{"id":32203,"date":"2021-02-18T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32203"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:58:56","slug":"the-market-seems-jumpy-ctd-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/18\/the-market-seems-jumpy-ctd-26\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market Seems Jumpy, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The aftermath of the Gamestop<\/em><\/strong> incident<\/a> in the market may not be shortlived, if this WaPo\/Bloomberg<\/strong> article<\/a> is to be believed. I found this particularly interesting, even if I don’t pretend to do short-selling:<\/p>\n

Short sellers — funds that borrow a stock and sell it, betting that the price will have gone down by the time they have to buy it to give it back — have become the target. Such firms usually would unveil a new position to great fanfare, expecting to cast a cloud over the company\u2019s shares. The scrum this year over GameStop — in which retail traders went head-to-head with short-selling firm Citron Research — suggests that could become a thing of the past, and in fact, Citron\u2019s Andrew Left announced on Jan. 29 that the firm will no longer publish short selling research. A hedge fund or short-seller advertising a bet against a stock might now be the equivalent of waving a red flag to r\/wallstreetbets\u2019 herd of bulls: a signal to charge in with call options and force a move higher. The predators have turned prey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What catches my eye and my thought is false advertising by firms that they’re taking short positions, when their position is actually long. It could be as simple as a whisper campaign, nothing official but definitely there. Wave the red flag, ride the share price up, then get off. It’s a bit of a reverse of the old pump ‘n dump, but only executable by reputable, but perhaps disliked, firms.<\/p>\n

And now I’m seeing a market niche for marketeers striving to make your investment firm just a little bit disliked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aftermath of the Gamestop incident in the market may not be shortlived, if this WaPo\/Bloomberg article is to be believed. I found this particularly interesting, even if I don’t pretend to do short-selling: Short sellers — funds that borrow a stock and sell it, betting that the price will \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32204,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32203\/revisions\/32204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}