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kyburg- Fri, 07:24: RT @SupramanTrax: Pandemic Day 25: I made bread :) Day 95: I sure do miss my friends .... Day 310: The White House appears to be under t…
- Fri, 07:25: RT @stickermule: It looks like Robinhood is actually the Sheriff of Nottingham. Surprise!
- Fri, 07:26: RT @OldPappyThomas: If I was a Hedge Fund losing billions to Reddit shitposters, I would get a second job driving for Uber, cut out the Sta…
- Fri, 07:27: RT @KnottaGamer: Florida Senator @marcorubio is a coward who turns off replies to his tweets about "schools that want to get paid to not wo…
- Fri, 07:28: RT @Tolkoto: Nintendo uses turnips to teach gamers about stocks and speculation and look what happens.
- Fri, 07:29: RT @gltrandhotpant: This. This is what defund the police means
- Fri, 07:29: RT @VodkaAuntTBH: My partner sent me this post and it really really helped me reframe how I think about how I live my life as a person with…
- Fri, 07:30: RT @bdunkelman: Holy shit I never thought this could be articulated so PERFECTLY but here we are. This this this 10000000% THIS.
- Fri, 07:35: RT @StevenBeschloss: The Capitol Police Union reported 140 officers were injured on Jan 6, including severe brain injuries, broken bones, s…
- Fri, 07:35: RT @funder: Richard Barnett, the rioter who put his feet up on Speaker Pelosi’s desk, was just denied release before trial. He remains in j…
- Fri, 07:35: RT @tooronlists: Trying to figure out why after 400 years black folks were not radicalized, but after 4 years, white supremacists were.
- Fri, 07:35: RT @RBReich: I’m old enough to remember when Wall Street gambling nearly toppled our entire economy but not one major executive ever went t…
- Fri, 07:35: RT @Stonekettle: Republicans: The Free Market will decide! Also Republicans: DON'T CANCEL ME, BRO!
- Fri, 07:35: RT @GeorgeTakei: Wait. I thought @RobinhoodApp was supposed to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Why you helping the rich?
- Fri, 07:35: RT @RBReich: It's socialism for the rich, cold, hard capitalism for everyone else.
- Fri, 07:36: RT @HeatherAntos: Guys, I know this stock market stuff is hilarious, but this is hurting real people who might be losing out on their third…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So many folks (esp. the media) are missing the complete backstory on $GME and how we got here. This has been simmering for o…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So back in September 2019 (!) some guy named DeepFuckingValue posted this on r/wallstreetbets: https://t.co/SPaQvI9O7i
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: It was just a post about his LEAPS (aka, Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities — tl;dr long-dated calls) on GME. At the…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: For the next year, every month about once a month, he posted his "YOLO GME" position. Every month for a year he got made fun…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So I dug into the public quarterly reports of GameStop. Every quarter, public companies are required to release what's called…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: And what did I find? GameStop was actually in a great financial position; they weren't going broke! In fact, they had a lot o…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: Next, I looked at their short interest. "Shorting", for those who don’t know, is when you borrow a stock (from someone) and s…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So, the short interest was over 100% of total shares. In fact, it was 140%. Which makes no sense—how can you sell more shares…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So really, short interest was like 300-500% of *float* (float is how many shares are actively traded, basically). Which is i…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: u/DeepFuckingValue had figured this out long before anyone. Even Michael Burry (yes, The Big Short guy) who bought in AFTER u…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: A year later and people start to take notice on reddit. The price has started to inch up, from $4 to $8 to $12 over September…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: Which, of course, makes the price go up. So the price keeps going up and more people keep taking notice and so on. Eventuall…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So they start to cover, which means buying hundreds of thousands of shares, which pushes the price up more. And then last Fr…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So, quick aside to explain this: Market Makers (the big banks and funds, like GS, Citadel, etc) write options. When they do,…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: "Gamma" is a number between 0-1 that changes on a call as the price of a stock gets closer to the call price. Lets say you bu…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: As gamma changes, they have to buy more or sell more shares. On Friday, the price was over every available call strike, whic…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So on Friday and Monday, the price ran up very quickly as MMs hustled to cover the calls and settle them. Then the news took…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: So that’s how we're where we are now. Supposedly, a number of shorts have covered. That being said, last I checked, the short…
- Fri, 07:37: RT @endtwist: When you short, you pay a borrow fee which can change from day to day. Right now that fee on $GME is between 20-80%. That’s l…
- Fri, 07:38: RT @endtwist: Eventually it either costs too much and you have to close your position for a loss, or you go bankrupt. Melvin almost went ba…
- Fri, 07:38: RT @Weinsteinlaw: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have caused unnecessary pain and trauma for my community of Parkland just a few…
- Fri, 07:39: RT @DSAArchaeology: Dear Evolutionary Psychologists, Please stop saying “Back when we lived in caves.” Humans didn’t regularly live in cav…
- Fri, 07:40: RT @B52Malmet: The Republican Party is Marjorie Greene. The Republican Party is Lauren Boebert. The Republican Party is Ted Cruz. The Repub…
- Fri, 07:40: RT @HeathMayo: That Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting committee assignments instead of censure tells you everything you need to know about…
- Fri, 07:41: RT @ErinGreenbean: Most of Jesus’ parables confront the listener with moving away from self-sufficiency/individualism and toward the whole/…
- Fri, 08:55: RT @kylegriffin1: Why have so few Republicans condemned the words and actions of Marjorie Taylor Greene?
- Fri, 08:55: RT @BeschlossDC: Please explain why House Republican leader is going, hat in hand, to Mar-a-Lago before Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
- Fri, 08:55: RT @SpockResists: If Hitler were to have been put on trial. Would we have allowed Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann to…
- Fri, 08:56: RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Republicans are VERY MAD we are holding an impeachment trial because they want to move more quickly to consider a COVID…
- Fri, 08:56: RT @amandalitman: “Ted Cruz should resign” is a unity platform.
- Fri, 08:56: RT @KP_Kelly: Hedge Fund managers are really mad about losing billions. A $1,200 stimulus check should fix it all, right?
- Fri, 08:56: RT @ChuckWendig: GENTLE WRITING ADVICE: Write at your own pace. Progress is progress, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles. It’s okay t…
- Fri, 08:56: RT @NickKnudsenUS: Everyone: Biden won. GOP: He cheated! Everyone: Evidence? GOP: We said so. Everyone: That's not evidence. GOP: You're tr…
- Fri, 08:56: RT @Eldon_Katz: The redditors should take down a health insurance company every week until we get M4A.
- Fri, 08:56: RT @mmpadellan: Republicans in the United States Congress are harboring terrorists.
- Fri, 08:57: RT @FirenzeMike: Dead ringer https://t.co/3O8wLAa852
- Fri, 08:57: RT @MiaFarrow: On December 19th, then President Trump tweeted: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in DC…
- Fri, 08:58: RT @GeorgeTakei: Under the bus you go, Donald. https://t.co/MgS6B5QBH2
- Fri, 08:58: RT @brianschatz: A member of congress thinks there is a Jewish Laser beam to clear space or something for high speed rail and on Sunday TV…
