AMC Entertainment’s (NYSE:AMC) short borrow fee has risen to 244.40%.
This is the fee short sellers are paying annually to borrow short shares in efforts to suppress the stock’s share price from creating a short squeeze.
Short sellers could face serious losses as the movie theatre chain stock begins to move up in price again from retail buying pressure.
As hedge funds begin to play the long game and begin to buy the stock again, the reality for the short seller could be disastrous.
In 2021, AMC shareholders were able to move AMC’s share price from $2 per share to $20, and then from $9 per share to its all-time high of $72 per share based on momentum alone.
AMC retested the heavy demand zone at $6 per share and even retested above the $8 level in the beginning of 2023.
However, share prices have broken below these levels today.
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AMC’s Rising Share Price Spells Trouble for Short Sellers
Is AMC about to squeeze shorts again?
Retail investors continue to take on Wall Street in 2023 as long-term shareholders continue to buy and hold the world’s largest movie theatre chain stock.
#AMCSTOCK and #AMCSQUEEZE have been trending on Twitter for two years in a row now, signifying shareholders aren’t leaving.
After price rejection at $6 levels, AMC found itself trading above $7 per share having retested $8.32 earlier this year.
AMC’s short interest is already over 25% according to Ortex data, higher than the short interest it was before it began surging to its all-time high.
Retail investors have been waiting for AMC to trade above $100 per share since 2021 when it nearly reached those levels.
And with the extremely high short borrow fee rate, shareholders are waiting to see the stock’s price skyrocket again.
Short sellers betting against the movie theatre chain are no longer paying the 1% short borrow fee rate like they were last year.
According to Stonk-O-Tracker, hedge funds are currently facing a 244.40% short borrow fee rate to short AMC.
Market News: How hedge funds manipulate the stock market.
Hedge funds have been manipulating the stock market for decades.
But it wasn’t until now that a community has risen to raise awareness of market injustices.
The shorting of both AMC and GameStop stock have uncovered a number of nefarious strategies used against retail investors.
What is the SEC doing to regulate these financial entities?
We’re here to find out.
Welcome to Franknez.com – The blog that fights for retail investors. Today we’re discussing how hedge funds manipulate the stock market and what the SEC is doing about it.
Let’s get started!
Overleveraging Borrowed Shares
Hedge funds have an incredible supply of short shares available to borrow.
This advantage has allowed them to manipulate a stock’s share price by initiating short-ladder attacks.
While supply and demand are pushing a stock’s price up, hedge funds short the stock using an insane amount of leverage.
This predatorial strategy has yet to be announced as illegal nor has it been addressed by the SEC.
Off Exchange Trading
Hedge funds and market makers are getting away with being able to trade and swap stock in foreign exchanges where the stock’s price isn’t required to be disclosed.
They’re taking retail orders and, in a way, manipulating the circulating supply by not reporting accurate transactions.
We’ve seen this happen with Barclays.
Barclays CEO, Jes Staley – Hedge fund manipulation
Reports by Finra have been made public detailing multiple fines on Barclays for inaccurate books and records.
Barclays is one of Citadel’s clearing houses.
Off exchange trading where transactions aren’t displayed on the list market such as the NYSE is a massive problem the SEC is still trying to figure out.
AMC and GameStop have had an incredible amount of FTDs, or failure-to-delivers.
These are orders that have not been executed in options, and are usually a result of a ‘short party’ not owning or not having all of the underlying asset.
This has led retail investors to the educated assessment that synthetic shares are floating in the market; shares known as naked shares used to short a stock.
According to Investopedia, “Despite being made illegal after the 2008–09 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems.”
Naked shorting has gone mainstream with CNBC’s Melissa Lee and Fox Business’s Charles Payne bringing light to this predatorial practice in the market.
Retail investors must use their voice to address these issues to the SEC.
According to The Fool, you should invest in this or that “instead”.
We’ve seen the headlines countless times.
The Motley Fool is a source that provides its subscribers with hand-picked stocks with potential gains.
With tremendous respect, stick to what you do.
The integrity of this company is to help investors pick winning stocks, not to divert them from a stock due to its potential upside that can cause hedge fund partners to lose billions of dollars.
And that’s exactly what happened.
No matter how many times mainstream media outlets tried to divert retail investors from buying AMC stock, it cost hedge funds a lot of money all year.
And at the same time, a lot of retail investors have a lot of unrealized gains.
This ladies and gentlemen is how the media has tried to manipulate the performance of a stock.
This influence can sway a new retail investor from adding to the surging volume of shares being purchased in the market.
To the new retail investor – make your financial decisions based on your own due diligence.
Not on what media sources get paid to write about.
Yahoo Finance & InvestorPlace
Platforms such as Yahoo Finance & InvestorPlace have also had their fair share of negative headlines to try and divert the public from skyrocketing AMC to the moon.
With InvestorPlace even throwing a jab at GME investors saying, “If You’ve Made Money On GameStop, You’re Not An Investing Genius”.
Perhaps not, but I’m pretty certain these investors are wealthier than the person who came up with that punchline.
These media sources have been discouraging new retail investors from investing in AMC since the beginning of the year although the stock is up year-to-date!
Manipulation In the Stock Market
Robing Hood? Stock market manipulation
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Robinhood scandal.
This is another form of manipulation in the stock market caused by the halt of buying power.
Robinhood prevented its users from buying stocks such as AMC and GME (GameStop) during GME’s bull run.
Although restrictions aren’t as tight anymore, we’re beginning to see trusted and beloved companies get exposed as hedge funds worst nightmares become a reality.
Today we’re seeing more people learn about how the stock market moves.
If more of the public is to understand how hedge funds pose a risk to our economy and businesses, we must expose these financial institutions for who they really are.
Franknez.com fights The Fool, Yahoo Finance, and InvestorPlace
Franknez.com is fighting for the community against malpractice from all news media shunning AMC, GameStop, and other retail favorites.
This platform will serve as a positive media outlet for the community and only spread factual documentation, and news related cited-sources.
I will not encourage retail investors to take a position in any stock.
However, I will outline the facts and evidence to help you make your own personal financial decision.
How can retail investors bring awareness to the community?
Retail investors can expose false information on social media to shine light on manipulation tactics driven by hedge fund partners.
Sharing factual and positive articles relating to the performance or analytics of a particular stock is another way the investing community can stay united.
Franknez.com is a platform for the community.
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When AMC and GameStop surged in share price back in January of 2021, retail investors on Reddit weren’t worried about dark pools or market manipulation.
They knew that in numbers they could increase the market capitalization, and in turn, increase the share price and collect big profits.
My favorite part of Reddit was seeing all the incredible gain porn.
If you’ve been part of the ape community since the beginning, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Seeing investor’s gains on Reddit was both desirable and exciting, I mean who wouldn’t want a piece of the action?
So, did market makers and hedge funds all of a sudden decide to start manipulating the stocks after January?
Not quite.
So, what caused AMC to skyrocket in 2021, and why hasn’t it skyrocketed again since?
Here’s what’s stopping AMC from squeezing today.
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Dark pools and off exchange trading?
AMC Dark Pools | AMC off exchange trading
Are dark pools and off exchange trading the reason why AMC has not squeeze yet?
Not quite.
See, dark pools and off exchange trading have unfortunately been unfair suppression retail investors have no control over.
These loopholes did not magically appear after January’s runups; they’ve always been there.
While majority of retail investor’s orders are not processed through the lit exchange, high volume has always had a positive effect for investors going long.
As a collective, the small percentage that is processed through the lit exchange accumulates to create the momentum necessary to drive prices upward.
And Redditors on r/wallstreetbets knew this.
All they needed to know was that these stocks were heavily shorted in order to create a short squeeze from fueled buying momentum.
AMC gained attention in January when it surged from $2 per share to $22 per share.
But we noticed many short sellers were still hanging around, so we advised to the public of the possibility at hand.
Months later AMC surged to $72 per share and it was all due to the massive crowd of retail investors who purchased the stock.
AMC was having 500,000,000 to 900,000,000 volume days.
The movie theatre industry is no longer struggling to attract movie lovers back to the big screen.
While pandemic lockdowns threatened the existence of thriving cinemas, rapidly growing numbers of attendees have continued to grow over the past two years.
The only thing movie theatres are missing is more movie titles, says CEO of AMC Entertainment Adam Aron.
As “Avatar: The Way of Water” gets closer to the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office, James Cameron says it’s a reminder that moviegoers still value the theatrical experience in an era of streaming dominance.
“I’m thinking of it in the terms of we’re going back to theaters around the world. They’re even going back to theaters in China where they’re having this big COVID surge. We’re saying as a society, ‘We need this! We need to go to theaters.’ Enough with the streaming already! I’m tired of sitting on my ass. Source:Variety.
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Market News: Short sellers face major risk as AMC’s short interest, volume, and short borrow fees rise.
AMC’s high short interest is one of the biggest confirmations AMC Entertainment stock can squeeze again.
Of course, there’s the second component which will trigger it, and that’s volume.
We’ve seen spikes in AMC’s share price during heavy volume days, something we saw on a weekly basis before AMC reached its all-time high of $72 per share last year.
Retail investors bombarded the stock market and fueled massive rallies through heavy buying pressure.
AMC might have the short interest it needs to rip again, but does it have the liquidity it needs from retail investors?
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AMC Short Interest Today
Fintel is reporting AMC’s short interest today at 19.76%.
Other platforms are reporting AMC’s short interest at 20%; so, we have an idea of where it’s rounded at.
This high short interest is quite risky for short sellers as any major rebound could put bets against the movie theatre chain in significant losses.
While it made sense for institutions to go short when AMC’s share price began dropping after its peak, AMC has hit strong levels of support today, making it ideal for buyers to step in.
Institutions may also begin to buy back in at current levels, very well knowing an AMC short squeeze is possible.
AMC’s short interest today is around the same as it was prior to the massive surge from $14 to $72 per share.
This means those betting on AMC to squeeze this year already have one major component checked off.
Big players closing their short positions in AMC may trigger big price runup at any moment.
They just have to decide the tide is turning against their position for retail to see this.
Volume Forced Big Price Action Last Year
What will trigger AMC to squeeze?
Average volume this year for AMC Entertainment stock has come down significantly from last year’s bull market.
But this is expected as massive selloffs occur in a bear market and investor confidence subsides momentarily.
Soon institutions along with retail investors combined will begin to pick the markets back up.
And with it, turn the tide against short sellers.
The market will experience major squeezes, not just from AMC, but from various shorted stocks too.
Heavy buying pressure is the key to successfully trigger a short squeeze in the market.
AMC and GameStop proved that last year when massive crowds of retail investors began to buy shares of both companies in heavy volumes over a period of months.
If you missed last year’s momentum waive, it’s possible very soon we may see what could be the last time an event like this occurs again.
But of course, this will all depend on investor sentiment.
Because if there are no investors in AMC, then there is no volume.
And if there is no volume, there’s no tide to turn against short sellers.
Short Borrow Fee Rises
AMC’s short borrow fee rate has risen substantially compared to earlier this year.
The short borrow fee rate is currently at 44.30% compared to 1% in early 2022.
This is the fee hedge funds pay annually to borrow shares to short AMC stock.
Last week the short borrow fee had increased to96.30%!
This means it’s becoming less convenient to borrow shares at the moment; a risk headstrong short sellers must currently face.
Now it’s costing more than ever to short AMC stock and it’s also riskier than it was prior to this year’s bear market.
Bear markets usually only last about a year compared to bull markets who tend to make it to almost 4 years.
At some point, a reversal is imminent, and short sellers who fail to close their positions while they still can, will be caught in a massive tide.
An AMC short squeeze is a ticking timebomb, and unless stocks can drop forever, it’s one you cannot disarm.
Stock Market News: AMC’s high short interest and borrow fee indicate a short squeeze is near.
Shareholders are preparing for an AMC short squeeze as the stock continues to trend upwards and break new levels of resistance.
The movie theatre stock is up +18.40% on the month and up more than +37% in the past week.
Volume has steadily increased and even surpassed the average trading volume of 30 million.
AMC shareholders are speculating big moves may be underway as the rising price triggers short sellers to close out their positions.
AMC’s current short interest is still high at 19.76% per Fintel.
This means there is plenty of shorting in the stock for retail to trigger another massive price move like they did in January but more specifically in June of 2021 when the stock soared to $72 per share.
The company has performed well considering it almost faced bankruptcy early last year.
AMC Entertainment has beat quarterly earnings since 2021, striking confidence for an AMC short squeeze in 2022.
And the cost to borrow short shares has also skyrocketed in recent times.
Borrowers are now paying a whopping 66.4% to short the stock!
This is big news.
Let’s discuss it more below.
AMC Short Interest Today
According to Fintel, AMC’s short interest today is sitting at a high 19.76%.
AMC shot up to $72 per share last year when the stock was heavily shorted around 20% short interest.
AMC’s short interest came down to approximately 14% when it had reached its all-time high of $72.
The stock’s price may have come down a long way, but shorting has increased since and so has the short interest.
But AMC is seeing a slight bounce as it rejects the major level of support around $6 per share, currently trading between $7.50 and $8.
Heavy buying pressure is all the movie theatre stock needs to begin following previous trends back up to $9, $14, and $20+ levels.
If retail investors are able to successfully trigger this event, a short squeeze is inevitable.
What makes AMC more interesting now than ever is how high short sellers are paying to borrow the stock compared to earlier this year.
Stonk-O-Tracker is reporting a whopping 66.40% short borrow fee rate.
This is the annual fee it is now costing hedge funds to short the recovering movie theatre chain.
Liquidation across the markets could explain the obligation to keep up with such a high fee.
But that’s not all, AMC’s short borrow fee rate was as high as 77.80% on Wednesday.
The question is, how long will hedge funds be able to keep up with these losses as retail investors continue to buy and hold AMC stock?
FUD Grows but the Community Still Stands
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There are many doom prophets infiltrating the retail community urging investors to sell their AMC shares.
Claiming that AMC is dead, and it will never squeeze.
Now more than ever, short sellers opposing heavy retail volume are trying to scare shareholders out of their money.
But the AMC community is still standing strong.
Is an AMC short squeeze happening soon?
The probability of retail investors squeezing shorts again is not a far-fetched idea.
We could begin to see bigger price action very soon.
Market News: AMC FTDs top $9.9 Million for the month of October.
The latest report on AMC FTDs shows failure-to-delivers spiked to $9,906,536 for the month of October so far, with data still coming in.
This is equivalent to 1,640,155 FTDs.
FTDs, or Failure-to-deliver occurs when one party in a trading contract (whether it’s shares, futures, or options) fails to deliver on their obligations.
These failures derive due to buyers not having enough money to take delivery and pay for the transaction at settlement.
In the case of sellers, it means not having the goods to meet that transaction.
Failure-to-deliver can occur in options trading or when selling short naked, per Investopedia.
AMC Entertainment has been a big target for short sellers looking to profit from the demise of the century old movie theatre chain.
Let’s discuss it.
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According to Investopedia, AMC FTDs can occur if there is a technical problem in the settlement process carried out by the respective parties (clearing houses).
Seeing as Citadel Clearing LLC transacts orders worldwide, there’s a major conflict of interest here.
Ken Griffin’s Citadel LLC is short on AMC Entertainment stock, so there’s a very distinct connection here.
It’s unlikely FTDs have been a result of retail buyers since the majority are purchasing the equity on cash accounts where orders execute almost immediately.
Naked short selling seems to be the most probable cause here as $AMC has tumbled despite heavy retail interest.
So far, it seems like the SEC isn’t willing to tackle FTDs in both AMC and APE.
In fact, Gary Gensler says there’s a possibility that naked shorting isn’t even involved.
AMC Entertainment is boosting its social media presence game.
The company located in Leawood, Kansas is looking for a Social Media Director whose key role will be to strategically grow AMC’s engagement and revenue through media platforms.
AMC Entertainment has made big moves in the past two years since its resurrection from the Covid Pandemic, but its focus on social media has the potential to scale the company to higher heights.
In 2021, the movie theatre chain grew to billions of dollars in market capitalization when retail investors bought the company stock to squeeze short sellers.
It was social media platforms such as Reddit, Twitter, and Discord communities that set the stage for AMC Entertainment’s return on Wall Street.
The company nearly filed for bankruptcy but not before millions of retail investors saved it.
Here is the latest AMC news today.
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AMC Social Media Director Role
Stock Market News: AMC stock news today.
AMC Entertainment posted an application on Indeed describing a major role in the company that will strategically grow revenue and social media presence through social media platforms.
This leadership role will lead a small team to help build AMC’s brand and increase sales and profits through the use of social media marketing.
The key focus according to the application is to identify and engage with moviegoers while growing and evolving their social media presence.
AMC Entertainment will be optimizing their social media efforts on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tik-Tok, and others.
AMC Entertainment understands the power of social media and it also understands the importance of its community.
Social media has changed the way we communicate and spread awareness.
Now that the company is focused on tapping into this gigantic tool, we can expect AMC to reach several more customers through social media, via paid advertising or organically.
And along the process, potentially an even bigger shareholder base.
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AMC vs Wall Street
Wall Street has long betted against the century old movie theatre chain, hoping for its bankruptcy in 2020 to capitalize on short selling.
But AMC has always fought back, and I mean everyone has fought back.
CEO Adam Aron has built a relationship with shareholders and transformed the company with its innovation in crypto and NFTs.
Shareholders looking to squeeze hedge funds betting against the company evolved into investor activists, raising awareness of the malpractices on Wall Street.
Even television hosts such as Charles Payne and Jon Stewart have been a voice for retail, speaking out against the SEC’s inability to stop PFOF and dark pools from taking advantage of investors.
“The SEC’s determination that the DLimit order does not violate the Exchange Act by unfairly discriminating or unduly burdening competition was reasonable and supported by substantial evidence,” the court found.
And now the industry is fighting the SEC on the possibility of eliminating payment-for-order-flow (PFOF).
A practice where market makers pay brokers a fee to reroute retail orders over to them.
Market makers tend to be short-biased and may use retails orders against them in a variety of ways.
AMC’s Fundamental Growth
AMC Entertainment has been improving fundamentally since its first quarter of 2021 when retail investors injected the company with billions of dollars in liquidity.
The movie theatre chain company had its best 2nd quarter in 3 years, seating more than 59 million guests, up 61% from two years prior.
In Q2, AMC had $52 million of positive operating cash flow and $107 million positive EBITDA, which is relative to the strength of a company.
The company ended Q2 with $1.18 billion in liquidity, a trend we’ve seen in the past with Q1 of 2022.
AMC announced in Q2 earnings it had reduced its deferred rent by more than $250 million and planned to reduce it by another $40 million ending the year.
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AMC TTM Squeeze indicator
I gave a quick 6-minute introduction to AMC’s TTM squeeze indicator on my channel last week; you may watch it below in case you missed it.
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But I’m going to be publishing a brand-new video updating the community where AMC stands and what we can expect moving forward based on this indicator, later this week.
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In this article I want to go over the possible BIG rally that may lie ahead for AMC Entertainment stock given the circumstances of specific factors.
One of the biggest being momentum.
AMC saw gains upwards of +3,000% last year when retail investors purchased the stock en masse, which snowballed into FOMO from more retail investors and even institutions.
The reason it worked was because AMC had a high short interest and institutions gained confidence in the opportunity as investors piled in to squeeze short sellers from their short positions.
AMC’s short interest dropped from 23% to 20% before it began to move up.
The stock gained momentum when the short interest further dropped to 14% before picking back up this year.
And luckily for retail investors, AMC’s current reported short interest is at 21.30%.
It’s going to require retail momentum and institutional investor confidence for AMC to surge like it did last year.
This bullish momentum is what triggered a small percentage of short sellers to close their short positions, further fueling the rally.
If AMC’s TTM Squeeze indicator has a complete transition from bearish momentum to bullish momentum, then AMC stock will be taking its first steps towards another massive swing this year.
I will be going over the indicator later this week on my channel for the weekly timeframe update.
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Dark pools are somewhat of a mystery to new retail investors. We hear about them a lot within the AMC community, especially through Trey’s Trades. We know that they allow hedge funds to make undocumented trades behind doors.
So what exactly are dark pools? And, is something being done about them? I want to expose this subject today.
Welcome to Franknez.com – the blog that protects retail investors from FUD media. Today we’re discussing dark pools.
Lets get started!
What is a dark pool?
A dark pool is basically a financial forum or platform for trading stocks or other securities. Dark pools are privately organized and are known to be an alternative trading system.
These ATS’s are seldomly regulated.
The concerns regarding dark pools and AMC Entertainment has been that we simply don’t know what these communities are hiding from the SEC. This slimy strategy is what’s known as backdoor buying and selling.
Why are dark pools used?
Dark pools give hedge funds an advantage in the sense that they are able to conceal their moves. We can only speculate what type of information is being hid from the public here. Details within these dark pools are not accessible by the trading public.
This lack of transparency may allow dark pools to conceal information such as:
Any discussion regarding malpractice in the market
Inaccurate filings and reports
Dark pools can very well be the place where short sellers get together to discuss strategies and the ruining of companies.
It could be the reason why we don’t know how many short sellers are shorting ‘meme stocks’ and other information that would otherwise prove a fair market for both institutions and retail investors.
Is the SEC looking into dark pools?
In a recent article regarding the high possibilities of automated margin calls, I point out some research I found on Gary Gensler, Chairman of the SEC.
He publicly announces that the SEC has been observing hedge fund activities since January and are taking action to regulate these entities shorting AMC and other ‘meme stocks’.
One of Gary’s proposals states that hedge funds could face 13-F filings. These filings would provide the SEC with insight on equity as well as dark pool disclosure.
I trust we will begin to see this new chairman make the right calls. It’s time for change and our generation will be the ones to make it happen.
Dark pools could explain the low short borrow fee
Could dark pools be the explanation as to why the short borrow fee is so low for hedge funds shorting AMC and GameStop? Now, because so much information is in the shadows, this of course is only speculation.
According to Investopedia, dark pools can charge lower fees than exchanges because they are often housed within a large firm and not necessarily a bank.
via. Investopedia
Why do these large firms (hedge funds) have this much power in the first place? This advantage is completely deceitful and unruly. It really does make you look at the SEC and think why in the world has no one taken action sooner.
Are dark pools illegal?
Dark pools are not illegal but they are certainly unethical. Per the SEC, we can expect real regulation to surround these exchanges relatively soon.
Bloomberg Tradebook
The Bloomberg Tradebook is a dark pool that is owned by Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg is a financial media company that has been trashing AMC Entertainment for quite some time now.
Bloomberg has published FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) articles in efforts to scare people out of their money. This raises questions regarding the ethics of these manipulators who gather behind close doors in order to stray the public from squeezing shorts out of their positions.
Other dark pool exchanges
Institutions such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs also offer private trading to their clients through the use of dark pools.
The main concern here is that the information that is made public to the SEC can easily be manipulated. Mainly to conceal foul play and inaccurate information.
The information that is available on Stonk-O-Tracker regarding AMC and dark pools is the percentage of trading within these forums/exchanges; which is usually relatively high.
How does this affect AMC stock?
These private exchanges may be illegally trading naked shares behind close doors refraining AMC’s stock price from further climbing. Although AMC is up nearly 3000% year-to-date, hedge funds continue to attack it through sell walls and short ladder attacks.
And since these private forums could potentially have been getting away with inaccurate reports, the possibility of foul play in the market is certainly there.
AMC Dark Pool Trading
Andrew Hiesinger, CEO of Quant Data took to Twitter to expose AMC’s current dark pool trading volume.
Quant Data provides retail investors with real-time options order flow, alerts, dark pool prints & levels, and news. There has been approximately 34 million shares exchanged in dark pools just in today’s trading day (8/18).
This equates to $1,268,475,800.46 in notional value, says Andrew.
64.21% of trading in dark pools won’t allow AMC’s stock price to reflect the actual price action. This primarily because this amount of trading is done behind closed doors where buy orders aren’t being reported.
This form of manipulation is clouding AMC’s real share price. #DarkPoolAbuse has been trending on Twitter.
Bookmark this article for updated news on dark pool abuse in AMC.
How can retail investors fight these predatory trading practices?
Retail investors have several advantages over hedge funds shorting AMC and other ‘meme stocks’. The community must stay the course if they are to squeeze these short sellers out of their positions.
Not only are hedge funds losing billions, but the SEC has finally begun to implement new regulations that could automate margin calls in overleveraged accounts. I’m personally not worried. These house of cards are falling at the times they should.
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