Posted on 01/29/2021 3:45:29 PM PST by TigerClaws
The astronomical rally in GameStop has imposed huge losses of nearly $20 billion for short sellers this month, but they are not budging.
Short-selling hedge funds have suffered a mark-to-market loss of $19.75 billion year to date in the brick-and-mortar video game retailer, including a nearly $8 billion loss on Friday as the stock kept ripping higher, according to data from S3 Partners.
Still, short sellers mostly are holding onto their bearish positions or they are being replaced by new hedge funds willing to bet against the stock. GameStop shares that have been borrowed and sold short have declined by just about 5 million over the last week, marking an 8% dip in the short interest, according to S3. Most of the short covering occurred on Thursday, when the stock fell for the first time in six days.
What to know about Robinhood’s emergency cash situation “I keep hearing that ‘most of the GME shorts have covered’ — totally untrue,” said Ihor Dusaniwsky, S3 managing director of predictive analytics. “In actuality the data shows that total net shares shorted hasn’t moved all that much.”
“While the ‘value shorts’ that were in GME earlier have been squeezed, most of the borrowed shares that were returned on the back of the buy to covers were shorted by new momentum shorts in the name,” Dusaniwsky added in an email.
Shares of GameStop, along with other heavily shorted stocks, spiked once again Friday, after Robinhood said it was resuming limited trading of previously restricted securities. The gain pushed GameStop’s rally this week to over 400% and this month to more than 1,600%.
The video game stock has been the star of the show on the WallStreetBets Reddit forum, whose membership has grown rapidly to over 5 million. A wave of day traders continued to encourage each other to pile into GameStop’s shares and call options, creating a massive short squeeze that inflicted pain for hedge funds betting against the stock.
The borrow fee on GameStop’s stock — or the cost-to-borrow shares for the purpose of selling them short — jumped to 29.32% on existing shorts and 50% on new short positions, S3 said.
“If most of the shorts had covered, we would not be seeing stock borrow rates at these high levels — by now you would be able to borrow GME stock at single digit levels due to an increase in the lendable stock loan supply due to borrowed shares being returned after all the ‘supposed’ buy-to-covers,” Dusaniwsky said.
GameStop remained the most-shorted name in the market as short interest as a percentage of shares available for trading stands at 113.31%, S3 said.
‘You’ve won’ — Cramer tells investors to take home run and sell GameStop Short selling is a strategy in which investors borrow shares of a stock at a certain price in expectations that the market value will fall below that level when it’s time to pay for the borrowed shares.
Chinese billionaire enters the game:’
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-gamestop-uprising-goes-global.html
Hmmm.
Wall Street is expecting to have the feds step in and stop it all - just to have the small fries locked out so they’ll panic — and break the squeeze by rigging the game.
Exactly what happened in the election btw. Upraising Trump support put down by the ‘pause’ and fraud.
They eventually want so that to purchase and sell stocks, you will have to have a licence, which of course is subject to the Social Credit Score, so if you say something out of line, they will lock you out.
Don't worry, the shorts are screwed. Wait until the Asian market (China, Japan, India, etc.) start buying GME. The shorts will be doomed.
Next stop, GME = $1,000/share.
Actually, Yellen made more than $7 million in speaking fees from financial interests since leaving the Fed in 2018,
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/janet-yellen-treasury-secretary-joe-biden-speaking-fee
“Was all (or at least most) of the drop directly related to GameStop related stuff (and say the others where the hedge fund crew are pretty much in the same boat)? Or how much of it was related to collateral damage where even if they aren’t directly implicated, they still have indirect exposure and/or will get hit by the ripple effects?”
Fact is, no one knows.
There is no sign of systematic financial distress of big institutions via the repo market
Compare to last year
https://www.dtcc.com/charts/dtcc-gcf-repo-index
It looks like there are a bunch of new shorts have replaced Melvin and Citron, at a much higher basis.
According to this guy, short interest is down 8 percent. That’s not much.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gamestop-stocks-shortinterest-idUKKBN29Y29P
A new set of greedy hedge funds has replace the last.
If we keep buying and push the price up, we can push them into big losses and margin calls as well !
Talk is the big banks are being looked at to source in Bridge Loans to facilitate the trade settlements.
Right now the collateral to clear trades is close to 100% compared to %.
So the restrictions on buys.
Also interesting how she wants to squash crypto-currency because “terrorism” but actual reason is she can’t control it.
The shorts will win this. They will team up with banks or whoever. Even I would short that stock at $400 per share. If nothing else buy some 3 month puts on it.
“ It looks like there are a bunch of new shorts have replaced Melvin and Citron, at a much higher basis.”
For a derivative trader the mindset is “I’m just one good trade from even”.
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