{"id":34529,"date":"2021-10-23T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34529"},"modified":"2021-10-23T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T21:23:44","slug":"ill-be-staying-away-from-this-honey-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/23\/ill-be-staying-away-from-this-honey-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Be Staying Away From This Honey Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday something obscure that goes under the stock symbol <strong>DWAC<\/strong> had a bit of a jump. Here&#8217;s its <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/dwac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five day price chart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34530\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=800%2C370&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?w=1430&amp;ssl=1 1430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=1024%2C474&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=768%2C356&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=150%2C69&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-23-16.11.17-finance.yahoo_.com-47dba23fb72a.png?resize=250%2C116&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trading in Trump-linked SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) was halted after shares soared following the announcement of former\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u2019s new social media network, Truth\u00a0Social.<\/p>\n<p>Digital World Acquisition\u2019s stock was the most actively traded stock on Fidelity, as well as the consolidated tape of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq listings, CNBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/21\/trump-linked-spac-shares-soar-more-than-40percent-on-news-of-social-media-deal.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s stock skyrocketed more than 130 percent before trading was halted for a second time on Thursday, the outlet reported. At one point, the stock surged by up to 160 percent.<\/p>\n<p>More than 260 million shares of DWAC had been traded by midday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/577712-trump-announces-new-social-media-network-called-truth\">announced the launch<\/a>\u00a0of Truth Social on Wednesday night, saying it would \u201cstand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/other\/577815-trading-in-trump-linked-spac-halted-as-shares-soar-on-social-media-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Hill<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big words. From a big liar. And for that reason I don&#8217;t plan to put a penny anywhere near this stock. I probably won&#8217;t even pay attention to it. Why? In a phrase, a history of failure. As tempting as big moves can be for investors, both shorts and longs, the fact is that <em>failure<\/em> and <em>lying<\/em> make it damn near impossible to predict what is hiding behind any statement issued by Trump and his proxies.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, anyone with enough leverage could be manipulating its price in an attempt to get the fraud-based profit making rolling.<\/p>\n<p>So this statement &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The planned merger values TMTG at an initial $875 million, with the potential of $825 million in additional earnout for a cumulative valuation of $1.7 billion, the press release said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; sounds like simple madness to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday something obscure that goes under the stock symbol DWAC had a bit of a jump. Here&#8217;s its five day price chart: What&#8217;s going on? Trading in Trump-linked SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) was halted after shares soared following the announcement of former\u00a0President Trump\u2019s new social media network, Truth\u00a0Social. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/23\/ill-be-staying-away-from-this-honey-pot\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-34529","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\/34529","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=34529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34531,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions\/34531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}