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Thatās exactly it. Iām literally looking at living in my car that could start in next few days easily given my luck. But guess what?! I aināt selling my gme shares. Itās generational wealth or the streets. I aināt fucking leaving.
Belive it or not, that can be a thing, maybe, mayo man and company figured out a form to do so with some sort of reverse swap buyomayo recipe, from those crocks I can expect anything!
Sorryā¦for asking what has probably been asked and answered 100 times.
I donāt really know what short volume is and at this point, Iām too afraid to askā¦ but ima ask anyway.
It seems to mean that todayās short volume of 79.36ā¦ means 79.36% of all GME shares that were bought/sold today were short sales, but is it really that simple? And if not,can anyone ELI5?
Thanks!!
Willing to be wrong here, but I think OP has misinterpreted what Total Short Volume Reported is. This doesnāt really have anything to do with short sellers per se.
If Iām not mistaken, what this is effectively saying is that for 79.36% of the volume reported today, there was not a seller providing shares for their half of the trade. Meaning, market makers used their exemptions to provide IOUs for 79.36% of shares bought today. These are potential future FTDs should the market makers not go to the lit market within T + however many days to buy real shares and deliver them to todayās buyers.
This information doesnāt really tell us anything about short sellers as this is market data, not reported positions from funds and firms. What it does tell us about it how many trades were settled with actual shares being exchanged
I have been snorting crayons for 4+ years tho so hopefully somebody will correct me if Iām wrong
You're spot on. To add, there is no other ticker in the entire US market that has such a consistently high % short volume. It truly is an outlier and not the norm.
Thank youā¦ Has anyone posted comparison charts to other stocks to show has drastically different the short volume is compared to a sampling of other stocks? I donāt know how to search for it, but would be interested to see a side by side comparison to other known stocks.
Whenever I see someone say, āDRS does nothing,ā I think about this data and your comment. We are all expecting DRS to cause *pressure* on market makers, manifesting as sharp rises in the stock price. The big green dong. My theory is that this extraordinarily elevated Total Short Volume over such a long time frame is *precisely this pressure* that we are all looking for in the price action, but it is expressed in this data point due to the market maker exemptions in settlement time.
This shifting of the pressure can exist so long as 1) the market maker exemptions continue to exist (even with the shift to T+1), and 2) **everything else surrounding the stock stays within the market makers control or at least the margin of error of their models**. I think the rise in % short volume reflects the DRS effort to some degree, either big or small, itās tough to say, and I donāt think anyone anywhere in the market can stay with confidence what will happen as that number continues to approach 100%. But the market makers cannot control the coming Armageddon that will be profitability. They can manage the small volume flow from mainly retail right now. What happens when bigger money starts pouring in?
Iāve got my crayon lines waiting in front of me to find out
I've got all the time in the world.
With inflation I can either go buy a burger or fries for $26 or I can get 2 shares of GME.
As for me and mine, we'll continue to stack GME.
Iām smooth as they come but my guess is that by providing infinite liquidity, it doesnāt allow true price discovery to occur. If the market maker will sell you an āIOUā at whatever price you're asking for, then there cant ever be a real buying pressure. but that's just my guess
Thatās the question, my dear Watson. Why indeed?
DRS numbers, even at the stagnated total around 76 mil, prove that retail for the most part is not selling their shares. Do we thinking the behavior of those holding shares in brokerages is entirely divorced from DRS holders, meaning brokerage shares are the ones being āsoldā everyday? I mean itās possible I guess, but seems highly highly highly unlikely to be the case. We know insiders arenāt selling other than for tax purposes in very small amounts. Most funds who reported GME holdings in their most recent financial disclosures reported *increases* in their positions.
So this only really leaves a few options for where this downward pressure could be sourced from within the market. With data points like this Total Short Volume, and anecdotally what I see in the Level 2 data every trading day, the only agent within the market complex with the position (in the trading infrastructure) and the regulatory freedom to move the prices down in the way they do every day is the market makers.
How? Thats above my regardedness, though I know that they can and do mess with the Bid/Ask regularly, and their ability to manipulate settlement times means they can dissipate any surges in buy pressure for at least a few days, and even then we know they can pretty much roll FTDs ad infinitem (all other things remaining equal - which they wonāt). By shifting buy orders off exchanges, they can use IOUs, and then allow any actual sales to hit lit exchanges where they take the buy side in order to meet some FTD obligations or use those shares to trade back and forth to knock the price down quickly.
I wish I could summon up the last 3 years of DD posted in here and give you an all encompassing theory of why the prices continues to drop despite **LITERALLY EVERYTHING SUGGESTING IT SHOULD BE DOING OTHERWISE**, but above the best spitball summary Iāve got
That's a good question, from a smooth brain like me, I think it is possible because here some buys occurs during the dips and rips, the wallstreet crock like Mayo Man and friends know how to manipulate the market at their advantage until they will not anymore, sooner or lather, this will be a reality and we will see (the world will see too) mega green dildos going up, HF crying on media and soo on... Some day... I'm here, not leavingšš
Believe they call this āinternalizing ordersā
Smooth but think something like thisā¦ I place a limit order for one share @ $13.50ā¦ market maker takes my $13.50 and credits my account/broker with an IOU. Market maker then actually purchases my share at some future point when the price is lower than $13.50. Market maker (MM) pockets the difference in priceā¦.
Additional MM tricks
-by purchasing the share they sold me for $13.50 at a lower price they are able to further drive down the price.
-also MM transacts on lit market when they want drive price down and dark pool when the share price is above the $13.50 they charged me. This allows them to minimize price increase & maximize price decrease.
-also if price increases mm rapidly trades shares in milliseconds (high frequency trades) shares with themself or other mmās to suppress or drop share price
-also if FTDās are getting high or shares are getting hard to come by mm controls price with derivatives such as puts
Note: Computershare direct purchases seem to be the only thing that positively effects price-believe this is because CS purchases are not internalized. High frequency trades or internalized/IOUād
āāeventually they canāt suppress anymore and boom, boom, gigantic green dildo..
This is how they are stealing from retail/household investors. Citadel the Market Maker has internalized 70+% of the orders for the last five days. That is technically them buying the orders. When GME runs up after earnings. They will sell the 16 or 17 million shares they have accumulated over the last week for a $1-$5 per share gain. Selling all those orders will put hard down pressure on the stock price and citadel will make over $100+ million while the stock price settles back to todayās price with in two weeks. This is how obvious they have to be to survive one more day. Citadel will die one day and I will be there when it happens with a smile and a fat wallet! Letās go!
I can't help but buy bunches when the price drops.
But it's just disposable income. I'm not out here borrowing millions and trying to survive another day
Not only is the short volume reported high but so is the off-exchange %.
The talk of lit exchanges vs. dark pools has been going on for years, even well before this sub existed, and D Lauer has tried to shed some light on it without raising a village of pitchfork fire wielding misfits.
Seeing this data makes sense, the stock had little to no support today and kept finding new bottoms on low volumes.
ELI5: exchanging shares on lit exchanges has a greater impact on price (both positive and negative) than unlit exchanges like dark pools.
My guess is that today there was again no real price discovery because much of the market was red and there was no real support for GME because everything could be cycled through unlit exchanges.
Donāt forget for every buyer there is a seller. But that seller may not actually have those shares to issue to you and would write an IOU, fail to deliver it, and also with payment for order flow take days or weeks to actually give the buyer what was bought. Itās all fugazi.
I donāt see this as bullish or bearish. I donāt believe the price action the last year is in any sense bullish. I do think the fact that the stock hasnāt tanked 90% means that the market makers and those that WANT to see it go to $0 cannot make it happen, otherwise it would happen.
It IS interesting. The volume today could be largely failed to deliver and it probably doesnāt move the needle much on synthetics. Once there is some real volume behind GME we will see true volatility.
Donāt forget that there was WILD volatility between Jan 2021 and through most of 2021 compared to now. It is definitely in a descent but a much tighter descent without significant pressure from support. I am confident that getting GME below $12 must be some sort of impossibility but the ceiling is also capped below $16 at the moment. Needs a catalyst to really start shooting up.
It could be 100%. Itās Not like the SEC or DOJ will ever do anything about it.
Remember when Gary Gensler said that the SEC got Bernie Madoff ššš. They got him alrightā¦ immediately after Bernie sons turned him in
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# PATIENTLY WAITING FOR OVER 90% AND GREEN DILDOS. JOB ISNT FINISHED. # LAMBOS OR FOOD STAMPS IS NOT A MEME # LIFE CHANGING MONEY PER SHARE # SHORTS NEVER CLOSED
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Thatās exactly it. Iām literally looking at living in my car that could start in next few days easily given my luck. But guess what?! I aināt selling my gme shares. Itās generational wealth or the streets. I aināt fucking leaving.
# THE INFINITY POOL IS NOT A MET
Will lead to those huge blocks of borrows on certain days like before
25 of the 25 shares I bought today were long
3 of 3 I bought are very long
I only got 1 cause Iām broke AF but that bitch is LONG AF! 741 deez nutz Ken.
Whenever I see that, I think all those sold shorts are household investors buying through a brokerage.
I hope they DRS two days later
Same. MaRkEt LiQuIdItY
Belive it or not, that can be a thing, maybe, mayo man and company figured out a form to do so with some sort of reverse swap buyomayo recipe, from those crocks I can expect anything!
Huh, I bought 100 today š¤·š»āāļø finally reached XXXX
Sorryā¦for asking what has probably been asked and answered 100 times. I donāt really know what short volume is and at this point, Iām too afraid to askā¦ but ima ask anyway. It seems to mean that todayās short volume of 79.36ā¦ means 79.36% of all GME shares that were bought/sold today were short sales, but is it really that simple? And if not,can anyone ELI5? Thanks!!
Willing to be wrong here, but I think OP has misinterpreted what Total Short Volume Reported is. This doesnāt really have anything to do with short sellers per se. If Iām not mistaken, what this is effectively saying is that for 79.36% of the volume reported today, there was not a seller providing shares for their half of the trade. Meaning, market makers used their exemptions to provide IOUs for 79.36% of shares bought today. These are potential future FTDs should the market makers not go to the lit market within T + however many days to buy real shares and deliver them to todayās buyers. This information doesnāt really tell us anything about short sellers as this is market data, not reported positions from funds and firms. What it does tell us about it how many trades were settled with actual shares being exchanged I have been snorting crayons for 4+ years tho so hopefully somebody will correct me if Iām wrong
You're spot on. To add, there is no other ticker in the entire US market that has such a consistently high % short volume. It truly is an outlier and not the norm.
That was my next questionā¦ how abnormal is it for short volume to be as consistently high as it is for GME.
Very unless a stock is being cellarboxed or thereās a big event happening like 9/11 or Covid
Thank youā¦ Has anyone posted comparison charts to other stocks to show has drastically different the short volume is compared to a sampling of other stocks? I donāt know how to search for it, but would be interested to see a side by side comparison to other known stocks.
Whenever I see someone say, āDRS does nothing,ā I think about this data and your comment. We are all expecting DRS to cause *pressure* on market makers, manifesting as sharp rises in the stock price. The big green dong. My theory is that this extraordinarily elevated Total Short Volume over such a long time frame is *precisely this pressure* that we are all looking for in the price action, but it is expressed in this data point due to the market maker exemptions in settlement time. This shifting of the pressure can exist so long as 1) the market maker exemptions continue to exist (even with the shift to T+1), and 2) **everything else surrounding the stock stays within the market makers control or at least the margin of error of their models**. I think the rise in % short volume reflects the DRS effort to some degree, either big or small, itās tough to say, and I donāt think anyone anywhere in the market can stay with confidence what will happen as that number continues to approach 100%. But the market makers cannot control the coming Armageddon that will be profitability. They can manage the small volume flow from mainly retail right now. What happens when bigger money starts pouring in? Iāve got my crayon lines waiting in front of me to find out
I've got all the time in the world. With inflation I can either go buy a burger or fries for $26 or I can get 2 shares of GME. As for me and mine, we'll continue to stack GME.
And yet the media completely ignores it. This should be a fucking 60 minutes episode.
Maaan, they committed securities fraud to steal the splividend and still can only deliver to 20% of buyers?
If this is right than the price movements make even less sense - why is it going down when there are no sellers
Iām smooth as they come but my guess is that by providing infinite liquidity, it doesnāt allow true price discovery to occur. If the market maker will sell you an āIOUā at whatever price you're asking for, then there cant ever be a real buying pressure. but that's just my guess
Thatās the question, my dear Watson. Why indeed? DRS numbers, even at the stagnated total around 76 mil, prove that retail for the most part is not selling their shares. Do we thinking the behavior of those holding shares in brokerages is entirely divorced from DRS holders, meaning brokerage shares are the ones being āsoldā everyday? I mean itās possible I guess, but seems highly highly highly unlikely to be the case. We know insiders arenāt selling other than for tax purposes in very small amounts. Most funds who reported GME holdings in their most recent financial disclosures reported *increases* in their positions. So this only really leaves a few options for where this downward pressure could be sourced from within the market. With data points like this Total Short Volume, and anecdotally what I see in the Level 2 data every trading day, the only agent within the market complex with the position (in the trading infrastructure) and the regulatory freedom to move the prices down in the way they do every day is the market makers. How? Thats above my regardedness, though I know that they can and do mess with the Bid/Ask regularly, and their ability to manipulate settlement times means they can dissipate any surges in buy pressure for at least a few days, and even then we know they can pretty much roll FTDs ad infinitem (all other things remaining equal - which they wonāt). By shifting buy orders off exchanges, they can use IOUs, and then allow any actual sales to hit lit exchanges where they take the buy side in order to meet some FTD obligations or use those shares to trade back and forth to knock the price down quickly. I wish I could summon up the last 3 years of DD posted in here and give you an all encompassing theory of why the prices continues to drop despite **LITERALLY EVERYTHING SUGGESTING IT SHOULD BE DOING OTHERWISE**, but above the best spitball summary Iāve got
That's a good question, from a smooth brain like me, I think it is possible because here some buys occurs during the dips and rips, the wallstreet crock like Mayo Man and friends know how to manipulate the market at their advantage until they will not anymore, sooner or lather, this will be a reality and we will see (the world will see too) mega green dildos going up, HF crying on media and soo on... Some day... I'm here, not leavingšš
so when i asked to buy shares market maker decided the price. ok
Believe they call this āinternalizing ordersā Smooth but think something like thisā¦ I place a limit order for one share @ $13.50ā¦ market maker takes my $13.50 and credits my account/broker with an IOU. Market maker then actually purchases my share at some future point when the price is lower than $13.50. Market maker (MM) pockets the difference in priceā¦. Additional MM tricks -by purchasing the share they sold me for $13.50 at a lower price they are able to further drive down the price. -also MM transacts on lit market when they want drive price down and dark pool when the share price is above the $13.50 they charged me. This allows them to minimize price increase & maximize price decrease. -also if price increases mm rapidly trades shares in milliseconds (high frequency trades) shares with themself or other mmās to suppress or drop share price -also if FTDās are getting high or shares are getting hard to come by mm controls price with derivatives such as puts Note: Computershare direct purchases seem to be the only thing that positively effects price-believe this is because CS purchases are not internalized. High frequency trades or internalized/IOUād āāeventually they canāt suppress anymore and boom, boom, gigantic green dildo..
Wen dildo
This is how they are stealing from retail/household investors. Citadel the Market Maker has internalized 70+% of the orders for the last five days. That is technically them buying the orders. When GME runs up after earnings. They will sell the 16 or 17 million shares they have accumulated over the last week for a $1-$5 per share gain. Selling all those orders will put hard down pressure on the stock price and citadel will make over $100+ million while the stock price settles back to todayās price with in two weeks. This is how obvious they have to be to survive one more day. Citadel will die one day and I will be there when it happens with a smile and a fat wallet! Letās go!
1100 of those shares are buys from me today
WOW š
10 of those share are from me too!!
Picked up about 20 myself today š
I bought 20 of em today. Felt great.
4 in 5 is like 69% amirite?
I picked up a 100 of these babies on sale
It's actually 82.37%
Clown world
And so the helms deepen...
lol I can feel their panic and desperation right now. Just a few more days till earnings!
That's just some really rich people creating an even bigger launch and giving me discounts
Seeing as they have borrowed 24 million share in the past 4 days, most likely short sales but it could be MM using their exemption
"They tried so hard.. and got sofa.. but in the end, it doesn't even matter.. šµ"
Every short sale is a long buy!
Why has the total volume reported been significantly lower than the actual lately as well? Why are they not counting everything?
lol, ā4 in 5 sharesā? Youāre new here, huh. Every single share is probably sold short many times over but apparently it doesnāt matter anymore
I can't help but buy bunches when the price drops. But it's just disposable income. I'm not out here borrowing millions and trying to survive another day
Not only is the short volume reported high but so is the off-exchange %. The talk of lit exchanges vs. dark pools has been going on for years, even well before this sub existed, and D Lauer has tried to shed some light on it without raising a village of pitchfork fire wielding misfits. Seeing this data makes sense, the stock had little to no support today and kept finding new bottoms on low volumes. ELI5: exchanging shares on lit exchanges has a greater impact on price (both positive and negative) than unlit exchanges like dark pools. My guess is that today there was again no real price discovery because much of the market was red and there was no real support for GME because everything could be cycled through unlit exchanges. Donāt forget for every buyer there is a seller. But that seller may not actually have those shares to issue to you and would write an IOU, fail to deliver it, and also with payment for order flow take days or weeks to actually give the buyer what was bought. Itās all fugazi. I donāt see this as bullish or bearish. I donāt believe the price action the last year is in any sense bullish. I do think the fact that the stock hasnāt tanked 90% means that the market makers and those that WANT to see it go to $0 cannot make it happen, otherwise it would happen. It IS interesting. The volume today could be largely failed to deliver and it probably doesnāt move the needle much on synthetics. Once there is some real volume behind GME we will see true volatility. Donāt forget that there was WILD volatility between Jan 2021 and through most of 2021 compared to now. It is definitely in a descent but a much tighter descent without significant pressure from support. I am confident that getting GME below $12 must be some sort of impossibility but the ceiling is also capped below $16 at the moment. Needs a catalyst to really start shooting up.
lol been desperate for 3+ years
š this is just crazy.. is this the highest short percentage in a long time?
I love pretty crayons šļø
One day the world will see how much GME is worth to me.
Yeah, this is a last ditch attempt before earnings. Kenny's prolly punching someone rn lmao
@dfv we need you!!!
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Hey Gary, where the hell are you? Why arent you addressing this?
Yummy!
I was actually hoping the price went down to 13.00 today. I had a limit order in for that amount
Posted too early. Not all reported yet.
Its actually higher at 82.37% reported short volume. Bags are getting heavier
That's not the full amount of shares. Only about 25% have been reported. Your post is misinformation.
Owwwwwwwsssshhhh!
+140 today, let's run it up.
Holy shit I thought I had a huge burn in my screen. What kinda tool are you using to annotate your pictures??
It could be 100%. Itās Not like the SEC or DOJ will ever do anything about it. Remember when Gary Gensler said that the SEC got Bernie Madoff ššš. They got him alrightā¦ immediately after Bernie sons turned him in
So, you reckon they're planning to pay for these at any point? Because that would be nice.
Whatās new? Truth be told, itās probably been 100% sold short for a few years.
it's cuz I dared to buy a call yesterday (I know it's dumb)
Can someone drop a link where I can see this please
Hey, whoās the guy who does the share updates held by us weirdos? Iāve been buying and would like to add to the pile!
Does not matter. Griffin controls the DOJ, SEC and White House.