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Somebody sent us a tweet of a kid in college doing a tic-tic video

where she's going through what she's doing, she's taking a video in class. doing a Tic-Tic-Tic-Tic-O-Ticoey,

says, one, open a T-D account, two, download, Think-or-Swim, three day trade.

And it seems like for the first time in the market in the last few years

we're actually getting a taste of euphoria now it's obviously very stock

specific all concentrated in Tesla but But there was another one. This person, Rachel Estovitch, is a

UFC fighter. She wrote, made my first option trade, praying I can really keep this going as a steady

income.

Any tips for me, please let me know.

Now, options trading and steady income are not necessarily synonymous.

I don't think that it's possible these people are really trading because I was told

everyone is

indexing and there's zero price discovery left so I don't think this is

possible you're right let's move on I was at a party over the weekend and was this

going to be cocktail chatter here?

Are you doing...

Cocktail market chatter?

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