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Amateur Day Traders Liberate The Markets-Making The Rich Richer

“Amateur Day Traders” by the tens of thousands who are taking tips from #reddit and #daytrading rebels, and particularly, the financial market anarchists who believe you are inflicting pain on fat cat wall street hedge fund traders by squeezing their shorts and bidding up share prices of distressed or challenged companies (e.g $GME, $AMC and others) to astronomical prices, here’s the new flash: you are all actually making the rich richer.

YOU want to “stick it to the man” (i.e. wall street and hedge funds) by taking your stimulus money and unemployment checks and take it to a gambling casino where you can bid up shares in what any 8- year old would argue are grossly overvalued stock prices. That’s fine, because you think the shares you are all buying in unison is going to create a short squeeze and hurt professional investors who have bet against obscene tulip bulb style speculation.

Notorious Shark Tank Wizard Kevin O’Leary loves you. Elon Musk is cheering you on. Even the progressive politician Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in favor of your being able to join the new generation of day traders to compete and bet alongside Wall Street professionals, who have been playing this game for years, but you were “excluded”.

What you don’t seem to get is that while your stock and option purchases are driving up the price, every share you purchase is making “the man” billions. Private Equity lenders-who extend loans to the distressed companies on your ‘short squeeze’ target lists made those loans with their having the option to convert the company debt into shares. So, now they are converting that debt into shares and selling those shares to YOU at grossly inflated prices.

Perfect example: $AMC lender Silver Point Capital (the fat cat capitalist firm run by multi-millionaires living in mansions in Greenwich CT) and the firm that makes high interest loans to distressed companies) made $100million in two days ON TOP OF the principal amount of their loan) thanks to the financial market geniuses who are playing musical chairs. And, thanks to you folks, the movie theater chain that was next to bankruptcy last month, sold $300million in stock at share prices the company had never enjoyed in the very best of their times to YOU! Sure, when the pandemic is over, all of you are headed straight to the movie theaters so you can spend $50 for tickets and a box of popcorn and share the crowdsourcing experience with your peeps. What are you going to do with your 70 in TV screens and your streaming subscriptions? Oh, you’ll keep it all with the profits you made day trading? Sounds good

Don’t believe that your intent to cause pain to the rich wall street fat cats is backfiring a smidge? Try reading the facts.

And, the company executives who own shares in these companies are now celebrating, as this is their once in a lifetime opportunity to sell those shares to morons who have put nonsensical prices on them… once the Reddit community starts looking at insider share sale activity (when they are reported at end of the quarter), maybe you’ll scratch your heads and ask yourselves “what the f–ck” did i accomplish, other than turn millionaire executives into billionaire retirees?

Think this is nonsense? OK, Chewey.com founder and recent Board Member for GameStop made $3.6 BILLION in four days this past week–all thanks to the folks who are hoping to “stick it to the man” and other millionaire “capitalists” in some kind of “Occupy WallStreet 2.0” initiative.

Perspective: GameStop’s CEO George Sherman, who Ryan Cohen had said was “out of touch with the new movement toward e-commerce” and proceeded to buy 10% of the company at $7 in November and joined the board in effort to help them pivot), made $400mil this past week. The guy who is out of touch made $400 million in three days, thanks to the RobinHood and Reddit Day Traders Rebellion. Meanwhile, GameStop stores remain shuttered, hundreds of furloughed employees remain out of work, and video gamers are stepping up their purchases at alternative online stores-or buying direct from the manufacturers.

GameStop does not make electric cars, they don’t manufacture magic mushrooms, they are a 30 year old retail store. Ok, when the pandemic is over, one hundred million redditers are going to flock to those stores and buy new stuff. Sure you will.

On behalf of all of the fat cat private equity firms and distressed lenders who have made really big bets on distressed companies with bleak futures, you are to be thanked for making them even richer.

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When the music stops (meaning when the prices of the shares you bought at wildly inflated prices) fall back inside of 10 seconds to realistic prices that make sense (based on the real value of the company; as measured by sales, profit margins, net income, and assets vs. liabilities), all of you crusading day traders who were determined to screw the establishment will inevitably lose your money in this “occupy wall street v.2.0” campaign folly.

Or, you will have unloaded your shares on the way down to another “comrade in arms” and “believer in the cause” who is as misguided as you. Ever heard of the “greater fool theory”.

Not a very altruistic thing to do to a fellow comrade in arms, but you really don’t care, do you?

Because you are not a crusader, you are not aligned with a movement, you merely want to be included in the new generation of maverick day traders and turn a quick profit so that you can invest in another fractional bitcoin.

BTW- anyone who has the notion to join a mob and storm the SEC building in Washington to protest trading halts when share prices move to extremes, you should ask your parents (or your baby sitter, or your parole officer) whether that makes any sense.

Good luck and God Bless the next generation of ‘online traders’ whose objective is to screw the establishment. Remember, GREED IS GOOD!

When you discover first hand that your behavior left you down and out, you can hope that those fat cats will have a job for you to clean their back-up swimming pool in their 3rd luxury home.

Or MarketsMuse will be happy to hire you to post to their financial industry news platform

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O’Leary of Shark Tank Brands Bigger Pool of ETF Products

The summer interns at MarketsMuse had already voted “Shark Tank” as their favorite TV show,  so it was no surprise that our senior curators took their cue to advance the latest news from Kevin O’Leary, the celeb entrepreneur and more recently, an ETF aficionado who has extended his brand to the world of exchange-traded fund (ETF) products under the O’Shares Investment umbrella.

(Bloomberg) — Kevin O’Leary is out to carve a niche for himself in the world of exchange-traded funds.

The chairman of O’Shares Investments and Shark Tank personality has filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch 17 ETFs. All the proposed offerings have “quality” in the name and would employ a passive investing approach. The investable universe of these funds includes emerging-market equities, small-cap U.S. stocks, preferred shares, and even corporate credit.

“It’s rare for an indie shop like this to put this many funds on one filing,” said Eric Balchunas, ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.

O’Leary’s celebrity status and the application of smart-beta strategies to fixed income could help the Canadian businessman differentiate himself and attract assets in what’s becoming a crowded ETF space, with roughly 60 issuers in the U.S. The “quality” designation suggests O’Leary’s ETFs will put a priority on conservative factors, which are in vogue as the bull market enters its eighth year.

O’Shares’ most popular current offering, the FTSE U.S. Quality Dividend ETF (NYSE ARCA: OUSA), has $240.5-million in assets and has outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year:

Details on expense ratios or fees for O’Shares‘ proposed ETFs weren’t included in the preliminary prospectus. The FTSE U.S. Quality Dividend ETF has an expense ratio of 0.48 percent, which is roughly in line with that of other smart beta offerings.

Earlier this year, O’Leary indicated that he was considering a run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada after former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tories lost the 2015 federal election to the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau.

Oh My! RIAs: Forbes Advisor Playbook iConference-Sep 17-CE and CFP Credits

For RIAs who want to be smarter (and at the same time, earn CFP and CE credits, MarketsMuse points you to the Sept 17, Forbes Advisor Playbook iConference. Why? Well for one, Shark Tank shark extraordinaire Kevin O’Reilly a newbie ETF Issuer of exchanged-traded funds firm “O’Shares”  (whose first product is OUSA) will be a guest speaker, along with a list of other industry luminaries that include Schorders’ Head of US Multi-Sector Fixed Income Andy Chorlton, Tim Palmer, Head of Global Interest Rates for Nuveen, Luciano Siracusano, Chief Investment Strategist for WisdomTree.

What does the day long session include? 6 timely topics ranging from Capital Markets and Game Theory to debating Optimal Active vs. Passive Portfolio Construction. MarketsMuse knows this will be a must-attend simply because the program is being coordinated by Julie Cooling of RIAchannel and our favorite ETF journalist, Todd Shriber aka ETF Godfather will be one of the program’s moderators.

What’s In It For You? 6 CFP and 6 CIMA CE Credits!

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Swimming With New Sharks: Kevin O’Leary Jumps into ETF Biz

How big are ETFs these days? Even Kevin O’Leary, aka “Mr. Wonderful” of ABC’s “Shark Tank” is getting into the game. On Tuesday, O’Leary was on the NYSE floor to launch the O’Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF, (ARCA NYSE:OUSA): a basket of high-dividend stocks.

But he’s not doing this just to enter the crowded ETF space, which already has 1,700 ETFs and more than 50 ETF providers.

As noted by the coverage from CNBC, “Mr. Wonderful” is entering the exchange-traded fund world as an Issuer because he needed an investment vehicle for the equity portion of his family trust, which he started in 1997. O’Leary claims he wanted an investment vehicle that was rule-based, first and foremost, so no one would tinker with it.

And he wanted dividends. Why dividends? As O’Leary accurately opines, 70 percent of the returns in the stock market over the past decade or so have come from dividends.

But O’Leary did not just want to buy a basket of the highest-yielding ETFs. You can get that already with Vanguard High Dividend Yield, and you can get variations, like the iShares Select Dividend, that screen by dividend-per-share growth rate, or the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, which focuses on companies that have steadily increased dividends. O’Leary’s rule-based system is predicated on the following:

  1. A total yield close to 3 percent
  2. with 20 percent less volatility than the market
  3. with stocks that all had strong balance sheets

OUSA is therefore comprised of 140 stocks selected from the FTSE USA Index, comprised of 600 of the largest U.S. publicly-listed equities.

Given the high-profile presence and PR power of O’Leary, O’Shares made its debut on Tuesday in heavy volume. It’s the latest in a flurry of new ETF launches this month; now with 28 new funds, July is already tied for the most ETF launches of any month this year.