Short-Selling, Puts & Inverse ETFs 02 (Feb 12 - Dec 25)

[winston]

A short seller's life upended: Carson Block questions his future

by Katia Porzecanski & Tom Schoenberg

All he needs are three or four big, successful shorts a year to make ends meet.

A prominent short seller stands on a stage and unveils research on a target company. The stock plunges 10%, 20% or 30% before anyone has time to digest the report. By the time the public can debate the merits, the short seller has already closed out positions and is tallying gains.

He builds a position slowly over time, hoping to avoid attention as he shorts a mountain of stock equal to about 50% to 100% of its average daily trading volume. If his research causes the price to plunge, Block quickly locks in his gains, reduces his risk over the next few days and maintains a small bearish position from there on out.

Source: Bloomberg

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/ ... his-future

[winston]

Short sellers make a fortune on China stocks in historic selloff

by Yiqin Shen

Traders took in US$4.4 billion of month-to-date mark-to-market profits, a 7.5% return on an average short interest of US$59 billion.

Over the two-day stretch, the most profitable shorts were in the American depositary receipts of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Pinduoduo Inc. and JD.com Inc. in the US, as well as the Hong Kong traded stocks of Ping An Insurance Group, Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Meituan.

Source: Bloomberg

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/ ... ic-selloff

[behappyalways]

Short-Seller Hindenburg Targets India's Richest Man For "Brazen Stock Manipulation"
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/short ... nipulation

[behappyalways]

Adani Group Stocks Crash, Dragging Down Indian Markets; Bill Ackman Says Hindenburg's Report "Credible"
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/adani ... rgs-report

[behappyalways]

"Unprecedented Situation": Adani Enterprises Pulls $2.4 Billion Share Offering
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/adani ... rgin-loans

[behappyalways]

Adani Stock Takes $100 Billion Hit: What to Know | WSJ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YFsOV30DNqg

[winston]

Big Short in Stocks Is Almost Over After $300 Billion Unwind

by Denitsa Tsekova

Money managers have cut $300 billion of bearish bets and are now positioned more in line with historic norms — robbing the market of pent-up demand just as the Federal Reserve warns its inflation-fighting battle is far from over.

Source: Bloomberg

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-shor ... 52029.html

[behappyalways]

Iconic Hedge Funds Amassing Big Positions In Most Shorted Stock, As Soros Reveals Levered Short
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/iconi ... ered-short

[behappyalways]

Feds Probe Bank 'Short-Sellers' As UAE Sovereign Fund Builds Massive US Stock Short Position
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feds- ... upervision

[winston]

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

by Carmen Reinicke

Short sellers are ramping up bets against US stocks even as paper losses on the positions surpass $100 billion.

Stocks including Tesla Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Nvidia Corp. top the list, with short sellers adding to their trades even as losses grow.

Source: Bloomberg

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/short-be ... 25418.html