[Ikeon]

The 3% loans were used as collateral to leverage stocks. 3% loan making 5-7-10% is an easy do nothing payback. That's how wall street insiders made enough to afford 2 million dollar condos. They borrow 3 million and the money made them 5-7-10 million. They paid back the 3 and kept the difference only to do it again, borrow, profit, pay back. Repeat. With the market crashing, they are selling off to pay back the original loans.

icymi ,those selling short are the ones jumping for joy now that the market is down. Insiders make money off us daytrader idiots with the market up or down. They have computers that buy and sell faster than you.

[Sequoyah101]

I see that you are correct but that idea is so foreign to me I don’t even think of it in the calculus. I also keep not remembering the margin calls.

The insiders are way ahead of anyone else, the best an outsider can do is get lucky or be a fast follower. The retail investor has no choice.