I figured out how to get the crappy iOS stock app to show %s instead of raw dollars, so I guess I’ll go with that. At least it’s synced between my computer and phone.
I can’t believe it’s that hard to find one. I just have a list on Yahoo finance that I look at from time to time when I’m curious (not often). It just shows $ and percentages. I don’t think $ can be removed, but % is always there.
I only check it on my laptop and on browser through phone. Not sure if there is an app.
Twitter just adopted a poison pill. Which seems…completely unnecessary?
I like the investing.com app. It lists stonks vertically and includes both $ and % change and it only color codes one shade of green and red, but the % change is at least right justified so I can scan my entire list and immediately see what’s stonking or not stonking hardest. Idk if that qualifies for what you’re looking for but basically I’m saying the UX is one thing it does pretty well imo.
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Hells yeah, take all my monies
https://twitter.com/marketrebels/status/1514816341663883271?s=21&t=Z00DFa1Qu6tg9NHLWZDFjw
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Probably, but at this point I have zero shame in being wrong with what I’ve seen over the years so I’m going to be that weirdo yelling that the sky is about to fall and that’s okay.
The S&P is about 8.8% off all time highs and the NASDAQ 100 is about 17.2% off all time highs. That’s all in the last 4 months.
If that rate of decline held up for another year, we’d see the S&P down about 35% from peak and the NASDAQ 100 down almost 69% from peak.
It’s very possible currently happening. But we could also always just trade sideways for years.
That’s in 2026 dollars, so she might be right.
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Btw did anyone notice TWTR’s premarket high on Thursday morning? It got to like $54 before immediately diving back down. Buying at $54 has to be one of the dumbest plays imaginable, right? Like, your upside per share is 20 cents and your immediate downside is >$15. You have to be ~100% sure that the buyout will happen.
Sure but come on. When has Elon musk ever not followed through on a promise. Don’t you like free money?
The upside is that the board can negotiate a higher price - either from Musk or from a third party. Not saying it’s a smart bet as seems most likely Musk just walks away and stock drops back to pre-Musk price, but it’s pretty rare that the initial offer is the final sale price.
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He’s going to turn this poison pill into “The liberal tech elites won’t let a conservative buy Twitter, these socialists are interfering with our free markets!” isn’t he? If he doesn’t, Tucker and company will.
Meanwhile he never actually wanted to buy it in the first place.
Everyone seems to agree twitter is horribly managed as a business, but how exactly? They already have a very annoying amount of ads.
He’s wouldn’t be entirely wrong - poison pills are almost always good for management but bad for shareholders.
This poison pill essentially makes it so the board has to approve any transaction, and shareholders on their own can’t agree to sell Musk enough shares to take over the company.
Sure, but he also submitted a poison pilled offer.
There’s ads on twitter?
Logged in, first post was promoted. Yeah.
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I’ve heard a few ideas floated that seem kinda annoying to me, but could be useful for monetization.
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Most of the ads now are attempts at brand building and awareness. Twitter might be able to charge more per ad and make additional revenue if they became more focused on sales conversion, particularly by linking up with some sort of payments processor (like Square or PayPal). Example, a restaurant could run an ad around 11:30 am advertising their takeout lunch special to people within a certain geographical area and those people who wanted to could order the special with a single click or two using their PayPal account which is linked to their Twitter profile.
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Building out a more robust “Twitter+” Maybe you charge a monthly fee in exchange for seeing posts from certain accounts that the plebs can’t see (concert presales, special merchandise drops, etc.). Or, maybe corporate accounts can pay to get access to even more granular analytics about their followers, post engagement, etc.
I’ve always thought it was unsustainable that someone like Chuck Grassley can tweet and 98% of the replies are dunking on him. He could set it to only people he follows or mentions can reply. But it seems to me at some point a way to curry your mentions so that it’s only your supporters and supporter bots that can reply is coming.
I wonder if Twitter could take a cut of influencers shill posts. Right now they have to disclose these so Twitter would know which are shills. Might be a bit hard to figure out right amount to charge - as you’d want to charge a Jenner more than someone with a few thousand followers. I guess you also risk making the influencers mad - but where else are they going to shill their crap.