Topic Archives: hedge funds

Here's a puzzle . . . if hedge funds hedge, how could they lose so much money?...

Yep, the hedge funds run by the two CEOs are selling some shares on behalf of (other) shareholders of those funds (about...

arnold55 on Paul Mampilly’s 100x deal / Mar 23, 9:05pm

When my FAANGS and FAANG-almosts are up on the day the PM small caps are down and then the next day the market reverses....

Lazut Inku on Paul Mampilly’s 100x deal / Feb 17, 12:45pm

Biotech is one of PM's specialties when he was managing hedge funds. PM is bullish on GILD as it has a blockbuster bre...

big tuna on Paul Mampilly’s 100x deal / Feb 10, 5:20pm

Me too, for years I thought just another newsletter huckster, but he's put me in the money. I don't know if its truly 'w...

timcoahran on GME and Melvin Cap / Feb 3, 1:29am

It looks like hedge funds have had some spectacular failures on their own, over the years. 1969-70, 73-74, and late 199...

Reading this entire list of comments all at once, it looks like many of the readers don't recognize the difference betwe...

How do you think this will all end Travis? WSB is hell-bent to continue pumping GME "to the Moon" (today they even post...

I haven't heard too much said about small investors who might have been run over by this GME freight train, like me. I ...

I always find wisdom in your words, but this post was tarnished by your attempt to be impartial yet fail horrendously. ...

I agree that the uptick rule was a good one. I don’t have any great love for hedge funds in general, and certainly ...

I didn’t say “dump” — the pumping part is pretty much the same whether done for profit or for a cause. Mechani...

Contrary to what some in the media have stated, and what Travis reiterates above, is that the phenomenon around GME is s...

A few activist short-seller hedge funds are not really “the establishment” in my book — and while it is cruel fun ...

So I can see you belittling folks who got into the stock and then airbrushing what the hedge funds do - let’s get a fe...

bsh857 on Took the NOK plunge / Jan 29, 12:50pm

You keep talking like that about the legitimate hedge folks doing what they always shorting to death this GME stock or ...

GoFunding on Teeka Tiwari Picks Are In / Jan 28, 11:05am

Agreed, caught the new Palm Beach Venture push as well saying they have the perfect pre-IPO for only .50 entry and (8) o...

Yes, if you buy the Units you’re getting what was sold in the IPO at $10. You don’t get the same deal as the SPAC s...

lazutinku on Paul Mampilly’s 100x deal / Jan 16, 8:10pm

Did some digging on SLGG, the latest 100X rec as per Devildog. 1. Jane Street Group LLC acquired a new stake in share...

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe on Some new SPAC IPOs / Dec 8, 10:01am

Thanks for sharing... yes, each one of these is a little different, but buying a SPAC before the warrant splits off, at ...

mark on Market Hero/ Steven Brooks / Oct 15, 7:46am

I am member and his options trades are not >90%. At best 10-15%. Anybody who tells you a system is 90% is a red fla...

Well, the guessing part is correct, not sure about ‘educated’. I honestly think they simply have some computer progr...

miroku000 on SEVEN-DAY GLITCH” TRADE… / Aug 10, 1:05pm

There is a sample of the trades in this image: https://d13p2xj50zkyqm.cloudfront.net/promos/LF/production/pubs/pla/prom...

devildog132 on Paul Mampilly’s 100x deal / Jul 29, 11:11am

I think Mampilly mentioned this in one of his updates, although my memory is vague right now as I was probably working o...

Griffin on Storage of Electricity – #Batteries & BIG image / Jan 6, 6:03pm

edski, as long as you haven't forgotten us your forgiven. ;) This is developing and growing market so it is interes...

Griffin on EV >>>—Vehicles-October-02-17–&-Beyond——-> / Dec 31, 1:18pm

$EVSI - Hedge Funds Have Never Been More Bullish On Envision Solar International, Inc. (EVSI) (up $0,5? today) ...

I just signed up for the $49 intro as well. After signing up Tilson offers a "one-time only" subscription payment of $3...

I got burned on crypto and I keep it to look at statement as a painful reminder of ponzi schemes and investment scams. I...

Momentum Alert is vastly overpriced. They claim to have access to "dark trades" made by hedge funds and other big inves...

biotechsucks on Scandium, Cobalt, and Water Purification: Clean Teq Holdings,Volume 2, 2018 / Aug 14, 6:03am

What you have described is exactly my experience and I presume a lot of other people having a long term view. I think yo...

Travis, enjoy your insights on the sales pitches I get in emails everyday. New question, since so many stock shares are...

bob on Extreme Fortunes by Paul Mampilly. 10,000% Marijuana Stock / Apr 28, 10:03am

You must be patient. Entire mj sector is being manipulated this year by Big money hedge funds. That is about to change...

Yeah, and you know what is the true nature of those so lacking in tact as to post derivative emulative SA articles on th...

Roger - I think the figure of $1,000 is simply an indication of what some people think Dr. KSS is worth. While we are o...

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe on Project Prophesy- at least Jim Rickards stopped calling for the death of the dollar. But I just listened to a long winded / Jan 11, 8:12am

There are hundreds of huge server farms owned by hedge funds, dedicated entirely to sniffing out "indicators" for stock ...

For those of you trying to generate biotech investing ideas, I've found that following what successful hedge funds in th...

RTZ on The Precision Profits System / Dec 7, 11:44am

You have to ask yourself, why should this system cost so much of your money? If the system is delivering 1600% or even...

Scott, I have a very sophisticated investor that may be willing to look at what you have. He knows what he is doing. Eve...

After spending a few years trying news letters of various types and breaking even at best or losing more often I can hon...

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FINANCE BANKS INVESTING WALL STREET HEDGE FUNDS M&A INSURANCE VENTURE CAPITAL AMD ...

$SRRA ow thank you smanuelm. Point 72 assets management especially has a stellar record with biotechs. $CPXX, $ONCS to ...

$ONCS Hedge funds purchased large stakes of ONCS just days before data release, per @HedgeMinds on Twitter. “Sp...

Let me come right out and say it: some readers are discouraged that Arch seems to be this goal ever off in the future, t...

pmb2pmb on Paul Mampilly’s Latest Tease Solved (?) / Sep 15, 9:54am

Weiss Ratings downgraded Nutenex (NTNX) to E+ Sell from D- due to a decline in the solvency index, efficiency index and ...

$RARE Ultragenyx (RARE) shares drop as muscle-disease drug study fails (8/22) Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. RARE,...

$abio Arca biopharma risk vs. rewards are compelling. Previously you suggested not to add but hold on to existing. Wh...

We're going to get to the point where hundreds of hedge funds trade cryptocurrencies... I wonder if they'll take their f...

$AUPH: Recent changes in institutional/ hedge funds ownership 1. Vivo Capital --increases 68.9% with 413,149 share...

$ABIO They disclose everything in the registration, then after that "Unlike the original “base” Form S-3 filing,...

Hi Nibbler...thanks for posting. No such books that I know of, though I've been tempted to write one, not so much as a t...

Casey, just because you and I discussed it? Hedge funds must have been watching us! :)...

Hi Coyote: Thanks for sharing your list of "following" from the BioTwitterland. I thought it would be useful to point...

$ Reality Check -- If one is primarily interested in making money in the investment field, may I suggest Hedge Funds th...

Thanks Cleveland. That certainly gets me up to speed as far as how you and DrKSS feel about ARTH. (I hope DR Norchi does...

You don't, unless you're a savings account holder well before conversion and can buy in before the public. But buying a...

$OMER:investor.omeros.com/phoenix.zhtml?… $OMER ER PR;Omidria revs $12.9M(3Q-$11.3M)NEED TO BE $15M/qurtr;$45Mcash($6....

secretsquirrel on Scandium, Cobalt, and Water Purification: CleanTeQ Holdings / Mar 14, 4:44pm

https://www.ft.com/content/bc8dc13c-07db-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b Cobalt’s meteoric rise at risk from Congo’s Kat...

Oops -- forgot to add the quick take box to this one... sorry! I've looked at FNMA a few times, it seems like they keep...

Does anybody have any idea which biotech-stock (DNA sequencing) this can be that's being promoted by Frank Curzio? Th...

There have been a lot of "superbug" type stories in the news, that and the hedge funds may have pushed $AKAO so far. I w...

$NTRP. Thanks geoff. I like the potential here considering these facts: (1) the anecdotal evidence on the 4 AD patients...

Hi Phil, Substantive science coupled with CRBP very strong financial credentials i.e. Had an RDO in 2016 and a host of...

$BMY (long with minor option position). Rumors like this keep circulating frequently but there is some concrete activit...

If there is money to be made on the rail gun, General Atomics will get most of it. As it's private, is there an indirec...

Seeking Alpha certainly has the right to their opinion like anyone else but have they mentioned his track record in buil...

Hey Phil, no problemo! The reason for the discrepancy is one I have never fully understood. However, I think it boils...

Hi everyone, my portfolio in descending order bought & 1-11 X Size: Whole: 4/NBIX, circa ADP 1/ACAD; 5/TGTX; 3/...

Hi Phil, you were welcome! Thanks for the information about hedge funds accumulating $RGLS...I need to get busy with thi...

$TTOO: Should you buy T2 Biosystems? - A hedge fund perspective http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/should-you-buy-t2-b...

$SPX $IBB $XBI: from WSJ Bearish Bets Backfire for Big-Name Hedge Funds Managers at Horseman, Odey and Lansdowne fla...

Augie on Dark Trades from Oxford / Dec 16, 2:38pm

He is referring to block trades executed off traditional exchanges. Large blocks are crossed by institutions and hedge f...

Hedge Funds liking Trillium (TRIL). http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/how-trillium-therapeutics-inc-tril-stacks-up-ag...

Any time you can beat 50% you are a winner. Hedge funds and traders in general are ruled by quants these days as analysi...

Hedge funds have increased their bullish positions in OPHT by 41% between Q2 and the end of Q3 2016 and by 150% since th...

I probably sound like a broken record, but in my decades of experience investing in junior miners I have seldom gone wro...

Lindsay Rosenwald is one of the wealthiest biotech investors in the country. His hedge funds are known to to have manipu...

alanh on Discussion re $ARTH / Oct 19, 5:13pm

I got this today from a trusted friend; its one view....not mine, I hasten to add, but well considered. I publish it FWI...

Malcolm Fairbairn founder Ascend Capital Llc is a California-based hedge fund owner. He recently acquired 71.47% August ...

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe on Discussion re $ARTH / Sep 2, 5:18pm

And there is very little point in expending the time and research effort on a company where you cannot acquire a stake t...

Hedge funds and insiders moving in SCYX. Thanks Helen ! http://whalewisdom.com/stock/scyx http://www.insider-monit...

The antidote is PTLA. The action today is either inside information (in which case people should be jailed but they won...

SoGiAm on Insiders – Who is the best and what are they buying? / Aug 14, 5:26pm

How to Profit from Corporate Insider Transactions TipRanks Labs August 14, 2016 http://blog.tipranks.com/wp-content/...

Hi Alan. I conflated two things, but both do happen legal or not. What do you think the supercomputers at the hedge f...

Anamorph on Discussion re $ARTH / Jul 15, 3:02pm

Mike53TV, that's not at all 'unsophisticated' on your SIL's part. I had dug up the SteviaFirst history in the long, lo...

Timothy I had a position in $FMETF up to last year, I'm not familiar with Fortune Minerals. I looked at my spreadsheet...

Congrats, Alan. I hope you get through the fallout unscathed. Sounds like you planned ahead financially. The markets...

Insider Monkey: ...It is insidermonkey.com what this site does is show you what the BIG BOYS, the hedge funds are putti...

I occasionally short stocks that I believe will decline in value. This is not even remotely the same as the naked short...

$SPHS no position Which means some hedge funds and market makers are thinking about squeezing the new shorts to make som...

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe on Any insight on “A New Political Crime Bigger Than Watergate?” / May 12, 1:26pm

This is all about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which were taken over by the government in the financial crisis bu...

osgo on 420 Investors / Mar 28, 10:57am

So this is it? Out of ALL the Co's in Colorado, Oregon - these are our choices? I've researched some hedge funds, grou...

Interesting viewpoint on $RLYP: Relypsa: It Is Early Days in the Launch of Veltassa but the Momentum Seems Quite Stro...

Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe on What’s the story with Money Markets money calendar / Mar 22, 9:55am

The ads don't hint at all about the specific companies, but there have been a few attempts in the past to pitch these ki...

SoGiAm on Club House for the discussion of Religion, Politics and other Unmentionables Volume 5 / Mar 17, 4:41am

Hedge Funds Think These 4 #Marijuana Stocks Are Pretty Dope $INSY $GWPH $CARA $ARNA -http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/h...

$BLCM-$BLCM fell off a cliff after Q4 ER, Looks like hedge funds exiting made worse by the stk's thin float. It's a curs...

Have u duped everyone who has relied on Money Market Press as a valid source of info and pays handsomely for it. When r ...

I wonder if there are any brick and morter retailers left who are still interested in selling merchandise instead of re...

I am an Idiot on James Altucher / Jan 17, 4:18am

He recommends some very dangerous smallcaps at risk of bankruptcy, saying he gets his ideas from a network of "smart mon...

HALO Info.....Finally, there’s Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:HALO), the only small-cap in this list, which has l...