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Finextra
27-06-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Why Training Still Beats the Hype: Lessons from a Modern Trading Trap: By Daniel Schlaepfer
Retail traders today face a paradox. Markets have never been more accessible, or more hazardous. What looks like opportunity can quickly become a trap, especially in the age of social media-fueled speculation. The recent implosion of stocks like Jayud Global Logistics (JYD) has once again exposed the painful divide between how retail and professional traders experience the same event. But beneath the headlines of scams and volatility lies a deeper truth: success in this environment is not about luck or hype; it's about preparation, training, and discipline. Retail Traders: Easy Targets in a Gamified Arena As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a growing number of U.S.-listed micro-cap stocks - many with ties to obscure Chinese firms - have been used in social media pump-and-dump schemes. Stocks like JYD, Lixiang Education, and NetClass Technology followed the same pattern: rapid run-ups driven by coordinated buzz, followed by devastating crashes once insiders dumped their positions. For retail investors lured in at the top, the results have been catastrophic. Some were told these stocks were 'Cash Cows,' others were encouraged to keep doubling down after major losses. In some cases, online groups tracked losses in the millions, leaving behind not just financial damage but deep mistrust. Professional Traders: Same Stock, Very Different Outcome While many retail traders were caught off guard, experienced professionals approached these stocks differently. The same volatility that created chaos for some created opportunity for others, but only because they were equipped with the tools and training to navigate it. Here's how: 1. Short Locates and Execution Readiness Professional traders know the importance of having systems in place to secure short locates, particularly in hard-to-borrow stocks. This doesn't just allow them to short a collapsing stock, it allows them to be ready to trade in either direction as conditions evolve. Those who prepared early and executed with a volatility-tested plan were better positioned to manage risk and act decisively. 2. Risk Management and Discipline Rather than chasing a stock during its initial surge or reacting emotionally to price swings, professionals study the tape for signals, whether it's an exhaustion pattern, shift in order flow, or a change in liquidity. Disciplined traders avoid impulsive entries and instead build a plan that balances opportunity with strict risk controls. Managing borrow costs, avoiding short squeezes, and controlling position sizing are all part of the equation. 3. Pattern Recognition from Experience Pump-and-dump schemes follow a recognizable rhythm. Professionals trained in small-cap trading learn to spot the early signs: a sudden spike in social media chatter, unusual pre-market activity, abnormal volume, or a cluster of volatility halts. Being able to differentiate between genuine momentum and possible scams is a key skill, and one that comes from experience, not excitement. The Real Lesson: Training and Discipline Drive Professional Success This isn't a tale of good guys versus bad guys, or winners mocking losers. It's a wake-up call for anyone stepping into the modern trading arena. While platforms advertise ease of access and instant payouts, the reality is that the markets remain unforgiving, especially for those without guidance. What separates long-term success from painful losses isn't a secret algorithm or a better app. It's the kind of methodical thinking, structured education, and battle-tested strategy that professionals rely on day after day. Closing Thought As regulators tighten enforcement and platforms explore better guardrails, the responsibility also lies with the trading community. If we want fewer horror stories and more sustainable outcomes, we need to start more conversations about how professionals trade, and how to better equip all market participants with the training needed to avoid potential scams and spot the opportunities worth pursuing.
Business Insider
25-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Jayud Global Logistics gets $4.2M government subsidy for charter flights
Jayud Global Logistics (JYD) announced it has received a government subsidy of RMB30.26M (approximately $4.2M) from the Shenzhen Transportation Bureau. The subsidy relates to two charter flight routes, Shenzhen-Clark and Shenzhen-Davao, operated by the company during 2022-2023 as part of its expanded air freight services. Chairman and CEO Xiaogang Geng stated the support validates their strategic expansion and will positively impact financial performance. Confident Investing Starts Here:
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The $480 Million Scam Playbook: Chinese Microcap IPOs Are Bleeding U.S. Investors
A growing number of U.S. investors are getting caught in what looks like the perfect setup for fraudsmall Chinese companies like Jayud Global Logistics (NASDAQ:JYD) and China Liberal Education (CLEUF) going public on Nasdaq, only to crash in spectacular fashion weeks later. What starts as a convincing ad on Facebook or WhatsApp quickly turns into a pump-and-dump operation. Investors like Utah-based college professor Braden Lindstrom were encouraged by supposed financial "advisers" to buy into these obscure names, only to watch their life savings vanish. Jayud, for example, spiked to $8 in April before plummeting below $1just after retail interest peaked. One commercial property manager in California lost $320,000. A support group of nearly 100 victims says their total losses top $9 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 7 Warning Signs with JYD. The playbook? Simple. A company raises funds from private investorsChina Liberal raised $21 million from 30 insidersthen shares move quietly to U.S. brokerages. Promoters hype the stock online, targeting individuals with promises of a "sure thing." After the shares are dumped, prices crash. In China Liberal's case, seven traders from Malaysia and Taiwan were charged after allegedly unloading over 50 million shares for $480 million in profit. The DOJ seized $214 million, and trading in the stock was halted by Nasdaq on June 3. Meanwhile, NetClass rode the same waveits shares soared from $5 to $51 before collapsing to just above $2. Regulators are under pressure. Finra had already warned back in 2022 that many of these ultra-small IPOsoften raising less than $15 millionshowed signs of manipulative trading. Nasdaq has since sped up delistings for companies trading under $1. But even with stricter rules, these schemes continue. The Justice Department has now prioritized tackling this fraud, while Meta says it's testing tools to block deceptive stock ads. Still, the damage is done. As trader Nathan Michaud put it, these setups are dangerous even for short sellersbecause once the squeeze starts, even the bears can get buried. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The $480 Million Scam Playbook: Chinese Microcap IPOs Are Bleeding U.S. Investors
A growing number of U.S. investors are getting caught in what looks like the perfect setup for fraudsmall Chinese companies like Jayud Global Logistics (NASDAQ:JYD) and China Liberal Education (CLEUF) going public on Nasdaq, only to crash in spectacular fashion weeks later. What starts as a convincing ad on Facebook or WhatsApp quickly turns into a pump-and-dump operation. Investors like Utah-based college professor Braden Lindstrom were encouraged by supposed financial "advisers" to buy into these obscure names, only to watch their life savings vanish. Jayud, for example, spiked to $8 in April before plummeting below $1just after retail interest peaked. One commercial property manager in California lost $320,000. A support group of nearly 100 victims says their total losses top $9 million. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 7 Warning Signs with JYD. The playbook? Simple. A company raises funds from private investorsChina Liberal raised $21 million from 30 insidersthen shares move quietly to U.S. brokerages. Promoters hype the stock online, targeting individuals with promises of a "sure thing." After the shares are dumped, prices crash. In China Liberal's case, seven traders from Malaysia and Taiwan were charged after allegedly unloading over 50 million shares for $480 million in profit. The DOJ seized $214 million, and trading in the stock was halted by Nasdaq on June 3. Meanwhile, NetClass rode the same waveits shares soared from $5 to $51 before collapsing to just above $2. Regulators are under pressure. Finra had already warned back in 2022 that many of these ultra-small IPOsoften raising less than $15 millionshowed signs of manipulative trading. Nasdaq has since sped up delistings for companies trading under $1. But even with stricter rules, these schemes continue. The Justice Department has now prioritized tackling this fraud, while Meta says it's testing tools to block deceptive stock ads. Still, the damage is done. As trader Nathan Michaud put it, these setups are dangerous even for short sellersbecause once the squeeze starts, even the bears can get buried. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Obscure Chinese stock scams dupe American investors by the thousands
Braden Lindstrom had only dabbled in investing when he was encouraged by someone impersonating a financial adviser to buy shares in a small Chinese company listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. A few clicks later, he was on his way to being scammed out of $80,000. Lindstrom, a college professor in Utah, invested in Jayud Global Logistics (JYD), a small Chinese shipping company whose price rose for months, then crashed 96%, just after Americans like him were told to buy it. Wall Street veterans say the pattern has been repeated dozens of times in recent years, and feeds on tiny Chinese stocks that are vulnerable to manipulation and easily bought by U.S. investors. Red vs. Blue Is Dividing Stock Portfolios Like Never Before How to Say No at Work America's Last Mall King Is Still in Charge, Even After a Deadly Diagnosis Southwest Airlines Adds Cockpit Alerts to Boost Runway Safety 'Why Am I Doing This?' These Investors Are Locking In Stock Gains While They Can. Traders and investigators say it has become an epidemic of fraud, frustrating U.S. regulators who typically can't get access to evidence in China, even though the companies market their stock to investors in the U.S. The Justice Department is now involved with fighting the fraud, which resembles a pump and dump, declaring it a priority of the Trump administration's white-collar enforcement program. The department 'has stood up a team to identify and root out these bad actors, deter misconduct, and, where possible, recover victim funds,' said Matthew Galeotti, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. Victims are typically recruited through social-media ads or messages on WhatsApp advertising investment advice. Unlike as in many other online scams, they are told to buy shares in real companies, often obscure Chinese firms that fizzled after going public on U.S. stock exchanges. The investors are duped into believing the company is on the verge of something big, perceptions that are reinforced by short-term gains in share prices engineered through manipulative trading. The sellers are often a ring of traders who bought the stock at much cheaper prices, sometimes directly from the companies, and want to dump it on the unsuspecting victims. Nearly 60 China-based companies have conducted initial public offerings on Nasdaq since 2020 that each raised $15 million or less. More than one-third have experienced sudden one-day price drops of 50% or more over the past two years, according to FactSet data. Another 17 listed companies based in Hong Kong have lost half of their market value in a single day. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority warned in 2022 that small IPOs involving such companies were often a prelude to fraud. Such offerings were supposed to broadly market shares to new investors. But they could instead be placed with insiders or affiliates of the company, and manipulative trading often appeared soon after the IPOs, according to Finra. 'We're seeing this across the landscape,' said Bryan Smith, a senior vice president for complex investigations at Finra, which supervises stock brokerages. One recent criminal case, involving China Liberal Education Holdings, illustrates how an alleged fraud occurs. China Liberal, which said it ran international-study programs for Chinese college students, disclosed in December that it raised almost $21 million from 30 big investors, who agreed to purchase 160 million shares for about 13 cents each, according to securities filings. But some of those investors were involved in a pump and dump that defrauded 600 victims, according to an indictment issued in March. Seven of the big buyers quickly moved their shares to U.S. brokerage firms. Recruiting investors through Facebook ads and WhatsApp texts, they unloaded over 50 million shares, earning over $480 million, according to the indictment. The Chicago U.S. attorney's office in March seized about $214 million, or under half of the allegedly illegal proceeds, after a brokerage firm alerted Finra of potential fraud. The seven traders, five from Malaysia and two from Taiwan, were charged with wire fraud and securities fraud over their sales of China Liberal Education Holdings stock. Nasdaq suspended China Liberal's stock from trading on June 3. Lindstrom, the college professor, is one of five people interviewed by The Wall Street Journal who said they were fooled by advertisements on Facebook or Instagram that told them to buy Jayud Global Logistics. The promoters sometimes referred to Jayud as 'Cash Cow 5' and said its price would skyrocket after it was acquired by a bigger shipping company, Matson. Lindstrom invested $82,000 in late March. The price touched $8 on April 1. After the market closed that day, Jayud's stock price crashed to under $1. The administrator of Lindstrom's WhatsApp group told him he could make up his losses by buying more shares of a different Chinese company, Nasdaq-listed Lixiang Education Holding. He didn't fall for the second swindle, but some did. Lixiang's price fell on April 17 from $23 to $7. It trades now at $2. 'It just kind of puts a dent in your faith in human nature,' Lindstrom said. Another investor in Northern California, a 45-year-old commercial property manager, said he lost $320,000 betting on Jayud. A different investor from Missouri lost $54,000. He said he believed that Meta, which owns Facebook, would block stock scams from advertising. Meta said it is experimenting with new tools, such as facial-recognition technology, designed to block complex scams. 'Addressing this crime requires collaboration between banks, governments, law enforcement and telecoms,' a spokeswoman said. Lindstrom and the others formed a support group of about 96 Jayud investors who collectively lost about $9 million, he said. Nasdaq says it has made it harder in recent years for risky companies to remain listed on its exchange. In January, for instance, Nasdaq accelerated the process for delisting some companies whose share price falls under $1. 'Nasdaq takes its regulatory responsibilities seriously,' Nasdaq said in a statement. 'Where Nasdaq does not have principal authority, such as cross-market trading activity, we proactively work with other regulators and enforcement agencies to help address instances of market manipulation.' Authorities have recently focused on suspicious trading in the shares of several other China-based companies, including Lixiang and NetClass Technology, according to people familiar with the matter. A spokesman for NetClass said the company can't explain recent volatility in its share price but is committed to providing investors with information they need to assess the company's performance and future outlook. NetClass (NTCL) went public in December, pricing its shares at $5 and raising about $10 million, according to securities filings. The share price rose steadily until early May, when it reached an intraday peak of $51 on a frenzy of trading. The price collapsed a few days later. It now trades just above $2. Such volume spikes attract new buyers—and short sellers, who bet that the price will have to fall, said Nathan Michaud, a professional trader who has called attention to the schemes on social media. But the short sales, he said, can inadvertently further fuel a fraud. If the promoters push the price higher, short sellers scramble to buy shares to replenish the ones they borrowed, boosting the price even more. 'I think they realized it is harder to fool people into buying stock, and easier to trap people into shorting stock,' Michaud said. 'The only way you can absolutely kill your career is by trading these.' Write to Dave Michaels at Victoria's Secret Is Under Mounting Pressure From Latest Activist Investor Chinese Spenders Open Wallets as Factories Slow What's Behind PayPal's Will Ferrell Ads? How Stablecoins Can Be Destabilizing Santos Gets $18.72 Billion Takeover Offer From Adnoc-Led Consortium By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's Terms and Privacy Policy Sign in to access your portfolio
