Four Clicks to Cancel TradingView

I actually like TradingView (it’s super slick) and have been a “premium” user for many years, but I think one of my brokers will give it to me for free, so I’m cancelling it. Dozens of the full-time day traders in my Discord room use TradingView as their primary charting platform, which is interesting to me.

Anyway, here are the screens they have you step through to cancel. People call this “dark pattern” web design and an “emotional subscription cancellation” tactic. I just found it mildly annoying.

Stock du Jour -- ALBT

Thankfully I was on my morning meadow walk when this thing first dinged at 35 cents… I would have been up the creek if I had entered there, but by the time I got home this thing was up 200% making it a perfect Opening Print Boyz play… I paid between .009 (later) and .02 (earlier) for borrow (over $1,800 upfront!), but it was worth it since it dropped over 50% into the close. Big win for the brainless Opening Print Boyz … this is the opposite of a JRutian Big Brain play: you can be a total moron and just play these every day. Don’t worry, most people are too smart to do this so you want have any competition.

Study that table below the chart! It’s all you need to understand; it ain’t rocket surgery.

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Quittin' Just Ain't My Schtick

The great Barry White with Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up … (Leo Rosten believed the Yiddish should be written sch- not sh- and I defer to Leo.)

Stock du Jour -- MKDW

This was a 4AM mover so if you weren’t up at 4AM, you missed it. Probably didn’t have any borrow then anyway. Big day for the blind shorts though. Check out the table below the chart… that’s what you should study every day (click to enlarge).

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Blue Bottle Counter Culture Death Wish Intelligentsia La Colombe Peet's Stumptown

THE HISTORY OF PEET’S COFFEE

JAB Completes Acquisition of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. October 29, 2012

A Note About Peet's, October 05, 2015

“As of this week, we [Stumptown] have been acquired by Peet’s Coffee & Tea.”

Peet's Coffee & Tea Buys Intelligentsia Coffee Oct 30, 2015

“This is Peet's second major purchase in a month. In early October, the company announced its purchase of Portland, Ore.-based Stumptown Coffee.”

JDE Peet’s is the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company

— Publicly-listed in Amsterdam

Nestlé acquires majority interest in Blue Bottle Coffee SEP 14, 2017

From Nestle’s 2017 Annual Report:

In 2017, several acquisitions helped to strengthen our positions in fast‑growing categories and to give access to new business models. Responding to consumer demand for new coffee experiences, we took a majority stake in the U.S. coffee roaster and retailer Blue Bottle Coffee…

To further enhance Nestlé’s coffee portfolio in premium experiences and e‑commerce, we acquired a majority stake in the super premium U.S. roaster and retailer Blue Bottle Coffee in late 2017. Blue Bottle’s success is built on three key values: deliciousness, hospitality and sustainability. With 49 cafés and a further 39 to be opened in 2018, future strategic growth focuses on expanding its retail presence in the U.S. and Asia, and accelerating its online and supermarket presence.

I like the use of the term “super premium.”

Chobani Acquires La Colombe December 15, 2023

Chobani acquired La Colombe for $900 million. Chobani financed the acquisition through the combination of a newly issued $550 million term loan, cash on hand and the exchange of Keurig Dr Pepper’s (KDP) minority equity stake in La Colombe into Chobani equity.

Counter Culture Coffee still independent

Death Wish Coffee is a terrible name and I’m turned off by their whole approach, “rebellious by nature,” all the tatted Millennials, and it’s based in Saratoga Springs so I should support them, but nah!

Founded in 2012. We're headquartered in downtown Saratoga Springs with manufacturing down the road in Round Lake, New York. We live to rebel against blah beans—and a boring, lackluster life.

[Don’t tell me how to live my boring, lackluster life, you assholes.]

Stock du Jour -- GNLN

This thing was the biggest gapper (see table below the chart, click to enlarge) opening at 9.50 and I paid 45 cents a share and got short with a 10.09 ave and waited around all day for it to drop below $5 … but the rigger launched a squeeze in the late afternoon taking price up to $21.50 a share (reminder: it closed at $2.47 yesterday, that’s a 770% move, see table below) before #whocouldanode: Greenlane Announces Pricing of $6.5 Million Private Placement Priced At-the-Market Under Nasdaq Rules

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CC40 -- Criterion Collection 40-Film Box Set

Interesting new box set from Criterion, here’s the blurb:

This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition … Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.

Here are the included films, listed chronologically, with my comments:

1. His Girl Friday (1940) — No

2. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) — Yes (Great movie)

3. Bicycle Thieves (1948) — Haven’t seen in ages

4. The Red Shoes (1948) — No (gay, showbiz thing)

5. Ace in the Hole (1951) — No (Kirk Douglas plays an asshole)

6. Tokyo Story (1953) — Yes (Great movie)

7. On the Waterfront (1954) — No (Shirtless Brando mumbling)

8. The Night of the Hunter (1955) — Yes (Great movie)

9. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) — No (surprisingly I hated this)

10. Pickpocket (1959) — Haven’t seen in ages

11. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) — Haven’t seen in ages

12. Jules and Jim (1962) — No

13. 8½ (1963) — Haven’t seen in ages

14. Persona (1966) — Never seen it? Seen lotta Bergman though

15. Seconds (1966) — Yes (Great movie)

16. The Battle of Algiers (1966) — Yes (Great movie)

17. Weekend (1967) — Never seen it?

18. Night of the Living Dead (1968) — Never seen it?

19. Wanda (1970) — No

20. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — No

21. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) — God no, Cassavetes is AWFUL, ALWAYS

22. Barry Lyndon (1975) — No

23. Mirror (1975) — No, Tarkovsky, has some inspired scenes, but as a whole, no

24. 3 Women (1977) — Never seen it?

25. House (1977) — No (super weird Japanese thing)

26. All That Jazz (1979) — No (gay showbiz thing, see The Red Shoes)

27. Being There (1979) — No (but I usually love Peter Sellers and Hal Ashby, so it’s strange I don’t like this)

28. Repo Man (1984) — Yes (Great movie)

29. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) — No, if it’s the movie I’m thinking of

30. Down by Law (1986) — No, but Jarmusch made one great movie: Dead Man (also a Criterion issue)

31. Do the Right Thing (1989) — No, I mean yeah, Spike Lee, 1980s New Yawk, had to put a black guy on the list, etc. but no…

32. My Own Private Idaho (1991) — Never seen it, gay thing, I should see it

33. Naked (1993) — No, this is Mike Leigh? He made Kes, which IS a great movie, this one is just sort of disturbing…

34. Safe (1995) — Todd Haynes, very gay stuff, though I LOVE Nicole Kidman in everything, she is smart and hard-working…

35. Ratcatcher (1999) — Lynne Ramsay, this is slash your wrists depressing, I recommend her You Were Never Really Here, I think that’s her masterpiece…

36. In the Mood for Love (2000) — Yes (Great movie)

37. Love & Basketball (2000) — Never heard of it, uh oh, looks like another token black movie

38. Yi Yi (2000) — Three hour movie from Taiwan, never been able to make it through it…

39. Y tu mamá también (2001) — Yes, I saw this when it first came out and liked it, but recently re-watched it and wasn’t as thrilled.

40. La Ciénaga (2001) — YES! I’m thrilled they included a Lucrecia Martel movie, though I liked The Holy Girl best from the Salta Trilogy.

Stock du Jour -- MGOL

Unusual to see a regular trading hours squeeze, but MLGO did one today. Borrow was expensive at just over $2,000 (9.9 cents) … no gappers today (unless you counted CDT, which is under 50 cents), so the Opening Print Boyz had nothing to do.

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Stock du Jour -- ADTX

This thing dinged pre- and then they really rigged it later on, driving it up above $2. I paid $1,000 exactly for the borrow (2 cents a share). ADTX has the worst looking Fuzzy DD I’ve ever seen:

S-1, Warrants up the yin yang, Convertible Notes, Convertible Preferred, an ATM, and an Equity Line … and of course, you guessed it: WAIN.

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Someone I know made $29,000 shorting this.

Stock du Jour -- LYT

You guessed it, big gapper… 85% from previous close to open or 132% from previous close to the pre-market high … short the open, stop somewhere above, cover end of day. Or you could do what I did and mangle it with multiple covers, thus cutting my profits short. Borrow was 2.4 to 3.9 cents per share. Over $1,000 in borrow fees. Oh, your guru never mentions the fees? Wonder why.

Not a lot of dings, and I hate to say it but my dinger broke and I missed a bunch of trades as a result, including a monster win, but c’est la vie.

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