Computer Assisted Magic Trick Executed in the Financial Markets

摘要

The invention is directed toward a method of performing an unconventional magic trick. The magic trick is a methodology of identifying a number of securities of publicly traded companies which are ideal targets for short selling. The process starts with utilizing a computer system to scrape publicly available information on the internet about a company. The system then searches for social connections between a target company and a company which has been previously successfully targeted for a short selling campaign. Evidence which would cause a change in the perceived value is collected and disseminated. A magic show is performed where the perceived value of the target company is first increased and then sharply decreased. Audience members are invited to participate in the trick by purchasing enhanced tickets which include a share in the proceeds from a short selling campaign against the company.

主权项

1) A method of performing an unconventional magic trick comprising
a) receiving into a computer system an input of one or more company names of a first publicly traded company which had been previously successfully targeted for a short selling campaign; b) receiving into a computer system an input of one or more personally identifiable public actors; c) storing one or more data sets in one or more databases in a computer; d) identifying by a computer a degree of separation between at least one of said one or more first publicly traded companies and a second publicly traded company; e) identifying by a computer one or more published news articles identifying said second publicly traded company; f) searching by a computer one or more published news articles for author bias; g) identifying by a computer one or more published news articles as being written by independent authors; h) identifying by a computer one or more published news articles as being written by promoter authors; i) determining by a computer one or more securities for publicly traded companies most likely to be successfully targeted for a short selling campaign; j) ranking by a computer a plurality of securities for publicly traded companies in order of most likely to be successfully targeted for a short selling campaign; k) displaying on a computer screen a plurality of securities for publicly traded companies most likely to be successfully targeted for a short selling campaign; l) selecting a security for a publicly traded company from a plurality of securities for publicly traded companies in order of most likely to be successfully targeted for a short selling campaign; m) generating a narrative of one or more publicly traded companies wherein said narrative describes how the accurate value of a security of one or more publicly traded companies is lower than the current perceived value, wherein said narrative comprises one or more published news articles; n) generating a list consisting of a plurality of correspondents; o) transmitting by a computer said narrative to one or more correspondents; p) performing a magic trick in a live magic show by first deliberately increasing the perceived value of a security of a publicly traded company by an audience and then deliberately decreasing the perceived value of a security of a publicly traded company by presenting said narrative.