Category Archives: short
Someone Just Made $60 Million Betting That The Crowd Is Wrong
Over the weekend we warned that just as everyone was convinced that the yield curve can only flatten from here, and was positioned massively on the long side of the 30Y future, the opposite was about to happen, and in a tweet highlighting the record net spec long positioning in 30Y futures, we said “here […]
Bloomberg Pronounces The Early Death Of The Traditional Long-Short Hedge Fund Model
Bloomberg has apparently just taken it upon itself to pronounce the early, unceremonious demise of the traditional Long/Short Hedge Fund model after seemingly declaring that stocks will continue to march higher in perpetuity, with minimal volatility, thus rendering traditional financial analysis and stock picking about as obsolete as a Motorola pager from 1982. Of course, […]
Wonder Who Was Buying Yesterday’s Market Breakout? Here’s The Answer
Wonder who was buying the euphoria blow-off top stock market breakout yesterday? One clear answer, according to Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Research, is answer is “Mom and Pop”. Nick looked at the publicly available trade data on Fidelity’s retail website and found net buy orders across both single stocks (mostly tech) and ETFs. And, no […]
Stocks Hit Record Highs As Tax Hype Trumps Nuclear Doomsday Fears
Wholesale inventories plunge and Kim shoots off some missiles… but Powell panders to TBTF banks and GOP pushes tax bill = so buy mortimer buy… Overnight saw The National Team step in and save China… But today's market action was dominated by the usual opening idiocy, tax-reform headlines, Jerome Powell comments, and North […]
Mauldin: “Investors Ignore What May Be The Biggest Policy Error In History”
Submitted by John Mauldin My good friend Peter Boockvar recently shared a chart with me. The University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers have been tracking consumers and their expectations about the direction of the stock market over the next year. We are now at an all-time high in the expectation that the stock market will […]
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 […]