Lift You Up Another Semitone

Probably my favorite song from the latest? Arctic Monkeys’ album:

Vivus Trade (VVUS) with Bookmap View

Vivus (VVUS) was the HTB du jour (it did 170,000 trades by end of day) … it was so hard to borrow that I had to attempt to locate the shares over and over and over (something microcap HTB players know all about) and when I finally got some they were 35 cents a share! ($3,500 per 10,000 shares). I still took the borrow because I believed I could make around a dollar out of it … watch the video to see how brilliantly I handled this one. As Nona Horowitz famously said, reality bites.

SuperCom Trade (SPCB) with Bookmap View

SuperCom (SPCB) was the HTB du jour. Borrow cost was 2.16 cents a share ($216 per 10,000 shares borrowed). SPCB did over 100,000 trades today. I’ve sped up the video so it only takes two and a half minutes to view. I haven’t gotten a mic, but have written some comments in text within:

Bookmap Features Wish List Number 03

I wish the slider bars for size, transparency and clustering had some number associated with it … it’s a pain to adjust them chart to chart while being blind to the numbers involved.

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The Kid Should See This I

Only 16 videos available in Marta Altesa’s channel, but they’re all great. She’s from Barcelona.

Bookmap Features Wish List Number 02

I wish that you didn’t have to change the drawing style for every separate chart you have open. It would be better if the drawing style you selected simply applied to all open charts. It’s onerous to change the drawing style to your preference chart by chart when you have half a dozen or more charts open.

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Bookmap Features Wish List Number 01

I wish that Bookmap had one-click buttons for time slices, like this:

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Movies Watched -- Grey Gardens (1975)

95 minute running time … I loved the Maysles brothers’ documentary, “Salesman,” so I thought I’d like Grey Gardens, but I didn’t. There’s not enough comedy to lighten the tragedy of the story … it’s really a mental health story in the end, and a sad one. The mother had a sharp mind, but also a sharp tongue, and a good sense of humor — she wasn’t as sick as her poor daughter. I’m not upset that I watched it, but I wouldn’t recommend it, and it doesn’t make my top list of course.

I've never had five minutes' fun

Movies Watched -- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

112 minute running time … maybe it could have been tightened up a bit, but this was unhurried, and I loved it. Definitely a Top 500, green-go movie. W.R. Burnett story combined with John Huston direction (and writing). Good story, good writing, good acting, that rare combination that makes a classic movie. “One way or another, we all work for our vice.“

Don’t worry, baby. You’ll have plenty of trips. [Uncle Lon was right, she did]

Movies Watched -- Force of Evil (1948)

79 minute running time … the language in this was special, the writing… really high flown and delivered at a rapid clip … an unusual noir, sure it’s about corruption and greed and morality, but it’s filled with strangely extravagant dialogue … nice to see Miss Utah (Marie Windsor) again, though a minor role for her. I have to recommend this for the amazing writing alone, and it’s sad to think that Polonsky never directed another movie (blacklisted) for decades afterwards. Also a John Farr recommendation. Green go.

If I ever thought of loving you, It was to love something rotten and corrupt in myself.