Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days

LONDON (Reuters) – Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed on Tuesday. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop-amc-short-sellers-sit-110554197.html

Dr Mike Burry (The Big Short) discloses a $534 million put option position in $TSLA today, his biggest position. Wow!

https://twitter.com/realwillmeade/status/1394357154908418052 Wall St lower w/Tech underperform as inflation unease lingers. Nasdaq 100 dropped 0.6% w/Tesla down 2.4% pic.twitter.com/M0ALGstaOv — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) May 17, 2021 $vix again over 20 pic.twitter.com/6eBG5pLo6S — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) May 17, 2021 Michael Burry of …

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Bonds vs Stocks and Short Term Returns: Now is not the Time to Panic

by Kaawumba Robert Shiller has discovered a backward looking metric, which he calls Excess CAPE Yield (ECY), that shows a correlation with future returns. He discusses it in a blog post (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/making-sense-of-soaring-stock-prices-by-robert-j-shiller-et-al-2020-11), but doesn’t go into that much detail. He does …

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Short Sellers Boost Bets Against SPACs

Short Sellers Boost Bets Against SPACs SPAC boom skeptics are betting against deals including Social Finance, Lucid and Lordstown Motorshttps://t.co/vqSd7t1g7Z #lbo #HF #PrivateEquity #pe #mergers #acquisition #deals @ennovance #Hedgefunds https://t.co/azzsNSVX7q pic.twitter.com/msGCjyjdey — Mo Hossain (@MoHossain) March 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1371344830433955842 https://twitter.com/macro_daily/status/1371335902803464198

NICK SHORT: The Media, Fusion GPS, and the FBI.

via politicallyshort: When the FBI was in contact with Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who compiled his infamous dossier smearing then candidate Donald J. Trump, was it aware that his employer, Fusion GPS, was allegedly simultaneously working as an unregistered agent for Russian …

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Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! VIX short positioning by speculators is more extreme than it was just prior to the market selloff in Q4 2018.

Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! Previous inflow extremes also preceded significant market selloffs. Record bullishness at near record valuations can never a good sign. Credits to @jessefelder pic.twitter.com/fSpEIEVr20 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 1, 2019 …

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