Terms of brackets, i see this question asked a pretty decent amount. Uh people ask betray what are your brackets and what people are referring to when they say brackets. Uh is what is my selling point? This is a topic that not a lot of people discuss and it's for a reason. So if we were to bracket out per se right, we can make it like this.

You can say this is the chart. Uh you've got x price here. Why price here uh? It's trading around blah, blah blah up and down up and down. It could be below that above that whatever - and this is the only point which i will start uh selling shares - that is what bracketing means uh in case you're wondering this is a term that derived from lou, i i haven't really seen anybody else use the term Bracketing uh and if you're gon na you know, ask me what my brackets are uh.

My answer to you is very simple: i'm basically my decision to sell on whatever price action dictates in that given moment in time, and what i mean by that is, i'm gon na be watching data. I'm gon na be watching how this thing moves and i'm going to make a decision. Based on that right, i actually have a video. I have a video that i find to be probably a pretty good one in regards to bracketing.

You know so to speak in the way that i'm sort of going to be approaching uh exiting amc stock when that when that day does come and it's this amc stock exit strategy - this was uh put up nine months ago. Uh, it's from me, you can check this out. This is sort of what my game plan is for. When i uh when i decide that the day has come uh, you can check it out.

If you want. If not, it's chill, too do what you got to do, but i want to come back to one thing: let's get into more of this situation with the doj the department of justice, because there's actually a pretty good story here. Uh muddy waters, founder carson block, was reportedly served with a search warrant, as justice department investigates illegal trading tactics by short sellers thanks for giving this mail pacca. I appreciate the article this is actually pretty interesting, so short seller, carson block of muddy waters.

What is muddy waters right? Let's just pull this up in case, you do not know, give you sort of a background. Uh of that hedge fund, muddy waters, hedge fund, uh, muddy waters. Research is a hedge fund based in san francisco, california, with 227 million dollars. Aum uh federal prosecutors are investigating whether short sellers conspired to drive the prices of stocks down.

I think money waters even has a twitter, i'm pretty sure they do. They do oh baby, oh baby, the tip of the spear in the war against shorts has been josh. Mitz, oh baby, these guys are going to get lit up. That's so gnarly anyways, that's money waters.

They do have a twitter. If you want to check out their twitter, you can you can look at it. They've got 220 000 followers. They are verified.

This does look like they are in fact, the real money waters, but carson block of muddy waters was reportedly served a search warrant in october. According to the wall street journal, the warrant is related to the department of justice's investigation into illegal trading activity. The doj has seized hardware, trained records and private messages according to the report, so why? These guys right? Why muddy waters? What is money waters done to warrant a search from the department of justice regarding predatory short selling or purposeful driving down conspiring of prices right? Well, obviously, if carson blocked for money waters in some way shape or form conspired with other hedge funds or illegally practiced short selling, in order to drive down the price of a stock and the doj got an inkling of that right, they go with leads they've got To get leads, the game of uh of justice and investigation is: where do you get a lead right? The lead must have been hey. Go knock on this guy's story, he's kind of a small fish in his pond uh.

He looks like he's probably doing something bad right. You should go knock on his door. Let's see what this is right. Short seller, carson block of muddy waters was served that search war in october by the fbi.

Now that's a while ago, you might be thinking to yourself. Why are we hearing about this? Now? This article came out february 16th, which is today at 104 pm. This is what i mean when i've said in the past that seeing change and seeing people get the door knocked on takes time. If this happened in october, we're finally hearing about it now, it means that it took that long for them to feel confident enough to share that with the wall street journal, perhaps or maybe the wall street journal for them to even get the story out.

It just took them some time, so it's it's fascinating to see if we can keep reading on the warning is related to an ongoing probe by the department of justice related to illegal trading activity. By short sellers, specifically, the justice department is looking into whether short sellers conspired together to drive down stock prices by sharing critical research reports ahead of time. The report said citing people familiar with the matter, so in this instance it appears that the doj is sort of looking into whether or not uh the the muddy waters. Uh was sharing research reports with other firms, perhaps ahead of time, so they could take advantage of what they knew would drive prices down.

So here's an example right. Let's say that i am a short selling firm. I saw this with cei. I can't remember the name of the firm but uh some firm for cei put together a short report.

This is a short report right here right and this is going to be a timeline if this is where the short report got released right. This is where that specific firm got a position, a short position sp. So if you have a short position on a stock - and you put together a short report and release it - and you know the short report is going to do what right, let's just have the stock price. Here, it's trading, it's trading, it's trading, it's trading! It's trading! Bam, take the stock price and you can get in here get out here.

Well, what the did you just? Do you conspired against the market? You knew that your report was going to drive down stock prices. You put out this report. You've got a position ahead of the report you're able to make money, it's the exact opposite of a pump and dump it's a dumping of it's a. I don't know what you'd call it, but maybe just a dump and dump, but it happened with cei right.

You could come back and look at the charts for cei. You can see the historical data behind what that looked like because it was gnarly. It was really really gross. Now i did see i should see i have been as high as it was.

Maybe not, i don't know it was trading pretty high, but here's the short report 320 all the way down to a buck if they got in at three dollars or even the day before at 360 and drove it all the way down to a dollar. I mean you already know what happened there should. Could they put out the report? Yes, should you have taken a position before the report? That's probably arguable, i feel like that's. I feel like that's some some touchy waters, and this is kind of what's being alluded to in my opinion, reading this digesting this article talking about carson block from muddy waters, they're looking into whether the short sellers conspire together to drive down stock prices by sharing critical Research reports ahead of time right it's going to reach out to block for comment, but did not receive a response in time for a publication of his article.

The doj has seized hardware, uh, seized hardware, training, records and private messages and is focused on the act of spoofing and scalping two tactics that could lead to big gains for traders, spoofing's illegal practice banned in 2010, in which a trader floods, the market with fake orders. We see this happen even still today in an effort to influence the stock price, while scalping is related to activist short sellers selling out of their position for profits without disclosing it, and that is uh sort of what's at hand right here. Spoofing is actually something i think you watch happen with amc and gamestop on a pretty pretty regular basis. To put this into uh perspective, let me just pull up amc for you really quick and show you perhaps what i believe to be spoofing check this out right.

What are you ow titan stop biting me. Why do you do that? Oh moving here to me would be like. Let's say that this, this 1977 uh, you see, there's 554 shares if those got put onto the ask and then immediately lifted in order to influence whether somebody buys or sells stock right you're. Looking at the level twos, you see.

Oh there's a lot of signs here. Maybe we're not gon na break that specific price point i'm gon na sell. Now they can influence price by simply taking an order on and off the level twos within a blink of an eye, microseconds splits of microseconds right uh. To me, that's that's sort of a level of spoofing.

We come back and we read this again. Uh spoofing is a legal practice banned in 2010, in which a trader floods, the market, with fake orders in an effort to influence a stock price that is uh. My opinion on what you're kind of watching happen there with that specific uh piece of information, all right, anyways, adam aaron. This is actually pretty interesting.

Let's talk about this briefly right, adam aaron! Well! Well! Well, would you look at this justice department is pursuing wide range investigation of short sellers. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether short sellers conspired to drive down stock prices, wall street journal february, 16, 2020, so adam aaron has been very kind of vocal and it's. This is a drastic change in comparison to what adam aaron has usually done in terms of uh talking about sort of market corruption and shorts and short interest, and that sort of stuff uh. This is a complete 180..

He would. He would dodge that that that conversation at all costs before and what you have now is him twice. This is the second time i'd say in the last couple weeks that he's sort of spearheaded uh pretty driving information regarding shorts in short interest. The last time was uh about short interest.

He spoke about it being over 20. He said. I believe that i'm right, i believe these shorts are wrong. I think they're gon na get smacked.

He believed that now you have this him talking about the wall street journal. So now, why would a ceo of a heavily shortened company come out and tweet about the wall street journal talking about potentially uh predatory, short sellers? Well, maybe because he believes that to be the case for his own company. Maybe he believes that his company is being targeted as a form of predatory shorting. I don't know it's very possible.

I think it's it's good to see. Let me tell you it's good to see adam aaron coming up publicly and speaking on what he believes to be uh targeting of shorts within different companies. I think he recognizes it's not just his. It's not just amc.

It's not just other companies like that uh. Just like his anyways, it is a lot of small, mid cap companies that i believe shorts are conspiring to short down and turn down prices for so uh. That's that's kind of what i believe to be the case. When i see people ask too as well try to interview him and ask him why alex? I appreciate that question uh.

I wish that it was that simple i've reached out to adam aaron i'll put this out on the record, just so that everybody that's watching right now can have it right. I've reached out to adam aaron, multiple times uh for another interview. Just so we can kind of touch base. We can ask questions, we can ask him some hardball, some softballs, all this stuff right, all the different balls, the soft medium hard, the diamond, the obsidian balls, whatever uh he he never replied to it.

He didn't uh at one point in time we had agreed upon doing an interview and uh. He doesn't want to do one anymore. That's okay! You know it could just be that he watches my my channel. He doesn't like the the direction in which i i i have conversation that could be it.

I don't know. Maybe he doesn't like something that i'm doing. Maybe he just has some legal stuff he's taken care of, maybe he's just decided he wants to lessen his exposure. I don't know what the answer is uh to that question, why he uh hasn't answered, but it's not it's not a me thing.

You know i've reached out to him uh personally directly and i've asked if he wants to do an interview and uh. I haven't got a response and i'm gon na leave it at that. You know i'm just respecting his his space. He runs the company.

I do not. I run a youtube channel they're drastically different things. Uh he's got ta, do what he's got ta do that's it. Maybe it'll happen, you know if he reaches out to me and says trey i'd love to do another interview.

You can bet your ass that i'll bring it back on, but i'm not gon na press him for it. You know i've asked uh more than once and to to put it in the in the most uh easy way possible. I i've been ghosted so uh, it is what it is he's got stuff he's got to do, uh, i'm just gon na leave it at that. He's to do what he's got to do.

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You already know how it goes. Much love light taps, as always till the next time.