Lurker > CoolCly

he dodged me earlier, he's got the secret sauce and he's holding out on us

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Tom Nook, I'm going to have to ask you to leave

Captain America in there instead of Iron Man 2

da fuq

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BTW is this going to be one movie per day, with all write ups posted? That's gonna fill this topic with content FAST

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I can see Incredible Hulk getting a top 10 - it has a lot more redeeming qualities if you are into it than the other two movies that firmly belong in the bottom 3. But if you don't like it it can very easily be last place

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masterplum posted...

Huh. I seem to have jumped out correctly.

If it gets back down to 6 Ill buy again

whoops

I sold a bunch of AMC at $17 today and then tripled down at $13

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I completely agree with Lopen about CTRM, even if the price doesn't fall back down because this is just a normal pump and dump, the company itself will do an offering and destroy your value anyways.

FRSX is interesting. If they are partnered with Apple somehow then they can maybe go up (if they aren't already over valued even if this deal did happen), but if they aren't then this'll crash.

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some day tesla will stop growing and collapse backwards, like GME is doing right now

but will it be tomorrow? or years from now? who knows

but seriously $176 GME right now wow

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it literally would be worth his time if he has only partially closed and he needs to keep us suckers on the hook

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Both positions here are kinda clueless and stuck in their own perspective

Sunroof, you have full control over how much you are comfortable risking. You can easily put $140k into a safe ETF and only risk $10k or $1k or whatever you think is fine here. You seem to be stuck in this mindset of "I have $25k, i need to put this into something right now and then take it out and then put it into something else." You need to shake this off. You have choice which is extremely powerful.

Chaos's notion that it's not a big deal for somebody to lose $150K if they have $450k total is just as shortsighted and steeped in bitterness

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Did you answer the questions? Every video was followed by a (ridiculously easy) question about that particular currency and so I earned $1-$3 per video/question until i'd exhausted all their available freebies.

Currently I'm planning on dividing my free money between 5 different cryptos and then moving it to a new crypto every time it sees a small gain (maybe 3% or so?). But I'm honestly not sure what good strategies are for cryptos other than the "sit on the random ass crypto valued at .00000001 and hope it gets popular some day".

Yep! It was a lot of work! i'm unbelievably buttmad about this

I'm really not sure what I would do with Crypto either. I feel like dividing some money between 2-5 decent looking currencies is what I'll start with and get a feel for what happens. I have no idea how much of that will turnout to be throwing money away vs holding or even gaining value.

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

To follow up on this, apparently Coinbase just throws crypto at you when you get started. I watched a dozen videos about a handful of different cryptos and was given small chunks to get started and I now have a portfolio of $36 on Coinbase without having to put in any money myself.

I'm still waiting for Binance.Us to verify me so I can do stuff there, but in the mean time I'll diversify my free $36 and try to catch some small gains with it by rotating it through different cryptos that are experiencing rises.

i watched every single video for this and didn't get ANYTHING and im butthurt about it. if they had thrown me that bone i might have gone into crypto instead of the stock market to begin with

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Why'd SPCE go up? People loving everything Chamath has to say?

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i'm kinda thinking about grabbing some bitcoin. it really sucks after this giant price hike, but the reason it price hiked was because of so many institutions buying heavily, so that gives it some level of backing unless they all realize they need to gtfo

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red sox 777 posted...

This kind of news makes me think there will be further squeezing. $1 PT is a joke. Bankruptcy is basically off the table already.

yeah that feels like all the low price target GME articles and videos we were seeing a couple weeks ago before the blow up as they were trying to control the narrative

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I don't think this is over but I don't think you should operate under the assumption the squeeze is definitely going to happen.

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i think there should be a surge when retail investors are able to actually buy again, either by getting their capital into another brokerage or with this new lifting on robinhood

funnily enough, robinhood lifting the restrictions now may be in the middle of people transferring their assets out and not having them there yet, and not having anything in robinhood to buy with, so i'm not sure if this will cause the surge

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wsb right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkpS2Sdu2io

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In basic investing news, I'm parking some of my GME gains in VOO and some CAD in VGRO.TO. This seems like the appropriate benchmark to measure my other investments by - I'll probably leave that money there until the end of time.

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I have a question about Margin calls. Typically, I put CAD into my account, and if I buy something in USD, my broker will just buy it for me and convert my CAD to USD over the next couple days. But technically one of my accounts has margin available even though I don't really use it, so it's not converting the CAD to USD automatically since it thinks it should just use margin. I've initiated my CAD to USD fx transfers to cover this, but how exactly does the process of margin calling work?

If a stock drops far enough, am I potentially in danger of them selling it immediately on me? Or if I have enough value in my account, to cover the loss, will they not do that? If it's the latter, I'm not worried at all, but I am wondering if I'm exposed to some risk here unintentionally.

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My write ups in word came up to 19 pages and 10k words

did i overdo this or is that normal

i felt like i was a madman writing his manifesto this weekend

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i'm gonna play fast and loose here a little but i'm gonna make a small bet on CTRM, stop loss at 55 cents and just sell at like, 80 or 90 cents? this is unusual for me but i want to see what it feels like to be in and out of a stock like this that i know is a scam

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Colegreen_c12 posted...

You can't sell a covered call if you can't hold a stock!

fucking gotem

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Jakyl25 posted...

God damn Robinhood, my money to you has processed through my bank, why isnt it processed on your end yet?

Why would you be putting money into Robinhood at this point?

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Emailed mine in!

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I wonder if there's a way for short sellers to be "long" on this without contributing to their own demise

Like they could buy stock and benefit from the gains but doing that in significant volume would contribute to hurting themselves in the short position by driving up the price further (and is really just the same as using the shares to settle). But I wonder if there are other options that could benefit from the price increase without actually hurting their short position? If so, I have to imagine they are are doing it. Couldn't they have just bought far calls that expire in a year early on that would have risen with price and just sit on those? They'd have tons of gains that offset with their short losses, and would keep them from being margin called.

That doesn't seem that different from when Lopen offsets his calls with puts or whatever.

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I thought it might be a slow start on monday, since it's really only been one or two business days since the robinhood shenanigans, and that seems a bit too fast for users to get new accounts set up and money transferred over. This is a bit surprising - are other institutions driving this or is this still retail investors?

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I was thinking about airlines but I'm not sure specifically what would be a good one at this point... and the JETS etf looks pretty weak. It hasn't grown out of COVID yet but it's pre covid peak wasn't that great anyways....

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I'm actually curious about how slow the "settling of shorts" process is - how long would it take for a short seller to buy a stock, return it to the lender, and for the lender to sell it back onto the market, and thus be available for settling another short seller? Could it happen instantly or would it take days to settle?

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red sox, you were saying you think this will result in a pull down of other stocks? Presumably because a squeeze will damage large hedgefunds enough to pull out their investments?

Maybe parking my gains in ETF's right now isn't a good idea after all....

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So in a return to safe investing, what are some good places to park all these gains from GME? I'm thinking some normal hold stocks and some ETF's

I've put $3k back into Cloudflare and $3k back into ARKG. I'll probably also put the same into ARKK. I could just keep finding more ARKW's or whatever the hell but I should probably see what else is out there.

I always see VOO and QQQ paraded out as the gold standard, so I'll probably do one of them, though they kinda look the same to me. Plus theirs all these variations on the ETF you can pick, like in this list, would VOOG or VONG not be good choices?

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/list#/etf/asset-class/month-end-returns

Any other good ETF's you guys have your eye on?

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red sox 777 posted...

Everyone should be careful, unless you've already cashed out a lot. If you are a true visionary and haven't cashed out yet you probably have quite a lot of money at stake in which case you should be even more careful I think. Sure, if it crashes to $20 you still have a big profit....but you forewent a much bigger one.

What I'm looking for more than price is volume. Volume paired with a downward movement would be the telltale sign of long stockholders capitulating. If you look at the chart for the last week, it hasn't happened once yet. High volume has been correlated with rises, and low volume with declines.

This is probably good logic, I wonder how much time there will be to act when this is noticeable.

You're right that people stand a lot to lose from the gains they've made, but I think losing an unrealized gain because of missing the chance to sell will feel way less bad to people than losing their principal. I was clenching so tight the other day when WSB went private and I hadn't recovered my principal yet, but now that I got enough out, even though I have $11k of value still in I won't feel *too* bad if I miss the timing now. Worst case is just that It'll just be as if this whole thing didn't happen.

I just want the people who jumped into this with the hype and have rockets and moons in their eyes to clear their head a bit. (I'm looking at you, ExTha)

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That doesn't apply too much to the *true visionaries* who got in at super low prices, but most of us that bought above $8 or even closer to $20 need to be very careful. If you bought Gamestop in the $30-100 range you should be a bit cautious, if you bought in the $80-250 range you should be very careful, if you bought above $250 you need to be real fuckin careful because you could end up in real bad shape.

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I really gotta push back on these timelines - AMC was supposed to blow up earlier this week, then Friday, and then it got pushed to Monday, Now "it could take all week, so keep holding"

It's critical to get out of this going into the squeeze or as the squeeze happens. If the squeeze occurs and you don't get out, and you don't realize you need to get out, you'll be headed for big losses as the collapse happens. If a squeeze even happens.

Vague timelines of how to long to hold this are very dangerous. At the very least you should all be thinking about safely guaranteeing your principal, if you haven't done so already.

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red sox 777 posted...

And I see these buy restrictions as almost a confession on the part of the powers that be that they know their position is untenable. If people can't buy stocks on Robinhood, they can switch to a broker where they can.

I think this is the most compelling argument that these stocks are still going to go up - itll take a couple days for the users to get on another broker. I wonder how many will actually do that by monday, or at all.

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I'm starting to think these short squeezes aren't going to happen like we think

I especially don't like these shifting targets.... it was thursday/friday before, then friday/monday, now monday..... obviously it's going to explode on monday.

where are these days even coming from

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red sox 777 posted...

Yes, that's very similar to my theory from earlier in the day. Except that there is no way that small retail investors buying long stock is generating liquidity issues.

Why wouldn't this be possible? I've seen it said that 50% of Robinhood's users have GME - it's very possible they are heavily exposed on this enough that Robinhood in particular doesn't have the collateral to keep escalating GME buys, and they are heavily focused on retail investors as their business. I have no real measure of this but my assumption has been that they aren't as big as a lot of other brokers which is why they target retailers.

I'm not sure if I think other brokers like Webull make this clearing house theory more or less likely to be true.... Clearing houses doing this to whichever brokers can't support the purchases would make sense, but even if Robinhood has this issue, does it really make sense these other ones would too?

Your theory is pretty much along the lines of a lot competing theories - all focused on manipulation to prevent the squeeze. If there is no valid mechanic that caused this like clearing houses I'm sure it'll come out at some point with all this talk by congress people and class action lawsuits. If the clearing house thing is a lie, it won't hold up under any scrutiny since the clearing house will just say they didn't do that. Seems like Citadel/Robinhood collusion is the most straightforward.

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Well, logic I see supporting this is how the clearing house acts as a middleman and is the one that actually buys the shares from other brokers

If I, Cly, want to buy 10 shares for $100 from red sox, I don't send the money to red sox, and red sox doesn't send the shares to me. I have a broker, Questrade, and red sox has a broker, Ameritrade. But Questrade don't interact directly either! There's a clearing house in the middle; ClearHouse. ClearHouse gives $100 to Ameritrade, and Ameritrade will give the 10 shares to ClearHouse. Questrade will give $100 to ClearHouse and ClearHouse will give 10 shares to Questrade. But this process doesn't happen instantly like it appears to us, Clearhouse is essentially buying the share from Ameritrade, and selling the share to Questrade, and it takes a couple days to actually happen.

So, does Questrade give the money before ClearHouse buys it from Ameritrade? I don't think necessarily. They have collateral from Questrade to justify buying the share from Ameritrade. If Questrade doesn't end up giving the $100, ClearHouse doesn't give them the share and doesn't completely lose out. Let's say they have $1000 collateral on hand, so they are okay doing this trade for Questrade.

But what if Questrade suddenly wants ClearHouse to buy $10,000 in shares from Ameritrade. Should ClearHouse give Ameritrade $10k when it's not sure Questrade will pay, and doesn't have the collateral to seize if Questrade doesn't come through? ESPECIALLY when the share price might tank immediately after and Clearhouse loses out?

What would the ClearHouse do? They'd tell Questrade they aren't going to fulfill these highly volatile stock trades unless Questrade can provide collateral.

So in this case, the clearing house wasn't willing to buy GME for Robin Hood or a few other brokers due to the level of collateral on hand. In this case, it wouldn't be RobinHood or Webull who disabled buying, but the clearing house.

That's the argument here - whether it's actually true though, i have no idea. I've never heard of a stock being limited on only buying before.

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So you are confident in how clearing houses work? It can't be the case that they wouldn't allow brokers to take in more shares without collateral?

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They pay you a fee to borrow your stock, you don't give it to them for free.

Anyways

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/why-was-share-trading-restricted.html

This goes against the narrative but is it true?

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set sail for onederland

does the craving really always stay with you? I used to drink many cans of soda a day, and one day I just decided to stop. after a while, it began to have no power over me and i stopped craving it entirely. If i get some when eating out rarely i often think "this sucks, why did i even order this".

it's like that for me with all junk food and fast food. if i cut it out, after a month or two i'll begin to wonder why i ever craved that stuff. but if I end up having it out of convenience for awhile then i get back to craving it and it's tough to ditch again. I'm currently off the wagon.

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aight how much am i slamming into dogecoin

$10? $100? $1000?

is this for the long haul or are we just meming for a week?

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red sox 777 posted...
Based on the short interest data I've seen, it seems as though short interest has barely moved at all since this started. The data I've seen admittedly is either slow, or incomplete. Iborrowdesk only covers IBKR, but they were showing 0 shares available to borrow all day today, meaning they've all already been borrowed. I think it's fairly safe to say think that the short interest is still in the stratosphere.

Well, I think the short interest is still there - but I'm starting to wonder if settling it will actually have the impact we thought it will if that level of volume is already normally happening?

There's no reason to think they have to settle all the short interest at the same time, right? If they had to settle they theoretically could have done it already, so when they actually do it, why would it push the price that much

If I'm thinking along the right track then the $200-400 range is where we will peak, but maybe I'm missing something

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Colegreen_c12 posted...

say there is a room with 10 people of which 8 arent allowed to buy.

person 9 sells a share to person 10 for $150
person 10 sells a share to person 9 for $149
repeat.
person 8 sees that the share has gone down to $120 and panic sells
everyone else holds

You are increasing volume and lowering price but in this scenario only person 8s shares have returned to cover shorts

Do we really believe that almost all of the 170mil shares traded each day for three days and the 90mil yesterday were that scenario though?

It seems to me that there is enough fluidity to move these shares. My assumption is that most of those shares are retailers trading back and forth with eachother (IE buying at $200, selling at $250, $250 guy sells at $350, falls back to $300 and panic sells to new guy) etc. Why would the short sellers settling not fit into this?

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red sox 777 posted...

No, it's on the public market. But right now, a lot of retail investors can't buy, and they aren't willing to sell. So it's as if they've turned the public market into their private-ish market. But it doesn't really change anything, because it doesn't change the fact that they've got to buy 140% of the float back, and the owners of those shares are not willing to sell at these prices.

I'm not sure I'm really wrapping my head around this

if 90-170million shares are being bought and sold each day within the last week, then there should be plenty of room for short sellers to buy shares, return them to the brokers, brokers can sell on the market to retailers or to the shortsellers, and repeat Since that many shares are already being sold on a daily basis, why couldn't this happen without us even noticing?

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red sox 777 posted...

I don't think the volume is there. Most of it appears to be short stock being sold back and forth to each other. We had no real reduction in the short interest when we were doing close to 200 million shares per day. Don't think there's much long stock being sold in the 200s. I think the moment significant buying starts, either from new longs or from shorts covering, this thing is going to blow up. I think that's how the hedge funds see it or they wouldn't be moving heaven and earth to try to shake shareholders out of their shares.

What does that mean - stock being sold back and forth to eachother? Can this be done for low prices directly to eachother, bypassing the current market prices and preventing the public from taking them? Doesn't make sense to me that they'd be listing the stock they DO have for low prices just to inflate volume... just to have to buy back later at a higher price.

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red sox 777 posted...

GME volume by day:

Jan 22: 196.78 M
Jan 25: 177.87 M
Jan 26: 178.59 M
Jan 27: 93.4 M
Today (with an hour and 15 min to close roughly): 46.55 M

It would appear that very few long shares are being sold onto the market. Shareholders are holding. Probably most of the volume that does exist is short sellers trading with each other.

I was just looking at this independently

doesn't this mean the short interest can be settled easily? the volume is there within the current prices, i don't see why it would need to skyrocket to $1k or anything

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The most basic requirements are this: 1) how upset will you be if your stock plummets and you lose the amount you put in (losing your ability to pay your rent would be pretty unacceptable) and 2) when you sell, will your gains at least make up for the commission fees you paid. My broker typically charges $5 to buy and $5 to sell, so buying something for $50 and selling at $60 would make no money, but buying at $50 and selling at $100 would

Low stock volume/dollar value often means that gains can disappear from the fees you pay

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I doubled down on AMC putting $1k in at $9, after putting $500 in at $15.50 before.

I need to stop trying to harvest dips with below trading limit prices, When I bought at $15.50, it was at $13.50 and I was trying to set limits at $13, then at moved up to $13.50 but the market kept moving up until I finally caught up at $15.50, same thing today at like $7, then when I finally settle my price is a couple dollars higher. I should just take what its trading at if I want in at the dip if that's what I'm willing to take it for... i just screw myself trying to get a deal.

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coworker of mine just told me this:



fear is the mind killer

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is dogecoin a real thing

in the small steps i've taken into the crypto community, it seems to be mentioned jokingly anytime the topic of scam coins or worthless coins are brought up.

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