GME

Anal_Recidivist

They gained most of their ill will when they froze sells during the GME squeeze. Tons of WSB posts about just straight up being told “no” when they went to sell. RH blamed server load. Totally wasn’t them fellating Citadel, no sir.

ImAnonymous135

>I've never seen people committed like this though Oh boy you must be a new investor there is a whole cult around GME that to this day they are still making cope posts about a imminent MOASS (mother of all short squeezes)

cock_pussy

They still have lots to learn from observing GME and meme matress stock fans

CulturedWhale

GME is actually profitable

Fritzkreig

Why is that, I have been investing for over 20 years, have hundreds of individual stocks; NVDA is my best, and MU and others behind! I have a lot of "boomer" stuff as well. How much proof do you need‽ I can screen shot and post here if you desire, I just fail to see why you would be speculative about the voracity of my statements? Yes I like GME, but that is just part of a portolio!

Powerful-Load-4684

Yeah i totally believe the long term GME investor is also an early AI infrastructure whale lmfao

Jintoboy

Momentum has definitely reversed - but I will say MU and the rest of semis have a much strong case long term as opposed to GME/AMC/BBY/SPCE/whatever other meme stocks exist.

daxtaslapp

What are you talking about lol in every single specific subreddit for a stock it's always the same thing it's not just micron. Go into any of em doesn't matter if it's Nvda or GME. 5% down and. That said, micron is a legit company can't believe we even have to say this. It has a crazy run so it's crashing down now. Normal shit

azure275

So...you point to stocks like AMC and GME, which were legitimately unprofitable businesses retail propped up to take advantage of overshorted positions, and this is supposed to tell us something about hugely profitable memory? That alone shows you have no credibility here Memory could still crash but you're comparing incredibly irrelevant things to it

Prudent_Ring_5015

$GME💚💹🧙‍♂️

WordsHappenedHere

You cannot reason with a MUtard. They are the new GME apes

BorfGrambo

Dogecoin and GME here /s

codna

You’re right. I appreciate the candidness. I think part of my issue was during the GME squeeze I made some money on that so stupidly thought I could replicate it now that I have some income. Part of me knew that was a once in a lifetime thing, but greed got the best of me. I was just gambling there’s no way around that

raptureathand

My port is just fine....my lesson came about 5 years ago with the GME?AMC frenzy. Since then my own DD has driven my gains....and i'm a permabull....call me Emerald! YEEEEEEEEEE!

Aggravating-Buy-1695

GME!

OutlandishnessOk3310

Tbf, when he want hard long on GME all but calling Ryan Cohen the next Buffet, then knee jerked out of the position when Ebay came up as a take over target. That was when. I dont think he is wrong about Nvidia either, I think he is early and there will need to be a catalyst to drive the mother of all tech sell offs. Like any information, I read, digest and consider both sides of the argument.

alcoholischeaper

GME

beachsandwichen

It’s so funny how these trillion dollar market cap companies move 8-10% so easily but it takes monumental crashes and rises to get GME to buck 1%

General_Donn

They don’t allow these posts which is why they’re always late to them after GME

Upstairs_Whole_580

Oh... is this just mocking the GME investors as a MEME stock? LOL... I thought I was in trouble for... something!

External_Extent7899

Comparing GME to MU is when I knew your regarded

Key_Category_8531

MU going to $550 Probably a boom/bust cycle. The boom being up to $1250, bust down to $550 and then trading sideways for a good while. MU regards are in total denial over this, a lot of people will become bag holders. There's no saving them. Repost this in 3 months from now and the aftermath will be wild DRAM going to $31 Similar story as Micron, boom and bust cycle. This one will be more potent though, over 60% drop from its all time high. And I wouldn't be surprised if it trades sideways for some time Basically look at the price action of GME during the short squeeze, price action for MU should be similar

RedPlumpTomato

My AI Slop Analysis: **\[QTEX\]** Deep Dive #2 — HARD AVOID The first dive called it at $1.61 when the internet was screaming mini-GME. The stock has since bled another 45% to $0.881, and every mechanism that was going to drive it lower has now clicked visibly into place like a machine designed by someone who specifically hates your portfolio. Here is what you are actually looking at. A failed Israeli life-support device company that spent four years proving it could not sell its product, filed thirteen separate equity raises since its 2021 IPO to keep the lights on anyway, and then in May 2026 put on a quantum computing costume and ran headlong into retail Twitter. The costume worked for about three weeks. The stock went from $0.37 to $3.85 and then physics reasserted itself, giving back 77% off the peak. The officers sold $371K worth of shares into that pump — the CFO and COO cashing out between May 27 and June 1 at prices ranging up to $3.51. Not a single one of them has spent a personal dollar buying shares at the current $0.881 where, by the company's own quantum-narrative logic, the opportunity has only gotten more attractively priced. Funny how that works. Zero open-market cash purchases in the past year against eight insider sells, and the most recent insider activity is another 550,000-share grant issued to an officer who already paid himself $321K worth of stock at the $3.37 peak. The people who know every line of this company's books have had months to buy at prices 75% lower than where they sold, and none of them have pressed the fucking button. Before you think about touching this on the dip, understand what's on the calendar. Twelve days out — August 6 — is earnings, the first look at whether any of the commercial momentum announcements translated into actual recognized revenue. The company has now disclosed three separate commercial transactions and every single one of them came with a disclosed dollar amount of zero, nothing, absolute zip. The CEO did promise that revenue would exceed the most recently reported annual revenues of certain publicly traded quantum computing companies, which is a sentence you can make true with a $5,000 purchase order since some early-stage quantum hardware names reported under $500K in their first year. The current TTM is $289K against a $49 million market cap. If August 6 prints a genuine surprise, the thesis cracks. If it prints another quarter of sub-$100K, you have your answer. Any position into that date is a pure event trade — size it like the coin flip it is, not like a thesis. Thirty-four days out is the Annual General Meeting on August 28. Most of the agenda is insider-pay theater: raises for the CEO, RSU grants to the Chairman, director fee bumps across the board. The load-bearing item is a proposal to increase authorized share capital. They already have 55.7 million shares outstanding and enough warrants and grants outstanding to push the fully diluted count to 77.9 million — a 40% dilution overhang sitting above the float right now. They need more authorized shares to keep the machine running. This is not a growth company raising capital for an acquisition. This is a company asking shareholders to vote on the next batch of paper before the current batch finishes printing. On July 21, the company filed to register 6.79 million additional shares — Armistice Capital's warrants from the February 2026 private placement, exercisable at $0.70. Those are already in the money at $0.881, which means Armistice can convert and flood the market at any moment they choose. On the same day they filed yet another employee stock plan registration — their fifth or sixth such filing, because you can apparently never have too many grant spigots aimed at your existing shareholders. The one genuinely clean piece of capital structure news: the 1.64 million IPO Warrants at $5.50 expired worthless on July 15. That is the complete list of positive developments. The new board member, Dr. Shlomit Chappel-Ram, is the real deal — formerly VP R&D at Nano Dimension with hands-on AME hardware experience and peer-reviewed IEEE publications. She is the most substantively credible addition since the rebrand. She is also exactly one board seat inside a structure built around serial dilution and a management team that has put zero personal cash into the stock at these prices. The situation that did not exist at the prior dive has now arrived: three consecutive closes below Nasdaq's $1.00 minimum bid threshold — $0.906, $0.886, and $0.881 on July 22-24. The rule requires thirty consecutive closes before a formal deficiency notice lands. The company already burned through a prior 180-day cure window before the May-June pump rescued it. This time the pump already ran, already failed, and the retail crowd has gone completely silent. The cure options — stock recovers, reverse split, or another equity offering — are all bad for anyone holding at current prices. The AGM to approve more authorized shares falls about a week after the rough end of the recovery window, right around when the deficiency notice could be arriving. Revenue is $289K TTM, dilution is structural and accelerating, insiders treat it like something to sell, not accumulate. **Scalp:** August 6 earnings is the one real event trade in the window. If the commercial order dollar amounts get disclosed and surprise upside, you get a pop worth playing with a hard floor below $0.75. Sized like the binary it is. **Short:** Structurally correct, tactically difficult — borrow is expensive and a single unnamed-partner press release can spike this 40% intraday before you can adjust.

Serasul

GME+Ebay = GME 2.0

Strange-Land9534

Unfortunately, yes. And it's filled with people that bought whatever stock you're looking at so you end up seeing GME/AMC era buy all the dips never selling short squeeze delusions.

lucusice

What happened to the 10k minimum posting limit? Pre-GME-influx we would only see loss or gain porn in the hundreds of thousands, or at least dozens

TellFit7415

I messed around with options once. Put 1k in GME calls and the next day Ryan Coen diluted the shares. Never again

Stunning-Dig-8916

Google, AMC, and GME to the moon.

Rangastang

It's a GME conspiracy theory. It's real but doesn't affect the market. Hey, OP. Just sell you shares, buy the S&P and take better care of you lr mental health. GME is a dogshit company, sell it and move on.

ClaudesSexBot

GME and AMC. 100% guarantee on the house\* \*No refunds

AgitatedJump8459

Is oil the new GME?

JackWagon1990

Okay, I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't aware of any of those issues. I'll have to look into that. What sort of sketchy reports from account holders? My biggest soap box is that I will never trust Robinhood ever again after they really screwed me and many others during the COVID crash and GME squeeze by not being able to open my account during those extremely volatile times. I will NEVER recommend RH. I think they're a scam in every sense of the word. They sell novice investors/traders on zero commission trading, meanwhile those novice folks don't realize they're getting absolutely hosed on order fills.

Raiddinn1

You need to get completely out of this game, as does anyone else in this game. Not even this game, all related games. That GME/AMC shit was dumb too. Ninety nine percent of people are not cut out for this and will have the same results as you. That ninety nine percent includes you, clearly. Just buy VOO and hold it until you get old.

CleverStone7924

honestly the guy who dumped his GME at the bottom 5 years ago is probably sleeping better than you are right now refreshing the chart every morning lol

-ToriForYa

the dump was last month lol. Might as well go hang out with everyone still hoping GME goes up again. At least WEN is a real company that makes money

greytoc

It is correct. The term "naked" when referred to trading means it's unhedged or there is no offseting position. The reason why I'm pointing it out is because a lot of the baseless conspiracy theories about how naked shorting works comes from people who didn't understand conversations on Reddit. There had been discussions by actual traders in wsb and other subreddits who were discussing market making operations and the increased volatility during early GME meme hype and option traders who use synthetic short positions and using naked option positions to capture the volatility. I remember a lot of those threads because I traded a lot of naked positions and synthetic short combos to capture GME volatility and the falling GME price.

Spac55

$LITE is $GME or $SMCI ? How much revenue compare to $IBM $META $ORCL or even $MRVL

Ridge_Capital

GME: decreasing sales ASTS not profitable.

newmoneyknowledge

$GME as a joke

Flimsy-Ad-858

This place post GME cleared the irony curve and is now full of actual dudes like this

WildBookaholic

GME made my Roth account a $100k asset now, and its been growing since, I made a bunch in Robinhood too, but all the options I bought in my Roth made me love the stock.

rua_wear

Nice. My first time in was when GME went apeshit. I turned $600 from a stimulus check into about 120k in about 2 weeks without having much discipline yet. Good times.

PopoDontKnow

This isn't AMC or GME.

NombreCurioso1337

It is actively making money, which makes it better than 50% of the market, and has a PE of 10 when the market average is 25. Undervalued. On top of that it pays a large dividend. Seems like a no-brainer, and that's before you take meme-potential into account. It *should* be better than GME ever was, but all we hear is haters. As long as they keep their dividend (big if) then I don't even mind bag-holding.

NombreCurioso1337

It is very interesting how much downward pressure there is. But it's coming from "I'm just a normal guy" accounts. Is this what they learned from GME? How to use ai or bots to seem more organic? Regardless, I like the stock.

Ap3X_GunT3R

Because it provides no guidance or concrete gameplan, continually dilutes shareholders, and has no real moat/niche. Since 2021 it diluted shareholders close to 70%. If you bought post squeeze in GME you’re almost guaranteed to be in the red. While VTI has increased over 65% in that timeframe. Since their ebay “acquisition” announcement, the stock decreased by 8-10%. So yeah it’s a meme stock.

1-Dollar-Doge-Coins

Average GME owner

gizamo

Collectively, Trump's tweets certainly surpass GME nonsense. The dude has been manipulating markets pretty much nonstop the entire time he was in office from 2016-2020 and 2024-now. He's literally trying to sell advanced access to his tweets to high-frequency traders for $100k a month, just so that they can be the first to profit from his market manipulations.

AnyPortInAHurricane

The biggest manipulation in modern history was the GME pump right here on reddit

Starkfault

\>Be GameStop \>Have $5b cash, $4b cash tied to debt \>authorize $2b in GME stock buybacks \>spend $4b on EBAY shares instead Get fucked Apes LOL

ChrisMartins001

And AMC, GME, Baba, Enron, etc.

Mysterious-Device-53

My best day ever was 18.5k, and that was during the second runup on GME 2 years ago. And there was some meme penny stock at that time that I scored big on the same day

psymeariver

Dude, I’m talking about the S&P 500, not meme stocks! 😂 I’ve lost enough on GME, BBB, RDBX and most recently SPCE. I am not going to FAFO again!

br0botic

GME CEO Ryan Cohen: “we’re coming for eBay one way or another Me: “I’m coming for Sydney Sweeney one way or another”

Dstein99

You’re very confident about that, have you looked at GME’s cash flow statement? In 2025, GME had $615M in cash flow profit from operating their business (not stock issuance). They spent $17.5M on capital expenditure investment (also not stock issuance) for a Free Cash Flow profit of $597M. They produced $597M in cash profit from everyday operating the business and how much stock did they issue to do that? $20,000.

BatteryAcid420_

That‘s why he calls it financial darwinism. This is like buying tulips at the top or renting a pineapple when that was a thing. You‘re supposed to be able to at least compare valuation and revenue. And if you‘re looking at a stock that has 2T valuation and no profits and it doesn‘t seem wrong to you, then maybe the stock markets aren‘t for you. Now if you‘re thinking „But there are companies without profits that were a great success“, none of them put rockets in their company profile while claiming to be an AI company. None of them were looking to pivot into an entire different business model because profits were to elusive to them. None of them claimed their company would become more valuable than the total value of all stocks combined. The fact that I can go on and list you at least several dozens more red flags tells you everything you need to know about anyone who invested in this garbage. And on a different note you‘re also supposed to know that if private equity takes a company public that has an insane valuation they‘re not being nice to you and offering you to get in on a good deal, they‘re looking to bend you over, and this shouldn‘t be hard to understand. Why do companies go public? To get funding. Does a trillion dollar corp need funding? Sure but only if they‘re scamming or have huge amounts of revenue, even profits, that they want to grow. I have empathy for people who bought GME at 100$+. I have 0 empathy for SPCX ‚investors‘ (I mean regards).

Substantial-Fun9958

Yeah they earned money because of the investors keeping the stock propped up and so GME's income also further reinforces the stock too. It's one big circle of bullshit from GME fanboys that somehow has become a whole business model of its own

raptors2o19

GME

Dstein99

It was improbable for Nvidia to hit $200 2 years ago because they were earned $4B in FCF. In the past year they 24x that with $96B. GME has been net income profitable for 3 straight years. I like to look at FCF profitability because a company goes bankrupt when they can’t pay their debt with their available cash. GME hasn’t been consistently FCF profitable but they earned $600M in FCF last year and have $0 of current debt.

beachsandwichen

NIO and GME the only two things on the planet left out the pump

Substantial-Fun9958

Well, Gamestop is a shining example of this, isn't it? The GME stock didn't even budge much during Trumps Liberation Day where 90% of the rest of the market collapsed

btoned

GME

value1024

You missed the part about "computershare" - this is a GME Ape LARP-ing about having money, while he/she probably lost it all on GME, most likely.

beachsandwichen

Hurry everyone put there money in the safe haven that is GME, it won’t go up but it won’t go down either

JustLurkCarryOn

There’s gonna be like 3 people still hodling GME when the MOASS actually happens and they will definitely ride it all the way up and down again.

sinag19

Now if only there was stock like GME now. We could properly be back in 2020

Wfan111

No offense but nothing in your post says WHY you should buy certain stocks other than price movement. Do you just buy because you think they're good and well known? If you do then that's really how the majority of retail investors/traders think, and that's why we're called "dumb money". In some of the stocks you bought, you even say it yourself, you're buying at the highs. Nothing about fundamentals, nothing about technicals. At the end of the day, it doesn't sound like you're researching anything and using that research to justify anything. It's like you buy the stock cause you like it. Liking the stock worked for $GME at one point in time, but when fundamentals and valuations took back over it came crashing back down like a rock. For instance you brought up NFLX. I had friends who purchased around $80-90 because they said it's a screaming deal. But to me and my research it was nowhere near a screaming deal. In fact, I think right now we're a lot closer to being fair valued but still not a good deal. As I look at their earnings report, nothing shouts to me that there is value in it right now especially for a growth company, where every sector in the world they're in has actually seen growth slow this past quarter - except Latina America which grew from 19 to 21%. Even so, Latin America is a smaller fraction of their users and a 2% gain in growth doesn't counter the slowing growth everywhere else. I bring this up because this is what I've learned throughout the years and hopefully future investors can learn. Reading earnings reports and evaluating each company I consider investing in is crucial to knowing each company's strengths/weaknesses. I don't just buy stocks to buy. I buy stocks to invest in growth. Hopefully you'll figure it out too one day.

Jammer7648

Ran the math on $WEN going like $GME Float: 135.8M shares Price: $7.45 Entire float value: 135.8M × $7.45 ≈ $1.01 BILLION Shorts' buyback bill: 51.7M × $7.45 ≈ $385 MILLION (at current price) Every $1 the price rises adds **\~$52M** to the shorts' collective paper loss (51.7M shares × $1). |If WEN goes to...|Shorts' mark-to-market loss (vs $7.45 entry basis)| |:-|:-| |$10|\~$132M| |$15|\~$390M| |$20|\~$649M| |$30|\~$1.17B|

Jammer7648

Ran the math on this, came out pretty interesting, only need 385m in buys to trigger GME level short squeeze: used claude for assistance # Full Math on the "Save Wendy's" Squeeze — Here's Exactly What It Would Take to Get a GME-Style Move in $WEN **Disclaimer up top: not financial advice, not a call to action, no positions. This is the math of whether a GME-style squeeze is even possible in WEN, using real public numbers as of mid-July 2026. Coordinating trades to push a price is market manipulation territory — this post is analysis, period.** # SECTION 1: THE RAW NUMBERS (all real, all sourced) |Metric|Value|Source/Date| |:-|:-|:-| |Share price|\~$7.45|July 11, 2026| |Shares outstanding|190.48M|Latest filings| |Float (freely tradable)|\~135.8M shares|Derived: 51.67M short ÷ 38.04%| |Market cap|\~$1.42B|July 2026| |**Shares sold short**|**51,668,925**|NASDAQ report, June 15, 2026| |**Short % of float**|**38.04%**|Same report (ORTEX: \~34%; S3: \~23% — vendors differ, all high)| |**Days to cover**|**6.58**|June 15 report| |Borrow utilization|\~80% of lendable shares already on loan|ORTEX, late June 2026| |Normal daily volume|\~5–7M shares (\~$40–50M)|Pre-meme 3-month average| |Analyst median target|\~$8.00, consensus "Hold"|14 analysts, last 6 months| And the live experiment we already ran: **June 24, 2026** — the "Save Wendy's" post hits WSB overnight, stock opens hot, spikes **+42% intraday** (halted), closes **+25.64% at $7.87** on **202 million shares** — \~15x the float's normal daily churn, \~1,483% above average volume. Two days later, most of it had faded. # SECTION 2: THE MATH, LAID OUT STEP BY STEP # 2.1 — What the entire playing field costs Float: 135.8M shares Price: $7.45 Entire float value: 135.8M × $7.45 ≈ $1.01 BILLION Shorts' buyback bill: 51.7M × $7.45 ≈ $385 MILLION (at current price) Every $1 the price rises adds **\~$52M** to the shorts' collective paper loss (51.7M shares × $1). |If WEN goes to...|Shorts' mark-to-market loss (vs $7.45 entry basis)| |:-|:-| |$10|\~$132M| |$15|\~$390M| |$20|\~$649M| |$30|\~$1.17B| For scale: Melvin Capital lost **$6.8B in one month** on GME and needed a $2.75B bailout. A total WEN short loss of a few hundred million spread across many funds is painful, not fatal. Nobody's getting margin-called into oblivion at $15. # 2.2 — What buying pressure actually moves the price June 24 gave us a real price-impact data point: * \~202M shares of gross volume → +25.6% close * But gross volume ≠ net buying. Most of that was day traders hot-potato-ing shares. The *net* new money that stuck was a small fraction — and the price round-tripped back to the mid-$7s within days. The variable that matters is **shares bought AND HELD off the market**, because that's what makes borrow scarce. Rough tiers (price impact makes these grow as you go): Absorb 25% of float: ~34M shares → ~$250–350M held Absorb 50% of float: ~68M shares → ~$500–700M+ held (price runs on you) Absorb 75% of float: ~102M shares → realistically $1B+ held And the sellers are right there waiting: institutions own most of the float and demonstrably sell into strength — AQR dumped 8.6M shares (−73% of its stake) in Q1 2026, Harris Associates dumped 4M. Every leg up gets supplied. # 2.3 — The shorts' escape hatch Days to cover = 6.58 at *normal* volume. But squeezes create their own liquidity: on a 202M-share day, all 51.7M short shares could theoretically be covered **four times over**. High-volume spike days are a covering gift. Short interest actually *rose 2.79%* into mid-June — shorts weren't fleeing, they were adding at better prices. # SECTION 3: WHAT MADE GME "GME" — AND THE CHECKLIST WEN WOULD HAVE TO HIT GameStop January 2021 wasn't just "high short interest + Reddit." It was a five-condition perfect storm. Here's each condition, and where WEN stands: # Condition 1: Short interest OVER 100% of float * **GME: \~140% of float.** More shares were short than existed to trade. Covering was musical chairs with negative chairs — *someone* had to pay any price. * **WEN: 23–38% of float.** Genuinely crowded, top-of-market crowded — but every short can mathematically exit. There is no negative-chairs endgame. * **What would have to happen:** short interest would need to roughly **quadruple** while the float shrank. Shorts would have to keep pressing a position that's already at \~80% borrow utilization with rising borrow fees. Possible if the stock rallied hard and shorts doubled down — but nothing in 2026's post-GME risk management suggests funds will ever let themselves get to 140% again. Prime brokers watch this number now. # Condition 2: The float gets locked up by diamond hands * **GME:** retail + insiders (Ryan Cohen's 12.9%) + index funds effectively froze most of the tradable supply. Borrow fees exploded; utilization hit 100%. * **WEN:** utilization is high (\~80%) but institutions holding \~136M shares are *sellers* into every rally, constantly resupplying the borrow pool. * **What would have to happen:** roughly **$500M–$1B+ of retail money buying and holding through 40% drawdowns**, without paper-handing the first 30% pop. June 24 proved the crowd shows up for a day; the position was mostly unwound within 48 hours. A squeeze needs weeks of held supply, not one halted morning. # Condition 3: A gamma squeeze amplifier (partially available) * **GME:** cheap far-OTM weekly calls were bought en masse → market makers delta-hedged by buying stock → price up → more hedging → feedback loop. This did as much work as short covering. * **WEN:** the options chain is liquid and cheap (unusual options activity was flagged June 29–July 2), so the *mechanism* exists. But WEN's options open interest is a rounding error next to GME 2021's, and market makers now charge much fatter premiums on meme names the moment volatility spikes — the ammo gets expensive exactly when you need it. * **What would have to happen:** sustained, massive OTM call buying across multiple weeks of expiries, forcing dealers net-short gamma. Order of magnitude: tens of millions of dollars a week in premium, burned repeatedly, most of it expiring worthless if the stock stalls. # Condition 4: A trapped, oversized single victim * **GME:** Melvin Capital had a huge, publicly-known short and became the raid target. Its forced unwind was the detonation. * **WEN:** the short is distributed across many funds (plus merger-arb/dividend-capture-style shorts). Distributed shorts cover calmly; there's no single whale to break. * **What would have to happen:** disclosure that one fund holds a massive concentrated WEN short. No such disclosure exists. # Condition 5: A catalyst + narrative that survives contact with earnings * **GME:** Ryan Cohen joining the board, console-cycle turnaround story, DFV's yearlong DD — the narrative had *bull-case fundamentals* attached. * **WEN:** the fundamentals are the bear case: Q4 2025 US same-store sales **−11.3%**, Q1 2026 same-restaurant sales −8% with net income −42%, \~200 stores already closed and 300–350 more closing through 2026, \~$4B net debt, management calling 2026 a "rebuilding year." Next earnings: **August 7, 2026**, consensus expects another down quarter. * **What would have to happen:** a genuine bull catalyst — a blowout quarter, a buyout bid (Nelson Peltz/Trian chatter exists but nothing announced), or a Cohen-style activist with a credible plan. Absent that, every earnings date is a scheduled bomb under the rally. **Scorecard: WEN hits 0 of 5 GME conditions outright.** What it does have — 38% SI, 6.6 days to cover, 80% utilization, cheap stock, famous brand — is enough for what we already saw: violent 25–42% one-day spikes that hurt shorts' P&L and then fade. That's a squeeze *trade*, not a GME *event*. # SECTION 4: THE PART THAT BREAKS THE WHOLE "SAVE WENDY'S" PREMISE Even if everything above happened and WEN went to $50: 1. **Wendy's receives $0.** Open-market buying pays the *seller* of the shares, not the company. The corporate treasury doesn't move whether the ticker says $6 or $60. 2. Wendy's actual problems — falling traffic, −11.3% comps, $4B of net debt, 500+ closures — are fixed by **revenue**, not by share price. 3. The only bridge from "meme rally" to "company gets money" is the **AMC playbook**: the company issues NEW shares into the inflated price. AMC raised \~$2.2B this way in 2021 and genuinely dodged bankruptcy. But note the built-in self-destruct: issuing shares floods the market with exactly the supply that kills the squeeze and dilutes the people who pumped it. Wendy's has announced no offering — and honestly doesn't need one; it still generated \~$222M of free cash flow and pays a 7.5% dividend. 4. If the sub actually wants to save Wendy's: **the load-bearing transaction is a Baconator, not a limit order.** # SECTION 5: BOTTOM LINE * Mechanically possible squeeze *trade*? Yes — the June 24 tape proves \~$100–200M of aggressive net buying can rip this thing 25–42% in hours. * GME-style 25x event? The math says no: shorts are at 38% of float, not 140%; they can cover; institutions resupply every rally; there's no gamma engine at scale, no trapped whale, no bull catalyst; and earnings on Aug 7 is a live grenade. * Total capital to even attempt float-lock conditions: **high hundreds of millions to $1B+, held for weeks**, against sellers who own the float and shorts who used the last spike as an entry. * And the punchline stands: none of that money reaches Wendy's.

SuspiciousLaughThrow

I hear ya, respect the choice. Plenty of alternatives out there. I basically have at least a small account on each major trading platform. But totally get the hate for any individual platform... There are things that infuriate me about each UI alone, but yeah.. if I was part of the GME Robinhood screw over experience I'd probably not wanna go back either.

zerg_001

I see you missed the GME boat

TheYearGuesser

Should have stayed in GME atleast I wouldn't have lost this much lmao

Acrobatic-Fault876

If you are talking about the WEN squeeze then i suggest you use Cashapp and or Stash. I used those platforms back in the GME squeeze days and i had no issues unlike people did with robinhood.

itsgodsposterchild

You’re all so gey and young and know nothing it’s so obvious, half you geys hold dogecoin in robinhood I should slap you. Pre GME was the Wild West. Men like ironyman ruled with an ironyfist. Ban bets involved your asshole and it was well known that everyone was rich af. What was the community at before GME, maybe 100,000 users? Now look at this mess. Everyone wants to get rich after GME. I blame geylord Elon. If Martin skrehli was still mod he would be ashamed of all of you

Dimeskis

I loved it here from 2016 to 2019. It was the best corner of the internet. GME ruined it.

061826heart

Why do we think AI was rushed into existence? Answer- to never allow a $GME/$AMC situation to evolve again. Did $WEN work? No, it didn’t. Those data centers aren’t just for writing emails for us.

Slow-Information-847

SNDK says, I AM NOT GME!!!!!!

karamkka

Cohen on Bloomberg. He sounds like a fucking idiot. How in the world do people follow this nerd and think GME will do something other than continue to shaft shareholders and atm offerings endlessly?

Brawmethius

Damn Nintendo calling out GME for gouging on Pokémon cards at 3-4x mark ups. Bro if Nintendo is calling you out for bullshit pricing you really went hard in the paint. Also claimed deceptive practice of not showing intended pricing, getting 50% deposit on MSRP then hitting you with 4x at launch. I wonder if Cohen will take half cash half stock

Adventurous_Cut_7355

I lost the 30k I made off GME on options because that was my first experience in the stock market and thought I was invincible. I still degen sometimes, but yea the lesson needs to be learned

WicasaNapayshni

GME

CleftyHeft

if i went all in on GME a month ago i would lose 50% less money

Le7emesens

It's been like this since the pandemic times when masses of people discovered GME, app trading etc

d33p7r0ubl3

Tell that to GME bagholders

iBangNoobz

Them GME twin towers no?

beachsandwichen

God damn it’s so fucking lame they don’t let GME go up at all

jvaritek33c

I learned my lesson year 1 with GME. That was my 9% year. Now I obsess over exit strategies but ride the WSB waves when they inevitably come. WEN was the most fun I've had since GME. I got out with tiny gains compared to those who had some bigger balls but to your point, i'm a loser at heart who just recognized it and made a framework to avoid it. idk if that means im a winner or a loser with a plan tho either way i came across like a dick with my original response so sorry about that

Tricky-Ad-6225

The only reason this sub is famous is because that’s exactly what happened with GME. Billionaires and hedge funds had to go begging to Vlad and other brokerages to halt trading for a whole day.

NotAFlameThrower1

I love GME!

ulookliketrump

GME

Thunder141

Pumping the stock DID change GME. You know WEN already got a new CEO? recently. How is the pump over after one week? What kind of weak ass shit is that, that's no meme stock. That's pump and dump. I thought we were saving Wendy's. I'm buying and holding (not on margin or anything crazy, but I believe in WSB saving Wendy's).

beachsandwichen

Poor GME gotta climb Everest to get 1.5% days while trillion dollar market caps move 8-10% with the snap of a finer

zxc123zxc123

I was doubting them until they "I **site** GME, Starlink, and Oil prices". I mean just like Mr. Cohen you don't cite sources when you can just tell people to check the webpage (site).

PrimaryShock384

It's flawed in so many different ways. - US stock market is based on consumer demand. It has and always been. At the end the revenues and margins dictate the company's valuation. You can point towards GME as an example but that is more of an outlier than the trend. - Also massive market corrections actually doesn't happen at once. This is one of the biggest misconceptions about corrections. They actually happen gradually. 2% drop and 2% gain and another 5% drop and 4% gain. Before you know it within a year the index is down 10-15%.

CaptainONaps

Seems obvious to me too. But it is technically just a theory, we don't have proof. And I immediately got another reply suggesting GME was totally legit. Which is exactly what I expected, and why I worded it the way I did. If you guys are so confident it's a scam, try explaining that to the guy that thought GME was just a natural process. If we can't convince people it's fixed, we have no chance of making them consider maybe just one stock plummeting is a red flag.

CaptainONaps

I have a theory based on absolutely nothing. I'll explain my hunch. It is extremely odd that just one company lost this much value. You'd think whatever was in their report that caused concern would implicate competitors were facing similar challenges. You'd think the speculation alone would be enough to cause people to sell. I suspect the US stock market isn't based on consumer demand anymore. I site GME, Starlink, and Oil prices as examples of fuckery. Just about every economist has been predicting a massive market corrections for years now. It seems over due. But traditionally when the market corrects, it happens all at once, which wipes everyone out. But if you have the power to control the market, what's preventing you from crashing one at a time, that way you can sell it first, and put that money in something "safe"? Then after it crashes, buy it back lower, then crash the next one.

Haikoe

Why is GME on the board, get that shit out of my face

FreeFloatingFeathers

I bought GME at $504 in the pre market on the day of the dump (pre stock split), back in the day … :)

fakehalo

Dragged down by the shooters lol, reminds me of the old GME subs.

horesebeblind

Good point. GME, AMC etc. can help with the whole “I got gains” issue