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Redditors gave Wall Street traders an absolute pasting

Taking your last point - you stated above that people in these companies are not evil and don’t want to screw the little people. That sort of behaviour sounds pretty shitty and designed to make money whatever the consequences to others?
Screwing the little people might be a side effect but it’s not why they do it. Capitalists aren’t necessarily inherently evil.
Let's fuck the shorts and get rich artificially inflating a worthless stock.
If they wanted to get rich they wouldn’t still be holding. I think you’ve misunderstood their purpose if you think they’re trying to make money.
 

Screwing the little people might be a side effect but it’s not why they do it. Capitalists aren’t necessarily inherently evil.

If they wanted to get rich they wouldn’t still be holding. I think you’ve misunderstood their purpose if you think they’re trying to make money.
No I know. Sticking it to the man. Whilst govong the man money.
 
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The man has resulted in some factory worker getting long at ridiculous valuations. And nobody who owned shares will have made a dime unless able to sell them
As I said I'm pleased for any actual worker who gets a wind fall it's unfortunate we need a system full of spivs and pimps to get him his one in a million chance. Let's not kid ourselves this game is set up for anyone but the house
 
Quite interesting all in all.

What's to stop the reddit people from moving on to the next stock that is being shorted by the hedge funds and rinse and repeat?.
 
The point being that the fact they *can’t* stick it to the man is the reason that they are so pissed off about it. They never win, and the house always does.
The house lost billions. We've established that already. I don't care about the hedge fund they took risk and lost money. Boo hoo.
 
The industry will just do the same again. If more people understood what has just happened shit would be on fire.
Seems a canny window of opportunity to get in low and get out high if you weren't taking the reddit moral high ground, surely traders would get in on the action too?
 
Seems a canny window of opportunity to get in low and get out high if you weren't taking the reddit moral high ground, surely traders would get in on the action too?

They were and are too over exposed on the shorts they still need to cover. On the reddit board someone apparently had a limit order go through at 2600 last night before they took the ball away - thats desperate stuff right there. So they basically used their power to stop people buying entirely, re-shorted the market and now are somehow putting pressure on people like robin hood to force sells for their clients at just under market to collapse the price.
 
I posted yesterday, further up the thread..

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Another point to consider is that most US retail traders who do not have much 'spare cash' are typically buying on margin.

I think the regulation over there is you must have 50% to cover the buy you make so effectively a lot of these brokers are sitting on 50% losses from the margin buyers if this tanks...

They have to assess their risk accordingly, it'll be in their T&Cs.

The broker you use e.g Robinhood will ‘lend you’ 50% of your purchase

i only have 1000 in my account, they wil let me buy 2000 worth of stock.

I pay them back when the sell goes through.

obviously they are taking the risk for 50% of these transactions..
 
Tell you what, you have to be a real piece of shit to be able to unite Ben Shapiro, AoC, Ted Cruz and DT Jnr in their condemnation of your behaviour.

Looks like Hedge Funds are the new nazis.
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'It was a difficult decision'

I’m an expert in many sectors but probably in the top .1% of body language readers that have ever lived.

He’s lying his heart out.

Jail him
 
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I get annoyed because I work in an industry with a poor reputation and that reputation exists partly because people who don't understand but think they do, pile into it.

To answer your questions

1) it's likely they are allowing clients to trade in margin. Which means that if the client suffers heavy losses and can't honour their obligations the broker will be wearing the loss.

2) see 1

3) bitcoin accounts are fully funded. In fact they often have to be overfunded

It's a banks business model to make money. That's their purpose. Like kwik fit or bupa. Service in exchange for goods. Just so happens at a bank the service is goods.

All of this is just wrong. Exactly what I said above. You think you know but you really don't and that's frustrating

You're adhering to the t&cs of a company you use to buy or sell stock. It's as simple as that. Robin Hood or any other app or brokerage can do as they please because you (plural) signed up on their terms. Robin Hood is a broker. No more no less.
This tweet and subsequent thread I thought sun's the while sorry charade up well

"I am still unclear how buying near-bankrupt companies or outright frauds at parabolic prices, or multiple SPAC’s from Silicon Valley/Wall Street promoters, is “sticking it to the suits”."

Here you go:


That's why

No issue with limits on margin, although there would be technical checks and balances to stop Robinhoods lending being over exposed to that. No excuse to stop users funds being traded.
 
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