{"id":65005,"date":"2018-07-30T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65005"},"modified":"2018-08-01T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T05:38:30","slug":"the-trader-who-made-a-massive-short-bet-against-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2018\/the-trader-who-made-a-massive-short-bet-against-nintendo.html","title":{"rendered":"The Trader Who Made a Massive Short Bet Against Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) There\u2019s a new villain in the world of Nintendo Co. Gabriel Plotkin, head of New York hedge fund Melvin Capital Management, has accumulated a $400 million short bet against the Japanese game maker, according to regulatory filings. The former star trader at SAC Capital Advisors accounted for as much as 7 percent of Nintendo\u2019s daily volume in recent weeks, contributing to stock declines since May that have stunned analysts. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-30\/sac-alum-plotkin-makes-a-massive-short-bet-against-nintendo\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) There\u2019s a new villain in the world of Nintendo Co. Gabriel Plotkin, head of New York hedge fund Melvin Capital Management, has accumulated a $400 million short bet against the Japanese game maker, according to regulatory filings. The former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65006,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005\/revisions\/65006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}