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The Math Behind Egan-Jones' Downgrade Of Knight To Triple Hooks
Moments ago, Egan Jones downgraded Knight Capital again, having downgraded the firm yesterday, from B- to CCC. The reason: the math just does not work out (pretty much as is the case with Europe, and the entire Welfare state developed world paradigm, but that's a different story). Full logic below.
Tough math - KCG probably needs $600M of equity capital but its market cap is only $300M and therefore probably can only raise $80M to $90M using normal rules of thumb. A sale of the firm would take 90 days under good conditions and therefore only an equity or quasi-equity investment makes sense. However, with weakness in the markets, there is likely to be few likely buyers. In a good year KCG earns $115M and therefore the $440M loss is debilitating. (Watch for the secondary losses related the loss of client confidence.) Net revs for the June quarter declined by 13% YoY. The Market-Making segment revenues were down 21% with pre-tax income down 84% from $39.2M to $5.9M due to trading losses related to the Facebook IPO. June quarter oper inc was down from $29.5M to $5.4M. We are downgrading
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someone will buy it for pennies and not have to pay any taxes for 4 years
Nice, the big banks just took out another competitor. The list of smaller financial corpses are piling up.
New Jersey has a lot of shit piled up.
Goldman Sachs moved to Jersey at hudson street right when they were full of shit.
Manhattan can only pile so much shit.
The big banks wrote the algo.
Gives a new meaning to Facefuck
That'll be Mitt Romney then.
There will be many many more downgrades to come.
http://goldisking.blogspot.ca/
'Knight-mare': Trading Glitches May Just Get Worse
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48464725
"someone will buy it for pennies"
Why?
The clients are gone or going, the best employees are the first to jump to a better offer and the name/brand is now of incompetence.
What is left, negative equity and unknown liabilities, sounds like a great deal...
It's done, truly done. By tomorrow afternoon it could be delisted.
Toast
Been a satisfying day to see the demise of NITE and Draghi look like a buffoon...egan WHO?
"The reason: the math just does not work out......."
Excuse me Tyler, but clearly you have not updated your "New New Math" financial textbook to the latest "hopium" edition, edited by Krugman.
For only four credit card charges of $199.99 each I'll be happy to ship my good-as-new used copy to you pronto. Have your people get in touch with my people.
But hurry. The Limerick King was eyeing my copy when he came over last night and got drunk.....again. (Just kidding Limerick King. You can get drunk any where you want.)
:)
"The reason: the math just does not work out......."
That's New,New, Flabby Math CD. ;
what is this "math" you speak of. It's irrelevant
Hey CD. Why am I seeing charges from Spearmint Rhino suddenly showing up on my credit card bill. You said four charges @ $199.99 each. $7,845.50 is alot of money for my textbook, which has not been received, I might add.
This droid CD is not the CD you're looking for. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hdLx7kJd0
roadkill. get ready to watch the vultures as they start feasting on the carcass ...
I think the feast is over. Vultures picked them over during coffee hour yesterday morning.
Solution let them merge with another robot shop and let them get TBTF. Solved!
they got facebooked too? lololololol
Speaking of which, love the flat-line action at $19.99-$20.00. You know it just wants to break to the downside in a bad way, but they [MS] are putting up a good fight to prevent that.
it feels like 1999 all over again. lulz
The Zuck slayed The Knight
Party like it's 19.99
W.Banzai could do a number on this
What consequences are there to the broad marketplace if this company goes under? Are there any?
The end of the OTC as you know it.
There won't be anything left to downgrade come Monday. If they make through Friday I will be surprised
Knight. "The science of trading. The standard of trust."
How I love Orwellian corporate bullshit speak when it is exposed in its full glory.
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Serving is what they call it now. huh
We have a body, (Knight), motive (profit from foreknowledge of what was going to happen), suspects (insiders at Knight, anyone with the hacking ability to do this).
There are no tracks, since the suspects are hiding amongst all the other people that were trading these events.
Could the same serial killers be at work taking the last profit out of our carcass of an economy?
WHere is Hercule Poroit when you need him?
Walking in circles repeating to himself, "there are no coincidences".
OT but had to...
London mayor get's stuck on Olympic zipline...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwH5y5lPvvk&feature=player_embedded
From a $10 Cohiba to a stogie in the gutter in about the same amount of time.
Death got no mercy in this land.
Gan,Egan.Egan.
Jones,Jones,Jones..
You are the man.
Fed plus ECB math might work.
CCC? More like B===D(_._)
Actually, I'd say it's more like B===D(_O_)
This stinks like a hit mates.
As always:
1) Cui bono? Who benefits?
2) FtM: follow the money
GYMON
Get Your Money Out Now
The biggest MM goes belly up. The market is about to be closed.
And Poof! Its gone.
CCCorzined !
I am pulling my money from Knight (have two indirect futures accounts with them). It is better to be safe than MF Global sorry. I refuse to be Corzined. I want my money now! No ifs or buts.
too late
No, it is not. They told me "believe us" check is in the mail.
But seriously, I have money with Knight. Am I really screwed now? I talked to CFTC, Knight and Penson, all told me they are monitoring the funds.
The Big Boys faces are in the money trough right now.. wait your turn Muppet..
Covered and liquidated everything that I had through Knight, 100% in cash, requested everything to be wired out, trying to get my money out before they file for bankruptcy.
Knight states that they are in "full compliance with our net capital requirements and we are in constant contact with the regulatory bodies" (whatever that means).
The guy told me that cash will go automatically to CFTC protected accounts (that suppose to be safe), but if you hold any positions overnight (as e-mini futures) you could find out that you do not have anything in the morning.
That was very encouraging (at least he was honest).
Do Bank runs start with Broker runs?
Good luk too u Mr Cult, the CFTC's track record is about 100% in NOT protecting customer seg funds, pls keep us posted on your success...
"monitoring" ??
like they're sitting armed to the teeth behind your stack of cash?
if not, you're probably screwed
If I don't get my money, Gensler will pay me from his personal bank account. I will make him pay.
I would guess that "monitoring" equals "stopping withdrawals" in order to ensure "solvency."
Keep us informed, though, please.
....and it´s gone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TlPo0yCSa4
why are a few images of Warden Norton in Shawshank going thru my head?
Why are there no capital limits on dark pool firms like there is for someone buying silver or gold?
Egan Jones is the only financial related entity with any kind of credibility.
Eric Holder should sue them A.S.A.P
To be sure..., they are already in the AG's sights I'd wager.
Tyler same deal as jefferies......Nite guys will step-up and buy the stock......today
This was no glitch.
This was intentional.
It was either a hack or an employee.
It was either to just hurt the firm or it was a theft.
Key, High Risk, applications do not just go haywire on an upgrade and completely reverse their logic and override any checks.
This algo was buying at the offer and selling at the bid.
NO WAY that happens by accident.
I am inclined to agree with you 100%. I don't believe in coincidences.
Ageed . The system is being dismantled piece by piece.
To be portrayed as Marx's "inevitable death of Capitalism."
Well, assuming they can keep the murder weapons out of view.
Pretty good. But I scooped you by 11 minutes :-)
Has Cramer declared Knight Capital as being "fine" yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPc16cuQJR0
Not yet, but we do have this this morning in a (where the hell else) CNBC article:
"Patrick O'Shaugnessy at Raymond James downgraded Knight from “strong buy” to “market perform,” saying "these events will limit Knight's earnings multiple expansion due to perceived risks of its market-making business model."
What the fuck world do these so-called analysts live in? If Knight is a 'market perform', it is way past time to short to shit out of the entire sector. Just unbelievable. Knight ain't even toast, it is way to hell burnt bread - pieces will be sold over the weekend.
Come to think of it, maybe that IS 'market perform'. Somehow, I just know that JPM is gonna make money on this...
Makes you think.
I just read a book, The Windup Girl, where a central feature of a dystopian future is that the major Agricultural Companies of tomorrow routinely Gene-Engineer viruses and phages that wipe out their competitor's crops. At some point, mother nature's natural foodstuffs become viewed as competition too.
Now how ironic would it be if the HFT boys of today evolve into a business model of writing virus code to torpedo their HFT competition? Everybody has their collocated servers crowded together at the exchange for speed, it would be easy enough to amble over and drop a USB drive in a competitor's server. Something that looks for executables and flips the machine code for "greater than" into "less than" in a handful of instances on a weekly basis.
Makes more sense than Iranians looking for stuxnet revenge...
Just sayin'
Occam's law, modern-edition; why attribute to malice what can equally be attributed to stupidity?
The data-entry temp left her glasses on the bus, supervisors were watching Olympic beach volleyball.
efficiency vs. flexibility HFT will very efficiently dump a generation of money out on the street.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
This is also known as Hanlon's razor.
The curtin is being pulled back snd someday we will see what's behind it. NOTHING. Most will all be out of Dodge by then. Ben, Jamie, Jon, Lloyd and Timmy will be the only ones on the trading floor co-mingling what left of everyone's assets into the FED, UST, FDIC, ect. etc.... To heroically save the country, of course. Congress will tell them what a fine job they're doing and the country is grateful.
We'll know the final act is approaching when these trigger-men suddenly seek retirement, to be replaced by the "Know-Nothings" fresh out of school.
I expect them all to be non-white, non-guys full of non-clues.
So... just what is Christina Romer up to these days, I wonder?
IMHO, the Overt pillage of the Muppet's is now underway. It started when jon Corzinator's case set the tone with MF Global, said, "come on in boy's the water's fine!"
If a banker has the choice between a poor(er) lifestyle and fleecing client accounts, what do you think he's going to do?
Markets are a crap shoot. There is no organic growth to service the capital. Someone is getting shafted.
When billionaire clients are the only ones left with money in the accounts, then it's their turn to bleed.
Largest trial balloon to get off of the ground, EVAR!
So when is Barry going to bail out Knight ??
JPM, GS, WF, and Citi will divi up the spoils and clients. That's the back door bail out. Feed the small fries to the sharks cause the FDIC don't want to and can't pay if they go down.
If it was a hit then god help us all. It's starting to unravel again.
On a week central bankers do not print?
Make ya say hmmmmmm.
My guess is it is way worse than anybody is willing to say...yet.
KCG has been a contributor to it's own demise by being part of whats so very wrong with this market.
In short: Fuck em. Let them die a slow painful death. May the worms eat into their brains.
Good riddance to those motherfuckers.
You say that like it was unintentional. Like "these motherfuckers" are gone.
Yet, the only thing that has disappeared is the shell called Knight that they gamed the world with.
There are always more shells.
These motherfuckers are behind every one of them.
And they appreciate it when you when you think they've lost, as it means you'll never see just how they won.
The shell may be dead, but the game goes on.
don't pee in my cheerios man. We get so few moments to celebrate the (if only symbolic) demise of a group of scumbags that deserve far worse.
can I PLEASE enjoy my fleeting moment? Please?
Sorry, the destruction of capital markets is no cause for celebration. Especially when the losses go into the asset column at JPM.
How many more FCMs must die in order to save their shorts?
They fucked up. They get crushed.
Once upon a time, that was called Capitalism.
Don't leap to conclusion. Things may not be what they appear to be at first.
Falling hard now on heavy volume. Could go below $2 before the bell at this rate.
I can't say I'm disappointed.
EJ is the ZH of ratings agencies.
Screw them. I think the market is doing its job well in taking them behind the woodshed and shooting them. That´s how the market is supposed to work. It´s a midget but still this market reaction is promising and should be a warning to the big players.