At the beginning of 2023, some might have thought that the retail hype was going to slow down as GameStop Corp. (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. both showcased wild and …
Read More2023-12-21It is no surprise that the retail traders started to closely scrutinize what is going on in Ukraine. While retail investors show great concern about human suffering, they are also analysing how …
Read More2022-03-05Retail Traders and Start of 2022 It has been an interesting start of the year for the meme-side of the market. Retailers started to grapple with something they have seen …
Read More2022-02-03What a year for retail investors! 2021 was a transformational year for the retail community over at r/wsb (wallstreetbets), Twitter and other social media channels. 2021 started with a bang …
Read More2022-01-07The trend of pushing companies onto the public market via a SPAC transaction does not seem to be dying out. There was a brief pause earlier this year in terms …
Read More2021-11-07The relationship of the newly minted retailer traders and short-sellers was rocky from the beginning. It began with GME and AMC and continued with the retail traders focusing on short-squeezes. …
Read More2021-11-03The third quarter of 2021 saw fewer short campaigns. We have seen 'only' 24 new activist shorts campaigns as opposed to the YTD average of 34 per quarter. However, the activists overall kept …
Read More2021-10-01This week we have registered four new major activist shorts campaigns. Grizzly came out with another Chinese target, White Diamond wrote about an apparently unsuccessful tech company that is already down 25% since …
Read More2021-08-16This week we have registered three new short campaigns and a number of follow-up reports. Perhaps the most interesting one was Hindenburg, who again aimed at a trendy and popular …
Read More2021-04-10This week we registered four new campaigns. The most impactful were so far, new from Muddy Waters and new from Mariner Research. The latter targeted an EV company which according to the …
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