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“The 5 of Us” podcast, TEDx Speaker, Women in Tech Global Conf. Spkr, Top 50 Irish America Power Women, fmr NY1 Anchor/Reporter

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@kshaughnessy2
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4 months
"Lawsuit Against Ken Griffin, Citadel, Robinhood, DTCC, and FINRA Alleging Fraud/Corruption in AMC and GME Stock Trading" "Key allegations in the lawsuit include: 1. Naked Short Selling: The practice of selling shares without borrowing them, leading to artificial price
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Look at this headline! "South Korea Threatens Life in Prison for Illegal Short Selling" Also illegal short selling ban expected to continue until at least March 2025 "The government will increase financial penalties and jail terms up to life imprisonment for illicit
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Covered Lehman collapse in 2008. Now same weekend in 2023 & we are witnessing another financial industry implosion. There were so many warning signs. Reporters have to stop toeing the line and go down the rabbit hole. Start with all the counterfeit shares. Demand to know why
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2 years
@unusual_whales That says volumes about their priorities. Protecting their power
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5 months
70 Month Prison Term - Here's why they are fighting so hard against the CAT system. "The scheme was one of the first uncovered by the Consolidated Audit Trail" "A former Nuveen equity trader was ordered to spend almost six years behind bars after admitting he tipped off
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5 months
Florida state attorney general asked to investigate illegal short selling @DevinNunes calling out "Citadel, Citadel Securities, VIRTU Americas, G1 Execution Services, and Jane Street Capital" again. Along with "prime brokers, clearing brokers, executing brokers, options market
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4 months
Ask yourself why Members of Congress Still Trying to Stop the CAT System "House Appropriations Committee legislation that’s up for debate would trim the Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget by $589 million and prohibit the agency from implementing or collecting
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5 months
The CAT system is designed to protect against illegal trades. Ask yourself why some are fighting so hard against it while claiming to protect "retail investors" ? "After 14 years of debate, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the final stages of bringing a powerful new
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Ann Wagner's top donor is Robinhood. Keep that in mind as she speaks out against the CAT (Consolidated Audit Trail) System, which will track every trade financial institutions makes. She has also received big political donations from Ken Griffin and Citadel sued to try and
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@RepAnnWagner
Ann Wagner
5 months
The Consolidated Audit Trail would violate these rights by granting SEC and SRO employees access to every investor’s financial transactions—without any evidence of wrongdoing. Watch here.
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Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne fought predatory short selling for more than a decade His advice to other CEO's and retail investors - don't expect Congress, especially the Senate Banking and the House Financial Services committee to help you. "If you were the bad guys in
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Big Headline from @Business_Korea "Illegal Short Selling to Face Maximum Life Sentence with Amended Capital Markets Act" "Under the new law, individuals who make illicit gains of more than 5 billion won (approximately $3.79 million) through illegal short selling will face
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Flight overbooked. Offered $700 to take next flight later today. No takers Now, five minutes later, offer is $1000. Now think about what happens when they have to buy back shares they never bothered to locate @ham59591shorts @MarioNawfal @elonmusk @WilliamPFarran1
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kristen shaughnessy
2 years
Former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld ran out of time as he tried to explain to a congressional panel the role naked shorts played in Lehman’s collapse. There were reportedly more than 32 million counterfeit shares in the company sold. In 2008. The line of questioning was on
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2 months
Seven market makers, including Citadel and Virtu, are waiting to see if Northwest Biotherapeutics can move ahead with its lawsuit and force them into discovery. Northwest Biotherapeutics has a promising brain cancer vaccine. The company has "accused the firms of “repeated
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kristen shaughnessy
9 months
$NWBO The real life implications of market manipulation. Northwest bio has a brain cancer treatment that could save Lisa’s husband’s life; the company has spent hundreds of millions on a promising treatment for the most aggressive and common form of brain cancer, Glioblastoma.
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5 months
"...But I think the problem is bigger and maybe they got so greedy at targeting us that maybe, just maybe, but maybe we're going to expose something that's gonna be bigger than what most of us imagine.." - @DevinNunes Now that his company is under attack by illegal short
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Charles Schwab has about 12 Million certificates of $MMTLP/NBH at the DTCC The $MMTLP community has verified investor data that Charles Schwab potentially oversold 5x the amount of their certificates And according to FINRA, Hilltop Securities does third party broker services
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Explain to me how this is not the fox guarding the hen house? FINRA's VP of Market Operations Patricia Casimates & Chris Stone, VP of Transparency Services headed the panel that decided to impose an emergency halt of $MMTLP in December of 2022. (Let that title sink in.
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1 year
So @FINRA thinks a 3 million dollar fine will stop Goldman Sachs from “mistakenly” marking some of its stock orders as "long" instead of "short", and trade reporting violations? @WilliamPFarran1 does the math below. Billions of shares impacted & FINRA doesn’t dare tell us
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5 months
The CAT system is designed to protect against illegal trades. Ask yourself why some are fighting so hard against it while claiming to protect "retail investors" ? "After 14 years of debate, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the final stages of bringing a powerful new
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
. @DevinNunes suggests RICO charges for counterfeit crooks. Says fines aren't a deterrent. "...then it's a much different crime..." "Over the years when people get busted for doing this, for basically producing counterfeit shares, it's a slap on the wrist. They make hundreds
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5 months
Don't be fooled. Members of Congress aren't protecting companies or retail investors when they speak out against the Consolidated Audit Trail, they are protecting their financial donors. Thanks to @OpenSecretsDC you can see Congressman Loudermilk gets a lot of donations from
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@RepLoudermilk
Rep. Barry Loudermilk
5 months
Americans invest in the stock market in the hope of bettering their financial future. The SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail puts that future at risk by exposing their personal data to cyber criminals and bad foreign actors. My bill will stop this @SECGov overreach.
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2 months
Look at what Virtu is requesting the SEC do.. Why isn’t Virtu demanding trade settlement instead? Exposing all those unsettled trades shouldn’t be a problem right? (a rhetorical question) And why is Virtu so concerned about penny stocks??? “…According to Virtu, small
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5 months
Big question for @FinancialCmte before their vote Tuesday, May 7th... Are you trying to help market makers, banks, hedge funds BLOCK the CAT system from tracking their trades? The CAT system goes into effect this month and will be able to spot illegal trades and market
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5 months
The CAT system is designed to protect against illegal trades. Ask yourself why some are fighting so hard against it while claiming to protect "retail investors" ? "After 14 years of debate, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the final stages of bringing a powerful new
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5 months
"South Korea prepares new monitoring system to detect illegal stock short selling" "South Korea's financial market watchdog said on Thursday it had prepared a new monitoring mechanism to detect illegal short-selling trades in the domestic stock market. Under the new mechanism,
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
So who does Andrew Left give up? Every short seller in his contacts has to be nervous The DOJ needs to look into all those around him.
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Explain to me how this is not the fox guarding the hen house? FINRA's VP of Market Operations Patricia Casimates & Chris Stone, VP of Transparency Services headed the panel that decided to impose an emergency halt of $MMTLP in December of 2022. (Let that title sink in.
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
$MMTLP I have more questions 1) Why did FINRA say broker dealers didn't have advance notice of the U3 halt when 8 broker dealer representatives approved the halt??? That was a lie. So why in the last 18 months hasn't Congress set a public hearing or issued subpoenas to FINRA
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Putting pieces of the $MMTLP puzzle together and I've got lots of questions for Congressman Pete Sessions He received a $5,000 donation from Texas based broker dealer Hilltop Securities (2021-2022). Hilltop allowed $MMTLP trades until FINRA halted trading unexpectedly in
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kristen shaughnessy
9 months
👏👏 UK Parliament member says PREDATORY SHORT SELLING PRACTICES ARE “QUICKLY BECOMING A CAUSE FOR GLOBAL CONCERN” “…It is crucial that the rules governing short selling are re-examined and strengthened to mitigate potential damage to pensions and protect retail investors.
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Politics.co.uk
10 months
From @Siobhain_Mc : ‘Why the regulatory framework for short selling must be reformed’
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
The most accurate description I've read about the state of our financial markets "The stock market has become a bribed and blindfolded traffic cop, misallocating capital, brains and labor. And a whole platoon of crooked and blindfolded market cops have replaced the market’s
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Putting pieces of the $MMTLP puzzle together and I've got lots of questions for Congressman Pete Sessions He received a $5,000 donation from Texas based broker dealer Hilltop Securities (2021-2022). Hilltop allowed $MMTLP trades until FINRA halted trading unexpectedly in
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@QuiverQuant
Quiver Quantitative
6 months
I'm working on getting data on spending requests by members of Congress up on Quiver. Members are not supposed to have personal financial interests in the spending that they request. They do not seem to always be the case. Representative Pete Sessions got $1.6M of funding
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Hedge Funds Exposure is over $28 Trillion - and the big banks played a big role in that (Wall Street on Parade) Why after last Monday hasn't the mainstream media reported this? "According to a report at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), the Gross
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4 months
MAJOR LAWSUIT To the Counterfeit Crooks who stole from $MMTLP Investors Meet @BasileEsq Buckle up and Say hi to RICO Make sure to read these five points "63. Since the U3 Halt, the Doe Defendant's identities have been purposely, intentionally and with an intent to
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kristen shaughnessy
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This isn't going to end well. $25 Billion in FTD's a week on average "..This brings the aggregated 2024 daily U.S. Treasury settlement failure total to $4,638,960,675,579, as of September 19, 2024; with a weekly FTD average of $25,629,616,992...." We have: -FTD's and big
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McSqueezyTheCow
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FTD's at the DTCC! September 19, 2024 saw the second highest daily amount of U.S. Treasury settlement failures at the DTCC in the last 6 months, at $40.331 billion; only outdone by the $42.459 billion reported on June 21, 2024. This brings the aggregated 2024 daily U.S.
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Andrew Left Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud Charges Trial set for September "During a hearing that lasted about 40 minutes, Magistrate Judge Rozella Oliver imposed a $4 million bond with $1 million of it collateralized. She gave him until Aug. 5 to come up with the $1 million.
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
JP Morgan has about 58 TRILLION in derivatives. HOW IS THIS NOT A TOP STORY?? "The scale of derivatives held by major banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citibank and Goldman Sachs, amounting to $203 trillion, has raised concerns about the potential risks these positions might
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Who is next? What names will Andrew Left give up? Remember at the Archegos trial when former colleagues turned on each other? "..The US government has spent years digging into the industry’s practices, but as inquiries by Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
So who does Andrew Left give up? Every short seller in his contacts has to be nervous The DOJ needs to look into all those around him.
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kristen shaughnessy
1 month
Is this why Virtu Financial is eager to get @Nasdaq to delist stocks under $1.00? $NWBO has a promising vaccine for brain cancer treatment. Yet its stock price has been driven down to .38. That makes it more difficult for a company to get the money it needs to do research
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kristen shaughnessy
6 months
Counterfeit shares are finally getting some attention. Better late to the party than never arriving. @HAMShortkiller @WilliamPFarran1 @johnbrda @anna_trades @busybrands @JunkSavvy @faulkingtruth @BasileEsq $FNGR $GTII $NWBO $ENZC $MMTLP $DJT @dennipskneale @JohnnyTabacco
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kristen shaughnessy
6 months
Calling out Citadel and Virtu - just Iike $NWBO and $MMTLP leadership has done Hold a press conference and demand trade settlement "This is particularly troubling given that "naked" short selling often entails sophisticated market participants profiting at the expense of
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kristen shaughnessy
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"...Congress actually has the ability, so does the SEC, to go in and look at three specific days. We just want to know who traded those shares? It's a simple question. Who is it? Who did it?..." @DevinNunes says it looks like there were more than two million counterfeit
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@devinnunes wants the blue sheets "The apparent anomalies surrounding the trading of DJT have become chronic and alarming to TMTG.  In the last 30 trading days, an extraordinary volume of DJT shares traded have been shorts, leading to an astonishing quantity of FTDs.  In fact,
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There's a reason payment for order flow is banned almost everywhere else in the world Even Citadel and Virtu Financial argued AGAINST "payment for order flow" years ago. At that time they didn't have Payment for Order Flow agreements (and all of its advantages) so they argued
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Inside the NYC courtroom where the judge DENIED Virtu Financial's motion to dismiss the SEC's case against it. The judge was asked to consider a partial dismissal "Judge: Why should I consider a partial dismissal? Virtu's lawyer: It might not limit discovery but it would
@innercitypress
Inner City Press
2 months
OK - now in SEC v Virtu Financial, motion to dismiss argument. Paul Weiss defense lawyers, suitcases in back of courtroom. Criminal defendant in previous case has been ushered into holding cell by US Marshals. Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
They do turn on each other Archegos Founder Bill Hwang Bill Hwang wants to use Morgan Stanley's block trading leaks as part of his defense. "A multi-year investigation into block trading across the industry culminated in January after Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $249 million
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
There were warning signs ... and lies "When Archegos Capital Managementapproached Bank of Montreal about becoming a trading counterparty in 2020, the Canadian bank at first said no. One big reason was “concerns over the prior issues with Tiger Asia,” Joseph Boccuzzi, a Bank of
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kristen shaughnessy
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Not a good day in court for Archegos Founder Bill Hwang "Former Archegos head trader William Tomita took the stand for what’s expected to be several days of testimony as one of the prosecution’s star witnesses. He immediately admitted committing “financial crimes, namely
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
“Hwang taught him how to trade, how to lie to the banks and how to manipulate the market,” Alliances fall apart quickly when prison time becomes part of the equation. Former Archegos head trader William Tomita "agreed to plead guilty and testify against them (Hwang and
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kristen shaughnessy
1 year
The emails about $MMTLP between @FINRA & @SECGov show otherwise @GaryGensler . “..under FINRA’s rules they sought a trading halt. They didn’t seek the SEC’s advice or permission on that. That is something that they did” - Gary Gensler @MikeCrapo @anna_trades @busybrands
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kristen shaughnessy
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"a single hedge fund (the name of which is redacted) triggered 2,940 alerts of potentially illegal activity""..." "Recall, In Harrington the market makers were forced to disclose their hedge fund clients engaged in the purported spoofing. When plaintiffs went to serve the hedge
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hoffmann6383
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🚨The walls are closing in on hedge funds engaged in illegal market manipulation🚨 Innocent hedge funds typically don't hide from a process server and then refuse to turn over ANY documents In this post we'll explore certain hedge fund actions in an ongoing spoofing case in the
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Looks like Virtu Financial is headed to the discovery phase of its battle with the SEC Virtu Financial's motion to dismiss the SEC's case against the market maker is denied. The SEC accused the market maker of giving employees access to customer information and trading off
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BoBBY🧸
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Damn Virtu used generic passwords, and virtually all employees had access to them. They had the algos programmed to trade off of MNPI customer info and continued to let it go on for 8 months after "becoming aware" of this. All while handling 25% of retail orders during that
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kristen shaughnessy
2 years
Report the facts. . @CNBC this is either intentionally misleading or your writers and anchors aren’t doing their homework. $amc #amc .
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Richie Rich
2 years
CNBC just reported that $AMC is down 35% this morning “on no real news”. 🤣🤣🤣
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
The $MMTLP Community is starting to name names. It says it has evidence that Congress and FINRA were withholding evidence about the December 2022 trading halt of $MMTLP and that 18 months later, FINRA is trying to change the narrative The first video is from yesterday
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Kurtis
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FINRA fraud member #2 $MMTLP #MMTLP
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
"....The SEC and DoJ are working together and the noose is tightening. With every SEC charge, violation and fine, the DoJ’s case is strengthened..." Is Andrew Left already cooperating with authorities? Two articles well worth the read. Put out before Andrew Left was charged
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John Brda
2 months
Had not come across this on X yet. Thought I would share for everyone. New article out.
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
This is tomorrow. Congress still working hard to stop the CAT - Consolidated Audit Trail Which shows every trade market makers and other financial institutions make and any market manipulation Congress is saying it has to protect investors' information - but brokers already
@JunkSavvy
JunkSavvy
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🚨SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS TO REVIEW @SECgov BUDGET REQUESTS IN HEARING TOMORROW, THURSDAY, JUNE 13 @ 10est. CAT IMPLEMENTATION ON THE TABLE!!! Ask yourself why members of Congress are still trying to stop the CAT System. Call them, let them know retail investor
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
So 2 years after being fined $475,000 by FINRA for regulatory failures, FINRA rewards Hilltop with a seat at the table to decide whether an emergency halt should be imposed on $MMTLP. Even though Hilltop had skin in the game because it sold $MMTLP, and we don't know how much
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Make it make sense Why is @Nasdaq proposing rule changes that will help naked shorts destroy small public companies INSTEAD of demanding regulators enforce trade settlement? The proposed rule changes would further protect naked shorts who have flooded the financial markets
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
Look at what Virtu is requesting the SEC do.. Why isn’t Virtu demanding trade settlement instead? Exposing all those unsettled trades shouldn’t be a problem right? (a rhetorical question) And why is Virtu so concerned about penny stocks??? “…According to Virtu, small
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kristen shaughnessy
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There are essentially global margin calls happening because of the $JPY carry trade and those who have dismissed naked shorting may realize they should have been a lot more concerned and vocal about the counterfeit shares flooding our financial markets. China, South Korea,
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
Devin Nunes says Ken Griffin's Citadel and other market makers have millions of counterfeit shares in his company's stock and he wants Congress or State Attorney Generals to demand trade settlement. California Attorney Richard Hofman and I talked about how Griffin's response
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kristen shaughnessy
6 months
There is nothing "amazing" about a snarky response designed to distract from the issue of counterfeit shares. Whether you like Trump or can't stand him, the issue at hand is the safety and fairness of our financial markets. Look at the reverse repo, over leveraged banks, out
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
$20 Trillion That's how big Deutsche Bank says the yen carry trade is So be skeptical when big banks tell you it's all good. They don't want investors to panic and pull their money There's a line in the Bloomberg article I posted yesterday where JPMorgan and Citigroup seem
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
The first line in this Bloomberg article suggests the story behind last week's stock market plunge is over - but it is far from over "By now, last Monday’s global market meltdown looks more like a brief tremor, a fleeting panic unleashed by a small policy shift from the Bank
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kristen shaughnessy
1 year
SETTLE ALL THE TRADES. CAN’T JUST PROTECT THE BANKERS. @FINRA @SECGov @GaryGensler YOU’VE LET COUNTERFEIT SHARES FLOOD THE SYSTEM
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Charles V Payne
1 year
DOJ & Gensler circle wagons around banks but let shorts run amok and abuse system when it comes to stocks retail investors favor. Investor Caste System U.S. prosecutors look at short selling in bank shares - source
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kristen shaughnessy
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JPMorgan Chase to pay a $100 Million Fine and ADMIT it broke the rules "JPMorgan Chase will pay $100 million and and it broke U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission rules in connection with trade reporting lapses... ...The admission is a win for the CFTC, which has
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
Ignoring illegal short selling or claiming it doesn't exist doesn't make it go away Our financial markets would look a lot different if Dr @SusanneTrimbath were SEC Chair From 2009 - Only 123 of about 5000 naked short selling complaints made "between January 1,2007 and June
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@SusanneTrimbath
Susanne Trimbath PhD
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That SEC ignores investor complaints about short selling was proven in 2009 by SEC Office of Inspector General. Only getting worse. [Link opens PDF ]
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kristen shaughnessy
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CEO's of publicly traded companies have to fight back. They have to demand trade settlement. I realize $DJT is the focus for CEO @DevinNunes , but let's hope he understands the fraud flooding our financial system and is speaking for all manipulated stocks. Keep the politics out
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kristen shaughnessy
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It's about time $MMTLP and market manipulation become a major campaign issue @busybrands is asking important questions and @RobertKennedyJr has reposted them
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@busybrands
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$MMTLP Thirteen good questions that @FINRA should be answering regarding the #MMTLPfiasco The relationships of Ari Rubenstein, Robert Cook, Gary Gensler, DTCC & elected officials must be made public. We must find an honest person among all of these thieves and or make this
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kristen shaughnessy
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741 Million Shares Short in $DJT since October 2021 Look at these numbers. This is just one stock. Proof that counterfeit shares are flooding our financial markets. Demand trade settlement Issues $DJT SqueezeTrigger Report • Approximately 741
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BUYINS.NET
5 months
TruthSocial $DJT Financial News Highlights RegSHO Threshold List persistence How to DRS (Direct Registration) shares of DJT Asks NASDAQ to address market maker short selling 8-K
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
More on the Morgan Stanley block trade leaks Archegos' Bill Hwang's wants to use in his defense at trial. "...The probe faulted Morgan Stanley for giving hedge funds advance warning as clients planned to sell slugs of stock big enough to move market prices. The Justice
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
More context as to what it looked like after Bill Hwang's Archegos' portfolio went from billions to bust "...Credit Suisse provided the first official peek into the flameout. A 172-page autopsy, released publicly on July 29, exposed a litany of management failures at Credit
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kristen shaughnessy
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Wall Street is alarmed??? Please... Main Street is figuring out our financial markets are a casino where regulators, Congress, big banks etc do what they want. And get very rich doing it. This is not even close to a fair fight and if you think politicians on either side of
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kristen shaughnessy
9 months
$MMTLP is believed to have hundreds of millions of counterfeit shares in it - but for more than a year federal regulators have dodged questions. “ releasing the share account could swiftly resolve any allegations of counterfeit shares, but Gensler knows he can’t possibly let
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kristen shaughnessy
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This is my 11th post of $MMTLP Questions I'm asking these questions because 21 months after FINRA issued a U3 Halt for $MMTLP Congress and Regulators won't reveal what the independent aggregated audited share count is and there seems to be no urgency in resolving what's been
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
"...FTDs exceeded one million shares on seven of the ten trading days covered by the data, and on three of those days—May 2, May 3, and May 6—they exceeded two million shares..." $DJT CEO @DevinNunes Demanding Blue Sheets of 13 Financial Firms Including Citadel, VIRTU Americas
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
"...Congress actually has the ability, so does the SEC, to go in and look at three specific days. We just want to know who traded those shares? It's a simple question. Who is it? Who did it?..." @DevinNunes says it looks like there were more than two million counterfeit
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
More fines that are the cost of doing business. They don't say how much Credit Suisse made from those illegal trades or what stocks/companies were impacted. The BIGGER question is How many unsettled trades (counterfeit shares) did Credit Suisse leave on its books for UBS to
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
Credit Suisse fined $36 Million for stock manipulation (counterfeit shares). It becomes another headache for UBS No wonder parliament locked up Credit Suisse's financial issues for 50 years after the bank was taken over by UBS "South Korea's financial authorities have
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
I have more questions about why Congress still hasn't demanded answers for $MMTLP investors, especially since FINRA halted trading in December of 2022. It's been described as a crime scene frozen in time of illegal short selling. These questions are for @RepLisaMcClain who
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Does broker dealer Hilltop Securities have a trade settlement problem in $MMTLP ? For some reason yet to be explained, Hilltop's Managing Director Kelly Bell was one of ten people selected to be on the FINRA panel that voted for an emergency trading halt in $MMTLP in December
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
This is @DevinNunes 4th Letter to Congressional Leaders Requesting Blue Sheets and CAT data for $DJT. This letter adds additional dates Nunes wants data from specific financial institutions For those keeping track: Nunes has asked Congress 4 Times to investigate $DJT market
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
Thailand imposes new rules Monday, July 1 to stop illegal short selling. "Regulators in Asia have tightened the screws on trades popular among hedge funds as stocks slumped, an attempt to stabilize markets that some worry may end up stifling key strategies.... ...Thailand’s
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kristen shaughnessy
10 months
Thailand is investigating millions of “missing shares”. Case goes to the Department of Special Investigations. “Mr. Anunchai, shareholder No. 2, deposited 100 million shares with the custodian in early October 2023, but found 20 million shares missing even though no
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
What this regulator really needs to check is how many $GME shares E-Trade has sold "The Massachusetts securities regulator is probing the trading activities of GameStop investor Keith Gill, who gained notoriety as stocks influencer "Roaring Kitty" during the 2021 meme stock
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
"DTCC adds JPMorgan, UBS, NYSE and Goldman execs to board of directors"
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
Trust me on this, @WigdorLaw is extremely thorough and makes sure it has a substantial case before agreeing to take on a client. "A former managing director at Citigroup sued the bank and its chief operating officer on Wednesday, alleging she was fired for opposing what she
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kristen shaughnessy
2 years
$MMTLP stock was halted in December without warning and hasn’t traded since. Investors and the company CEO @johnbrda are fighting back. Investors’ money has been tied up for months with very little information from @FINRA . And yes there are believed to be lots of
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John Brda
2 years
$MMTLP family please share far and wide the incredible work being done by MMTLP Studios. Check out the website they put together.
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
A $250,000 fine and censure The penalty for allowing at least 10 million short sales without locating shares What companies and investors were impacted? "From June 2017 to the present, ACS violated Regulation SHO Rule 203(b)(l) and FINRA Rule 2010 by effecting at least 10
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@ham59591shorts
Naked shorts TRUMP 2024 Fork them
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ACS Execution Service June 2017 to present, ACS violated Reg SHO Rule 203(b)(l) and FINRA Rule 2010 by effecting at least 10 million sho1t sales to facilitate net u·ading by its broker-dealer clients without locating shai·es available for boITowing
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kristen shaughnessy
9 months
Meanwhile in South Korea “YOON SAYS SHORT SELLING BAN WILL REMAIN IN PLACE UNTIL RETAIL INVESTOR ISSUES ARE RESOLVED” “There are people who say short selling will be banned temporarily until June and the ban will be lifted after the elections, but that's certainly not the
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@koreatimescokr
The Korea Times
9 months
Yoon says short selling ban will remain in place until retail investor issues are resolved
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
"Everyone is done with the BS lip service" The $MMTLP Community says it has hard evidence that Finra and Congress have colluded to screw over MMTLP investors. And they are willing to name names. In an election year. Go to 1:33 of this space call
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kristen shaughnessy
1 year
Disappointing but not surprising. @FINRA will fight hard to keep this information hidden. So @GOP @TheDemocrats this means you’re up. Subpoena the blue sheets for $MMTLP Stand for something. Protect household investors. You know, your constituents. @BasileEsq
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
#MMTLP An opposition to FINRA’s Motion to Dismiss was just filed in federal court arguing against FINRA’s push for dismissal as a nominal defendant to a federal RICO lawsuit. This filing raises a lot of questions about FINRA’s role in the $MMTLP U3 halt and former TradeStation
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kristen shaughnessy
1 month
Look at Citadel and Jane Street's gains - why is Citadel fighting so hard against the transparency the CAT (consolidated audit trail) system provides? "First-half net trading revenue rose 81% to $4.9 billion from the same period a year earlier at Citadel Securities, and gained
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kristen shaughnessy
1 month
"Citadel Securities and Jane Street Group LLC, two of the largest market-making firms in the US, are on track for record annual revenue hauls as they further encroach on the big banks’ trading territory...." @McSqueezyTheCow
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
"..In some cases, they sell shares that don't even exist... They all know. SEC Chair in 2008.." "Legal short sellers have to borrow the shares that they sell. Illegal short-sellers don't bother with that part. They sell shares that they haven't borrowed and have no intention
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
Look at Congressman French Hill's donors and then ask why he's actually speaking out against the CAT System. The Consolidated Audit Trail shines a bright light on every trade a financial institution makes. @HAMShortkiller @WilliamPFarran1 @faulkingtruth @BasileEsq $MMTLP
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@RepFrenchHill
French Hill
5 months
I'm opposed to the SEC's Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). It creates: - Privacy concerns - A cybersecurity and national security risk - Explosive implementation costs @SECGov and @FINRA already have the market surveillance tools to get the information they need. There's no
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
"A broker admitting that he has been ripping off clients for 17 years is beyond troubling," said one attorney. "...And (Jeffrey) Higgins was not barred from the industry for his misuse of client funds; instead, Finra barred him for not cooperating in its investigation. Higgins
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
$MMTLP I have more questions at the bottom of this post .. and I'm really curious why after 18 months Congress isn't demanding answers. This time let's focus on broker dealer TradeStation, which admitted it oversold its allotment of $MMTLP shares but won't say by how much,
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kristen shaughnessy
4 years
Lindsey Graham in tight race in SC. From debate last night.
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Scott Dworkin
4 years
Jaime Harrison just won his debate with Lindsey Graham by a landslide.
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
Watch @Cancelcloco 's message to shorts and brokers "You might not have any way out, buying back this much stock would bankrupt you, and there has been ample evidence ever since that they are still trapped. That's why all the GameStop people are still holding, because they can
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Ian Carroll
9 months
The stock market is full of an unknown amount of counterfeit shares created by illegal naked short selling The regulators are asleep at the wheel at best and complicit at worst Big money syphons wealth out of the system Then they got caught by the balls #CounterfeitShares
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
$MMTLP - more questions 1) Which regulator or member of Congress will be the first to issue subpoenas to the 105 broker dealers to reveal their $MMTLP share count? Make it easy. Start with TradeStation. Why? Because TradeStation has already admitted it lent many more
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
It's not just Hilltop I have questions for. Tiger Brokers is a global broker dealer based in Asia. In August of 2023 @TigerBrokersSG told its shareholders that Next Bridge Hydrocarbons announced a tender offer, that's a public bid for shareholders to sell their stock.
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
Listen to the video below. @johnbrda explains how FINRA makes short positions disappear. Also read his tweet below. "... they called me back a couple days later and said FINRA told us that two million shares that were short moved offshore and therefore they are out of the
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John Brda
8 months
FINRA admits that shares can be held by foreign and overseas custodians, of which they have no jurisdiction. Which means short interest reporting and policing of naked short selling is a sham. Why would the @SECGov or @FINRA allow a US Security to be "offshored" and/or never
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kristen shaughnessy
1 year
A big thank you to the $MMTLP community Because of your persistence Senator @MikeCrapo is demanding @FINRA provide an audited and consolidated share count for $MMTLP as of Dec 9,2022. “…if they get the count the shorts are going down… They can’t show us how many people own
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kristen shaughnessy
2 months
"Embattled short seller Andrew Left deleted his research firm’s entire tweet history last year to fend off what he described at the time as “class-action attorneys and trolls” looking for dirt in his past stock commentary. Dozens of deleted tweets are now front and center in the
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kristen shaughnessy
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Who is next? What names will Andrew Left give up? Remember at the Archegos trial when former colleagues turned on each other? "..The US government has spent years digging into the industry’s practices, but as inquiries by Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
"... If they were to shut it down in one day, we would have 5000 GameStops going off. They are tipping off the shorts to try to cover their positions... The SEC is making moves that we haven't seen before.. It's going to create havoc..." For years U.S. and European regulators
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
$MMTLP FIF seems to be very concerned about this. Could it be worried some of its members have a very large unsettled short position? "FIF is an industry trade group comprised of over 100 broker-dealers, exchanges, and financial technology vendors" "During the week of January
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Robin Longstride
8 months
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kristen shaughnessy
1 year
Time for the @SECGov and @finra to do a deep dive into JPMorgan and Citigroup’s accounting methods. “It now turns out that two of the largest federally-insured banks in the U.S. – and potentially others that we have yet to explore – are holding hundreds of billions of dollars
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kristen shaughnessy
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It's not just Hilltop I have questions for. Tiger Brokers is a global broker dealer based in Asia. In August of 2023 @TigerBrokersSG told its shareholders that Next Bridge Hydrocarbons announced a tender offer, that's a public bid for shareholders to sell their stock.
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JT
4 months
$MMTLP - "Catch A Tiger By The Toe........" As far as I know, NextBridge has never announced a tender offer?? Why would this broker want to buy back shares? 🤔 @bleedblue18 @Notarighty12 @JunkSavvy
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kristen shaughnessy
3 months
Interesting to see more companies or shareholders go to the states to investigate market manipulation - is it because they don't trust SEC, FINRA and Congress? Largest shareholder of AI medical company $MDAI requests illegal short selling investigation (counterfeit
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kristen shaughnessy
1 month
Today's article - referencing 2021 comments that still hold water today "Cuban wrote in a post from his verified account: "The SEC is a mess. I wouldn't trust them to do the right thing ever. It's an agency built by and for lawyers to be lawyers and win cases rather than do
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
This is a must read. The irony. @DevinNunes is fighting illegal short selling in $DJT - and the hedge funds he's fighting against are purposely using the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans...and relying on the Trump appointees considered sympathetic to hedge
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kristen shaughnessy
4 months
A misunderstanding is a convenient excuse after their offices were flooded with calls Congress keeps trying to find sneaky ways to try and take down the CAT system and then it aborts those plans when retail investors find out. The CAT system tracks every trade a financial
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Dave Lauer
4 months
Ok, I just got some intel on the CAT funding. The Senate rider to block the CAT was not included in the Senate funding bill. I'm told it was a misunderstanding - there was no actual intention to defund the CAT by the Senate, and it never would have made it through with Dem
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
Demand Trade Settlement. "So how is it that on one day 2.3 million shares are not able to close? Who is doing that? It's can't be our retail shareholders. I don't think we have any retail shareholders that have two million shares. So somebody that's involved in the
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kristen shaughnessy
5 months
"...Congress actually has the ability, so does the SEC, to go in and look at three specific days. We just want to know who traded those shares? It's a simple question. Who is it? Who did it?..." @DevinNunes says it looks like there were more than two million counterfeit
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
A trader made $26 million on executed $MMTLP trades the morning of the halt and then the transactions were canceled. But can a brokerage or FINRA legally pull back an executed trade? @HAMShortkiller & @WilliamPFarran1 say no, that trade has been made. "Trades happened,
@Kaitlin771
kaitlin
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This picture is a retail investor who had limit orders on $MMTLP level 2 data showed, 1000$-2000$ pre market. He told e trade to cancel his sells but it was too late. He made 26,000,000 but #FINRA did u3 halt, afterwards and reversed all transactions. #Superstonk #DD $GME
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kristen shaughnessy
8 months
Congressman Ralph Norman wants a public hearing into the $MMTLP halt and to hear if FINRA stops counting shares sold short once they're moved offshore. Former Torchlight CEO John Brda says that is what he was told when he questioned the decreasing shorted share count in his
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Dennis Kneale
8 months
BREAKING!!! On new ep65 of #WhatsBuggingMe @RepRalphNorman tells me he aims to subpoena #MMTLP trading records FINRA & SEC are withholding. He gets 1 thing wrong: “insiders” SEC charged never worked at TRCH. They were at Atlas Discord group.
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kristen shaughnessy
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"Short Sellers in Danger of Extinction After Crushing Stock Gains" "...Left says these meme-stock dramas demonstrate a “gamification” of the market that has undermined the whole short-selling industry. He says he has once again been betting againstGameStop amid some of the
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