One major term you have heard is "shorting" - which is just placing a bet that a stock will go down in price. #velshi
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By now you have undoubtedly seen the craziness going on in the stock market, with a selection of stocks surging hundreds if not thousands of percent in a matter of days or even hours, along with a whole bunch of financial jargon. So what exactly is going on? #velshi
One major term you have heard is "shorting" - which is just placing a bet that a stock will go down in price. #velshi
An investor can make money on this type of gamble by borrowing shares from a broker, w/o initially paying for them, selling them immediately & then later buying the shares at a lower price & returning them to the broker, keeping the difference in price as profit. #velshi
For example, an investor borrows 1 share of stock XYZ at $200 & sells it. The investor now has $200 at an initial cost of $0. However, the investor stills owes the broker that 1 share. #velshi
The gamble is that the price of the stock XYZ will go down - let's say to $100 a share. The investor can then buy the 1 share that it owes the broker at that lower $100 price. #velshi
This means it costs the investor less to buy XYZ than what it has already sold XYZ for & the investor can keep that extra $100 difference from the $200 sale price. #velshi
Of course, the price of the stock could increase - and the investor still owes the broker the share XYZ, in which case the investor loses money. Potentially a LOT of money. #velshi
Using our example, let's say stock XYZ increases to $220 dollars. The investor still has to buy the owed share, but it now cost $20 more than it was initially sold for, and the investor loses that money. That's the basis for what has been going on. #velshi
What basically happened was within the last week or so some people on the Reddit 'WallStreetBets' noticed that some hedge funds were placing massive “short“ bets on several distressed widely known companies. #velshi
Short bets were placed mainly on Gamestop but also Bed Bath and Beyond, American Airlines, AMC Theaters, Blackberry, and others. #velshi
These redditers then essentially crowdsourced a whole bunch of people to bet AGAINST the hedge funds, buying shares at increasingly inflated prices in order to prevent the stock prices from going down. #velshi
As the price kept going up, some of the hedge funds were forced to start buying shares to replace the ones they had borrowed when they initially expected the stocks to drop in value, in order to cut their losses, in what is known as a 'short squeeze'. #velshi
And all that buying - that new demand - has the effect of dramatically increasing the price of the stocks. #velshi
There has also been a lot of talk & consternation that some brokerage & trading firms popular with newer traders, including one called 'Robinhood', cut off the average person's ability to trade in some of these volatile companies. #velshi
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1. Core setup
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5. Website to confirm bias
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•Main setup of @ITRADE191
He used this setup daily for all trades.
1. EMA crossover 10/20
2. Supertrend 10/3
3. Vwap
4. RSI >
•Volume always greater than
•Candle Rejecting from
•Pivot settings
1. Core setup
2. Pivot points trades
3. PDH/PDL trades
4. Open interest addictions combined with rejections on charts.
5. Website to confirm bias
Very quick read.
Share if you liked for the benefit of everyone.
•Main setup of @ITRADE191
He used this setup daily for all trades.
1. EMA crossover 10/20
2. Supertrend 10/3
3. Vwap
4. RSI >
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•Volume always greater than
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•Candle Rejecting from
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•Pivot settings
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A 🧵on the basics of block and bulk deals.
Block and bulk deals are large purchases of stocks by investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, FIIs, and promoters. Tracking block and bulk deals can help give you a sense of what these large players are thinking.
A single transaction where shares more than Rs 10 crores or the number of shares traded are more than 5 lakh is considered a block deal.
Block deals are carried out in separate trading windows. This trading window operates in two shifts of 15 minutes each:
Morning trading window from 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM.
Afternoon trading window from 2:05 PM to 2:20 PM
Block deals happen in different windows to reduce volatility and sudden price movements. Given that they are traded in a separate window, they do not show up on the volume charts.
Brokers facilitating the transaction are required to inform the exchange. You can track bulk and block deals on NSE & BSE:
https://t.co/pwTyzWTnUL
https://t.co/g9BbHiEag3
Block and bulk deals are large purchases of stocks by investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, FIIs, and promoters. Tracking block and bulk deals can help give you a sense of what these large players are thinking.
A single transaction where shares more than Rs 10 crores or the number of shares traded are more than 5 lakh is considered a block deal.
Block deals are carried out in separate trading windows. This trading window operates in two shifts of 15 minutes each:
Morning trading window from 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM.
Afternoon trading window from 2:05 PM to 2:20 PM
Block deals happen in different windows to reduce volatility and sudden price movements. Given that they are traded in a separate window, they do not show up on the volume charts.
Brokers facilitating the transaction are required to inform the exchange. You can track bulk and block deals on NSE & BSE:
https://t.co/pwTyzWTnUL
https://t.co/g9BbHiEag3
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This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
The story doesn\u2019t say you were told not to... it says you did so without approval and they tried to obfuscate what you found. Is that true?
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) November 15, 2018
In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.
In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.
In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.
