{"id":36,"date":"2012-08-03T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/webguy\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-08-03T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:45:24","slug":"the-real-reason-fb-shares-cant-find-a-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/2012\/08\/03\/the-real-reason-fb-shares-cant-find-a-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason FB Shares can&#8217;t find a Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37\" title=\"fb-shares\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/webguy\/files\/2012\/08\/fb-shares.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/files\/2012\/08\/fb-shares.png 485w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/files\/2012\/08\/fb-shares-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is no institutional trust. FB is not the stock you will find in any company mutual funds, retirement funds, equity funds, etc. Retail investors were seduced into the stock and are now placing market sell orders in screaming fashion. Retail investors have shaky hands and as you know &#8211; selling begets more selling as the panic continues. Look at LinkedIn, which as 52% institutional ownership. Despite their earnings still being abysmal (they can\u2019t get the P\/E out of triple digits), the stock can hold its ground because most shareholders are in it for the long haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no institutional trust. FB is not the stock you will find in any company mutual funds, retirement funds, equity funds, etc. Retail investors were seduced into the stock and are now placing market sell orders in screaming fashion. Retail investors have shaky hands and as you know &#8211; selling begets more selling as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/webguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}