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GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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> These points doubtless make me appear to be a complacent shill for the financial industry, talking down to the rubes. For the record, I’m still angry about the way workers were ripped off in Britain more than three decades ago, and about the way the little guy ended up bearing the brunt for the financial implosions of 2000 and 2008. But it looks horribly to me as though the same thing is going to happen again — and…

Reddit guys do expect to get rich from it and they are pouring their life savings on it. Come by wsb and take a look.

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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As if the guys at hedge funds shorting stocks to drive companies out of business have more "honest" jobs.

Seriously those guys claim they are holding companies accountable and the market efficient. They are just sleazy stock traders. Grinds my gears people try and defend them through efficient capital markets when you see the garbage reports they put out there to manipulate the market for their positions.

Is the market more efficient now that the price for GameStop went up a factor of 10 over 5 days?

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Can anyone tell me why SEC won't just step in, suspend trading, and force some kind of resolution? Its obvious that the market has been effectively broken by the short sellers. It might just make the redditors more angry and likely to hit other shorted stocks, and possibly cause markets to decline, but its the best applicable solution i see. https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_tr...

Short sellers illegally borrowed more stock that actually existed. They are the criminals here. Not the people discovering this and taking the criminals for everything they have.

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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post #285

Can anyone tell me why SEC won't just step in, suspend trading, and force some kind of resolution? Its obvious that the market has been effectively broken by the short sellers. It might just make the redditors more angry and likely to hit other shorted stocks, and possibly cause markets to decline, but its the best applicable solution i see. https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_tr...

That is already happing people basically sorted stocks by % of shorted float and are piling on. AMC, SPCE etc

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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> These points doubtless make me appear to be a complacent shill for the financial industry, talking down to the rubes. For the record, I’m still angry about the way workers were ripped off in Britain more than three decades ago, and about the way the little guy ended up bearing the brunt for the financial implosions of 2000 and 2008. But it looks horribly to me as though the same thing is going to happen again — and…

> The "little guy" refers to the Reddit traders that are making a killing right now, with the expectation that eventually the stock price will crash again.

The reddit traders are only making a killing if they're selling these inflated positions. At some point somebody will be left holding the bag, odds are it will be a bunch of people from wallstreetbets and other retail investors that are late to the party. There's no chance game stop is worth the its current price.

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post #107

> These points doubtless make me appear to be a complacent shill for the financial industry, talking down to the rubes. For the record, I’m still angry about the way workers were ripped off in Britain more than three decades ago, and about the way the little guy ended up bearing the brunt for the financial implosions of 2000 and 2008. But it looks horribly to me as though the same thing is going to happen again — and…

If there is a reversion to mean it will slaughter the retail investors.

It happens all the time, and retail investors dont get bailed out. Here is a lowly perspective from the retail investor: https://twitter.com/inactivist_/status/1354537152445521923/p...

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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> These points doubtless make me appear to be a complacent shill for the financial industry, talking down to the rubes. For the record, I’m still angry about the way workers were ripped off in Britain more than three decades ago, and about the way the little guy ended up bearing the brunt for the financial implosions of 2000 and 2008. But it looks horribly to me as though the same thing is going to happen again — and…

"Making a killing"... I got my first experience in trading with Crypto currencies, it always surprises me what stock traders call "crazy". Just an observation, I know the downsides of crypto etc, etc, it's just... another world.

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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I am loving every minute of this. The "professionals" gamble on the market all the time, front run, high frequency trade, and relentless tactics to get rich at the expense of the "retail" investors. Now they are upset that apps like Robinhood has provided unprecedented access to the markets. Their exclusive access to insane gambling nonsense is being torn down in real time. If Wall St can gamble and cause a global fi…

> Make no mistake, the market is already a mockery, what's happening now is that the public is finding out. Pretty sure that was about a century ago and resulted in the Great Depression. I don't think the solution to the crock that has been going on is to "do it back". Setting one or two hedge funds back a year or so, or even to close completely, isn't going to do anything resembling justice. It starts to look more a…

> Pretty sure that was about a century ago and resulted in the Great Depression.

A fine sight better than 1789

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lost my respect for Rossman after he uploaded a video cursing out short sellers after $AGRX sunk after getting approved. Bio stocks almost always sink after PDUFAs, but he was just raging after what he thought was market manipulation.

I was disapointed in some of his videos about Coronavirus and Cuomo's executive orders. But then I remembered that he is neither a stock trader nor an epidemiologist. His channel is fundamentally an opinion show. Its a good opinion show, but still an opinion show. When he starts giving opinions on things far outside his wheelhouse he becomes a more-rational-than-average lay person.

He's so smart.

Re: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

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post #285

Can anyone tell me why SEC won't just step in, suspend trading, and force some kind of resolution? Its obvious that the market has been effectively broken by the short sellers. It might just make the redditors more angry and likely to hit other shorted stocks, and possibly cause markets to decline, but its the best applicable solution i see. https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_tr...

They only interfere when the amount of magical floating stock that would need to materialize to fulfill all the contracts and pay back all the loans is too much to actually break down the market. That is not the case yet. As long as the only consequence of a squeeze is that people that made bets loose all their money the SEC is not going to do anything. No one is being fooled into buying something that's riskier than it looks here.

Of course if GME asked to be delisted they could also help, but that also hasn't happened yet I think.

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