The Goldman Sachs future prediction machine

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Heh. Mostly picked up by WF.

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From what I’m able to gather, that is a filing from March 31. It encompasses all trading from the entire quarter. It could have been sold on Jan 2 or March 30 (or 300,000 shares a day for weeks), the filing would LOOK the same.

I am not saying they didn’t have an underwater device set up in the Gulf to detect any seismic activity in order to warn them of impending disaster, but in all likelihood it has nothing to do with the explosion, which occurred in late April.

[jpinpb]

From what I’m able to gather, that is a filing from March 31. It encompasses all trading from the entire quarter. It could have been sold on Jan 2 or March 30 (or 300,000 shares a day for weeks), the filing would LOOK the same.

I am not saying they didn’t have an underwater device set up in the Gulf to detect any seismic activity in order to warn them of impending disaster, but in all likelihood it has nothing to do with the explosion, which occurred in late April.

[jpinpb]

From what I’m able to gather, that is a filing from March 31. It encompasses all trading from the entire quarter. It could have been sold on Jan 2 or March 30 (or 300,000 shares a day for weeks), the filing would LOOK the same.

I am not saying they didn’t have an underwater device set up in the Gulf to detect any seismic activity in order to warn them of impending disaster, but in all likelihood it has nothing to do with the explosion, which occurred in late April.

[jpinpb]

From what I’m able to gather, that is a filing from March 31. It encompasses all trading from the entire quarter. It could have been sold on Jan 2 or March 30 (or 300,000 shares a day for weeks), the filing would LOOK the same.

I am not saying they didn’t have an underwater device set up in the Gulf to detect any seismic activity in order to warn them of impending disaster, but in all likelihood it has nothing to do with the explosion, which occurred in late April.

[jpinpb]

From what I’m able to gather, that is a filing from March 31. It encompasses all trading from the entire quarter. It could have been sold on Jan 2 or March 30 (or 300,000 shares a day for weeks), the filing would LOOK the same.

I am not saying they didn’t have an underwater device set up in the Gulf to detect any seismic activity in order to warn them of impending disaster, but in all likelihood it has nothing to do with the explosion, which occurred in late April.

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That is a huge move in a single quarter – 5M shares sold in only 60 days of trading. Of course they’re not going to dump it all in a single day, there wouldn’t be enough buyers. No other major holder has anything similar. Also check out XOM for the same period, there are no big moves out of the stock.

It is just a coincidence, but an interesting one. No need to look further, it will never be investigated.

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That is a huge move in a single quarter – 5M shares sold in only 60 days of trading. Of course they’re not going to dump it all in a single day, there wouldn’t be enough buyers. No other major holder has anything similar. Also check out XOM for the same period, there are no big moves out of the stock.

It is just a coincidence, but an interesting one. No need to look further, it will never be investigated.

[blahblahblah]

That is a huge move in a single quarter – 5M shares sold in only 60 days of trading. Of course they’re not going to dump it all in a single day, there wouldn’t be enough buyers. No other major holder has anything similar. Also check out XOM for the same period, there are no big moves out of the stock.

It is just a coincidence, but an interesting one. No need to look further, it will never be investigated.

[blahblahblah]

That is a huge move in a single quarter – 5M shares sold in only 60 days of trading. Of course they’re not going to dump it all in a single day, there wouldn’t be enough buyers. No other major holder has anything similar. Also check out XOM for the same period, there are no big moves out of the stock.

It is just a coincidence, but an interesting one. No need to look further, it will never be investigated.

[blahblahblah]

That is a huge move in a single quarter – 5M shares sold in only 60 days of trading. Of course they’re not going to dump it all in a single day, there wouldn’t be enough buyers. No other major holder has anything similar. Also check out XOM for the same period, there are no big moves out of the stock.

It is just a coincidence, but an interesting one. No need to look further, it will never be investigated.

[jpinpb]

I am curious/wondering if GS is doing any short selling of BP.

Edit: Doing some checking, right on the link that’s referenced, it shows that this sale represented 0.4% of their total portfolio .. that is less than one half percent.

From what I gather, 3 months would be a long time to move out of 4.5 million shares–there are blocks larger than that which change hands regularly in a single trade among large institutional investors, like GSAM.

Edit 2: Also, GS is a holding company – they buy & sell shares not only for their own accounts, but for customers too. So while they did sell, they may not have necessarily benefitted. It would be interesting to see which of their clients did. Definitely prescient to have sold at such an opportune time.

[jpinpb]

I am curious/wondering if GS is doing any short selling of BP.

Edit: Doing some checking, right on the link that’s referenced, it shows that this sale represented 0.4% of their total portfolio .. that is less than one half percent.

From what I gather, 3 months would be a long time to move out of 4.5 million shares–there are blocks larger than that which change hands regularly in a single trade among large institutional investors, like GSAM.

Edit 2: Also, GS is a holding company – they buy & sell shares not only for their own accounts, but for customers too. So while they did sell, they may not have necessarily benefitted. It would be interesting to see which of their clients did. Definitely prescient to have sold at such an opportune time.

[jpinpb]

I am curious/wondering if GS is doing any short selling of BP.

Edit: Doing some checking, right on the link that’s referenced, it shows that this sale represented 0.4% of their total portfolio .. that is less than one half percent.

From what I gather, 3 months would be a long time to move out of 4.5 million shares–there are blocks larger than that which change hands regularly in a single trade among large institutional investors, like GSAM.

Edit 2: Also, GS is a holding company – they buy & sell shares not only for their own accounts, but for customers too. So while they did sell, they may not have necessarily benefitted. It would be interesting to see which of their clients did. Definitely prescient to have sold at such an opportune time.

[jpinpb]

I am curious/wondering if GS is doing any short selling of BP.

Edit: Doing some checking, right on the link that’s referenced, it shows that this sale represented 0.4% of their total portfolio .. that is less than one half percent.

From what I gather, 3 months would be a long time to move out of 4.5 million shares–there are blocks larger than that which change hands regularly in a single trade among large institutional investors, like GSAM.

Edit 2: Also, GS is a holding company – they buy & sell shares not only for their own accounts, but for customers too. So while they did sell, they may not have necessarily benefitted. It would be interesting to see which of their clients did. Definitely prescient to have sold at such an opportune time.

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