”
“Um, right. I’m sure there weren’t a lot of takers for your position,” the red-haired human chuckled. “There was no guarantee that my partner would get past seeing me. You know from the stories around the outpost that some people didn’t.”
That was a true statement. Several Venlil fainted once in proximity of their penpals, and were taken to the infirmary. A smaller minority abandoned the program altogether, due to meeting their Terran counterparts.
I remembered how my fear had been almost painful that first day. It was no wonder a few Venlil found the humans too intimidating for cohabitation. Still, I couldn’t imagine how those predators felt, being rejected on sight after weeks of chatting.
The worst horror story was a Venlil that panicked at a human stepping into her room, and leapt into self-defense mode. She grabbed the nearest sharp object, which was a pair of scissors, and plunged it into the Terran’s shoulder. Her partner, while wounded, was able to wrestle the blade from her claws; the violence was not returned. The predator didn’t press charges, for some reason, despite Venlil government’s offer to prosecute.
Meanwhile, Marcel and I shared potato chips on our first day. Not the worst pairing he could’ve had, I suppose?
“Anyways. I talked to Lucy, you know, my fiancé, on the ride here. She wants me to come home, but I’ve gotten used to having you around.” Marcel took a deep breath, scratching his stubbly scalp. “Ah, maybe it’s not the right time to ask, after what I just told you.”
“No, I’m calm now. Go on.”
“How would you feel about living with us? You can come and go as you please. Any time you want to return to Venlil Prime, you don’t have to stay. But we’ll take care of all of your expenses, whenever you want to be here.”
I gaped at him. The idea of a permanent residence with my human filled my chest with warmth, but Earth was as alien as any world could get. A trial period was all I could commit to, to see how I handled prolonged exposure to a predatory environment. Would the UN…or technically, the regional government be okay with my staying?
“Er, I’ll think about it. Does that mean you’re going to receive a military discharge?”
“No. But I’ve requested a transfer home, so I can live planetside. I’ll only be involved with the defense of Earth, should that be necessary.”
“And what about Nulia? She needs you more than I do. She’d be devastated if she ends up in a camp, alone.”
“Don’t be ridiculous! We’re going to adopt her. I already spoke with Meier about the necessary paperwork, and he’s going to contact the American State Department. They’re starting from scratch on that one, I think.”
The Gojid child would be elated. I wondered how being raised by predators would impact her development, but I knew she’d grow up in a loving environment. It was obvious the human considered her to be his own daughter, and would care for her accordingly. There wasn't a more touching tale, than to witness these pursuit hunters rescuing the children of a species that swore to destroy Earth.
“Sounds like you’ve got it all figured out… Mawsle,” I whispered.
“Why, you fluffy little shit!” The human glowered at me, while I feigned ignorance. “Don’t you dare start that, too! I can and will rescind my offer.”
I wagged my tail. “Too late. No takebacks.”
My family back on Venlil Prime would say I was suicidal to accept; but the more I thought about his proposition, the more enticing it seemed. Navigating humanity’s diplomatic hurdles, helping a predator raise a prey child, and protecting their planet from harm could be my new calling. Maybe one day, Earth would even feel like my home.
At any rate, free rent sounded pretty darn good to my ears.
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NASDAQ:TSLA / 87
I'm trying to learn technical analysis and I notice many many many of the tutorial videos are all while trading FOREX so that sparked a question... When it comes to reading candle sticks, signs, patterns, etc can I take a lesson on technical analysis while they're trading FOREX and apply it to other types of trade? Stocks like TSLA, penny stocks, crypto, etc??? Or are candle stick patterns and such specific to each type of trade?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 00:26:20 2022 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
What do you think the best way to determine that would be? Highly doubtful a $1m trade could move TSLA stock, for example, by more that a few thousandths of a percent. But there has to be some relationship between execution likelihood and size. Anyone have any maths on this?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 16:45:21 2022 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
Volume .... Eg : penny stocks have low volume so 1M might make a difference. TSLA not so much.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 20:21:36 2022 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
I just did this. I went long 1 AMZN at 2440 and it dropped to 2100. I went short, thinking it would drop to 2000 and it went back up to 2200 today. I covered the short losing another 100 bucks on top of the 340. I was going to short again but I realized I have no idea what I'm really doing and it's better to just eat the loss. I'm long 3 TSLA at 770 and I'm going to wait it out for a month or two, which was my original plan for AMZN. Hopefully I can recoup some of my losses if the market recovers, but if I don't then hey, it was a learning experience that I won't forget. I need to stick to paper trading for now.....
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 21:35:03 2022 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
true conspiracy take ​ ​ musk cancelled the deal because the leverage structure encouraged SHORT attacks on TSLA. ​ if TSLA price could be driven down to 600 elon would be forced to start selling tsla stock and very quickly tsla stock would be trading at 300. ​ somebody smart told elon that arrogance could be his downfall
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 22:22:51 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
*if he finds sufficient funding. TSLA is down 30% so he doesn’t have the leverage that he used to.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 18:20:11 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Wrong. He was using Tesla stock as leverage. TSLA has lost 30% of its value since then. TWTR would be down more if Elon wasn’t trying to buy.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 18:18:59 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Why? I dont see many ev makers ahead of them besides TSLA. I have been considering dropping mine I averaged in at 22, but i can see it recovering large.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 21:03:12 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Tesla fan here. Agree with everything you said except, Tesla fan here. Lol. At what PE (or maybe PEG ratio) would you like TSLA? It’s growing so fast, so insanely fast, and is in a market that will take over, with much of the world saying they will be all EV by a certain date, or all new cars EV. If the share price stays the same, the PE will be 10 in a few years. They have very high margins, in Shanghai, despite selling for less, I’ve heard 50% which doesn’t seem possible. The argument against Tesla seems to be that they won’t continue growing this fast. Or competition. I don’t view either of these as a threat. Only government is the threat. At what point would TSLA make sense for you?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 21:03:34 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Yeah he's skeptical, because he had bought into the alt-Right narrative that 1) Twitter is some sort of "town square" and more importantly 2) botnets operated by Communists had flooded the network to control the US narrative. When reality has shown him that it's his view that's skewed, then obviously he's skeptical. The fact that TSLA has taken a hammering, probably to the point of his loan being restructured, doesn't help one bit.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 13:29:19 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Well you win some and lose some. I shorted TSLA and took a bit of a hit. But then, i will play that trade again on Monday.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 05:20:09 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Very true. When it comes to shorting options, my stop loss rule is get out of the trade once the option price is 2x the premium I received. for TSLA, are you going to short the stock or its calls?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 11:51:51 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
Finally, someone making some damn decisions and sense here. None of this “should I buy AMD, TSLA, NVDA or go balls deep on some BTC because I consider it cash and all the billionaires say I should be cashing out right now”.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 03:11:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
AAPL is better. AT 145 you get the best company on earth at 25% off, and as soon as China re-opens (any day now) it will shoot up 5-10 points. This will be a slow quarter but after that it should be back to the races for AAPL. MSFT also a find stock, but second best. Buy them both if you like. What to avoid? The last remaining bubbles, like TSLA, Coinbase, digital assets of any kind and oil stocks look toppy now as Putin loses the war and gets ready for terminal cancer surgery. if that war ends, and it might sooner than we think, oil will drop by $30.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 13:49:35 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yes, why not QQQ instead of just AAPL or APPL and MSFT? Because FB, TSLA, Netflix and AMZN are all hitting a wall. GOOGL is kind of in the middle. Or if you want a possible double go with PARA. My God that stock is cheap and their new TOP GUN movie is getting great reviews, and if Tom Cruise gets back on top they also have MISSION IMPOSSIBLE finished, and CBS has 5 out of the 10 top network series. So those would be my top two picks, AAPL and PARA. and who knows, Apple might even buy PARA?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 13:53:35 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA is still trading at a reasonable price, thank God.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 01:48:23 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA is consistently beating expectations
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 13:58:38 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I predict the bottom is already in except for the last few bubbles like TSLA and cryptos. Putin has lost and is terminally ill, for one. he cannot sustain this war much longer and cold be deposed or killed. At best he will be a cancer patient on powerful meds and very weak needing 12 hours of sleep a day. if he has blood cancer he is likely dead soon, and if he gets covid that could kill him. Plus Finland-Sweden joining NATO shatters Putin's delusions of grandeur. A united Nordic front alone could defeat Russia in a war, even without the US and the rest of NATO, and now even Turkey, China and India are clamming up and refusing to back Putin. So if that war ends and the good guys win, oil will drop $30 and the Fed might put the brakes on rate hikes. Plus the China covid shutdown will end any day now. That alone is worth a 10% pop for AAPL and AAPL always leads the market back from these severe selloffs.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 14:03:12 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I believe in AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, TSLA, and NVDA for long-term growth far more than carbonated sugar water and baby powder companies.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 03:16:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Buy TSLA using the money you would have used to buy the Tesla
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 19:12:22 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Peter Lynch would buy different stocks than you should buy, according to his philosophy. Because he is not you. He works in a different field and sees different things. Peter Lynch tells you to observe things in your direct environment and recognize good products with high demand. Buy those companies (after DD). That's where you have an edge over all of those Wall Street analysts that read news and stare at balance sheets all day. You don't have an edge in Google or TSLA, most likely.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 00:01:05 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Fuck TSLA. Worth $100 not even.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 00:35:32 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
On every single post, almost all the comments would be the same 5 stocks of NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL, and TSLA.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 18:01:41 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
/investing is too biased. Try disgusting (or even posting) positive quarter from TSLA and get downvoted / removed, but they still happily take any FUD.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 07:57:18 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
One could argue TSLA will be the last to be sold.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 17:22:44 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yeah but ppl don't buy stocks like that. You have FB out here making more money in one year than TSLA did in its entire existence yet 2/3 the size. It's very probable that Apple can be sold even though everybody knows they're in a strong position. The reason I brought up TSLA is because I define "capitulation" as maximum fear, no bulls left, no more "XXX (in this case EV) is the future" dreams being sold so much that stocks like TSLA end up with 1500+ P/E, no more "believe in so and so (in this case Elon)" justifying insane stock prices. I think when all this stuff goes away (and with it TSLA's valuation), we'll be at the bottom. I could be wrong, ofc
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 18:07:40 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yes but it wasn't like that for the 15 years while they were going up. They only achieved a large cash position since Covid when the company sold a bunch of stock since the price was so high. And there are lots of high or even ultra-high growth companies that never see the insane valuations that TSLA sees.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 00:21:08 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Look what it's doing to TSLA..📉
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 17:27:16 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
My guess is that after the initial thrill of disrupting and buying Twitter, he suddenly had buyer's remorse as he saw TSLA stock plunge and realized that by backing Trump he had alienated 60%+ of Twitter users. You don't have to be a liberal to know Trump is totally full of it, a huge national security risk and a shameless scammer. and if Musk allows Trump back after January 6th, who else does he allow to spread malicious fascist lies? yes Musk helped Ukraine with internet services but does he really oppose Putin and fascism? And if so, how can you oppose Putin and support Trump at the same time? Trump works for Putin and wants to be Putin. And Musk pushers like Jim Jordan know this. Jordan was in the room in 2016 when McCarthy and Ryan confirmed Trump is a Russian agent, then they all agreed to lie about it and cover it up.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 12:14:28 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I have been saying for years that Musk is a flake. He is an engineering genius but a mercurial flipflopper who often had bad, even crazy, ideas, often plays games, kind of lies, and does not act ,like a professional CEO at all. This combined with the lofty once sky-high valuation of TSLA (95-150 PE on 30% type growth) means that TSLA is a very risky stock, like a giant meme stock. Musk is also in cahoots with crypto fanatic Jack Dorsey who probably talked him into buying Twitter out of a revenge motive for being pushed out. cryptos as a whole have not survived the stress test of this inflationary sell-off period. They are not a hedge, are extremely unsafe and on any one of them, or 99% of them you could lose 100%. Algorithms have no intrinsic value or usefulness, they are just a digital token or ticket to ride a train to potentially nowhere. Because of all this, Musk should step down as CEO of all companies and use his wealth to making the world a better place, and that does NOT include helping serial lying fascists like Trump.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 12:10:29 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
You guys realize this was to dump TSLA shares w/o openly dumping shares, right? The fact it was with Twitter thing was for LULZ...but the real reason was to dump TSLA. TSLA bulls beware...Musk calling top
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 13:09:01 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yeah, that's it. I'm sure it has nothing to do with an inability to get funding thanks to TSLA and Bitcoin plunging.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 12:34:11 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
What's more likely is that TSLA is down 25%, meaning his net worth is down almost as much.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 14:34:02 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Look at that, he say "Maybe Twitter isn't a great idea." TSLA goes up
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 17:32:58 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
I think he never had a real intention of buying TWTR. He just wanted to sell TSLA shares without having to justify why he was selling it.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 14:04:57 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
You must've called the market fall out then too - must be killing it the past few weeks, return-wise. He's trying to finance it with debt backed by TSLA shares, which have plummeted in value the last three weeks or so.....
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 15:42:09 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Hertz, Doge, his own TSLA stock ("guys, should I sell? oops already did"), now TWTR.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 17:22:43 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Yeah, that's what the options market seems to think (and what I've been thinking as well) because they're positioning for TWTR to trade at $30 again at some point in the future. I own no shares of TSLA or TWTR, but this frustrates me anyway because Elon selling TSLA has 100% pressured the Nasdaq at times. TSLA's movement shouldn't move around the Nasdaq, but it does just about as much as Apple's movement.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 14:22:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
His Tesla shares are only sufficiently valued to collateralize the bank loans at a share price of roughly $740. TSLA closed at $728 yesterday. Bloomberg noted this possibility 3 weeks ago: >Third: Musk’s financing could fall through. He has commitment letters from banks to fund $13 billion of (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-26/elon-got-his-deal#footnote-5) Tesla closed at $1,084.59 on April 1, the last day before Musk announced his Twitter stake; it was trading at $905 as of 11 a.m. today. Selling or collateralizing more TSLA will cause its share price to fall even further, creating a Catch-22.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 13:36:26 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TWTR mooned on the announcement. If it's anywhere above $38 he could still profit from dumping it. I assumed all along his plan was to pump and dump Twitter, while intentionally tanking TSLA so he could buy more of his own company back.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 14:08:04 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Well TSLA is a huge portion of Nasdaq. You can't blame the guy wanting to sell though, if you had 27million+ shares of that company wouldn't you want to diversify?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 17:22:51 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
The news would come out after he sold. He did the same with TSLA when he posted a twitter poll asking if he should sell to cover taxes owed. He had already sold, per SEC filings.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 17:30:14 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
That sounds like due diligence to be done BEFORE making an offer. It’s also face saving BS - the markets ranked, TSLA stock included, he realized he could have gotten it for less. If he loses the billion for terminating the deal but offers 35bn and it gets accepted - he will have saved a lot.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 19:00:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Cramer like many experts on CNBC also falls victim to trends. Cryptos are a case where everyone is both wrong and right depending on the timing. You have to trust you gut and mine has told me cryptos are a scam and pyramid scheme with no real value whatsoever. But smarter guys than me have made a lot of profit off them, so long as they went to cash a few months ago, so what do I know? It amazed me that with the obvious warning sign of the Singapore contagion hitting that (un)stablecoin, many bought the dip anyway. The problem is that cryptos are not just a fad but more like a cult viewing reality differently. same with the blind faith in Elon Musk driving TSLA up to $1200. WTF were people thinking? I am still surprised TSLA is even over $400. That is where I think it deserves to be.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 16:17:49 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
It’s been an interesting 2 years for sure GM: replace with more TSLA, or maybe a good div consumer staple. It doesn’t have the growth, yield and carries elevated risk. DIS: replace with nothing or a bond fund - at least you’ll get something. How much upside is here realistically? Worth a trade at these levels at best. SBUX is a good replacement here. JNJ and AAPL: since they’re so heavily weighted in the SP index I would rather own the index, get the others and sleep better. The rest is great
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 06:19:05 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
TSLA puts at open
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 10:27:22 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
sounds like he really started working on his accent when TSLA started skyrocketing in 2019 or so.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 09:02:07 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA bag holder here nevertheless this was funny
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 09:05:19 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
yeah if TSLA goes back up to over 1000 I should probably sell my shares. Granted, my basis is like $52 so it can crash a considerable amount and I'll still be profitable
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 07:47:03 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
WSB waking up to TSLA fraud will be complete when the stock dips below 500 USD
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 11:57:35 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA and TWTR shareholders all suffering from his virtual Neuralink too
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 13:51:40 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
You mean my Elon fanboy friend was delusional when he said TSLA will hit 2T market cap
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 12:21:59 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
A sub-par investor that got lucky with one stock pick and has managed to ride the TSLA wave to fortune and fame.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 13:08:32 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
You mean my Elon fanboy friend was delusional when he said TSLA will hit 2T market cap, Apple is done and Warren Buffet has lost it? Lol, actually true story.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 07:29:36 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA is profitable and has cash reserves, so probably not.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 07:55:19 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
This chart specifically targets unprofitable tech stocks, but even profitable ones like TSLA are pulled down in this macro environment. So buying the dip (wherever that is) of large cap profitable tech companies that aren’t going anywhere is probably not a terrible idea. I hope so at least, got all my money in it.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 07:59:31 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Well if TSLA continues to deliver on massive growth (and that’s the big if) while continually improving its operating efficiency it’s currently at a huge discount. So the real question is can TSLA expand output by 50% a year, and actually sell these cars? Then it’ll be a 2T cap company easily.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 08:09:55 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
No wonder so many big institutions invested so much money into RIVN even it's just starting out. EV companies can easily go bankrupt as Elon stated that. But RIVN has already 17B in cash, and not much libilities. I think RIVN could be next TSLA.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 23:29:29 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA for me
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 05:46:54 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA for me haha
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 08:30:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I will get a full back tattoo of Nic Cage blowing a dinosaur if TSLA touches in the 500’s this week. Book it you shit stains.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 21:06:49 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
#Ban Bet Lost IS_JOKE_COMRADE (4/2) made a bet that TSLA would go to 965.8 when it was 878.0 and it did not, so they were banned for a week.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 01:21:28 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I closed june july and August puts on NVDA TSLA BYND QQQ AMC and more. I'm a full on retard. AMA!
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 03:37:24 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA dumping?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 04:20:26 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Never let your emotions get in the way of your trades. 30% annual growth is 50% of, say, TSLA, and the shares were insanely diluted. Shareholders did not expect to be diluted this much when they made their investment in 2021.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 03:10:51 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
"Finally realize" like Bro how da fuk did he even make it this far? TSLA at $1200 like are those people out of their minds? Buying TWTR?!1!! motherfuckers he's just trolling ffs.. Fuck me that guy is exhausting...
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 11:31:34 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I think it's 50/50 on TSLA. I see what you're saying, but people could also end up interpreting this as "Musk's TSLA sale funds don't need to be used to buy Twitter, so TSLA bullish."
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 02:54:34 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
There are already reports that he will get the additional funding needed from other investors and completely forego any margin loan on his TSLA shares. Probably just needed to show the he “could” do it to get the deal going, but now will work out the funds with other entities instead. Musk is smarter than you. Just sayin.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 00:35:03 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
DAU's are arguably Twitter's most important metric and they explicitly asserted <5% fake users in their 10Q filings. If Elon can demonstrate that it is substantially higher, then it is a material misstatement that gives him an easy out. Remember kids: if you're going to lie, do it outside your SEC filings. Anyways, I agree that the initial tender offer was way too highly leveraged. But I think he wants to collapse Twitter's stock price and ultimately buy them around 20B without leveraging his TSLA holdings.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 03:49:25 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Yes yes yes Musk is a WSB acolyte But TSLA will still go up
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 02:53:27 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
*Shitposting. Turning Twitter into 4chan might seem like a great plan to own the libs(aka Tesla buyers), but if I was a a shareholder or on the board, I wouldn’t be bullish on long term performance for Twitter if he sticks to his free speech absolutist talking points. Selling his TSLA shares to buy up Twitter shares and turning it into 4chan sounds dumb af unless he’s trading on insider info (likely).
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 03:40:08 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
So TSLA grows exponentially under the Trump regime. Trump announces a social media app. Elon offers to buy Twitter and then says, "nevermind it's not worth it". Twitter tanks, Trump benefits. Elon asked for a favor from Trump during his presidency and now Elon has paid back the favor. It's all part of the plan.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 19:02:52 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Trump's ties to oil and gas gave him incentive to shut down the EV program. However, when it comes to Elon and Trump ties.. they have always been on the same page. https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/trump-on-elon-musk-hes-doing-a-good-job Trump even came out in support of Tesla reopening California factory specifically. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-trump-idUSKBN22O212 Even in the early days Musk asked Trump for help with China tarrifs https://www.dw.com/en/tesla-chief-elon-musk-turns-to-trump-for-help-on-china-car-tariffs/a-42901852 And more importantly, Tesla already benefited from the EV government loan program and Trump ending it shortly after helped TSLA by limiting it's competitors https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/16/this-government-loan-program-helped-tesla-at-a-critical-time-trump-wants-to-cut-it/
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 19:44:35 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
He wanted to sell shares, but he didn't want people to panic and unload TSLA. He needed a convenient excuse "oops, margin called!"
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 17:11:15 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Yes, however. The tarrifs once again helped TSLA and hurt it's competitors. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs-tesla-idUSKBN1FC37D With a clause snuck in specifically benefiting Elon and hurting over 300 other U.S. companies.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 19:52:09 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Not really but it definitely has increased his influence like crazy and his presence as a global icon has definintely improved TSLA stock, his access to capital / debt etc.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Mon May 16 01:26:32 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
That’s all this ever was. He sold billions worth of TSLA at the local Top and had a perfect cover. Just a few days/weeks before TSLA was getting slammed with crap news during a major market downfall. He knew it was coming. Sold billions while TsLA was still north of 1k
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 21:19:26 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
if TSLA goes down a lot, she’s fund will get liquidated right away
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 23:26:54 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
You should instead be buying ARKK‘s top holding that time, TSLA. Overall less crazy play (and I like diversification) and just compare the results. She got lucky that year with TSLA and underperformed on the rest.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 21:26:55 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
By "real transparent" do you mean predicting $4,000 TSLA last year and now promising 50% annualized returns?
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 17:17:41 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
TSLA is probably the one stock where she bought low.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 08:56:37 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Sure, but Cathie beat pretty much everyone that year. Like OPs whole point is “why is she so overrated.” It’s because of her predictions on TSLA and how her funds performed in 2020. There’s no mystery here.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 20:31:43 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
pretty sure he never intended to buy Twitter and this was just an excuse to sell TSLA at peak without spooking the stans.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sun May 15 07:15:58 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
Used to be you. I just did stocks and one point I was up almost 200%. GME. TSLA. Other stuff. Got in to options this month. Lost all profits. Now I'm all in on spy puts. About 50% down currently.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Fri May 13 22:27:08 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
get rid of it an jack up those TSLA numbers lol.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 00:03:52 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
I love it when bulls and bears of TSLA fight. Keep the IV up 😌
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 06:30:35 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
NVDA and AMD aren't overvalued. They are solid. AAPL, TSLA, AMZN though? AAPL there's a good case to be made that it's actually right on track. I've never really been an Apple fan as far as the company, but it's much like Nvidia and AMD. They all have a stranglehold on their respective markets. Tesla and Amazon though? Tesla is an oddity. A luxury car brand with a fraction of market share and rapidly gaining competition brands with arguably more compelling products. Amazon is Amazon. It's more than an online retailer, because of AWS but it's still fast overvalued because the pandemic boom in online ordering. I think it's surfing that wave to an extent, and will eventually come back to earth. Purely speculation. I like ETFs. I'm not much for individual companies in any respect.
KEYWORD : TSLA DATE : Sat May 14 10:36:45 2022 SUBREDDIT : wallstreetbets
NASDAQ:MSFT / 72
I trade the 1 minute and mainly only trade the open first 15 minutes. I also only trade the same stocks everyday. AAPL, AMD, SPY, QQQ, FB and MSFT. No others. This helps me know the movement and trends s/r. If I have a trend line or support/resistance marked out I take the trade while it's dropping. Otherwise, I feel like I miss part of the move. If you trade the 1 minute and see a big red candle dropping. Don't be afraid to buy into it. Here's why. Say the market just opened and AAPL out in a big ugly 1 minute candle and on minute 2 there's another one I'll buy right into it as it's dropping. When you're buying a market order you'll get a bad fill which interestingly enough will be a lower fill. And in 90% of the times it'll retrace 50 percent before the close. It's not uncommon that I'll buy 1000 shares of apple at this moment and sell it to make $100 to $300.
KEYWORD : MSFT DATE : Sun May 15 02:05:56 2022 SUBREDDIT : Daytrading
Surprised by all the confident “no” responses. These recent ipo’s and high-risk “disruptive” stocks that haven’t even turned a profit are the first to sell off at the beginning of a correction or bear market. This doesn’t mean that ARKK’s dump alone confirms a bear market, but it adds weight in support of more pain to come on the markets. Look at the dotcom bubble. All of the “innovative” internet of things stocks sold off at a much faster pace than profitable and more reliable stocks like IBM and MSFT.
KEYWORD : MSFT DATE : Sat May 14 18:43:37 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
There are a lot of great companies that are starting to look like good buys— MSFT NVIDIA etc. we’re bound to have some Green Day’s between the red.
KEYWORD : MSFT DATE : Fri May 13 21:07:10 2022 SUBREDDIT : StockMarket
I am holding at age 65 mostly AAPL and real estate, all of which I bought on sell-offs and near the lows of those markets. If AAPL sells off, as it does periodically, I try to buy more. If ther is a real estate bust I look for condos to buy. So I accumulate wealth knowing Apple and quality real estate,unlike most investments, has a very secure and ever profitable future. I also have a million in high dividend telcos and others though those have underperformed. so yes I get $80,000 a year in dividends but I also down about $120,000 on those stocks so that didn't work. I would have been better off just buying more AAPL or buying more real estate in 2020. Also nothing wrong with holding cash and I wish I had more of it now. There is really no other company like AAPL, MSFT being the next best thing. If you buy AAPl now down 25% you will almost certainly will win soon. But you cannot say that for many stocks, because unlike AAPL almost nobody has a legal monopoly in a sector whose growth is all but guaranteed for at next 5-10 years.
KEYWORD : MSFT DATE : Sun May 15 16:32:48 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks
Also in IT as a consultant that worked in about every large industry that you can think of. I started buying MSFT at the start of Azure simply because I saw how much these companies were lapping it up, and for mostly good reasons too. Have yet to see a company/organization without Microsoft playing a significant role in their B2B infrastructure.
KEYWORD : MSFT DATE : Mon May 16 00:09:58 2022 SUBREDDIT : stocks

See this link for list of all the guide I have created prior: https://www.reddit.com/worldwarzthegame/comments/fs7mbc/new_player_guide_primary_and_secondary_weapons/
OK so what's up about the parenthesis in the title? Well...turns out Hellraiser (HR) has two different builds. One focused on using MGL and explosives, and the other focused on using Claymore. Now obviously you'd think: hey, Geno is a huge fan of claymores so why not claymore Hellraisers? Because if I wanted to use Claymores, I just think claymore Exterminator is better than Claymore HR due to pocket factory. If I wanted hellraiser, explosive build is more fun than claymore HR. I don't know why, but there has been a huge influx of claymore hellraiser these days and it's pissing me off every time I see someone use up all the bags and then put the Claymore in all the wrong places. If you really want to use claymore HR, at least go read my claymore exterminator guide first. Claymore HR is an OK setup as long as you plant them correctly.
Strength of the explosive HR
Like medic or slasher, Explosive HR is newbie friendly class because it rely less on your primary weapons, which is important because you won't have all the upgraded guns in the beginning. MGL gets max power at level 27 and you start with it, so you are powerful already at the beginning of a map and can handle the mid-chapter finale even with your T1 shotgun. You are guaranteed to make a ton of kills as long as you follow the guide lines below without having to learn some of the more complicated mechanics. You do not have to carefully aim like a gunslinger, or look for certain guns like fixer, or have deep map knowledge like the claymore users.
In fact, there are two only important HR mechanics to remember: Use C4 when you are facing danger, and use MGL to kill large piles. A competent HR is the one that can maximize the potential of these two weapons so you will be just as good as killing regular zekes as you are at killing specials, and HR can handle all map types on the campaign mode.
Weaknesses of the explosive HR
Explosive HR only has one weakness and that's its reliance on heavy weapon. A newbie HR's attack power drops off significantly when you run out of MGL rounds because this class has no firearm dmg boost and you don't have all the upgraded weapons. This factor also makes the explosive build not ideal for horde mode.
What I do to compensate this weakness is to be flexible with the class usage depend on map and mutator. I normally only bring my HR for maps that's are shorter with smaller total horde side. For example, Tokyo 3 is a very long maps with large hordes, and I often end up with 800-1000 kills, while Tokyo 2 is smaller and 600 kills are considered good already. I normally bring my HR for Tokyo 2, but my exterminator for Tokyo 3. If you hit a map with a beneficial mutator like Gun shotrage/defenseless/heavy hitter, I will bring HR even if it's a longer map.
Newer players won't have this flexibility because they don't have all classes trained. So if you are sticking with only one hell raiser build, use your MGL wisely to conserve ammo and only use it target large piles
How to use that C4
Let's talk about C4 first. C4 is there to act as your get out of jail card when you are in trouble, so don't use it just to take out a pyramid or zekes on a fence. If you are using it to boost your kill count, you are doing it wrong. C4's saving power not only applies to you, but any other teammates who are in danger. Any pinned teammate will be released when the zeke are attracted by the C4. Here are some important points to help you remember when to use a C4.

1. Throw C4 when you OR your teammate are surrounded by zekes, especially if the zekes are boosted. This build has no other defensive perks to get out of a jam when you are surrounded, so you must use C4 to escape. It's almost always better to use one equipment rather than risk getting incapacitated. You will have to judge for yourself whether you are able to deal with the zeke packs using your guns. If not, do not hesitate to throw that C4, you can always regenerate or find equipment later. Boosted groups are especially dangerous even if the booster is killed, they can easily pin you and wipe out your whole HP bar within a few seconds.
2. When you OR your teammate are targeted by more than one bull/infectoboostebomber combinations. In Aftermath, the specials are coming in bigger groups and bulls can spawn in pairs (all other specials spawn one at a time). If you see more than one coming at you with their buddies, throw that C4 to re-direct them away. A single C4 is enough to kill a bull/infector below insane, but you need two for a kill in insane/extreme.
3. That being said, DO NOT THROW two C4's together just to kill bulls. In fact, resist the urge to trigger that C4 even though the on-screen prompt says so. Remember, you have 5 seconds of safety. If all the specials are distracted and there's no more zekes coming in, take your time to kill them with your guns. You have more than enough time to walk around the bull and take him out. This is especially important if you attracted an idle bull during stealth phase since triggering that C4 will break silence. That un-triggered C4 can just sit there as long as no one accidentally shoots it.
4. So what if the specials are distracted but more zekes are still targeting you? This is a common situation because C4's here-kitty perk can only attract limited number of zekes (C4 use to attract a lot more, but Saber had to nerf it because it was way too OP when it can attract 10+ zekes. C4 use to be able to make bulls turn around and expose their backs, but not anymore). If there's no bull, blast away using your primary, and only trigger the C4 if there's too many for your gun to handle. Infector can go down with one C4 and you can finish her off with a melee. If there are bulls and you just don't have time to go around him, then whip out your trusty MGL and send one grenade to trigger the C4; one C4 + one MGL grenade is guaranteed to blast away bulls/infector plus any other zekes in the area as long as your aim isn't too far off target.
5. C4 does not attract rats, so use your MGL against them. Blast them with MGL at medium distance, 1 is enough but use 2 if you are not sure, just don't land both in same spot.
6. C4 only attracts zekes AFTER it sticks, so if you have fast zekes closing in on you, point down and throw it at your feet so it activates quicker. Throwing C4 on the wall, rails, or any other vertical surface that's close to you works too because sometimes those are even closer than the ground.
7. If there's an abundance of equipment bags, you can pre-plant C4 just like you do with Claymores. Throw 1 at a critical junction/spawn point, or your NPC's hiding location, or where small groups can climb up/jump down. Then trigger it when there's enough zeke around it, or preferably when a special is walking by.
8. C4 can be triggered manually by shooting at it, so if there are C4's lying around from an earlier throw, use your gun to manually trigger them one at a time. For the same reason, do not throw a C4 when all your teammate's shooting at that direction, it can be triggered while flying in the air and blow up way before activating or reaching target.

MGL ammo calculation. It's Math time:
Before we talk about tactics, first I need to show you why HR shouldn't use claymores with MGL. The fire claymore clash with "Deep pocket" perk (you must have fire on your claymore, because explosion alone won't kill much), so if you want to use MGL, you must have both Heavy Rain and Deep pockets. Why? Here's where the math comes in.
Deep pocket = +35% ammo, so MGL have 11 rounds with only Deep pocket. Heavy rain = +50% ammo so MGL have 12 rounds with Heavy Rain. In theory, when both perks are applied, you should have +85% ammo which means 15 rounds. But in reality, these two perks are multiplicative and you end up with 8*1.35*1.5 = 16.2 -> round up to 17 rounds. So if you only choose only one of the two perks by going with fire claymore or thumper, you are losing either 5 or 6 grenades in one MGL (or a second round of RPG or 3 rounds of payload without deep pocket). That's a big loss in total firepower if you pick up more than one MGL, and you would lose even more during mutators that boost heavy weapon.
You can further confirm the multiplicative nature of ammo perk in "gun shortage" mutator where you get +100% heavy ammo. All the buffs are multiplicative so you end up with 33 rounds of MGL: 8*1.35*1.5*2 = 32.4 -> round up to 33.
In defenseless mutator you get 50% more heavy ammo, which means 8*1.35*1.5*1.5 = 24.3 round up to 25 ammo in MGL. This is also the reason why slashers get 225 unit of chainsaw fuel 150*1.5 during defenseless, and GS gets 225 rounds of heavy machine gun, but exterminator does not get a third round of RPG (1*1.25*1.5 = 1.875 only up to 2)
What's really insane is when both defenseless and guns shortage are in effect, you get 8*1.35*1.5*1.5*2 = 49 grenades PER MGL. The short lesson is, always get both heavy rain and deep pockets since the buff is multiplicative.
How to use MGL
First thing: If you are not a HR but there's a HR on the team, please do not pick up MG. Mark it for your HR teammate instead and only pick up if he's seen it and skipped it. There's a bug in the game where if another class pick up a heavy weapon, the ammo count is now reset to the base value and HR's heavy ammo perks can no longer apply to it. So even if you give it that MGL to a hellraiser later, the ammo would still be only 8, not 17.
MGL is the most powerful weapon the game in the hand of a Hellraiser because it can simply kill an amazing number of zekes. An improved MGL can start with with 17 grenades and 28 max kill per round for a theoretic limit of 476 kills, but you won't be able to reach this number in actual gameplay since there won't always be 28 zekes piled up neatly for you to blow away. Realistic kill limit is between 300-350 zekes if you use all 17 rounds on fence/pyramids. I normally kill between 200-300 per MGL depending on the map and how many bulls I used MGL against, but can reach 300+ if it's the right map. (By comparison, improved Chainsaw and improved RPGx2 has a realistic kill limit between 150-200, the other heavies are even lower).
The most important thing that I just cannot stress enough: do not unload the entire MGL chamber in one burst in an effort to "Make it rain". You don't get to do that cause you ain't Thanos. During swarm, always fire one round first to gauge the landing zone. Surface geometry in this game is a bitch because even though the ground looks flat, many places have tiny little bumps that cause your grenade to bounce off in unexpected directions. Once you got the landing zone dialed in, fire slowly 1 grenade at a time. For wide fence or pyramid, you can fire 2 if you spread them out. Hell raiser can easily clean out an entire wave with 3-4 rounds (even less if you have competent teammates), so there's no need to use more; switch to your gun to finish off the stragglers that's already thinned out. That one MGL should be able to last at least one whole swarm fight (unless it's unlimited spawn) with some ammo left over, so pace yourself.
When using MGL against pyramids, it's actually more effective if you land the grenade at the edge of the pyramid base instead of firing dead center into the middle of the pile. The pyramid mechanism is coded in such a way that grenade that explode near the outer edge will collapse it faster the ones exploding in the middle. Don't ask me how, that's just what I've observed. Once the pyramid collapses, give it time to build back up before firing the next round. You won't get much kills if you don't wait for the pyramid to rebuild because the second round will simply hit the empty space left by the first found.
For fences, you DO want to land that grenade dead center at the base of the fence instead of bouncing off the top of the fence. Landing at the base just seem to do more kills. For longer fences, fire grenade either left to right or right to left, and spread out the landing zone to maximize explosive coverage. You don't want to land them too close so they hit empty areas that's already been cleared by the previous round.
MGL rounds can one-shot bulls if you land it right under his feet. The area where you can one-shot is very small so it does take some practice to get it right. The same goes for infectors, but those are more forgiving because one grenade can easily bring her down. These one-shot are tricky because your target is constantly on the move, and missing a shot could lead to getting spit on or getting grabbed. So most of the time I will use C4 first and finish off with MGL since it's the safest (or just dodge if they are alone). If you are out of c4 and bull twins are closing in on you, feel free to fire 2 rounds and send them to hell.
Bouncing grenade off vertical surfaces is sometimes better than just firing them on the ground, especially if you are trying to hit targets that's too close to you or around the corner. When you are threatened by bulls at close range, aiming down at the ground can often cause the grenade to bounce too far behind him. Bouncing off a vertical surface usually means less distance before detonation, and the grenade would explode in the air closer to his upper body leading to more dmg. (Plus it looks cool AF but that's just a bonus)
NEVER fire grenades next to your teammates because it stumbles them, which can often lead to incap because they get beat up after getting stumbled.
Perk load-out
Perk for explosive HR is pretty simple, and I will only go through the relevant ones. Some perks are for claymore builds and it's just not useful for explosive build at all.
Column 1: Here Kitty plain and simple
Here Kitty: one of the most OP perk in the game. Once it lands it will attract zekes for 5 seconds, pretty similar to what the flare gun does except you control the C4 of course. If you don't have perk, you've basically shot yourself in the foot. I've already explained C4 usage up above. Remember, Here Kitty can be used to save your teammates as well, so don't just think about yourself.
Column 2: Welcome committee because the other two are for claymore
Welcome committee increase your team's mortar kill to 50 limit from 40. Not as powerful as bandolier perk from EXT and fixer, but you really have no choice. It's hard to get 50 kill anyway so this perk is a bit of a downer. HR does have explosive dmg so they seem to get more kills with mortar than other class.
Welcome mat: basically here kitty for claymores. But C4 works better since it can attract and turn away zekes further away and save your teammates remotely.
Green-fingered: only use if you are a claymore fanatic and want to get as much kill as possible (then why not just use claymore EXT instead?)
Column 3: Directed Blast, that's it.
Directed Blast: MUST HAVE THIS because it's a core perk of the HR explosive build. 100% more dmg with explosives means your grenades will now have a bigger effective killing radius and you can one-shot bulls. You won't be able to reach max kill potential if you don't have this perk. This perk also affect RPG (making the kill radius bigger) and payload rifle, which enables it to one-shot bulls (normally takes 2 rounds).
Nimble thumbs: Shotgun reload speed increase by 50%. It's only useful during shotgun fiesta, but it clash with direct blast. I've tried it before and you are going to be really fast on shotgun but your explosive dmg goes down the toilet. If you are an explosive purist then this perk is useless. Only recommended if you go claymore route.
Column 4: Wheat Grass
That's it. The other two are not useful anyhow. there's just no reason to give up 25% more HP. Your temp health also scale with HP so you are losing a LOT of HP by not using this.
Column 5: take your pick depending on situation
I'll take that: refill with special kill and 60 second C/D. I personally like this one because most of the time I am using the C4 when facing specials. So as long as cool down is done, I am almost guaranteed to earn my C4 back and ensure I have a constant supply.
Pickpocket: refill with 15 kills and 60 second C/D. Less useful because the cool down is so long and you would only kill 15 in a swarm. If someone breaks silence during stealth phase, you would be out of C4 very quickly since you can't regenerate more. I only use this during Cannon Fodder mutator.
Tooled up: 3x C4 instead of 2. This is only useful during the "looter" mutator to generate one C4 every 33 seconds instead of every 50 second.
Column 6: Third hand, but free refill I is situational
Third hand: Same OP perk as the one in exterminator class. Instantly refill magazine after 15 kills with no cool down (or at least a very short one). It's hard to say how long this hidden C/D is. I find if you are using automatic weapons, it's hard to trigger it continuously. But if you are using a +2 pen semi-auto rifle, this perk would constantly trigger because semi-auto rifle fires much slower and you would be out of cool down before you use up the refilled magazine. So if you want to use third hand constantly, take a few seconds break once you see it's proc'ed. Don't hold down the trigger non-stop. (One time I reached 1000 kills in Jerusalem 3 before starting finale because Third-hand was triggering non-stop and I just ended up killing everything with no reload. I think I was using a sport carbine)
This perk is extremely useful because HR has no firearm dmg booster, but you do need to rely on your gun to kill things when out of explosives. You definitely have to watch ammo usage with this perk though. I found myself suddenly running very low on ammo during swarm sometimes and have to scramble to get ammo or swap to another gun.
Free refill I: refill 1% ammo per kill with C4. You only use this during mutators where ammo is limited or ammo crate is non-existent. Otherwise third hand is better. It's a very good perk to use with Claymore because each claymore can kill up to 21 target.
Column 7: Deep pocket = Heavy weapon king
Deep pocket: 35% more ammo for ALL heavy weapons. I've already explained the math above pretty thoroughly
Scorched earth: C4/Claymore leaves fire. Completely useless for C4 users because of the nerfed kill limit. That fire is not going to kill anything meaningful. It's only for claymores.
Hole punch: For shotgun fiesta only. I wouldn't even use this perk during shotgun fiesta since there's no reason to give up extra heavy weapon ammo. T3 shotgun is powerful enough without this perk.
Column 8: Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain: MGL has 50% more dmg and 50% more ammo. I've already explained the MGL tactics and MGL math above. Heavy rain also increase the kill limit of each grenade and it's not included in the description. GET THIS PERK. MGL is pretty weak without it.
Thumper: Start with a thumper, which use to be extremely OP when game first released until they nerfed it. These days it's good for draining your ammo crate after 2 refills and leave you with nothing to shoot with. This is only viable if you are going the claymore route and ignoring MGL's completely as main dmg source, plus there is a good ammo fix on the team to refill your primary weapons. Otherwise you won't even any ammo left to shoot yourself in the foot with.
Column 9: Job Satisfaction is best
Job satisfaction: killing 15 zombie give temp health. Cool down is not in the description but I do think it's a 30 second cool down just like other classes with the same perk. This perk is extremely important because HR has no other defensive mechanism once you run out of C4's. It's save my ass so many times. CD is pretty short so you are going to be shielded most of the time in a swarm.
Knock knock: start with a breach charge. Pretty good perk except it clash with Job satisfaction. I just wouldn't pick this since temp health is so important for your survival.
Predator: 50% firearm dmg boost for 10 second after killing a special. Would be a pretty interesting perk if it doesn't clash with job satisfaction. You use C4 and MGL to kill specials a lot so it's nice to have some firearm boost at the same time. But, it clash with job satisfaction, boooo.
Mutators that are advantageous for HR:
Gun Shortage: +100% heavy ammo so basically you start with two MGL worth of grenades. You don't get any other guns, but HR is probably the class that's least affected by this mutator since most of your kills are from MGL anyway, T1 shotgun can easily take care of stragglers. When used carefully, 33 rounds is good for a whole map. Just don't giddy and start wasting rounds.
Defenseless: +50% ammo heavy ammo. Same reason as Gun shortage but you only start with 25 round. You will use MGL/C4 faster because you don't have any machine gun or mortars to thin out the herd, nor electric grid to stop the specials. So remember to save some MGL rounds for bulls that break through.
Heavy hitter: no extra ammo but heavy weapons everywhere. Feel free to go ape-shit on this mutator because you are definitely going to find additional MGL's to play with. There are 3 explosive type heavy weapons so you have plenty to choose from.
Mutators to avoid for HR:
A dud: This mutator completely neutralized your HR's explosive power. I've accidentally used HR in this mutator before, and it's a total shit-show. It feels like you are a medic using the grenade launcher, it's just not killing much at all. Same goes for C4. Just switch to another class like claymore exterminator or slasher.
Looting is a crime: You are very unlikely to find additional heavy weapon and C4 bags, and fewer good primary weapons are available. Stick with class that can refill with kills or pocket factory so your medic can get as many bags as possible.
Elite Squad/Pinned down. Very dangerous mutator for a hellraiser since you have no way to defend against pin downs. C4 is not an effective counter because you have very limited number of them. It's best to bring slasheexterminator if you want to play DPS.
Chainsaw massacre: Completely nullifies your heavy weapons. This might be the only time to try out that claymore + thumper build. Or...i dunno, use a slasher.
Special forces: technically HR is not BAD in special forces. But smaller zombie waves means you will end up using MGL mostly on specials and won't have much kill to rack up. It's very unsatisfactory but you do get to practice your MGL skills vs bulls.
Weapon load-out:
Hellraiser has no specific weapons restriction or buffs (there's a reload perk on auto weapon but you shouldn't use it), so use the best weapons you can find. Note that crossbow and ACW are NOT explosives so dmg perk doesn't apply. These two weapons use explosive ammo which is a completely different thing.
The two shotgun perks are not even worth it during shotgun fiesta because they clash with two powerful explosive perks. You should make enough kill with explosives so the shotgun perk wouldn't make that much difference. The only time you would go with shotgun build is if you have both shotgun fiesta and a dud mutators. But if that's the case, why even use HR class?
Maps to avoid:
HR can handle all enemy types relatively easily so there are few campaign maps for this class to avoid. The only map where I won't ever use HR is Marseille 1. It's basically all running waves without pyramid/fence so zekes don't pile up for big kills. With a completely flat out area for both swarm battles, almost any other attack class would do better. MGL just suck against running waves because the zeke density is so low.

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Fourth edition of the LP11/'Donda 2' Timeline.
Updated by u/BOTTimmy.
Credit to ghost_bubbles for the timeline template as well as Yayo on KTT2 and the WSE discord for providing some of the timeline information.
Expected Title: Donda 2
Kanye West / Studio Album 11
Expected (Re)Release Date: Unknown
Current Potential Album Cover
Snippets:
Always ft. James Blake
Always ft. James Blake (Snippet 2)
Never Coming Back
Showtime
Sci-Fi (Extended snippet from the 'Last Week' video)
First Time In A Long Time (from the 'Last Week' video with new punch-in vocals by The Game.)
5:30 ('The car missing, is this what you call distance' on new beat from 'Last Week' video)
5:30 ('You don't really love Ye' snippet from 'Last Week' video)
Current Stemplayer Songs (Miami V5)

1. True Love ft. XXXTENTACION
   
2. Broken Road ft. Don Toliver
   
3. Too Easy
   
4. Get Lost
   
5. Flowers
   
6. Security
   
7. We Did It Kid ft. Baby Keem, Migos
   
8. Pablo ft. Future, Travis Scott
   
9. Louis Bags ft. Jack Harlow
   
10. Happy ft. Future
    
11. Sci Fi (Sean Leon)
    
12. Selfish ft. XXXTENTACION
    
13. Lord Lift Me Up ft. Vory
    
14. City of Gods ft. Fivio Foreign, Alicia Keys
    
15. First Time In A Long Time ft. Soulja Boy
    
16. Eazy ft. The Game
    

Current Artists on the project: XXXTentacion, Don Toliver, Baby Keem, Migos, Fivio Foreign, Travis Scott, Future, Vory, Alicia Keys, Soulja Boy, Jack Harlow, Sean Leon.
Other Potential Collaborators (based on leaks and news from the era): 2Chainz, Marilyn Manson, Moneybagg Yo, French Montana, Big Sean, Gunna, Pusha T, The Game, Scarface, DaBaby, Cardi B, Drake, Shenseaa, Antonio Brown, Pressa, Sean Leon, Veeze, Beanie Sigel, Theopihlus London, Yung Lean, Token, Blueface, Offset, Rich The Kid, Yung Gud, Fabolous, Playboi Carti, Jay Electronica, Beach House, CyHi The Prynce, Rhymefest, Rooga, A$AP Rocky, Steve Lacy, Lil Uzi Vert, James Blake.
Producers from the era: Digital Nas, Mike Dean, ATL Jacob, Hit-Boy, John Cunningham, Beach House, James Blake.
Songs Given Away/Rereleased/Removed since LP:

1. Mr Miyagi ft. Future and Playboi Carti - Played at listening party but not uploaded on the stemplayer. Supposedly scrapped now, however.
   
2. Keep It Burning updated and released on Future's album, 'I NEVER LIKED YOU', on 29th April 2022
   
3. True Love updated slightly and released as a joint song with X and Ye on May 27th 2022
   

Other potential tracks from old tracklists
•Maintenence
•5:30/The Car's Missing/Dear Summer
•Closed For Business
•Things Change
•Nebraska
•Depression
•Beautiful Life
•Never Forgive Yourself
•Worst Mistake
Leaks/Snippets from the era that may also be used
•DIE
•Fighter
•For The Children
•Hype
•Jesse
•Suzy
•Never Coming Back
•Showtime
•Always

Timeline

2021
December 12th Future brings out Ye at Rolling Loud
December 29th Ye is working on new music in the studio with Scarface
2022
January 3rd Steven Victor tells Complex that Ye has began work on 'Donda 2'
January 7th Ye and Cardi B are seen shooting a MV at Miami Balenciaga store, for a presumable collab
January 8th Dondasplace posts a video of The Game and Ye in the studio with the caption, 'Ye and The Game prod by Hitboy'
January 9th Ye's manager Bu acknowledges 'Donda 2' and says 'Ye is locked in'
January 11th Ye is seen in the studio with A$AP Rocky, Pusha T, and The Game
January 12th Ye is seen in the studio with, Antonio Brown, Moneybagg Yo, and The Game
January 13th Ye is confirmed to be headlining for Coachella
Quentin Miller worked with Ye and Push on January 13, we know he wrote for Hot Shit
January 14th Jason Lee says Ye has a song with Cardi B on the way
'Eazy', a single with The Game is announced on Instagram
January 15th 'Eazy' is officially released
Travis Scott is seen in the studio, following on from the birthday fiasco
January 16th Ye is seen leaving the studio with Pusha T and Fivio Foreign in LA
January 17th Ye is seen leaving the studio with Pressa, The Game, Pusha T, Fivio Foreign, French Montana, and Big Sean
January 21st Ye heads to Miami and is seen in the studio with DJ Khaled
January 24th Steven Victor says 'Donda 2' is coming, 'sooner than you think', in an interview with Complex
January 27th Ye announced 'Donda 2', executive produced by Future, on Instagram
January 28th Digital Nas says he has been given songs to simplify for 'Donda 2' and that Ye is working with some of the people he worked with for 'Yeezus', and that Travis Scott has played some beats for Ye
January 29th The 'Donda 2' team arrives at their studio in the ‘SOHO House’ in LA for the album. The album has been worked on by Future, the FBG Crew, Theophilus London, Mike Dean, Digital Nas, Fivio Foreign, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, and Veeze at the studio
January 31st A potential 'Donda 2' whiteboard tracklist is seen in the studio with the title, 'Donda II: 4 THE KIDS'
Digital Nas also states that he has seen Marilyn Manson working in the studio everyday with Ye
February 1st Theophilus London states he has Co-directed a, ' Black Future Month', movie with Ye at his warehouse
'Let Go', 'Drown', and 'Windpipe', snippets are copyright struck on Twitter
February 2nd French Montana states he did 5 songs in a night with Ye and Moneybagg Yo for 'Donda 2' and 'Mac N Cheese 5'
February 3rd Ye plays songs off of 'Donda 2' at Julia Fox's birthday party
A snippet of a 'Donda 2' listening party is shared containing an interpolation of The Chainsmokers, ' New York City', with Alicia Keys doing the chorus which morphs into a drill beat with Fivio Foreign on it
February 4th A picture of Malik Yusef leaks a suspectedphoto of the 'Donda 2' tracklist, with seemingly 24 songs on it
Febuary 5th Ye, Travis Scott, Beanie Sigel, DaBaby, and ATL Jacob are seen in the studio
February 6th The Chainsmokers allude to clearing the sample on 'Donda 2' for the song 'City of Gods'
February 7th A music video for 'City of Gods' is being filmed with Alicia Keys, Ye, and Fivio Foreign
Ye, Travis Scott, Vory, Future, and Drake are seen leaving for dinner at Nobu. For what turned out to be a listening party
Gunna was seen recording for 'Donda 2' in Nobu
Ye, Drake, Travis Scott, Baby Keem, and Yung Lean are photographed together
February 8th Kanye reposts the image of him at Nobu with Yung Lean, as well as a screenshot of a Complex Article showing a listening party had taken place and reconfirms the release date
More photos from Nobu listening party come out, showing, Zack Bia, Brent Faiyaz, Dominic Fike, Cole Bennet,second photo
Offset was also seen at Nobu
Rich The Kid in the studio
A new Alicia Keys ‘City of God’ snippet leaks
February 9th Yung Lean and Yung Gud at what seems to be Hotel Donda
Fabolous and Offset are seen together at ‘Donda 2’ sessions
Rich The Kid says him and Ye made a banger in the back of Nobu that Ye freestyled
February 10th ‘City of Gods’ is officially announced as a single
February 11th ‘City of Gods’ is released as seemingly a join song like ‘Eazy’
February 12th A listening party in Miami on 2/22/22 is rumoured
Ye confirms the listening party, although the post is now deleted
Ye, Future, 30 Roc, and John Cunningham recording before the Super Bowl
February 13th Ye announced tickets are on sale for the Miami show
Februrary 14th Donda 2 appeared briefly on AMC theatres, meaning the show will most likely be livestreamed
Mike Dean appears to be mixing Donda 2
February 16th Mike Dean says he is 'mixing like a mf', hopefully this is related to Donda 2
Mike Dean follows up by liking a tweet saying 'kanye is holding you hostage again mike???'
Februrary 17th Future posts lyrics for the song ' (fuck)flowers'
Kanye also posts a statement saying 'Donda 2' will only be available via the stemplayer. A demo is also included with a preview of 'flowers'
A poster for the 2 22 22 concert is shared by Ye
Kanye Posts a new tracklist, made up of 22 songs, with some of the songs seen on the original list
An older Gunna post could hint that he is on the sound 'Louis Bags'
February 19th Mike Dean playing some chords, possibly for Donda 2
A press release confirms 'Donda 2' will be released on the stemplayer exclusively
February 20th The Game says he is in Miami helping Ye finish up Donda 2
Ye is seen with NORE and Jack Harlow
February 21st Drake and Travis are in Miami
Dondacreative posts a tweet referencing saying, 'burn everything', a reference to the Sean Leon song, this could be 'keep it burning' as seen on the tracklist
Alicia Keys and Fivio Foreign supposedly joining Ye tomorrow to perform City of Gods
February 22nd The Donda 2 listening party takes place
February 23rd Broken Road, Pablo, Security and, We Did It Kid are released on the stemplayer
February 24th Rhymefest says he is working on Donda 2
A stemplayayer update which included the addition of all other songs heard at the listening party except Mr. Miyagi. However, we did get Keep it burning. Keep it burning was originally meant to be played at the event. True Love, Get Lost, Too Easy, Flowers, Louie Bags, Happy, Sci Fi, Selfish, Lord Lift Me Up, City of Gods, and First Time In A Long Time were added. Pablo and We Did It Kid had their stemplayer colours updated.
February 25th True Love (Stadium Version) was added. Louie Bags and Too Easy were updated, but it was just an aesthetic update to the colors on the stem player so they were not added. Keep it burning was also removed.
Februrary 26th Ye is seen in the studio with Beach House
Another tracklist version is seen
March 1st Ye is set to headline Rolling Loud on July 22nd
March 2nd City of Gods is censored in a stemplayer update
March 3rd Pablo is played at a Donda Doves game
The Game posts the official 'Eazy' music video
March 4th There is another stemplayer update removing 'Keep It Burning', and 'Eazy' being added the True love non stadium version is also removed.
March 7th Stemplayer website updated to allow streaming on it. Security and Pablo were temporarily available for all to stream.
Donda's Place posts photos of some of the Donda 2 sessions, confirming Yung Lean recorded for Donda 2
Jaylien posts snippets of an old version of Mr. Miyagi
March 8th Hurricane MV drops
March 9th Get Lost updated with less processed vocals
March 15th Rhymefest says he's working on Donda 2 still
March 17th A new Mr. Miyagi Snippet comes out
Nate Dae says he heard a finished version of Pablo and Happy
March 18th A longer snippet of the Mr. Miyagi snippet from the previous day
March 20th A new version of 'We Did It Kid' is heard with Fivio on it.
March 25th Mr. Miyagi is in the ASCAP register with Playboi Carti & Future credited as writers. Producer AyoAA is also credited.
March 28th City Of Gods had it's stems updated. This update changed stem2 back to 16-bit quality. Same vocal take, but slightly different processing/mixing done on this export.
April 9th New Security snippet, uncensored edition
April 25th Rich the Kid posts a snippet of his song with Ye
April 29th Keep It Burnin is released on Future's album
May 3rd Sean Leon shares a new snippet of 'Burn Everything' featuring Ye
May 6th Theophilus London reveals the existence of scrapped Donda 2 song 'For The Children' featuring him and Rooga
May 7th Theophilus also acknowledges the existence of an upcoming Donda 3
May 9th Life Of The Party video releases to start another Yeezy Gap rollout
May 15th Another Mr. Miyagi snippet is heard
May 23rd True Love is announced to be released as a single on the 27th
May 27th True Love is released as a single
Donda's Place reiterates that Donda 2 is on the way
May 30th Daylight - Vory ft Ye is released
June 6th A snippet of the scrapped song 'Jesse' surfaces
June 13th A snippet of Security featuring DaBaby surfaces
June 16th Sean Leon posts another snippet of 'Burn Everything'
July 23rd Lil Durk brings Ye out at Rolling Loud after he dropped out of headlining.
Yeezy Gap Van Drop locations are given out.
July 24th Photos of Ye wearing what are now known as the yeezy glasses are shown
July 26th Digital Nas confirms during his Rolling Loud set that Donda 2 is set to rerelease this year
July 29th Sean Leon played a version of Legend via a snippet on Instagram, featuring a new unheard line from Ye
Another Yeezy Shades photo posted on the Yeezy Instagram page
August 2nd Kanyewest.com website was updated and showed a 'coming soon' text
August 3rd Cyhi confirms in an interview that Ye has produced 6 of the tracks on his album and has 2 features as well.
August 6th Travis Scott performs 'God's Country' in London
August 8th Ye posts a fake newspaper reading 'Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28', in relation to the breakup with Kim. The post was deleted the same day.
August 9th New rollout for Yeezy GAP and the upcoming Yeezy Shades as Instagram models associated with Ye share coordinated posts
August 10th Lil Uzi, Steve Lacy, and Ye posing with matching tattoos
August 11th New images of Ye and Uzi wearing new Yeezy Gap clothes and sunglasses from Uzi’s Instagram
Official Virtual Stem Player was found and then made private
New Ye feature tomorrow on “Fortunate” from The Game’s Drillmatic
Lyrics leak from Genius reveals that “Fortunate” is the “Windpipe” snippet that surfaced earlier this year
August 13th Ye associate and Donda 2 contributor Nate Dae said new music and stem player shit coming this month when asked about the status of the album
August 15th Campaign for the Yeezy Shades now adds Saint West, Offset, The Kid Laroi and more pictures of Lil Uzi Vert
August 18th Donda's Place unboxes the new clear stemplayer, which is expected to release on the 1 year anniversary of the stemplayer release
New Ye exclusive interview about the YZY Gap x Balenciaga bags
August 19th Steve Lacy confirms Ye has been in the studio, discusses their matching tattoo
August 22nd Nate Dae posts clear stemplayer images
Donda’s Place retweets another clear stemplayer photo
Two more clear stemplayer photos are uploaded on Nate Dae’s IG story
August 23rd Ye is featured on the ‘Use This Gospel’ (Remix) featuring Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre and The ICU on the upcoming DJ Khaled album. This some comes from the scrapped Jesus Is King II project.
August 24th Ye filed a trademark for a blue version of the new Yeezy logo that was filed in July.
August 25th News from Dondasplace and Nate Dae IG Live: Says: Happy is finished and very good Get Lost has an instrumental but not great, same with Louie Bags Pablo is great He re-recorded Too Easy and it’s not as good as v1. Also said 530 is “ok” and very “long”
August 26th Ye x Eminem x DJ Khaled x Dr. Dre ‘Use This Gospel’ remix releases on Khaled’s album.
August 27th Ye posts on Instagram a photo of 3 films
Sean Leon shares a snippet of ‘Burn Everything’ ft. Ye
August 29th A Kano website for Sunday Service stems is discovered. The website had previously hosted 'To The Light', featuring Steve Lacy and, 'Garden, feautring the choir. These two songs are from the scrapped album Yandhi.
September 3rd A TMZ article releases saying supposedly a music video was recorded earlier this year with Ye and Asap Rocky “Rocky, Ye and AB shot something -- most likely a music video -- in the wood-paneled Jeep wagon early in 2022
September 4th Ye seen backstage at Weeknd concert before show was cut short
September 6th Ye with the Donda Doves holding a mannequin of Daniel Cherry while listening to 2010 GOOD Friday throwaway "Christian Dior Denim Flow".
September 11th Candice Swanpoel yzy gap ad in sunday NY TIMES
September 13th Ye at the NY Fashion Week
New Vogue interview with Ye, Nick Knight, and Candice Swanepoel about the Yeezy Shades campaign
Ye says Donda 3 is coming out soon
September 14th There was a YZY event taking place at New York Fashion week. Dondasplacehas indicated that it will be live streamed soon, and there are a number of music collaborators (Fivio, Nate Dae, Bari, etc), as well as new pieces of Yzy clothing being exhibited
September 15th Ye is said to terminate the YZY GAP partnership amid recent controversies
Ye's lawyer states "Ye will now promptly move forward to make up for lost time by opening Yeezy retail stores" following the GAP deal termination
Ye does an interview on CNBC
YZY GAP collab is confirmed to be ending by a leaked internal email from Gap CEO Mark Breitbard
"West said he has been buying factories in California in an effort to bring the manufacturing industry back to the U.S."
September 16th New Ye interview on the Alo Mind Full podcast
Video of today's interview on the Alo Mind Full podcast
September 18th Ye posts his first TikTok, of him listening to Jesus is King, presumably as seen in his Instagram stories.
September 19th New Ye interview with Forbes, based on a one-hour conversation between the writer and Ye
Waitlist for YZYSHDZ available on yeezy.com
The 21st night of September GAP posted a extended version of the GTA Style AD
September 22nd Ye interview with Good Morning America, October 3rd SEASON 9 fashion show seemingly is still happening.
September 23rd Ye says the first Yeezy store will open in Atlanta and will sell packs of four t-shirts for $20.
Jason Lee is no longer Ye's media manager, following an incident last month where he accidentally used Ye's Twitter account.
Ye acknowledges the scrapped Jesus Is King Part II remix album with Dr. Dre for the first time in 2 years, sharing cover art to his IG story
September 24th Ye performed 'Off The Grid' with Playboi Carti at Rolling Loud NY
Ye x Carti Rolling Loud performance now streaming
Long time Carti and Opium affiliate Myles Henrik Hall teases a Carti and Ye collab tour coming up
September 25th Digital Nas confirmed in an Instagram group chat that Donda 2 is Finished
September 26th Ye at Burberry fashion show in London
Ye previewed new music on Naomi Campbell's IG live
September 27th 'Always' features James Blake and is not a sample, according to a tweet from him
James Blake produced ALL THREE songs previewed by Ye
According to a now-deleted tweet from Donda's Place, there are more James Blake produced Ye music that we have yet to hear!
September 28th Ye reposted the 'Always' snippet to his tiktok page
September 29th Images of recent studio sessions with Ye, James Blake, and No ID
Donda's Place seemingly confirms that Last Week is a documentary shot by Nico Ballesteros Six days ago, Ye posted a screenshot on Instagram Stories asking for the project to be released via AMC Theatres
October 2nd Ye Opened the Balenciaga Paris Fashion Week Show by walking the runway cosplaying as an MW2 Juggernaut.
Selah Marley (Lauryn Hill’s daughter) shows off YZYSZN9 pass
Business of Fashion have shared some info regarding YZYSZN9 show. Ye has previously worn various hoodies and jackets by HbA.
Sunday Service Choir performing in Paris today; Ye was present
October 3rd Post on YZY Story reveals YZY SZN 9 is scheduled to begin at 5:45pm French time
New Ye interview in Vogue talking about YZYSZN9
YZYSZN9 will be streamed on Kanye's YT channel
New Holo Player by Kano was seen in stream being shown to guests by Alex Klein - chunkier build to current ones and features a projector built in, as seen in the video. (Potentially what was seen in previous trademarks/patents)
Footage of 'Always' - Kanye West ft. James Blake, previewed at YZY SZN 9
Short Ye interview with i-D discussing Yeezy Season 9, says he feels 'at war'
October 4th Kano x YZY Tech Holoplayer ad + demonstration at the YZYSZN9 afterparty
Official photos for the YZYSZN9 collection, shared by Vogue
Clear Stem Player out now
Sign-up for upcoming STEM3 project as well
October 7th Full interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News
Ye confirms he had a stadium show planned for Nov. 4th on the SoFi Stadium, which now has been canceled.
October 10th Ye posts video titled Last Week to his youtube
Extended snippet of the new song from Last Week, it's called 5:30
October 14th Albe Back has dropped multiple reworked reference tracks (god got it, evangelica, god put me there, audience) from Donda 2 Sessions on his new album Apple Z
NORE signals that Ye will be back at his podcast
October 15th Ye said that The Throne part 2 is coming soon in the new Drink Champs interview (although he seems drunk)
Preview of drink champs, full interview out tonight.

At ninety-two years old, Herman Barrett had been through a hell of a lot in his life, and complained about it a hell of a lot more. In his mind, however, he’d earned that right. Those kids today, those yuppies, those whippersnappers, just didn’t know how good they had it. The things his generation had gone through to give them the cushy, oversaturated lives they blasted shamelessly over the internet. He’d make sure they knew it though. Darn sure.
Herman was born on the cusp of the Great Depression. His father slaved away in a rubber factory to put food on the table of their ramshackle apartment, earning a fatal cancer as an end-of-year bonus. By the time Herman finished high school, he faced death himself, serving in a little thing called WWII. Barely able to fend off his local bullies, he was placed against the might of the Jerry army, promptly wounded when he misfired his own artillery shell. He woke up screaming on the boat back across the Atlantic, his searing side loaded with shrapnel.
The war hadn’t been all bad though. Without it, he wouldn’t have been forced to recover in that dreary Toronto hospital, his bedpan emptied by a pretty nurse named Cordelia Robbins. Once he’d been deemed ‘healed enough’ to leave, he took the opportunity to marry her. Though he wanted to stay in the city, times were tough, so they left for Cordelia’s sleepy hometown of Day’s End, where he could work in her father’s metal shop. They moved into a small two-floor home on the corner of Swindon and Bristol, where they spent some seventy-odd years together. There they raised three boys and a host of dogs, celebrated birthdays, anniversaries, Christmases- a barrage of happy memories. Times had changed though. They’d certainly changed. Now Cordelia resided in a brass urn on the mantle, and Herman’s only regular human contact was with Juanita, the caregiver his eldest son hired to maintain his fragile longevity. Herman had convinced himself that Juanita was more for his son’s peace of mind than his own wellbeing. At the very least, her daily visits meant that he didn’t have to be locked up in a home- he’d take a second load of shrapnel before he let that happen.
Currently, Herman was seated at his kitchen table. He was flanked by the usual fare- orange pill cups and bowls with hardened-on oatmeal residue. Juanita was across from him, watching the blood pressure monitor that gripped his forearm like a chain.
“Hold still” she instructed, voice professional despite her shrinking patience.
“This is stupid!” Herman spat back. “Thing’s so tight it’s gonna chop my arm off!”
Juanita rolled her eyes as the rubber cuff swelled, the gauge arrow rocking side-to-side until it finally settled on a reading.
“One-forty-five, Mr. Barrett. Still high” she reported disapprovingly. “You need to lay off the cupcakes.”
“What cupcakes?” Herman asked, brushing a rogue sprinkle from the tablecloth. His caregiver sighed heavily, pulling off the monitor with a crackle of Velcro. She placed it in a bulging grey case of what Herman saw as further instruments of torture.
“Are we about done?” he grumbled. “The Wendigos are on at 2. Although a lot of players have stupid hair nowadays, you ever notice that? What happened to just a nice, short Sunday cut? Now you’ve got mohawks and dreadlocks and hipster beards and all this crap.”
“You still need to do your exercises.”
“Exercises?!” Herman gasped. “Oh no, I’ve got things to do. Important things. The exercises can wait. I’ll just double it up tomorrow.”
Juanita frowned. “No arguments, Mr. Barrett. This is your health we’re talking about. You refuse to use a walker, so your legs need to be in tip-top condition.”
She always said that. Tip-top. It drove Herman insane.
Juanita lifted a rolled-up mat from her bottomless chest of supplies. “I’ll get this set up. You just stay here and relax…and that means stay.” She flicked on a nearby radio, the Glenn Miller Orchestra swelling from nothingness.
Herman scowled, watching as Juanita disappeared from the kitchen. He didn’t mind her company, truth be told. She was someone to speak to. Someone who would listen to his long, meandering stories. But she was certainly no Cordelia. Cordelia wouldn’t have forced him to do exercises or have his blood pressure taken or swallow pills the size of his head. She would’ve wrapped her arms lovingly around him from behind, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, her red locks brushing the side of his face. She certainly wouldn’t have made him stay in any one spot, that was for sure. Gripping the chair-back, Herman hoisted himself up, vertebrae cracking like pistol shots. He’d been warned not to move too much on his own, especially up and down the stairs. One morning Juanita arrived to find him lying sideways by the bottom step, hip bone jutting out like a dorsal fin. He was admittedly not as swift as he used to be, but an old war wound plus being almost a hundred basically guaranteed that.
He headed defiantly to the den, with a stride resembling Frankenstein’s monster. Rather than a cane or walker (“what do you think I am, some kind of old man?!”), Herman had set up an elaborate trail of chairs throughout the main floor of the house, allowing him to grapple his way around. It also gave him quick places to rest, which he needed every few feet. He was already out of breath by the time his slippers sunk into the den carpet, the Orchestra but a muffle of brass. He collapsed into his favourite armchair, a thin sunbeam slipping through the musty drapes. The chair had been there over fifty years now and, though stuffing burst from the seams and it groaned and creaked just as much as he did, to Herman it was the most comfortable thing in the world.
It also gave him a perfect view of the fireplace, the inside blackened with soot from blazes long ago. The mantle was covered in old volumes and trinkets, his wife’s urn resting in the centre, on eternal guard over the house she once kept. Beside it was a yellowed photo of the couple from the day they’d moved in, standing on the front lawn over a wooden “SOLD!” sign. His arm was around her, their sparkling ’46 Ford in the driveway. Looking into his own younger eyes, Herman saw himself as almost handsome. He had thick black hair rather than the grey weeds that now sprouted from his scalp. His skin was clear instead of liver-spotted, he stood tall and at attention rather than hunched over like Quasimodo. Cordelia looked even better, though she always had. Despite the black-and-white of the image, he could still see her fiery red hair, the blue of her eyes, the smear of pink on her lips. He could hear her laughing as she told her father to keep the Kodak steady, the smell of wet paint wafting from the new garden fence.
“Mr. Barrett!” echoed Juanita’s voice, interrupting his memories.
Herman grumbled. Maybe if he pretended to be dead she’d leave him alone. However, his caregiver was already leaning in the doorway, wearing an arm brace. “What are you doing in here? The sooner we start, the sooner we finish. You know that.”
He took a longing glance at the photograph. A young Cordelia was smiling at him. “Fine” Herman murmured. It was best not to argue with the woman who controlled his medication. Hoisting himself out of the armchair, he ignored Juanita’s outstretched arm for support and headed down the hall, using seatbacks like stationary crutches. He soon arrived, gasping for oxygen, in what had been a rec-room in its infancy, when the boys were growing up. Back then it was home to a train set and a ping pong table. Once they went off to school, Cordelia transformed it into Herman’s gently-used office. Now it was filled with junk. Towers of cardboard boxes lined the walls, nearly blotting out the overhead light, each crammed to the brim with mementos from ninety-two years of life. The old ping pong table hid behind it all, cobwebs strung from the legs like a second netting. When Herman did bite the big one, his sons were going to have a terrible time sorting through it all. It brought a wry smile to his face.
“Alright, Mr. Barrett, easy does it.” He groaned as Juanita slowly lowered him onto the rubber mat, laid out on the dusty tile. He was on his back, as helpless as a turtle, staring up at the plaster ceiling. Juanita tightened her arm brace and rolled up the hem of his corduroy pantleg, exposing a near-skeletal limb. She slowly stretched it upward, trying to combat the stiffness, knowing what was coming. The leg had been raised barely five degrees when Herman started barking in agony.
“That’s enough! That’s enough!”
As his face contorted, Juanita gently returned the leg to a resting position. The left was always more tender, though probably not as gut-wrenchingly painful as Herman made it out to be. Ignoring him, she went to work on the right.
“So, I was speaking with Charlie this morning…” she reported. Charlie was Herman’s eldest son, now a senior himself- he was also the one who paid her to routinely torture him. He had escaped Day’s End for the city the day he turned eighteen, a lifetime ago. “He said you need to finish the final draft of your will.”
“Isn’t that some punk lawyer’s job?”
“You still have to write it. Charlie just wants to make sure that all your…assets” she glanced around at the looming boxes “…end up where you want them to, and not an estate sale.”
“Estate sale? They’ll have to pry this stuff from my cold dead….”
Herman clenched his teeth as Juanita gave his leg another jolt. She’d learned how to shut him up when she had to. “He also suggested you leave something to charity. Maybe the Salvation Army?”
“Not that thieving cult.”
“Well, think about it then. It’d be nice to leave a legacy.”
As he stewed over the thought of his will, she suddenly wrenched his leg up a full ten degrees. Herman screamed.
“Stop it! Are you trying to kill me woman?! You’re fired! You’re fired!”
Juanita let go of the leg, and it flopped to the mat with dead weight. She knew her job was stable- Charlie had assured her as much, no matter what his father said. Herman ‘fired’ her at least once a week.
“I can tell you’re tense, Mr. Barrett. Why don’t you try some of those stretches I gave you in your chair tonight, and we’ll give it a second shot tomorrow? Tip-top?”
Herman sighed. “Tip-top.”
Juanita smiled weakly, sympathetically, and gathered her equipment. Herman stomped back to the den, and simmered in his armchair until he heard her car back out the messily-paved driveway. Then the silence of the house overtook him.
***
Slowly, Herman hobbled out onto the front porch, a steaming TV dinner in his unstable hand. He wasn’t sure what it was- beef, maybe chicken- but Juanita had left a whole pile of them in the freezer. Must’ve been on sale at Costco.
Keeping his free hand on the doorway, he lowered himself into the plastic chair that lounged atop the steps, bordered by a rusted railing. He heard a small crack extend beneath his weight, and prayed he wouldn’t fall through. However, he needed a change from the drab interior of the house, and from the ghosts that lingered there. The front porch was the furthest he could go without needing another new hip.
The summer street stretched out before him. It was a row of near-identical suburban bungalows, bathed in the shade of maples and ashes. Sprinklers waved lazily across blooming lawns, catching the late afternoon light. The tire swing across the street twisted in the breeze, and from nearby yards he could hear dogs barking, underscored by the rumble of a distant passing train. A car hummed by- it wasn’t a ’46 Ford, but an ’18 Toyota. Day’s End was picturesque, sure, he couldn’t deny that. Perfect small-town Ontario. But it wasn’t his. It was Cordelia’s. He preferred the facelessness of the big city, while this community- a damn commune as he labelled it during their rare spousal arguments- was all hers. Whenever they used to sit out on that very same porch together, as afternoon melted into evening and evening faded into night, she would strike up conversations with whoever passed by- the dogwalkers, the mailman, the mothers bringing their children home from school. They all greeted her with an enthusiastic “Hello Mrs. Barrett!”, as if Herman was just part of the scenery. She gushed as though each was her own child, asking them about their day, their feelings, their cousin’s wedding, everything. Even during Cordelia’s last days, people from all over town brought cards and flowers and homemade chicken soup to try to cheer her up. They were always surprised when Herman answered the door, as if expecting Cordelia to leap out of her bedridden, near-death state to come greet them- which she certainly would’ve, had she been able. When she finally passed, people stopped visiting. Stopped coming to converse. Herman was a pariah, the eternal outsider.
He had always wanted to leave- he was a city boy after all. But getting his wife to pack up and move would’ve been like wrenching a child from its parents’ arms. Although he was now ‘free’ (he hated saying things like that), he was long past his expiry date in being able to set up a life elsewhere. So he would die in Day’s End, he assumed, in Cordelia’s shadow. His own passing wouldn’t be the local tragedy that hers was- people would only remark, “oh, the house on Swindon and Bristol is up for sale”. The only prevalent reminder of what had once been was a wooden sign staked in the dirt of the front garden, declaring ‘Two Old Crows Live Here’. Cordelia had seen it at the garden centre shortly before Herman’s ninetieth, and thought it was cute. The One Old Crow hadn’t gotten the nerve to remove it.
The One Old Crow disliked Day’s End.
He took a deep groan when, suddenly, a foam projectile flew from nowhere. It bounced off the porch railing, careened off the chipped doorway, and knocked the TV dinner from Herman’s hands. It splattered to the floor, trails of meat juice making their escape from the plastic tray.
“Ah! Look what you made me do!” Herman shouted, despite having no idea what happened.
“I’m…I’m sorry mister.”
Herman turned his head. The voice had come from the young boy next door, standing on the lawn at the edge of the Barrett property. He was six or so, with hair like a mop and a t-shirt with the logo of a rock band he was much too young for. Everything wrong with today’s Day’s End, Herman thought. The kid’s Nerf football sat in the remains of the TV dinner, smeared with gravy and mashed potatoes, slowly shuddering as it came to a rest.
“I’m sorry” the boy said again. Herman was about to lay into him, when the thought of Cordelia gave him atypical restraint.
“No, it’s…fine” he muttered absent-mindedly. He prepared to hoist himself up, intent on grabbing another dinner, when he noticed the boy was still staring at him, wide-eyed. “What do you want?”
“You’re so…” the boy said slowly, as if knowing his comment was inappropriate, but not being able to put his finger on why. “…old.”
Herman was slightly stunned. “You bet your butt” he muttered, almost out of nowhere. He nearly said a different word, but maintained his restraint. It was just a kid, after all.
“Why do you walk so funny?” the boy asked. It was the type of question only acceptable when it came from the mouth of a child. Herman had seen this particular child before, running around his front yard screaming, playing with his football, forcing Herman to crank up his radio inside. It struck him that he had no idea what the boy’s name was.
“I was hurt in a war.” If he was going to answer the kid, he might as well make it interesting.
“A war!?” the boy exclaimed, his jaw nearly striking the grass. The inevitable question came next. “Did you ever kill anyone?!”
Herman frowned. The closest person he’d come to killing was himself. But the kid didn’t need to know that. “Oh yeah, a lot of people. Tons of bad guys. I once had Hitler himself in my sights.” The boy probably had no idea who Hitler was (Herman doubted the town’s education system), but it blew him away nonetheless.
“That’s so cool!” he gasped. “Then what happened?!”
What did happen? He met Cordelia, moved to Day’s End, had some kids, grew older and crankier. Then he thought of something the boy might like. “I worked at a metal shop. Made all kinds of stuff. I got to use a blowtorch.”
That was enough to send the kid spiralling into awe. Herman felt awfully good about himself. Maybe his young neighbour was more curious than he assumed.
“Ryder!” called a woman’s voice from the screen door of the adjacent house. The boy glanced over his shoulder.
“I gotta go. Suppertime.”
Herman was about to nod his head goodbye when he felt a…strange sentiment. “If you ever want to hear some more of my stories, you come back to my porch at anytime, you hear? I can tell you about the time I sailed across the ocean.” He quickly added, “as long as your mother says it’s okay.”
The kid lit up. “I will mister!”
“Herman. My name’s Herman.”
“I will Mr. Herman!”
Herman leaned down and lifted the football, wiping off the gravy with his handkerchief.
“Go long!” he exclaimed. The boy, in fact, had to rush forward to catch it, but caught it all the same. At least he was still playing outside, Herman thought. He wasn’t one of those drone kids he pictured, glued to the screen of some iThing like a B-movie zombie.
Herman watched the kid run off with the energy he wished he still possessed, bounding over the toys scattered across the lawn. The One Old Crow smiled.
“See you soon.”
***
“Mr. Barrett!” Juanita called out, her keys fumbling in Herman’s lock. “Mr. Barrett, are you awake?” The door creaked open, and she kicked off her shoes. The house was eerily silent, as if completely abandoned. Juanita hated mornings like this. It was just like the one where she found the old man lying at the base of the stairs, comatose in pain from his shattered hip. On one hand, he could be fine, gently napping in bed. Or there could be something horribly wrong. She walked up the thin, carpeted entryway and turned into the den, worried by what she might find. The scene, however, appeared relatively…peaceful. Herman was lying in his favourite armchair, feet up on the ottoman, slippers pointed towards the ceiling. A NASCAR race blared from the static-y TV, the rapid colour flashes reflected in his reading glasses, which drooped low on his nose. At first Juanita began crossing herself, thinking he was dead, but then she noticed the slow rise of his chest beneath the wool sweater. Herman gave a snort-like snore, turning his head side-to-side as if troubled by whatever he was dreaming about. The war, maybe. Juanita walked over and switched off the TV, plunging the house into total silence.
Admittedly thankful that she wouldn’t have to put up with an awake Herman for the time being, she tip-toed into the kitchen to set his pills for the day on the counter. That’s when she noticed a printed document lying casually on the tablecloth, beneath an antique lamp. Its letters were blocky and all capitalized, as if drafted on a typewriter. She felt a wave of surprise at the title stenciled across the front- Last Will and Testimony of Herman Barrett.
Feeling almost voyeuristic, she began flicking through the still-warm pages, hole-punched and bound together by a thick paperclip. She reached a section labelled ‘Endowments’. Herman’s physical and financial holdings were to be split three-ways between his sons, with Charlie gaining ownership of the house. She was surprised to see her own name listed, as the lucky recipient of his wife’s old clothes and belongings, still jammed in boxes in the spare room. Typical Herman, she thought. She was probably the only other woman he knew. However, Juanita was most astonished by the last item listed. It was a significant financial endowment, made out to the town of Day’s End. Herman had scribbled beneath it in red ink:
For Cordelia.

I'll just get to the point but these are things that I have realized years later that I should have embraced way earlier in my career.
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1) Make sure the trading style fits your personality and availability of time. I'm assuming most people have jobs that are currently trading. Perhaps a longer time frame strategy might work better as you won't have to check the chart very often. IF you have more time, perhaps try scalping. From my experience, I like scalping better because I can simply take 1 trade during a "session" and call it a day.
2) Do not follow IG traders that flash cars and cash. I know 1 other full time trader and none of us are flashing cash/cars on the internet to sell you a little course. You can almost guarantee 99.99% of anyone selling anything on IG related to forex are scammers. I can never imagine selling my edge for any price as the time and effort that has gone into it is beyond that. Also, even if I tell you exactly what to do at what time, every single day, there's a high chance you will not be successful as you will make errors, not show up, see something wrong, or simply skip a set up after a few string of losses due to emotions.
3) Stick to 1 strategy, back test atleast 5 years on every single forex pair, take screen shots of every trade, and run it through your own filtration system on which pairs work best with your edge. What is a common theme in a winning trade, and what is a common theme in a losing trade?
4) Systemize your trading. You must develop hard rules for entry, exit, early exits, break even SL (if you need it), time to trade, the actual set up (what does it look like exactly). If you cannot break this down to simple terms that a 5th grader cannot understand, you simply do not understand your own edge to the T. An example is when people say "i trade drop base drop" ok well what does your drop look like? can you define it exactly? (how many candles, is it a bull/bear candle or is it all uniform candles?) What does your base look like? (how many candles? color of candles? what about dojis? what about candles with no wicks?) you must be VERY specific to the T.
5) Understand and believe Probabilistic nature of this business. Let's say over 100 trades you maintain a 70% winrate. This does not mean every 10 trades you will win 7/10. The distribution within the 100 trades will look vastly different than winning 7 out of 10 trades over and over. Think of trading as a simple coin toss, but you have a slight heavier weight on 1 side. You flip it 100 times and it will most likely result in the heavier side landing more often. But the actual distribution of those heads and tails will be unknown until all of 100 coin tosses are done. To put it simply, do not put so much emphasis on each and every single trade (besides executing them perfectly), but view your trading results in groups of trades
6) Learn to separate yourself from the outcome, and focus ONLY on your process. Why? because the outcome is not up to you. Just because you bought a support, or demand during a bullish trend with a perfect reversal structure on the LTF inside your HTF zone does not mean it'll fly up. The market is uncertain, and that's about the only certainty you will ever get. So detach yourself from the outcome, focus on executing your edge to perfection. Despite what you may think, the only control we really have participating in the market is your position side, the SL/TP, and whether you are going to click that buy/sell button. Everything else is irrelevant. Your predictions don't mean anything, the market will not care about that. Drop all of your predictions when placing a trade. The only whisper in your head should be "ok i have perfectly executed my trade, I do not know what will happen, anything and everything can happen now" Once your pending/market order is placed, if you have no more rules of engagement after that, go shut the laptop down and either let it hit SL or TP.