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BlackBerry DD

Note: BlackBerry is NOT a cyber security company. They are a security company. Revenue does not care about your AI driven autonomous machine learning EV car with DDs. People are using these terms loosely. A quick lookup for interviews with John Chen would prove that he explicitly avoids these terms as they do not define nor matter to the products/revenue of BlackBerry. QNX revenue does not depend on any of these terms, it's on installation on any device. This includes the space station, of which there is 1 of with obviously non-recurring revenue. Buying based on these basis would be gambling.
Bull:
Where I think growth can be made:
  1. QNX in more cars. They can capitalize on the idea of less ECUs = less cost for OEMs + security.
  2. IVY usage by OEMs along with QNX.
  3. IVY ecosystem. Maybe application billing?
  4. Professional services (support) for the products listed.
  5. AtHoc increased market share in more governmental/healthcare/educational entities.
  6. SecuSUITE for more enterprise customers with the idea being saving employers money from purchasing work phones for employees, and worrying about securing them.
Bear:
Prediction: I think QNX can become a $1B revenue per year alone. $2B revenue per year as a company is not far fetched. Without a subscription/usage based model, it is difficult to see how growth can go beyond that. BB is good in 2-5 years, not this year. I can see their revenue growing to potentially $2B - $4B revenue per year. They did mention trying to figure out a subscription/usage based billing, if done then the revenue would be much higher. I think $18 is a fair price on the high end. It could grow further than that, but expectations would be HIGH.
Resources:
  1. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/_hQQlCWMrQA?t=313
  2. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/FNdbGhun2E8
  3. J.P. Morgan IVY presentation: https://cache.webcasts.com/content/jpmo001/1416508/content/58ffe5daaa24e738fdef0d065b9b15077892ea63/pdf/secured/BlackBerry_-_Winter_2020-21_Investors_Deck.pdf
  4. IVY: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/aws
  5. QNX: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/qnx/software-solutions/embedded-software/qnx-neutrino-rtos/pdf/QNX-Neutrino-Product-Brief-v7.pdf
  6. QNX Hypervisor: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/qnx/products/hypervisohypervisorGEM-ProductBrief.pdf
  7. QNX Tools: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/embedded-software/qnx-software-development-platform
  8. Spark UEM: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/guides/guide-blackberry-spark-uem-suites.pdf
  9. Spark UES: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/briefs/Solution_Brief_BlackBerry_Spark_UES_Suite_Final.pdf
  10. AtHoc: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc
  11. AtHoc in healthcare: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc/healthcare
  12. SecuSUITE: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/secusuite
  13. Customer oriented solutions - continuous authentication: Start the video at 5:04: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/events/security-summit/2020/video-details/work-anywhere
  14. Easier link: https://vimeo.com/497426347
  15. VW OS: https://electrek.co/2020/06/19/vw-to-develop-its-own-operating-system-but-dodges-question-about-id-3-software/
Position: 1,500.
Disclaimer: I don't know everything, I may be incorrect about some things. This is based on what I've researched and to the best of my ability. Do your own DD. Obligatory this is not an investment advice.

Edit: This is the only sub with a lot of discussion. I appreciate y'all.

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Edit 2: One day later, marked closed $18.03. Crazy.
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BlackBerry DD

Note: BlackBerry is NOT a cyber security company. They are a security company. Revenue does not care about your AI driven autonomous machine learning EV car with DDs. People are using these terms loosely. A quick lookup for interviews with John Chen would prove that he explicitly avoids these terms as they do not define nor matter to the products/revenue of BlackBerry. QNX revenue does not depend on any of these terms, it's on installation on any device. This includes the space station, of which there is 1 of with obviously non-recurring revenue. Buying based on these basis would be gambling.
Bull:
Where I think growth can be made:
  1. QNX in more cars. They can capitalize on the idea of less ECUs = less cost for OEMs + security.
  2. IVY usage by OEMs along with QNX.
  3. IVY ecosystem. Maybe application billing?
  4. Professional services (support) for the products listed.
  5. AtHoc increased market share in more governmental/healthcare/educational entities.
  6. SecuSUITE for more enterprise customers with the idea being saving employers money from purchasing work phones for employees, and worrying about securing them.
Bear:
Prediction: I think QNX can become a $1B revenue per year alone. $2B revenue per year as a company is not far fetched. Without a subscription/usage based model, it is difficult to see how growth can go beyond that. BB is good in 2-5 years, not this year. I can see their revenue growing to potentially $2B - $4B revenue per year. They did mention trying to figure out a subscription/usage based billing, if done then the revenue would be much higher. I think $18 is a fair price on the high end. It could grow further than that, but expectations would be HIGH.
Resources:
  1. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/_hQQlCWMrQA?t=313
  2. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/FNdbGhun2E8
  3. J.P. Morgan IVY presentation: https://cache.webcasts.com/content/jpmo001/1416508/content/58ffe5daaa24e738fdef0d065b9b15077892ea63/pdf/secured/BlackBerry_-_Winter_2020-21_Investors_Deck.pdf
  4. IVY: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/aws
  5. QNX: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/qnx/software-solutions/embedded-software/qnx-neutrino-rtos/pdf/QNX-Neutrino-Product-Brief-v7.pdf
  6. QNX Hypervisor: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/qnx/products/hypervisohypervisorGEM-ProductBrief.pdf
  7. QNX Tools: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/embedded-software/qnx-software-development-platform
  8. Spark UEM: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/guides/guide-blackberry-spark-uem-suites.pdf
  9. Spark UES: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/briefs/Solution_Brief_BlackBerry_Spark_UES_Suite_Final.pdf
  10. AtHoc: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc
  11. AtHoc in healthcare: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc/healthcare
  12. SecuSUITE: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/secusuite
  13. Customer oriented solutions - continuous authentication: Start the video at 5:04: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/events/security-summit/2020/video-details/work-anywhere
  14. Easier link: https://vimeo.com/497426347
  15. VW OS: https://electrek.co/2020/06/19/vw-to-develop-its-own-operating-system-but-dodges-question-about-id-3-software/
Position: 1,500.
Disclaimer: I don't know everything, I may be incorrect about some things. This is based on what I've researched and to the best of my ability. Do your own DD. Obligatory this is not an investment advice.
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BlackBerry DD

Note: BlackBerry is NOT a cyber security company. They are a security company. Revenue does not care about your AI driven autonomous machine learning EV car with DDs. People are using these terms loosely. A quick lookup for interviews with John Chen would prove that he explicitly avoids these terms as they do not define nor matter to the products/revenue of BlackBerry. QNX revenue does not depend on any of these terms, it's on installation on any device. This includes the space station, of which there is 1 of with obviously non-recurring revenue. Buying based on these basis would be gambling.
Bull:
Where I think growth can be made:
  1. QNX in more cars. They can capitalize on the idea of less ECUs = less cost for OEMs + security.
  2. IVY usage by OEMs along with QNX.
  3. IVY ecosystem. Maybe application billing?
  4. Professional services (support) for the products listed.
  5. AtHoc increased market share in more governmental/healthcare/educational entities.
  6. SecuSUITE for more enterprise customers with the idea being saving employers money from purchasing work phones for employees, and worrying about securing them.
Bear:
Prediction: I think QNX can become a $1B revenue per year alone. $2B revenue per year as a company is not far fetched. Without a subscription/usage based model, it is difficult to see how growth can go beyond that. BB is good in 2-5 years, not this year. I can see their revenue growing to potentially $2B - $4B revenue per year. They did mention trying to figure out a subscription/usage based billing, if done then the revenue would be much higher. I think $18 is a fair price on the high end. It could grow further than that, but expectations would be HIGH.
Resources:
  1. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/_hQQlCWMrQA?t=313
  2. John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/FNdbGhun2E8
  3. J.P. Morgan IVY presentation: https://cache.webcasts.com/content/jpmo001/1416508/content/58ffe5daaa24e738fdef0d065b9b15077892ea63/pdf/secured/BlackBerry_-_Winter_2020-21_Investors_Deck.pdf
  4. IVY: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/aws
  5. QNX: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/qnx/software-solutions/embedded-software/qnx-neutrino-rtos/pdf/QNX-Neutrino-Product-Brief-v7.pdf
  6. QNX Hypervisor: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/qnx/products/hypervisohypervisorGEM-ProductBrief.pdf
  7. QNX Tools: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/embedded-software/qnx-software-development-platform
  8. Spark UEM: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/guides/guide-blackberry-spark-uem-suites.pdf
  9. Spark UES: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/briefs/Solution_Brief_BlackBerry_Spark_UES_Suite_Final.pdf
  10. AtHoc: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc
  11. AtHoc in healthcare: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc/healthcare
  12. SecuSUITE: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/secusuite
  13. Customer oriented solutions - continuous authentication: Start the video at 5:04: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/events/security-summit/2020/video-details/work-anywhere
  14. Easier link: https://vimeo.com/497426347
  15. VW OS: https://electrek.co/2020/06/19/vw-to-develop-its-own-operating-system-but-dodges-question-about-id-3-software/
Position: 1,500.
Disclaimer: I don't know everything, I may be incorrect about some things. This is based on what I've researched and to the best of my ability. Do your own DD. Obligatory this is not an investment advice.
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Unusual Options Activity 101: Whale Watching Tips (repost of my WSB one)

My VXX 101 was shared here so I figured I’d be helpful and post my other 101 and 102s from WSB*
some image links and stuff didn’t convert. I’ll clean it up later
Original link: https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/ky9m34/unusual_options_activity_101_whale_watching_tips/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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This is long, if you’re uninterested skip to the ten tips list or TLDR A while ago I started mixing unusual options activity into my gamblinginvesting. At first I lost a shitload of money chasing dumbass whales with zero plan, but now I actually have a pretty good feel for it. I still fuck up alot, but more often I do not fuck up. This is to help those of you who want to start chasing whales, or are at a basic level and want to do it better.
I'm using some plays from this week as examples because they are fresh in my mind and I have a couple screenshots.
Tools I use barchart in tandem with Unusual Whales. For barchart, you can honestly get by using their free version, you just can't sort as well. They have a free month trial too. I also pay the 20 bucks for Unusual Whales to confirm what I scan, and they have a good stocks volume standard deviation tool. I have zero affiliation to either, just saying what I use.
There are way more technical ways to do this, but I like to use my eyes to scan sporadically throughout the day like a boomer.
*Basic Concept *
Long story short, you're ideally chasing the options purchases of what are, presumably, deep-pocketed individuals or institutions. UOA identifies certain options contract orders that are higher than the average daily contract order. For example, if the average daily option volume on an GME weekly is 4,000, and an option order enters for 4,000 or higher, it's flagged as unusual activity since it's a multiple of that daily average volume--sometimes it shows as multiple orders if "they" push through a few smaller purchases that produce heavy volume. MM are sneks who like to move in silence, which they can do with with stock positions via dark pools and the like. However, they can't get away with that with options activity--it all shows. That fact, young autist, is your slingshot against the institutional goliath.
*Hunting the Whale * So I've got my unusual options activity page open on barchart or wherever for the current day. I adjust the expiration date option so that the options I'm looking at don't expire past a couple weeks out (more on why later), then I'm ready to eye scan.
I typically start by looking for one of two things: 1) large clusters of orders that belong to one ticker or 2) sporadic orders for a ticker that consistently show up over a couple hours, but belong to non-hot, non-meme stonks that do NOT have earnings imminent. To make sure I'm looking at something potentially weird, I choose to exclude options that expire more than a couple weeks out.
*1) Clusters of orders—ABNB example *
The way I scope it is kind of a tiered process. First, I'm looking to see if there are any clusters of orders that catch my eye on a quick scan. Second, I'm looking to see if those clusters of orders contain both calls AND puts, with some OTM activity and spreads preferred. Third, I look to see if the number of seperate call orders outweighs the number of put orders (or vice versa), and additionally I look to see if the volume of the calls drastically outweighs the volume of the puts (or vice versa).
Why? Because it helps you determine if the options order is just a hedge, or if it’s hedging against itself as it’s own position. This is super important so try to follow along-- most UOA is just institutions hedging; Mr. MM has a nice, busy life and fancy yacht and can't just exit his positions back and forth all day like a WSBer. He also has like a billion shares of his stonks, so if he dumps it when he's got paper hands it will siginficantly tank the value and cause a ripple effect. So, instead of hedging by dumping his shit, he hedges by adding OTM options against his position--next level fucking diamond hands. That would be the type of whale order from Mr. MM we don't want to follow. But, if Mr. MM buys 4,000 FB call options in a few blocks, and you see like 1,000 in FB puts go through right alongside it, the odds are that someone is betting big on FB and using the puts as a hedge, since the puts represent a smaller volume in the call/put ratio. Instead of the options being a hedge for a bigger stock position they hold, these types of option clusters indicate that the option order itself is the big, independent play, and it's hedging itself with lower volume order vs the higher volume (4,000 calls to 1,000 puts).
Then I do an easy confirmation. I check the tickers general trend the past week or so in a chart, do a news search on twitter of their ticker for news catalysts and sentiment, and google and YouTube to see if the crayola kids think it's a good nerd play.
Example: Here's the screenshot on some ABNB UOA I noticed and played this week.
It went to 200% and change within a couple hours, but I had unfortunate diamond hands and sold for about half that. ABNB UOA
So, this a softball. First, you can see that ABNB all of a sudden explodes with all these options showing up at 12:52–that's our cluster. Second, the clusters have both calls and puts in that minute timespan, with some put orders showing at the bottom of the cluster. Some of the calls are deep OTM, as far as 200c. Third, the call orders far outweigh the put orders in both amount and volume. Awwwww shit, looks like we got more than a hedge—we’re onto something.
Confirmation time: ABNB had been on a general uptrend, and I typically don't like to chase, but I combed twitter and saw their were rumors of the CEO speaking the following day, and that news had just broken of their DC booking cancellations. I looked back into the morning, and saw a few more unusual blocks, and a few more rolled in just after the cluster pictured above. Passed the smell test. Options bought, tendies gained.
Sparse Orders: SNAP example
The same principles can apply to orders on tickers that pop up individual orders, not large clusters, which a) haven’t had much attention b) have been on a steep downtrend—this makes the order unusual, and/or c) seem to keep popping up in single orders over a few hours to a day.The same principles as above apply, but if you see these types of orders with very little time left until expiration, you can assume assume it's probably not a hedge. SNAP isn't the best example of the week because there wasn't a put order in this block. But, there was positive TA sentiment when I searched, SNAP had been on an oversold downtrend, and I don't have screenshots left of the better ones I saw and went after. Plus, importantly, IT WAS TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY (this is huge, EOD is prime time for AH news whales) SNAP UOA
A better example from this week though is SPCE, which had only a few orders sprinkled throughout the day, and one toward the end of the day which was DEEP, DEEP OTM expiring 1/15. *That’s a flag for us—sporadic listing throughout the day, OTM toward the end of the day. * BAM! EOD SPCE OTM calls sprinkle in, ARK invests to kick off AH, SPCE moons.
Sparse Orders Patterns: Connecting the dots on tech rebound with FB and SNAP
Seeing the SNAP orders above sharpened my eyes that day to looking for a pattern with tech on the whole, since big tech had been so royally gaped the past week. I kept seeing FB options like this pop up https://i.imgur.com/muVGtq2.jpg
Sometimes you can put together sporadic listings and create a working theory based on a sector. Because this and similar FB orders were deep OTM and one day out, I knew there was a risk they could a hedge, but also knew that the tech sector was due for a rebound and saw SNAP posting sporadic OTM as well. So, I bought my options for each of those two another week out and closer to ATM (important, more below), to give the whale some breathing room in case was it was a hedge, even though the technicals agreed with the bounce. The whales were right, and it was an easy little overnight profit.
How I’ve Fucked Up 1: Don’t get tricked by trends
Although we like to believe institutions are ahead of the curve, often they are just trend-riding lemmings who follow what's already way, way up. They buy the top, just like WSB tardies such as yourself specialize in. So, when you see shit like this below, take a minute to think before you get excited: NIO UOA LIKE THIS WAS NONSTOP
It was the same for all the memes: PLUG, FCEL, MARA, and RIOT all week, dominating the orders. If something is already too popular, just stay away from it. You can ride something up, but when you see massive orders on shit that's already like 400% IV, just...don't.
How I’ve Fucked Up 2:*DO give the MM’s some breathing room
Even if you’re confident in a move you see that is a few days out, extend your play a week or two further out minimum, and strike it closer to ATM. If you can't do either of those things because you can't afford the premium just skip that play and check back for something new later; I promise a better opportunity will arise. You can recover from bagholding, but you cannot recover from blowing your account on an incorrect 0DTE.
Breathing room is also important because often whales will have the news but not the exact timing. Two months ago I followed a DDOG whale on a Thursday 1DTE that expired worthless the next day. The following Monday (1 trade day later) DDOG made the announcement that rocketed them like 20%--if I'd given them a week's breathing room, it would've been a 15 bagger. Fucking F.
So, to review: look for order clusters or sporadic ticker orders that a) have a mix of calls and puts with one dominating the other b) unpopular tickers that have deep OTM or close expirations c) always check chatter afterward and fundamentals and d) try to put together a narrative of things that are related that catch your eye (this Monday's EV run or this Friday's tech bounce could be next week's airline dominance or cruiseline craze--connect the dots). Initially look for options expiring soon, as they indicate the most riskiness--and therefore confidence--if the MM is not hedging. Shop with a short term eye, buy with a long term choice.
10 Things That Will Help You Not GUH:
1) Monday and Friday morning/afternoon are the most accurate whale times, according to data from Unusual Whales 2) If you don't have PDT always save some spending power for EOD shopping 3) If you don't have PDT never, ever follow a whale with a weekly. Sometimes the news the whale bets on is a 'sell the news' event, and you won’t recover from a drop especially if there is IV crush involved. 4) Always give the whale breathing room by purchasing an expiration at least a week further out 4b) Always give the whale breathing room by going closer to ATM strikes than theirs 5) Sign up for barchart monthly trial (then continue it) and unusual whales--they're each like 20 bucks and thats way less than you spend on an FD. 6) You don't need to learn TA, but you need to check technicals on the tickers you want to chase--almost every major ticker has youtubers or fintwits giving their daily or weekly TA. This way you know if it's a proper breakout happening if the whale hits, and you're not just guessing at when to take profits. Remember, whales can buy wayyyyyyy OTM and sell for massive profit at any point--they aren’t bagholding a call until it's in the money like you are. You may be 10% up waiting for the next 80% GME day while your whale has sold at their target 5% profits on the play and is chillin. 7) Leave at least 10% of your account spending power free each day. I promise, the one time you go full boat you will see the most obvious whale play at the end of the day. Then you won't be able to do shit about it and you'll hate yourself when it's a 10 bagger overnight. Trust me. 8) Make sure the ticker you're chasing isn't just ER anticipation/bets. Always check earnings dates before buying. 9) Remember whales are people, so they can be stupid, too. Don't baghold a position that is clearly fucked for some news that looks unlikely to come. They are gambling addicts just like you, except they have more money. 10) Always take profits if you ask yourself if it's time to. If it's good enough to screenshot, it's good enough to close the position. Positions: Dumped a ton of stuff and loading up Tuesday because long weekends scare me, but saw some ineresting 2/5s I held including WKHSc PLTRc SPYc (1/19, 1/22) LMNDp And a couple tickers that I couldn’t post lol. also have AAPL and JD leaps
TLDR Use a service to follow whales so you can get ahead of announcements. Look for clusters of options activity that hedge themselves via call/put ratio, and do a legitimate check for TA and catalysts to confirm their moves. Never follow a whale into a weekly, but use weeklies are your best screener.
I might do a pretty consistent DD post (a couple times a week) on what I’m seeing at the end of each day if there is interest, and if it’s not a day I don’t have a ton of real work. If something quick catches my eye I usually throw it up on my twitter @yourboymilt (there’s no notification thing on here mods, just trying to be helpful— not selling anything) I’ll also probably throw some more potential Monday positions on here over the weekend once I decide to do some more research. Later.
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GME squeeze has turned into a cult

Long and updated every day
Understandably the promise of free money comes with confirmation bias. Many people who recently bought it waiting for the squeeze to happen don't realize the stock already shot from $15 to nearly $500 in one month. That's already 33x.
I'm calling them squeezers I'm not saying WSBers because most of them are new and have no idea that WSB is about massive losses and treating stocks like gambling
Now my long ass comparison...
To begin a boring age old QAnon rant for a paragraph.
QAnon's distrust in the government definitely derives some of its root from the government lying and covering things up, which understandably should lead to a normal amount of skepticism. However, the frequency of lying perceived by cult members is much higher than in reality. By this I mean they think nearly everything is a front or lie and not just some events. Further, after every "Q drop" that doesn't turn out to be true they make up some excuse as to why it never happened. They keep pushing and pushing and pushing back the date of the "storm" or whatever the fuck its called. Overtime the more reasonable members tend to drop out and realize that their level of skepticism and distrust has reached an unreasonable level. However, as it goes on some become more radicalized. They even start to name their opposition as "sheeple" and "fake news" and retreat into an echo chamber of like minded individuals (Like WSB for squeezers).
Currently there has been some lying about the stock market (CNBC saying Melvin closed their position) and about WSB (saying they are targeting silver). These circumstances much like the government lying sometimes can lead to healthy amounts of skepticism however many squeezers are beginning to believe that anything not inline with their perception of the GME situation is wrong.
Take for example S3's data. Much like QAnon followers throwing Pence under the bus after propping him up for so long. The second S3 came out with contradicting numbers to what WSB believed they threw them under the bus. There are however, somewhat reasonable arguments for distrusting S3's figures. The issue is a significant amount of previously reliable sources are now reporting figures around 30-50% not just S3. However, they continue to cherry pick sites to use and dig into their confirmation biases.
Now many members involved in the short squeeze prefer to use outdated number so long as they justify their beliefs such as marketwatch.com which reports short of 121%(equivalent to fox news in our comparison). Even if a significant amount of sources disagree with them they chose to dig into the confirmation bias of it still being over 100% shorted.
Consequently the constant drive for a confirmation bias (which is understandable as a lot of people dumped entire savings into this) leads to everybody regurgitating the same image or website while simultaneously ignoring the many others that contradict their belief (Like QAnon only watching Fox and some other stuff and hating everything else). The reality is most of these squeezers know little to none about the stock market as millions of new members just recently joined WSB over the squeeze hype and are likely in an echo chamber (like QAnon) with other uninformed members spitting out misinformation.
For example they constantly deny the possibility that Melvin repositioned shorts which would mean that the short % stays stagnant while the date for when they start paying premiums goes out. They take information that's outdated (I saw a photo of a Bloomberg terminal that was from a week ago and was reported as today) and try to pass on that its new.
Most squeezers like QAnon members mindlessly repeat what others are saying without any research "They couldn't have covered there's no volume trading" "The volume is low we are doing it" every time the price drops "Its a short ladder its not people selling the volume is too low". Low volume means low selling and low buying it doesn't just go one way. Low volume means the price wont go up or down it will remain stagnant and in relation to today (Monday) it reflects that it was people selling to each other not some algorithm. The low volume today represents that everyone who is in IS IN and there isn't much more buying to do.
The most convincing evidence of a cult mindset in my opinion is the constant push back of the squeeze (storm in QAnon terms). Last Friday there was supposed to be a massive rise in prices (It was going to happen Thursday/Friday but RH screwed that up and I personally think they repositioned that day and it would've blew up otherwise) but there wasn't. So the massive rise got pushed to Monday and now its being pushed to later this week or even half a month. Much like the QAnon supporters waiting for martial law, squeezers keep pushing back and waiting for the squeeze.
As squeezers slowly realize the squeeze keeps getting pushed back and delayed more and more, they're becoming more and more disenfranchised about the squeeze. Further, the ones that stay are getting more radicalized and just buying (because the narrative that's being pushed is you need to buy all in for the squeeze to push) in even more risking entire savings to a promise of free money even after the stock already shot up 33x in a month.
For example let's take robinhood not having enough liquidity to pay their broker. Many squeezers speculated that it was Citadel who told RH to pull the plug because they were taking heavy loses (Citadel only reports 3% loses as of today). In reality this was not true and while many squeezers realized RH had a liquidity issue and were disenfranchised with the event (they got a 2bn bill) many more still think that some "deep state" is conspiring to rig the market against them and not RH still being a small company without an IPO and in one day had to 10x their bill.
The narrative that the prices are low because of the hedge funds (deep state) short laddering it and rigging it in other ways is also an excuse used to deflect the reality that no-one is buying in anymore and the hype has died. Its now likely a pump and dump; however, until the proper figures are filed on the 9th (I think its the 9th) I can only speculate.
Instead of "sheeple" we have "paper hands", "shills", "bots"
Some people even believe that these hedge funds are buying well aged well endowed (karma in the thousands) accounts en mass and having them do disinformation campaigns. I will admit that there were bots pushing stocks to be pump and dumped and pushing some silver. In reality Melvin literally has 33 employees I don't think they even have enough people to manage that kind of attack. Realistically its a pump and dump guy who is used to doing this spamming some bots however, a lot of them are just people who want in on the "next squeeze" (they don't understand why GME was special they just think we can squeeze shit now).
Ight I'm tired of writing this but hopefully you can see some comparisons between the two.**I hope I'm wrong and you guys make a lot of money riding to the moon have fun don't spend what you cant live with losing.**
In the wise words of WSB "You don't lose money until you sell"

Edits: more writing I guess this is really pissing me off (Tuesday 7 am)(as of 7:45 am GME is down to 147.5 I sold yesterday at 242 for a like 70% profit I was really hoping it'd go up)Also there are people capitalizing on the hype who are selling -shirts etcI might've even got a tattoo if it hit 5k or 10k, maybe these promises to ourselves have some sort of psychological impact on our belief systems (I've never taken a psych class so I don't)
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Fun fact hedge funds HEDGE bets so they typically don't take on infinite risk
https://www.reddit.com/stocks/comments/lak74v/confessions_of_a_short_selle?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3-
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Every piece of contradicting information is FUD! They "told you about it beforehand" that's right what an amazing prediction. Squeezer predicted people will experience FUD as the price drops but, because they told you about it before hand it means Melvin and its 33 employees are the driving force and not the person themselves. By this I mean squeezers are trying to redirect FUD as Melvin Capital and its bots (us) launching a mass disinformation campaign as opposed to reasonable skepticism.
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/laq7vx/so_youre_experiencing_fud/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

"So You're Experiencing FUD

📷Discussion Well what the hell, retard. What have we been telling you literally this whole time? 💎 👐. Its that fucking simple. What is so hard to understand about that? "
Apparently everything is a short attack. Notice the language in the post. They call people with skepticism bitches and retards etc.
Note I understand retard and profanity is part of WSB culture however since the vast majority of members are new I’m going to make the assumption that when they are referred to as a bitch they don’t perceive it as digging into a meme
to make it seem like they know less than the squeezers. That they are dumb inexperienced and should just trust the squeezers. This is a pretty effective tactic as most of them are inexperienced traders and its extremely predatory behavior by posters to take advantage of this fact.
The thing is everyone and their mother on WSB already knows what a short ladder is but... they keep pretending like people don't. There are constant posts about it because they assume people are selling (which they are and are likely demystified with the short ladder excuse at every drop).
This is essentially the stage where people either become extremely radicalized or disenfranchised as the price bombs and potentially goes parabolic down today.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a perfect example of always trying to find a way of morphing numbers to their liking https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/laoaru/read_this_they_are_screwed_numbers_dont_lie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Where in reality a counter argument to that nonsense is this guy: https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/laoaru/read_this_they_are_screwed_numbers_dont_lie/glpqp62?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
"Ihor is talking about the S3 float %, that's their propriety metric.
They also provide the standard free float %.
The S3 % float is at 34%, the standard free float is at 53% "
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I was also thinking about how the memes really kept me involved in the squeeze. They acted as a sort of propaganda, they took the edge off of being worried. Its interesting how propaganda has morphed into gifs about winning and "sticking it to the man" (until they realized the damage has already been done and the man is out and likely making money off the drop now).
While I was in the GME squeeze mindset and experienced FUD memes kind of reassured me that its alright, that this is a WAR (common theme used to describe it). This idea of being part of a financial war and the imagery of battling hedges etc, really helped me stay in at least for another day or two. It would be interesting to have someone more qualified than me look at the impact of propaganda via memes and people holding longer as my experience is only anecdotal and not empirical (I'm just a loser computer engineer who doesn't know much about social sciences).

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is a prime example of confirmation bias/whatever the fuck is going on in WSB.

https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/lal147/how_come_no_one_is_talking_about_the_duplicate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Instead of taking a rational position such as assuming that people who own GME likely own AMC as well so the selling and buying trends are similar. This post takes in the assumption that GME and AMC are mutually exclusive trends.
To say it clearly I'm suggesting someone who owns GME likely also owns AMC. Therefore, when somebody sells GME they will likely also sell AMC as they are both pump and dumps at this point (just my opinion there could still be a squeeze).
This post however, suggests that the downward trends are some sort of market manipulation while comparatively ignoring the correlation between upwards trends. They are suggesting that downward trends are manipulation and upwards trends are natural even though they are both extremely similar in this picture.
In my opinion this is the pinnacle of a cult type mindset/ignorance to alternative explanations. They cherry pick what they want to hear and ban/downvote alternative opinions (I'm not saying my opinion is right it's also a speculation; however, it should at least be considered, the banning of "free speech" is very detrimental to maintaining a neutral view).
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Just saw this post

https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/lax4z8/hardcore_laddering/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I’d like to suggest that this isn’t a short ladder at all and is in my opinion HFT algos and some day traders taking advantage of the volatility. I’ve actually looked into making HFT algos myself and some of my friends used to work in developing statistical learning models to trade. One very popular model is the random forests classification algorithm which is primarily good at trading momentum stocks like GME. To me this stock looks like the prime target for HFT as it’s extremely volatile and has lots of momentum trends.
HFT algos trade to make fractions of pennies on a trade however they sell large volume eg 100’s of shares at once. This means the fractions of pennies compound into dollars. A small % gain on large capital makes money. This to me looks just like that. Many trades milliseconds apart that make fractions of cents profits in large orders.
This isn’t a short ladder but companies like citadel who do HFT taking advantage of the volatility. However the narrative to the squeezers is that it’s evidence of a short ladder which in my opinion is completely false. It’s just another excuse to not look in deeper to what’s really going on. It the equivalent of creating some easy to play off excuse for the stock dropping.
Another edit:
It has occurred to me many people don’t know what HFT stands for. High Frequency Trading. It aims to make tens or hundreds of trades in milliseconds making fractions of pennies on a share. With large capital this can leads to lots of gain as making 0.00001% on a million dollars per millisecond compounds quickly. HFT accounts for nearly 60% (I didn’t google it I’m just going off my shitty memory don’t trust this number) of capital gain in the market today. ———————————————
On the bot accounts here is a claim of a “bot” account
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/lazktn/bots_are_being_used_to_spread_negative_sentiment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Look at his profile he is obviously not a bot he makes real comments I’ve seen bot nets they are expensive to buy and aren’t manually aged. He was just copy pasting his ideas which is spam not a bot.
There is a difference between spamming a comment and being a bot net funded by large hedge funds or someone else.
This is like a witch hunt at this point. He is a spammer not a bot.
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SEO is easy. The EXACT process we use to scale our clients' SEO from 0 to 200k monthly traffic and beyond

Hey guys!
There's a TON of content out there on SEO - guides, articles, courses, videos, scams, people yelling about it on online forums, etc etc..
Most of it, however, is super impractical. If you want to start doing SEO TODAY and start getting results ASAP, you'll need to do a TON of digging to figure out what's important and what's not.
So we wanted to make everyone's lives super easy and distill our EXACT process of working w/ clients into a stupid-simple, step-by-step practical guide. And so we did. Here we are.
P.S: startups, and seo loved the guide, so I thought you guys might like it too.

A bit of backstory:

If you guys haven't seen any of my previous posts, me and my co-founder own an SEO/digital marketing agency, and we've worked w/ a ton of clients helping them go from 0 to 200k+ monthly organic traffic. We've also helped some quite big companies grow their organic traffic (from 1M to over 1.8M monthly organic), using the exact same process.
So without further ado, grab your popcorn, and be prepared to stick to the screen for a while, cause this is going to be a long post. Here's everything I am going to cover:

Step #1 - Technical Optimization and On-Page SEO

Step #1 to any SEO initiative is getting your technical SEO right.
Now, some of this is going to be a bit technical, so you might just forward this part to your tech team and just skip ahead to "Step #2 - Keyword Research."
If you DON'T have a tech team and want a super easy tl;dr, do this:
If you’re a bit more tech-savvy, though, read on!

Technical SEO Basics

Sitemap.xml file. A good sitemap shows Google how to easily navigate your website (and how to find all your content!). If your site runs on WordPress, all you have to do is install YoastSEO or Rankmath SEO, and they’ll create a sitemap for you. Otherwise, you can use an online XML Sitemap generation tool.
Proper website architecture. The crawl depth of any page should be lower than 4 (i.e: any given page should be reached with no more than 3 clicks from the homepage). To fix this, you should improve your interlinking (check Step #6 of this guide to learn more).
Serve images in next-gen format. Next-gen image formats (JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP) can be compressed a lot better than JPG or PNG images. Using WordPress? Just use Smush and it’ll do ALL the work for you. Otherwise, you can manually compress all images and re-upload them.
Remove duplicate content. Google hates duplicate content and will penalize you for it. If you have any duplicate pages, just merge them (by doing a 301 redirect) or delete one or the other.
Update your ‘robots.txt’ file. Hide the pages you don’t want Google to index (e.g: non-public, or unimportant pages). If you’re a SaaS, this would be most of your in-app pages. ]
Optimize all your pages by best practice. There’s a bunch of general best practices that Google wants you to follow for your web pages (maintain keyword density, have an adequate # of outbound links, etc.). Install YoastSEO or RankMath and use them to optimize all of your web pages.
If you DON’T have any pages that you don’t want to be displayed on Google, you DON’T need robots.txt.

Advanced Technical SEO

Now, this is where this gets a bit more web-devvy. Other than just optimizing your website for SEO, you should also focus on optimizing your website speed.
Here’s how to do that:
Both for Mobile and PC, your website should load in under 2-3 seconds. While load speed isn’t a DIRECT ranking factor, it does have a very serious impact on your rankings.
After all, if your website doesn’t load for 5 seconds, a bunch of your visitors might drop off.
So, to measure your website speed performance, you can use Pagespeed Insights. Some of the most common issues we have seen clients facing when it comes to website speed and loading time, are the following:
Want to make your life easier AND fix up all these issues and more? Use WP Rocket. The tool basically does all your optimization for you (if you’re using WordPress, of course).
Lastly, if you want to validate the website speed optimization changes you've made, or if you simply want to test how your current site is performing, you can use Google Page Speed Insights*.*
In May 2020, Google rolled out its Core Web Vitals update, which in layman terms means starting next May (2021), the three most important website load speed metrics you will need to worry for ranking will be:
  1. LCP - Largest Contentful Paint -> under 2.5s
  2. FID - First Input Delay -> under 100ms
  3. CLS - Cumulative Layout Shift -> under 0.1

Step #2 - Keyword Research

Once your website is 100% optimized, it’s time to define your SEO strategy.
The best way to get started with this is by doing keyword research.
First off, you want to create a keyword research sheet. This is going to be your main hub for all your content operations.
You can use the sheet to:
  1. Prioritize content
  2. Keep track of the publishing process
  3. Get a top-down view of your web pages
And here’s what it covers:
Now that you have your sheet (and understand how it works), let’s talk about the “how” of keyword research.

How to do Keyword Research (Step-by-Step Guide)

There are a ton of different ways to do that (check the “further readings” at the end of this section for a detailed rundown).
Our favorite method, however, is as follows…
Start off by listing out your top 5 SEO competitors.
The key here is SEO competitors - competing companies that have a strong SEO presence in the same niche.
Not sure who’s a good SEO competitor? Google the top keywords that describe your product and find your top-ranking competitors.
Run them through SEMrush (or your favorite SEO tool), and you’ll see how well, exactly, they’re doing with their SEO.
Once you have a list of 5 competitors, run each of them through “Organic Research” on SEMrush, and you'll get a complete list of all the keywords they rank on.
Now, go through these keywords one by one and extract all the relevant ones and add them to your sheet.
Once you go through the top SEO competitors, your keyword research should be around 80%+ done.
Now to put some finishing touches on your keyword research, run your top keywords through UberSuggest and let it do its magic. It's going to give you a bunch of keywords associated with the keywords you input.
Go through all the results it's going to give you, extract anything that’s relevant, and your keyword research should be 90% done.
At this point, you can call it a day and move on to the next step. Chances are, over time, you’ll uncover new keywords to add to your sheet and get you to that sweet 100%.

Step #3 - Create SEO Landing Pages

Remember how we collected a bunch of landing page keywords in step #2? Now it’s time to build the right page for each of them! This step is a lot more straightforward than you’d think. First off, you create a custom landing page based on the keyword. Depending on your niche, this can be done in 2 ways:
  1. Create a general template landing page. Pretty much copy-paste your landing page, alter the sub-headings, paraphrase it a bit, and add relevant images to the use-case. You’d go with this option if the keywords you’re targeting are very similar to your main use-case (e.g. “project management software” “project management system”).
  2. Create a unique landing page for each use-case. You should do this if each use-case is unique. For example, if your software doubles as project management software and workflow management software. In this case, you’ll need two completely new landing pages for each keyword.
Once you have a bunch of these pages ready, you should optimize them for their respective keywords.
You can do this by running the page content through an SEO tool. If you’re using WordPress, you can do this through RankMath or Yoast SEO.
Both tools will give you exact instructions on how to optimize your page for the keyword.
If you’re not using WordPress, you can use SurferSEO. Just copy-paste your web page content, and it’s going to give you instructions on how to optimize it.
Once your new landing pages are live, you need to pick where you want to place them on your website. We usually recommend adding these pages to your website’s navigation menu (header) or footer.
Finally, once you have all these new landing pages up, you might be thinking “Now what? How, and when, are these pages going to rank?”
Generally, landing pages are a tad harder to rank than content. See, with content, quality plays a huge part. Write better, longer, and more informative content than your competition, and you’re going to eventually outrank them even if they have more links.
With landing pages, things aren’t as cut and dry. More often than not, you can’t just “create a better landing page.”
What determines rankings for landing page keywords are backlinks. If your competitors have 400 links on their landing pages, while yours has 40, chances are, you’re not going to outrank them.

Step #4 - Create SEO Blog Content

Now, let’s talk about the other side of the coin: content keywords, and how to create content that ranks.
As we mentioned before, these keywords aren’t direct-intent (the Googler isn’t SPECIFICALLY looking for your product), but they can still convert pretty well. For example, if you’re a digital marketing agency, you could rank on keywords like…
After all, anyone looking to learn about lead gen techniques might also be willing to pay you to do it for them.
On top of this, blog post keywords are way easier to rank for than your landing pages - you can beat competition simply by creating significantly better content without turning it into a backlink war.In order to create good SEO content, you need to do 2 things right:
  1. Create a comprehensive content outline
  2. Get the writing part right
Here’s how each of these work...

How to Create a Content Outline for SEO

A content outline is a document that has all the info on what type of information the article should contain Usually, this includes:
Outlines are useful if you’re working with a writing team that isn’t 100% familiar with SEO, allowing them to write content that ranks without any SEO know-how.
At the same time, even if you’re the one doing the writing, an outline can help you get a top-down idea of what you should cover in the article.
So, how do you create an outline? Here’s a simplified step-by-step process…
  1. Determine the target word count. Rule of thumb: aim for 1.5x - 2x whatever your competitor wrote. You can disregard this if your competition was super comprehensive with their content, and just go for the same length instead.
  2. Create a similar header structure as your competition. Indicate for the writer which headers should be h2, which ones h3.
  3. For each header, mention what it’s about. Pro tip - you can borrow ideas from the top 5 ranking articles.
  4. For each header, explain what, exactly, should the writer mention (in simple words).
  5. Finally, do some first-hand research on Reddit and Quora. What are the questions your target audience has around your topic? What else could you add to the article that would be super valuable for your customers?

How to Write Well

There’s a lot more to good content than giving an outline to a writer. Sure, they can hit all the right points, but if the writing itself is mediocre, no one’s going to stick around to read your article.
Here are some essential tips you should keep in mind for writing content (or managing a team of writers):
  1. Write for your audience. Are you a B2B enterprise SaaS? Your blog posts should be more formal and professional. B2C, super-consumer product? Talk in a more casual, relaxed fashion. Sprinkle your content with pop culture references for bonus points!
  2. Avoid fluff. Every single sentence should have some sort of value (conveying information, cracking a joke, etc.). Avoid beating around the bush, and be as straightforward as possible.
  3. Keep your audience’s knowledge in mind. For example, if your audience is a bunch of rocket scientists, you don’t have to explain to them how 1+1=2.
  4. Create a writer guideline (or just steal ours! -> edit: sorry had to remove link due to posting guidelines)
  5. Use Grammarly and Hemingway. The first is like your personal pocket editor, and the latter helps make your content easier to read.
  6. Hire the right writers. Chances are, you’re too busy to write your own content. We usually recommend using ProBlogger or Cult of Copy Job Board (Facebook Group) to source top writing talent.

Step #5 - Start Link-Building Operations

Links are essential if you want your content or web pages to rank.
If you’re in a competitive niche, links are going to be the final deciding factor on what ranks and what doesn’t.
In the VPN niche, for example, everyone has good content. That’s just the baseline. The real competition is in the backlinks.
To better illustrate this example, if you Google “best VPN,” you’ll see that all top-ranking content pieces are almost the same thing. They’re all:
So, the determining factor is links. If you check all the top-ranking articles with the Moz Toolbar Extension, you’ll see that on average, each page has a minimum of 300 links (and some over 100,000!).
Meaning, to compete, you’ll really need to double-down on your link-building effort.
In fact, in the most competitive SEO niches, it’s not uncommon to spend $20,000 per month on link-building efforts alone.

Pro Tip
Got scared by the high $$$ some companies spend on link-building? Well, worry not!
Only the most ever-green niches are so competitive. Think, VPN, make money online, health and fitness, dating, CBD, gambling, etc. So you know, the usual culprits.
For most other niches, you can even rank with minimal links, as long as you have top-tier SEO content.
Now, let’s ask the million-dollar question: “how do you do link-building?”

4 Evergreen Link Building Strategies for Any Website

There are a TON of different link building strategies on the web. Broken link building, scholarship link building, stealing competitor links, and so on and so on and so on.
We’re not going to list every single link building strategy out there (mainly because Backlinko already did that in their link building guide).
What we are going to do, though, is list out some of our favorite strategies, and link you to resources where you can learn more:
  1. Broken link building. You find dead pages with a lot of backlinks, reach out to websites that linked to them, and pitch them something like “hey, you linked to this article, but it’s dead. We thought you’d want to fix that. You can use our recent article if you think it’s cool enough.”
  2. Guest posting. Probably the most popular link building strategy. Find blogs that accept guest posts, and send them a pitch! They usually let you include 1-2 do-follow links back to your website.
  3. Linkable asset” link building. A linkable asset is a resource that is so AWESOME that you just can’t help but link to. Think, infographics, online calculators, first-hand studies or research, stuff like that. The tl;dr here is, you create an awesome resource, and promote the hell out of it on the web.
  4. Skyscraper technique. The skyscraper technique is a term coined by Backlinko. The gist of it is, you find link-worthy content on the web, create something even better, and reach out to the right people.
Most of these strategies work, and you can find a ton of resources on the web if you want to learn more.
However, if you’re looking for something a bit different, oh boy we have a treat for you! We’re going to teach you a link-building strategy that got us around:
...And so much more, all through a single blog post.

Link-Building Case Study: SaaS Marketing

“So, what’s this ancient link-building tactic?”
I hear you asking. It must be something super secretive and esoteric, right?
Secrets learned straight from the link-building monks at an ancient SEO temple…
“Right?”
Well, not quite.
The tactic isn’t something too unusual - it’s pretty famous on the web. This tactic comes in 2 steps:
  1. Figure out where your target audience hangs out (create a list of the channels)
  2. Research the type of content your audience loves
  3. Create EPIC content based on that research (give TONS of value)
  4. Promote the HELL out of it in the channels from step 1
Nothing too new, right?
Well, you’d be surprised how many people don’t use it.
Now, before you start throwing stones at us for overhyping something so simple, let’s dive into the case study:
How we PR’d the hell out of our guide to SaaS marketing (can't add a link, but it's on our blog and it's 14k words long), and got 10k+ traffic as a result.
A few months back when we launched our blog, we were deciding on what our initial content should be about.
Since we specialize in helping SaaS companies acquire new users, we decided to create a mega-authority guide to SaaS marketing (AND try to get it to rank for its respective keyword).
We went through the top-ranking content pieces, and saw that none of them was anything too impressive.
Most of them were about general startup marketing strategies - how to validate your MVP, find a product-market fit, etc.
Pretty “meh,” if you ask us. We believe that the #1 thing founders are looking for when Googling “saas marketing” are practical channels and tactics you can use to acquire new users.
So, it all started off with an idea: create a listicle of the top SaaS marketing tactics out there:
  1. How to create good content to drive users
  2. Promote your content
  3. Rank on Google
  4. Create viral infographics
  5. Create a micro-site
...and we ended up overdoing it, covering 41+ different tactics and case studies and hitting around 14k+ words.
On one hand, oops! On the other hand, we had some pretty epic content on our hands. We even added the Smart Content Filter to make the article much easier to navigate.
Once the article was up, we ran it through some of our clients, friends, and acquaintances, and received some really good feedback.
So, now we knew it was worth promoting the hell out of it.
We came up with a huge list of all online channels that would appreciate this article:
  1. entrepreneur and startups (hi guys!). The first ended up loving the post, netting us ~600 upboats and a platinum medal. The latter also ended up loving the post, but the mods decided to be assholes and remove it for being “self-promotional.” So, despite the community loving the content, it got axed by the mods. Sad. (Fun fact - this one time we tried to submit another content piece on startups with no company names, no links back to our website, or anything that can be deemed promotional. One of the mods removed it for mentioning a link to Ahrefs. Go figure!)
  2. Hacker News. Tons of founders hang out on HN, so we thought they’d appreciate anything SaaS-related. This netted us around ~200+ upvotes and some awesome feedback (thanks HN!)
  3. Submit on Growth Hackers, Indie Hackers, and all other online marketing communities. We got a bunch of love on Indie Hackers, the rest were quite inactive.
  4. Reach out to all personal connects + clients and ask for a share
  5. Run Facebook/Twitter ads. This didn’t particularly work out too well for us, so we dropped it after 1-2 weeks.
  6. Run a Quuu promotion. If you haven’t heard of Quuu, it’s a platform that matches people who want their content to be shared, with people who want their social media profiles running on 100% auto-pilot. We also got “meh” results here - tons of shares, next to no likes or link clicks.
  7. Promoted in SaaS and marketing Facebook groups. This had awesome results both in terms of traffic, as well as making new friends, AND getting new leads.
  8. Promoted in entrepreneur Slack channels. This worked OK - didn’t net us traffic, but got us some new friends.
  9. Emailed anyone we mentioned in the article and asked for a share. Since we mentioned too many high profile peeps and not enough non-celebs, this didn’t work out too well
  10. Emailed influencers that we thought would like the article / give it a share. They didn’t. We were heart-broken.
And accordingly, created a checklist + distribution sheet with all the websites or emails of people we wanted to ping.
Overall, this netted us around 12,000 page views in total, 15+ leads, 6,000 traffic in just 2 promotion days.
As for SEO results, we got a bunch of links. (I would have added screenshots to all of these results, but don't think this subreddit allows it).
A lot of these are no-follow from Reddit, HackerNews, and other submission websites, but a lot of them are also pretty authentic.
The cool part about this link-building tactic is that people link to you without even asking. You create awesome content that helps people, and you get rewarded with links, shares, and traffic!
And as for the cherry on top, only 2 months after publishing the article, it’s ranking on position #28. We’re expecting it to get to page 1 within the new few months and top 3 within the year.

Step #6 - Interlink Your Pages

One of Google's ranking factors is how long your visitors stick around on your website.
So, you need to encourage users reading ONE article, to read, well, the rest of them (or at least browse around your website). This is done through interlinking.
The idea is that each of your web pages should be linked to and from every other relevant page on your site.
Say, an article on "how to make a resume" could link to (and be linked from) "how to include contact info on a resume," "how to write a cover letter," "what's the difference between a CV and a resume," and so on.
Proper interlinking alone can have a significant impact on your website rankings. NinjaOutreach, for example, managed to improve their organic traffic by 40% through better interlinking alone.
So, how do you do interlinking “right?”
First off, make it a requirement for your writers to link to the rest of your content. Add a clause to your writer guidelines that each article should have 10+ links to your other content pieces.
More often than not, they’ll manage to get 60-70% of interlinking opportunities. To get this to 100%, we usually do bi-annual interlinking runs. Here’s how that works.
Pick an article you want to interlink. Let’s say, for example, an article on 'business process management'.
The goal here is to find as many existing articles on your blog, where ‘business process management’ is mentioned so that we can add a link to the article.
Firstly, Google the keyword ‘business process management’ by doing a Google search on your domain. You can use the following query:
site:yourwebsite.com "keyword"
In our case, that’s:
site:example.com “business process management”
You’ll get a complete list of articles that mention the keyword “business process management.
Now, all you have to do is go through each of these, and make sure that the keyword is hyperlinked to the respective article!
You should also do this for all the synonyms of the keyword for this article. For example, “BPM” is an acronym for business process management, so you’d want to link this article there too.

Step #7 - Track & Improve Your Headline CTRs

Article CTRs play a huge role in determining what ranks or not.
Let’s say your article ranks #4 with a CTR of 15%. Google benchmarks this CTR with the average CTR for the position.
If the average CTR for position #4 is 12%, Google will assume that your article, with a CTR of 15% is of high quality, and will reward you with better rankings.
On the other hand, if the average CTR is 18%, Google will assume that your article isn’t as valuable as other ranking content pieces, and will lower your ranking.
So, it’s important to keep track of your Click Through Rates for all your articles, and when you see something that’s underperforming, you can test different headlines to see if they’ll improve CTR.
Now, you’re probably wondering, how do you figure out what’s the average CTR?
Unfortunately, each search result is different, and there's no one size fits all formula for average CTR.
Over the past few years, Google has been implementing a bunch of different types of search results - featured snippet, QAs, and a lot of other types of search results.
So, depending on how many of these clutter and the search results for your given keyword, you’ll get different average CTRs by position.
Rule of thumb, you can follow these values:
Keep in mind these change a lot depending on your industry, PPC competitiveness, 0-click searches, etc...
Use a scraping tool like Screaming Frog to extract the following data from all your web pages:
Delete all the pages that aren’t meant to rank on Google. Then, head over to Google Search Console and extract the following data for all the web pages:
Add all of this data to a spreadsheet.
Now, check what your competition is doing and use that to come up with new headline ideas. Then, put them in the Title Ideas cell for the respective keyword.
For each keyword, come up with 4-5 different headlines, and implement the (seemingly) best title for each article.
Once you implement the change, insert the date on the Date Implemented column. This will help you keep track of progress.
Then, wait for around 3 - 4 weeks to see what kind of impact this change is going to have on your rankings and CTR.
If the results are not satisfactory, record the results in the respective cells, and implement another test for the following month. Make sure to update the Date Implemented column once again.

Step #8 - Keep Track of Rankings & Make Improvements On-The-Go

You’re never really “done” with SEO - you should always keep track of your rankings and see if there’s any room for improvement.
If you wait for an adequate time-frame after publishing a post (6 months to a year) and you’re still seeing next to no results, then it might be time to investigate.
Here’s what this usually looks like for us:
...And that's it.
Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) HMU if you have any questions.
If you want to read the full version in a more reader-friendly format, you can check out our SEO process blog post here.
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Tried re-posting some DD to WSB but it doesn't seem to get published, so I'm posting it here. Feel free to repost it on WSB if you can.

Alright autists, I know that we're still fighting the good fight and this should in no way encourage anyone to sell GME. Hold until the suits shit their pants while crying about it to their mamas. This is for AFTER we've made them pay. Remember, there's a life after GME, and while the 2 million retards that were here before the storm may remember Beastberry, there's also 6 million newbies that don't have a fucking idea about what WSB was before it got all the media attention. There's been rock-solid DD about our lord and savior John Chen and Beastberry, and I shall do my duty to remind/introduce you to the stock that will be here for your ride from whatever galaxy GME is heading to, to our next destination 🚀
I'm going to blatantly copy said DD, cause there's no need to reinvent the wheel and take credit for shit that's been posted here weeks ago. Buckle up retards, this is gonna be a long one, but it's gonna make your brain so much smoother you're gonna be glad you've read something for once in your life. I've already trimmed it a little to account for your ADHD (yes this shit was even longer). Credit to u/_MoveSwiftly:
 
Note: BlackBerry is NOT a cyber security company. They are a security company. Revenue does not care about your AI driven autonomous machine learning EV car with DDs. People are using these terms loosely. A quick lookup for interviews with John Chen would prove that he explicitly avoids these terms as they do not define nor matter to the products/revenue of BlackBerry. QNX revenue does not depend on any of these terms, it's an installation on any device. This includes the space station, of which there is 1 of with obviously non-recurring revenue. Buying based on these basis would be gambling.
 
 
Where I think growth can be made:
 
Resources:
John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/_hQQlCWMrQA?t=313
John Chen interview: https://youtu.be/FNdbGhun2E8
J.P. Morgan IVY presentation: https://cache.webcasts.com/content/jpmo001/1416508/content/58ffe5daaa24e738fdef0d065b9b15077892ea63/pdf/secured/BlackBerry_-_Winter_2020-21_Investors_Deck.pdf
IVY: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/aws
QNX: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/qnx/software-solutions/embedded-software/qnx-neutrino-rtos/pdf/QNX-Neutrino-Product-Brief-v7.pdf
QNX Hypervisor: https://blackberry.qnx.com/content/dam/qnx/products/hypervisohypervisorGEM-ProductBrief.pdf
QNX Tools: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/embedded-software/qnx-software-development-platform
Spark UEM: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/guides/guide-blackberry-spark-uem-suites.pdf
Spark UES: https://www.blackberry.com/content/dam/bbcomv4/blackberry-com/en/products/resource-centeresource-library/briefs/Solution_Brief_BlackBerry_Spark_UES_Suite_Final.pdf
AtHoc: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc
AtHoc in healthcare: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/blackberry-athoc/healthcare
SecuSUITE: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/secusuite
Customer oriented solutions - continuous authentication: Start the video at 5:04: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/events/security-summit/2020/video-details/work-anywhere
Easier link: https://vimeo.com/497426347
VW OS: https://electrek.co/2020/06/19/vw-to-develop-its-own-operating-system-but-dodges-question-about-id-3-software/
 
Alright, if you've made it this far, I have a little cherry on top for you. u/SmahD55 wrote a fucking thesis on Beastberry: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YmBTtxxoAxW2l1cDTCKJzqsxpT7sL4j7/view?usp=sharing
TL;DR: QNX is in 175m cars, top 19/25 car producers. It's in fucking SpaceX rockets and the ISS. If it's safe enough for space, it's safe enough for you. Amazon / Blackberry IVY is a JV with Amazon where they combined entity will begin monetizing its users. You better believe Amazon knows how to make money. The legacy cybersecurity business is still valuable proven by customers – 9/10 largest banks, 18/20 of G20 countries. All that, at <10bn evaluation. There's a multitude of reasons this shit was heading to 30$ before RH scammed us.
Also the've recently closed a deal with BAIDU, so they're getting in on the Chinese market. Yes, autist, an NA company got into the fucking Chinese market. If all that shit above hasn't impressed you, you should be impressed about the fact that the fucking CCP wants to take advantage of the systems Beastberry has cooked up over the last years.
HOLD GME, HOLD AMC, FUCK WALL STREET. But afterwards, get in on this fucking rocket or I guarantee at the end of the year you're gonna be crying to your wife's bf about your retarded ass missing this opportunity.
 
Of course this is no financial advice, I'm just an autist trying to educate other autists about our Lord Messiah John Chen and his gift to the world.
BB 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
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The dApp for salaries in Ethereum (Vitalik's dream)

Vitalik Buterin said somewhere that he regrets that Ethereum doesn't produce enough jobs/salaries.
Vitalik was unable to solve this problem, I did. I fully developed (except only for the audit of smart contracts) an MVP a dApp that incentivizes the market to calculate and pay salaries in Ethereum. This dApp is especially useful to pay salaries to scientists and free software developers. It is also useful for such things as carbon accounting.
The dApp principle is tricky:
So, scientists get paid accordingly the real value of their work: the interest in their research after 100 years. It is the fair way to pay salaries for free software and science!! No need for universities and state funding anymore.
Now, as I said, the MVP is ready. I need exactly $3000 for contracts audit + some money for contracts deployment. Somebody, please help me to accomplish this. (I do have $3000, but I am considering tradeoffs, such as being able to pay for advertising it to kick-start the project afterwards.) Please contact me if you want to donate. (There is a grant on GitCoin, but it is now not in donations a match period; so donors please keep in contact with me.)
Links:
$3000 and all the world including you gets big, just salaries!
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[New Spoofers] All About Three-Strike System: Red Warning, Temporary Ban, & Permanent Ban 2021

[New Spoofers] All About Three-Strike System: Red Warning, Temporary Ban, & Permanent Ban 2021

Red Warning from using VMOS android emulator

Three-Strike Discipline Policy from here

This is a straight copy and paste from Niantic's website, but I format to better fit on Reddit.
  • At Niantic, we strive to create a friendly and fair gameplay experience for all players. As part of that commitment, we enforce a three-strike policy against cheating. This policy may provide offenders with a series of disciplinary actions that gradually increase in severity and provide multiple opportunities to change their behavior. If offenders reform their ways, they are welcomed back into the game. However, if offenders continue cheating, they will be permanently removed from the game in accordance with the Pokémon GO Terms of Service.
  • For the purposes of this policy, we define cheating as behaviors that violate the Pokémon GO Terms of Service and Trainer Guidelines, such as falsifying location (GPS location spoofing) and accessing Pokémon GO clients or backends in an unauthorized manner, including through the use of third-party software or add-ons.
  • A strike serves as a warning. Everyone can make mistakes. That’s why we have created this policy to enable offenders to learn from their mistakes and change their ways. If you have been issued a strike, don’t ignore it. Take action to ensure that you do not commit any further transgressions. If you believe that your account was compromised or hacked, please see this article for tips on securing your account.
Keep in mind that offenders are not always offered three strikes. Some misbehaviors [see below] may result in immediate account termination without prior warning.

Strike 1: Warning

Disciplinary actions: If this strike is issued, you will see a warning message within the Pokémon GO app informing you that we have detected cheating on your account. In addition to this warning, your gameplay experience may be degraded in the following ways for the duration of the warning:
  • You may not be able to encounter rare Pokémon in the wild. These Pokémon may not appear on the map or on the Nearby Pokémon tracker.
  • You may be excluded from receiving new EX Raid Passes.
Duration: This strike will last for approximately 7 days. After this period, your gameplay experience will fully be restored.

Strike 2: Suspension

Disciplinary actions: If your account is issued a second strike, you will temporarily lose access to your Pokémon GO account. When attempting to log into the game, you’ll be presented with a message stating that your account is suspended. You will not be able to bypass this message.
Duration: This strike will last for approximately 30 days. After that period, your account access will be restored.

Strike 3: Termination

Disciplinary actions: If you receive the first and second strikes and continue to cheat, your account will be permanently banned.
Duration: Permanent

Appealing your punishment

If you believe your account has been terminated in error, you may appeal the termination. We will respond to your appeal after a complete investigation of your account. Please note that due to the high level of accuracy in our detection systems, very few terminations are ever overturned.Ban appeals must be submitted via web form. To send a ban appeal, please submit a request through our web-based Help Center and select "Ban Appeal" from the dropdown menu.

>>>> PLEASE READ <<<<

Everything below here is a collection of my thoughts, opinions, and what I read about during my time as a mod at PokemonGoSpoofing subreddit. In PokemonGoSpoofing, there is an active post and comment removal filter in the automod that makes the automoderator instantly take down your post after you post it using certain words that relate to Red Warning, Strike, and Ban. This was something I put in to solve the spam problem (anything that people complain about needs to get removed). This is why you do not see anyone posting about this topic anymore. Here at PoGoAndroidSpoofing, there is no post/comment removal filter, and you won't see any iOS users asking about if you got a RW too. Lastly, I am not responsible or liable for the loss of your account if you spoof or use third party apps with your accounts. At any given time, Niantic can change all the information. This post is to give you a general idea of what to expect and maybe answer some of your questions.

LAST KNOWN BAN WAVE as of Jan 2021

It may be possible that the Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic delayed the ban wave for December 2020 to Janurary 2021.
  • No Root by Downgrading Google Play Services method: none
  • No Root using PGSharp modified app directly on your device: none
  • Rooted method - Smali Patcher: none
  • Rooted method - Systemized: none
  • Rooted method - Taichi (dead method): none
  • Rooted method - Enhancer: none
  • Rooted method - Pokemod: December 2019
  • Charbot (bot): none
  • Android emulators like VMOS, Bluestacks, Nox, MuMu, and LD Player with PGSharp: December 2020, see this post PGSHARP in VMOS.
  • Apple iOS modified apps like iSpoofer and iPogo: December 2019 to January 2020

What is considered cheating by Niantic?
If you use any of these, you have a chance at getting punished if you are caught using them or become detectable.
  • Using joystick apps: GPS Joystick, Fake GPS Joystick & Routes Go, FGL Pro, Fly GPS, and etc.
  • Third party apps for Android: Defit, Pokewalk, PGSharp, Enhancer, and Pokemod.
  • Third party apps for iOS: Xspoofer, iPogo, and iTools including their dongle and software. (I will not be covering these because this is an Android only subreddit.)
  • Hex Editors: Game Guardian
  • Emulators: VMOS, Bluestacks, Nox, MuMu, and LDPlayer.
  • Botting: Charbot and whatever the iOS bot name is from PokemonGoSpoofing.
"BAN" confusion
Many people are confusing the strike system with a ban. In many other games, you do not get a warning before they punish you for cheating. If they catch you cheating, your account gets a permanent ban and that is it. Now, you have to create a new account and start all over. Here with Pokemon Go, you get TWO CHANCES before they permanently ban your account for cheating.
  • 1st strike is a warning to tell you not to do it again. You can still play on your warned Pokemon Go account, but the experience will not be the same until the warning expires after 7 days.
    • After you get this warning, you have to play legit using the official Pokemon Go app. You cannot continue to use PGSharp by turning off spoofing because this is still a 3rd party app.
Some people say you need to wait 6 months or more for this strike to disappear off your account's record before you can spoof again on the account that got the 1st strike. This record is only visible to Niantic. It may also be possible for you to get a 2nd strike after coming off the 1st strike if you attempted to spoof during the warning period or afterwards.
  • 2nd strike is a temporary ban from the game for 30 days. You open the game, and you are greeted with the Red Warning message.
    • You cannot close the message and play the game.
Some people say if you do continue to spoof and be very careful after getting your 1st strike, you can still get the 2nd strike. Once you get this strike, I would recommend you quit spoofing with the account because the next strike is a permanent ban. According to many spoofers who have received a strike in the past say there is some inconsistency in the strike system. These people claim it is possible for the 1st or 2nd strike to repeat again completely avoiding the 3rd strike. I think this is false because these people could have lost their account to the 3rd strike and are trying to get other people to suffer the same way.
  • 3rd strike is a permanent ban from the game. Your account most likely gone forever.
    • Live streaming while you spoof in Pokemon Go can result in an instantly ban without going through the 1st and 2nd strikes. Covering your trainer name is not enough to prevent them from giving you a permanent ban.
    • Botting the game or using bot-like features through certain apps can result in this. If you are lucky, you can get Red Slashed Pokemon instead of a Permanent Ban. Red Slashed Pokemon can only be transferred and cannot be used in raids, Go Battle League, gyms, and trades.
    • Placing a new unreleased Pokemon into a gym where the Pokemon is not available yet can result in a permanent ban too. How? People can screenshot your trainer and unreleased new Pokemon and report it to customer service.
    • Manipulating game values with Game Guardian or something similar. This is the only known method used to one shot players in Go Battle League. I have seen a video of someone doing this, but a guide does not exist on how to use Game Guardian with Pokemon Go. If you do not understand how to code, it is impossible for you to try to do it on your own.
According to people, it is possible to appeal the 3rd strike. I would reserve the ban appeal for the 3rd strike and would not use it for the 2nd strike because Niantic customer service might see you are lying and could give you the 3rd strike.
How do you get the Red Warning/strike?
  1. Niantic detects the spoofing method.
  2. You login into the game using that detected spoofing method and your account gets flagged.
  3. Niantic waits awhile to tag as many flagged accounts as possible.
  4. Once they have a high number, the ban wave occurs then Niantic sends out the Red Warning to all flagged accounts.
  5. You open the game and see the Red Warning.
  6. You do not believe it, so you close the game and open it again and still see the Red Warning.
  7. You rush onto Reddit and/or Discord to ask if other people are getting Red Warnings too.
Are there any "ban proof" spoofing methods?
  • Spoofing is cheating, which makes all spoofing methods not “ban proof,” and no one knows when Niantic can detect certain methods. In this case, I use the term “risk” instead of “safe.” Spoofing cannot be safe if Niantic can punish you for it.
Risk means you have a chance like gambling at getting punished with a strike.
  • Using spoofing/joystick apps and modified apps are included in this category.
  • Risk ranges from low to medium to high.
Safe means Niantic allows you to use it, and you cannot get punished for using it.
  • Playing the game as intended by walking around outside using the official Pokemon Go app.
  • Using a Gotcha, Go Plus, Pokeball Plus, or other similar devices.
Can I spoof with my main account?
  • I am not your mother, father, and/or legal guardian, so I cannot force you into using or not using your main account. I am providing you with the information to help you decide if you want to take the risks to spoof with your main account.
  • Your alternative option is to create a new account then trade the Pokemon over to your main account. This will keep your main account safe because you are not spoofing/using 3rd party apps with it.
Which spoofing method is the "safest" ?
A lot of people ask this question because they do not want to get banned. All the spoofing methods are not safe. They all carry risks as I mentioned in the above. If spoofing was safe, Niantic would have never created the Three-Strike Discipline Policy. Spoofing would have been a lot easier to setup like in 2016.
Safe = No Risk = 0% chance:
  • Playing the game as intended by walking around outside using the official Pokemon Go app.
  • Using a Gotcha, Go Plus, Pokeball Plus, or other similar devices.
LOW RISK = 1% chance:
  • Defit and Pokewalk - Used with Adventure Sync to hatch eggs and walk your buddy for candies. These apps trick the game into thinking you are walking around outside, but you are really not outside.
  • No Root by Downgrading Google Play Services with zero rubberbanding meaning you do not teleport back and forth between your real and spoofed location and zero red errors.
  • Rooted methods like Smali Patcher, Systemized, and Taichi (dead method).
MEDIUM RISK = 50%
  • Enhancer and Pokemod app - These apps give you enhance throw where you can throw 100% excellent curve ball all the time along with other special features that are not available in the low risk group.
  • PGSharp is a modified Pokemon Go app for No Root Android that works up to Android 11. This app has been out for more than nine month.
HIGH RISK = 99%
  • Using Android Emulators like VMOS, Bluestacks, Nox, MuMu, and LDPlayer.
  • Overusing automatic features in Enhancer or Pokemod that make you look like you are botting the game.
  • Botting the game with Charbot could result in account termination or Red Slashed Pokemon (they cannot be traded, put into gyms, used in raids, and used in PvP) when they detect it. The only thing you can do with a Red Slashed Pokemon is transfer it.
Red Warnings are tied to your accounts only and not to your device.
  • If you spoof on account A and B but never spoof on account C, you will never get a Red Warning on account C.
  • You can get a Red Warning on account C if you spoof with it or use it with PGSharp, Enhancer, or Pokemod.
  • Niantic does not do device bans because a device ban will require you to buy a new device in order to continue playing. Other game developers do device and/or IP address bans for people using hex editors to gives themselves free premium credits and/or items without spending real money. I have had experience with this in the past for Crime City, Modern War, Need for Speed No Limit, and some other games.
Can I have avoid getting another strike if I quit spoofing on Apple iOS?
  • If you are an iOS spoofer who has gotten a strike on your account and you switch to spoofing on Android, your 1st or 2nd strike does not go away. If you continue to spoof, you can still get the next strike.
Can a "soft ban" cause a strike?
A "soft ban" is where you failed to wait the cool down before you teleport to somewhere else to do an action. This causes you to fail to catch Pokemon and cannot get items from a Pokestop. You wait the full cool down in order for everything to go back to normal.
  • This is called a soft ban because it is what you experience when you get the 1st strike. This only lasts up to 2 hours where as the 1st strike lasts for a total of 7 days (168 hours).
  • If you never had a strike on your account, getting a soft ban cannot cause a strike.
  • If your account has recently got a strike, it is possible that getting a soft ban can cause the next strike.
Do the Strikes reset over time?
  • I have read posts, comments, and chat messages from Discord and Reddit of people claiming they have waited between one to six months before spoofing again on an account that has received a strike in the past. There is no confirmation that these people have actually waited the amount of time they said. Other people could lie to hope you get a 3rd strike, so you can be in the sinking boat with them because they lost their account and want other people to suffer too.
  • There is no clear "yes" or "no" answer to this question. You can try waiting the 6 months of no spoofing and try again. This is your decision to gamble your account.
Can I get a Red Warning for using Poke Genie, Calcy IV, and etc.?
  • No, these apps take a screenshot of your Pokemon then runs OCR to convert an image into text to provide you with the information. A lot of legit players use these apps too because the in-game IV checker works okay but doesn't provide detailed information.
Is it safe to buy accounts?
  • The answer is no because of these reasons:
    • The seller can scam you by recovering the account and email address X amount days later. The are ways to do it even if they give out the email address and password. Throwaway email addresses can be recovered too.
    • The seller could have sold you an account that had just received a strike but did not tell you about it. One soft ban could trigger the 2nd or 3rd strike.
    • It is impossible to get a refund once you buy digital items like accounts, Pokemon, and services.
Can I get a strike for knocking out Pokemon in a gym or taking over all the gyms in an area?
  • No, if you knock out all the gyms and put a Pokemon that is already available in that timezone. If you decide to be an asshole and do this anyway, this is part of the game.
  • Yes, if you knock out all the gyms and put a Pokemon that is not released yet in that timezone. If you caught the new Costumed Pikachu from an event in New Zealand and waited 3 hours later to knock out all the gyms in your area in the US. You wanted to show off by putting the Costumed Pikachu (or new event Pokemon that is not released in the US yet) in gyms in your area to show-off. Then, people can screenshot you and report you to Niantic customer service.
Can I get a strike from trading Pokemon with a Spoofer?
  • No.
Can I get a strike from sharing my account details to receive services like Meltan Mystery Box, Leveling, and/or Catching?
  • Yes if they are careless.
Can I get a strike from buying Pokemon with real money from Ebay and Discord groups?
  • No.
  • Yes if it involves the other person going onto your account.
Can I get a strike from doing Go Battle League?
  • NO if you use the official Pokemon Go app without a joystick opened.
  • YES if you use the game with a spoofing app or modified app.
Can I get a strike for having poor signal strength while doing Go Battle League?
  • NO because you are not really cheating even though you are lagging in the game. This will either result in a short winning or losing streak. This is a known exploit to get easy wins or a losing streak too. It is recommend you use the official Pokemon Go app only in a building that gives poor signal.
Useful stuff as always:
These are links you can click with your mouse or press with your finger to open.
Useful stuff as always:
These are links you can click with your mouse or press with your finger to open.
If you need anything else, be sure to check out [Click/Press Here] MEGA POST #2: Everything You Need for Android Spoofing 2021 - Guides, GPX Routes, Poke Maps, Nests, Discord Groups, & Frequently Asked Questions
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Offseason Blueprint: The Detroit Pistons are an NBA basketball team. Hopefully, they can remind fans of that in the next few years.

The playoffs continue to rage on, but there are 26 teams sitting at home with nothing to do but twiddle their thumbs, watch the Conference Finals, and wait for next season to start.
For their sake, we wanted to look ahead with the next edition of the OFFSEASON BLUEPRINT series. In each, we'll preview some big decisions and make some recommendations for plans of attack along the way. Today, we're looking at the Detroit Pistons.
step one: weave a new narrative
Some teams are good, some teams are bad -- but almost all of them have a general direction. Are you a young team on the rise? Or a veteran team trying to squeeze out as many wins as possible?
Right now, the Detroit Pistons are in a wonky grey area. They're missing an identity. When they tried to make the playoffs, they were fairly mediocre (records of 37-45, 39-43, 41-41). When injuries hit this past season, they plummeted down to 20-46. While that generally suggests a young and rebuilding team, the roster doesn't reflect that yet. Their marquee players are Blake Griffin (age 31) and Derrick Rose (age 31.) They also have a veteran coach in Dwane Casey who's more accustomed to competing than rebuilding. All in all, they feel like a confused, forgotten franchise.
Fortunately, there's a new sheriff in town. The team hired a new GM in Troy Weaver, who had been Sam Presti's right-hand man in Oklahoma City. Weaver's been on the verge of a GM job for several years now, and his hire represents something of a coup for this embattled organization.
Going forward, the franchise needs to hold the keys over to Weaver and allow him free reign to do whatever he wants. Back in OKC, he had experience with a variety of makeups: with a rebuilding team, with a contending team, with a rebuilding-wait-whoops-we're-accidentally-pretty-darn-good team. It's up to him to look at this roster and this payroll and determine the best path forward from here.
step two: hold a garage sale for your old homeowner's property
Presumably, Troy Weaver will treat this project as more of a teardown than a remodel. Mainstay center Andre Drummond is already out of the door, and the other veterans may join him on the bus out of Detroit.
Unfortunately, that may be easier said than done. It makes a lot of sense to trade star PF Blake Griffin to a veteran team, but his injuries and his contract ($37M + $39M player option) would make that difficult from a logistical perspective.
There's a chance that a desperate team may be willing to roll the dice on Griffin. Throughout his career, he's been one of the more misunderstood players in the league. People want to treat him as an athlete-dunker only, but he's actually a skilled ballhandler and passer. In his last healthy season in 2018-19, he averaged 24.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 5.4 assists, and even showcased an improved three-point shot (36.2% on 7.0 attempts per game.) If healthy, he'd be a major difference maker to a team like Portland.
Still, teams aren't going to give up major assets for Blake Griffin until he proves that he is healthy. From Detroit's perspective, it makes more sense to wait to trade him. They need him to come back, put up some good stats, and then float him in offers. Right now, you'd be trading Griffin for 20 cents on the dollar.
In contrast, Derrick Rose's stock may be at a high. He put up good raw numbers this year (18.1 points, 5.6 assists), and he's on a reasonable $7.5M expiring contract. He'd be a positive addition to a playoff team, best served as a Sixth Man scorer. The Pistons and their fans like Rose (and he likes playing here), but it'd be irresponsible for them to not consider trade options. If they get any decent offers, they have to pull the trigger. If the offers are weak -- R2 picks or so -- then the team can keep him around as a veteran leader and placeholder starter.
step three: don't let your breakout break out
As bad as the Pistons were, they had a few bright spots. Derrick Rose played better than expected. Luke Kennard looks on track to be a rising starter. And, most surprising of all, rando Christian Wood broke out as a legitimate NBA player. As a starter, Wood averaged 21.9 points and 9.4 rebounds per game. Wood is a springy, energetic player who also has an improving range (40% from three as a starter.)
You can read a longer deep dive about Christian Wood here, but to sum it up. A) His production looks legitimate, as he's been putting up numbers in virtually every stop as a pro. But B) His breakout may be poorly timed for the Pistons, because he's slated for free agency and about to get more expensive. He's a 24 year old whose best days should be ahead of him.
Based purely on his stats and scouting profile, you could talk yourself into a contract closing in on $15M a year for Wood. However, players with his "pedigree" (undrafted, limited sample size) rarely get that type of contract right away. To me, paying him somewhere in the range of 3 years, $36M would be a fair deal on both sides. There's too much uncertainty to justify much more of a commitment.
Of course, the Pistons should know better than any of us whether to trust Wood. Prior to this year, he had a mixed reputation in terms of his basketball IQ and work habits. If Coach Casey can sign off on Wood's character, then the team can feel more comfortable with him as a building block. If there are still red flags, perhaps it's better not to get too attached. The Pistons have more cap room than most teams this offseason, so the money shouldn't be a major deterrent to this decision. It should be entirely about Wood as a person and a player. If you believe that he's the real deal, then you keep him around.
step four: find your next field general
Christian Wood is a solid young player -- Luke Kennard is a solid young player -- but these aren't franchise players. They're secondary scorers and members of a supporting cast. To truly advance to the promised land, the Detroit Pistons are going to need to find transcendent talent, somehow and some way.
Unfortunately, the NBA Draft Lottery didn't help. The Pistons slipped down from the # 5 slot to the # 7 pick, making it unlikely that they'll land a future star.
On the bright side, the "supply and demand" may be on their side. This draft class happens to be heavy with point guards. There's LaMelo Ball (the # 1 prospect on ESPN), Killian Hayes (the # 1 prospect on The Ringer), and Tyrese Haliburton (one of the safer picks in the class.) If any of them slip down to # 7, the Pistons should strongly consider them. It usually takes a point guard a year or two to find their footing, but they can sit behind Derrick Rose for a year and then get unleashed in 2021. From a personality standpoint, Rose isn't going to mentor and educate like Aristotle, but he's capable of soaking up 25 minutes and allowing the next PG some time to develop.
If those top guards are not available (and they are unlikely to be), the Pistons may have to take some chances. One name I'm intrigued by is R.J. Hampton.
On face value, that'd be a "reach." Like LaMelo Ball, Hampton was a top high school prospect who went off to play in the Australian league. Unlike Ball, his NBA stock suffered as a result. While Ball put up numbers (17-8-7), Hampton put up weak stats -- 8.8 points, 2.4 assists on 41-30-68 shooting splits. As a result, Ball is now locked into top 3 pick status, and Hampton is seeing his name ranked around the 10-20 range in mock drafts.
However, I'd defend Hampton to some degree. We have to consider the context here. LaMelo Ball joined a struggling team called Illawarra. With Ball, the team went 3-9 (and finished 5-23.) When you're playing on a bad team like that, you can be the "star" and jack up as many shots as you want. In contrast, Hampton joined the New Zealand Breakers, a better team that relegated him to 20.6 minutes a night and a more limited role. His raw stats may not do him justice.
No doubt, Hampton has a long way to go, especially as a shooter. At the same time, he's a big lead guard (6'4" with a 6'7" wingspan) who flashes a lot of explosive scoring ability when he's getting downhill to the hoop. He's also a smart kid and allegedly a good worker. There's some legitimate "star" potential here, even if it's a narrow bull's eye. Hampton doesn't have the same athleticism as Russell Westbrook (hardly anyone does) but maybe there's a parallel here. After all, Weaver and OKC selected Westbrook after he'd been a little under the radar after playing off the ball at UCLA.
To be clear, I'm not urging Detroit to take R.J. Hampton at # 7. I'm not endorsing him as a future star like Westbrook. I don't know enough to do that; I don't sit around and splice up tape of New Zealand basketball. Still, the point is, the Pistons should be looking at upside players in that vein, knowing that they're going to need to hit a home run in the future.
step five: keep one hand on the detonator
The Detroit Pistons only have $68M committed on the books for next season, which means they could be players in free agency even if they re-sign Christian Wood.
If the team decided to go "all in" in a desperate attempt to compete, then you could maybe talk yourself into retaining Blake Griffin, handing out a big contract for Fred VanVleet, and shooting for the playoffs. That may work. But to what end...? The 7th seed? The 8th seed? Is that the end goal here?
More realistically, the team should (as discussed) try to get Blake Griffin back and fully healthy in order to showcase him for a trade. After that, they'd then dive into a full rebuild.
Presuming that's going to be the ultimate destination, then the Pistons may as well get a jump on that with free agency. With their remaining cap space, they can take on a toxic asset that comes attached with future picks, or take some fliers on young and promising players. Among my favorite gamblers of this offseason may include PG Kris Dunn (CHI), SG Denzel Valentine (CHI), SF Josh Jackson (MEM), and C Harry Giles (SAC.) None of them should draw huge money offers, making them reasonable purchases and lottery tickets.
If the Pistons end up blowing it up, then they should play their younger players over the course of the season. That should mean a lot of Sekou Doumbouya (entering Year 2) and even some Thon Maker (entering Year 42). If that means you only win 25-30 games, that's all right. It'll only help your odds for next year's lottery.
I've mentioned this before with some potential tankers (CLE, CHA, etc), but next year's draft could be quite strong. The group is headlined by point forward Cade Cunningham (heading to Oklahoma State) and scoring swingman Jalen Green (heading to the G-League), but there are about 4-5 other players who have the potential to join the # 1 pick conversation in time. The Detroit Pistons aren't likely to be bad enough to get a top 3 pick on their own, but the flattened lottery odds make it possible for the 7th or 8th worst team to leapfrog into that territory.
Of course, before Weaver and the Pistons officially press the detonator and go into full-blown rebuild/tank mode, they need to have a heart to heart with Coach Casey. He's 63 years old already, and entering the third year of a five-year deal. Is he going to embrace the rebuild? Is he going to be the scapegoat if they rack up losses? They need to get on the same page, out of fairness to Casey and out of fairness to this franchise. A reasonable solution would be to promise Casey that, if he does tank like a good soldier, he'll still be retained for next season. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will chrome.
previous offseason blueprints
ATL, CHA, CHI, CLE, DAL, IND, GS, LAC, MIL, MIN, NYK, POR, SA, SAC, UTA
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