Posted on 01/30/2021 8:43:32 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
...Citron was one of the Wall Street firms with a significant “short” position in GameStop, meaning his investment would have benefitted by a collapse of GameStop’s stock price, but Citron closed out its short position this week among the frenzy of buying and selling that has had the price move in wild gyrations between $100 and $500 a share. Earlier in the week, Left made a comment in the media that GameStop’s share price would eventually crash back down to $20 share — but it seems like he couldn’t afford to wait for that to happen and has taken a loss on his position in closing it out.
But today comes the announcement from Left that Citron will no longer be publishing its newsletter on targets for short investors. Citron will now be focusing on “long” investment opportunities — promoting the buying of shares of companies that Citron believes will go higher in the weeks and months ahead.
This is a bigger concession than one might imagine. A noted “short” investor is basically conceding that the “jig is up.” It is a recognition that a meaningful short position now has exposure to coordinated action by retail investors that will cost the short seller massive amounts of money over a very short period of time in circumstances where it is unlikely that the short investor can mitigate or avoid the loss....
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On to the next company killing hedgehouse!
Hunting and financially targeting short sellers is apparently a Hot new Video Game.
I’m not so sure they closed out 100% of their short. Not that it matters to me. I just don’t believe so much in the media nowadays.
Working from my High School finance 101 class, selling stock is a way for a company to raise capitol. People buy stock with the expectation that it will go higher.
Shorting a stock turns the market into a casino. What possible good (other than the short sellers making money) comes from short selling?
the only good short seller is the one who loses everrything and has to hold up a ‘will work for food’ sign.
Criminal parasites.
- Do the research and find potentially profitable firms with useful products or services.
I recall that somewhere in the early 2000s they did away with “the uptick rule”. And this made it easier to short stocks.
Can someone more savvy than me explain that?
I leave this to others to explain, such as Freepers with a degree or work experience in Finance.
No more shorts?
You know, most of these fund managers are incapable of telling the truth. In my experience, anyway.
Increased liquidity. Prevention of a bubble. Discovery of fraud.
Nah...I don’t buy it. This is disinformation. They will continue because there is too much money in it. George Soros is not going to stop the activity that made him a Billionaire. They will learn from this and operate in a much more covert manner, while paying politicians to rig the game in their favor so the little guy cannot do this again.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of vultures.
Sometimes the predator becomes the prey.
Well, theoretically you could say that if a company is being shorted, it is because their failure in the market seems inevitable and apparent, and the shorters are just accelerating their failure, and freeing up the investments in that company to be invested in other companies more likely to succeed.
But that’s just theoretically, since nobody knows whether the company will actually fail or not if the short didn’t crush the life out of it, and the money the shorters make is probably more likely to be used to cause other companies to fail than it is to be reinvested in other ways.
Naked shorts are fraud. It’s not capitalism!!
Today with stocks traded in decimals, not 1/8s and 1/4 points, the up tick is virtually meaningless. Also, in the old days, many trades went through the specialist on the floor. Not so much today. This event has some hidden messages. With so much money sloshing about together with few firms paying any dividends, the returns on stocks are being pushed toward capital gains. Fine, but when they get to the point where their PEs are in the hundreds or thousands, the prices are ridicules. A huge bubble, kind of like the tulip bulb fiasco long ago in Holland. On paper COB friday, GME was worth 13 Billion. A trifle on Wall Street in total but the stock is not worth 13 Billion. It is a retail stock, nothing more. When the prices break, those on margin will get wiped out. Extend that example over the entire market it is a disaster waiting and each day with grossly inflated prices, it gets more dangerous.
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