Feb 01 2025 21 mins
🔹 Naked Short Selling Explained 🕵️♂️📉
- Shorting stocks is one thing, but naked shorting is pure fraud—institutions sell shares that don’t even exist, artificially inflating supply.
- Banks, hedge funds, and prime brokers do this every day, as confirmed by whistleblowers and FINRA violations.
🔹 Retail Investors Are the Bag Holders 🎭💸
- Despite what CNBC and mainstream finance "experts" claim, retail traders don’t move the markets—institutional money does.
- Retail only affects small-cap stocks; in large-cap stocks, they are used as liquidity for hedge funds.
🔹 Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) Attacks 📰🔪
- Tesla: The media pushed lies about EV demand collapsing before Tesla’s earnings, causing panic selling—only for Tesla to beat expectations. 🚗📉
- MicroStrategy: Hedge funds spread false rumors of a Bitcoin margin call to crash the stock, while insiders bought at the bottom. 🟠📊
🔹 How to Protect Yourself from Market Manipulation 🔒💡
- Ignore media FUD—always check SEC filings, earnings reports, and balance sheets.
- Watch for dark pool activity, short interest spikes, and unusual options flow—these reveal who’s really moving the stock.
- Don’t trade emotionally—Wall Street uses fear and greed to shake you out.