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The Battle of GameStop

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Re: The Battle of GameStop

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Today I noticed that Bad Bath and Beyond rallied 40% in the morning with no major news. It closed only +1.5%. I was wondering what's going on. I think that's one warning sign not to invest in companies that often flactuate greatly with no major news. It often happens with small companies so it's good to stay away from such companies. But BB&B seem to have a market cap of a few billions so it's not expected.

Melvin was also heavily short Bed Bath and Beyond, they probably covered some of their shorts this morning because they were overall down a lot.

Re: The Battle of GameStop

#112

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Is Melvin Capital winning with their short position? When they’re contractually obligated to repurchase millions of shares and there are no shares left to purchase, what do you think is going to happen? There are winners and losers, but in this case the loser could very well be an investment firm with 12B in assets. Some wealthy investors are about to have that wealth redistributed. I think that’s the point.

"no shares left to purchase". what?? 160 million shares changed hands today. there will never be no shares left to purchase.

Flow and stock are different.

Re: The Battle of GameStop

#113

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I made the money myself, I didn’t get lucky. Edit: The money was made over a 100 trades

people don't know just how hard it is to compound gains -- congrats. Personal note: I really don't know why you would bring attention to yourself over this

It’s a throwaway account and I just quit my job, I read for years that you can’t beat the market.

Re: The Battle of GameStop

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No I made this money myself. In any time in basically the last decade, if you leveraged up on the SPY or QQQ, you are now retired. People are too risk averse, they will be stuck in a job forever

How do we replicate your success?

Step 1 - Buy leveraged options at the right time

Step 2 - Do not buy leveraged options at the wrong time [0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/be-attractive-dont-be-unattra...

Re: The Battle of GameStop

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The only person really winning here is Ken Griffin.

Damn, here I was thinking /u/DeepFuckingValue was winning by turning 53k into 13M, more than any of the jealous fucks here will make in their lifetime working their miserable engineering jobs and afraid to take any risks in life https://www.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue

Ken Griffin made $6 billion during the pandemic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/kenneth-c-gr...

Re: The Battle of GameStop

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> The same emotion that caused us to root for the thieves in Ocean’s 11 is what makes Wall Street Bets so enticing. Put frankly, Millennials are tired of getting fucked by the man. When you’re underemployed with $100,000 in student loan debt, your financial situation feels overwhelming. You really don’t want to take the advice of your parents or CNBC talking heads [5] to invest 10% of your salary for a 4% annual retu…

I was explaining to a friend of mine a few weeks ago why cynicism is so prevalent in our generation Where have I heard this before? ” As adolescents and young adults in the 1980s and 1990s, Xers were dubbed the "MTV Generation" (a reference to the music video channel), sometimes being characterized as slackers, cynical, and disaffected.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Listen to 80’s music for a bit if you think the current decade has a lock on existential dread.

Or just the theme song of “Good Times”, a sitcom from the 70’s.

Re: The Battle of GameStop

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I wouldn’t compare what happened with GME to the lottery at least not for the people who understood why they were doing what they were doing.

It's still a lottery. They didn't know if there would be enough real following or if most people were just trolling. Even if they estimated that well, they still had no idea where the peak was.

A typical lottery in the USA has odds of like 1 in 300 million. The fact alone that more than 100% of float was shorted put the odds of this happening way above any chance you have of winning the lottery. Suggesting that just because there was an aspect of chance involved that it is on par with a lottery is ridiculous.

Re: The Battle of GameStop

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>It's a never-ending shit-show. At least some of us are getting rich in /r/wallstreetbets. This is sad because most of what you've said can be applied to lotteries as well, which historically has been criticized as being a "tax" on the poor. The end result is the same: people putting themselves in a worse place financially (on average), just so they can cope with their bleak existence.

But we all know what the lottery is, sadly playing the stock market is glamorized beyond belief rather then shown for what it is:gambling

It's lightly better than gambling, since you still end up with ownership of something

Re: The Battle of GameStop

#120
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Citadel can see 80% of retail orderflow such as Robinhood and is massively long since last Friday as can be seen from the calls they are selling. Now it is likely the steam has run out(gamma cascade) so they are placing their bets on the opposite side by taking over Melvin which is massively short without causing too much market impact.

Were those calls purchased by retail, or by someone trying to cover a short?
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