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What is a Bear Raid? A bear raid refers to the processes used to try to lower a stock price. It usually involves spreading rumors about the company that will cause harm and then trying to short sell shares to profit from the price drop.
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Finance allah shmoop what is a bear raid So this
- 00:08
is a bear raid and this is a bear raid
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And you knew you were going there Well i think
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there's fraud fraud i tell you Well i think their
- 00:18
product just doesn't mean anything anymore Well i think that
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- 00:23
with all those risk they're just trade me in it
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too high a multiple Isn't the government going to regulate
- 00:29
them I thought that was a union coming in there
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What are these people doing Are they rationally commenting on
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honest things they actually believe are elements of the stock
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No not at all In fact all of them shorted
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the stock it's sixty bucks a share making the bet
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that the stock would go down only now courtesy of
- 00:50
the wall street genius journalists being manipulated at the new
- 00:53
socialist times the group is spreading lies trickery and deceit
- 00:57
about stock prices Manipulating the market hoping to profit from
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all the negative sentiment they've poured out there into the
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ether making already nervous investors very nervous And it was
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easy to get the journalist cooperate because well they hate
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rich people Right All right Well if they covered it
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thirty five that is unwound They're short position which started
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at sixty bucks a share Well they'd have made twenty
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five dollars a share in profits and that's totally illegal
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Incidentally so is the other kind of bear raid but 00:01:29.315 --> [endTime] that we're not going there today Oh my
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