The stock market loves to screw people. The best way to screw the greatest number of people in TSLA is exploding higher in a brutal short-squeeze right before collapsing into bankruptcy. via investopedia: Tesla Inc. (TSLA), the most-bet-against stock in the …
by goldsilver Interview excerpt (full audio interview embedded below): “Every time we’ve had a rally in the last 10 years, ever since J.P. Morgan took over the investment bank Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan has added aggressively to its paper short division …
by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. History is full of trade wars. In the majority of cases, the consequences are mostly economic – trade barriers are enacted, and then retaliatory measures are used to …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent news that hemp will likely be legalized in 2018 as Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and a few other senators have pushed for legalization within a larger farm bill which has now passed the senate …
from Zero Hedge A quick glance at the stock market – particularly big-tech – and once can quickly discern that “something’s up.” Every dip is met by a wall of buying, ramping the market ever higher, and ever more ignorant of …
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via Daily Reckoning: Think of the Fed and its interference in the markets as a wanderer in the desert, who despite carrying enough water, can’t help himself from wading into the glorious, shimmering, pristine pool he sees over there in …
via Real Investment Advice: “There are benefits of where the dollar is and there are costs of where the dollar is,” Mnuchin said during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “It’s not a shift in …
Ouch. Investors betting against Tesla lost more than $1 billion Wednesday, according to estimates from financial technology firm S3 Partners. Tesla bears have lost nearly $5 billion in mark-to-market losses since 2016, S3 finds. The electric car maker is one …
via Reuters: Short sellers and derivatives traders are betting Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) share price recovery will prove temporary, with data suggesting short interest in the German lender is the highest of any global bank. Germany’s largest bank saw its shares slump …
Jim Chanos talks with CNBC about shorting tesla He says that: “for most short positions you earn income” You receive the financing rate when you short an index (so you sell it above the index price) On something like tesla …
by Gordon Long of GordonTLong Combining narration with flow charts, Gordon is able to explain not just what the market cycle are, but how market cycles are affecting not just the markets but also society. From the ultra long 200+ year cycles, to …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Someone or some entity – likely a hedge fund – bought 4500 September $35-strike puts on XHB on Thursday last week when XHB was trading just above $39. That’s a $225,000 speculative bet that the XHB …
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Bank has profitability issues, may need more capital From Peter Vercoe and Yvonne Man at Bloomberg: Steve Eisman, the Neuberger Berman Group money manager who famously predicted the collapse of subprime mortgages before the 2008 financial crisis, recommended shorting Deutsche Bank AG shares. …
Short-seller Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday that he’s betting against health-care stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax. “I’m betting these companies might be worth nothing,” the founder and president of Kynikos Associates told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Shares of Envision Healthcare …
Chanos: We’re the least short on China we’ve been in eight years from CNBC. Widely followed short-seller Jim Chanos, Kynikos Associates founder, shares his position on China.
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders The US majors are all nearly 1% higher for the day with the NASDAQ up over 2.25%. Our analysis of the markets was DEAD ON. We called the 2678 level on the ES as a key resistance level …
by John Rubino Silver’s popping today. Which is what people following the futures market action have been expecting for several months now. Speculators – usually wrong at big turning points and almost always at least slightly net long silver – …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Overstock’s attempt to capitalize on “blockchain mania” appears to have fallen flat. The SEC is investigating it ICO fund-raising scheme and a class-action lawsuit has been filed in connection with the deal. OSTK finally announced today …
by Chris Black If you were not paying attention, the White House threatened on Tuesday to slap tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, which will affect 1300 categories of products. Chinese imports that will suffer from 25 …
by SpontaneousDisorder Short term (initial economic crisis) The US stock market has started its largest bear market ever lasting 2-5 years. A bull market in all interest rates will start (after perhaps an initial flight to quality) A debt crisis much …
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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Municipal bonds might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sexy investment. They don’t typically command news headlines like the stock market or bitcoin. That doesn’t …
by John Rubino Now that equities are behaving the way they should have since, oh, 2013 – volatile with a pronounced down bias – everyone is wondering how far the crazy will go before the Fed starts buying the S&P …
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The banking system is a disaster. It’s all coming down when the central bankers decide to pull the plug. Do you think the Fed and other central banks are responsible for stock market fluctuations? Interbank lending got crushed. But don’t …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A very crowded trade goes begging for a contrarian reaction. The 10-year Treasury yield closed on Monday at 2.86% the highest since January 16, 2014, after briefly kissing 2.89% during the day. At the moment, it …
Trader Who Called Last Week’s ‘Volocaust’ Says “This Is Just An Appetizer” Professionals investors are still digesting the implications of last week’s explosion of volatility, while some retail traders are struggling to cope with the loss of years’ worth of work. …
