Don't know. I've just been watching in fascination. My best guess is that they won round 1 big but now they are overplaying their hand. I think it's because they don't control as much of the float as they think they do. Most of the shares are with investment firms who have just made billions off of the redittors work. The big guys are all going to start taking their profits soon. |
I think I get it. These redditors think that at some point, each of them will get paid out by a short seller at highway robbery prices. Nope! it does not work that way. |
Watch the free fall in before market trading on Monday while the amateurs are sleeping. |
You still don't get it. Keep trying. You'll get there. |
I haven't read this entire thread, but if you're the same "fundamentals" poster who keeps talking about how the Redditors are too stupid to understand that $300 is too high of a valuation for GME...just stop. You are truly embarrassing yourself. |
DP. That's what a lot of them are saying. Only some of them are in it for the anger. |
If there is another squeeze they’re likely right. But let’s be real the entire world has been explaining this is a risky AF scheme and the redditors are not denying it. They are posting memes making fun of it. There is one with a girl crying saying “sell and make us millionaires!!!” And a guy in front of her at a computer saying “HOLD THE LINE” Honestly people getting in now who lose have been given the information they need to avoid catastrophe if they so choose. If they decide to gamble on the wave who are you to tell them they can’t? |
In the last week and a half, 700 million shares have changed hands. There is more than enough daily volume for the shorts to close out their positions and leave you holding the bag. |
Did I say they couldn't? |
There was a billionaire on Newsmax at 7pm practically begging for the Biden administration to save the short-sellers from ruin. He described it as a standoff that is carrying into next week. In other words, all the "shorts got out" is FAKE NEWS. The hedge funds desperately need these stocks to crash to get out. |
That's okay, Biden doesn't watch Newsmax. He must be trying to reach the former President. |
If they went short at say $15/share it is impossible for them to close out at 10x or 20x without bankrupting several hedge funds and causing a cascading effect on Wall Street. The shorts can only re-trench; they are not out of these stocks. They need them to crash down to where they were a month ago to truly get out. It's a game of chicken and this could go for a while -- especially when millions of serfs on the other side don't care if they lose. They want to stick it to the vulture capitalists. And every day and week this continues costs the hedge funds big-time vigs as they're borrowing and borrowing as this game of chicken plays out. |
They have already bankrupted several hedge funds. But this game has gone international. It's only getting started. There's too much cheap money, too many bored and angry retail traders. This is going to rewrite Wall Street. |
Who is bankrupted? Names... |
That's the theory at least but it's only working because the people who own most of the shares are sitting on the sidelines. If they decide to unload on Monday, they will make huge profits and the redittors will have nothing. |