The Rude’s Guide to the Crazy New World of Acronyms

Welcome to the Rude’s Guide to the New World. This is meant to help you out and make you laugh. [Unsubscribe]( [Image](https://) Welcome to the Rude’s Guide to the Crazy New World of Acronyms This is meant to help you out and make you laugh. It’s not an exhaustive list, so feel free to write asksean@paradigm.press if you’ve got any good ones you’d like to add to the list. Thank you for your continuing support of the Rude. It means the world to me to be able to write you every day. Recommended Link [5 Tech Stocks Every American Should Own Right Now]( [Click here for more...]( The man who famously picked Apple in 2011 to be the world’s first $1 trillion and $2 trillion company… Just picked 5 tech stocks he’s convinced could hit $1 trillion next… [See why he’s betting these 5 stocks take off.]( [Click Here To Learn More]( Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening The Rude’s Guide to the New World Apes Traders who invest in something quickly without doing any research. Autistic Trader Not [retards]( they actually make money and command the respect of the chatroom. The retards are all ears around the autistic trader. #bidenregret That sinking feeling you should’ve grabbed some 😺 instead of being one. DD Due diligence The homework no investor actually does anymore because it’s all about momentum, baby! DEFI DEcentralized FInance An umbrella term that refers to the myriad ways start-ups, coiners, and other miscreants are trying to disrupt (ahem) the world of central, investment, private, commercial, and retail banking. May God (or Dawkins) be with them. DHTTM [Diamond hands]( to the moon! The act of ensuring you're still holding the bag when the big crash happens. diamond hands When you’re hanging onto a position so hard, you can crush it to create diamonds. Ant: [paper hands]( DOGE A shitcoin started as a joke, but revealed itself to be a high market cap coin. “I meant to do that,” as Pee Wee Herman would say. Elon Musk likes this coin. No, he doesn’t. Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t. And so on, ad infinitum. ESG Environment, Social, and Governance Investing The kind of investing you say you do when you earn zero return for your investors while making sure Black Lives Matter doesn’t burn down your office. GME and AMC [Stonks]( that bankrupted hedge fund managers who shorted them. Probably shouldn’t have named your fund “Melvin,” as that name just begs for an ass-kicking. FOMO Fear Of Missing Out What everyone who didn’t buy Bitcoin at $0.10 feels right now. Also, the feeling people who paid $60,000 for a bitcoin are angry they felt. HODL hold on for dear life Initially a misspelling of “HOLDING,” it’s become a rallying cry for those with [diamond hands](. 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NFTs Non-fungible token Authenticity certificates for assets - their word, not mine - created out of thin air. paper hands Dropping shitcoins like a bad habit instead of [HODL]( to zero. Ant: [diamond hands]( Retards An anagram for traders. Much more accurate in describing their speculative behavior. Smooth brain A moron. The more folds in your brain, the smarter you are. So if someone calls you a “smooth brain,” they’re alleging you’re not trading with a full deck. SPACs Special Purpose Acquisition Companies Investment vehicles specifically designed to legally evade SEC registration. Stonks Stocks, but with the requisite millennial misspelling. Of course, it originated in a Memeland, where spell check goes to die. Tendies Money, in the WallStreetBets parlance. Because all these kids really want to do with their winnings is buy some chicken tenders, apparently. UBI Universal basic income Another fiscal theory supported by unicorns and fairies that you can just print up some money, hand it to people, and never have to worry about paying it back. Instead of redistributing taxpayers’ funds, you redistribute printed money, where everyone pays via inflation. Of course, inflation is just a tax levied by a central bank instead of a government. Also, the idiotic belief that one day those recipients will “get back to work” instead of creating generation after generation of welfare cases. Wendy’s Many of the WallStreetBets kids are minimum wage earners. They may not work at Wendy’s, but these are the people they identify with. Not exactly aiming high, are they? YOLO You Only Live Once Formerly: a boomer rallying cry of earning nothing and buying everything while living through the greatest credit expansion in human history. 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