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'Finfluencer' Options Alerts Drive Buying Surges That Quickly Fade, Study Finds
'Finfluencer' Options Alerts Drive Buying Surges That Quickly Fade, Study Finds
A new study suggests traders paying for options alerts on Discord may be helping create the gains they are trying to chase, according to Bloomberg.
Researchers examining 15 paid Discord trading communities found a consistent pattern. An influencer posts an options trade, followers pile into the contract, volume explodes and the price jumps. The excitement usually does not last.
Retail activity following these alerts reached roughly 14.5 standard deviations above normal, while recommended options gained an average of about 3% during...
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Scientists Intentionally Trigger 8,000 Earthquakes Deep Beneath Swiss Alps
Scientists Intentionally Trigger 8,000 Earthquakes Deep Beneath Swiss Alps
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Scientists at ETH Zurich university in Switzerland have deliberately induced around 8,000 seismic events deep underground in the Swiss Alps as part of an experiment called Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR-2).
The team injected 750,000 litres of water into the ground via two boreholes over approximately 50 hours at the BedrettoLab facility. The quakes were too small to be felt at the surface or cause damage, with magnitudes ranging from -5 to -0.14.
The researcher explained “While some seismic events occurred...
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