{"id":47568,"date":"2014-02-17T05:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=47568"},"modified":"2014-02-17T05:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T10:35:21","slug":"mistaken-identity-sends-wrong-stock-blasting-4900-percent-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/02\/17\/mistaken-identity-sends-wrong-stock-blasting-4900-percent-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMistaken Identity\u201d Sends Wrong Stock Blasting 4,900 Percent Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1dy17jo\"><u>WallStreetDaily.com<\/u><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxi95\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"&quot;Mistaken Identity&quot; Sends Wrong Stock Blasting 4,900 Percent Higher\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google recently announced that it was buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On the day after the announcement hit, investors accidently triggered a historic stock move.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a phenomenon called a &#8220;flash rally,&#8221; which is the exact opposite of a &#8220;flash crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why haven&#8217;t you heard about flash rallies?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, really.<\/p>\n<p>The press favors negative storylines, especially ones where people lose gobs of money.<\/p>\n<p>Such gut-wrenching stories tug at readers&#8217; heartstrings, and garner lots of attention.<\/p>\n<p>During flash rallies, though, investors <em>make<\/em> gobs of money, which means these stories go virtually unreported.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, flash rallies are happening with increased regularity.<\/p>\n<p>Any stock that doubles in price (or greater) in a single day is said to have experienced a flash rally.<\/p>\n<p>Flash rallies happen, on average, 41 times every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which 41 stocks are ready to double in price tomorrow?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Full details<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;accident&#8221; heard round the world&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much to trigger a flash rally of biblical proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Flash rallies are hypersensitive to news.<\/p>\n<p>Take Google&#8217;s plans to buy Nest Labs, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The day after the news hit, a certain company&#8217;s stock &#8220;accidently&#8221; blasted 4,900% higher.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t Google&#8217;s stock that rocketed higher.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t Nest Labs&#8217; stock, either. (Nest Labs isn&#8217;t even a publicly traded company.)<\/p>\n<p>However, if you were a shareholder of the stock that <em>did<\/em> accidently blast 4,900% higher, a modest $1,000 investment could&#8217;ve suddenly turned into $50,000, overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Flash rallies (of all magnitudes) are happening to the tune of 41 every day.<\/p>\n<p>To appreciate how hypersensitive flash rallies are to news, let&#8217;s examine the fallout from Google&#8217;s offer to buy Nest Labs, which sent a totally unrelated company&#8217;s stock shooting to the moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next flash rally will commence tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM EST. For details on which stocks are set to be impacted, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A $3.2-billion case of mistaken identity&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nest Labs was founded in 2010 by the former Senior Vice President of Apple&#8217;s iPod Division, Tony Fadell.<\/p>\n<p>Fadell worked alongside Steve Jobs on the first-generation iPod.<\/p>\n<p>He left Apple to financially leverage the massive cloud computing revolution, which paid off in spades the moment Google&#8217;s offer hit.<\/p>\n<p>Nest Labs manufactures beautifully designed thermostats and smoke detectors that can be controlled with a smartphone from anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission has since rubberstamped the deal, and now Nest Labs&#8217; shareholders are set to receive $3.2 billion in cash from Google.<\/p>\n<p>In a case of mistaken identity, though, many investors rushed to buy shares of the wrong company.<\/p>\n<p>The unsuspecting beneficiary, Nestor Inc., enjoyed a 4,900% increase after investors confused it with Nest Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor isn&#8217;t even a cloud computing company. Rather, it sells automated traffic enforcement systems to governments, yet happens to have the ticker symbol NEST, hence the accidental stampede to buy shares.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19571\" alt=\"Movie1\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1f9GHMW\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wall Street loves to restrict access to flash rallies. The less you know, the bigger the profits are for them. To learn how to lift your restrictions to tomorrow&#8217;s 41 flash rallies, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtually anything can trigger a flash rally&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, a company called Tweeter Home Entertainment enjoyed a 685% price spike on news of Twitter&#8217;s IPO plans.<\/p>\n<p>The frenzied buying made no sense considering that Twitter hadn&#8217;t even offered shares yet.<\/p>\n<p>Still, investors &#8220;accidently&#8221; rushed to buy shares of TWTRQ, thinking they were buying Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Although confusion over ticker symbols can cause massive flash rallies, it&#8217;s actually one of the least likely triggers.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 41 stocks, on average, that double in price every day, more traditional news usually serves as the spark.<\/p>\n<p>Insider buying can spark a flash rally.<\/p>\n<p>A licensing deal can spark a flash rally.<\/p>\n<p>Patent approval can spark a flash rally.<\/p>\n<p>Successful product testing can spark a flash rally.<\/p>\n<p>Flash rallies happen to the tune of 41 opportunities every day.<\/p>\n<p>Yet not a single media outlet is likely to report news concerning any of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the experts are saying: <\/strong><em><b>Wall Street Daily&#8217;s <\/b><\/em><strong>exclusive research into flash rallies is the only known foray into this phenomenon. The study&#8217;s results are eye-opening, especially concerning a proprietary algorithm that can identify which 41 stocks are ready to be among tomorrow&#8217;s price doubles. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to view it now<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1cPxkxA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19572\" alt=\"Movie2\" src=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1f9GHMY\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the tape,<\/p>\n<p>Louis Basenese<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1f9GJUT\">&#8220;Mistaken Identity&#8221; Sends Wrong Stock Blasting 4,900 Percent Higher<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/wCCKdg\">Wall Street Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Article By <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1dy17jo\"><u>WallStreetDaily.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1f9GJUT\">\u201cMistaken Identity\u201d Sends Wrong Stock Blasting 4,900 Percent Higher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WallStreetDaily.com Google recently announced that it was buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion. On the day after the announcement hit, investors accidently triggered a historic stock move. It&#8217;s a phenomenon called a &#8220;flash rally,&#8221; which is the exact opposite of a &#8220;flash crash.&#8221; Why haven&#8217;t you heard about flash rallies? It&#8217;s simple, really. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/02\/17\/mistaken-identity-sends-wrong-stock-blasting-4900-percent-higher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cMistaken Identity\u201d Sends Wrong Stock Blasting 4,900 Percent Higher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}