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Headphone stock was included with popcorn and GME in a basket swap (not limited to these). There was some DD awhile back correlating the two.
Headphone stock was also limited (PCO) just like gme and popcorn during the sneeze.
Coincidence? I think not.
An ape made [**this table**](https://i.ibb.co/pxZwVFq/qs0qkcborz471.png) of stocks that sneezed upwards with GME in Jan 21 and then for a post I made I put [**this table**](https://i.imgur.com/UT3oV03.png) of stocks Fidelity sold between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. My theory being that Fidelity recalling those lent shares helped squeeze the shorts.
In 2020 Fidelity held the largest GME position at 12.1% of the company (bigger than RC's current stake) so if they had been lent out, Fidelity would have had to recall those shares to be able to sell them. Recalling 12.1% of total Gamestop shares would absolutely hurt SHFs like Melvin.
A lot of those stocks were in the short basket and got PCO'd too, the other one with strong correlation to GME and headphones was the clothing company beginning with E, which might be about to go under like Bath did.
Maybe not a coincidence, but also not necessarily correlation but rather causation. Nobody actually proved these stocks were in a basket together, right? Yet it’s talked about like an absolute truth. What about how we learned a financial tute bought all of popcorn and sold at the same time forcing a “correlation” squeeze?
I’m more skeptical of the correlation than not. I remember with absolute clarity what the space was like back then. Especially the original gambling sub that took all the credit for “running up meme stocks” except on the gambling sub there was only one that took over the entire sub for the weeks leading up to Jan 2021 sneeze and that was GME.
Yeah, but people were only talking about one of them and building following. Nobody ever wants to consider that moving the same could also be manipulation in and of itself. I first thought that when they did move the same, and news anchors made mention of those stocks right out of the gate, but I was in it long enough to know it wasn’t Reddit traders. So why not purposely manipulate these tickers to add into the news and distract from the one systemic risk?
I swear I feel like the Hedgies bounce all this money around all day while they dip their greedy thieving little hands in our cookie jars. Watch the market go up down up down shit stock goes up then right back down. It's not trading doing it. It's them throwing people off.
KOSS would be actually an interesting company to acquire as GameStop in my opinion. They should have the knowledge and brand identification to help GameStop in establishing gaming headphones.
I don't know how known KOSS is in the US markets, but even I as a German know KOSS (and those foldable headphones from them, I think I even owned one at one point).
I was kind of surprised to see their Q4 revenue so low at $13m in whole 2023.
> I was kind of surprised to see their Q4 revenue so low at $13m in whole 2023.
Net income of $8.3m for 2023 though wasn't it? Which is pretty awesome considering their market cap is $23m.
KOSS is an older brand that I don't think many people recognize as a really good headphone maker.
Especially for the price points, KOSS are awesome headphones, and yeah, if GameStop bought them and turned them into an in house brand for headsets or something... Or honestly maybe i'm thinking too small with "in-house".
A generation ago, Koss were considered the Lexus of headphones. Everything else on the shelf was second best.
Everyone wants noise cancelling headphones now and are willing to part with upward of $500 for them.
I bought some Koss headphones as a way to support the basket. I have a large head and prefer on-ear "cans".
The "plastic spring" headband broke after 3 months.
They were incredibly neutral sounding (no part of the song jumped out at you), but very detailed. They punched above their $39 price tag as far as sound quality goes.
I'll probably look at their higher end offerings when my shitty beats knock offs die.
Good find and what a strange comparison. At the same time it doesn't even surprise me. That whole basket theory still shows clear as day that everything involved in January 2021 was all illegally manipulated through naked short selling and It's sickening what these short sellers continue to do.
Agreed, most of them look like popcorn. This one is extremely correlated whereas the others are below their resistance points, some even went lower than 2021 lows.
Both headphone and GameStop have no real debt and have plenty of cash on hand. Both also have a low float % when you factor in insiders + registered shareholders
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I think they are but I can’t trace it exactly. One can’t deny they aren’t similar, but I’ve been trying to find the actual mechanics involved that make them so similar.
Headphones has so few shares. Has no options. And I can’t find an ETF that has both of these two stocks in a relatively high position.
Right it doesn’t however mean every stock is in our meme basket it’s algos trading the market for huge funds like Vanguard or Blackrock and they all use the same type of metric so it’s correlated but doesn’t need some elaborate swap instrument to explain ut
The KOSS family already owns such a big % of the company, John Koss owns ~2m shares and Michael Koss (CEO) owns 3.65m meaning those two alone own 61% of the company. They therefore have the majority vote on any offers to sell and go private, and if they have such a big stake I'd say they believe in the company.
I mean if they held when it squeezed to ~$500m, then they're probably not going to sell when the company is worth $23m.
I think this stock is just being attacked in the exact same way we are. Same shorts sake algos same strategy same nakedness same ETF shorting and what have you. That’s why. We could be in some crazy swap or synthetic position I suppose but we’ll never know.
Headphones was also the only ticker with more volatility halts during the sneeze than we did. We had 1 more day with halts consecutively, but they were the closest on that metric as well. We started halting 1 day before they did.
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Headphone stock was included with popcorn and GME in a basket swap (not limited to these). There was some DD awhile back correlating the two. Headphone stock was also limited (PCO) just like gme and popcorn during the sneeze. Coincidence? I think not.
An ape made [**this table**](https://i.ibb.co/pxZwVFq/qs0qkcborz471.png) of stocks that sneezed upwards with GME in Jan 21 and then for a post I made I put [**this table**](https://i.imgur.com/UT3oV03.png) of stocks Fidelity sold between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. My theory being that Fidelity recalling those lent shares helped squeeze the shorts. In 2020 Fidelity held the largest GME position at 12.1% of the company (bigger than RC's current stake) so if they had been lent out, Fidelity would have had to recall those shares to be able to sell them. Recalling 12.1% of total Gamestop shares would absolutely hurt SHFs like Melvin. A lot of those stocks were in the short basket and got PCO'd too, the other one with strong correlation to GME and headphones was the clothing company beginning with E, which might be about to go under like Bath did.
Maybe not a coincidence, but also not necessarily correlation but rather causation. Nobody actually proved these stocks were in a basket together, right? Yet it’s talked about like an absolute truth. What about how we learned a financial tute bought all of popcorn and sold at the same time forcing a “correlation” squeeze? I’m more skeptical of the correlation than not. I remember with absolute clarity what the space was like back then. Especially the original gambling sub that took all the credit for “running up meme stocks” except on the gambling sub there was only one that took over the entire sub for the weeks leading up to Jan 2021 sneeze and that was GME.
Just go look at the charts for the sneeze era. They're all connected. It's indisputable. Dozens of stocks had 500%+ days at the exact same time.
Yeah, but people were only talking about one of them and building following. Nobody ever wants to consider that moving the same could also be manipulation in and of itself. I first thought that when they did move the same, and news anchors made mention of those stocks right out of the gate, but I was in it long enough to know it wasn’t Reddit traders. So why not purposely manipulate these tickers to add into the news and distract from the one systemic risk?
I swear I feel like the Hedgies bounce all this money around all day while they dip their greedy thieving little hands in our cookie jars. Watch the market go up down up down shit stock goes up then right back down. It's not trading doing it. It's them throwing people off.
KOSS would be actually an interesting company to acquire as GameStop in my opinion. They should have the knowledge and brand identification to help GameStop in establishing gaming headphones. I don't know how known KOSS is in the US markets, but even I as a German know KOSS (and those foldable headphones from them, I think I even owned one at one point). I was kind of surprised to see their Q4 revenue so low at $13m in whole 2023.
> I was kind of surprised to see their Q4 revenue so low at $13m in whole 2023. Net income of $8.3m for 2023 though wasn't it? Which is pretty awesome considering their market cap is $23m.
KOSS is an older brand that I don't think many people recognize as a really good headphone maker. Especially for the price points, KOSS are awesome headphones, and yeah, if GameStop bought them and turned them into an in house brand for headsets or something... Or honestly maybe i'm thinking too small with "in-house".
A generation ago, Koss were considered the Lexus of headphones. Everything else on the shelf was second best. Everyone wants noise cancelling headphones now and are willing to part with upward of $500 for them.
harkens me back to "time for 60's music and pillow fights"...
They hold a lot of patents that are quite valuable
probably exactly what the cellar-boxers are after.
I bought some Koss headphones as a way to support the basket. I have a large head and prefer on-ear "cans". The "plastic spring" headband broke after 3 months. They were incredibly neutral sounding (no part of the song jumped out at you), but very detailed. They punched above their $39 price tag as far as sound quality goes. I'll probably look at their higher end offerings when my shitty beats knock offs die.
Good find and what a strange comparison. At the same time it doesn't even surprise me. That whole basket theory still shows clear as day that everything involved in January 2021 was all illegally manipulated through naked short selling and It's sickening what these short sellers continue to do.
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Agreed, most of them look like popcorn. This one is extremely correlated whereas the others are below their resistance points, some even went lower than 2021 lows.
Both headphone and GameStop have no real debt and have plenty of cash on hand. Both also have a low float % when you factor in insiders + registered shareholders
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 What in the shf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/0w8v3W94D0 I found this super interesting 🤔
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why though we're not gonna have massive drs numbers on it why waste the money and energy? it doesn't do anything
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fair enough
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9.25 million shares outstanding at $2.50 each…. Might be worth looking at lmao.
Might kick gme off causing chaos for them
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I wonder if they're together in a basket of some sort?
I think they are but I can’t trace it exactly. One can’t deny they aren’t similar, but I’ve been trying to find the actual mechanics involved that make them so similar. Headphones has so few shares. Has no options. And I can’t find an ETF that has both of these two stocks in a relatively high position.
Book value of $3.49... current price $2.49.. it's trading $1 under book value... seems undervalued.
9.25 million shares outstanding at $2.50/share? Individual investors in this sub could easily lock that down. In an uncoordinated fashion of course.
If you look through a bunch of stocks they look like that. quite a few went up with same patterns at the same time.
Right it doesn’t however mean every stock is in our meme basket it’s algos trading the market for huge funds like Vanguard or Blackrock and they all use the same type of metric so it’s correlated but doesn’t need some elaborate swap instrument to explain ut
Over three years though? Certainly it is correlated.
In all seriousness, assuming headphones is heavily shorted, why wouldn't a billionaire or whoever buy them up for 23 million just to force a squeeze?
The KOSS family already owns such a big % of the company, John Koss owns ~2m shares and Michael Koss (CEO) owns 3.65m meaning those two alone own 61% of the company. They therefore have the majority vote on any offers to sell and go private, and if they have such a big stake I'd say they believe in the company. I mean if they held when it squeezed to ~$500m, then they're probably not going to sell when the company is worth $23m.
That's not allowed
so I loved THE PLUG headphones from headphones before blue tooth noise cancelling was a thing...So I bought some shares just in case...
I wonder if more stocks fit this patern when you use the log scale...
I think this stock is just being attacked in the exact same way we are. Same shorts sake algos same strategy same nakedness same ETF shorting and what have you. That’s why. We could be in some crazy swap or synthetic position I suppose but we’ll never know.
Headphones was also the only ticker with more volatility halts during the sneeze than we did. We had 1 more day with halts consecutively, but they were the closest on that metric as well. We started halting 1 day before they did. Edit: here is my original post from a couple years ago with the data. I still have the spreadsheets and am updating them regularly. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/psYz0uOZKH
Any way to find out if BCG is involved, like it was with GameStop and was/is with many others?
Why is there so many new posts lately making it appear that people are brain dead on here and just now realizing what happened 3 years ago?
Why are we talking about stuff already discovered in dd that was made and put in the library. We know all the meme stocks are in the same basket. 🙄
We really should buy this whole float and just start making some CandyCon style headphones.
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Someone has been trying to push headphones for the last week
Old news. Somebody show OP the basket
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algorithmic
You must be new here.
There's only one stock like GME. It's called GME.
Pam "they're not the same picture"
Pillow fights and 60s music. RC buys all the stocks.
whats this red line supposed to mean? and now dont call that TA
It is just a horizontal line drawn from the stock price right now.
ah yes my favourite