Magic Markets Ep33: Do Your DiDi
The markets have been all over the place in the past week, with a rollercoaster ride for investors in Chinese tech stocks in particular. Ride-hailing business DiDi has been the catalyst for the latest concerns. In Episode 33 of Magic Markets, The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla chat through some of the companies in their portfolios and the approach they …
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Magic Markets Ep10: Losing their Shorts
In Episode 10 of Magic Markets, hosts The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla (Moe-Knows) get stuck in on the most exciting few days in the market that we’ve ever seen. Everyone is talking about the short squeeze strategy, WallStreetBets and GameStop, but what is actually going on here? What is short selling? How does it work? Is this a regulatory …
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Magic Markets Ep10: Losing their Shorts
In Episode 10 of Magic Markets, hosts The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla (Moe-Knows) get stuck in on the most exciting few days in the market that we’ve ever seen. Everyone is talking about the short squeeze strategy, WallStreetBets and GameStop, but what is actually going on here? What is short selling? How does it work? Is this a regulatory …
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A short squeeze army
There is an extremely concerning trend in the US market that is probably going to end in tears. The Robinhood app has created an army of totally inexperienced traders who are using extremely complicated financial instruments to trade stocks. Robinhood was founded in 2013 on the premise of no trading fees and no minimum account values. This may sound like …
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Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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Kodak – did some traders have a sharper image?
It’s worth stating up-front that references to photography in this article are quite naughty, because the current excitement around Kodak has absolutely nothing to do with photography. You may be old enough to remember yellow Kodak stores in shopping malls that allowed you to print photos from film (?!?) and even buy photo albums and cameras. Kodak’s business model was …
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