Some Wall Street traders are betting against another massive rally in AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC.N) and other “meme” stocks this week through a type of wager in the options market that would limit their losses should retail investors behind the run-up …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders In a market flush with cash where traders are able to use social media to target heavily shorted symbols – incredible things can, and often do happen. AMC follows GME to the heavens as retail traders …
Bitcoin Slumps as Traders Brace for Volatile Long Weekend… (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin slumped 7% to near $35,500, recalling levels seen in the crypto meltdown last week as traders brace for fresh volatility over the long weekend. Prices across digital tokens …
Traders taking excessive risk in the bitcoin market being forced to sell when the price goes down were the bigger culprits for last week’s 30% drop in bitcoin prices, according to analysts. Bitcoin traders liquidated roughly $12 billion in levered …
via Zerohedge: Last week we noted that something unusual had happened in the equity market volatility complex. Specifically, VIX had collapsed at its fastest pace in history. From over 36 to almost a 10 handle a week ago, the Fed’s flip-flop had re-energized …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our research team believes the upside pricing potential of the US market could be under-estimated by global traders and investors. We’ve been pouring over the charts and data trying to substantiate our hypothesis with our proprietary …
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The realm of forex trading is a diverse, inter-connected marketplace that brings together thousands of individuals from all walks of life, with the sole purpose of partaking in trade worth trillions of dollars every day. In this vibrant and expansive …
via Reuters: Liquidity, or the ability to buy and sell currencies whenever needed with minimal market impact, is seen by currency traders as the biggest challenge for 2019, according to an annual client survey by JP Morgan published on Tuesday. The …
My students and I profit from making money in bear and bull markets alike. Both these markets contradict each other. However through my expertise and experience, more often than not we profit on our trades regardless of the type of …
It would be nice to write the market’s convulsions off to liquidity failures, or tariffs, the Federal Reserve or tech valuations. But for the people living through these swings on trading desks, none of those explanations does the trick — and …
by Dana Lyons Relative volume in inverse ETF’s hit an all-time high yesterday. Perhaps one of the reasons for the swiftness in the present stock market selloff is the fact that traders were totally unprepared for it. At least, their investment …
by Jesse Physical gold continues to come out of the funds and trusts. Silver shows no such withdrawals. When gold starts to rally again, that physical gold is going to have to be bought back, and probably at increasing prices …
Forex trading is widely perceived to be a high-risk activity. A leading market analysis website looked at 43 million trades and concluded that more than 50% of trades closed on a profit. That’s very encouraging, but the truth is, most …
by Adam Taggart Here’s a frightening series of stats I posted on the site three years ago (so you can bump the percentages up a bit): A new report by Bloomberg shows that the average Wall Street trader is 30 years …
sea of red around the world as US traders fret over tech margin calls pic.twitter.com/nO1yErIrsy — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 6, 2018 Insider selling jumps to the highest level of the year as execs fear a volatile September. Insider selling reached …
Whenever discussions turn towards a finance industry topic such as the stock market, you oftentimes hear the terms “investing” and “trading” erroneously used to mean the same thing. Most people cannot differentiate between the two. The reality is that there’s …
Some Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Other Millions https://www.wsj.com/graphics/cryptocurrency-schemes-generate-big-coin/?mod=e2tw … vía @WSJGraphics https://twitter.com/PablodelaMac/status/1026172330874155008 How does VISA processing time compare to Bitcoin? Well, Bitcoin does 3.3 transactions per second while VISA does 3,526. So, VISA is over …
The cryptocurrency industry offers a world of exiting opportunities because it promises exponential levels of profitability that traditional assets such as stocks can’t match. However, the cryptocurrency industry is not one large bed of roses—you’ll be bedeviled by gut-wrenching volatility …
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 …
Bond traders are starting to price in the possibility of Italy leaving the euro zone. https://t.co/JvC3eRWzwO The rise in 2-year Italian yields has been swift and fierce. pic.twitter.com/8CGUyrCF4x — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) May 29, 2018 I think it is becoming …
by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here. Financial Sense Newshour just spoke with Craig “Bullseye” Johnson from Piper Jaffray to get his outlook on the market. Johnson believes the corrective phase that started …
Do you see the forgetfulness that people seem to have? Every single time. “When the yield curve starts to flatten out, traders start wetting the bed” – David Quintieri There have been countless indicators which show in the previous cycles, …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The percentage of household assets invested in stocks fell from almost 40% in 1969 to a mere 13% in 1982, after thirteen years of grinding losses. The conventional wisdom of financial advisors–to …
by Dana Lyons After receiving very little interest in over a year, volume in inverse ETF’s spiked to near record levels yesterday. Over the past several weeks, we noticed that investor sentiment had relieved a fair amount of its short-term frothy …
We noted earlier that US equity futures were extending losses after the close, but the real panic action is in the volatility complex. Putting today’s VIX move in context, this is among the biggest ever… And it appears Morgan Stanley was right …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_iZtxTZhgk BREAKING: Bank Traders Arrested! http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0…
In a violent, stop-hunting rollercoaster session, the yen rose, then fell, then rose again, with the USDJPY trading at session lows at 6am ET after the BOJ first released language that was deemed more hawkish than expected, with the central …
China Warns on Debt, But Bond Buyers Shrug National policy makers nowadays have prioritized reducing risk in the financial system, and part of that involves telling local authorities to let LGFVs stand on their own, without the backing of the …
Cracks Emerge in Corporate Debt Confidence Investors are starting to get worried about the $7.2 trillion U.S. investment-grade bond market. Yes, they are still pouring money into this debt and accepting near-record low yields to own it. But look a …