GME

FabricationLife

If you had put it into GME you would either be up or even still....just saying you know to make you feel better

The_Source_Unseen

No stock anywhere is gonna squeeze for more than a day or two. GME stopped that in its tracks 5 years ago. They WILL NEVER ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN EVER AGAIN. Please understand that. Also if there’s a Reddit group named after the stock. That means someone is way down and trying to pump it so they can get out of the position. PERIOD.

sergiu00003

They depend on two chain events: restructuring of the 2026 debt and CHIPS act money (that is conditional on first). Each of them happening, can push the price fast to 5-10$ range. Both happening in a short amount of time can push the price fast in the next range 10-20$ as it signals that they will have enough cash for at least 2-3 years. And long term, 3-5 years, if they translate the massive design backlog in orders and if they increase the demand, they can come back at 100$+. At this price point the debt from 2028 and 2029 can be converted in stock for a not so significant dilution. So overall, the biggest value in WOLF is long term, with potential to easily to 40-50x . Short term, there is some short squeeze potential, but rather similar to what we have seen with HTZ, a 2-3x. However triggering a short squeeze is actually harder than with GME because there is just not enough demand and because the market makers are playing dirty. The failed to deliver for first half of April was 8.5M shares. That's 5.5% of the outstanding, sold short without coverage, in the hope of buying it back at lower prices in next 35 days. given that average price in that time was 2.5-2.7$, in demand is dying out, the market makers are going to desperately push the price under 2.5$ to trigger a capitulation and buy back. Or hope that some institutions capitulate. So far, they seem to be able to control the price well when they want to, like in 28th of March and 29th of April but both were obvious when doing forensic analysis of stock price, so it might be that they will not do it that often. So bottom line, if you are here for trading short, you can try your luck at current prices or stand aside, watch the crash, if it comes and load then.

Tonyn15665

I still remember this whole Reddit was shitting on… Warren Buffet because he sold AA then AA doubled. Since then his net worth increased around $80Bn while the quick money morons are probably still “diamond handing” GME and Tilray lmfao

G0D5M0N3Y

***Congrats to those that are still holding! For those that remember GME and AMC squeezes, they had many 30% corrections and still went way, way higher. Patience pays off. This may squeeze to double digits! Im still holding Stock and Calls! Nfa

G0D5M0N3Y

***Congrats to those who remember GME and AMCs runs when there were 30% down days and still raged much much higher! Wolf is going up way higher. Im still holding stock and calls!

Altruistic-Sorbet-55

GME wasn’t a pump and dump. But GME had red days on the road to the squeeze.

rhin0man7

RE GME but ok

iannht

LOL giving me GME vibes

ScottRL

You know GME was the biggest transfer of wealth from rich to poor? Yeah well, they are getting it all back right now because we are idiots

RlCKR0llD

Except $GME is an actual value play lol. WOLF doesn't hold a candle to $GME's books

Cheebo2319

If you look @ the more serious members posts, we aren’t comparing this to GME. We want nothing to do with that. CVNA is more the comparison id like to give & many others. Majority are there long term & the pump & short interest is just keeping us entertained.

Historical-Egg3243

The whole trading world is created and run by the banks. Any time retail makes too much money they change the rules so that retail keeps losing. Like with GME, where they literally turned off the buy button

rhin0man7

I rode it up. Cashed out. Have half of it on $3 puts for Friday. Typical pump and dump. Idk why everyone keeps preaching next GME. They say that about every pump and dump

Pulte4janitor

Dude probably also owns MULN, GME, and Riteaid.

DeadSol

GME hard pinned at $27.27, as soon as this baby breaks $28 solidly, brace yourselves.

JMP-23

Who's called GME safe?!

Cat-a-mount

I hold some MSTZ. I take roughly 10% of my MSTU holdings and swing trade using MSTZ to magnify profits (or losses). I owe some MSTZ right now because I think there is a huge amount of BTC buying by MSTR And GME and TRMP and others. It's holding the price up just a little bit. I expected it to fall back into the 80s before going up again. I believe in BTC which is why I buy much of it through MSTU which is a leverage fund. But I know it's not a straight lineup. It's up down up down up down up down. I really feel like it should've dipped down into the 80s already. MSTR came out and published how much BTC they had bought last week. GME did not announce but I bet they're accumulating. I think there will be a pause to the accumulation and when that support is pulled BTC will drop into the 80s. And that's when I will sell the small amount of MSTZ I have. And since that will be high I will take the profits and put it into MSTU which will be low. And that's how I swing trade it with about 10% of my MSTU. Please note that I am talking about what I am doing and not what YOU should be doing. Not financial advice. I'm not a financial advisor. I just believe BTC is going up by 100% in the next 15 months and another hundred percent in 24-36 months after that. And even though I believe this, I am not telling you what WILL CERTAINLY happen.

Witty_Ask_4439

GME back in Jan 2021. The stock hit a high and closed on a friday at 325 or so, 1/29/21. Call options as high as 650 with that Friday expiry had a bid and everything of course below it. It was swinging wildly between 290 and as high as 400 I recall on that Friday. I still have the Trade confirm for the stock position I held and sold on that day. Feb 1st was a Friday in 2021. I bought 1000 share on 1/12/21 32.00 and sold them on 2/1/2021 at the close for 316.032. While I was watching that crazy day I was opening and closing bear call spreads and making a little bit of change in the 2 or 3 hundred dollar range selling way out of the money calls and buying even further out of the money ridiculously OTM call to protect my upside but of course limiting my gains. Had I been able to go naked on the calls that were showing bids os as much as a dollar or more depending on the strike above 450 and beyond at 0DTE, I would have made a hell of a lot more. Pull historicals on that crazy month from 1/12 to 2/1 2021.

Redwoodbear77

I believe the short interest is now over 70% $Kirk looks prime for a huge squeeze... I really thought the $GME community might jump on this... I bought 6500 shares and 140 calls that bounced

Khalifa_riri

WOLF IS A FAILING COMPANY. Look at their glass door reviews. They don’t even have chips ffs. This is purely due to copium and wannabe GME apes

Khalifa_riri

Bro this is the next AMC/GME copium fanbase “WOLF TO THE MOON”

Khalifa_riri

Holy shit this is the next GME/AMC copium fanbase

bobcat_bedders

Do bare in mind I'm not saying this is 100% what they are doing - just a possibility. There's a load of institutions own GME shares that they loan our or just pass between themselves to control price

yeezy_boost350v2

SMCI and MRNA are the top 2 most shortest stocks on the SP500, will we see a MOASS like GME for these stocks

Bella_US

Lol we have been in recession scare since Covid. We our Dollar value never recovered and has been artificially propped up since then… hence inflation,unemployment, etc.. this guys said a whole lot of nothing. Bad policy was already set in place through out many sectors of our markets. I’ll give you some examples, net neutrality act, our entire covid response, from vaccine to social enforcement, immigration policy with no real means of legal process… education within the United States deteriorating from students to school finances. Not even just that. Our health care system, preys on the weak and sick; insurance lol. Our financial markets crumbling because of being using as infinite money machine by the 1%ers. Look up GME fiasco since Covid 2020. Don’t say it was the new policy. We are a couple of months in, if we are going into recession it’s not because of the president… it’s been a long time coming..

SpaceJnkie

Behind every winning trade, there is a looser. I was loling at all those folks buying GME at 300+

artmatthewmakes

Was WSB neutered by powerful men after GME?

NOT_MartinShkreli

Just harvest your tax loss and throw what’s left at GME calls like a true retard (July calls and I bet you will recover a good bit)

xHomicide24x

Ask Ken Griffin how it’s going with GME

SquirrelSlow3705

All IN! YOLO in WOLF. Lets make a GME 2.0

General_Drawing_4729

I thought I was dumb for buying GME. 

SignatureFunny7690

Bro, just keep buying more, the bottom is in, dilute your purchase price, buy it down bro this is the lowest it will ever be absolute fire sale, she's going to the moon again any day now. There is so much copium in the niche one off meme coin and meme stock communities, delusional people strung out on copium who loss their asses back in like the GME days.

Cautious-Shock8269

Sell and double down on GME! I heard is an amazing investment opportunity

Over_Significance996

The other 95% is probably GME 

kmac8008

Seems like the hedgies and MMs aren’t playing around w these short squeeze GME games anymore. They’ll just keep shorting it into oblivion. Maybe AMC2.0 or GME 2.0 is never gonna happen, they’ve set up better protections maybe. I’m pretty dumb w the market though I always lose so I don’t know what is going on w anything behind the scenes. Just speculating whether a GME styles squeeze could ever really happen again.

visualmob

Considering it’s only $200… I’d say add another $200 to average it down and then forget about this position. Have it as a learning lesson. Who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky if the GME/AMC narrative ever happens again. My account looked very similar, I had like 15k in AMC but sold out when I hit 8k, luckily I rolled that over to $COIN in the $50-100 range.

En_CHILL_ada

GME was not a coordinated effort where we all planned a day to buy the stock... the trade just gained popularity organically with individual investors making their own decisions. Plus the T+35 settlement of Ryan Cohen's massive buy in December likely drove a significant amount of that price action. Gamestop's market cap in January 2021 was like $1B? TSLA's market cap is currently $915B. Good luck moving that stock with a handful of high regards. You would need 1 million people to each short an average of $9,000 worth of TSLA to get just 10% of the stock sold short....

Altruistic-Sorbet-55

Yeah, there are questions about their future. What I meant is that WOLF isn’t like most other talked about squeezes. I’d go as far as to say that it actually makes way more sense for WOLF to squeeze and stay at a level higher than its previous ATH than even GME was which was mostly fueled by nostalgia and not big developments in the works. You don’t need to be sorry for taking a profit, I just wanted to say that the squeeze hasn’t even happened yet. Short squeezes can’t happen if everyone sells for a quick buck, so I’d argue your action here isn’t in line with the mission of this sub.

SamRHughes

In a GME-type breakout you would be able to sell the shares. Use a broker that lets you make an irrevocable decision to exercise mid-day and then sell the shares. (I don't know if it works in all edge cases, like the margin constraints Robinhood had with GME, or if there are no shares available for your broker to borrow overnight, sorry.) If the option is deep ITM, with that kind of activity, you'd get a worse fill than the shares, so it would make more sense to exercise.

lostfinancialsoul

No, it just means you lack conviction and dont understand the Company. This isnt GME, this is a 6000 patents, SiC US manufacture global leader and provider of raw silicon carbide material/wafers. Off the top of my head they have 6 or 7B on assets. The company is being attacked so it has a harder time to scale in the event it had to do an ATM but the company has already taken steps forward to not be reliant on CHIPs act funding. The shorts got greedy because their likely goal is to prevent WOLF from maintaining a stronghold on the industry.

LelouchL88

when do i go full tilt on GME?

capsagaries

No, GME 😂

Boss-Think

I wish people would stop trying to compare things to a GME squeeze, it makes me not want to trust the comment or post at all.

Majlee

$AGMH! 507M dark pool shorted and they are deleting bot posts on X constantly. This could go parabolic, set up is similar to GME squeeze. Needs attention! Whole day been smashing it down to scare retail out.

nwordbird

We need to set things up again like with GME

BaxterDude012

GME might as well announce they bought 🌽 and really send this fake pump into a frenzy

twim19

It's become a meme stock like GME or AMC. Predicting it's rise or fall depends on your ability to predict what people who buy memestocks will think.

DeadSol

GME price discovery is no longer happening on lot markets lol. Stock is manipulated as fuck.

Backieotamy

Tesla is not limited to their car sales. Starlink, robotics, AI and it's own super computer, they have a large battery business plus some software for self-driving, cabs and trucking outside of normal Tesla vehicle sales. Thats why even with tanking vehicle sales they did not get the drop that would be expected from a 60%+ drop in sales that would destroy RIVN or Chevy. Now, pulling off a coordinated short-sale enmasse, a GME uno reverse card if you will; now that would cause pain across all of Tesla and Musk would really feel it regardless of one division doing poorly or not but it would absolutely need a massive amount of us small time investors to go up against his war chest. Im thinking a hundred thousand of us amassing up a few shares over 30 days. Then a coordinated sell off of half and then short shorts begin and when he/they/friends start buying to protect it, the second shoe falls and then short and longer shorts begin and then voila, if that's what youre looking for anyway.

Spankedcheeks

GME will rise again. Still such a strong play.

Cat-a-mount

I am sorry but that is not true. A person can certainly believe that MSTR will go down in Bette against it. And someone else could believe it's going to go up in Bette on it. But saying it trades on Hope without fundamentals is mathematically incorrect. It correlates to bitcoin at something like 0.9 or higher. They report their bitcoin reserves and they report their liabilities like warrants that they issued. But to say there is only hope and no fundamentals is just wrong. Again, BTC can completely crash which will then crash MSTR and GME and hurt other companies. But that's different than having no fundamentals at all. Another company that trades on how well the housing construction market is doing could crash because the housing construction market could crash itself. But that doesn't mean that before the crash they had zero fundamentals. There was something underlying that people used to determine the value of that company. With MSTR it's the same. But the underlying value has very little to do with their AI/software side anymore. As I said, they're trading and stock price correlates to BRC at a 0.9 or higher. And hey: if you hate MSTR or if you hate BTC, that's fine with me. I'm absolutely totally on board with those feelings. I just wanted to correct that MSTR creates only on Hope with no underlying fundamentals. They published their earnings reports And like today publish other reports regarding their fundamentals.

wallstreetbets-ModTeam

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!

sergiu00003

Does not matter if pumped or not, bottom line is that there is some serious manipulation going on. In 28th of March where was an attack on price, coordinated, very likely with the complicity of market makers, that bought the price down from 5.3 to 2.6 on 0 news. Everything that was published was hours after market opened and all was post event, speculation on "why". You don't have such a drop without a bankruptcy announcement, a huge drop in revenue or some macro catastrophic event, and there was none. Up to this day, one month later there is none. Now who has a gain in all this? If you look at bonds issued by Wolfspeed, the prices of bonds for 2026, 2028 and 2029 crashed. So one could now buy bonds at discount, at least 1 billion $ discount. Ask yourself, if it would cost you 50M$ in shorting losses to induce fear in the market, to be able to buy debt with 1 billion $ discount, would you do it? That might be 1 billion $ profit in less than 3 months, if the company does rollover the 2026 debt and settles the CHIPS act. The poor redditors are just in the middle. They know that Wolf is valuable but those who have the guts to keep long term like 2-3 years will be heavily rewarded while those who play with stop losses or margins will be slaughtered like pigs and be exit liquidity for market makers. Don't fool yourself, this is not GME or FFIE or other similar stock. This is the equivalent of AMD in 2016.

G0D5M0N3Y

It has a gap fill at 3.35. Watch that area like a hawk! Watch older GME/AMC squeezes. Theres many days of volitility and red days in those runs as well! Im still holding my WOLF positions. Its a 500m market cap chip company. Its cheap! That can still 5x with no issues!

IllBuyYourCar

GME calls are not fake 

SaneLad

I thought the GME craze was the bottom for this sub, but at least that regardation was roughly in the spirit of the sub. But this year the sub has basically turned into a lower quality version of r/investing with people just posting screenshots of various stock tickers or commenting on their 10% loss in SPY.

TECHSHARK77

NEGATIVE CAPTIAN, THAT IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO GME GME was shorted over 140% and still is a failing company, a clear shorting opportunity WITH no hope in sight for the business ... Are you saying WOLF is exactly the same

wallstreetbets-ModTeam

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!

ChairmanMeow1986

How dare you talk about the next GME like that! Wait, gme is mooning tmrw right? Wait, I mean TSLA, waaaait.. No I feel good about spirit changing their name, for sure for sure.

PeterRegarrdo

Isn't that exactly what's happened to GME as well though? First it was the short squeeze, but now people are pretending it's a good company and actually worth the valuation.

Bean_Boozled

Must be one of the poor saps who got into the GME craze late and then lost all $87 you struggled to scrounge up to invest into it lmao

excitedOil3295

Somebody poke GME and RKT with a stick, please.

SirliftStuff

GME

Mathfanforpresident

I'm posting this so you can hopefully see that the entire stock market is a fucking scam While **technically**, most trades are *supposed* to be reported to the **Trade Reporting Facility (TRF)**, the reality is far messier due to **delays, loopholes, and outright manipulation**. Here’s how the system really works (and how it fails): --- ### **1. The Myth of "All Trades Are Reported"** #### **What the Rules Say:** - **Regulation NMS (National Market System)** requires trades to be reported. - **FINRA’s TRF (Trade Reporting Facility)** is where **off-exchange** (dark pool, internalized) trades are logged. - **SEC Rule 605/606** demands brokers disclose execution quality, including where trades are routed. #### **The Reality:** - **Delayed Reporting:** While trades *eventually* show up in TRF data, **real-time transparency is missing**, meaning prices don’t reflect true supply/demand in the moment. - **Hidden Liquidity:** Dark pools (like Citadel’s, Morgan Stanley’s, etc.) don’t publish order books, so you can’t see buy/sell pressure building. - **Internalization:** Market makers (e.g., Citadel, Virtu) match retail orders internally *without* sending them to exchanges, then report them later. --- ### **2. How GameStop Exposed the Lies** #### **A. The "Missing" Short Interest** - **FINRA’s short interest data** was **way behind** actual shorting during the GME squeeze. - **Swaps & Hidden Shorts:** Hedge funds used **total return swaps** (via banks like Morgan Stanley) to hide short exposure. These **don’t show up in short interest reports**. - Example: Melvin Capital’s reported short interest was **only part of their actual bet**, the rest was buried in swaps. #### **B. Dark Pool Abuse** - **Over 50% of GME volume** was routed through dark pools at the peak (Jan 2021). - **Price Suppression:** By keeping buys in dark pools and selling on lit exchanges, hedge funds and market makers **prevented price discovery**. - Robinhood’s order flow was sold to Citadel, which internalized trades instead of letting them hit the market. #### **C. Failure-to-Deliver (FTD) Tricks** - **Naked shorting** led to phantom shares flooding the market. - FTDs were **hidden via options market maker exemptions** (e.g., deep ITM calls used to reset FTD cycles). --- ### **3. The Biggest Loopholes That Break the System** #### **A. Swaps & Derivatives Don’t Get Reported Like Stocks** - A hedge fund can **control millions of shares via swaps** (synthetic positions) without it showing up in SEC filings. - **Example:** Archegos’ 2021 collapse revealed **$100B+ in hidden leverage** via swaps, none of it was in 13F reports. #### **B. "Bona Fide Market Making" Exemption** - Market makers (like Citadel Securities) can **legally naked short** under the guise of "providing liquidity." - This lets them **flood the market with fake shares** without immediate consequences. #### **C. TRF Data Is Slow & Opaque** - **Trades are reported, but too late to matter.** By the time TRF data is public, hedge funds have already adjusted their strategies. - **Lit exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) see only a fraction of real-time volume**, making price action misleading. --- ### **4. Proof the System Is Rigged** #### **A. SEC’s Own 2021 Report on GameStop** - Admitted that **"gamification" (Robinhood) and PFOF distorted markets**. - **Did nothing** to fix dark pool abuse or swap loopholes. #### **B. Bloomberg’s Findings on Dark Pools** - In 2021, **dark pools handled ~45% of all stock trades**, far higher than regulators claim is "healthy." - Retail buys were **steered into dark pools**, while sells hit lit exchanges (suppressing prices). #### **C. Academic Studies** - Research shows **dark pools worsen price discovery** (e.g., "Dark Trading and Price Discovery", 2017, Journal of Finance). - **FTDs are systematically underreported** (SEC’s own data shows "threshold securities" with chronic FTDs). --- ### **5. What They Don’t Want You to Know** - **The TRF is a smokescreen.** Yes, trades are *eventually* reported, but the **delay lets insiders front-run and manipulate**. - **Swaps, options, and ETFs are used to hide short positions** (e.g., "married puts" to mask FTDs). - **Retail is at a structural disadvantage**, HFTs and dark pools see order flow before you do. --- ### **Conclusion: The System Is Designed for Opacity** The claim that "all trades are reported" is **technically true in the narrowest sense**, but in practice: - **Dark pools hide real-time liquidity.** - **Swaps hide true short interest.** - **FTDs hide naked shorting.** - **Internalization hides price impact.** GameStop proved that **price discovery is broken**, and until the SEC cracks down on: - **Dark pool abuse** - **Swap reporting** - **Naked shorting loopholes** …the market will remain **rigged in favor of Wall Street insiders**. **Want Proof?** Check: - FINRA’s **TRF volume vs. lit exchanges** (always a huge gap). - SEC’s **FTD data** (GME still has millions of fails). - Swaps disclosures (**lack thereof**) in 13F filings. FULL DISCLOSURE: i used AI to help me with this.

1-Dollar-Doge-Coins

Ryan Cohen owns over 37 million shares of GME. He absolutely has stock equity, what the fuck are you even talking about.

ContentBlackberry0

How is .80 a squeeze? When AMC squeezed it went to like $79 and GME in the hundreds.

Mathfanforpresident

While **technically**, most trades are *supposed* to be reported to the **Trade Reporting Facility (TRF)**, the reality is far messier due to **delays, loopholes, and outright manipulation**. Here’s how the system really works (and how it fails): --- ### **1. The Myth of "All Trades Are Reported"** #### **What the Rules Say:** - **Regulation NMS (National Market System)** requires trades to be reported. - **FINRA’s TRF (Trade Reporting Facility)** is where **off-exchange** (dark pool, internalized) trades are logged. - **SEC Rule 605/606** demands brokers disclose execution quality, including where trades are routed. #### **The Reality:** - **Delayed Reporting:** While trades *eventually* show up in TRF data, **real-time transparency is missing**, meaning prices don’t reflect true supply/demand in the moment. - **Hidden Liquidity:** Dark pools (like Citadel’s, Morgan Stanley’s, etc.) don’t publish order books, so you can’t see buy/sell pressure building. - **Internalization:** Market makers (e.g., Citadel, Virtu) match retail orders internally *without* sending them to exchanges, then report them later. --- ### **2. How GameStop Exposed the Lies** #### **A. The "Missing" Short Interest** - **FINRA’s short interest data** was **way behind** actual shorting during the GME squeeze. - **Swaps & Hidden Shorts:** Hedge funds used **total return swaps** (via banks like Morgan Stanley) to hide short exposure. These **don’t show up in short interest reports**. - Example: Melvin Capital’s reported short interest was **only part of their actual bet**, the rest was buried in swaps. #### **B. Dark Pool Abuse** - **Over 50% of GME volume** was routed through dark pools at the peak (Jan 2021). - **Price Suppression:** By keeping buys in dark pools and selling on lit exchanges, hedge funds and market makers **prevented price discovery**. - Robinhood’s order flow was sold to Citadel, which internalized trades instead of letting them hit the market. #### **C. Failure-to-Deliver (FTD) Tricks** - **Naked shorting** led to phantom shares flooding the market. - FTDs were **hidden via options market maker exemptions** (e.g., deep ITM calls used to reset FTD cycles). --- ### **3. The Biggest Loopholes That Break the System** #### **A. Swaps & Derivatives Don’t Get Reported Like Stocks** - A hedge fund can **control millions of shares via swaps** (synthetic positions) without it showing up in SEC filings. - **Example:** Archegos’ 2021 collapse revealed **$100B+ in hidden leverage** via swaps, none of it was in 13F reports. #### **B. "Bona Fide Market Making" Exemption** - Market makers (like Citadel Securities) can **legally naked short** under the guise of "providing liquidity." - This lets them **flood the market with fake shares** without immediate consequences. #### **C. TRF Data Is Slow & Opaque** - **Trades are reported, but too late to matter.** By the time TRF data is public, hedge funds have already adjusted their strategies. - **Lit exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) see only a fraction of real-time volume**, making price action misleading. --- ### **4. Proof the System Is Rigged** #### **A. SEC’s Own 2021 Report on GameStop** - Admitted that **"gamification" (Robinhood) and PFOF distorted markets**. - **Did nothing** to fix dark pool abuse or swap loopholes. #### **B. Bloomberg’s Findings on Dark Pools** - In 2021, **dark pools handled ~45% of all stock trades**, far higher than regulators claim is "healthy." - Retail buys were **steered into dark pools**, while sells hit lit exchanges (suppressing prices). #### **C. Academic Studies** - Research shows **dark pools worsen price discovery** (e.g., "Dark Trading and Price Discovery", 2017, Journal of Finance). - **FTDs are systematically underreported** (SEC’s own data shows "threshold securities" with chronic FTDs). --- ### **5. What They Don’t Want You to Know** - **The TRF is a smokescreen.** Yes, trades are *eventually* reported, but the **delay lets insiders front-run and manipulate**. - **Swaps, options, and ETFs are used to hide short positions** (e.g., "married puts" to mask FTDs). - **Retail is at a structural disadvantage**, HFTs and dark pools see order flow before you do. --- ### **Conclusion: The System Is Designed for Opacity** The claim that "all trades are reported" is **technically true in the narrowest sense**, but in practice: - **Dark pools hide real-time liquidity.** - **Swaps hide true short interest.** - **FTDs hide naked shorting.** - **Internalization hides price impact.** GameStop proved that **price discovery is broken**, and until the SEC cracks down on: - **Dark pool abuse** - **Swap reporting** - **Naked shorting loopholes** …the market will remain **rigged in favor of Wall Street insiders**. **Want Proof?** Check: - FINRA’s **TRF volume vs. lit exchanges** (always a huge gap). - SEC’s **FTD data** (GME still has millions of fails). - Swaps disclosures (**lack thereof**) in 13F filings. FULL DISCLOSURE: i used AI to help me with this.

Mathfanforpresident

I'm posting this so you can hopefully see that the entire stock market is a fucking scam While **technically**, most trades are *supposed* to be reported to the **Trade Reporting Facility (TRF)**, the reality is far messier due to **delays, loopholes, and outright manipulation**. Here’s how the system really works (and how it fails): --- ### **1. The Myth of "All Trades Are Reported"** #### **What the Rules Say:** - **Regulation NMS (National Market System)** requires trades to be reported. - **FINRA’s TRF (Trade Reporting Facility)** is where **off-exchange** (dark pool, internalized) trades are logged. - **SEC Rule 605/606** demands brokers disclose execution quality, including where trades are routed. #### **The Reality:** - **Delayed Reporting:** While trades *eventually* show up in TRF data, **real-time transparency is missing**, meaning prices don’t reflect true supply/demand in the moment. - **Hidden Liquidity:** Dark pools (like Citadel’s, Morgan Stanley’s, etc.) don’t publish order books, so you can’t see buy/sell pressure building. - **Internalization:** Market makers (e.g., Citadel, Virtu) match retail orders internally *without* sending them to exchanges, then report them later. --- ### **2. How GameStop Exposed the Lies** #### **A. The "Missing" Short Interest** - **FINRA’s short interest data** was **way behind** actual shorting during the GME squeeze. - **Swaps & Hidden Shorts:** Hedge funds used **total return swaps** (via banks like Morgan Stanley) to hide short exposure. These **don’t show up in short interest reports**. - Example: Melvin Capital’s reported short interest was **only part of their actual bet**, the rest was buried in swaps. #### **B. Dark Pool Abuse** - **Over 50% of GME volume** was routed through dark pools at the peak (Jan 2021). - **Price Suppression:** By keeping buys in dark pools and selling on lit exchanges, hedge funds and market makers **prevented price discovery**. - Robinhood’s order flow was sold to Citadel, which internalized trades instead of letting them hit the market. #### **C. Failure-to-Deliver (FTD) Tricks** - **Naked shorting** led to phantom shares flooding the market. - FTDs were **hidden via options market maker exemptions** (e.g., deep ITM calls used to reset FTD cycles). --- ### **3. The Biggest Loopholes That Break the System** #### **A. Swaps & Derivatives Don’t Get Reported Like Stocks** - A hedge fund can **control millions of shares via swaps** (synthetic positions) without it showing up in SEC filings. - **Example:** Archegos’ 2021 collapse revealed **$100B+ in hidden leverage** via swaps, none of it was in 13F reports. #### **B. "Bona Fide Market Making" Exemption** - Market makers (like Citadel Securities) can **legally naked short** under the guise of "providing liquidity." - This lets them **flood the market with fake shares** without immediate consequences. #### **C. TRF Data Is Slow & Opaque** - **Trades are reported, but too late to matter.** By the time TRF data is public, hedge funds have already adjusted their strategies. - **Lit exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) see only a fraction of real-time volume**, making price action misleading. --- ### **4. Proof the System Is Rigged** #### **A. SEC’s Own 2021 Report on GameStop** - Admitted that **"gamification" (Robinhood) and PFOF distorted markets**. - **Did nothing** to fix dark pool abuse or swap loopholes. #### **B. Bloomberg’s Findings on Dark Pools** - In 2021, **dark pools handled ~45% of all stock trades**, far higher than regulators claim is "healthy." - Retail buys were **steered into dark pools**, while sells hit lit exchanges (suppressing prices). #### **C. Academic Studies** - Research shows **dark pools worsen price discovery** (e.g., "Dark Trading and Price Discovery", 2017, Journal of Finance). - **FTDs are systematically underreported** (SEC’s own data shows "threshold securities" with chronic FTDs). --- ### **5. What They Don’t Want You to Know** - **The TRF is a smokescreen.** Yes, trades are *eventually* reported, but the **delay lets insiders front-run and manipulate**. - **Swaps, options, and ETFs are used to hide short positions** (e.g., "married puts" to mask FTDs). - **Retail is at a structural disadvantage**, HFTs and dark pools see order flow before you do. --- ### **Conclusion: The System Is Designed for Opacity** The claim that "all trades are reported" is **technically true in the narrowest sense**, but in practice: - **Dark pools hide real-time liquidity.** - **Swaps hide true short interest.** - **FTDs hide naked shorting.** - **Internalization hides price impact.** GameStop proved that **price discovery is broken**, and until the SEC cracks down on: - **Dark pool abuse** - **Swap reporting** - **Naked shorting loopholes** …the market will remain **rigged in favor of Wall Street insiders**. **Want Proof?** Check: - FINRA’s **TRF volume vs. lit exchanges** (always a huge gap). - SEC’s **FTD data** (GME still has millions of fails). - Swaps disclosures (**lack thereof**) in 13F filings. FULL DISCLOSURE: i used AI to help me with this.

Mathfanforpresident

While **technically**, most trades are *supposed* to be reported to the **Trade Reporting Facility (TRF)**, the reality is far messier due to **delays, loopholes, and outright manipulation**. Here’s how the system really works (and how it fails): --- ### **1. The Myth of "All Trades Are Reported"** #### **What the Rules Say:** - **Regulation NMS (National Market System)** requires trades to be reported. - **FINRA’s TRF (Trade Reporting Facility)** is where **off-exchange** (dark pool, internalized) trades are logged. - **SEC Rule 605/606** demands brokers disclose execution quality, including where trades are routed. #### **The Reality:** - **Delayed Reporting:** While trades *eventually* show up in TRF data, **real-time transparency is missing**, meaning prices don’t reflect true supply/demand in the moment. - **Hidden Liquidity:** Dark pools (like Citadel’s, Morgan Stanley’s, etc.) don’t publish order books, so you can’t see buy/sell pressure building. - **Internalization:** Market makers (e.g., Citadel, Virtu) match retail orders internally *without* sending them to exchanges, then report them later. --- ### **2. How GameStop Exposed the Lies** #### **A. The "Missing" Short Interest** - **FINRA’s short interest data** was **way behind** actual shorting during the GME squeeze. - **Swaps & Hidden Shorts:** Hedge funds used **total return swaps** (via banks like Morgan Stanley) to hide short exposure. These **don’t show up in short interest reports**. - Example: Melvin Capital’s reported short interest was **only part of their actual bet**, the rest was buried in swaps. #### **B. Dark Pool Abuse** - **Over 50% of GME volume** was routed through dark pools at the peak (Jan 2021). - **Price Suppression:** By keeping buys in dark pools and selling on lit exchanges, hedge funds and market makers **prevented price discovery**. - Robinhood’s order flow was sold to Citadel, which internalized trades instead of letting them hit the market. #### **C. Failure-to-Deliver (FTD) Tricks** - **Naked shorting** led to phantom shares flooding the market. - FTDs were **hidden via options market maker exemptions** (e.g., deep ITM calls used to reset FTD cycles). --- ### **3. The Biggest Loopholes That Break the System** #### **A. Swaps & Derivatives Don’t Get Reported Like Stocks** - A hedge fund can **control millions of shares via swaps** (synthetic positions) without it showing up in SEC filings. - **Example:** Archegos’ 2021 collapse revealed **$100B+ in hidden leverage** via swaps, none of it was in 13F reports. #### **B. "Bona Fide Market Making" Exemption** - Market makers (like Citadel Securities) can **legally naked short** under the guise of "providing liquidity." - This lets them **flood the market with fake shares** without immediate consequences. #### **C. TRF Data Is Slow & Opaque** - **Trades are reported, but too late to matter.** By the time TRF data is public, hedge funds have already adjusted their strategies. - **Lit exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq) see only a fraction of real-time volume**, making price action misleading. --- ### **4. Proof the System Is Rigged** #### **A. SEC’s Own 2021 Report on GameStop** - Admitted that **"gamification" (Robinhood) and PFOF distorted markets**. - **Did nothing** to fix dark pool abuse or swap loopholes. #### **B. Bloomberg’s Findings on Dark Pools** - In 2021, **dark pools handled ~45% of all stock trades**, far higher than regulators claim is "healthy." - Retail buys were **steered into dark pools**, while sells hit lit exchanges (suppressing prices). #### **C. Academic Studies** - Research shows **dark pools worsen price discovery** (e.g., "Dark Trading and Price Discovery", 2017, Journal of Finance). - **FTDs are systematically underreported** (SEC’s own data shows "threshold securities" with chronic FTDs). --- ### **5. What They Don’t Want You to Know** - **The TRF is a smokescreen.** Yes, trades are *eventually* reported, but the **delay lets insiders front-run and manipulate**. - **Swaps, options, and ETFs are used to hide short positions** (e.g., "married puts" to mask FTDs). - **Retail is at a structural disadvantage**, HFTs and dark pools see order flow before you do. --- ### **Conclusion: The System Is Designed for Opacity** The claim that "all trades are reported" is **technically true in the narrowest sense**, but in practice: - **Dark pools hide real-time liquidity.** - **Swaps hide true short interest.** - **FTDs hide naked shorting.** - **Internalization hides price impact.** GameStop proved that **price discovery is broken**, and until the SEC cracks down on: - **Dark pool abuse** - **Swap reporting** - **Naked shorting loopholes** …the market will remain **rigged in favor of Wall Street insiders**. **Want Proof?** Check: - FINRA’s **TRF volume vs. lit exchanges** (always a huge gap). - SEC’s **FTD data** (GME still has millions of fails). - Swaps disclosures (**lack thereof**) in 13F filings. FULL DISCLOSURE: i used AI to help me with this.

Laogama

It’s a bigger version of GME

wallstreetbets-ModTeam

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WeNotAmBeIs

I remember after the big squeeze with Game Stop happened, I figured there would never be a situation like that again because the big hedge funds wouldn't be as careless when shorting a stock. However, I wonder if they got overconfident with this one due to the overall tanking market. It would be funny if this became another GME. The chances are very small, but I'd laugh.

Prior_North_2456

"Be greedy when WSB if fearful, Be fearful when WSB is greedy" Hedgies They fine-tuned the inverse WSB algo during GME and have been stretching buttholes of both bers and bols, like having a map hack They see where your mining and drop invisible templars to burst your drones, they see what defenses your building cannons (like always, retail always buys the same stoinks like Tsler, NVDA appl after every dip), so builds reavers and siege tanks

Paanorama22

Why so serious? Have you been here for GME?

lampstax

Ask the GME folks what dark pools means for stock prices .. 😂

Jamsster

Main Street got them with GME, so now that they have an agreeable watchdog they’re doing the same back

NOT_MartinShkreli

Whenever this happens I throw 2-3k at GME calls 2-3 months out and I recover. Just sayin

unknown_dadbod

I mean, if GME can do it, why not. This entire sub has been nothing but wolf the last week.

acart005

GME hasn't officially done shit yet. They just said they could.

illicit_FROG

BTC at this point feels like a vehicle to fleece share holders. GME and MSTR and others dumping stock offerings into a asset that can easily be manipulated and dumped off. This feels like a greedy rug pull.

MinimumArmadillo2394

Yes, and the behavior Ive seen here is largely reminiscent of bot activity. If not bots, then spammers and scammers. People *joined* reddit for GME after it went up over 1000% and made headlines. People did not join reddit for WOLF, which isnt even up 200%.

TheReesesWrangler

Rig before the rug pull. They know Tesler is on its way down the drain, so hedgefunds and the wealthy are pumping and creating market manipulation so they can make huge right before they rug pull and let the company tank to where it belongs. No different than GME in a way

illicit_FROG

The liquidity MSTR and Gamecock are offering through buying BTC with stock offerings is insane.... SBF sold off all their customers holdings to Blackrock without price discovery holding it under 18k. After Blackrock crashed tether and brought he price down. Now they are pushing BTC while almost certainly unloading that shit onto MSTR and GME holders.... going hard on both ends... be careful out there. Always said GME would build up cash and find a way to completely offload it, billions did nothing during largest stock rally ever.. Now they are buying BTC uhuh!

PlowedOyster

Very good points raised. I have followed GME for awhile (don't own any) and it's valuation to assets makes some sense and seems to be range bound. I guess the difference as you have pointed out is what kind of money is backing Tesla and what that money believes can be created.

benfromgr

Who knew Lehman brothers was going to fail or bear Stearns was going bust? Tesla is equivalent to GME, the markets can sustain irrationability for as long as humans can be irrational, since we are in charge of the markets. I also would caution against thinking just because you think it shouldn't be possible that everyone assumes the same. As in 2008, even very intelligent people with a lot of money were fooled, and who knows just what kind of money is backing tesla still.

Sad_Sorbet_9078

Other than the short squeeze potential, WOLF is nothing like GME. They are the market leader of the most advanced semiconductor material on earth. They may not have the nostalgic following but they are building next generation technology that is enabling electrification. Shorts punished them for taking on debt to build an all-American supply chain. Now the fabs are nearing completion, capex about to plummet, market leadership is maintained and we are going to punish the shorts severely!

vcbcdt

This is a simple math exercise. Record levels for a small # relative still does not move markets. A GME Black Swan strangely has given society the wrong idea that retail moves markets. Separately, leverage your Google skills and find institutional vs retail daily volumes.

MMTGBS

How many people were into GME at those days and how many joined in a week ? That is an influential fact not a bot activity

Cosikeon

100% of wolfspeed's shares are sold, with 63million artificially created on top of the 150mil sold. GME only had 35% sold. You've got your figures back to front. If this pops it'll be bigger than GME

Emergency-Cow9825

From a data analyst standpoint, most people are expecting Tesla to recover since it weathered so much already. People are gonna make it into the next Coca Cola, but forget the basic rule is that sales need to stay up. Other than that, they might be pulling a GME

darktrader01

Shorts don’t necessarily have to cover, just load up OTM long calls as a stop loss without covering, prices go up, short position “called away” . gotta watch those call strikes volume and OI on each month, it can create gamma squeeze. These foxes got smarter after GME game.

ThatOnePatheticDude

Their earnings call was worse than expected and the stock jumped 9% based on a few empty words by elon. I'm not saying that it will hit $400, the hype is not over, a PE of 150+ with declining sales is a lot of hype. That stock is too irrational to make any prediction. It's like predicting GME in 2021

IntentionDeep651

I think this is about GME gamma squeez 

Nefarious_Villan

Everyone so bullish on here has me very afraid for my position. Can yall go back to hating the stock? Remember, GME and stuff. Vlad very bad!!

ghoxen

The real answer is gamma squeeze - same thing that happened with GME years ago thanks to WSB. Super hype + retail mass buying calls result in market makers (that sold the calls) having to hedge their position by buying between 50-100 shares (depending on how ITM the calls eventually become). This has a snowball effect, since more buys lead to higher prices, and higher prices lead to more ITM calls, and the strong trend promotes even more calls and shares buying. Towards the end of the day, there were two call walls of \~200k volumes between $280 calls and $285 calls, this price channel essentially locked down the price. Note how the price ended the day only a few cents below $285. When there is a gamma squeeze, which is not that common, share price WILL increase, fundamentals be damned. The only way for the share price to turn around would be when: 1) there is severe negative news that scares the call holders into selling their calls en masse; 2) the call options expire. As such, what will happen next will be interesting. When the massive number of call options (mostly short-term) expire in the coming days, the market makers will be capable of dumping their surplus shares and crash the price.

IllBuyYourCar

2x GME $GMEU 

im_a_squishy_ai

"Illegal for thee, not for me" Remember if this is what's happening (and it probably is based on the data) this is the same thing that wall street got mad at all of us for doing to GME. Refusing to sell and keep buying to squeeze the value higher. But it's all above board if it's big institutions doing the same

aj-lity

GME

rigettispaghetti

This is not GME 2.0 i hate that narrative. this is CVNA 2.0. the data supports this far more than GME which is being promoted elsewhere. GME 2.0 is not happening, the tutes are smarter now.