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None of this does Trump and his minions any good.  Trump is meeting with legislative lightweights because he doesn't know any better.  That portends little good for his dreams of being a "Kingmaker".  He must avoid testifying under oath at all costs because he cannot take the stand and deliver a convincing/coherent story that is also exculpatory.  As I said, he's only good until the first subpoena or summons arrives.

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Republicans would rather be legislative rubber stamps in a dictatorship than citizens in a free democratic Constitutional republic.

GAME STOP FROM IHUB



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GameStop Shares: 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Could Have Made Upwards of $174 Million Yesterday on GameStop
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 29, 2021 ~


Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

According to JPMorgan Chase’s 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it moved from a net short position in GameStop shares as of December 31, 2019 to a big long position as of September 30, 2020, the date of its last 13F filing. As of the end of the third quarter of last year, JPMorgan Chase was long (owned) 368,196 shares of GameStop versus a put (short position) on a meager 19,300 shares.

At the close of trading on September 30, 2020, GameStop was a $10.20 stock, making JPMorgan’s long position worth $3.8 million. At the intraday high yesterday, GameStop was a $483 stock. If JPMorgan had sold at the top, it would have made approximately $174 million on its long position versus where it was trading four months earlier.

We’re dismissing what happened to the put that JPMorgan held on 19,300 shares of GameStop for this reason: JPMorgan Chase just happens to be one of Melvin Capital’s Prime Brokers, the hedge fund making news because it was bleeding badly from its short position in GameStop. Melvin Capital’s other Prime Brokers include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and National Financial Services, according to Melvin Capital’s Form ADV filing with the SEC. A Prime Broker typically provides hedge funds with one or more of the following services: trade financing, securities lending so hedge funds can take short positions, trade executions, and serving as custodian of securities.

JPMorgan is not just the Prime Broker to Melvin Capital. It services a large number of other hedge funds. That gives JPMorgan the ability to see which way trades are moving. One can assume that when JPMorgan saw its hedge fund clients closing out their short positions on GameStop in a panic, it exited its own put position before yesterday. It may have even purchased more shares of GameStop as it saw the runup in the share price occurring and had an insider’s view of exactly how short its own hedge fund customers were and how much more stock they had to buy to fully close out their positions.

The mainstream media narrative is that a bunch of amateur traders on a Reddit message board, r/WallStreetBets, wanted to take down evil hedge funds, like Melvin Capital, that were shorting the stock of GameStop (making bets it would decline in price) so these egalitarian activists set out to pump up the stock price.

There are a lot of problems with this narrative. For starters, the trading platform that a lot of the traders at WallStreetBets uses is called Robinhood, a private company whose investors include private equity firms and – wait for it – hedge funds. Robinhood provides commission-free trading to the WallStreetBets’ crowd but then sells those trades to – wait for it – hedge funds. So just as JPMorgan gains market advantage by seeing what its hedge fund customers are doing, these hedge funds gain market advantage by seeing what Robinhood’s customers are doing.

It’s not a big leap to question if hedge funds might have invented Robinhood in order to trade against the dumb money.

There is also a problem with the mainstream narrative based on the comments at Reddit’s WallStreetBets, which we perused this past week. While some comments clearly suggest a rookie’s knowledge of trading strategies, other comments are highly sophisticated, suggesting people who have studied for the Series 7 exam and hold trading licenses.

And as we reported yesterday, the typical suspects on Wall Street – JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others – have been trading tens of thousands of shares of GameStop in their own Dark Pools – quasi stock exchanges that the SEC allows these firms to operate in the dark inside the bowels of their firms. In the case of JPMorgan, it has two Dark Pools, JPM-X and JPB-X, that are both trading the shares of GameStop, raising the question as to whether it’s making a two-sided market in the stock — a situation ripe for manipulation.

Then there is the old maxim that to figure out a crime scene, you look for who benefits. There were comments all over Reddit’s WallStreetBets yesterday telling others not to sell GameStop – despite the fact that the stock was up intraday as much as 82 percent at one point from its open price and up over 900 percent from its share price of three months ago. Selling pressure from the young rebels could have disadvantaged big players on Wall Street who had not yet sold their full position.

Senator Sherrod Brown, who is the incoming new Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Tweeted yesterday that he plans to hold hearings on “the current state of the stock market.”


Senator Sherrod Brown
Senator Brown needs to put on his Ferdinand Pecora hat for these hearings. Pecora was the outside counsel who led the Senate Banking hearings into the corrupt structure of Wall Street following the crash of 1929. Pecora oversaw an in-depth investigation that spanned years and put the Wall Street titans under oath, subpoenaed documents that included kickbacks to members of Congress and the media, and revealed how Wall Street’s “pools” of that era had rigged the market. The U.S. Senate conducted no such in-depth hearings on the actual structure of Wall Street after the 2008 crash.

Since 2014, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., has racked up an unprecedented five felony counts, to which it admitted guilt, while its Board has taken no action to remove its Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon. Instead, the Board jacked up Dimon’s annual compensation to $31.5 million – strongly suggesting that Senator Bernie Sanders is exactly right, the business model of Wall Street is fraud.

Adding further to the loss of Wall Street’s reputation, Goldman Sachs and its Malaysian subsidiary were hit with two felony counts on October 22, to which they admitted guilt, and its stock closed up $2.49 cents on the day. The Justice Department charged Goldman with “a scheme to pay over $1 billion in bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials to obtain lucrative business for Goldman Sachs.” The scandal became known as the 1MDB affair, named after the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund that was looted.

For a more revealing look at the ongoing crime spree of the Wall Street banks that were bailed out by the Fed and the taxpayer in 2008, we highly recommend the rap sheets compiled by Better Markets.

The Editor of Wall Street On Parade, Pam Martens, worked on Wall Street for two decades and has read every page of the transcripts of the Pecora Senate Banking Hearings. That was the most corrupt era in the history of Wall Street at that point – but it looks like a cakewalk compared to what is happening today.

If the genuine egalitarian rebels at Reddit’s WallStreetBets succeed in getting meaningful Senate Banking hearings into an industry that is looting the American people with impunity, they will have, indeed, performed a vital public service for their country.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/01/gamestop-shares-5-count-felon-jpmorgan-could-have-made-upwards-of-174-million-yesterday/


The real 'Wolf of Wall Street' reacts to Robinhood's move

For shame, he thinks everyone is stupid but himself.
While everyone and his brother is predicting doom and gloom for these retail investors working GME stock, the truth is; if anyone bothered to look, much different than they imagine.  You see, most of these investors don't hold very much stock. Robinhood allows them to invest in fractional shares, so you can put in a dollar or 10, or any amount you can easily afford to lose if things were to go south.  But it's very unlikely things will go south because the short-sellers are stuck with forced demand, while shareholders are under no pressure to sell since they can easily afford to lose what they hold.  It's a recipe for disaster for anyone who comes to the aid of the short-seller(s).  

How Reddit Traders Used GameStop To Totally Spank The Wall Street Big Boys

Over on Ihub I note that a class action suit has been filed against the brokers who have been trying to throttle buying in these stocks (GME, AMC, NOK, etc.) While the brokerages have scaled back their efforts at manipulating the market.  It's very interesting to see just how in bed with each other these market people are, hedge fund with clearing house outfits and brokerages and other financial outfits all in bed together, hardly a wonder then that Melvin was able to find 3 billion dollars in financing to keep it out of bk (market slang for bankruptcy)

THIS REQUIRES PRISON TIME FOR TOP OFFENDERS

Big Fun Jumping Off... Actually, it's really just more of the same.  Screw "the little guy and let the big boys run!"  Now the brokers are "putting their fingers on the scale", to stop the retail investors from joining the fray.  Brokers should not be stopping anyone from committing any kind of trade they desire. They are not in the business nor are they qualified to give market/investment advice, there are qualified market/investment advisers.  While brokers may post the advice of qualified investment advisers, they are not allowed to ENFORCE TRADING ADVICE but that is what they are doing.

GameStop short squeeze pits small investors vs hedge fund short sellers

Up until now, the hedge funds would always win, their deep pockets prevented the little guy from pressing a short squeeze, so the price would collapse and the little guy would get the floor mopped up with him.  Now, however, the big guy is at risk.  The S.E.C. can do nothing without causing extreme damage to the market because this is all normal trading, they already have a rule against "naked shorting" but they rarely, if ever, enforce it because it's usually a brokerage or hedge fund or some very deep-pocketed actor who is even capable of doing it.

WallStreetBets founder on GameStop: There is no precedent for this

On the way up, buyers make money and sellers lock in profits.  This is just traders duking it out.  Nobody told hedge funds to do naked shorting (selling shares you don't have and can't borrow) which results in adding more shares to the float than should exist.  Normally you'd have to borrow shares from a broker who holds them in someone's account and sell them, with the promise to return them at some point in time.  If the stock price drops then it will cost you less to replace the borrowed shares than the price at which you sold them.  A hedge fund may also be a broker, thus they are able to sell shares they don't own and haven't borrowed.  So, if the companies float is 100M shares, the hedge fund can just keep selling shares into the market, the resulting dilution should cause the price to drop making an easy surefire win for the hedge fund.  But, here they got caught, investors working on boards saw that the shorters had sold quite a bit of stock hoping the price would fall because the company wasn't able to earn any money.  

The investors decided to buy and keep buying.  Soon the short sellers had sold 120% of the float, meaning that if the price went up, they'd have a devil of a time getting out (known as a short squeeze) or covering their shorts.  As the weaker short sellers were unable to pay the cost of maintaining their short sales their brokers would then "buy them in". Where the broker places an order to buy in the borrowed stock at market prices and any deficit (money owed by the account) would be made up by the broker selling any stocks in the investors' account.  If that didn't satisfy the deficit, the broker can then take your house, car, bank accounts, and anything else of value that the investor owns.  

In this case, the investors saw that so much stock had been sold short that the short-sellers were in a trap, they would need to buy 120% of the float to get out and that's never easy to do if a stock is climbing.  Broker "buy-ins" resulted in increased demand that forced the price ever higher, breaking even more short-sellers and forcing more "buy-ins".  Those who got in early made bundles, on the few boards I visited, some say they'd picked up many tens of thousands of dollars really quick.  Of course, people who get in late take a very big risk as the price will eventually fall precipitously.

GameStop Gamblers Screw Over Wall Street

I just came back from reading the Ihub board on GME and AMC is also in play, but the stock is really dangerous right now, but it is still climbing.  The short sellers had naked shorts equal to 20% over the float, meaning that to cover they need every single shareholder to sell every share they own. Until that happens the stock will continue to climb as short-seller demand must remain high. Short sellers who cannot cover will have their broker put in orders for shares to cover at market.  Because they need 20% more shares than there are in the float, not everyone will sell all of their shares and a few souls will risk buying more.  Meaning it's going to be a real problem covering shorts so a lot of them are going to go dead broke.

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Trump will be full of piss and vinegar until the first indictments and/or subpoenas begin to arrive at Mar-a-Lago, then the cowardly bone-spurs will take hold.   Trump has no lawyers left worth anything to defend himself and he has lost his banks and other sources of financial assistance.  The "Vultures" are circling his family empire, just waiting for their chance to pick over the carcass.

PBS NewsHour full episode, Jan. 27, 2021

There's nothing at all that any regulator can do in the market that would interfere/restrict/encourage the way investors choose to accept or hedge any risks.  It would be like trying to make a marathon fairer by requiring faster runners to carry weights.  Next, you'd be giving slower runners motor assists of varying horsepower. In the end, what you'd have is a laughable mess that proves nothing. The market has never had the information age assist of group work to contend with, but "truth" will eventually arrive when some of these players find that they cannot get out when the time comes, or cover when the need arises.  Eventually, the market pitfalls will eviscerate these group players, bringing these games to an end.

Donald Trump Humiliated Twice In One Day

I'm pretty sure that one of these Republicans is going to shoot, kill or maim someone on the capitol floor.

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This portends no good for Republicans in future elections.

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Wow, so the dishonorable Josh Hawley is a despicable in-your-face liar. In this video we see him claim that he wasn't interested in changing the outcome of the election and we see him claim that the results of the election might change after we see what will happen on the sixth of January.  Clear proof of his own despicable lie and why this disgusting Trumpian factotum should be recalled/removed/expelled from Congress and otherwise vilified as an example for others who might follow his lead.

His lying also reveals that he knows how wrong, what he did was and his attempt to conceal his activities reveals the fact that he is ashamed, not proud of what he has done.  Yet, he goes boldly forward despite his own personal shame.

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Boy do Republicans hate this; as Mike Pence said during the Georgia runoffs: "The Democrats are trying to make the poor more comfortable!"  

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"Normally" (If the occupants were white) The police would have simply asked for the license and registration then called it in.  After getting confirmation that the vehicle was not stolen, they'd have apologized and been on their way.  Instead, since these occupants were black, no matter that there were young children involved, they were ordered out of the vehicle and held at gunpoint, handcuffed and forced to lay face down on the ground, while the police enjoyed making them all suffer in terror.

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The thing that's becoming clear is that the "Maganauts"  are not bothered by the loss, but it's the idea that they've been cheated that causes them pain and motivates them.  Where could they have obtained the idea that their candidate didn't lose, but was instead cheated?  Because where ever that idea came from, is the cause of all these problems and loss of life.

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If America cannot enforce its laws, the 200+ years experiment is done.

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Hey Rudy, you wouldn't happen to be one of those nattering nabobs of negativism, would you? LOL

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Anyone here think for a moment that Dick Cheney might have relinquished power? LOL (He'll go to his grave with his "cold dead hands" wrapped around the GOP's "neck". lol

Dick Cheney

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Trump is why "Republican" is becoming a "four-letter word".

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Do not forget that Trump also promised the mob that he would be there at the Capitol with them, lending them the imagination that the powerful office of the President of the United States would be there to lend legitimacy to their actions.  Also, don't forget that Trump was speaking to an armed crowd, being armed is not a sign of a peaceful protest.

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LOL: "Palm Beach Boulevard", the new "Sunset Blvd".