| ▲ | vessenes 6 hours ago |
| To be clear, I'm not claiming Citadel created double digit drops in SK Hynix / Samsung. I am saying that as market vol hits, vol traders might choose to make it worse. And when word hits the street someone has a liquidity position, prop traders WILL come and pressure. SA's filings were clear how concentrated they were, and this was known. In this case, Citadel (hedge fund) bought, while I imagine Citadel Securities would have been doing this (speculated upon) trading. We'll know more when the filings come out though. I'll be curious what of the portfolio they kept and what they worked / rolled in the market |
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| ▲ | Ekaros 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| It really sounds like market manipulation... But oh well it is the biggest boys doing it so it can't be that illegal... Free markets and everything for them right? |
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| ▲ | victorbjorklund 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Short squeezing is legal. No need to protect short sellers from the market. | |
| ▲ | bad_haircut72 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Im not a trader but my understanding was that some traders at Citadel heard a rumor these guys were exposed, which gave Citadel an advantage because they knew they would have to liquidate? That doesnt sound like market manipulation to me, just trading with all the information you have | |
| ▲ | quickthrowman an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Situational Awareness filed a 13F that lists a hedge fund’s long and short positions with the SEC. It’s public information, forcing an overleveraged fund to liquidate by pressuring the instruments they’re exposed to is not market manipulation, leverage cuts both ways and all of the people/institutions involved are professional/sophisticated investors Here are all the SEC filings from Situational Awareness courtesy of SEC’s EDGAR: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=0002045724 |
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