Welcome back to the channel everyone today i want to ask and hopefully answer the question as to whether fintel is actually shorting amc. I've also done some more research into those non-regulatory halts and i'm going to make an entirely separate video later on today, because there's so much to unpack so stay tuned and let's make some money. And now i want to dive straight in with the information. So if you're a bit in the dark as to what's been going on, you may have seen trey's tweet.

He said i didn't think i'd ever see the day when i was blocked by a data reporting company. That's what you get for asking questions. I guess so. If you didn't already know last week, fintel was reporting short interest data at 40.34.

They then went on a bit of a twitter aunt, very similar to citadel saying the photo was doctored. They never reported 40 short interest and that it was always 18 short interest. They then subsequently went on a different rant yesterday and the day before about how fintel is a very legitimate data provider and how they've not done anything wrong and so on and so forth. Now, until i've actually started blocking users that are asking questions, because i don't know - maybe they just rather block people than actually answer the questions now trustee dave lau was here to jump in and say i assure you that europe in terminal would never run from answering Questions about data, it's practically why we're building it, so you might ask: why is fintel running from the questions and blocking people instead of just answering the questions? Well, rico's trade says it's funny how, after all this happens and the apes make people aware of it, that citadel securities and fintel rise from the ashes and go on a ten thread, long tweet bonanza about what their company is all about and why their company is Brilliant he says it's typical, worried and sweating behavior and he loves it.

Clearly. Fintel is getting very hot in their seat, similar to how citadel securities was the other month. But why is fintel getting so hot bothered about supposedly a data mishap or a bit of photoshopping? Well, stock crasher joe says you shouldn't have blocked me fintel now, i'm digging turns out wilton risen hoover. The creator of fintel is also the founder and managing partner of a hedge fund.

Wilton is the founder and managing partner of quant soft capital partners and stock crasher. Joe asked the question: do you think their data is tainted by a conflict of interest? Do you think fintel is reporting completely accurate and honest short interest or maybe they're trying to cover up the crucial interest to cover their own backs? You can see from wilton's linkedin he's the founder and ceo of fintel he's also the founder managing partner and quite a machine learning engineer for quan soft capital partners. Now he didn't retire from quonsoft to start fintel. He actually started fintel in 2015 and used the money he generated from fintel to start this hedge fund in march of 2019..

Now, interestingly, quant soft capital partners sounds very very similar to citadel the description says. Quant soft capital partners manages a private investment fund that invests in small cap companies in global developed markets. We use advanced machine learning techniques designed to efficiently identify market missed pricings at scale, so basically they're using advanced machine learning techniques very similar to how citadel has that advanced machine learning algorithm to prey on retail investors. The quant soft capital partners website even says we are not a high frequency trading firm, nor do we perform statistical arbitrage.

Rather, we hold a concentrated portfolio of stocks, we believe to be mispriced, usually for three months to a year. It says our portfolio is comprised primarily of stocks. We consider to be high quality under value stocks. We may employ leverage and we may take short positions.

So basically, quant soft capital partners use machine learning to take short positions for three months to a year. Maybe quant soft capital partners started shorting amc in january or june and plan to be out in three months to a year so a year from january 2021. Where does that take us to january of 2022 right round the corner or right now, so maybe quan soft capital partners started shorting, amc in january or june, and are obviously currently holding a massive unrealised loss and planned to be out of their short position by the End of this month, but obviously they're, holding that massive unrealized loss and therefore the founder and managing partner of quant soft capital partners, who is also the founder and ceo of fintel, is reporting incorrect short data for amc to try and convince apes to paper hand their Shares and sell amc so that he can cover at break even or a profit. Now, unfortunately, we can't see the 13f filings for quantos capital partners.

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So right now you can currently get up to nearly seventeen thousand five hundred dollars in free stocks, just for opening account with moomoo. Now i also wan na talk about another founder and ceo vlad tenef and how he could potentially be ousted from robin hood by march. Uh high frequency traders that are bailing out this company pumping them up when they were in distress because they're on both sides of the equation. That's what keeps this company going rather and the payment for overflow just means that, when you put in your order, it gets put on a shelf and somebody jumps ahead.

It's sort of a two-step uh. You know you can almost say it's equivalent to uh to front running of sorts, because they're going to trade on what you do before you get exercising you're, not getting the best execution, that's the problem. So it's more like the sheriff nottingham plus the stock was what about 85 a few months ago, and now it's what seventeen dollars a share, that's pretty poor performance. It is definitely down from it.

Definitely so, as you heard from this interview, this guy believes that high frequency traders like citadel are bailing out robin hood and payment for order flow is very, very similar to front running, which is obviously an illegal practice. He also noted the robin hood stock has fallen from 85, a share to below 20 a share, which is a massive massive drop and is obviously very very poor performance from not only the stock but the robin hood company as well. It also wouldn't surprise me if the other board of directors believed that vlad tenev has done such an awful job. This year after the january fiasco and the massive massive drop in the robin hood stock, they completely oust him from his position as ceo.

I think, on top of this, especially as vlad tenets sold so much of his stock at the very very top after robin hood started trading. It wouldn't surprise me if the other board of directors believed that vlad is only in it for the money, and i also want to touch on and talk about, evergrande sofia, tweeted, saying evergrande was ordered to demolish 39 illegal buildings in 10 days. This is a big project and took years to build evergrand shares have since been suspended. It's really really interesting that this is being reported, because only a few days ago, bloomberg was reporting that supposedly evergrande now had the money to start rebuilding some more projects but magically still couldn't pay down its debt.

I kind of had an inkling the whole time. The article was absolutely rubbish because we know that evergrande doesn't have any money and if they did, they'd have to pay their employees and other bondholders not put the money into construction. And the article says here. The third phase of this project has a total of 39 buildings with a total construction area of 434 000 square meters.

The planning permit obtained in violation of the law has now been revoked, and it says the company is now ordered to demolish the above mentioned illegal buildings within 10 days. If the demolition is not completed within the time limit, the law enforcement will organize the demolition in accordance with the law. So not only does it seem, like evergrande was trying to borrow money to build some buildings and then borrow more money without ever having finished the first set of buildings, but it also seems like they were trying to build illegally without proper planning permission. On top of this sofia also tweeted a table showing the year-over-year sales figures for a number of large chinese property developers.

If we look in the december 2021 percentage growth year-over-year column, we can see a lot of disastrous companies like evergrande, where sales are down 99 year. On year, but not only that there's tons of other development companies here that are down 73 down 52 down 68 down, another 52 down 66 and so on. So that's tons and tons of property development companies in china that are losing massive amounts of sales. It's not just evergrande, but there's an entire list of companies that are now on the verge of bankruptcy or have already gone bankrupt or already defaulted.

And finally, i wanted to quickly tell you about this indicator that flashed warnings in the year 2000 and 2007 and is buzzing again now. It says they don't ring a bell at the top, as the expression goes, but here's an indicator that topped in 2000 and in 2007 it has to do with margin, dare, according to ned davis, a senior investment strategist at ned davis, research, falling margin, debt growth from High levels triggers a sell warning when the 15 month rate of change in margin, debt falls below 48. The market was lower three to 18 months later. On average.

We can see that over the last 50 years, this indicator has been right, a large number of times. The indicator was first shown here in the 1970s before a big drop. It was shown here again in the 1980s before another big drop. It was shown here again in the year 2000 before the dot-com crash and here again in 2007, before the recession, and it's now showing another sell signal once again, because, even though margin there is so so high at the moment, margin debt right now is maxed out And institutions can't borrow any more and that's why margin debt growth levels have been falling from high levels, because they've maxed out their borrowing and can't borrow more so can't sustain the current growth, and it says another warning sign: is that price to earnings ratios on what The firm calls institutional grade stocks are stretched now.

This is basically the shiller p e ratio, which we also know having covered it in previous videos, but that ratio is very, very stretched. He says. I would note, however, that following any rally, a break of the december low is often a warning sign, so we will be watching the year-end rally closely. He says we know that in december the s p 500 set new all-time highs.

There was a bit of a dip at the start of december, just like a bit of a dip in october and therefore, if those dips in september and october, taken out, i expect a full market crash, guys be sure to. Let me know down in the comments below whether you think fintel are actually shorting amc and guys if you want to stay up to date with all of my latest stock and crypto picks or if you just want some help with amc and gamestop, be sure to Check out the patreon and the private discord linked in the description below and as always guys, if you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out some of my others. Alternatively, subscribe to channel and ding that notification bell, because that way, you'll be alerted. When i upload a new video cheers,.