Post Fed Speech, Fear Runs Rampant, Stocks Drop Thursday – $SPLK $VIX Rise!

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Memes stock GameStop Corp. (GME) closed at $17.02, -2.85% as the shorts won their ongoing daily battle today.

Shares of AMC, the largest movie exhibition company in the United States, the largest in Europe and the largest throughout the world with approximately 950 theaters and 10,500 screens across the globe, closed today at $7.70, -5.64%.  

VP WATCHLIST UPDATES 

1. “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.” – Frank Lloyd Wright 
2. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
3. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
4. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
5. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
6. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
7. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
8. “Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
10. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” – Aristotle
11. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
13. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
14. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
15. To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao Tzu
16. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne
17. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
18. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
19. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” – John Paul Jones
21. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
23. “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
24. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
25. “We boil at different degrees.” – Clint Eastwood
26. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
27. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
28. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
29. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt
30. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
31. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
32. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
33. “We live in a rainbow of chaos.” – Paul Cezanne
34. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
35. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
36. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings
37. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
38. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
39. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
40. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”– Plato
41. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
42. “Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” – William Shakespeare
43. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
45. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville
46. “Childhood is a short season” – Helen Hayes
47. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
48. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer
49. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
50. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
51. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
52. “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” – Sophocles
53. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
54. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
55. “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms
56. “Either move or be moved.” – Ezra Pound
57. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
58. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
59. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” – Harry S Truman
60. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” – Alexander the Great
61. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon“
62. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
63. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclit
64. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” – Lydia M. Child
65. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S Truman
66. “If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.” – John Galsworthy
67. “Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.” – Arnold Bennett
68. “There is always risk involved. You can’t be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.” – Cristina Kirchner
69. “I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” – Confucius
70. “He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.” – Elbert Hubbard
71. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
72. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir
73. “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” – Charles Dickens
74. “Perfection is the child of time.” – Joseph Hall
75. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
76. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
77. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” – Thomas Jefferson
78. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl
79. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
80. “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – Booth Tarkington
81. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
82. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
83. “The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold
84. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
85. “The more things change, the more they are the same.” – Alphonse Karr
86. “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
87. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
88. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
89. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
90. “You exist only in what you do.” – Federico Fellini
91. “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” – Bobby Knight
92. “The true art of memory is the art of attention.” – Samuel Johnson
93. The secret of happiness is something to do.” – John Burroughs
94. “A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
95. “To live is to think.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
96. “The sea hath fish for every man.” – William Camden
97. “What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” – Henry David Thoreau
98. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” – Rose Kennedy
99. “No one can figure out your worth but you.” – Pearl Bailey
100. “Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” – Nelson Mandela
101. “When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.” – Ellen Key
102. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” – Voltaire
103. “Time passes irrevocably.” – Virgil
104. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
105. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
106. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
107. “You begin with the possibilities of the material.” – Robert Rauschenberg
108. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
109. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
110. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
111. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” – James Stephens
112. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
113. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
114. “Every failure is a step to success.” – William Whewell
115. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi
116. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
117. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips
118. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
119. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
120. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
121. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
122. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
123. “You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.” – Flip Wilson
124. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
125. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
126. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
127. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
128. “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
129. “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” – Elie Wiesel
130. “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
131. “Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” – Washington Irving
132. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
133. “If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.” – Rick Warren
134. “Dream in a pragmatic way.” – Aldous Huxley
135. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miro
136. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” – Corrie Ten Boom
137. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
138. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
139. “I think about my work every minute of the day.” – Jeff Koons
140. “I restore myself when I’m alone.” –  Marilyn Monroe
141. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
142. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
143. “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
144. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
145. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
146. “A good beginning makes a good end.” – Louis L’Amour
147. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
148. “One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” – Thomas Fuller
149. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
150. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
151. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
152. “The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” – Richard L. Evans
153. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
154. “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.” – B. C. Forbes
155. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius
156. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
157. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
158. “It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” – Henry James”It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.” – Will Rogers
159. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
160. “Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
161. “Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” – T. S. Eliot
162. “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan
163. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere
164. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt
165. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
166. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
167. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
168. “Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.” – Charles de Gaulle
169. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
170. “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
171. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – George Eliot
172. The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
173. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
174. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
175. “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
176. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
177. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
178. “The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne
179. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
180. “Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
181. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
182. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
183. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
184. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
185. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
186. “Won’t be long before we view gasoline cars the same way we view steam engines today.” – Elon Musk
187. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller
188. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
189. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
190. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
191. “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
192. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
193. “All money is a matter of belief.” – Adam Smith
194. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
195. “Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.” – Ben Bernanke
196. “I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney
197. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
198. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
199. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
200. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
201. “Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.” – Walter Scott
202. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead
203. “When one must, one can.” – Charlotte Whitton
204. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
205. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
206. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
207. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” – Francis of Assisi
208. “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
209. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
210. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
211. “Hope is but the dream of those who wake.” – Matthew Prior
212. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul
213. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
214. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
215. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
216. “History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
217. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
218. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
219. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
220. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
221. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
222. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
223. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
224. “Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.” – James Thurber
225. “If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” – Hal Borland
226. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
227. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu
228. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
229. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk
230. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake
231. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
232. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
233. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
234. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles
235. “The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” – Carl von Clausewitz
236. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
237. “I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.” – Leni Riefenstahl
238. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
239. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
240. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
241. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton
242. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
243. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
244. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus
245. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
246. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
247. “Anything simple always interests me.” – David Hockney
248. “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
249. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
250. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” – Aldous Huxley
251. “View health as an investment, not an expense.” – John Quelch