Tripp Fieldz

🚨 JANE STREET IS EVERYWHERE. The same firm accused of rigging markets in India and linked to the daily 10 AM Bitcoin dump pattern may now be behind the $CAR short squeeze as well. And the data does not lie. $CAR was a dying rental car company. Avis posted an $889 million net loss in 2025, carried roughly $25 billion in debt, and revenues were falling. Then in just 5 weeks, the stock exploded nearly 700%. Not because Avis fixed anything. Because the stock may have been turned into a weapon. Two hedge funds, SRS Investment Management and Pentwater Capital, quietly accumulated 71% of all Avis shares. When you include swap exposure, their combined economic interest reportedly crossed 108% of total shares outstanding. At the same time, 54% of the float was already shorted. By April 21, Ortex showed 86.2% of the free float sold short, near all-time record levels. That creates a basic problem. There were not enough shares available for shorts to exit. Short sellers lost $4.09 billion in April alone. $1.01 billion was wiped out in a single Monday when CAR surged 23%. By Tuesday morning, the stock traded at $647. Now meet Jane Street. They filed a Schedule 13G disclosing 1,910,016 Avis shares, equal to 5.4% of the company as of December 31, 2025. They also reportedly held 3.7 million CAR call options valued around $476 million . Call options rise in value when the stock rises. The higher the squeeze pushed CAR, the more those calls gained. Jane Street’s broader portfolio is heavily options-based. They do not need markets to go up or down. They need violent movement. But here is where it gets interesting. A setup like this can pay twice. First, benefit from the squeeze higher as trapped shorts are forced to buy back stock at rising prices. Then, once the rally exhausts and liquidity fades, flip positioning and profit from the collapse lower. The public usually only sees disclosed long equity stakes. The derivatives book is where the real exposure can sit. And we have already seen regulators describe similar structures before. In India, SEBI issued a 105-page order accusing Jane Street of buying large amounts of underlying stocks to push Bank Nifty higher while simultaneously holding much larger bearish options positions. Later in the day, those stock positions were unwound, the index dropped, and the options paid. SEBI impounded roughly $567 million. On one session, they allegedly lost money on the stock leg while making far more on the options leg. The stock trade was described as the cost of running the operation. In Bitcoin, traders tracked a repeated daily 10 AM Eastern selloff pattern where BTC would get hit at the U.S. open, followed by sharp recoveries. The theory was simple: create panic on the dump, then profit on the rebound. In crypto, Terraform Labs’ bankruptcy administrator later filed a federal lawsuit alleging Jane Street used non-public information to reduce Terra exposure before the $40 billion Terra/LUNA collapse. Jane Street denies the claims. Now look back at $CAR. Pentwater reportedly sold massive deep in-the-money put options at $110–$150 strikes while the stock was near $96. Buyers of those puts had to hedge by buying the underlying stock. That created fresh demand in a market with almost no available float. Price exploded. Then Avis issued 5 million new shares near record highs. And Jane Street was sitting there with large call exposure as the squeeze intensified. Was any of this coordinated? Nobody knows yet. No formal U.S. regulatory action has been filed. But the structure keeps repeating: India: move the underlying, profit in derivatives. Bitcoin: dump first, profit on rebound. CAR: ride the squeeze higher, then potentially the unwind lower. The cash position can be the instrument. The options book can be the profit center. And a company losing $889 million a year was suddenly priced like a winner. If history is repeating, the squeeze was the first payday. The crash could be the second.

THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. A rental car company with $25 billion in debt just exploded 600% in a month because two investors own over 100% of the stock. Avis Budget Group $CAR hit a record high of $608.80 on Monday, surging 23% in a single day. Two hedge funds, SRS Investment and Pentwater Capital, control 71% of the shares but when including their cash-settled equity swaps, their combined holding exceeds the entire outstanding supply. This is a company that reported a $995 million net loss last year and has been struggling under a massive debt load for months. One technical ownership glitch changed everything. The supply mismatch is so extreme that short sellers are trapped in a mathematical impossibility. With zero shares left to borrow and the float effectively non existent, the market just gave a debt heavy rental company a 6x gain simply because the math broke.

A trader crashed the Dow from his parents' bedroom, the market lost $1 trillion in minutes May 6, 2010, Navinder Sarao is sitting in his childhood room in Hounslow, west London He traded E-mini S&P 500 futures on the CME, placing hundreds of large sell orders he never intended to fill Cancel, replace, cancel, replace before anyone could execute That's spoofing That afternoon the Dow dropped 998 points, $1 trillion in market value disappeared The DOJ charged him for it, economists still argue whether he caused it or just lit the fuse Sarao made $879,018 that day, over six years roughly $50 million total He never moved out Five years later he was arrested at his parents' front door, faced up to 380 years in prison Nearly all the money was gone he'd wired tens of millions to con men promising risk-free returns The trader who spoofed the world's biggest market got taken by the world's oldest scam The judge gave him no prison time, one year home confinement at his parents' house // JPMorgan paid $920 million in fines for doing what Sarao did from a bedroom Same spoofing, precious metals and Treasuries, for years It took the feds five years to find one guy spoofing from Hounslow On Polymarket his wallet would've been public from the first order Follow & watch 24 minute clip below from Bloomberg's full documentary on how one bedroom trader broke the world's biggest market ↓