Is SoftBank a whale or dumb money?
— Steve Burns (@SJosephBurns) September 7, 2020
SoftBank has taken on notional tech stock exposure of about $30 billion using call options. Some of this position has been offset by other contracts bought as hedges. https://t.co/F4aHLqdfzF
SoftBank falls 8% as Nasdaq ‘whale’ strategy unnerves traders https://t.co/1dc4SMg5v0 via @financialtimes
— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) September 7, 2020
It would be entirely appropriate for the largest, most reckless and useless bubble company to blow up this whole gigantic tech bubble.
— Ed McCabe (@eddiemac3356) September 7, 2020
SoftBank falls 6% as Nasdaq ‘whale’ strategy unnerves traders https://t.co/A82XUEyDvE
Mrs Watanabe is not a whale loverhttps://t.co/2ESpsNaXhO
— Robert Smith (@BondHack) September 7, 2020
#Whales are not only in crypto markets.#option trading is not a concern on Robinhood.
— Dr Efi Pylarinou (@efipm) September 7, 2020
SoftBank sheds $8.9bn as ‘whale’ options bets unnerve traders https://t.co/vQKk9FrcC2 @richardturrin @craigiskowitz @SpirosMargaris @gspitzner @lisaabramowicz1
SoftBank shares slid more than 6% on Monday after the FT revealed that the Japanese group was the mystery ‘whale’ driving US tech stocks to record highs https://t.co/kZ9HC6PKDc
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) September 7, 2020
SoftBank shares lost 7.2 per cent on Monday https://t.co/04ubPmkK8F
— spotgamma (@spotgamma) September 7, 2020
ソフトバンクG:投資家に広がる疑心暗鬼、市場価値が1日で89億㌦減少(SoftBank sheds $8.9bn as ‘whale’ options bets unnerve traders:FT)https://t.co/z6KG10SM74
— 滝田洋一(日本経済新聞) (@yoichitakita) September 7, 2020
「ナスダックの鯨」となり、直近のハイテク株投資の身動きがとれないのでは、と投資家が懸念する。
ーー日経平均に「鯨の重圧」。
Front for the Yakuza.
— David Belle (@macrodesiac_) September 7, 2020
Someone has to go down this route.
Has to be https://t.co/eCzFmvfH99
Move into the options markets is new territory for SoftBank, increasing the perception that SoftBank is resembling a hedge fund - with a big appetite for risk. This strategy has been deeply controversial, even within SoftBank, acc. to the FT @cnn https://t.co/bGpoFd9Yqu
— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) September 7, 2020
SoftBank shares drop as investors worry a large bet on tech stocks changes the Japanese conglomerate’s risk profile $SFTBY $SPY https://t.co/TLk5p34qeU
— Rishesh Singh (@androsForm) September 7, 2020