Lol. There's more plan to trust dude. Gotta keep trusting that plan.
My pubes turn golden in the sunlight and I just injected three Marijuanas.
Lol someone got their feelings hurt.
So they can adjudicate my vote and flip it to the communists anyways? Sounds smart.
Nope, I'm ripping the bandaid off. Lets get this communism show on the road and stop pussyfooting around. If it's happening and nobody wants to stop it, then let's get it over with.
Totally. Just gotta sit back and watch the show, you know, popcorn and whatnot.
You will be voting for them whether you go to the polls or not, just like how both my parents voted absentee in Georgia despite never submitting an absentee ballot.
The year is 2083. The United States is in ruin after decades of race riots. The economy groans under COVID strain #2465 lockdowns. The newest branch of the United States military, the Armed Pandemic Response Unit, established in 2032 has been deployed on American soil to combat health terrorists for years now. Unemployment is at al all time high, 87%, and most Americans subsist on what little food they can scavenge on the black market with your Universal Basic Income to supplement anything they manage to get from the government sponsored bread lines.
A few lucky individuals manage a higher standard of living by enlisting in the military and piloting drones to bomb nameless, faceless enemies in the Middle East in the ongoing War on Terror. Back at home, the War on Terror is fought domestically using facial recognition in schools by analyzing the facial expressions of children. Indicators of confusion or disagreement with any state-approved lecture prompts harsh discipline for the student and a knock on the parents' door by the FBI.
The state-run "American Free Press," formed by a merger between ABC, CNN, and NPR in 2061 reports gleefully that another white supremacist domestic terrorist has been detained on the news. The camera flips to an in-the-field shot of a man being dragged out of his apartment by heroic FBI counter-terrorism forces in full tactical gear. The man's wife and two children can be seen weeping in the doorway in the background of the shot. Just before the man is forcefully stuffed into the backseat of a black MRAP with FBI markings, he can be heard shouting "TRUST THE PLAN! SESSIONS WILL SAVE US ALL!"
There are very, very few Republicans still standing up for our constitution. I can think of only two, and Greene is one of them. She won't be on my ticket, so I can't do anything to support her anyways.
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China "limits" shortselling. That should tell you everything you need to know. Restricting short selling is an anti-capitalist controlled-economy idea.
Enforcing existing antitrust laws and extending them to large funds capable of market manipulation is not a bad idea, but hard to implement. Easier would be to just not bail them out, and let the ones that are "too big to fail" fail like they deserve to. Too big to fail is bullshit, and it was fucking ridiculous when Obama bailed those companies out. But our government is corrupt and globalist af, so what are you going to do short of an armed revolt? Nothing you can do, and armed revolt is not encouraged.
It is unacceptable that any entity should get special treatment like that and it flies in the face of everything that every American should believe, even the democrats.
Blocking short sales will not prevent corruption. The only solution is "dont bail them out." Banning shorts of common stock has all kinds of really bad consequences for the market and doesn't fix the problem. Its like the NFA. It makes it confusing and hard as hell for law abiding citizens to own a rifle, but does literally nothing to stop criminals.
The fact is, markets go down sometimes, and if you eliminate the ability for people to react to that or profit off of it, you fuck a whole lot of people over and the markets too. The consumer needs to be able to bet against companies as well as for them, or you will have major, major crashes in the market all the time, or you will make it confusing AF as to what a short sale actually is. The reality is that short selling is just regular selling, but you borrowed the stock first, so do you prevent people from borrowing stock? How does that work when our entire economy runs on lending?
Unfortunately the ONLY solution is capitalism and eliminating corruption. Until we do that, we will have cronyism and pseudo-controlled economic dystopia, like some sort of half-asses pussy form of communism that just doesn't suck as much as the real thing but still sucks pretty bad.
Trading on margin, by the way, is a fantastic way for the underclass to break out of poverty, provided you are responsible. Margin is basically required for day trading.
Of course it should not be illegal. You might as well make it illegal to sell a long position too at that point, or make trading on margin illegal.
Naked puts are even riskier than shorting common stock (just as risky as naked calls) and are derivatives so they don't drive the price (as much).
This is why it is a red flag when Nancy Pelosi buys 1M in calls. They could easily expire out of the money and worthless, and she would lose the entire premium she spent. Nobody buys 1M in naked contracts without knowing something. The fact that New TSLA dealings were announced a week later means she should be in prison.
And it doesn't work like you said, because you have to BUY to close out a short sale of common stock, which drives prices up. You don't short, drive the price down, and then immediately profit because you now owe a debt that varies in value greatly with time to whoever you borrowed from.
Thats how short squeezes work. People short, price goes up, the short sellers owe stock to someone and they have to buy it back but don't want to pay more to buy it back than what they originally sold for, so this drives the price up further, more short sellers have to buy to cover, ect. Ect. So anyone that shorts a stock will eventually drive the price up in the future when they close the position, just like any long buyer will drive the price down when they eventually sell to take profit. Until then, any and all gains or losses are unrealized.
Well yes, I agree. Capital management funds are free to take "stupid risks" because they know their corrupt government buddies will undermine the free market and bail them out if they fuck up.
This is what is evil, not short selling. We should all be allowed to take on the risks associated with volatile or unbounded-risk investments, but we should ALL have to suffer the consequences of those choices equally, big firms and government officials should not be exempt and play by different rules. When they fuck up, they should burn like everyone else would in the same position.
The popular opinion is that shorting a company is evil or cruel and the act of doing so grinds a company into the dirt so that rich people can get richer. I have heard loads of people repeat this and it is clearly the opinion that most people have, and I have been downvoted many times for suggesting otherwise here and in other places.
Short selling is not, in fact, evil. and no, I am not defending the hedge funds. What they did with GME was worse than intentionally driving the price down (which is not what they did), what they actually did was engage in levels of capital management stupidity that rivaled the pumping and massive long positions on margin in mortgage backed securities prior to 2008. Every single investment firm that was short GME and did not close their position as soon as they saw that ilthe stock was over 100% shorted should go out of business.
Shorting a stock that is 140% shorted is really, really stupid, because you are exposing yourself to immense risk of a very big squeeze and being forced to close your position at a massive loss that far exceeds your initial investment without any chance of holding the position until the price comes back down after the squeeze. Any professional capital management firm that shorts a 140% shorted stock and then loses their shirt during the inevitable squeeze deserves to be bankrupt and deserves zero stimulus or bailouts because they fucking suck at investing.
If you think that the act of shorting itself is somehow immoral or intended to drive the price down, you do not understand what shorting is. It is no different from taking profit or bailing out on a long position, and nobody considers that to be evil. Closing a long is the exact same thing as opening a short, the difference is that short selling is done on margin and you run the risk of getting shares called back and being forced to close at a loss, plus there is unbounded downside risk and you can only gain 100% returns on your principle. Shorting is fine and not a bad thing, it can be a useful tool for ALL investors, but it has caveats that give it additional risk compared with long positions and if you do not take that risk into consideration (like Citron) then you are just a bad investor.
In fact shorting can bring companies back from the dead as short sellers take profit on the fall of a stock. Short selling can make the difference between a vertical cliff crash in a long-only market, and a slow decline in a balanced short-long market, buying a company valuable time to find profitability.
The pre-written responses to the press.... what a fucking joke.
The wealth tax is insane, forgiving student loans is insane, increased regulations on funds is insane... half this stuff is garbage and will be turned against the regular individual in a heartbeat, just like a $600 dollar stimulus for you and billions to gender programs in Iraq.
Of course. They shot themselves in the foot and they are idiots.
Lots of things.
Trading halt? Stuck at $18.
A minor price movement to the upside. The stocks entire float was shorted.
117% held by institutions, and you think retail investors can move price enough to spook hedge funds.
You got it dude. Go long GME its a solid company and I dont know what I'm talking about
"hedge funds were borrowing more stock on margin than even exist"
Duh. That is what a short interest over 100% and 117% held by institutions means, which is what GME had before the squeeze.
It is also doesn't disprove anything I said. In fact, it supports my argument that the squeeze is a self inflicted wound on hedge funds caused by themselves. Idiot.
Gamestop IS crap and going to crash. They sell hardcopy software in the age of digital downloads, have no plans to adapt to the new market, and they are run by woketard communists.
Shorting and throwing shade is literally no more dishonest or corrupt than pumping and dumping. Its the same thing, but actually more risky due to the margin issue and unbounded downside.
"Regular people see it that and the stock" or short it. There is nothing wrong with shorting, if you prepare for the risk.
Make NPC memes great again.