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| Marco:
--- Quote from: ve7xen on February 01, 2021, 01:09:25 am ---I still really don't grok the excuses being given by WeBull and others. --- End quote --- Their market makers are massively exposed to their own short positions and the counterparty risk of short positions. Their income comes from routing trades to those market makers, the market makers are their customers and the traders/trades are the commodity being sold. Customer is king. |
| bdunham7:
--- Quote from: Marco on February 01, 2021, 03:51:19 pm ---Customer is king. --- End quote --- And in case anyone didn't get the point, you as a retail trader or pension fund holder are not the customer that is king. You are meat on the platter. |
| Marco:
I can't imagine any reasonably sized pension fund uses a standard brokers any more ... they pay their traders good enough money to know how to use direct market access and the best way to firewall your trading information is to just not do it with a broker with its own trading desk. |
| Syntax Error:
Enter the barbarian hoard. Is Reddit is an investment broker or a stage for marionettes who cannot see where their strings are being pulled from? I'm sure the laws of group dynamics make for solid investment fundimentals. Last week Gamestop. This week Silver. Next week... Tether crypto(?) --- Quote ---Reddit traders send silver price to eight-year highs: Precious metal soars 12% as renegade investors pile in to put squeeze on short-sellers https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/investing/article-9209527/Silver-prices-jump-eight-year-highs-Reddit-traders-pile-in.html --- End quote --- For private investors who are burning their own money, be aware of the "dead cat bounce" that can make investments seem a no-brainer. Dead cat what? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp |
| Bud:
And you conveniently did not reference this, from the same source: --- Quote ---However, some other users are arguing that the #silversqueeze is a 'hedge-fund coordinated attack' to distract them from the Gamestop fight --- End quote --- |
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