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Quite the headline filled day would you say?...all this on a day where the volume had a case of the Monday's..
First - We have the AT&T/T-Mobile M&A deal (dumb IMO, anti competitive)
Second - The Citigroup announcement they are reverse splitting their shares 1 for 10
Third -
Charles Schwab (the Walmart of brokerage) announced it is purchasing OptionsExpress for 1bil$
Fourth - Market rallied in the face of nothing
My thoughts on the Citigroup reverse split... "fleecing".... the stock is under 5 bucks because
A. Citi fucked up the past 10 years
B. Citi diluted the piss out of their share structure.. Again the fault lies in point A.
C. Many option firms base their strategy on exploiting the large volume in Citi options, NOT good for option volumes and market volume as a whole.. C volume will drop from 500-1bil to less then 50 or so million shares a day.
D. On a positive note, HF trading gets kicked in the nuts. Today volume was very low on the index's and C. Stock was off heavily... Foreshadowing?
This market is back up to it's wonky correlated low volume slide of hand trends... The futures were bid