Seeking Alpha/theStreet/CNBC - In Cahoots with the Shorts?

[surfish]

What are your thoughts? What happened to the SEC? What about fomenting?

[thekindaguyiyam]

yes.  along with ameritrade and yahoo all of which reflect Jim Cramer's "the street"

[BD]

iyam, why do you lump TDA into this motley crew?

[surfish]

So, they're on the payroll? Or just shorting concertedly?

[thekindaguyiyam]

because they use the street.  Look at the analyst ratings and suggestion of buy or sell.
Do you think they are neutral?  Likewise PBS is funded by the street.  The Street Monopolizes the market.
It uses Bloomberg, CNBC, Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha to represent the Sell side on a greater level than on the investment side.  Why?  Because all those articles stimulate Cash.

These margin calls are killing me.  I owe a 1/4
if I pay it off today then all my eggs will be in one basket.
It's a bigger risk but if there is no announcement at least the shares and options will remain mine.

thoughts?

[joeypotsandpans]

Aug 7, 2014 13:22:16 GMT -5 BD said:

iyam, why do you lump TDA into this motley crew?

I have a feeling it has to do with the margin call he refers to in his other post, TD has had little to no tolerance for margin with MNKD, so he must feel they are taking advantage of the longs for their own financial interest...this is pure conjecture on my part but that's what I sense based on his recent thread regarding monday's cc...along with what other posters have stated about TDA regarding MNKD and margin, also with them calling longs for shares.

[thekindaguyiyam]

Aug 7, 2014 13:22:57 GMT -5 surfish said:

So, they're on the payroll? Or just shorting concertedly?

to say that would be speculative without real evidence.  What we have is empirical evidence via the
reiterated bash from media which reinforces the shorts advantage.  two games at play.  one is stock.
the other is science.  I lean in the  direction of science. 

[BD]

Aug 7, 2014 13:38:32 GMT -5 thekindaguyiyam said:

because they use the street.  Look at the analyst ratings and suggestion of buy or sell.
Do you think they are neutral?  Likewise PBS is funded by the street.  The Street Monopolizes the market.
It uses Bloomberg, CNBC, Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha to represent the Sell side on a greater level than on the investment side.  Why?  Because all those articles stimulate Cash.

These margin calls are killing me.  I owe a 1/4
if I pay it off today then all my eggs will be in one basket.
It's a bigger risk but if there is no announcement at least the shares and options will remain mine.

thoughts?

IMO, things like "analyst ratings" that show up on the TDA site are just a matter of their collecting info and concentrating it in one place for convenience. In my dealings with TDA (my only broker), I've found them to have an incredibly high standard of quality in their customer service and the consistency/reliability of the web interface (with one notable exception: the way they compute option values toward total portfolio value sucks. So that I totally ignore...)

To me, the idea that TDA is somehow in cahoots with shorts does not make sense. They make their money on people trading, and probably couldn't care less about the shorts vs. longs battles.

[thekindaguyiyam]

I'm not saying that TDA is in "cahoots" with shorts.  I'm saying that their suggestions and the analysts that they show up front without you going deeper reflects the prevalent view desired by the street.  I agree that their representation as my broker for the last 20 years has been excellent.     Leaving my entire margin debt behind as of today BD.  Not an easy thing to do selling off stocks that have performed and made me $$ for the "unknown".   If the Street isn't the primary candidate for FUD via the fool and SA who is.

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Aug 7, 2014 14:33:19 GMT -5 thekindaguyiyam said:

   If the Street isn't the primary candidate for FUD via the fool and SA who is.

 "The Gutter.com" would be a more appropriate name.