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8 minutes ago, winitall said:

Why doesn’t share price matter? 

There are still more shares shorted than actually exist. It doesn't matter what the price is if there aren't enough shares available to buy. 

Eventually they have to cover, and if people are holding and not selling, you get a situation where anyone with a share can demand whatever price they want, because that is all that is available and the shorts are FORCED to buy at any price.

Or maybe not, I'm just a moron

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20 minutes ago, Heimdallr said:

There are still more shares shorted than actually exist. It doesn't matter what the price is if there aren't enough shares available to buy. 

Eventually they have to cover, and if people are holding and not selling, you get a situation where anyone with a share can demand whatever price they want, because that is all that is available and the shorts are FORCED to buy at any price.

Or maybe not, I'm just a moron

They don’t have to cover though all at once. There is no end date for them. Besides having the margin tied up and paying 2% roughly to the brokers in interest, it isn’t costing them anything really. So if the share owners try and price gouge them, they can just wait it out. The brokers can always call the shares whenever they want, but that isn’t going to happen. 

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35 minutes ago, MWil23 said:

Mine's different from a 401K, as it's a secondary fund and "catch all" for a backup retirement, future wedding/college fund(s) for my kids, etc. It's hard to complain after November/December being up 25% alone in those two months. I'll take my 7% in January on top of my other retirement portfolio. :)

No I know you’re good. I’m speaking on behalf of my sister. There’s no way she should have seen 13% returns for the year... 

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RH really killed the momentum. Cuban was doing a ama. Wonderful read. Careful there’s some foul language if you aren’t into bar talk. RH shutting buyers out really scared the folks. They simply weren’t ready to handle/pay the insane amount of cash. What broker holds the most $$€€€ so this won’t happen again. He’s encouraging the little guys to do the same thing but with a bigger broker. 

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30 minutes ago, Heimdallr said:

Don't put anything into GME that you aren't prepared to lose 80% of. Eventually it will go down to $20-$40 again. 

It is also possible it gains 1000% in the short term.

Yep.  Went ahead and sold some to guarantee I broke even at the very least.  Gonna hold onto the rest and see what happens.  My avg cost is still $43 so I'm not in a huge hurry.

I feel bad for the people who bought over $300, but that was always going to be a huge risk.  Definitely don't put any money into it if you can't afford to lose it too.

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8 minutes ago, El Ramster said:

RH really killed the momentum. Cuban was doing a ama. Wonderful read. Careful there’s some foul language if you aren’t into bar talk. RH shutting buyers out really scared the folks. They simply weren’t ready to handle/pay the insane amount of cash. What broker holds the most $$€€€ so this won’t happen again. He’s encouraging the little guys to do the same thing but with a bigger broker. 

They killed it almost instantly and it gave the market time to react and respond.

Absolutely crappy set of circumstances.

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Thinking about getting into arry today 

Watching aptx 

Deep watching Simon, spg. Probably won't jump into that one til closer to summer. Their balance sheet is amazingly clean despite the pandemic tho.  If it gets below 60 I'll probably take a leap of faith 

 

Anybody have thoughts on these three? 

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Disappointing that GME was most likely ruined on that Thursday manipulation.

Sold part of my stake Yesterday when I came to terms with this becoming a drawn-out play and I didn’t want to obsess and have this much cash tied up for that long. Dropped 100 shares at $250 to ensure a +150% play even if the rest goes to zero.
 

Will keep the rest as it is and just let things have it’s course. Maybe we get a (smaller) squeeze sometime in the future, maybe Cohen gets appointed CEO in June and turns it around, I’m fine with whatever. It’s by far been my most interesting play on the stock market! 

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