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Had ..... HAD money to be parted from it seems - I think that’ll do with losing money for a while - at this rate I’m going to have to go back on the game and go back to being a Money (old) boy ! :-)
Hell things are getting that tight I’m (seriously) thinking of messaging Matt for advice on Bitcoin !! ( or Dogecoin perhaps which seems to be the cool thing just now if Lord and master Elon Musk is to be believed)
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“Maybe it’s not as much of just the little guy versus the big guy,” JMP Securities analyst Devin Ryan told CNBC. “I think that it’s reasonable to say that institutional investors were also very active in those stocks last week because there are institutional investors that participate in names that have elevated volume. I think most likely that was also expressed in some of the options activity last week as well.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business...rs-wall-street
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Ive no doubt he's correct, actually I think I already mentioned in a previous post that the small retail investors didn't hold anywhere near the percentage of stock that some of them seemed to think they did and IF traders covered then I've no doubt that deals where made at a mutually agreeable price with the institutional investors to allow them to do that as that would have been in both parties mutual interests to do that.
There does still seem to SOME form of "short" position ongoing still though perhaps ( albeit that maybe being NEW shorts at higher prices now which isn't just as lucrative ( if some of the figures being bandied about online are correct) so in my view it's all still worth a watch - purely from a car crash TV point of view if nothing else :). But i doubt that that huge instant lift that they were hoping for will now be happening anytime soon maybe.
What IS worth watching in the longer term IS their new billionaire CEO, who has a great track record in taking companies exactly like this one and making them become billion dollar worth companies and THAT is where a genuine share rise could follow (over the longer term of course), I see just now he has also announced that he's just hired a few top people from amazon, QVC and Walmart, so it seems he's really going for the injection he promised to keep them away from "retail only" sales ( which was what killed their stock in the first place due to covid of course).
So personally I am going to hold for a while yet just to see how that all develops - oh that and of course in the (vain) hope that something magical happens and it all "goes to the moon" after all ( god I HATE all those phrases !) ;)
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This was always just gambling rather than investing, nothing wrong with that, but unless you have got an edge, the bank, in this case the professionals, usually wins.
Anyone want to buy tulips?
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Totally agree with you Brad and I did say that from the start, this was no normal "investment" and you're right 100% a casino bet - I think everyone involved ( or most at least) realised that.
The only difference here being that the players DID think that for once they'd found an edge - and in fact they had in that it's fact that traders HAD shorted the stock by up to 140% of the total shares available, meaning that "whoever" held the majority shares could (in theory) name their price to allow the traders to escape their doomsday scenario positions and the MASSIVE losses they were about to endure.
As I've said above I personally think the traders managed to outfox the small guy and go and buy a lot of shares on Friday past ( not the Thursday as they claimed in the press) BUT that hasn't been proven yet and the figures that may show that wont come out for a while yet so until then it is just a guessing game and a continuation of the roll of the dice for some.
As I've said re me personally while no one likes "loosing' I went in with open eyes and I considered it nothing more than a bit of fun flutter at the tables to pass the time during a VERY boring lockdown and while it wasn't "worth it" I actually passed a few hours and entertained myself reading a load of entertaining posts on the Reddit groups involved with it all ( and learnt a bit about stocks too even - ha aye, mainly don't "gamble" being one main thing of course :-).
But it's not the end of the world and while I don't expect to make anything I'm quietly confident over time, whether that be days, weeks, months or years even, of just letting those stocks lie there and I think the loss will reduce to an not so wallet annoying amount ( as do understand I'm not saying "oh it's nothing, £11500 STG is still a kick in the balls in anybodies money and I could certainly do with it rather than losing it too of course!)
But thankfully not the end of the world and all part of the rich and fun tapestry of life just I say :-)
* Plus did you not read it on there, myself and everyone else are all going to "the moon on rocketships" apparently......just anytime now, just i think someone forgot the matches to light the blue touch paper of the rocket it seems !! :-)
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If the reason for the rapid price appreciation is purely a short squeeze, then after that's played out, the price of the stock ought to return to something similar to the true value of the business.
So it becomes an exercise in trying to figure out the psychology, how many forced buyers there are and so on. That's way too difficult for me and it comes with a massive downside risk.
I'll try to keep it boring and look for stocks that should steadily compound over the next 10 or 20 years. Preferably purchased at a bargain price as well.
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goji
I'll try to keep it boring and look for stocks that should steadily compound over the next 10 or 20 years. Preferably purchased at a bargain price as well.
I assure that THAT is my standard MO as well - this as I've said now a few times was never a "normal" investment decision, but merely a punt / gamble / roll of the dice as to IF the traders fucked themselves TOO much for once and left themselves exposed for a killing ( which they did actually and this whole escapade has cost them around half a billion or so they reckon( which they'll make back again of course ) but either way they didn't get it quite right this time round and it has highlighted their blatant manipulation of the markets from something everyone knew about to something everyone that wanted to look at could see happening right in front of their eyes - and THAT could well cost them more in regulation in the months to come as it did no one any favours and made government look bad too for not addressing it sooner perhaps.
Re the working out the maths etc - you're right there too, but in this case that "hard" work had already been done and the shorts position was known ( albeit with the figures being out of date perhaps) but that's yet to be seen. But for sure anyone who "invested" here using their normal investment portfolio pot is and was CRAZY. Personally I don't believe half the stories I'm reading about how people put in "everything" and cashed in their pension plans etc to load money into this as "surely' people cant be THAT stupid !? But hey when greedy kicks in who knows I guess ! ( says he sitting here around £8k down just now himself eh :-)
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This ( GME shorting ) over the last few weeks or so is not normal. The HF's were caught napping by a well clued up small investor. He knew he needed lots and lots of small investors to buy and drive down the share price hence redditors. They did not carry out any due diligence,the smart guy did that. So yes it was a gamble,actually the subreddit name says it i.e. wallstreetBETS. But it seems it wasnt just small investors doing the buying according to the guardian newspaper i posted on earlier.
This was never your typical blue chip long term investment....this was more like ...musical chairs,and when the music stops you better have a seat!
But for me it was very exciting.
Lol
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I assure that THAT is my standard MO as well - this as I've said now a few times was never a "normal" investment decision, but merely a punt / gamble / roll of the dice
I'm sure that you, Zebedee and others invest sensibly. Also, even I allow myself to put 1 or 2% into something more short term, when an opportunity crops up. Not GME though.
I'm just bemused that the only stock discussion that gained traction is something highly speculative.
Likewise, if exchange rates are ever discussed, people love the speculation on where rates are going. Even though they have no clue and a sensible response is to balance assets and liabilities. So if you spend 40% of your money in baht, invest 40% of the money in Thailand. Since that's a bit too risky, make it 40% in Asia. But it seems there's more excitement in the speculation and no one is ever interested in discussing steady sound investment.
(Tumbleweed blows past)
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goji
I'm just bemused that the only stock discussion that gained traction is something highly speculative.
Im not sure if you mean here on the board or out there on the net in general there.
I think GME was just a weird media / Reddit driven thing and was never actually a proper discussion by anyone on it's merits as a sound investment, it was always more about some people wanting to "stick it to the man" and others "making a quick buck - and a lot of those quick bucks at that too !"
While I was always firmly in the second camp it would of course have been nice added bonus to see just one (overly) greedy hedge fund getting screwed for once too perhaps - and in fact the one fund who were mainly involved ( Melvin Capital) lost over $6.5 BILLION Dollars and over 53% of the value of it's investors funds when having to buy their way out of their mistake / greed, so they certainly didn't walk away unscathed either by any stretch. Of course they'll male that back again elsewhere but it was still nice to see them feeling the pain too somewhat. I
t should be noted that a lot of ordinary small investors and mainly the ones who got in early on the whole story DID in fact make a lot of money too and many bought low and sold high, with many also still holding their shares in the hope of selling them again later at a profit too, so unless GAME goes bankrupt and there stick becomes worthless ( hopefully not) a lot of people did ok out of their "gamble" - ( unfortunately I wasn't one of them as I got in to late - but i've still the stock and i'm not to worried about that either way thankfully)
For anyone who's interested here's the FT's view on what occurred.....
https://www.ft.com/content/3f6b47f9-...4-6a62f1bd39e0