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James Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC is one of the greatest hedge fund managers in history. His fund’s annualized returns are an eye-popping 66% a year since 1988. Lately, he’s been loading up on shares in meme stock AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc: Renaissance Technologies, which held approximately 516,000 AMC shares…
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Losses betting against meme stocks have hit hedge funds hard this year. The latest data from Barclay Hedge shows year-to-date gains for equity long/short funds of 8.51%. (This is the type of fund that would typically take short positions in stocks.) Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has returned 18%. One of…
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Jim Chanos, Founder and President of the Kynikos Associates hedge fund, has some harsh criticism for holders of AMC and other meme stocks: What I see on Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere is the exact opposite. The communities have a strong determination to hold and often find the position deeply personal.…
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A major feature of the run-up in stocks like AMC has been a battle between short selling hedge funds and bullish retail investors. The small investors have often sensed they’re not being treated fairly. And when it comes to margin calls, it turns out they’re quite right. A margin call…
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As it prepares to IPO this week, Robinhood Markets, Inc. is facing several class action lawsuits from its users. Inside those lawsuits, an explosive claim: High level executives and employees of Robinhood and Citadel Securities were in contact around the time Robinhood restricted trades, according to the complaint. This lawsuit…
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Melvin Capital, among other hedge funds, has taken severe losses on bad bets in AMC, GameStop and others. They are now down by almost half: Melvin Capital Management, which lost more than $6 billion in January, is now down 46% for the year through June, the fund recently told investors.…
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Short sellers in AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. got slaughtered yesterday: Dusaniwsky, managing director at short-selling data provider S3 Partners, told Barron’s he estimates 75.8 million AMC shares are sold short, or roughly 15% of shares available for trading. There has been some covering, as he estimates shares shorted are down…
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Meme stock traders on Reddit and elsewhere love to hate Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel LLC. The hedge fund and market maker manages over $34 billion and handles more US stock trades than anyone else. Many suspect it had a hand in Robinhood limiting buying in GameStop shares, which angered…
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Short sellers had a disastrous June: Overall, U.S. short sellers are down -$44.49 billion in net of financing mark-to-market losses over the last thirty days. The #1 source of short seller losses? AMC, by a wide margin, at $2.8 billion. AMC was also the #2 stock in the entire market…
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For months, investors in AMC have suspected a conspiracy by hedge funds to drive down the share price via an illegal practice called naked short selling. Strong evidence of this emerged Friday with the listing of AMC on the NYSE’s Threshold Securities list. Let’s back up: what is naked short…
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