A nightmare on Wall Street
Le short squeeze massif sur l’action GameStop a bouleversé les rapports de force traditionnels à Wall Street. Combiné à l’union des forces via une plateforme de chat, l’accès facile à la bourse par le biais de plateformes telles que Robinhood a donné aux petits investisseurs la puissance de feu nécessaire pour concurrencer les grands.
Analysis: the end of the short-sellers?
Have hedge fund managers just lost it? More and more leading managers are returning assets to their clients. The reason is the melt-up of the market, making it ever harder for short-sellers to identify profitable trades.
For example, this summer John Paulson (photo), who earned $15 billion from the collapse of the US housing market in 2008, known as “The Greatest Trade Ever”, announced his departure from the hedge fund industry. Others, such as George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller and David Tepper, preceded him.