Tag: Gamestop
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Hedge fund giant Segantii Capital Management has been cut off from trading by two major banks. From a Financial Times report that broke this morning: Bank of America and Citigroup have suspended all equity trading with Segantii Capital Management, due to the banks’ concerns about the hedge fund’s bets on…
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Melvin Capital Management LP is shutting down, according to a report from Bloomberg that broke last night. The once highflying hedge fund was badly burned by short positions in meme stocks like AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. and GameStop Corp in 2021. This year, it lost a further 20% of its…
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Citadel LLC added tens of millions of dollars to its option bet on AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. in the most recent quarter. Its net bullish position increased from $90 million to $125 million, according to an SEC report released yesterday. It also built a bullish position in GameStop Corp. options…
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US markets will soon move to faster settlement of trades. This change could seriously damage some short selling hedge funds. From a new report in The Trade News: The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Investment Company Institute (ICI), and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) are…
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Things seem to be going from bad to worse at hedge fund giant Tiger Global. Its losses for 2022 are up to $17 billion, according to a new Financial Times report: Tiger Global has been hit by losses of about $17bn during this year’s technology stock sell-off, marking one of the biggest…
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Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, was charged yesterday with racketeering and securities fraud. How Hwang hid his positions teaches us a lot about how markets work today. How Total Return Swaps Work Archegos Capital Management controlled a majority of the shares of several large public companies without making…
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Just after announcing plans to re-institute performance fees, failing hedge fund Melvin Capital has backtracked. From the Financial Times: The US-based firm, which lost 53 per cent in January last year after betting against retail investor favourite GameStop, had written to investors only last week with plans to remove a…
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The federal government has charged a fraud ring that manipulated numerous US stocks. The group netted $194 million in ill-gotten gains over several years. From Compliance Week: The SEC’s charges, contained in three separate complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, allege that…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! Citadel Securities LLC paid $2.6 billion in payments for order flow in 2020 and 2021, according to a new report from The Trade, an industry publication. This amounts to over $1 billion a year and dwarfs its nearest competitors: Citadel Securities takes the top spot when…
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The bleeding never seems to stop at Melvin Capital Management LP. Gabe Plotkin’s beleaguered fund lost 21% in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report just out from Bloomberg. Melvin famously lost billions in 2021 with disastrous bets against meme stocks like GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings…
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