SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock

Post by fsuts » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

s1artibartfast wrote: post #43

echrisinger wrote: post #23

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Typically this would be prohibited (at least as an employee)

Sorta, there are no SEC requirements for lockup. It is all depends on the agreement between the IPO company and the IPO underwriters syndicate. Spotify and Slack notably skipped lockup entirely. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BoA, ect are the ones who set the IPO lockup terms based on their risk and exposure post IPO. Indexes, exchanges, underwriters, ect are all private institutions who mostly can and do set their o…

Post by WarmWash » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC

quantummagic wrote: post #70

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But the act of selling (and shorting) puts downward pressure on the stock. Those buyers are buyers at a lower price, not a higher one (like you would find in a stock with lots of buyers). That's why saying "most shorted stock" is saying something and "every seller has a buyer" is not.

Yes, stocks go up and down; hardly revelatory. The point, regardless of the imprecise wording of my alternate title, remains. There are people who think they are getting a valuable investment, at the price short-sellers are willing to sell at. There's just as much optimism as pessimism about the stock, at that price. And that's my complaint about the title, it wants to only highlight one side of the trade -- for narr…

Post by quantummagic » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

WarmWash wrote: post #73

quantummagic wrote: post #70

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Yes, stocks go up and down; hardly revelatory. The point, regardless of the imprecise wording of my alternate title, remains. There are people who think they are getting a valuable investment, at the price short-sellers are willing to sell at. There's just as much optimism as pessimism about the stock, at that price. And that's my complaint about the title, it wants to only highlight one side of the trade -- for narr…

>There's just as much optimism as pessimism about the stock, at that price. No, there isn't, because the price breaks in the direction that there is more optimism or pessimism. When the pessimists run out of optimists at $135/share, they start digging for them at $134/share. The price ran out of optimists and had to move down to find more. Otherwise the price would lock at a single point. And abundance of pessimists…

Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

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Under this analysis, what was the short term motive? How does that pay off?

Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

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I personally think he really is a fascist, but I still don't think he was deliberately throwing out a Nazi salute. Just naive about waving to a crowd in front of a camera, which is very on-brand for him.