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AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

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Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

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Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#92
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Its funny how people don't see the $100,000+ portfolio losses (and much less often, gains) all over that subreddit and don't immediately realize that a ton of the people who visit it are Wall Street finance people. That's seriously the meme among the people only secondarily connected with WSB; its not "autists" or "the vox populi", its wall street bros (WSB?) who have to spend all day being super serious at their job…

Whereas Hacker News is just a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing pretending to be experts to influence the actual idiots. You can find charlatans pretty much anywhere money or people with money congregate.

The difference is the HN hype train might cause you some headaches from picking an immature tech stack. Whereas the WSB echo chamber has literally ruined thousands of people's lives and retirements.

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#93
Wow there are a lot of boomers in here. The point of the Reddit push was to screw the short sellers who did get screwed. And obviously it’s a pump and dump. And even more obviously everyone knows they are risking their money, no one is risking their life savings as someone else commented. And even if they did that’s their choice

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#94
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Not at all. The past few days they've shared not only the largest long holders of these stocks, but also the pension funds that were boosted as well. A few teacher pension funds got a good uptick and they were sharing that around. The cats at wsb might be self proclaimed retards, but they're not that stupid. They know lots of other folks are going to make money off of them. You know, if you actually visit the sub, yo…

There are plenty of "Average people" that entered near the top, and since not everyone can sell simultaneously, that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down. I think the point being made here is that the whole narrative of "average people beating wall street" is pretty naive and quite bullshit. All in on, maybe a few handful of people got 10x o…

> There are plenty of "Average people" that entered near the top, and since not everyone can sell simultaneously, that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down.

Most of "average people" entered at or near the top. The ones that did not were so engaged in gambling that they did not sell when it did 20x return. Call it what it is: fear of missing out.

Even DeepFuckingValue, who sold at least some of this position and netted a lot of money after taxes was not smart enough to say that 20x return in a few months is a time to pack the toys and go home so he could fight another day, leaving millions on a table in a futile hope that it would do much, much better.

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#95

I expect a lot of Redditors will be very disappointed when they realize just how much money hedge funds made, on average, out of this episode. The WSB moderators really did everyone a disservice by letting obvious misinformation flood the subreddit. It’s hard to view the later stages of the GameStop phenomenon as anything other than a Reddit-fueled pump and dump scheme.

The subreddit surged from 1 to 8 mil redditors in less than two weeks. I think the mods couldn't have stopped the disinformation even if they tried, just due to sheer increase in volume of posts.

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

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I expect a lot of Redditors will be very disappointed when they realize just how much money hedge funds made, on average, out of this episode. The WSB moderators really did everyone a disservice by letting obvious misinformation flood the subreddit. It’s hard to view the later stages of the GameStop phenomenon as anything other than a Reddit-fueled pump and dump scheme.

>did everyone a disservice I suspect they didn't do a disservice to their own bank accounts. Random internet strangers care as much about you as do politicians and hedge fund owners.

I suspect they did. I had multiple friends buy GME and all of them are now in the red on that investment.

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#97
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Not at all. The past few days they've shared not only the largest long holders of these stocks, but also the pension funds that were boosted as well. A few teacher pension funds got a good uptick and they were sharing that around. The cats at wsb might be self proclaimed retards, but they're not that stupid. They know lots of other folks are going to make money off of them. You know, if you actually visit the sub, yo…

There are plenty of "Average people" that entered near the top, and since not everyone can sell simultaneously, that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down. I think the point being made here is that the whole narrative of "average people beating wall street" is pretty naive and quite bullshit. All in on, maybe a few handful of people got 10x o…

> that means a ton of people are losing the life savings they dumped into this out of excitement as it crashed back down

Can you provide a single case of someone losing their entire life savings by YOLOing it on GME at the top?

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

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> A few teacher pension funds got a good uptick and they were sharing that around. The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, who was holding GME, is one of the largest hedge funds in existence, worth over 200 billion dollars. For comparison, Maverick Capital is worth only $15 billion. That is not a case of some little guy teachers making out well, it is the rich (if not the richest ) hedge funds getting richer.

I highly doubt anyone is against pension funds making money - even if they are run as a hedge fund. The political opposition to hedge funds has to do with the fact that they often cater (or are assumed to cater) to the 1%. Who cares if it is 200B? It probably represents the financial interests of tens-of-thousands of teachers.

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Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

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> The WSB moderators really did everyone a disservice by letting obvious misinformation flood the subreddit. Well, on the flip side a lot of redditors learned from the school of hard knocks, which is the best teacher in a lot of ways. Moderators suppressing posts won't teach a lesson you can only learn by losing money.

WSB moderators were (and still are) actively suppressing posts that don’t toe the line. I had a seasoned Reddit account that had been in WSB for a long time. As soon as I started commenting about how the short squeeze wasn’t a sure thing, my posts stopped showing up. They’ve been dismissing any comments that aren’t about GME going to the moon as hedge fund shills or bots. It’s extremely difficult to find any posts or…

> WSB moderators were (and still are) actively suppressing posts that don’t toe the line.

We remove far more pro-"meme stock" content than anti-"meme stock". Your anecdote is just that, a single data point. All you need to do is pull the data yourself and you would see that, but instead you are taking personal offence to your content being removed.

At this point, almost all content that is removed, is done automatically, either using Reddit's crowd control algorithm, or using our (countless) content flags.

We also revised posting requirements countless times. You may very well have been cleared to post yesterday, but not today.

If you are willing to post your username, I can look into it for you.

Re: AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

#100
Hedge funds weren't the real winners, but rather prop shops/market making firms. January was the best month in the history of the universe for all the major prop shops: Citadel, Jane St, IMC, etc.

The two "vols": volume and volatility are the corner stones of all market making performance. Bonuses are mighty fine this year, that is for sure.

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