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>This is why Citadel has $60+ billion dollars of "securities sold not yet purchased" on their financial statements.

1. source?

2. supposing this is true, what's their daily turnover? "60+ billion" sounds like a lot, but if that's their daily turnover that shouldn't be anything out of the ordinary.



1. Just look at their financial statements they , nobody is allowed this naked shorting but Cidatel is because they are a market manipu ahhh sorry maker.

Not that others won't naked short also, it is just they do not do it openly.


>nobody is allowed this naked shorting but Cidatel is because they are a market manipu ahhh sorry maker.

That's... working as intended?

> market makers provide a required amount of liquidity to the security's market, and take the other side of trades when there are short-term buy-and-sell-side imbalances in customer orders. In return, the specialist is granted various informational and trade execution advantages.

You can argue such a system is inegalitarian or whatever, but if you want a reliable provider of liquidity that won't instantly vanish when there's market turmoil (ie. when you need it the most), there has to be some mechanism to compensate market makers.


Citadel is basically counterfeiting shares, just like the Fed is printing dollars.

its a scam and is a reason how Citadel makes $30,000,000,000 profit per year


>its a scam and is a reason how Citadel makes $30,000,000,000 profit per year

Where are you getting "$30,000,000,000" (billion) in profit? Wikipedia says they only made $6.3 billion in revenue in 2023. Moreover, they were in existence for 22 years. Even if they only started "counterfeiting shares" in 2021, $30B in profit per year (so $90B in the past 3 years) seems absurd for only $60B worth of "counterfeiting shares" on their balance sheets.


  Citadel gross trading profit totalled $28bn last year, 
https://www.hedgeweek.com/citadel-makes-record-16bn-profit/#....

60B is a balance at a specific date 12/31/2022, they trim the balance by the EOY and harvest losses.

the average balance is much bigger and fluctuates heavily given market demand.

UPD: I stand corrected, the market making arm only made meager $5,000,000,000 for the 6 months, so more like 10,000,000,000/year, not 28

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/citadel-and-jane-street-set-...


"Citadel Securities is a separate entity from the hedge fund Citadel LLC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Securities

The market maker boogeyman is Citadel Securities, not Citadel LLC.


Assuming that they have a proper firewall between the two and there are no conflicts of interest..




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