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SLP Ratio - Potentially a much better metric to look at than Days To Cover Ratio
SLP Ratio - Potentially a much better metric to look at than Days To Cover Ratio
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💎🙌 Letter from Charles Schwab about how GME shares are not lent out unless you are on the SLP or carrying a margin balance in your account 💎🙌
💎🙌 Letter from Charles Schwab about how GME shares are not lent out unless you are on the SLP or carrying a margin balance in your account 💎🙌
💎🙌 Letter from Charles Schwab about how GME shares are not lent out unless you are on the SLP or carrying a margin balance in your account 💎🙌
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How about Simulation Plus Inc? (SLP) fundamentals are good and woefully undervalued.
SLP gimme a bounce in the AM
SLP, ANGO, ERIC, or STT. 4 biggest potential movers for ER. Oh and a 15-30 minute 0DTE SPY scalp lol
* im up 1700% MoM and i pissed 7k today joining da bers. Eff my life still keepin my jerb. My puts will expire or moon. Shout-out SLP for the tenbagger calls
I never made that claim. My claim is that it’s crazy unhealthy foods are pushed to Americans leading to obesity, and to combat this, some Americans are turning to drugs. Here’s an analogy. Let’s say the new trend becomes caffeine at night. Many Americans start drinking coffees and energy drinks before bed. Now let’s say 20 years later, insomnia becomes way more common. A drug called SLP1 is developed and advertised and marketed to help people sleep better. Does this situation seem backwards to you? Why are people drinking coffee at night then taking a drug to reduce the effects of caffeine? Why are people overeating then taking a drug to help them overeat? I am not a doctor and I do not claim to know better than medical professionals and this is not medical advice.
Dang should have let you guys know I bought calls in SLP so you could buy puts since I’m wrong 100% of the time on earnings
Don’t worry SLP puts got wiped out by IV anyways. It’s already coming back
SLP puts wiped out lol. Already back at 44
Genius earnings plays this week, SLP calls and STZ puts , well done me 
SLP put buyers are fucked lmao. The implied move was 10+% and it’s sitting in pre market at only 7% down. Will get IV crushed. Also this was with significant less volume so at open expect it to pop up.
SLP put buyers eating good tonight.
Someone smart please just tell me if my SLP $40 puts are cooked
I bought SLP $40 puts for July 19. But the IV was 95%. Its down 9% ah rn. Will I even make money?
I'm confused about SLP. didn't they beat revenue and came in line for EPS?
Congrats to who got SLP puts. I lost.
it's not. I'm literally on SLP page on Stocktwit and it's not on there
SLP already released
logic say but puts on SLP, so do the opposite and win money instead
Any SLP or STZ plays? SLP PE looks high
Why would you play STZ when you can play SLP
Anyone making any earnings bets on SLP or STZ?! For STZ, I feel Budweiser might be coming back, which would eat at constellation’s modello, or is Bud still completely off limits by the kid rock type people?
What the fuck is MSM and SLP. Their average volume is like 200k. Could easily be squeezed by WSB alone
What the fuck is MSM, SLP, and STZ.
Women buy bags, how many Neverfulls do you see a day? LV as a brand hasn't had an original idea since ever, that's the point. Everything in the conglomorate makes a timeless product or is cyclical. Celine for example was dead till they got Hedi Slimane in to make another SLP, paid some k-pops, and made a trendy bag. LV has made the same things since forever, and even their RTW stuff is partially contracted out to other design houses. If you want some romanian shoes, LV is the place to go.
There’s no chart to back this up except for their falling stock price during the age of AI, and their prior stance on privacy. I love apple products but they kinda shot themselves in the dick with their privacy stance. Modern AI is based off of SLP. It interprets what you are trying to accomplish based off of speech language processing. People like using AI because you can talk to it like a person. Apple has explicitly said they do not collect SLP data attached to users and tasks. Any associated data they’ve collected has randomly assigned ID, which was a great stance when everybody thought in 2016 and asked Siri to "search for footjob on pornhub", Siri would note that they were a dirty dirty boy. They only know someone asked that question, how many times it was asked, and don’t even know if they accomplish the task. They only collect user assigned marketing data from the App Store, so they know how much money you’ve spent on Geshin Impact. If Apple had good SLP data, they probably could’ve fixed Siri a long time ago. If they were a little less ethical, they probably could’ve made a really good AI, but because of their ethics they’ll have to buy one and be at the mercy of a different company. I do think a lot of companies want to work with Apple that are creating AI models, but most everybody in tech knows about apples privacy stance, so they are going to butt fuck them with a price. iPhone sales have been falling worldwide and only remain popular in the US. Their laptops absolutely carry the entire company. This is why people think Apple is going to fail or pay someone else so they do not fail. They need to change their privacy stance in order to succeed, and that won’t happen unless Tim Cook steps down and somebody a little less ethical step up, and create something to blow everybody out of the water. Until Cook leaves, I will be buying puts every single time this company is green.
Thoughts on BB and SLP earnings?
Can you add $SLP? Earnings this next week and they use AI and ML for Biotech. Interested
Yeah their chips are good for AI but they are dogshit for Speech Language Processing. Until they make a chip that has a separate section for SLP, they will be behind. Even when they do make room for one, they will need to retroactively make an AI that is backwards compatible with their non SLP chips, which will be a dogshit AI experience. They are fucked. The vision pro had no apps from major devs The watch pro 2 was sued Their presentations have become cringe to the younger generations, and they will stop buying them when no AI catches them trying to cheat on their math homework Reviewers like MKBHD have said they don't have the best camera anymore, and their newest laptop isn't worth upgrading. Their folding phone failed R&D Their car was fake And moving their manufacturing to India is something China took personally The apple tree has fallen on their dicks, and everyone is walking past them at an extremely slow pace. My puts on apple today printed. Buying more tomorrow.
Oof the Pharmala gang is brigading this hard. Careful with that one, seems like a pump and dump. If you know anything about Psychedelics, you'll know Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS. He was Joe Rogan recently presenting his decades of work with MAPS. For decades he has been pushing and on the forefront of psychedelic research and now they have presented their clinical trials to the FDA. Who are on the brink of approval Guess who MAPS have invested in and have a stake in succeeding? Numinus Wellness. MAPS gets five years of exclusivity rights to sell mdma and will send thousands of therapists to Numinus. Here is Rick Doblin (founder and President of MAPS) talking about their partnership with Numinus, and how they will send thousands of therapists to Numinus for their training program. Go to 20:40. https://youtu.be/ruHw-NCjsBw?si=dt6SLP3GbZw8JJaT&t=1240
Sorry I meant the other way round Tether tokens exist as digital tokens built on several leading blockchains, including Algorand, Avalanche, Bitcoin Cash's Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), Ethereum, EOS, Liquid Network, Omni, Polygon, Tezos, Tron, Solana and Statemine.
This sector is profoundly interesting and until recently used to be called “computational biology.” In addition to RXRX there are a few small cap Israeli companies in this space that I own (EVGN, CGEN, PHGE) and a handful of others worth considering as well (SDGR, BTAI, SLP, RLAY). Super interesting space.
SLP/ gym owner/ landlord (please tip)
So for trading stocks 10% is a good SLP, however if it's options then I guarantee you will lose out on 99% of gains with a 10% floor unless you're buying long dated options. I'd say 50% would be better and you have to underarms that options are extremely volatile when price movement happens if you're not too far OTM..you best be setting profit taking % too unless you're watching that shit like a hawk
CGEN is the sister company of EVGN working off the same underlying computational biology / big data engines. So if EVGN is in CGEN should be too. It is also trading under $1. EVGN was spun off from CGEN more than a decade ago to focus on plant / agricultural applications while CGEN focuses on identifying therapeutics for humans, primarily novel immunotherapy targets. Both companies have made significant scientific progress without substantial business development success to date. CGEN for instance discovered the TIGIT immunotherapy checkpoint, which is now being developed by half a dozen or more companies, including big pharma, validating beyond doubt the power of their comp bio engine, as well as PVRIG, which may be the key to everything. EVGN is harder to summarize but they operate in four main spaces, microbiome therapeutics (which is listed above) being just one of these. Designer cannabis is another, and the last two divisions focus on agriculture (promoting greater crop yields and avoiding common crop diseases). So it goes a bit beyond the brief blurb above but is admittedly difficult to summarize. I’ve long been fascinated by the computational biology space, and especially these two companies. Most of the others in this space have much larger market caps — SDGR, BTAI, SLP, RLAY. Am curious if you’d consider PHGE (BiomX) AI? It uses a similar big data / comp bio approach to develop phage therapies. Bacteriophages exist naturally in the billions and are capable of attacking specific bacteria within nature including in humans. So PHGE uses big data and computer analysis to identify specific phages and phage cocktails to treat various applications (current focus on the bacterial infection concurrent with cystic fibrosis) without using antibiotics, which are broad based as opposed to phage’s specificity. They just had some good preliminary data released last week but the real indicator will be phase 2 in Q3 2023.
I mean, they were less runtime than a SLP VHS, but I don't remember having to change tapes. And it's not like that was limited to betamax. Braveheart and Titanic were both two-VHS sets. You could still fit a 90 minute movie on a Betamax, no problem.
I'm up a little under 5%. I mainly buy large cap dividend stocks but some smaller ones, not a whole lot though. I had good timing selling a portion of my stocks when they become too big a percentage of my portfolio. The Williams Companies WMB was one of my largest holdings going into this year and it grew to be >10% of my total so I sold half and bought Walmart after it crashed. Amazing luck getting to buy Walmart at $120! Also used some to buy JPM under $115 which was a gift. Seriously, who sells JPM under $120! I made a mistake and bought Ross stores ROST before earnings in April and lost, but it's back to green now. I've had a lot of Aflac AFL stock for years but it got too big and I sold 25% last week. I decided to break from my norm and used half that money on Simulations Plus SLP and the other half on Bond ETFs. I bought ILTB and just to experiment how it works I bought 10 shares of IBTD, plan on using paycheck contributions and dividends from this month to by 10 shares of the next two in the series IBTE and IBTF. Oh yeah, I'm also adding to my recent losers, mostly Verizon VZ. 7% dividend is just crazy! I'm almost always 100% invested. Just sell high and buy low, stay away from the stocks everyone loves and pick up some hated oversold bargains and hold for years.
If you can trade the UK market, there's a UK company called Sylvania Platinum (SLP) that goes ex-dividend on the 28th. Current SP of 91p and paying an 8p dividend so nearly 9%. Strong financials too, long term hold for me.
Facts. Spouse is an SLP and the pay for a masters level educated employee is hot garbage… oh but here’s a staff lunch on us to make you loyal…. Hospitals charge insane amounts for care but can’t pay the employees commiserate with their level of education. Where is the money going? Oh yea that’s right, huge ass bonuses for the executives. I have no sympathy.
The options chain for SLP is whack though. No volume.
**AVERAGE EARNINGS MOVE | LAST MOVE | IMPLIED MOVE FROM ATM OPTIONS PRICING** *2022-07-06* [Saratoga Investment Corp $SAR](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=SAR): 4.07% | 5.04% | 6.77% [Simulations Plus Inc $SLP](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=SLP): 8.49% | 14.78% | 7.56% *2022-07-07* [WD 40 Company $WDFC](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=WDFC): 6.73% | 8.6% | 9.3% [Levi Strauss and Co $LEVI](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=LEVI): 9.74% | 9.61% | 9.68% [Helen of Troy Ltd $HELE](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=HELE): 6.14% | 4.69% | 6.44%
**AVERAGE EARNINGS MOVE | LAST MOVE | IMPLIED MOVE FROM ATM OPTIONS PRICING** 2022-07-06 [Saratoga Investment Corp $SAR](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=SAR): 4.07% | 5.04% | 6.77% [Simulations Plus Inc $SLP](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=SLP): 8.49% | 14.78% | 7.56% *2022-07-07* [WD 40 Company $WDFC](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=WDFC): 6.73% | 8.6% | 9.3% [Levi Strauss and Co $LEVI](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=LEVI): 9.74% | 9.61% | 9.68% [Helen of Troy Ltd $HELE](https://earnings-watcher.com/#/positions?symbol=HELE): 6.14% | 4.69% | 6.44%
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SLP, is a token that you use in a game to upgrade characters, but since my friend told me about that I was aware it was just another shitcoin, as we all can see in the chart lol
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there are groups wanting to recreate with SLP (the cryptocurrency), what happened with game stop, the fomo is going to be very high
Some reports are high as 350% (ortex), total SI is about 4-5.5 M with something like 4.8M shares left in LP (if that theory holds true) SLP ratio looks deadly, also if they pull an ISPO they could potentially delete 4-5M shares by converting them back to trust cash. A very interest short trap.
The SLP smooth love potion was a dark horse now turned 🦄 Get in ASAP my brothers & sisters 💜💗trending bullish & strong buy
>who can earn more money playing them than by doing an actual job. Until they can't. Like what happened with Axie's SLP at 1 cent. It's not exactly a career.
Not SLP crypt and BB stock
What are your opinions on Axie Infinity or SLP?
Companies aiming shorten the drug discovery/development process. I'm sure you've heard that it takes 10+ years and 1B+ dollars to bring a new drug to market. There's a massive amount of potential in disrupting/simplifying that process. Contract research organizations like Charles River Laboratories (CRL), IQVIA Holdings (IQV), ICON (ICLR). Drug discovery and development software providers like Schrodinger (SDGR), Simulations Plus (SLP), and Atomwise (private). Alphabet spin-off Verily has it's sights set on this space.
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Yes! I'm an SLP. I have similar questions. Good eye though...my audiologist colleagues are not happy about this change, but it's undeniable that having $2000 devices you can ruin in the shower is not the best system.
Guys any true advice on this one would be appreciated. I bought some calls in SLP which seemed like a great investment at the time and prime for a short squeeze with its low float and high short interest. The stock however has been having very low trading volume lately and I’m no longer sure. Should I sell those calls or hold?
2020 results to date: My fund has returned 36.94% VFIAX has returned 34.36% 2021 results to date: My fund has returned 2.80% VTSAX has returned 3.91% Pretty happy with the results so far. This year's experiment has had some tremendous gains with STMP, NVDA, and, FTNT. SLP, IRBT, and PRLB went to crap though. We'll see how things shape up over the year.
Sooo SLP looking ripe af. Someone with more experience wanna take a look?
First up is SLP to set the tone... and it drills into the earth after earnings. This weeks $50Ps are 6 baggers tomorrow. God dammit.
Just to be clear, you want people to pay money for you to play a game with the possibility that they may get paid some amount of SLP or ETH that may then be turned into real money?
Ama let y'all in on the secret. $SLP $60 Call exp 07/16.
Let's just say I can confirm w/ 100% certainty that this does & is happening. Typically happens if you have a rather large position on a HTB security in a cash account. Also, TDA just started a stock lending program (SLP) for cash accounts officially last week. Marketing campaigns have not been rolled out yet for TDA's SLP, but will be next quarter. TDA's SLP is strictly Opt-In (fortunately), uncertain about other institutions. In the mean time, TDA & Schwab are proactively making outbound calls to retail clients that have large positions on HTB securities to gage interest in their programs. Pretty sure it's another way they're trying to assist Mkt Makers like Citadel, MS, Wolverine, & Virtu by kicking the can down the road. Additional confirmation bias to the overall idea that their plan is to delay the inevitable & try to bore retail in to selling shares because they're desperate.
RH did in fact maintain "sufficient liquidity" at all times. The clearinghouse basically decided to force an end to the GME buying spree. Other brokers got slugged as well. **[Pushed by Robinhood, DTCC initiates clearinghouse reform to reduce settlement delays](https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/02/24/t1-inches-closer-after-robinhood-gamestop-frenzy/)** Returning to the actual topic of this thread, there are no unusual market conditions surrounding either SLP or its options. Tastyworks has absolutely no valid reason for refusing customer orders to purchase SLP options.
No they are not. Try opening a position on ANY option on SLP. Tastyworks thinks it's THEIR job to decide what you can't invest in.
In my opinion the FED is cornered. They can’t raise interest rates cause the US will default on paying the interest rates of the Treasuries if it will go back to the 4-5% range. Also they have to raise interest rates becuse inflation is here and will stay for sure it is not transitory. Used cars, gas, groceries, every commodity is on the top of the super cycle and companies keep alarming about it, they say it is gonna stay cause supply chain problems are here too. There are also thousands of zombie companies out there who could get money easily with low interest rates but cannot pay back if the rates are raising. Also look at the commercial mortgage backed securities market... the default rates are getting higher and higher and forbereances will end soon. Also check out the reverse repo rate... it spiked up from literally 0b$ to 485b$ in a matter of months, why? Cause the banks need the Treasuries to rehyphotecate it and use it for collateral. They can use MBS and Treasuries and they need the Treasuries badly cause they overleveraged themselves to the tits and know they will face the consequences of it. Also SLP ended as of 31st of March which is why banks had the biggest bond sale up to date after having best quarter with record profits. And there is only couple of things that will hedge for what is coming. Gold, volatility plays and a certain stock which we are not allowed to talk about but if you read through the DD in the last 4 months it is inevitable for it not to squeeze.
SLP leaps for $1.20 at $19.70 stock price. Will never forget.
After some deliberation I went with CGNX, CORT, VEEV, and VRTX at this time. Still considering some of the others like ESNT, IDA, INS, and SLP. I already have a healthy position in MSFT and have been looking for a reentry point on ANET. Should have bit the bullet when it got under 310 last week.
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See tomorrow how much SLP I can get.
WTR and maybe CHPS, earnings for SLP is coming soon too.
Who the fuck comes up with all that bull shit: ICO ECO HTF FTD SLP ALO ABC RTD FGHJ HH,HFS BHY, IJG, those moderfockers from Ivy colleges that common people would not understand them? Only understood HODL from all that shit
can you also check the dark pool market (the 500m shares)? coordinated with your DD, the short interest of over 2000% (in another DD) seems small. as a market maker, they still had to write the naked shares for SLP and ALO, and even to nullify them "in the house" would imply buying shares. but since they're "in the house" it looks like they prefer to burn the house. all good news for me, buy and hold.
https://youtu.be/SLP9mbCuhJc
Thanks for the dip hedgies...in for another ten [Now that’s a ten!](https://youtu.be/SLP9mbCuhJc)
Now, with more line breaks! (Great comment): “There are multiple avenues through which the NSCC acquires its liquidity from. This type of liquidity deposit which this rule change addresses is specific to supplemental liquidity providers, which are typically market makers. This change also redefines how they designate members as SLP's. From what I can gather, any time a member whose daily balance of pending trade value is the highest among all other members, they receive that SLP designation. That designation sticks for 2 years and every time it happens the clock resets. They also limit the number of SLP designations at 30 (NSCC has over 3000 members). Now, did RH ever meet that definition over the last 2 years? Without looking at the NSCC's books, we can't say for sure. If they did, it probably would have been triggered at the peak of the GME/memestock rally. Considering how large citadel is, and that they were likely processing tons of GME related volume on those days, I find it unlikely that RH ever surpassed Citadel to take the daily SLP crown. This is pure speculation, but I think that what happened here is that citadel at one point had a default risk that exceeded the total value of the NSCC's entire liquid assets. If citadel defaulted, then NSCC and the entire market goes Kablooie. The NSCC came knocking at Citadel to ask for the difference, but citadel told them to go fuck themselves because the rules at the time said that they didn't have to. Under old rules the monthly liquidity need for SLP's would have been last calculated on Jan 11th and the next date that SLP's were due to make further liquidity payments wasn't until February 17th. So what is the NSCC to do?? They cant wait that long, their risk is too high right now. Well, the rules had a stipulation that they can collect special liquidity needs from other members on any given business day between those calculation dates, if they determine that that member's increased activity is the primary reason for the NSCC's increased liquidity need. Hence, they come to RH and the other brokers that are generating lots of memestonk volume and shake them down. Could Citadel have seen this coming and used it to their advantage to perfectly time initiating shorts at the top of the GME rally to coincide with when NSCC would be forced to perform liquidity calls on brokers which would then have to restrict buying? Considering the massive amount of volume that Citadel handles, their inside knowledge of how these rules worked, and their data crunching capability, I wouldn't put it past them. It definitely looks to me like the NSCC and it's members were listed that this happened though and that these changes are designed to put the onus on the largest members to be responsible in scenarios like this. Another takeaway I have is that it appears that the NSCC's risk management only covers the need to settle the default of any single member. Even with the new rules, if multiple small/medium members default in a single day, or if the largest member plus a couple smaller members default in a single day, then they will be scrambling to come up with the liquidity from smaller members and could collapse. That's a scary thought.”
There are multiple avenues through which the NSCC acquires its liquidity from. This type of liquidity deposit which this rule change addresses is specific to supplemental liquidity providers, which are typically market makers. This change also redefines how they designate members as SLP's. From what I can gather, any time a member whose daily balance of pending trade value is the highest among all other members, they receive that SLP designation. That designation sticks for 2 years and every time it happens the clock resets. They also limit the number of SLP designations at 30 (NSCC has over 3000 members). Now, did RH ever meet that definition over the last 2 years? Without looking at the NSCC's books, we can't say for sure. If they did, it probably would have been triggered at the peak of the GME/memestock rally. Considering how large citadel is, and that they were likely processing tons of GME related volume on those days, I find it unlikely that RH ever surpassed Citadel to take the daily SLP crown. This is pure speculation, but I think that what happened here is that citadel at one point had a default risk that exceeded the total value of the NSCC's entire liquid assets. If citadel defaulted, then NSCC and the entire market goes Kablooie. The NSCC came knocking at Citadel to ask for the difference, but citadel told them to go fuck themselves because the rules at the time said that they didn't have to. Under old rules the monthly liquidity need for SLP's would have been last calculated on Jan 11th and the next date that SLP's were due to make further liquidity payments wasn't until February 17th. So what is the NSCC to do?? They cant wait that long, their risk is too high right now. Well, the rules had a stipulation that they can collect special liquidity needs from other members on any given business day between those calculation dates, if they determine that that member's increased activity is the primary reason for the NSCC's increased liquidity need. Hence, they come to RH and the other brokers that are generating lots of memestonk volume and shake them down. Could Citadel have seen this coming and used it to their advantage to perfectly time initiating shorts at the top of the GME rally to coincide with when NSCC would be forced to perform liquidity calls on brokers which would then have to restrict buying? Considering the massive amount of volume that Citadel handles, their inside knowledge of how these rules worked, and their data crunching capability, I wouldn't put it past them. It definitely looks to me like the NSCC and it's members were listed that this happened though and that these changes are designed to put the onus on the largest members to be responsible in scenarios like this. Another takeaway I have is that it appears that the NSCC's risk management only covers the need to settle the default of any single member. Even with the new rules, if multiple small/medium members default in a single day, or if the largest member plus a couple smaller members default in a single day, then they will be scrambling to come up with the liquidity from smaller members and could collapse. That's a scary thought.
There are multiple avenues through which the NSCC acquires its liquidity from. This type of liquidity deposit which this rule change addresses is specific to supplemental liquidity providers, which are typically market makers. This change also redefines how they designate members as SLP's. From what I can gather, any time a member whose daily balance of pending trade value is the highest among all other members, they receive that SLP designation. That designation sticks for 2 years and every time it happens the clock resets. They also limit the number of SLP designations at 30 (NSCC has over 3000 members). Now, did RH ever meet that definition over the last 2 years? Without looking at the NSCC's books, we can't say for sure. If they did, it probably would have been triggered at the peak of the GME/memestock rally. Considering how large citadel is, and that they were likely processing tons of GME related volume on those days, I find it unlikely that RH ever surpassed Citadel to take the daily SLP crown. This is pure speculation, but I think that what happened here is that citadel at one point had a default risk that exceeded the total value of the NSCC's entire liquid assets. If citadel defaulted, then NSCC and the entire market goes Kablooie. The NSCC came knocking at Citadel to ask for the difference, but citadel told them to go fuck themselves because the rules at the time said that they didn't have to. Under old rules the monthly liquidity need for SLP's would have been last calculated on Jan 11th and the next date that SLP's were due to make further liquidity payments wasn't until February 17th. So what is the NSCC to do?? They cant wait that long, their risk is too high right now. Well, the rules had a stipulation that they can collect special liquidity needs from other members on any given business day between those calculation dates, if they determine that that member's increased activity is the primary reason for the NSCC's increased liquidity need. Hence, they come to RH and the other brokers that are generating lots of memestonk volume and shake them down. Could Citadel have seen this coming and used it to their advantage to perfectly time initiating shorts at the top of the GME rally to coincide with when NSCC would be forced to perform liquidity calls on brokers which would then have to restrict buying? Considering the massive amount of volume that Citadel handles, their inside knowledge of how these rules worked, and their data crunching capability, I wouldn't put it past them. It definitely looks to me like the NSCC and it's members were listed that this happened though and that these changes are designed to put the onus on the largest members to be responsible in scenarios like this. Another takeaway I have is that it appears that the NSCC's risk management only covers the need to settle the default of any single member. Even with the new rules, if multiple small/medium members default in a single day, or if the largest member plus a couple smaller members default in a single day, then they will be scrambling to come up with the liquidity from smaller members and could collapse. That's a scary thought.