Index trading

Treasury is selling $38 billion of new 10-years bonds Wed, and $24 billion of 30-years Thur. Given record low demand for the Feb 25 7-year auction, these auctions will give a real window into where the bond market is going. If they go poorly – look out stock...

Retail has Diamond Hands

Sarah Ponczek of Bloomberg points out that as the NASDAQ dropped 10% over the last 3 weeks, retail has bought the dip harder than ever before. Equity purchases by retail over the last 3 weeks was $6.6 billion per week – 40% more than 2020. See chart...

GME, Naked Shorting, and Naked Call Options

GME naked shorting in size is not happening right now. It seems recently the idea that a naked short in GME of multiple 100s of millions of shares is being circulated on the internet. A naked short is selling the stock without having borrowed shares to make delivery...