Leverage, liquidations, and the people who refuse to learn.
The Big Short guy just filed a 13F showing a position in BBW, which is 25% short interest and down 60% this year, so naturally the squeeze talk has begun.
The fake-meat company nobody thought about in three years just pulled off a ten-bagger in 48 hours, reminding us that short squeezes are still the dumbest way to get rich.
The new 'buffer' ETF promises downside protection—which means the dip you bought will be capped at 10% while your upside gets clipped too.
80% of leveraged DOGE positions are betting on upside — a more lopsided ratio than Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana — just as $950M in crypto got liquidated.
XRP's parent company wants a piece of Wall Street's $256 billion swap market — the same plumbing that lets you lose 3x faster.
Triple-leveraged crypto ETPs are here, and if you don't understand how daily rebalancing math works, you're about to learn the expensive way.
Retail traders wanted Bitcoin leverage with a stock ticker, so Wall Street gave them three — and they bought $2.4 billion worth in nine months.
The CLARITY Act died in the Senate and retail panic-dumped crypto ETFs like lawmakers had just banned the internet.
The SEC just delayed a leveraged short XRP fund until October, which means someone actually filed paperwork to create this thing.
A float in the single-digit millions, 99.6% of lendable shares already lent out, zero shortable shares at IBKR, and a 712% cost to borrow. Is $BXBL setting up for a squeeze?
The chain was built for tokenized securities; traders immediately started pumping fake tokens with ticker symbols instead.
Situational Awareness ran 4x leverage into the greatest AI rally ever recorded. It took one month for the market to take it all back, and Citadel was waiting at the bottom with a checkbook.
Krispy Kreme, Opendoor, Rocket Lab, and Kohl's. Donuts, houses, rockets, and department stores. Finally, an index that tells the truth.
44% short interest, a 7.5% dividend, a new turnaround CFO, and one r/wallstreetbets thread with 23,000 upvotes. The Save Wendy's trade was inevitable.