It’s margin call day everywhere, wow
Guess where is it going now pic.twitter.com/MyIKI8Qo8O — A.Urban (@AlessioUrban) March 24, 2020 BREAKING – Delta Airlines credit rating cut to junk by S&P (CNBC) — Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) March … Read more
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Margin Call: You Were Warned Of The Risk
by Lance Roberts I have been slammed with emails over the last couple of days asking the following questions: “What just happened to my bonds?” “What happened to my gold … Read more
Some big institution out there is getting margin called. Dealers are telling me they badly want the $1T in repos, but can’t take it.
Most important tweet of the day. Some big institution out there is getting margin called. The notional amount of outstanding derivative exposures out there is insane, to say the least. … Read more
I just woke up literally to a margin call from risk management
by Adderalin Account: i.imgur.com/TPFvsQ6.jpg Was a $400k equity portfolio margin position that I bought $3.2m total of UPRO and TMF on, two 3x leveraged ETFs. 55% UPRO 45% TMF. I just … Read more
S&P 500 Reports Yoy Decline In Net Profit Margin For 4Th Straight Quarter
via factset For the fourth quarter, the S&P 500 is reporting a year-over-year decline in earnings of -2.1%, but year-over-year growth in revenues of 2.7%. Given the dichotomy in growth between … Read more
SPX currently at the largest divergence in 22 years between margin debt peaking and SPX. Nearly 2 years since margin debt peaked, yet SPX continues powering higher.
by Power80770M Full discussion here. There was also a pretty big divergence in 2015, back when the economy had a mini recession. Of course the Fed also pumped the market aggressively in … Read more
Etrade’s explanation of my margin not being margin because I’m making money but actually I owe Etrade but I actually don’t but I do because I do
by VbaHelpTutorial This is one year from the date when E*TRADE sold off my Amazon 4x margin shares at $1440 2 weeks before Amazon raised 15%. I rode it down … Read more
Margin Debt vs $SPX
Margin Debt vs $SPX (chart via @yardeni) pic.twitter.com/5kbh8AYHVn — 🔴 I. Vodenitcharov CFA CMT (@iv_technicals) November 13, 2019
Student levers up 500x on Robin Hood to hit $1.7M in margin from $3k ‘invested’
I wonder when this becomes a systemic risk or when the SEC wakes up via Reddit: After realizing I only had a few thousand dollars to gamble, I decided why … Read more
WSB traders uses Robinhood Margin exploit to buy a $1,000,000+ position from $4K in actual funds
www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/drqaro/robinhood_free_money_cheat_works_pretty_well_1/ The boys are back at it so it turns out when selling covered calls and if you buy the shares the stock isn’t subtracted from the buying power. … Read more
Buybacks and Earnings to Drop 25% This Year, Corp Profit Margin Contraction Longest Since WWII…
Weaker earnings this year have reduced the expected level of buybacks to a pace of $750b, a reduction of 25% from last year pic.twitter.com/RLoq6UkPj2SPX Earnings are correlated to the 10y3m … Read more
Margin Debt Is Declining. Are The Bulls In The Clear?
by Lance Roberts In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by … Read more
Ted Butler: Big Losses & Margin Calls Piling Up for Banks That Are Short Silver
by Chris Marcus via Arcadia Economics Last week the Department of Justice not only charged several JP Morgan traders with manipulating the market, but even invoked the RICO act, which is traditionally reserved … Read more
This is the longest decline from the cycle peak in the aggregate profit margin.
Interestingly this is the longest decline from the cycle peak in the aggregate profit margin. 4 and a half years of almost linear drop but been falling for 7 years! … Read more
Meet this guy who went full autist without even knowing it, pressed a few buttons and ended up on a margin call close to 600k.
by alchemicboss Someone wrote 20 puts on SPY at 296 at some unknown time in the past. They collected a premium for this action. Because the strike price is … Read more
FLASHBACK: Obama Was Losing to ‘Republican Candidate’ by a Significant Margin a Year Before He Was Reelected.
via pjmedia: Recent polling on the presidential race of 2020 seems to show President Trump in a very poor position to win reelection. A Fox News national poll and battleground surveys … Read more