• tal@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    checks Yahoo Finance

    It’s lost 29.69% of its value in the last five days.

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      The Saudis and Russia will shore up the price shortly before mushroomhead starts selling like a banshee, then they’ll slurp up all his shares at the ask price. I’ve thought about call options but I’m not that brave.

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        That’s what people are missing here. It’s essentially just a vehicle for anyone to bribe trump nice and easy.

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        I don’t think Russia’s affording all that much nowadays… last I heard, they were experiencing liquidity issues trading with China?

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          Russia has many different rich people in it. Some have more free cash than others, of course. It isn’t some monolithic entity.

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    Oh that’s beautiful. It’s actually been a pretty good week for tech considering there was a pretty bad couple of days last week.

    Trump’s stock is almost the lowest it’s ever been. It’s lower than the IPO price.

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    so not only is the stock plummeting, it means the employees there have no confidence in the company whatsoever lol.

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      I thought about it but decided it wasn’t a good idea to use logic on a stock powered by vibes / fraud. “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” and all.

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      I thought about that. Apparently the short interest was so high they were charging shorts crazy interest rates to borrow it. You’d have to bet on a huge drop in a very short amount of time. I can’t be bothered to look it up but I think it was something crazy like 40-50x a normal rate. One of the only reasons to hold was to charge short sellers interest, for a sane person anyway.

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      If I hadn’t been out of work for months, I’d have started an account just to short it. It’s rare to find such a sure bet.

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      “Lockup” is an investment term. When a company has an IPO (Initial Public Offering, which is the day they become publically available for stock trades), the big shareholders and company employees who are invested ahead of the IPO are “locked” from selling their shares for a certain number of days. This isn’t required, but most companies having an IPO end up having a lockup period set as well.

      In regards to this headline, it just means that the initial investors and big shareholders are now free to sell their shares, which they are apparently doing in droves!

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        which they are apparently doing in droves!

        There was a rather public legal fight earlier with two of the co-founders (not Trump) who were trying to exit and claiming they had the right to do so earlier than the lockup date and that the company wasn’t letting them do so. IIRC, they held about 10% of the company.

        I’d assume that they got out or started getting out as soon as possible.

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    I bought puts, but at this rate, the company will be bankrupt before the contract expires in January.