On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:06:05PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 10:53:24PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > The Great GameStop Short Squeeze
> >
> > "Apu understands this is more important than dirty money"
> >
> > If you know, you know
> >
> > Hold the line frens, Apu rock the world
> >
> > Big hodl make Apu and frens extra-ordinarily happy
> >
> > Hodl, biatch! Get out the way!
>
>
> Here's you know the thing. We are entering a great awakening, and The Wierd
> Zone ™©®. Call it Sabmyk, call it the return of the Sumerian kings, call it
> the reincarnation or re-manifestation of the Christ consciousness in human
> form - when you feel uncertain or angsty or wierd or unbalanced or
> disoriented, just hodl the line, in your own self, tap back in to your
> foundation principles.
>
> This is a rare moment in history, use it well.
>
> Uphold the highest. Uphold truth if nothing else.
Down she comes muffaduckas - yeeee hawwwwww :D
Quote from the below:
In fact, at this rate, Once WSB has 15 million or so members - which should
happen by the end of the week, as it now has a whopping 7 million up from 2
million at the start of the week...
/r/WallStreetBets Traffic Growth: What going viral looks like
pic.twitter.com/rBAt3CTMWu
— wallstreetbets mods (@wsbmod) January 30, 2021
... it will have more monetary firepower than the world's biggest hedge fund
(central banks not included) Bridgewater
Mark Cuban Presents A "Little Trick" For Creating The Mother Of All Short
Squeezes
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mark-cuban-presents-little-trick-creating-mother-all-short-squeezes
A few days ago when Wall Street was panicking over the unprecedented short
squeeze that had sent the most shorted names soaring and streamrolling hedge
funds such as Melvin Capital, Maplelane and countless others, we said that
instead of engaging in damage control already perhaps Wall Street should
consider how much worse it could still get. To wit, late on Jan 26 we said that
a "little trick" that is available (for those with cash accounts) was for
holders of GME stock to call back shares they owned of the heavily shorted
names.
Here's a little trick: everyone who is long GME should instruct their
broker tomorrow to make their shares not lendable.
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 27, 2021
Just a few hours later, early in the Thursday premarket session, things started
to really move: that's when GME hit an all time high of $513.12 which has yet
to be topped.
So did people call back their shares? Perhaps, we don't know, or maybe that's
about to happen. According to S3 Partners, the total short interest is still a
whopping 113% of the float, which means the squeeze could easily go on for a
long time if the buyers kept applying pressure.
And none other than Mark Cuban may have assured of just that.
In a series of tweets on Friday, the iconic investor and "shark" compared the
lending and rebate payment mechanism in stocks vs DeFi crypto tokens (where the
bearer gets the benefit of the borrow fee and not the broker) and said - in an
almost verbatim paraphrase of our "tricky" tweet from two days earlier - the
following:
"one trick that I have been on both sides of is to lend out stock to shorts
at a high APY and then call back my shares, which forces the short to cover.
Now if #WSB did this en masse, it would be the mother of all short squeezes ".
Cuban made another point which we also addressed previously, namely that with
millions of new users signing up to r/WallStreetBets where each trader has an
average brokerage account of $5,000 (soon to get another $1,400 "stimmy check"
infusion), the subreddit has become the world's biggest distributed,
decentralized hedge fund with a "hive mind", where all the individual traders
coordinate and work as one, and one which can steamroll over virtually any Wall
Street veteran. In fact, at this rate, Once WSB has 15 million or so members -
which should happen by the end of the week, as it now has a whopping 7 million
up from 2 million at the start of the week...
/r/WallStreetBets Traffic Growth: What going viral looks like
pic.twitter.com/rBAt3CTMWu
— wallstreetbets mods (@wsbmod) January 30, 2021
It's becoming the biggest distributed hedge fund in the world
https://t.co/LG4FskAjmH
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 29, 2021
And here's Cuban on this topic too: "The beauty of what has happened with #WSB
is that Wall street is learning an expensive lesson that The Way Things Have
Always Been Done is not How Things Should Be Done. There is power in numbers
working together. Buy and Trade Together can be a whole lot more powerful than
old-school buy and hold. Im not saying HODLing stocks is bad. It can be great
and have the same impact as HODLing crypto. And the same principals even apply.
The number of shares outstanding and their growth is comparable to coins mined
(without the algorithmic control)."
His full thread is below (source):
Lets talk $GME shorts vs De-Fi. When someone shorts a stock that is already
heavily shorted, they have to pay a fee to borrow that stock. In the case of
$GME that fee has been hovering around 30% this week. Shorts have to pay (Price
x .30)/360 per day. In DeFi thats a 30% APY.
For RH Traders that own $GME that money, as best I can tell, is held in
street name. Which means that 30% APR goes 100pct to @RobinhoodApp 😬😬😬. Imagine
if you pooled your crypto and the platform was getting 30% APY and didnt pay
all but fees to you ? What would happen ?
This is one more way that Wall St takes advantage of the little guy. If you
are moving from RH, look to see if you can find some place that allows you to
hold the shares and lend them in YOUR name, so you get the Yield (Yield Farming
in stocks !). Not all will allow it.
But if they do, one trick that I have been on both sides of is to lend out
stock to shorts at a high APY and then call back my shares, which forces the
short to cover. Now if #WSB did this en masse, it would be the mother of all
short squeezes .
The beauty of what has happened with #WSB is that Wall street is learning
an expensive lesson that The Way Things Have Always Been Done is not How Things
Should Be Done. There is power in numbers working together. Buy and Trade
Together can be a whole lot more powerful than old-school buy and hold. Im not
saying HODLing stocks is bad. It can be great and have the same impact as
HODLing crypto. And the same principals even apply. The number of shares
outstanding and their growth is comparable to coins mined (without the
algorithmic control).
If small trades can work together and share information together the power
to move stock pricing moves quickly from the analyst on Wall Street to the
people working together. There is one VERY IMPORTANT caveat. No amount of
trading together can keep a bad company in business.
But if individual traders educate each other and use their combined
strength to focus on good companies , with strong prospects, the power shifts
from wall street to main street, particularly now that Direct Listings are
changing the IPO game. Thoughts ? Comments ?
So for all those wondering how and when GameStop will Stop, and if the squeeze
is finally over, as long as iconic figures with a chip on their shoulder and a
desire to inflict more pain on Wall Street continue to chime in with
perspectives on how to keep the pain up, it is likely that the unprecedented
short squeeze mania is not over by a long shot. And furthermore, with borrow
costs now at 50%, even in the absence of further painful gains in the stock
price the cost of carry alone will force the shorts to cover in the coming days
should the price of GME fail to drop.
