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Its numbers aren’t merely some derivative of the stock market’s expected earnings. Instead, they reflect America’s economic reawakening after the Covid-19 pandemic.Shawn Quigg, a J.P. Morgan derivatives strategist, recently told clients that there is little to stand in the way of the market’s achievement of “such gains sooner than later, particularly considering the numerous catalysts ahead, their impact on volatility, and the implications that will have on investor positioning.”As President Joe Biden’s administration champions a $1.9 trillion stimulus program, and Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations decline, Quigg anticipates stocks surging. His view is somewhat at odds with recent trading. Stocks have declined as the 10-year Treasury note yield has increased to about 1.38%, a move that is fanning inflation fearsand worries about stock slumps.Quigg likes taking advantage of the fear and the pending stimulus program, which Biden has begun to defend against concerns that it is too large. In various interviews, the president has challenged critics to tell him what to cut at a time when so much of the nation is suffering. The Biden administration is now warning that the greatest risk isn’t a large stimulus package, but one that is too small and thus doesn’t meaningfully stimulate economic growth.To position for the stock market to surge higher, Quigg advised clients to consider selling one of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF‘s (ticker: SPY) May $353 put options and buying 15 May $450 call options. When the ETF was at $392.39, the leveraged risk-reversal strategy—that is,selling one put and buying many more calls with a higher strike price but the same expiration—could be done for no cost. In other words, the money received for selling the put was enough to buy 15 bullish calls.The trade expresses high conviction that the ETF—which was recently trading around $387—will reach $450 by May 21, when May options expire. At $460, the call is worth $10.Should the ETF decline, say, because current fears push the market below the $353 strike price, investors would be obligated to buy it at the lower price, or to cover or adjust the puts.Quigg’s trade idea has a lot to admire.For one, the trade carried zero cost when it was recommended late last week. Yes, prices have moved since the Feb. 18 note was published, but investors can recast strike prices to create similar pricing. The markets change, and that’s why there are so many different strike prices that are listed.Moreover, if J.P. Morgan’s base view of the economic reawakening proves true, owning a bundle of upside calls that cost nothing could be quite lucrative. Should the market succumb to the current fears that are weakening prices, owning S&P 500 stocks at lower prices isn’t terrible, either.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":362,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":361171429,"gmtCreate":1614216794861,"gmtModify":1704889672405,"author":{"id":"3568605387517047","authorId":"3568605387517047","name":"spoons","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/01a3bff4c3a5ff4ab47979305e69f735","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3568605387517047","authorIdStr":"3568605387517047"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"stock split?","listText":"stock split?","text":"stock split?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/361171429","repostId":"1104736316","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1104736316","pubTimestamp":1614156425,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1104736316?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-02-24 16:47","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why Baidu Stock Crashed Today -- and Then Largely Recovered","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1104736316","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Tech stock panic was partly countered by analysts' enthusiasm for this company.\nWhat happened\nAfter ","content":"<p>Tech stock panic was partly countered by analysts' enthusiasm for this company.</p>\n<p><b>What happened</b></p>\n<p>After a couple of days in which four analysts upped their price targets on Chinese search giant <b>Baidu</b>(NASDAQ:BIDU), the stock dropped Tuesday, falling as much as 13% in the middle of atech stockrout on Wall Street.</p>\n<p>However, it clawed back most of those losses in the afternoon, closing the trading day down by 3.9%.</p>\n<p><b>So what</b></p>\n<p>You can blame the day's loss on Tuesday's sell-off of tech stocks. But things could have ended a lot worse for Baidu, and one of the reasons they didn't was because of all the support the company has been winning on Wall Street lately.</p>\n<p>On Monday, both Goldman Sachs and British bank Barclays raised their price targets on Baidu stock, to $383 per share and $400, respectively. Then Susquehanna Financial entered a \"Street high\" price prediction that Baidu will hit $450 a share within a year. And on Tuesday, the cheering continued with KeyBanc posting a $390 price target.</p>\n<p>Susquehanna noted that it was impressed with Baidu's fourth-quarter earnings beat last week, and said it expects 2021 to be even better. \"The core business continues to improve,\" noted the firm's analyst, emphasizing that Baidu remains \"a leading player in China's search market\" and also the \"owner of one of the top video assets in the country.\" At the same time, its \"AI businesses are experiencing very strong momentum.\"</p>\n<p><b>Now what</b></p>\n<p>The analysts had better be right about that, though, because while it's true Baidu \"beat earnings\" in Q4, its sales were still down for the second year running in 2020, and while forecasts about its future growth are strong, even results that meet them may not be enough to support the stock's extreme valuation. Total net income for the year was $3.4 billion, giving Baidu stock a price-to-earnings ratio of more than 32. Weak free cash flow for the year left Baidu's price-to-free-cash-flow ratio at an even steeper 37.9.</p>\n<p>With most analysts predicting that Baidu will grow earnings at about 18% annually over the next five years, I'm afraid the stock just doesn't look like much of a bargain to me.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why Baidu Stock Crashed Today -- and Then Largely Recovered</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy Baidu Stock Crashed Today -- and Then Largely Recovered\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-02-24 16:47 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/23/why-baidu-stock-crashed-today-and-then-largely-rec/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Tech stock panic was partly countered by analysts' enthusiasm for this company.\nWhat happened\nAfter a couple of days in which four analysts upped their price targets on Chinese search giant Baidu(...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/23/why-baidu-stock-crashed-today-and-then-largely-rec/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BIDU":"百度"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/23/why-baidu-stock-crashed-today-and-then-largely-rec/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1104736316","content_text":"Tech stock panic was partly countered by analysts' enthusiasm for this company.\nWhat happened\nAfter a couple of days in which four analysts upped their price targets on Chinese search giant Baidu(NASDAQ:BIDU), the stock dropped Tuesday, falling as much as 13% in the middle of atech stockrout on Wall Street.\nHowever, it clawed back most of those losses in the afternoon, closing the trading day down by 3.9%.\nSo what\nYou can blame the day's loss on Tuesday's sell-off of tech stocks. But things could have ended a lot worse for Baidu, and one of the reasons they didn't was because of all the support the company has been winning on Wall Street lately.\nOn Monday, both Goldman Sachs and British bank Barclays raised their price targets on Baidu stock, to $383 per share and $400, respectively. Then Susquehanna Financial entered a \"Street high\" price prediction that Baidu will hit $450 a share within a year. And on Tuesday, the cheering continued with KeyBanc posting a $390 price target.\nSusquehanna noted that it was impressed with Baidu's fourth-quarter earnings beat last week, and said it expects 2021 to be even better. \"The core business continues to improve,\" noted the firm's analyst, emphasizing that Baidu remains \"a leading player in China's search market\" and also the \"owner of one of the top video assets in the country.\" At the same time, its \"AI businesses are experiencing very strong momentum.\"\nNow what\nThe analysts had better be right about that, though, because while it's true Baidu \"beat earnings\" in Q4, its sales were still down for the second year running in 2020, and while forecasts about its future growth are strong, even results that meet them may not be enough to support the stock's extreme valuation. Total net income for the year was $3.4 billion, giving Baidu stock a price-to-earnings ratio of more than 32. Weak free cash flow for the year left Baidu's price-to-free-cash-flow ratio at an even steeper 37.9.\nWith most analysts predicting that Baidu will grow earnings at about 18% annually over the next five years, I'm afraid the stock just doesn't look like much of a bargain to me.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":346,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":361147452,"gmtCreate":1614216473676,"gmtModify":1704889667289,"author":{"id":"3568605387517047","authorId":"3568605387517047","name":"spoons","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/01a3bff4c3a5ff4ab47979305e69f735","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3568605387517047","authorIdStr":"3568605387517047"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"madness ","listText":"madness ","text":"madness","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/361147452","repostId":"1108395722","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1108395722","pubTimestamp":1614154510,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1108395722?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-02-24 16:15","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1108395722","media":"The New York Times","summary":"The congressional hearing about the “meme stock” frenzy shows it was definitely bizarre, but maybe n","content":"<p>The congressional hearing about the “meme stock” frenzy shows it was definitely bizarre, but maybe not as meaningful as we desire.</p>\n<p>What if no one had done anything wrong?</p>\n<p>That’s the bizarre takeaway I was left with this past Thursday, following the House Financial Services Committee’s five-hour hearing on last month’s wild emergence of day-traders betting enormous collective sums on “meme stocks” — shares in the companies that became half-ironically very popular on Reddit and the brokerage app Robinhood this year.</p>\n<p>Many of us in the media, along with media consumers, tried to make sense of the frenzy — our brains (and business incentives) demand it. But the hearing suggested that was folly. In the end, it appears a lot of money changed hands in unforeseen, bizarre ways, but that there are no grand lessons, despite our great desire for them.</p>\n<p>At the hearing’s center was Vlad Tenev, the chief of the Robinhood. His app’s user-friendly interface and his initial belief in imposing few guardrails on its traders enabled an unprecedented surge in the share price of the video game retailer GameStop. Now trading around $40 per share, at one point, its price was as high as $483.</p>\n<p>While users of the Reddit forum WallStreetBets had been talking up GameStop for weeks before its stock skyrocketed, it grew into a cultural phenomenon only once a jaunty bunch of forum members painted themselves as the antagonists of the hedge funds that bet big money on GameStop plummeting (by “short-selling” the stock). Some technocrats had wondered if Reddit may have enabled a form of illegal stock manipulation. And so Steve Huffman, Reddit’s chief executive, was in attendance Thursday too.</p>\n<p>Then there was Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and Deep [Expletive] Value on Reddit. Mr. Gill, a recent MassMutual employee, whose longtime advocacy of GameStop and huge gains during the meme stock craze made him an icon, spoke bluntly about the company’s upsides and defended the integrity of publicly discussing his trades: “In short, I like the stock.” Mr. Huffman of Reddit also seemed sensible, explaining to lawmakers that Reddit’s forums are moderated by users themselves. After an internal investigation, Mr. Huffman said he saw no evidence of malign actors artificially generating excitement about GameStop or other companies that were buoyed by WallStreetBets.</p>\n<p>The financial heavyweights involved in the episode were called to the hearings as well: There was Gabe Plotkin of Melvin Capital, the hedge fund that took the most infamous losses by betting against GameStop. He was joined by Kenneth Griffin, the leader of Citadel. His company invested in Melvin Capital after its GameStop losses<i>and</i>makes money by executing trades on behalf of Robinhood (and some other retail brokers).</p>\n<p>It was this knotty set of entanglements that spurred bipartisan outrage and seeded conspiracy theories online — especially when Robinhood restricted purchases of GameStop and other meme stocks, with little explanation, fueling a crash in their share prices. In that void, many became suspicious that Citadel may have been illegally pulling strings to make money on both sides of the saga.</p>\n<p>But after the hearing, it became clear that the sinister theories lacked substance.</p>\n<p>Barring some bombshell revelation, it appears the hearing confirmed a more turgid underlying truth: The trading in GameStop and other meme stocks was so volatile that the clearinghouses — which are in charge of making sure money gets correctly exchanged between buyers and sellers —demanded billions in collateral from Robinhood and other retail brokerage platforms to ensure that the trades settled. So the brokerages had to hit pause.</p>\n<p>While financial commentators and regulators can and will argue about what if any regulations should be instituted going forward, it looks as if everybody played by the rules, as they stand.</p>\n<p>So did we really learn anything profound? The marketplace of opinions about the meme stock phenomenon has been as volatile as the trading itself: A series of hypotheses about populism, corruption, masculinity, inequality and price bubbles battled for primacy among those of us who watch cable news and consume think pieces.</p>\n<p>At the hearing, various members endorsed different theories. “Many Americans feel that the system is stacked against them, and no matter what, Wall Street always wins,” said the Financial Services Committee chairwoman, Maxine Waters, Democrat of California.</p>\n<p>The panel’s ranking Republican member, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina,suggested that the issue was less that of a game rigged against small-time investors and more the lack of productive assets for them to buy. “We created a world where it’s easier to buy a lottery ticket than it is to invest in the next Google,” he said. “Is it any wonder why the unhealthy dynamics of GameStop happened?”</p>\n<p>All in all, some hedge funds got pummeled, but briefly. Some unlucky retail investors got in on the fun too late, taking serious losses. And there were also plenty of life-changing profits taken by people far beyond the usual suspects. That’s a pretty muddied picture.</p>\n<p>The most meaningful thing to glean from all of this, according to Josh Brown, the chief executive of Ritholz Asset Management, may be a large incentive change for market behavior going forward: “I don’t think it’s in anyone’s best interest to be that visibly vocally ‘short’ on anything,” he told me. “I think that era has ended where there’s this automatic kneejerk reverence for a $5 billion hedge fund manager with a PowerPoint” pitching other investors on why they should bet against a company.</p>\n<p>Though shares in GameStop and fellow meme stock AMC have fallen far short of “the moon” where its boosters hoped it would land, both companies are, for now, trading above their most disastrous lows.</p>\n<p>And while Melvin Capital, the beleaguered hedge fund, finds itself fortunate and still in operation, any institution with a greedy “short” position on a thinly traded stock runs a major risk in this newly democratized financial market.</p>\n<p>“If it becomes a meme,” Mr. Brown said, “literally your fund could get closed.”</p>\n<p>Few will mourn the degradation of aggressive short-sellers; they’re the skunks at the picnic. But it does raise the question of why regulators are eyeing new rules about their behavior. After all, the market — with meme stocks or not — may take care of them on its own.</p>","source":"lsy1608616134662","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-02-24 16:15 GMT+8 <a href=http://nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html><strong>The New York Times</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The congressional hearing about the “meme stock” frenzy shows it was definitely bizarre, but maybe not as meaningful as we desire.\nWhat if no one had done anything wrong?\nThat’s the bizarre takeaway I...</p>\n\n<a href=\"http://nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".DJI":"道琼斯","GME":"游戏驿站",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"http://nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1108395722","content_text":"The congressional hearing about the “meme stock” frenzy shows it was definitely bizarre, but maybe not as meaningful as we desire.\nWhat if no one had done anything wrong?\nThat’s the bizarre takeaway I was left with this past Thursday, following the House Financial Services Committee’s five-hour hearing on last month’s wild emergence of day-traders betting enormous collective sums on “meme stocks” — shares in the companies that became half-ironically very popular on Reddit and the brokerage app Robinhood this year.\nMany of us in the media, along with media consumers, tried to make sense of the frenzy — our brains (and business incentives) demand it. But the hearing suggested that was folly. In the end, it appears a lot of money changed hands in unforeseen, bizarre ways, but that there are no grand lessons, despite our great desire for them.\nAt the hearing’s center was Vlad Tenev, the chief of the Robinhood. His app’s user-friendly interface and his initial belief in imposing few guardrails on its traders enabled an unprecedented surge in the share price of the video game retailer GameStop. Now trading around $40 per share, at one point, its price was as high as $483.\nWhile users of the Reddit forum WallStreetBets had been talking up GameStop for weeks before its stock skyrocketed, it grew into a cultural phenomenon only once a jaunty bunch of forum members painted themselves as the antagonists of the hedge funds that bet big money on GameStop plummeting (by “short-selling” the stock). Some technocrats had wondered if Reddit may have enabled a form of illegal stock manipulation. And so Steve Huffman, Reddit’s chief executive, was in attendance Thursday too.\nThen there was Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty on YouTube and Deep [Expletive] Value on Reddit. Mr. Gill, a recent MassMutual employee, whose longtime advocacy of GameStop and huge gains during the meme stock craze made him an icon, spoke bluntly about the company’s upsides and defended the integrity of publicly discussing his trades: “In short, I like the stock.” Mr. Huffman of Reddit also seemed sensible, explaining to lawmakers that Reddit’s forums are moderated by users themselves. After an internal investigation, Mr. Huffman said he saw no evidence of malign actors artificially generating excitement about GameStop or other companies that were buoyed by WallStreetBets.\nThe financial heavyweights involved in the episode were called to the hearings as well: There was Gabe Plotkin of Melvin Capital, the hedge fund that took the most infamous losses by betting against GameStop. He was joined by Kenneth Griffin, the leader of Citadel. His company invested in Melvin Capital after its GameStop lossesandmakes money by executing trades on behalf of Robinhood (and some other retail brokers).\nIt was this knotty set of entanglements that spurred bipartisan outrage and seeded conspiracy theories online — especially when Robinhood restricted purchases of GameStop and other meme stocks, with little explanation, fueling a crash in their share prices. In that void, many became suspicious that Citadel may have been illegally pulling strings to make money on both sides of the saga.\nBut after the hearing, it became clear that the sinister theories lacked substance.\nBarring some bombshell revelation, it appears the hearing confirmed a more turgid underlying truth: The trading in GameStop and other meme stocks was so volatile that the clearinghouses — which are in charge of making sure money gets correctly exchanged between buyers and sellers —demanded billions in collateral from Robinhood and other retail brokerage platforms to ensure that the trades settled. So the brokerages had to hit pause.\nWhile financial commentators and regulators can and will argue about what if any regulations should be instituted going forward, it looks as if everybody played by the rules, as they stand.\nSo did we really learn anything profound? The marketplace of opinions about the meme stock phenomenon has been as volatile as the trading itself: A series of hypotheses about populism, corruption, masculinity, inequality and price bubbles battled for primacy among those of us who watch cable news and consume think pieces.\nAt the hearing, various members endorsed different theories. “Many Americans feel that the system is stacked against them, and no matter what, Wall Street always wins,” said the Financial Services Committee chairwoman, Maxine Waters, Democrat of California.\nThe panel’s ranking Republican member, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina,suggested that the issue was less that of a game rigged against small-time investors and more the lack of productive assets for them to buy. “We created a world where it’s easier to buy a lottery ticket than it is to invest in the next Google,” he said. “Is it any wonder why the unhealthy dynamics of GameStop happened?”\nAll in all, some hedge funds got pummeled, but briefly. Some unlucky retail investors got in on the fun too late, taking serious losses. And there were also plenty of life-changing profits taken by people far beyond the usual suspects. That’s a pretty muddied picture.\nThe most meaningful thing to glean from all of this, according to Josh Brown, the chief executive of Ritholz Asset Management, may be a large incentive change for market behavior going forward: “I don’t think it’s in anyone’s best interest to be that visibly vocally ‘short’ on anything,” he told me. “I think that era has ended where there’s this automatic kneejerk reverence for a $5 billion hedge fund manager with a PowerPoint” pitching other investors on why they should bet against a company.\nThough shares in GameStop and fellow meme stock AMC have fallen far short of “the moon” where its boosters hoped it would land, both companies are, for now, trading above their most disastrous lows.\nAnd while Melvin Capital, the beleaguered hedge fund, finds itself fortunate and still in operation, any institution with a greedy “short” position on a thinly traded stock runs a major risk in this newly democratized financial market.\n“If it becomes a meme,” Mr. Brown said, “literally your fund could get closed.”\nFew will mourn the degradation of aggressive short-sellers; they’re the skunks at the picnic. But it does raise the question of why regulators are eyeing new rules about their behavior. After all, the market — with meme stocks or not — may take care of them on its own.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":135,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
