I canāt believe the stock is actually going up in price. Seems like lunacy. It made sense that for the past month itās been dropping but a bounce like this is making me doubt the nature of my reality.
Cause the numbers arenāt real, just like Tesla. Inflated due to the leadersā cult (and in this case possible āactorsā)not for any business reason.
I feel like it will always have some weird intrinsic value as a potential in group until the election. If DJT pulls off a successful presidential win, then people who hold his stock may think they are less likely to be purged
The whole idea of short selling is wild and feels like it should be illegal, so Iām totally OK with informing people how to prevent what they see of as an investment from getting loaned to people who are only trying to devalue that investment.
However, it is funny coming from a guy who has probably done more shortselling in the last hour than most people will do in their lifetimes. Itās also scummy to recommend paying to use a holding company he probably owns or gets kickbacks from.
The way the stock market should work is someone investing money in a company they believe in. If the company does well, then you can receive dividends and/or sell some later on to turn a profit.
But greedy people have turned it into a game, into gambling. People who do it for a living know all the tricks, have supercomputers, have knowledge of other peopleās investments to create algorithms.
Has almost nothing to do with the company itself. They contribute nothing to society. Borrowing shares to short a stock is just an extension of that. You can make a lot more money that way, but againā¦ itās gambling, not an investment in a company.
Most of what youāre saying isnāt really a problem that affects anyone. You can still buy shares and collect dividends. How many shares short, or how often someone buys and sells a stock has 0 bearing on that. In fact all of that actually creates the liquidity that lets you buy fractional shares instead of having to buy in 100 share lots like you use to.
And short sellers are actually pretty important to the markets. They keep companies honest by having an incentive to investigate and publicize frauds and overvalued companies. People put way too much weight in how much impact shorting has, or people trading derivatives
I appreciate your thoughts. I admit Iām not too involved in shorts and there are bigger issues with the market than that. I just prefer that people wouldnāt bet against a company simply to earn money. Itās not going to change anytime soon, if ever. I just would prefer that stocks for sale were to invest in a company to help it grow, and notā¦ I think this company is gonna crashā¦ let me make money on that prediction.
I just would prefer that stocks for sale were to invest in a company to help it grow,
Buying stock on the market has no impact on helping it grow. The only money that goes from investors to the company are from the IPO or any additional share sales, which arenāt common.
Short selling helps prevent stock market bubbles by correcting overpriced stocks, ensuring prices reflect real value. It also allows investors to hedge against potential losses in their portfolio, making the market more stable and efficient.
Thatās what stockbrokers say, sure. They donāt actually care, theyāre brokers. They make money from the sale regardless, and the more kind of sales and services they can make and charge for, the better off they are.
Especially when it helps create a labyrinth of industry specific terms and rules they know and you donāt.
Thatās why they were laughing at the GME bullshit, like Redditors thought they were the ones losing money. Every little retail trade had a percentage that went into their pockets.
The whole stock market is gambling, short selling is just the way to profit on the prediction of a price going down instead of up. Really short selling is one of the least sketchy things the stock market does, because at least itās public how it works.
Right! 70-80% of trades on the stock market are bots trading with bots that learned to trade by watching historical trade data and trading with other bots, most on the order of milli or microseconds.
See - Headline after headline about bits falling off āBoeingā planes, when they were sold by Boeing twenty years ago and badly maintained for the last ten
How does this have anything to do with short selling? Besides, parts are falling of and their own engineers are speaking out against Boeing. Thatās not to mention the multiple crashes that were 100% preventable, foreseeable and Boeings fault.
Iām in, and Iām zen. Well, more ācalmly insensed at financial institutions.ā I enjoy knowing that Iām costing hedge funds money more than I enjoy thinking about theoretical gains at this point.
holding your DJT shares in a cash account at your brokerage firm instead of a margin account (a model instruction letter is set forth under the heading āExample Form of Letter to Brokerā below); or
opting out of any securities lending programs, which should stop your broker from lending your shares; or
moving your shares to Odyssey Transfer and Trust Company, the Companyās transfer agent (please note that you may incur certain costs in connection with any such transfer and once your shares are moved to our transfer agent, your ability to timely transfer your shares back to a brokerage firm and sell may be a longer process); or
transferring your shares to your bank (if they have custody services) and holding them in your retirement account (if permitted by your plan).
Bold of them to think their target audience can read this many words
Itās going to be rehashed into a dozen bitchute videos by dudes in Hawaiian shirts with dramatic hyperbole explaining it along with likely a side of misinformation and con artist profiteering.
