How SoftBank And Robinhooders Added Fuel To The Stock Market Boom
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
One of the most intriguing subplots to the 2020 stock market boom has been the speculative fervor with which investors have dived into this market. And it's not just that participants have bought a lot of stock, but that they've been using aggressive options strategies to do so. What's more, it's a range of players doing it, from retail traders on Robinhood (and other platforms) to large institutions like SoftBank. On this episode, we speak with Benn Eifert of QVR Advisors, who breaks it all down.
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| 0:45.0 | So Tracy Allaway. |
| 0:48.0 | So Tracy, I feel like there are some episodes of this where like, where I, well I there are some episodes of our |
| 0:53.8 | podcast where I think like okay this is a Tracy podcast I'm probably mostly just |
| 0:58.5 | going to sit back and listen and anytime I feel like we're going to have a |
| 1:01.9 | conversation that involves the term delta hedging, |
| 1:05.9 | which I'm still like kind of like have a totally like lockdown solid and what that means. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm like, okay, this is like a Tracy episode. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, first of all, that's very sweet of you to say. |
| 1:16.0 | Second of all, I just told you that I lost all my notes for this episode. |
| 1:20.0 | So now I feel like the stakes are very high and you know I might not do as good a job as you expect but yeah |
| 1:27.7 | We're gonna be diving into delta hedging but the weird thing is that that delta hedging has kind of exploded into the public |
| 1:36.1 | Consciousness for for I think the first time in a while or at least everyone in the market is talking about it because we have this big drama in options. |
| 1:46.8 | Yeah, that's exactly right. So basically, I mean, one of the most surprising things |
| 1:52.3 | in this crisis period, and we've talked about this a few |
| 1:54.8 | times is the degree to which retail traders have really aggressively jumped |
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