I'm glad this place has quieted down enough for some actual DD written by a monkey with a keyboard and Adderall. Disclaimer: I am that monkey. Let me explain to you what happened, play by play. I will give you illiterates who hate reading a spoiler up front: We were within approximately 30 seconds of triggering a nuclear bomb that would have blown up the market. Do I have your attention? Here goes:
Yesterday, new call option strike prices were added all the way up to $570. Do I have to go over gamma squeezes again? Really? We've been over this: when deep out-of-the-money call options start being gobbled up and the price starts moving towards being in-the-money, the call writers have to hedge their risk of having their sold calls exercised, typically by buying stock. This creates upwards pressure on the market. We've been seeing these movements all week.
Yesterday after market, you probably saw that coordinated effort to drive the price down and spook retail investors into a mass sell-off. It didn't work.
Last night, Robinhood sent out a message to users: you could no longer enter into new options. You could exercise them if you had the collateral (money in the account) to do so. Very interesting and the first sign of pants-shitting fear.
Today, the market opened very strong. It opened so strong that we were looking at a self-perpetuating gamma squeeze all the way up way past $570.
At approximately 9:58 am, the stock had reached $468 in a parabolic move.
Two minutes earlier, at 9:56 am, Robinhood tweeted that they were not allowing users to buy GME stock, but they would allow selling.
The trend instantly halted and started a collapse downwards, before picking up a bit, especially after some retail was allowed back in.
Okay, now that you are clear on the facts, understand this: The market ran out of liquidity today, or was threatening to get close enough that they killed it. What does that mean? It means they ran out of shares and/or capital. They wouldn't let you buy new shares because we were burning through all the shares on the market. I saw an unsubstantiated post from a user who said a small sell limit order executed at $2600 for him. Do you get the severity of the situation, if that's true? It means the buying was getting to the point where it was just about to put INFINITE pressure on the price of the shares. It means virtually any ask was getting bid.
How do you get infinite upwards pressure? A gamma squeeze triggering the mother of all short squeezes, just like we predicted. The call writers need shares to hedge. Retail is still buying more. The short sellers need over 100% of the float back. Add these together. There were more shares needed than existed on the open market. That's what a liquidity crisis is.
Listen to this remarkable (if infuriating) interview where the chairman of Interactive Brokers admits that they didn't have the capital to pay out the winners (us), so they took their ball and went home. DO YOU GRASP HOW INSANE IT IS THAT HE SAID THEY NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN BUY ORDERS TO "PROTECT THE MARKET"? Hello! He's not talking about the market for GME shares. He's talking about the entire market! The New York Stock Exchange. The NASDAQ. All that.
Remember the movie Snowpiercer? Do you remember that scene where the lower class people realize the soldiers who oppress them have no bullets? Go to the 1:00 minute mark of this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1EtiOhr6o
It kick starts a full blown rebellion. They have no bullets. It's the exact same in this market: No capital. No shares. Infinite losses inbound.
TL;DR: For all you who will just skip to the bottom to ask, "Do I get my tendies now?" the answer is this: they NEED NEED NEED your shares. Do you get that? HOLD. Like the guy in the movie, scream, "They're out of bullets!" and create a stampede. That's how we win.
They needed your shares so badly that they literally risked PRISON TIME to get them. They tried robbing you, and I'm not even exaggerating. They were within 30 seconds of all being wiped out today.
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They had a lawsuit filed against them immediately, although courts are corrupt as fuck ..
They have been manipulating the stock markets for decades ...
Wait until America finds out that in 1871 the USA was basically SOLD to the Central Bankers from the UK. And as a corporation we are their property they have made every US citizen a tax slave ever since AGAINST our will of course. That's what Social Security #'s are all about. We didn't fight the British over taxation without represention, just to sell it back to the British to do the same shit but 100 times worse, that's retarded ..
So it's down to this, Either Trump and the military stopped this or that's all bullshit and communists have taken over America permanently and we will all be dead soon.
My bet is Trump stopped it, the military still occupying D. C is proof ..
While everything was "Down" for Normal people, a South Korean Investment Firm, MUST, sold out there 5% holdings in Gamestop. They pocketed $1.1 BILLION dollars from a 13 million dollar investment back in March.
Any bets the buyers were the said hedge funds that are facing bankruptcy, to cover the shorts?
It still isn't enough to cover what is coming tomorrow.
I hope all the right people read this post!
Glad I kept my three shares!
I'm holding for multiple thousands per share. If they don't hit, I don't even care but I won't let them take these shares. I like the stock
I do not believe the OP is correct. They did not exclude users from participating in other stock buys only a few connected stocks and apps. There is a behind the scenes being played out as this is a very targeted effort to cease and desist.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210129033122/https://www.businessinsider.com/citadels-eric-felder-builds-out-fundamental-strategies-unit-2017-9
exactly
What? No one is saying they couldn't buy any stock.
I already said that in the 2nd sentence QUOTE :
They did NOT EXCLUDE users from PARTICIPATING in OTHER STOCK BUYS only a few connected stocks.
And what's the sentence before that?
Flawed.. no such thing as an infinite top. Retail will come to the table with the shares. people at some point want the profit and once that is sensedi the stock plummets..
That's great except they owe 1.4 shares for every share that's available. So they need to buy shares multiple times.
Yeah, why wouldn't GME just issue more shares?
They may if the stock is 500 per share but GS may not need the capital. They’re a strip mall retailer of used video games requiring the same footprint as a wig shop. They’re not building 200,000 sq ft facilities with 2000 ton tandem stamping presses..
Spez: they could get into the wig business and sell used wigs.. that be the shit.
Chilling
Thanks for the post
Thank you for the summary, much appreciated.
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This is patriots.win. you might try fakebook or twatter if you are easily offended. Also, OP said it was copied from r'dit, so not even his words. Reading comprehension is where it's at.
I didn't write it but had I, I also would have called myself a monkey on Adderall before calling you an idiot.
So, ask yourself, would you be offended to be called an idiot by a monkey on Adderall or would you just laugh?
I think everybody over on that subreddit, where this is copied front, refer to each other as “retards”
I'm calling you, specifically, a faggot.
He didn't write it
freedom of association
fuck you idiot