Could The Archegos SEC Investigation Solve The Tesla Gamma Squeeze Mystery?

In late 2019, odd call buying started to appear in Tesla, which then went up by a factor of almost 10x. A year later, Archegos would blow up after allegedly fueling squeezes in highly shorted names.

Oct 11, 2021

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I can’t help but wonder if an SEC investigation into manipulation at Bill Hwang’s disgraced Archegos Capital could answer some longstanding questions I’ve had about Tesla’s mysterious and meteoric rise throughout 2020.

Let me say right off the bat that correlation isn’t causation and other such disclaimers.

I’m writing this piece the same way I Tweeted …

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Could The Archegos SEC Investigation Solve The Tesla Gamma Squeeze Mystery?

In late 2019, odd call buying started to appear in Tesla, which then went up by a factor of almost 10x. A year later, Archegos would blow up after allegedly fueling squeezes in highly shorted names.

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