This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.
Have you ever heard of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation? What about Cede and Company? If those names are foreign to you, then you don’t really understand how the core of our financial system really works.
A lot of people are blaming Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and the heads of other major trading platforms for the stock trading restrictions that we witnessed last week, but it was actually the DTCC that suddenly jacked up deposit requirements ten-fold. Robinhood and other trading platforms were put in a vise-like grip, and they had no choice but to act. Someone needs to investigate how these decisions were made at the DTCC, and if laws were broken those that were responsible for the decisions need to go to prison.
We are being told that retail traders needed to be brought under control “for their own good”, but it was the reckless short selling of the big hedge funds that actually set the stage of last week’s chaos.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about restricting their exceedingly foolish trading strategies?
Thanks to relentless buying by “the Reddit Army”, several major hedge funds got absolutely slaughtered last week, and that group included Melvin Capital…
Melvin Capital, a premier Wall Street hedge fund entangled in the frenzy over GameStop (GME), lost 53% in January, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Business.
Melvin, a major short-seller of GameStop, bet that the company’s shares would drop. But, on January 11, GameStop announced new board members who could help it with digital sales. That set off a fury on Reddit, namely subreddit WallStreetBets, which catapulted GameStop’s stock more than 1,600%.
Of course, the small fish are not supposed to beat up the big fish like that, and the billionaires at the big hedge funds undoubtedly reached out to their powerful friends for help.
There had been speculation that the big hedge funds leaned on Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and the heads of other large trading platforms directly, but the truth is more complicated.
It turns out that the pressure on Robinhood and other major trading platforms came from the clearinghouse level. The following comes from a piece in USA Today that was authored by Vlad Tenev himself…
In a matter of days, our clearinghouse-mandated deposit requirements related to stocks increased ten-fold. These deposits are the collateral we post to ensure our access to clearinghouse services on behalf of our customers. They are what led us to put temporary buying restrictions in place on a small number of securities that the clearinghouses had raised their deposit requirements on. As we noted in a blog on Friday, it was not because we wanted to stop people from buying these or any stocks — we built Robinhood to provide access to investing for all. And it certainly wasn’t because we were trying to help hedge funds.
Tenev didn’t mention it by name, but the company that clears almost all of Robinhood’s trades is the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. If you are not familiar with the DTCC, here is some basic info from Wikipedia…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is an American post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services to the financial markets. It performs the exchange of securities on behalf of buyers and sellers and functions as a central securities depository by providing central custody of securities.
DTCC was established in 1999 as a holding company to combine The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC). User-owned and directed, it automates, centralizes, standardizes, and streamlines processes in the capital markets.[3] Through its subsidiaries, DTCC provides clearance, settlement, and information services for equities, corporate and municipal bonds, unit investment trusts, government and mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, and over-the-counter derivatives. It also manages transactions between mutual funds and insurance carriers and their respective investors.
In 2011, DTCC settled the vast majority of securities transactions in the United States and close to $1.7 quadrillion[4][5][6] in value worldwide, making it by far the highest financial value processor in the world.[6] DTCC operates facilities in the New York metropolitan area, and at multiple locations in and outside the United States.
Theoretically, the DTCC is supposed to be a neutral participant in the markets.
But as we saw last week, that is definitely not the case.
So why should we allow a “for-profit monopoly” to have so much power over our financial system? The following comes from a piece that was just authored by Omid Malekan…
The brilliance of this excuse is that it only proves the skeptics and conspiracy-theory believers right. DTCC is a for-profit monopoly that sits at the heart of America’s financial system. It is controlled by the biggest Wall Street institutions and responsible for all public equity settlement. A subsidiary of it literally owns every single share of publicly traded stock in America. Yes, you read that correctly. You don’t actually own your shares of Apple or Microsoft, they do. You are only allowed to enjoy the financial benefits of being an investor because your corporate overlords let you. Why? Because the government wants it that way (the fact that financial firms like DTCC always donate a lot of money to politicians has nothing to do with it.)
Of course, the DTCC is not actually the top of the pyramid.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the National Securities Clearing Corporation, and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation are all managed “under the umbrella” of a shadowy entity known as Cede and Company…
This small New York based financial institution has a dozen directors and no more than a half dozen employees but holds, according to some reports, some 34 trillion dollars in assets.
A complex system of interlocking bodies, such as The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the National Securities Clearing Corporation and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation oversee all stock trading in the US. They all come under the umbrella of Cede.
And, on paper at least, own all the stocks traded.
One or more decision-makers at these shadowy entities decided to put an extraordinary amount of pressure on Robinhood and other trading platforms.
We need to find out exactly who was involved in making the decisions, and if something illegal took place the decision-makers need to be held accountable.
For now, Robinhood and other trading platforms will continue to restrict trading in certain stocks as we begin a new week…
Robinhood will continue to limit trading on Monday in short-squeeze names like GameStop that have experienced explosive rallies and unprecedented volatility over the past week.
Customers can only buy one share of GameStop’s stock and five options contracts. However, the millennial-favored stock trading app did cut down its list of restricted stocks from as many as 50 on Friday to eight starting Monday.
Our financial system is far more vulnerable than most people realize, and it is just a matter of time before the house of cards comes tumbling down.
Anyone that still thinks that we have a “free market” after what we witnessed last week is simply being delusional.
Very powerful forces look out for the interests of the ultra-wealthy and the game has been carefully designed for them to win.
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Does anyone know what ties Pelosi’s husband has to these shadowy Financial Institutions?
INSIDER TRADING
I know he has ties to Dominion
Spot on my man….and that’s how Soros got so filthy stinkin rich.
Silver has made some gains recently, but the bid and ask price are both down this morning (Tues.). The selling of naked shorts for PMs is probably crazy right now to drive down the price. I simply don’t see how it is moral for “investors” to place contracts on something they don’t have, and profit from something they don’t actually own, to the detriment of people who do actually own it. You see, all this wealth is dollar based, they don’t want to see the value of their wealth going down, so they must find ways to crush PMs.
Wealth gained on Wall Street is not being generated by production of goods, not by the creation of real material and tangible wealth, but ultimately by creating ways drain off the wealth from others.
It is being sucked from Main Street to Wall Street. The Fed. Res. pumps trillions into W/S and its institutions to shore up losses, at taxpayers expense. Raiders destroy companies and jobs by selling off its assets, and then take the cash reserves, many a pension has been wiped out like this. Many “major investors” are in reality nothing more than gamblers, when they lose (and they frequently lose billions and trillions) the taxpayers pick up the tab for the “too big to fail” institutions. (For some reason culprits for the huge losses just can’t be identified, truth is, the culprits know vast losses would occur, that the taxpayers and smaller investors would absorb the losses, it is only important they personally profit). They package trash “investment instruments” and sell them knowing they are literally worthless. They have created algorithms to benefit mostly themselves that give them the superior edge in every transaction, often at the expense of everyone else. And on and on. Nothing is being created, only manipulated.
Regardless of the drivel coming out of the politicians in Wash., hyper concentration of wealth continues unabated. Many politicians, who have inside information know in advance where to place their money, a privilege those who are not in “the club” would go to jail for. Lobbyists conduct their business in a way that is illegal for everyone one else. Ultimately again, their business too is at the expense of the American people. (Here’s a little nugget, the vast majority of people do not realize that our esteemed lawmakers write almost no bill, they are almost entirely written by lobbyist organizations. In fact, most bills are not even read before voted on).
I am a realist, the US exists for the benefit of a few, and these few have rigged a system that insists you play by their rules made by those who seek super wealth, or power, or both. They willfully, knowingly, purposely, seek to corrupt this country, to warp everything for their own gain. And will do anything to keep it that way. You are merely a resource to use and manipulate. Don’t swallow any propaganda that says otherwise.