Saturday, December 4, 2021

The Memes Come Out For Cathie Wood As Ark Invest Runs Aground (ARKK)

With the price of the fund approaching a record drawdown (42.5% early 2020, covid-19 crash), the only winners are fat cat shorts with large lines of credit from very accommodative prime brokers, in turn funded by very  accommodative central bank Cantillion effects:

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(okay, I repurposed a generic cartoon to make the ark - fat cat joke)

Here's another one at FT Alphaville.

At the moment both the mean and median investor in ARKK is at a loss as a result of money coming in at/near the highs.