Short sellers are always lurking around the corner. They exploit opportune times like low volume days and key dates like earnings releases to place sell orders of as low as 1 share per order at lower and lower asks. This short ladder down technique aims to trigger stop loss orders and scare others out of their positions. This coordinated shakeout is very profitable as many retail investors are unaware of it.
I will keep reposting this message as new shareholders join in everyday. If you know what is at stake and how short sellers are trying to stop you out please ignore.
For those who are new take the time to study it. It will greatly benefit you.
I Warn all Canadian investors that this stock is manipulated by short sellers. To verify my claims watch the tape on stockwatch and follow put options and stock futures and contracts for difference.
Stop hunting trap:
You will avoid the shake out trap if you understand the mechanics behind short selling. Hedge funds walk away with billions every year from hard working Canadians trying to prepare for their retirement. They place orders as little as 1 share at decreasing prices until the price drops significantly enough to trigger stop loss orders that some unsuspecting retail investors automatically place to protect their downside. Example: I place 15 sell orders at strategic times (when liquidity is very low, at the beginning or end of the trading session)
1- sell 50 shares at 1.97
2- sell 50 shares at 1.95
3- sell 50 shares at 1.94
4- sell 50 shares at 1.92
5- sell 50 shares at 1.91
6-sell 50 shares at 1.90
7-sell 10 shares at 1.88
8-sell 50 shares at 1.87
9-sell 50 shares at 1.85
10-sell 50 shares at 1.82
11-sell 50 shares at 1.81
12-sell 1 share at 1.80
13-sell 5 shares at 1.76
14-sell 50 shares at 1.75
15-sell 12 shares at 1.70
By sacrificing a few shares at a discount hedge funds can trigger the sale of thousands if not millions of dormant shares owned by naive retail investors who placed stop loss orders on them and that brokers and short sellers are happy to scoop up to cover their shorts and hoard them for when the stock starts rising up again.
Short sellers use derivatves like put options and futures to manipulate the underlying stock all under the radar.
Please help me spread the word so that as many fellow Canadians as possible are aware of what goes on behind the scenes.
Fishing for liquidity
Imagine being a farmer looking for water. You start digging a well. 10 meters deep no water, 20 meters deeper still no luck so you keep digging deeper and deeper hoping to find enough water to justify the investment and time spent digging. Now imagine a bunch of short sellers who sold millions of shares short and are digging/fishing for stop loss orders or people who will be forced to sell at a certain price (those who bought on margin and can't honour repeated margin calls for more cash as the price keeps going down…) that will allow them to cover their shorts. Short sellers will do anything to push, force or convince you to sell because they are sitting on millions of shares that they must buy to cover their short positions.
Imagine that I assume that there are enough shareholders that will be shaken out if the price is low enough.
What happens when a “strong invisible” hand meets weak hands?
“Imagine” a market where there is one strong hand representing smart money and 20,000 weak hands representing fearful money. The strong hand knows the game of shorting stocks both directly (2 to 5% of float) and indirectly using put options 95 to 98% of float) and has been playing it for decades squeezing the weak hands. The ruse goes like this:
- They dump a large order of 50 million shares for $6 a share
- A few months later they sell short another 30 million shares for $5 a share
- A few months later they sell short 10 million shares for $4 a share
- A few months later they sell short 5000,000 shares for $3 a share
- A few months later they sell short 3000,000 shares for $2 a share
- A few months later they sell short 2000,000 shares for $1 a share
- At the end of this special operation (bear raid) spanning many years the strong hand would have sold short 100 million shares for $513, 000,000 ($5.13 per share on average) bought by some 20,000 retail investors who are now faced with two options :
- 1- Surrender to the shakeout and sell for $1 and realize your loss.
- 2- Realize you are the target of financial bullies fishing for liquidity and hold the line until short sellers get squeezed when the business cycle turns
If all hands are weak and sell at $1 the strong hand walks away with over $400 Million dollars. It is a big game that is why they can afford paid bashers spreading fear all day every day.
What is stop hunting?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stophunting.asp
Jim Cramer explaining the basics of stock market manipulation:
https://youtu.be/8DJlogbrDcA
The stock market is rigged :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9djYus9tY
The SEC looking closely at dark pools:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/04/sec-looking-closely-at-dark-pools-heres-what-they-are-and-why-reddit-traders-are-rallying/?sh=4b63b0c22e42
Why Elon Musk hates short sellers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0YaJ9lRyC8
Don’t be the sucker they think you are. To take your money is a fun and satisfying game to these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXxyn08DbU
Bear raid stock manipulation: how and when it works, and who benefits
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/bear-raid-stock-manipulation-how-and-when-it-works-and-who-benefits/
Short and Distort: Bear Market Stock Manipulation:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/analyst/030102.asp
Market manipulation is real
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntobey/2021/02/01/stock-market-manipulation/?sh=2e810dde7eb2
How The Big Players Manipulate The Stock Market:
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/2918951-g-hudson/1026551-how-the-big-players-manipulate-the-stock-market
Anatomy Of A Short Attack:
https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/11442671-gerald-klein/3096735-anatomy-of-a-short-attack
Naked Short Selling: The Truth Is Much Worse Than You Have Been Told:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Naked-Short-Selling-The-Truth-Is-Much-Worse-Than-You-Have-Been-Told.html
Scotiabank Fined $127 Million for Price Manipulation, False Statements
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scotiabank-fined-127-million-for-price-manipulation-false-statements-11597877100
Citigroup Fined $45 Million For ‘Dishonest’ Decade
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/citigroup-fined-45-million-over-regulatory-breaches-in-h-k
JPMorgan Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud U.S. Treasuries Markets
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-920-million-connection-schemes-defraud-precious-metals-and-us
When market manipulators are the stars of Comedy Central you have to laugh about it.
To watch the video you need to be in the US or use a VPN connection. A real treasure for my fellow Canadians to watch. The interview between Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart comes in three parts where Jon is roasting Jim Cramer for this leaked video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJlogbrDcA )
Enjoy this powerful and hidden knowledge. Courtesy of the Corus entertainment gang.
https://www.cc.com/video/fttmoj/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-exclusive-jim-cramer-extended-interview-pt-1
https://www.cc.com/video/rfag2r/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-exclusive-jim-cramer-extended-interview-pt-2
https://www.cc.com/video/gliow5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jim-cramer-pt-3