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Wall Street Bets and Gamestop Saga to Be Made Into a Movie
2.2.2021
The Wall Street Bets saga, an incredibly ridiculous story about a group of amateur Reddit investors who beat career Wall Street hedge funds at their own game, is to be made into a movie. According to a report by online news site Deadline on Jan. 31, Metro Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) won the rights...
Silver Squeeze Goes Viral, Ounce of Ag Jumps Above $30, Wallstreetbets Fans Question Trend’s Legitimacy
2.2.2021
This past week, another social media trend started on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets, which aims to initiate a large silver short squeeze in order to push the price of the precious metal to $1,000 per ounce. However, the silver squeeze trend comes with controversy, as numerous wallstreetbets...
GameStop’s Stock Can’t Save You
1.2.2021
GameStop’s rollercoaster ride through the absurd machinery of the stock market has been fun to watch. It sent some of CNBC’s finest minds scrambling to Wikipedia to find out what Reddit is and allowed for Very Serious Thought Leaders to peddle all sorts of pet theories, like blaming GameStop’s...
Have the Hedge Funds Infiltrated Reddit’s WallStreetBets?
1.2.2021
The media keeps saying WallStreetBets is going after silver; WallStreetBets members say it’s a campaign to co-opt and divide them
Robinhood Can’t Democratize Finance Using Old Tools
1.2.2021
Robinhood saw the ire of traders last week because it promised to be different. It turned out to be fancy app on top of an antiquated system
Hedge fund behind shorting GameStop reports 53% loss in January
31.1.2021
A Melvin Capital client claims that the firm has "massively de-risked" its investment portfolio following the controversy involving short-selling GameStop stocks
World’s Largest Hedge Fund Bridgewater Has Crypto Plans — Founder Ray Dalio Calls Bitcoin ‘One Hell of an Invention’
31.1.2021
The founder and chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund firm, has clarified his view on bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Ray Dalio also reveals that he and his colleagues at Bridgewater “are intently focusing on alternative storehold of wealth...
The Small Guys Rebel Against their Big Brother Hedge Funds
30.1.2021
What the GameStop stock market chaos can teach crypto and why the Bank of International Settlements is pitching central bank digital currencies (CBDC) instead of crypto. Also the privacy concerns around China’s digital yuan
GameStop Stock Has A Terrible Day, Still Closes At The Unthinkable Price Of $200
29.1.2021
A trading lockout on GameStop stock by a number of investing apps led to the saga’s weirdest day yet: class action lawsuits, calls for hearings on Capitol Hill, and the suggestion that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen might need to recuse herself from overseeing Wall Street’s latest shitshow because...
Massive Gamestop Short Squeeze Highlights the Fragility of Today’s Financial System
27.1.2021
The bigwigs trading stocks on Wall Street have been upset this week as billion-dollar hedge funds have been crippled by Redditors and memes. Not too long ago, the firm Gamestop’s shares were plummeting, and Wall Street veterans lined up a mountain of short bets against the company’s...
GameStop Stock Drama Continues As Price Soars And Hedge Fund Blinks
27.1.2021
GameStop’s stock price continued to soar in after-hours trading last night to over $300. While many are waiting for it to come crashing back down, it might be too late for some major hedge funds. With the stock still sitting at well over $250 a share (unthinkable just last year when it was trading...
JP Morgan Gives 3 Reasons to Add Bitcoin to Investment Portfolios
26.1.2021
JP Morgan has outlined three key reasons why investors should add bitcoin to their investment portfolios. Small allocations to cryptocurrencies would “improve portfolio efficiency due to high returns and moderate correlations,” JPMorgan’s analyst explained. JP Morgan Sees Benefits...
Harvard crypto skeptic calls Bitcoin a ‘hedge against dystopia’
22.1.2021
Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff says that he doesn't see Bitcoin succeeding, barring extenuating circumstances
Bitcoin becoming a cyclical asset, not a hedge, according to JPMorgan strategists
21.1.2021
Strategists at the Wall Street megabank disagree with their colleagues view that Bitcoin is becoming digital gold
Bitcoin Option Traders Hedge Against Downside Risk as Price Dips to Near $32K
21.1.2021
Options traders look to be preparing for further falls in bitcoin's price in the short-term, according to put-call skew data
Bitcoin breakout 'imminent' says hedge fund as analyst targets $48K monthly close
19.1.2021
Both Bitcoin's technicals and analysis of on-chain indicators are "wildly bullish," says Vailshire Capital Management, with BTC/USD reaching three-day highs
Hedge fund predicts $115K Bitcoin price and the fall of ‘speculative’ altcoins
17.1.2021
Analysts say Bitcoin and Ether’s growing dominance of the crypto market are signals that the current bull market is drastically different than the last one
Oaktree Capital Chairman Warms up to Crypto — Thankful His Son Owns Enough Bitcoin for the Family
15.1.2021
Oaktree Capital co-founder Howard Marks is warming up to cryptocurrency. Once a crypto skeptic, he now says “thankfully” his son is “quite positive on bitcoin” and “owns a meaningful amount for our family.” Howard Marks Warming up to Crypto Howard Marks...
Financial advisers are betting on Bitcoin as a hedge
13.1.2021
A new Bitwise survey highlights a more favorable attitude towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
World's Biggest Publicly Traded Hedge Fund Firm Defends Bitcoin + More News
13.1.2021
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Bitcoin (BTC)'s volatility is simply part of the price discovery in a new asset class, and these are not bubbles, analysts at...