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Feel like the platforms are helping out hedge funds by making it challenging to put more pressure on the short squeeze before Friday. Sounds a bit like a carte

Feel like the platforms are helping out hedge funds by making it challenging to put more pressure on the short squeeze before Friday. Sounds a bit like a cartel in co-ordinating activity under the guise of "reducing risk exposure" - shepherded on by the Financial media. Trade itself is no longer on technical merits (except those in early) but have you looked at valuations across the stock market these days -- everything is off given pandemic. So that line of reasoning by all the financial talking heads just proves they don't understand the moment. It's pretty reckless behavior for sure but its more about rage and control then anything imho.

bluecalm 6y ago
That everything is off is just your assessment which a lot of people disagree with. When it's difficult to do business and make better use of the money then equites are more attractive place to keep your money. This is especially true with a lot of additional money supply and low interest rates. It makes perfect sense to me why we had the run we had during the pandemic. Anything else would be a big surprise.
- boringg 6y ago
  Right ... that works until you have decide to move your money out of equities. At which point it is a race to the exit. Once the next rotation happens don't get caught being flat footed. And I disagree - I do think everything is off (not just the markets being highly volatile). With many people making record money this year and human suffering being at the highest levels and considerable outrage everywhere, it feels like something is breaking down in society (at least North America). There is something very amiss right now, which I am sure we will be able to determine with the benefit of hindsight. Hopefully we can pick up and move on quickly post pandemic.
  - bluecalm 6y ago
    I am not attaching a judgement to my assessment. It's just an observation that equites are worth more when money supply increase and new business opportunities are difficult to come by. If you have a box producing 4k usd per year people may want to pay around 100k for it on normal times but when you can't find any other investments and the government is pumping money into the economy then suddenly the box becomes way more valuable. It's after all better to buy it for 150k even if it produces 3k instead of 4k than to just your money in the bedroom mattress. This same mechanism that causes stocks to rally every time a big player (EU or US) announces another QE round

bluecalm 6y ago

That everything is off is just your assessment which a lot of people disagree with. When it's difficult to do business and make better use of the money then equites are more attractive place to keep your money. This is especially true with a lot of additional money supply and low interest rates. It makes perfect sense to me why we had the run we had during the pandemic. Anything else would be a big surprise.

boringg 6y ago
Right ... that works until you have decide to move your money out of equities. At which point it is a race to the exit. Once the next rotation happens don't get caught being flat footed. And I disagree - I do think everything is off (not just the markets being highly volatile). With many people making record money this year and human suffering being at the highest levels and considerable outrage everywhere, it feels like something is breaking down in society (at least North America). There is something very amiss right now, which I am sure we will be able to determine with the benefit of hindsight. Hopefully we can pick up and move on quickly post pandemic.
- bluecalm 6y ago
  I am not attaching a judgement to my assessment. It's just an observation that equites are worth more when money supply increase and new business opportunities are difficult to come by. If you have a box producing 4k usd per year people may want to pay around 100k for it on normal times but when you can't find any other investments and the government is pumping money into the economy then suddenly the box becomes way more valuable. It's after all better to buy it for 150k even if it produces 3k instead of 4k than to just your money in the bedroom mattress. This same mechanism that causes stocks to rally every time a big player (EU or US) announces another QE round