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Fact: GME & AMC caused the World Record for Largest Trading Day Volume in History on January 27, 2021 | 3 Years Ago, Today | "In fact, we experienced a new single-day processing record at DTCC of 475 million transactions that eclipsed the previous peak established" ~DTCC
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Jan 27, 2024
$WRAP - Schwab just asked me to lend out my shares.
What's the best way to proceed? I don't mind FSR going to 0, GME I feel will move to 20 or so at some point, but what about the others? I have about $300 available to invest further.
GameStop shares slide as original meme stock’s struggles continue
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Jan 20, 2024
All highly regarded investors that bought these insane calls in 2022
Histogram Insights on 1-15 Day Returns Across Various Assets
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Jan 13, 2024
GRFS hedgies short position on False news.
There will be no “next GME/AMC”, here’s why: No Positive Sentiment/Buy-in, Too Many Options, Not Enough Capital, Playing it Safe
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Jan 06, 2024
"Can Lightning Strike Twice? The Feasibility of Replicating the GME/AMC Squeeze"
$BOWL Setting up like GME in Jan of 21? Buy the dip now before you miss your chance to get on the rocket ship! nfa
It's me again... reeek. Here to talk about how $ZIM is going to the moon PT$50
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Dec 30, 2023
BOWL Short Interest now at 84.7% with 120% Institution Ownership
Ape Nation, Buy AMC and drs to hodl! We are at 6.6 quadrillion and rising on only 47 million trades. These trades include AMC & GME - Buy AMC LFG 💎🙏🏼🚀Sauce - https://www.lch.com/services/swapclear/volumes
What is the general consensus here on GME?
GameStop's Potential Soars: A Bullish Outlook on GME Stock Amidst the Gaming Renaissance and Upcoming Blockbusters “Any thoughts?”
Pretty proud of my All Time chart on Robinhood
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Dec 23, 2023
BOWL - 82.6% Short Float and 120% Institution Owned... Same short mistake as GME?
What’s the deal with POL? It spiked to $729 in February 2021, immediately fell below $100, traded between $20-$50 since, and is at $4 today
AMC NETWORKS (AMCX) - The Lost Meme
AMC NETWORKS (AMCX) - The Lost Meme
I think GME is changing, and I am optimistic
Part 3: Paxos CEO BLAMES DTCC DIRECTLY for causing the JAN 28, 2021 Multi-Retail-Broker GME Buying Freeze, While Selling Open, Artificially Manipulated Down The Stock Price To Shore Up Leaks In The DTCC's Bad Plumbing & Inability To Regulate Risk; Cites DRS; Cede & Co; Bridges 28th To Lehman Bros
Invested $100k into a meme coin called S&P6900. Down 90%.
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Dec 16, 2023
GME Lotto -> swaps expire this week. Max pain is 15 alot of calls in the money.
IMX has been heavily shorted due to ties with GME. Now partnered with UbiSoft, poised to skyrocket
GME & AMC LFG 💎🙌🏽🚀🚀🚀🚀 Bye Bye Citadel - sauce is here : https://x.com/oliverotis00/status/1734972115651055824?s=46
GameStop misses revenue estimates on faltering videogame demand
C3.ai (AI) earnings tonight, what's the bet?
GME shorts are trying to contain this thing. don't let them, ask not what your company can do for you and buy the fucking stock
GME shorts are trying to contain this thing. don't let them, ask not what your company can do for you and buy the fucking stock
RH bought GME? This week is going to be crazy
Black IV is at it again with the anomaly detection firing on NEGG
NEGGies It’s important to take this with a pinch of salt but…
New Ad Just Dropped: Maybe The Problem With GME is The Fiat System Itself...
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Dec 02, 2023
I am too busy to analyze everything about the current market. Using AI, I have developed a system to transcribe data about the current market (specifically GME) onto my twitter. Daily Posts will commence soon. I have some previous posts up. let me know what you think...
Why the AI revolution has not been solved, and won't be by establishmentarians.
FULL Nasdaq Article by Ari Zoldan: How Three Companies Are Taking Aim at Alleged Naked Short Sellers - 28 Nov 2023 - (immortalized in photos + links)
$NEGG (for fun) $GME #Daily 🍊 juice
🎮 $GME DOMINATING the Gaming Realm! 🚀 Let's Fuel Up! #GamingRevolution #LFG 🕹️💎
EARNINGS TOMORROW; GET IT WHILE IT'S CHEAP $NEGG 🫡
$GME is just $1.47 away from hitting its weekly trigger in after-hours trading! Countdown to market open begins – let's gooooo! 🚀 #GME #Stocks #MarketWatch"
How to determine the starting price of a triangular reverse merger? Are any current examples in the stock market?
How to determine the starting price of a triangular reverse merger? Are any current examples in the stock market?
$GME holders after the earning call
$GME earnings? STONKERS...ASSEMBLE!!!!
$GME beyond excited for earning! What do you think profit will come in at? Wrong answers only!
🚀 $GME Earnings Countdown: My Position! 📈Buckle up – we’re diving in together! 👊 Ready for liftoff! 🚀 #GMEearnings #DiamondHands
$GME earnings this week? RETARDS...ASSEMBLE!!!!
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Nov 25, 2023
To My NEGG holders. The OG Keith gill bought GME 2 years before the run up. He worked for 2 years for his Bag. So be strong 💪 Negg 🚀
Fidelity won't let me buy WeWork shares since I'm not an expert.
$GDHG: Your Ticket to Financial Freedom Heaven
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Nov 18, 2023
Wanted to feel alive like the $GME days so I dumped $100 in for the squeeze
r/Stocks Weekly Thread on Meme Stocks Saturday - Nov 11, 2023
Place Your Bets? The Market Consequences of Investment Research on Reddit's Wallstreetbets
Sold these covered calls for $1.31 and bought them back for $0.09 🤑
For those who didn't catch up with GME:tmr I'll introduce you a real demond!
Mentions
This will get destroyed by bots/shills, but $GME
Are you still holding GME? Are you an OG Degenerate ?
The basics would be SPY And overall ETFs basically a basket of stocks For degens which is gambling stocks it's like GME explosive stocks BYND etc etc
I feel fucking physically sick right now. A cautionary tale if anyone reads. I timed the war “black swan”. Last week, I dont remember which day, US announced the Crude Oil Inventories data. It came 16.5M vs 1.5M expected. Oil went down but I saw this as war prep. With the week also being the end of Donnie’s ultimatum I full ported USO calls. About 35K worth. War broke out and I felt like a god. Watched news and weekend Oil all weekend. Come monday morning, Oil was reasonably up sbout 7.5% at open. This is where my trading PTSD and psychology comes in. This is the second black swan I timed. I was there at GME. Turned 150$ in to 150K$. Then I watched the buy button turn off, thinking “it will go back”, I eventually got out with 10K profit. I said to myself with USO, “Not this time”. I closed it all at open. Oil did drop during the monday session so I felt I did good. Was looking at 30K profit. That same position is worth 220K$+ right now. Worst of it all I overtraded and reduced that 30K to 10K with bunch of different trades. The lesson here is, do not compare apples to oranges. Every trade is different. If your thesis is working manage risk and see it through. Dont doubt yourself when you are right about something big.
still insane that tsla is hovering around 400. retail investor's meme stock maybe our GME fuckery led to new strategies on wallstreet.
I hate Vlad Tenev so much, i cant believe this dude still has a job after the GME scandal
How else you think I got it? Definitely not by buying VOO and sitting 20 years. Yolo plays on GME, LUNR, OPEN, etc
By losing 33k selling naked calls on GME
We need an OG badge for those here before GME
I'll put my money on neither. I think it is probably a matter of how easy it has become to invest in stocks and how bonds have been unattractive for a long time. It used to be that investing in stocks was expensive with brokerage fees and higher fees for funds. Now anyone can put their extra cash into GME or SPY on their phone in 3 minutes.
Lmao this dude is probably underwater on both the plaid and his GME position
Load up ur GME puts they just gave us a freebie
Or buying nintendo's for kid's hospitals with their GME/AMC winnings.
See $GME circa Dec 2020 before the violent upward explosion.
Always late why not early? Hop in PLUG. We can run a GME in them. Energy play the sector is 🔥🔥🔥 now. Especially after the AI gaints meeting on March 4th. The shorts 🩳 are heavy on PLUG and ready to moon with just a little more pressure.
everybody gangsta till all the major indices start trading like GME.
circuit breaker triggered in korea. Is this the end bois? Will my GME calls keep me warm?
10 years ago. I remember when this bitch was like 40 bucks. Before the GME retards came here.
Eh. GME hasn't decline much as these stocks.
GME finally rockets. Nobody is alive to witness.
Today I’m glad to be invested in GME. Nothing ever happens.
GME holders haven’t made money in 5 years 😭😭😭
A portfolio of Individual securities has a 0% management fee. You will have to manage it yourself but it need not be complicated, just don't throw everything at PYPL and GME
Imagine being the GME board today relying on meme douche goober gain chasing conspiracy theorists for your over billion dollar evaluation in an environment where digital purchases overtake the broad market
I think this is an underrated play. Henry Cavill is a huge Warhammer nerd and has done a lot to increase its popularity. New show or movie coming out with him at the helm could really boost the whole game. I also like Hasbro as they own MTG which is getting more popular by the day. Don’t flame me for this, but I think GME could do really well if they prioritize giving space for Warhammer or MTG events.
I just miss GME 2021. Less than 1 million users here, all pumping one stock. No wars, no nothing, just gains that made no sense after a man made virus plagued the ERF for couple years
It used to be a billion! I think it got as high as $2B in the GME craze because the volume was insane, but yes, we are here to help! Congratulations on the gains btw!!!
No one’s listening to a tard who puts “nfa.” Telltale sign of low IQ AMC/GME “ape”
No one’s listening to a tard who puts “nfa.” Telltale sign of low IQ AMC/GME “ape”
Tell that to TSLA, GME, AMC, HOOD,……do I have to keep going. There’s a million examples, this is purely a non fundamentals event and no one can say whether a bad earnings will make the price drop. Momentum is a hell of a force.
Imagine showing this to wallstreet bets in the GME era
Hello all, I've recently made posts on WSB and problemgambler documenting a really bad last few days to cap off years of anxiety and losses from the market. The long story short is that I started "investing" in the GME days and chased big wins (and losses) in form of meme stocks and short term options. After losses, I would pivot strategies (like doing thetagang) but it always led me back to losing on buying 0dte options. I tried quitting a few times but never stuck to it, but I'm determined to stop once and for all. I have lost $160,000 of my initial $240,000, leaving roughly $80,000 left after starting in December 2020. I think know the answer but just could use some reinforcement. I still have a lot of shares of high beta companies on margin. I don't think I can keep monitoring them and thus will need to liquidate them for a loss this week to clear the margin. Once done, put those funds into an ETF like VOO/VTI/VT. I'm also transferring my account finally out of Robinhood into Fidelity. And of course, staying out of WSB for good. I'm aware options exist there but I think a change of scenery will do the mind well. I feel like such a failure. I let my parents know and they were reasonably understanding. I know I'm not in debt but it's shameful what I did to set myself back. Here's what I have left as a 35 year old living in a HCOL city making $94k a year. $80k in taxable, $140k in retirement (luckily I always stayed the course there with VOO and a bit of mag7), $25k in my savings and $50k in company stocks. Thank you.
do polymarket instead of this scamming shit brokerage.. how didn't you learn after GME?.
GME is basically just a blue chip stock now with super low IV
I heard about it during GME but didn't really pay much more attention or think about if I could participate in the rally, then I started investing and using CFD. Which was a gateway drug to options. To be fair options are way better CFD spreads are brutal and at the control of the operator, being a derivative of the market.
The most fun I’ve ever had on the stock market was GME. I miss when the sub had live chats during it lol
Been here since 2020 and still lack the karma to post. GME to the moon 🚀🚀🚀
I miss GME. Lurked WSBs circa 2018-2019, got in on GME, never looked back
Is there a reason why people say the GME short squeeze wasn't stopped by insiders literally removing the buy button? That could not have been "just a coincidence".
nah nothing will ever beat the thread over the weekend of the mass GME hysteria, after it hit the mainstream news, that shit was biblical
What expiration dates are you using for you GME CC and CSPs? The 3/6 27 call shows only .08 right now which is only about .3% for a week. The 3/6 put is around .02 or .03, an even smaller return. I'll give you one thing if you are trading weeklies, it sure is boring. Do you have GME shares that you want to keep and that is why you are doing CCs at 27 which have almost no chance of getting exercised?
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DFV is indeed very lucky, perhaps the luckiest retail stock trader ever. But he is not a day trader and his very early thesis of GME still stands correct. IIRC his entry point was at around 2-5 and he believed the stock should be valued above 18. In the past few years the stock has been trading exactly at this level or little higher recently.
GME cultist. Your opinion is worthless
Win is win. Better than losses. Don’t get me started on GME before it explodes.
Yep, gamestock is still reeling people in today as well as Tesla, the single stock cult is strong. That whole time was crazy with ARK, SPACs, GME, AMC, BB. Retail investing took off after that, made people a lot of money. I’ve lost a lot of money to spacs during that time too.
A modern depression will lead to a restructuring of the social contract. The satisfaction felt by the 99% will be harnessed towards something huge. I'm thinking a global GME phenomena
The S&P500 will continue to be associated with AI This will cause blowback amongst the 99% because the growth of the stock market will be at the expense of their livelihoods. The question on the mind of the 99% is "how can we slow this down?" Unfortunately, the incentive structure is such that nobody stops this train. This next sentence will sound insane to people. The Unabomber saw this first. The upcoming political divide will be pro-AI vs pro-Human. Why? Because the jobless expansion is here, and the law has not caught up to defend the rights of people in an age where technology is moving so fast. To those that read this and disagree, that's fine with me. The beautiful thing about investing is that each person has a thesis, and then time will tell. When Occupy Wall Street and $GME arose and were subsequently snuffed out, those animal spirits didn't die; they went into hibernation. The heat of the outrage surrounding AI in the context of a changing world order into multipolarity, as the dollar continues to weaken, will wake these spirits up from their slumber. Few
That last paragraph, goddamn lol. But you're not wrong. I had only just started using this sub in 2019, but you're so right in how much COVID changed things. I earnestly think the whole GME/DeepFuckingValue saga also irreparably poisoned the well in creating a generation of younger investors who unironically think cosplaying as the most lucky day trader in the world is anywhere near the norm lol.
I can probably count on one hand how many times I check my ROTH Ira in a year. That should have been me when it came to general investing. I came in at the worst times during the GME and it messed up my perception of money.
Started "investing" Dec 2020, the big bumps were GME where I didn't take profit. I added funds through the years. I had 180k yesterday, down to what you see here now.
Is this the new $GME without the war on the rich people?
Short squeeze which will rival GME
Imagine not buying BYND calls earlier today for the GME-like squeeze
Rich people have basically figured out an infinite money glitch. If valuations keep going up they can keep going to banks to get loans for cash based on the value of their stock. Value that keeps going up. Stock market valuations are mostly vibes these days. It takes a huge amount of effort to disrupt the plans of market makers and if you're able to pull it off they will come after you (see:GME). It's just rich people trading bags, getting money from one bank to fund buying more stock and pay off other loans, and eventually the whole thing will be someone else's problem. No, really, that's the plan. The older rich plan to just die and make it their heirs problem. The younger rich are leaning into oligarchy because they are going to increasingly use the state and OUR money to protect their wealth. I know it sounds fantastical, but this is what's happening. They aren't being secretive about it
Don’t feel so bad. There are people on r/GME still waiting for a squeeze.
i was on board the DFV/GME/AMC wagon but didnt sell nearly enough
“Fk NVDA, all in on GME”, prob most of this board back then
GME to the moon. Apes strong
This guys average cost was 5 bucks so taking the splits into account you wouldn't have even thought about it. There were two stocks I wanted to go heavy on in 2020-2021. Tesla and then GME as I was following it. Tesla I was ready to buy like 50k of. I was all set to buy it and then I didn't and second guessed myself. Then when GameStop came I didn't have much cash. Still made some off it. The last one I was heavily considering was ASTS. I.
i remember just starting my interest in stocks when GME happened, nobody could explain it well enough to me to open an account but i definitely got lucky with putting 25% of my salary into gold from 2024-2025
Holy shit $IBTA is squeezing, it’s the next GME, HODL bitches!!
Exactly, that's the difference. You mentioned GME. Currency only has value if others have confidence in it. Equity has value because there are underlying assets. Have you ever taken an econ class? God damn.
are you still holding GME stock?
“it is set by whatever the next buyer agrees to pay.” Isn’t that how everything works? Sure all the other factors contribute to that action, but in the end… isn’t that what happened to GME?
this one? Copy pasta'd it. \--- Hand waved explanation\*\*\* \*\*\*may contain errors **> I know enough to know that robinhood and others earn their money through routing purchases of shares through a MM** That's payment for orderflow (PFOF) you're talking about. Yes MM's pay for orderflow. But that's because retail flow is considered "non-toxic", ie: non market moving, whereas institutions flow is often market moving. Retail is "noise" that doesn't move the price, so MM's can offer spreads / better prices than best bid/ask. The MM can only offer a better price than you'd get without PFOF. Retail actually gets better prices than institutions in most cases (surprisingly) because of this. They also pay lower fees. It's because retail is "noise" and isn't "we're dumping $100m" and the MM is left holding a bag. The MM holds retails inventory and just waits for someone else to come along and buy it. They know they can probably sell it for a profit (ie: the spread) since retail flow isn't market moving on average. **> even if its going to and through, they immediately buy another put contract sold from someone else who is the respective direct counterpart to my bet, right?** No. MM's often don't hedge immediately, they assume the risk. They model the risks around things such as options and often hedge after certain risk thresholds are broken. MM's often hold huge (multi billion dollar) inventories (ie: they're exposed to billions in market risk). What your describing is what is known as a "market neutral" strategy. Some MM's employ it - many don't. Every MM is different tho (there is no universal "mm's always do this!"). After all - MM's are basically just proprietary trading systems owned by hedge funds / prop firms. They all have different rules / do different things. Many firms hold onto the contract and wait for someone else to come along and buy it, assuming all the risks in the meantime. They often get lopsided positions, and they CAN get run over. Look at what happened to the MM's shorting GME during 2021. They lost over a BILLION dollars. So no, MM's are not always perfectly hedged. **> So now its me against that random other guy, even if its technically against the MM?** The MM writes the contract & often buys shares to hedge it (incase of things like exercise / delivery). Not always tho. Everyone is different -- see above. If they turn around and "dump it to someone else" - it's almost always another market maker. No single buyer is sitting there waiting to buy at the drop of a pin (they'd be a MM themselves if that was the case). It really often is "you vs the MM". If someone else comes and buys something (even with an opposing position) - it's now both of you vs the MM. Think of a MM like a bookmaker in a betting house. You go in and bet on horse A winning. Someone else comes in and bets on B. The house takes both bets. It isn't "you vs the other bettor". It's "both of you vs the house, but the house is gonna win one of those bets". One of you loses, the other wins, and the house will always win (because they have odds in their favor when they sell the bets. IE: 95:100 payout in both directions). So they'll pay out $95 to one guy, pocket $100 from the other and profit $5 irregardless of the outcome. The spread in the market replicates this function (roughly). Very handwaved analogy. **> But what I just described makes no sense if its just only interacting with the MM and not the broader market** It's often you interact with a MM. When someone else wants to make a trade, they'll ALSO interact with a MM. In the meantime, the MM holds onto the inventory. They have spreads which is how they make their money for assuming the risks. It's quite rare you interact with a non mm player on the other end. The "other end" (if a person were to take it) reduces down to the case above in almost all cases.
Sup nerds. Let me tell you why PayPal might be the most interesting trade sitting in front of us right now, and why I think a lot of people are sleeping on it. PayPal just had its GameStop moment, except this time it’s in reverse. Instead of a bunch of retail traders pumping a dead company to spite hedge funds, this is a genuinely dominant business that got absolutely demolished by the market until it looked so cheap that the big players started circling it like sharks. The stock peaked at $309 in 2021. It just bottomed somewhere around $38. That’s nearly an 88% drawdown on a company that processes $1.8 trillion in payment volume annually and has 439 million active users. Remember when GME was at $4 before the squeeze and people were like “this company is worthless”? The market has a tendency to overshoot in both directions, and right now PayPal is getting the same “this thing is dead” treatment that GameStop got, except PayPal’s business actually works and generates real money. Three weeks ago the company dropped a disaster earnings call, missed on revenue, missed on EPS, guided to a mid-single-digit earnings decline for 2026, pulled their long-term targets entirely, and fired the CEO all in the same breath. The stock dropped 19% in a single day on 135 million shares of volume. Pure capitulation. Everyone who was on the fence panic-sold, every algo that had a stop loss triggered, and the stock just got gutted. That kind of selling is almost always overdone, and the data backs it up. After that kind of volume event you typically see a flush and then stabilization. The people who are left holding after a 19% single-day drop aren’t weak hands anymore. Now here’s where it gets acutally interesting. Two days ago Bloomberg reported that PayPal has attracted unsolicited takeover interest from major rivals. Then yesterday it came out that Stripe, which is privately valued at around $150 billion, is among the parties looking to potentially acquire all or parts of the company. That means Stripe, a private company, is valued at roughly four times what PayPal’s public market cap currently is. Let that sink in for a second. The scrappy challenger is worth four times the established pioneer that built the entire consumer digital payments infrastructure. Either Stripe is massively overvalued, or PayPal is massively undervalued. Probably some of both, but the gap is absurd. When Stripe starts sniffing around, you know the institutional money has figured out there’s value here that the public market hasn’t priced in yet. The fundamental case was already there before any of this acquisition noise, too. PayPal is trading at roughly 8x forward earnings right now. To put that in context, Visa trades at around 25x, Mastercard trades at a similar multiple, and the broader financial sector averages about 21x. PayPal is one of only four globally recognized payment network brands in the world alongside those two and Amex, and it’s priced like a struggling regional bank. The company generated over $5 billion in net income last year, up 26% year-over-year. It has $14.4 billion in cash and investments on the balance sheet. Venmo alone grew 14% for four consecutive quarters and brought in $1.7 billion in revenue. The business isn’t broken. The execution was bad and the guideance is ugly, but there’s a massive difference between a bad quarter and a broken company. The new CEO angle also matters more than people are giving it credit for. Enrique Lores, who took over March 1st, is the guy who turned HP around, cut costs, rebuilt margins, refocused the product lineup. That is literally the exact playbook PayPal needs right now. The prior CEO got fired because the board thought he was moving too slow on restructuring. So they went out and found someone with a verifiable track record of doing exactly this. Markets hate transition uncertainty, and that uncertainty is already priced into the current stock price. What’s not priced in is the possibility that Lores actually executes. If you’re thinking about options instead of just the stock, the setup has real asymmetry to it but you have to be thoughtful about structure. Implied volatility is elevated right now after a 15% two-day move, which means you’re paying a premium for optionality. A short-dated call is dangerous here, if the acquisition rumor cools down for a few weeks you’ll bleed theta while waiting for the next catalyst. The smarter structure is probably a call spread out to May or later: buy the $50 call, sell the $65 call, something in that range. You’re capping your upside but also dramatically reducing your cost basis and the IV drag. You’re essentially betting the stock gets back to analyst consensus price targets, not that it squeezes to $200 like GME. Analyst median price target right now sits at $67 with the bull case around $70-80, and that’s without any acquisition premium baked in. A formal takeover offer typically comes with a 30-50% premium over current price, which could push the deal value north of $60-65 per share from where we are now. The risks are real though and I’m not going to just wave them away. The acquisition might not happen, “preliminary interest” is Wall Street code for “some banker made a call and someone else didn’t hang up immediately.” If Stripe walks, or if the rumor just fades with no follow-through, this stock gives back those gains fast. There’s also a class-action securities fraud lawsuit filed on February 22nd alleging material misstatements about growth outlook under prior leadership, with a lead plaintiff deadline of April 20th. Legal overhang at exaclty the moment the company is trying to reset its story is not ideal. And the core structural problem, Apple Pay and Google Pay eating into branded checkout with younger users, is real. That’s not an execution problem Lores can fix with cost cuts. Branded checkout grew just 1% last quarter. That’s the kind of slow bleed that eventually matters if they don’t find an answer for it. But here’s the thing about the GameStop comparison that actually holds up: the best trades aren’t the ones where everything is perfect, they’re the ones where the market has overcorrected and the asymmetry between downside and upside is skewed in your favor. GME at $4 wasn’t a good company, it was an oversold one with a specific catalyst coming. PayPal at $47 is actually a good company, and it has multiple potential catalysts converging at the same time, acquisition interest from Stripe and others, a new CEO with a restructuring mandate, a valuation that makes no sense relative to cash flow, and a stock that just had a historic capitulation event. The downside from here is probably $35-38 at the worst case if everything falls apart. The upside if a deal gets done or Lores executes is $65-85. That’s the kind of setup worth paying attention to. Size it right, don’t bet the house, but don’t sleep on this one either.
Hand waved explanation\*\*\* \*\*\*may contain errors \> I know enough to know that robinhood and others earn their money through routing purchases of shares through a MM That's payment for orderflow (PFOF) you're talking about. Yes MM's pay for orderflow. But that's because retail flow is considered "non-toxic", ie: non market moving, whereas institutions flow is often market moving. Retail is "noise" that doesn't move the price, so MM's can offer spreads / better prices than best bid/ask. The MM can only offer a better price than you'd get without PFOF. Retail actually gets better prices than institutions in most cases (surprisingly) because of this. They also pay lower fees. It's because retail is "noise" and isn't "we're dumping $100m" and the MM is left holding a bag. \> even if its going to and through, they immediately buy another put contract sold from someone else who is the respective direct counterpart to my bet, right? No. MM's often don't hedge immediately, they assume the risk. They model the risks around things such as options and often hedge after certain risk thresholds are broken. MM's often hold huge (multi billion dollar) inventories (ie: they're exposed to billions in market risk). What your describing is what is known as a "market neutral" strategy. Some MM's employ it - many don't. Every MM is different tho (there is no universal "mm's always do this!"). After all - MM's are basically just proprietary trading systems owned by hedge funds / prop firms. They all have different rules / do different things. Many firms hold onto the contract and wait for someone else to come along and buy it, assuming all the risks in the meantime. They often get lopsided positions, and they CAN get run over. Look at what happened to the MM's shorting GME during 2021. They lost over a BILLION dollars. So no, MM's are not always perfectly hedged. \> So now its me against that random other guy, even if its technically against the MM? The MM writes the contract & often buys shares to hedge it (incase of things like exercise / delivery). Not always tho. Everyone is different -- see above. If they turn around and "dump it to someone else" - it's almost always another market maker. No single buyer is sitting there waiting to buy at the drop of a pin (they'd be a MM themselves if that was the case). \> But what I just described makes no sense if its just only interacting with the MM and not the broader market It's often you interact with a MM. When someone else wants to make a trade, they'll ALSO interact with a MM. In the meantime, the MM holds onto the inventory. They have spreads which is how they make their money for assuming the risks.
Thanks for your submission! If your post essentially boils down to trying to recruit others to buy into your stock so that it can squeeze, then your post is not welcome here. The truth is, we get a lot of "squeeze plays" or "the next GME" type threads, and honestly, they never pan out. If you really have an interesting play, it should be able to stand on its own merits, without necessitating a whole bunch of retailers (kek) to buy in after you and pump up the price. Look, this isn't a pump and dump forum. For that, try r/ponzischemes. If you need some guidance, don't hesitate to [reach out to modmail](https://old.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/wallstreetbets) and we'll give you some pointers!
GME was at least somewhat memeable, Ubi is just shit
This idiot can just say anything...like its true....think if he was a regard....glad to see AMC and GME hit all time highs today!
Congrats I need that on GME lol
The same retards that shorted GME right before it went parabolic? This should be fun.
$GME calls aren’t lookin to bad
I feel like GME has been stuck at 24-25 for the past 5 years
2026...it's up another 2% today...up 4% over the last 5 days...up 5% over the last month...and up 20% since Jan 1. 2026 has been a good year for $GME so far. But, continue to parrot Wall St talking points.
I want to make two banbets but can’t choose. CVNA to 280 GME to 28 Two weeks. Which one is more regarded?