Maybe we find a company recording the public that is attentive to public relations? They sure had a quick response when the ceos' home was placed in Google maps.

Seems like their PR fire is self induced by sucking up to Money and whatever they qualify as investors?

What's the use case to use a darkroom tool outside the dark room?

I’m talking about the promotional website, not the app

Class compliance means something; first party support means something too.

The dongle era sucked then and sucks now. All the minefields of FW chipset era with none of the disclosure on usbC controller du jour.

They can't even make a headphone dongle work properly with an iPhone.

Plain old, madagascar vanilla artificial obsolescence.

I don't want to put information into a black box of mystery that can then be used for other monetization purposes. I am still waiting for a realistic local solution.

Have you tried qwen3.5 running locally? It’s quite “good enough”.

But on what time scale? Before a few connected entities make a profit or after?

The time scale is at least a thousand times faster than necessary for your retirement savings to be safe.

The problem of investment companies selling stupidly at 3am solves itself as they either learn or go bankrupt. And the counterparties making money off those dumb moves don't need to be 'connected'.

Not if I retire 300 times per minute

Connected is a euphemism for inside trading; someone with knowledge of future actions. With the pedotus giving access via his crypto grift who knows?

I know what the word means.

I'm saying that insider knowledge isn't necessary to make money in this kind of situation, and probably doesn't even help very much. If a bunch of people trade like idiots and cause wild swings when there's no liquidity, you can provide liquidity and make money.

Milliseconds?

Any overnight mispricing is going to become an arbitrage opportunity for market makers, hedge funds, and HFT firms...whom will then compete with each other to mine that arbitrage opportunity until profits go to zero, solving the market inefficiency and mispricing problem over time (and by over time, I mean like probably the first few nights and then it stops being an issue forever).

In other words, a liquidity-based mispricing that happens consistently every night is going to quickly stop being mispriced since its so predictable.

Extracting value from the market as they do it and leaving everyone operating at normal time/capital scales with less. Or isn’t that what you meant?

That's one way to think of it.

The other way to think of it is that these parties are essentially middle men who make a cut of the difference whenever someone buys/sells far from market price.

Basically if you mis price something they screw you rather than the counter party who would be interested in taking the other side at market.

I think this is stupid and does not add value, but I don't think it's harmful. It's like the stocks equivalent of a junk flipper.

Yes, when you correct a mispricing in markets that is a valuable service and you tend to get paid in proportion to the mispricing you correct (this is why markets work so well, they provide dynamic incentives in a decentralized way).

In case you aren't aware, a world outside the US exists on different time zones and also invests in US capital markets.

Having 24/7 trading a massive value-add for the entire world who also invests in US companies, which benefits US companies tremendously given they will continue sucking up the world's capital.

This is yet another reason why global companies will continue going public in US markets instead of their own. Meanwhile Europe will continue struggling to form a capital markets union over the next 50 years while they slowly translate legal documents back and forth to each other in 42 languages, growing the fine dining economy of Brussels more than their domestic economies.

If you're not trading overnight and there's a flash crash that corrects itself overnight... it's the people who are trading overnight taking money from each other.

It’s easy to forget that “overnight” trading is the middle of someone’s day, somewhere. Generally Asia.

There's nothing wrong with not retail trading. In fact, most people shouldn't be doing it.

That's the point.

You think some guy at a bank is trading for you.

In a hedge fund sure

Most people are in simple retirement year funds which have a set algorithm which decides by simply rebalancing to follow an index and appropriately mitigating risk by shifting some assets towards bonds.

There is no one trading on a whimsy. The mutual fund founding documents specify an exact time of day (or times) at which the fund gets rebalanced and it simply follows the algorithm..

The price shocks discussed here will not affect that

You missed the point of that comment. Nobody at your bank is trading for you or themselves at 3am.

But that doesn’t matter to your retirement. Don’t sell your retirement at 3am and the liquidity at 3am isn’t your problem.

Do you actively trade on a 401k or other savings instrument or do you leave it up to the bank/brokerage?

Makes no difference unless you are a daytrader

Did those headphones have a band over the top?

I troubleshoot thermal printers for work and the error is rarely in the hardware. I have no issue with this work request; TPs are deterministic and predictable.