Posted on 01/28/2021 2:29:19 AM PST by Reverend Wright
(Reuters) - The battle between small-time traders and hedge funds that has shaken U.S. and European stock markets moved into Asia on Thursday, with surges in several Australian companies squeezing another batch of financial institutions that have bet on the stocks falling.
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“Wall Street and Soros can short these companies with impunity and bankrupt companies and countries without any repercussions at all but if smaller investors fight back, THEN there is a problem?”
Exactly.
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No, you don't want to understand. The mechanism for that is simply sell or don't buy. Duh....
Let me get this straight: Day traders hand Hedge Funds their a$$, and they’re pissed and want a probe?
I guess they missed 2008. I’m still waiting for someone to go to jail over that one.
And you say I don’t wan to understand.
Irony dies.
“Beeks. Where the hell is Beeks???”
They Shorted 140% of the Stock available?? Naked Shorts were supposed to be ILLEGAL, Have they been ARRESTED and JAILED YET for this Financial Fraud??
That’s what I thought, stick it to them, make them homeless just like they do when they destroy companies for profit.
So what is the difference?
I don’t understand why they are crying about it?
The problem is that the "wrong" people are losing a lot of money.
I think it’s funny that these little guys are squeezing the big hedge fund investors. It’s not like the hedge fund investors are not possibly conspiring to do the same things when they target companies by shorting their stock. Seems like the kettle is calling the pot black.
If brokerage house “loans” you stocks ( shorts the stock ) that they really don’t have in inventory then this fraud plain and simple. Criminal offense.
The problem with “paper profits” is that you have to sell at some point to realize them.
There are lots of folks who have significant gains in their accounts. They cannot by a can of Coke with that.
As soon as the price moves lower and the herd starts to move....its going to crash. And its going to be spectacular.
When that happens, the hedge fund folks are going to make billions selling puts.
What they did was made Illegal in 2008 I thought, pretty sure. ARREST and PROSECUTE
There are two ways to do it.
You can sell short—borrowing the stock and selling it. Your losses can be infinite. AND you have to pay interest on the sale.
The second way is to sell puts. This is the promissory note route. It has a time frame on it. The value degrades every day.
When this turns, it will make the people who sold short at the top—and who held on for dear life—billions of dollars.
They should issue a few million new shares. It will give them a capital infusion and it would give the hedgies a way to get out.
The ONLY people who will get out of this unscathed are the GME management who should be exercising their $2 options by the boatload.
Crowdsourced investing rapes hedge funds!
Popcorn! It’s early in the day, but day drinking is now a thing ....
Watch the figurative (Hi, Fibbers!) bullets fly from a safe distance. Great show!
Totalitarian Joe now closing door on grouping “too small to care” investors in the financial markets
Totalitarian Joe not moving on grouping leftist boycotters trying to take down other businesses.
Oh yes. And the ‘white supremacy’ chestnut has already been trotted out.
Exactly. If the Market Makers, a formal term BTW, lose money the SEC wants to know why. If they and many other commit a crime with naked shorting and hurt companies, the SEC doesn’t care at all.
Because the Bidens of the world are invested in hedge funds that are *guaranteed* to deliver 100%+ returns.
And if that kind of trillion dillar pork is at risk, watch for the political power that crushes all opposition.
if I understand correctly, the calls are due Friday i.e. the short-sellers have to make good on the borrowed shares.
It apparently is not a problem when wall street manipulates the market but it is when individual investors make a market
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