Tag: Finance
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It’s no secret that investors in meme stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. yearn to engineer a short squeeze. This vertiginous ascent in the stock’s price crushes short sellers, who must buy the shares to close their position and stop the bleeding. It’s easiest to engineer a squeeze in a…
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Retail traders were once an afterthought in the stock market. Those days are over. Anxious to know retail’s next move, nearly all hedge funds are monitoring retail traders on social media: Fund managers who might have once derided small-time day traders as “dumb money” are scouring social-media posts for clues…
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Markets are hot. And your startup is growing fast. Time to raise money at the highest price you can get…right? Wrong. Lately, I’ve seen companies raising seed rounds at valuations of $125 and even $150 million. A few years ago, a typical seed round valuation was more like $5 to…
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In what’s begun as a tough year for cryptocurrencies, Solana has attracted more investors than any other coin. The high speed network landed $6 million in inflows so far this year. Larger competitors like Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen outflows in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. What…
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I came across some truly bizarre information today. Hedge fund Citadel LLC is a major funder of Rumble, a video website known for promoting conspiracies on vaccines and elections: A simple search for the word “vaccine” on Rumble’s homepage returned three times more videos with misinformation than accurate claims, according…
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I was blown away when I read how fast Solana can process transactions. But there’s a new kid on the block: Fathom. Fathom is even faster than Solana on one important metric: Solana averages 50,000 transactions per second, versus 14 per second on Ethereum. Fantom is not as fast as…
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Not that kind of angel! You’ve heard of angel investors and their big brothers, venture capitalists. But what does an angel investor actually do in a day? I thought I’d break down my day today so you can see how the sausage is made: 1) Read deal memos in inbox.…
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Citadel LLC trailed the S&P 500 in 2021, returning 26.3% to the market’s 29%. Citadel charges as much as 5% or more of the fund’s assets every year, in addition to 20% of all gains. These fees are among the highest of any investment fund. Why should investors pay such…
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Venture capital funding is growing at an incredible rate. The money pouring into early stage startups, my playground, has increased by billions of dollars per quarter just since 2020. I see the perverse results of this cash flood every day. Here are a few, from just this week alone: 1)…
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Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. passed 400,000 in data just released by the SEC yesterday. But what does that actually mean? To put the number in perspective, I pulled the fails to deliver for the 10 largest US companies by market capitalization. As you can…
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