What do you think? Here is the article: Gundlach warns record bond speculation could cause big move in interest rates – http://cnbc.com/id/105405803 Here is a summary of my current positioning and trades. Closed Positions Today Short XOP Puts September-21st-40 Strike Shorted …
HMM: Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target. Of the 5,000 Model 3s that contributed to Tesla’s end of June manufacturing target, about 4,300 of them required rework, according to internal documents viewed by Business …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I felt compelled to clarify the commentary out “there” discussing the non-commercial short position in gold. An interviewee on one of the widely viewed precious metals and economic websites referenced the record “speculator” short position in …
The young boy in this video, Omran Daqneesh was not seriously injured, and has made a full recovery, as the video below shows. The White Helmet operatives took this child, without his parent’s consent and filmed him, rather than provide …
by Sporz Cash CDO Were these individuals betting against the entirety of the bonds, or only the lower tranches? They bet against upper tranches too, because those were also too highly rated. In fact often with CDOs you can’t bet against …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter CEO goes nuts, spaghetti-code algos & consensually hallucinating humans lap it up. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” tweeted Tesla CEO Elon Musk this morning. Anyone can tweet anything, as we have seen. Even Musk. Two …
via zerohedge: Many investors have said ‘it’s different this time’ about Tech stocks over the last few years, and so far they’ve been right – despite numerous warning signs of Tech, growth, and momentum being crowded, these stocks have continued to go …
"Short-term US Treasury Yields enter the week at their highest levels in 10 years…," h/t @charliebilello pic.twitter.com/MpokXx4xzU — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 30, 2018 "Eurozone slowdown starts to appear in business and consumer surveys," @dlacalle_IA pic.twitter.com/XmwhCil6e4 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 31, …
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 …
