Category Archives: short
Insider Trading and Financial Anomalies Surrounding the Las Vegas Attack
Authored by Kip Harriage of VRAletter.com | October 7, 2017 — Note: With this report, I make no claim to specific knowledge of any wrongdoing or improprieties. Instead, this report includes trading patterns, news releases and/or public record SEC filings. We will examine the share price movements of two gun manufacturers (American Outdoor Brands and […]
God is Dead
From the Slope of Hope blog: That’s something I’ve got in common with Private Pyle: he wants to be different. For whatever reason, I’m a contrarian to the core. Indeed, one of the appeals of messing around with personal computers back in 1980 was that practically nobody else was doing it (in case you hadn’t […]
Soros’ Worst Trade
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, There is this Canadian rock star who retired a few years back and took up hosting an afternoon drive-home radio show on a local Toronto station. Sometimes his program includes a segment called, “Damn! I wish I wrote that.” This ex-rock star will play a famous […]
Dismal Chinese Trade Data Sparks Panic-Buying In US Stocks
Because nothing says 'panic-buy' stocks like the worst Chinese trade data of the year. Something 'odd' ocurred at 0943ET. Stocks were lower and VIX higher, when suddenly… Nasdaq was panic-bid… VIX was monkey-hammered… And "Most Shorted" Stocks were squeezed higher… Of course, this week does line up for a melt-up…
Schwab: “New Accounts Are At Levels We Have Not Seen Since The Dot Com Bubble” As Millennials Rush Into Stocks
We can now officially close the book on the “cash on the sidelines.” One week ago, we reported that in the latest weekly survey of Bank of America high net worth clients, the cash allocation had fallen to an all time low of just 10.4%, below the previous record low of 11% in April 2007 […]
Why A Dollar Rebound May Be Imminent Even As Crash Insurance Costs Hit Nosebleed Levels
Is the bottom in for the dollar yet? After hitting a 14 month low, the Bloomberg Dollar Index saw a modest gain of 0.1% as markets awaited this week’s FOMC meeting and kept a wary eye on Capitol Hill hearings which involve close members of the Trump administration. Quoted by Bloomberg, traders described flows as […]
These Are The 10 Most Crowded Long And Short Trades According To UBS
In this market where fundamentals long ago ceased to matter, and where positioning remains one of the few remaining sources of alpha, investors have been focusing on lists showing the most over and under-owned stocks. However, contrary to the narrative that the most heavily owned stocks outperform the most shorted, or underowned ones, and vice […]