Remember, you can trade stocks without trading stocks.
What do I mean? Mark Cuban sold a collar on his Yahoo stock through Goldman for $[I forget] billion dollars. That was an off-market trade in which someone bought his entire block off of him. In today’s world, with tons of low interest (as in, single/double-digit basis points) loans and other fun weird contraptions, you have a lot more options to trade without trading.
I have no grand reveal here, but there’s probably an entire “dark dataset” regarding that activity that is missing from this conversation.
What do I mean? Mark Cuban sold a collar on his Yahoo stock through Goldman for $[I forget] billion dollars. That was an off-market trade in which someone bought his entire block off of him. In today’s world, with tons of low interest (as in, single/double-digit basis points) loans and other fun weird contraptions, you have a lot more options to trade without trading.
I have no grand reveal here, but there’s probably an entire “dark dataset” regarding that activity that is missing from this conversation.