Newbie Webinar - Short Selling and Squeezing Basics

Hello Value Investors,

Weeks ago most people had a vague notion of "short selling" and "high finance" from movies like The Big Short, Wolf of Wall Street, and Margin Call, but few regular people knew HOW to short or WHY one would do it. How can low-capital options bets of $2k turn into millions and how can 140% of a stock be shorted? Welcome to the esoteric world of finance!

In January 2020, Gamestop hit a high near $500, up 2700% within just a single month. AMC made similar moves, up 1000% within a month. Other notables were Blackberry, Nokia, and Dogecoin.

In this webinar we introduce the basics of short selling, short squeezes, and call & put options. The discussion will be suitable to even complete newbies to investing. We'll discuss how retail investors may be changing the game, and how government agencies, politicians, and others are reacting.

AGENDA (UK Time)
5:45 pm - Zoom testing
6:00 pm - Introduction
6:10 pm - Review of retail revolt, GME, BB, AMC, NOK,
6:30 pm - How & why of short selling, short squeezes
7:00 pm - Call and Put options how they can work
7:30 pm - Who might do what: government (FCA, SEC, Congress), IT companies (Facebook, Reddit), and infrastructure (brokers, clearing houses, exchanges)
7:45 pm - Strategies for value investors, traders, and speculators - we advise only investing but realise FOMO gets the best of most people
8:00 pm - Close

Read up before the meetup: https://www.cityfalcon.com/watchlists/gamestop-mania

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iZIGSIgPSO2rNoiGPfq5WA

See old webinar discussions here: https://cityfalcon.com/meetup

About the organiser:

Ruzbeh Bacha (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruzbehbacha/) is a qualified accountant (ACA), has an MBA from the University of Oxford and has been investing in the stock markets for over 20 years. He is passionate about growth as part of value investing, and about emerging technologies and products powered by machine learning and AI. He runs a FinTech company, www.cityfalcon.com, which he started from his bedroom to become better at investing using data and now has a team of 35+ in 3 countries.