BREAKING NEWS🔥
HEDGE FUNDS SUING
@SECGOV
OVER NEW SHORT SELLING DISCLOSURE RULES‼️

THEY'RE TERRIFIED OF HAVING TO REPORT THEIR SHORT POSITIONS🔥🙊

"The lawsuit claims that the rules will discourage short selling because they would reveal confidential information about trading strategies and enable market participants to imitate or trade against funds deploying a short-selling strategy."

Since when have short HF ever cared about protecting retail⁉️ NEVER!

THE ONLY PRICE DISCOVERY THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED IS THE ILLEGAL AND MALICIOUS SHORTING WHICH BRINGS STOCK PRICES DOWN. THAT WOULD BE MORE DIFFICULT FOR SHORT HF'S‼️

🚨BREAKING NEWS🔥
HEDGE FUNDS SUING @SECGOV OVER NEW SHORT SELLING DISCLOSURE RULES‼️

THEY'RE TERRIFIED OF HAVING TO REPORT THEIR SHORT POSITIONS🔥🙊

"The lawsuit claims that the rules will discourage short selling because they would reveal confidential information about… pic.twitter.com/IfeP0od6XW

— The Butcher of Wall Street Marcel Kalinovic (@BossBlunts1) December 12, 2023

Yes that would be nice

In 2022, Citadel got a $1.15B bailout from Sequoia and Paradigm, their first outside investment. They also took a $600M loan, deceiving investors about performance. In 2023, Citadel secures a $400M loan, adding to debt, still deceiving investors and media.

Citadel Securities takes on a $400 million loan, increasing its debt.

Citadel Securities Revenue Jumps to $1.8 Billion on Volatility.

Published in the Bloomberg piece. They employed their standard tactic of presenting a favorable spin in the headline, but the content swiftly highlights the dreadful circumstances.

"The company's total cash on the balance sheet will be around $3.9 billion after the loan transaction, with a total debt of approximately $3.9 billion.

According to Bloomberg, Citadel Securities announced a $400 million loan on Monday. The money raised would be utilized for trading capital as well as other general company uses. The company will combine the new debt, which has the lowest investment-grade rating, with its current $3.54 billion term loan.

DTCC Closes Acquisition of Blockchain-Based Financial Technology Firm Securrency Inc. to Drive Development of the Digital Post-Trade Infrastructure

Business rebranded DTCC Digital Assets

Today, DTCC announced it has closed on the transaction to acquire Securrency Inc. (“Securrency”), a leading developer of institutional-grade, digital asset infrastructure. DTCC announced the signing of the definitive agreement to acquire Securrency in October.

With the acquisition complete, DTCC retires the Securrency brand, and has renamed the business DTCC Digital Assets. It will operate as a business within DTCC, reporting into Lynn Bishop, Managing Director and Chief Information Officer.

“We are excited to bring together our people, expertise and respective technologies to create a powerful combination that will help the industry unlock the value of digital assets and drive market-wide transformation,” said Frank La Salla, DTCC President, CEO and Director. “We look forward to providing global leadership to establish a robust digital infrastructure that protects the safety and soundness of financial markets and delivers on the enormous promise and potential of institutional DeFi in the coming years.”

Haha yup 👍

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/petrodollar-endgame-moves-even-closer

The death of the petrodollar is one of the key waypoints in the US dollar losing reserve currency status, as I have written about at length in the past. And while the US dollar used to be the only currency that foreign nations would trade oil in, that has now come to a screeching halt.

Not only is Saudi Arabia trading oil in other currencies than the dollar (notably the Yuan), it now appears the UAE is also strategically shifting away from the US dollar in its oil transactions, marking a significant change in the global financial landscape.

This move, involving potential deals with up to 15 countries including China, Russia, and Egypt, is part of the de-dollarization trend I have predicted, led by the oil sector. Led by the BRICS alliance, the move is redefining global economics and challenging the US dollar's dominance in international trade.

BTFP Bank Term Funding Program Fed liquidity bailout for banks has reached new all time high of $125 Billion today

🔥FED losses exceed $125 BILLION

🔥Reverse Repo COLLAPSING to sub $800 Billion (Mutual Fund & Shadow Bank excess liquidity)

🔥REPO FACILITY jumps to highest level since C19 SHUTDOWN to $200 Million (Banks seeking liquidity to prevent margin calls)

JUST IN: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has just listed Fidelity's spot Bitcoin ETF is now with the ticker $FBTC.

JUST IN: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has just listed Fidelity's spot Bitcoin ETF is now with the ticker $FBTC.

The banks are in major trouble. Their only solution is bs cbdc. No one is buying treasuries and the BRICS own most of the necessary resources. Tokenization is going to open up many countries and revenue streams that this myopic government doesnt get. Using the whole firt doc…

A US House Committee passed a pro-blockchain bill with unanimous support. If it takes effect, it will increase blockchain adoption in the country by tasking the US secretary of commerce with promoting its deployment, Cointelegraph reported, citing a recent committee session.

The Committee on Energy and Commerce passed the Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2023, a dozen-page bill aimed at promoting “the competitiveness of the United States related to the deployment, use, application, and competitiveness of blockchain technology or other distributed ledger technology.”

Lol

Agreed DD.

The #BIS and #CentralBanks worldwide continue to stack gold reserves, setting the stage for a #gold revaluation in 2024

The fusion of physical gold and #blockchain is about to redefine #wealth in ways we've never imagined, but the window to capitalize is closing fast

Yup

Yes sir

1-share trades are the most common odd lot trade size, accounting for 9.62% of all odd lot transactions and 3.65% of all trades on NASDAQ in 2012. While 50.41% of 1-share trades result from broken orders, 34.89% of 1-share trades are intentional. We provide substantial evidence that traders use 1-share trades to “ping” for hidden liquidity. In particular, our results indicate that 1-share trades are disproportionately aggressive and also execute against hidden liquidity more than any other odd lot trade size. We also find a relative increase in trading immediately following a 1-share trade. Our results are in line with Clark-Joseph (2014), who suggests that traders may use small, unprofitable trades to detect information from other traders. Specifically, 1-share trades represent the minimum cash outlay necessary to trade, while simultaneously producing the smallest possible effects on a market maker's inventory, and in turn, a security's price.

It was a thumbs up

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But it can all be avoided with just one simple phone call. How? One phone call from the Treasury to the Federal Reserve could reprice the Treasury’s gold from $42.22 per ounce (historic cost) to a market level of $2,042 per ounce (today’s price).

That would pull over $550 billion of new spending power out of thin air — without issuing any debt. This was actually done by the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s under similar circumstances.

That’s right. Most people don’t realize that there’s a way gold can be used to work around the debt ceiling crisis. I call it the weird gold trick, and it’s never seen discussed anywhere outside of some very technical academic circles.

2023-03-28 8,138,084 + 0 = 8,138,084 / 20,408,154 = 39.88
2023-03-27 2,672,742 + 0 = 2,672,742 / 5,949,763 = 44.92
2023-03-24 2,718,330 + 0 = 2,718,330 / 6,253,522 = 43.47
2023-03-23 1,172,767 + 0 = 1,172,767 / 2,993,851 = 39.17
2023-03-22 1,182,355 + 0 = 1,182,355 / 2,557,654 = 46.23
2023-03-21 2,398,637 + 0 = 2,398,637 / 4,890,122 = 49.05
2023-03-20 1,257,497 + 0 = 1,257,497 / 3,063,611 = 41.05
2023-03-17 4,231,060 + 0 = 4,231,060 / 5,893,075 = 71.80
2023-03-16 1,801,100 + 0 = 1,801,100 / 3,993,963 = 45.10
2023-03-15 4,021,132 + 0 = 4,021,132 / 9,729,435 = 41.33

Off-Exchange Short Volume 8,138,084 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume) Ratio 39.88% - Short Interest 2,818,262 shares -
Short Interest Ratio 1.10 Days to Cover

I dont think so

Multiple companies including AMC have made complaints to FINRA regarding the large amount of Failure To Delivers (FTDs) in their stock. One of the biggest complaints that caused multiple lawsuits against FINRA is from the Halt of MMTLP. Wes Christian states this security may be one of the biggest to expose counterfeit shares.

https://news.investorturf.com/finra-lawsuit

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While OTC Pink listing requirements are minimal, the OTC Markets has established specific disclosure requirements for companies quoted on the OTC Pink Current Information tier.
Issuers must file annual and quarterly disclosures (“Information and Disclosure Statements”) as well as updates in order to maintain their assignment to the OTC Pink Current tier. Annual reports must be filed no later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year and quarterly reports must be filed no later than 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter.
Additionally, the issuer must file current information updates within 10 business days if:
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? upon the occurrence of certain material events (described below).
Issuers are required to file annual reports 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, providing the following disclosures:
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2023-03-21 2,398,637 + 0 = 2,398,637 / 4,890,122 = 49.05
2023-03-20 1,257,497 + 0 = 1,257,497 / 3,063,611 = 41.05
2023-03-17 4,231,060 + 0 = 4,231,060 / 5,893,075 = 71.80
2023-03-16 1,801,100 + 0 = 1,801,100 / 3,993,963 = 45.10
2023-03-15 4,021,132 + 0 = 4,021,132 / 9,729,435 = 41.33
2023-03-14 5,502,370 + 0 = 5,502,370 / 10,663,811 = 51.60
2023-03-13 1,665,146 + 0 = 1,665,146 / 4,438,060 = 37.52
2023-03-10 3,903,681 + 0 = 3,903,681 / 8,388,914 = 46.53
2023-03-09 10,103,179 + 0 = 10,103,179 / 17,424,413 = 57.98
2023-03-08 2,953,627 + 0 = 2,953,627 / 7,547,042 = 39.14

yes no short activity here dang Finra always lies LOL

Off-Exchange Short Volume 2,398,637 shares - source: FINRA Short Volume Ratio 49.05% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)
Short Interest 3,605,255 shares - source: FINRA
Short Interest Ratio 0.52 Days to Cover

Off-Exchange Short Volume 4,231,060 shares - Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 71.80% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)
Short Interest 3,605,255 shares - source: FINRA
Short Interest Ratio 0.50 Days to Cover

Short Interest 3,605,255 shares - source: FINRA Off-Exchange Short Volume 1,801,100 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)
Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 45.10% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)

Lol

Short Interest 3,605,255 shares - source: FINRA
Short Interest Ratio 1.00 Days to Cover
Off-Exchange Short Volume 4,021,132 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)
Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 41.33% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)

The difference between short interest and short volume
There has been a good deal of discussion back and forth here on the topics of "short interest" and "short volume." I thought it might be helpful to shed some light on the important distinction between these two.

Think of short interest as a "photograph" at a given point in time of the total number of shares held short as of that precise moment (most often, the end of a quarter or a month).

Think of short volume as a "movie" covering the activity of a trading day (or longer period), which captures on film the total number of shares shorted during that day.

And finally, think of the short volume percentage as the fraction that results from dividing the total number of shares shorted during that day by the total number of shares traded for that day.

The really critical point to understand here is that short volume for a given trading day or other period is not a number that can be added to existing short interest to derive the new short interest total. The reason for that is that the short volume on any given day measures only the shares shorted and takes no account of the share trades made to close short positions. Most typically, a very high percentage of short trades will be closed on the same day resulting in a short interest at the end of the day that is little changed from the short interest at the beginning of that day.

How and why does this happen? Welcome to the world of HFT (high-frequency trading), where the bots hit the market with a staccato of relatively small trades, the net effect of which is to drive the SP down on moderately low volume. At that point (or on closely following days), shares are purchased at the new, lower prices to close out the shorts. So the net change in short interest is often very small even when the short volume is very large.

For those that really want to see the short volume from FINRA site here is the link: https://cdn.finra.org/equity/regsho/daily/FORFshvol20230315.txt
Date|Symbol|ShortVolume|ShortExemptVolume|TotalVolume|Market
20230315|AABB|4021132|0|9729435|O

Lol yep

Short Sale Volume (Off-Exchange Provided by FINRA)
2023-03-14 5,502,370 + 0 = 5,502,370 / 10,663,811 = 51.60
2023-03-13 1,665,146 + 0 = 1,665,146 / 4,438,060 = 37.52
2023-03-10 3,903,681 + 0 = 3,903,681 / 8,388,914 = 46.53
2023-03-09 10,103,179 + 0 = 10,103,179 / 17,424,413 = 57.98
2023-03-08 2,953,627 + 0 = 2,953,627 / 7,547,042 = 39.14
2023-03-07 4,525,403 + 0 = 4,525,403 / 9,071,478 = 49.89
2023-03-06 5,722,328 + 0 = 5,722,328 / 9,507,958 = 60.18
2023-03-03 2,666,373 + 0 = 2,666,373 / 5,341,401 = 49.92
2023-03-02 852,085 + 0 = 852,085 / 3,995,963 = 21.32
2023-03-01 1,300,028 + 0 = 1,300,028 / 3,683,256 = 35.30

Off-Exchange Short Volume 5,502,370 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)0.48 Days to Cover
Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 51.60% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)

2023-03-09 10,103,179 + 0 = 10,103,179 / 17,424,413 = 57.98
2023-03-08 2,953,627 + 0 = 2,953,627 / 7,547,042 = 39.14
2023-03-07 4,525,403 + 0 = 4,525,403 / 9,071,478 = 49.89
2023-03-06 5,722,328 + 0 = 5,722,328 / 9,507,958 = 60.18
2023-03-03 2,666,373 + 0 = 2,666,373 / 5,341,401 = 49.92
2023-03-02 852,085 + 0 = 852,085 / 3,995,963 = 21.32
2023-03-01 1,300,028 + 0 = 1,300,028 / 3,683,256 = 35.30
2023-02-28 2,773,654 + 0 = 2,773,654 / 4,896,247 = 56.65
2023-02-27 2,110,667 + 0 = 2,110,667 / 3,900,655 = 54.11
2023-02-24 2,741,362 + 0 = 2,741,362 / 3,919,017 = 69.95

Off-Exchange Short Volume 10,103,179 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)0.46 Days to Cover
Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 57.98% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)

Off-Exchange Short Volume 2,953,627 shares - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)
Off-Exchange Short Volume Ratio 39.14% - source: FINRA (inc. Dark Pool volume)