But it's more complicated than that", "GameStop Soars After Co-Founder of Chewy Acquires a Stake", "GameStop mania explained: How the Reddit retail trading crowd ran over Wall Street pros", "Meet the Bros Behind /r/WallStreetBets, Who Lose Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in a DayAnd Brag About It", "GameStop 2019 Holiday sales down 27.5% YoY, comparable sales down 24.7%, stock down 6% after hours", "Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania. [169] Representative Byron Donalds called for Congress to launch "an immediate investigation into Citadel, L.L.C. The study was published last week to the journal Royal . [30], Later analysis by a cyber security company of social media posts suggested that thousands of automated bots may have hyped GameStop stock, Dogecoin, and other stocks, on social media. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/, After GameStop's stock closed up 92.7 percent on January 26, business magnate Elon Musk tweeted "Gamestonk!! This can result in a cascade of stock purchases and an even bigger jump of the share price. This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 01:45. The Congressional Research Service ("CRS") provided a timeline for the run-up to the GameStop stock "short squeeze." In its Insight report, the CRS highlighted the speculated motivations for investor support of GameStop - such as the belief that the stock was undervalued and "getting back" at Wall Street for the 2008 stock market crash - as well as the relationship between volatile stocks and . This was speculated to have been due to a joke or mistake, as the ASX symbol was the same as GameStop's NYSE ticker symbol (GME). GameStop Short FTD Squeeze Timeline gmetimeline.com places events surrounding the GameStop short squeeze onto a timeline to make connecting the dots a whole lot easier Jump To Year:202120202019201820172016201520142013201220102004The Start light | dark | stop animations GameStop Short FTD Squeeze Timeline Show All Hide All Headlines Only #$GME [17][18][19] Gill, a 34-year-old marketing professional and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from Massachusetts, stated that he began investing in GameStop during the summer of 2019, after believing the stock to be undervalued. [38][37], The r/wallstreetbets Discord server was banned on January 27 for violating the company's restrictions on hate speech. [31][32] However, it is unclear the extent to which the suspected bot accounts influenced trading. 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[188][189][190] Similarly, a man in Colorado filed a federal lawsuit against Robinhood as well as Citadel, Charles Schwab, Interactive Brokers, Open to the Public Investing, TD Ameritrade, and Webull, alleging he "was forced into a situation by which he was essentially forced to sale his equities at a drastically reduced position given the new market condition set by these supposedly neutral brokerage houses, taking significant losses and being incapable of trading in these publicly held equities that he had performed significant due diligence and research on, and relied upon over the course of his job as a day trader. GameStop was the most shorted stock on Wall Street in early January. . A variety of politicians and commentators across the political spectrum made statements in support of those driving up the price of GameStop and other stocks, as well as against Robinhood and other companies' decision to limit these trades, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,[205] Senator Ted Cruz,[206] Representatives Ro Khanna,[207] Ted Lieu,[208] and Rashida Tlaib,[209] Fox Business host Charles Payne,[210] and conservative political commentators Rush Limbaugh,[211] Ben Shapiro,[212] and Donald Trump Jr.[213][214], Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized both the short sellers and the buyers, and argued that more regulation was needed. [69][70] Other assets affected by the short squeeze and put under company trading restrictions, such as AMC and Blackberry shares, also declined in value. [249] Citadel Securities is the sister company to Citadel LLC, which along with Point72 Asset Management invested $2.75 billion into Melvin Capital. [111], GameStop Chair Kathy Vrabeck and board member Raul Fernandez sold shares from January 13 to 16, making $1.4 million, and likewise, board member Lizabeth Dunn cashed in $156,700. I'm not sure there is. [120] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, through its investment manager Ensign Peak Advisors, bought 46,000 shares of GameStop in 2020, and saw the value of its investment jump 900 percent. Robinhood President and COO Jim Swartwoth said in an internal chat, "you wouldn't believe the convo we had with Citadel, total mess." A Comparative Analysis of New Users on WallstreetBets During the Gamestop Short-squeeze. [258], The lawsuit alleges that on January 27, "employees of Citadel Securities and Robinhood had numerous communications with each other that indicate that Citadel applied pressure on Robinhood." [113][111], While the short squeeze was initially reported as being driven by retail investors, it later emerged that a substantial part of the market activity surrounding GameStop and the related securities was conducted by hedge funds, who had made substantial profits from the short squeeze. GameStop's short percent of float recently was about 13.3%. Gme).keith gill, known by the reddit username deepfuckingvalue and the youtube and . In ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext), Blue Sky . Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 04:34 PM IST Mobis Philipose. 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The trading frenzy in. [24][101] In an interview, he claimed that the company had covered the majority of its short positions in the range of $90 per share at a loss of 100 percent, retaining a small, manageable position. GME shares currently have a short interest ratio of 10.0. [57][58][59] The DTCC, for instance, increased the total industrywide collateral requirements from $26 billion to $33.5 billion,[63] noting that the large trading volumes in specific stocks "generated substantial risk exposures at firms that clear these trades []particularly if the clearing member or its clients are predominantly on one side of the market". [117] Brokerages, trading systems and market makers have also gained from higher-than-average volume of transfers. [35] A brief, sharp rise in the share price to over $200 followed Musk's tweet. [261] Separately, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) acquired the rights to make its own movie based on Ben Mezrich's book proposal The Antisocial Network, aimed at chronicling the recent events on Wall Street. The stocks are all prime candidates for a short squeeze that could stick these . Other co-owners of the Charlotte Hornets with Jordan also experienced heavy losses due to short positions on GameStop, being forced into tens of billions of dollars of debt as a result. [106] According to Morgan Stanley, a number of hedge funds covered their short positions and sold shares in their portfolio to reduce leverage and market exposure, in some of the largest such actions within 10 years. In the GameStop short squeeze, Melvin and Citron (and possibly others) shorted GameStop's stock. "[234] Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy also criticized Robinhood for its lack of "free trading". [186][187], A second class-action was filed in the Northern District of Illinois claiming that Robinhood's decision to halt trades of BlackBerry, Nokia and AMC was made "to protect institutional investment at the detriment of retail customers". The movie will feature the David vs. Goliath battle between retail traders and hedge funds and use actors instead of a . GameStop's rocket ship has come back to earth. [230] Comedian and television host Jon Stewart, after joining Twitter, expressed support for the Reddit traders in his first tweet, stating "they're joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years". GameStop Company History Timeline. This decision attracted criticism and accusations of market manipulation from prominent politicians and businesspeople from across the political spectrum. The same judge had previously dismissed a lawsuit alleging that there was collusion between brokerages and Citadel Securities. [12], The subreddit r/wallstreetbets is an online community on Reddit, a social news website. GameStop had been a favourite target of short-sellers for some time. [81] On the morning of 10 March, the stock rose as high as $348.50, before being paused for volatility, and then dropping 40 percent by 12:30 pm EST to the previous day's close. [15], Another user, Stonksflyingup, posted a humorous video on October 27, 2020, explaining how a short position by Melvin Capital could be used to execute a short squeeze, using a scene from Chernobyl to illustrate how the hedge fund would blow up similarly to a nuclear reactor. I expect the narrative to shift in the second half of the year when investors start looking for ways to play the console refresh and they begin to see what I see. This leads to a sharp rise in demand for the share, and huge rally . Meanwhile, apes remain confident that the stock can go. The rally call was reportedly organized from r/bursabets, a Malaysian offshoot of r/wallstreetbets named after the Malaysian stock exchange. Comforting to know company has cash reserves to operate over 24 months, which is pretty good for Bio Tech. The lawsuit alleges that a call was set up between Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, and a redacted person at Citadel Securities. [47], According to The New York Times, the short squeeze has called into question the viability of short selling as an investment strategy. [103] Other firms that incurred large losses include D1 Capital Partners, which lost $4 billion (20 percent of its capital). Do you agree? Hello! [54] Anthony Denier, the CEO of Webull, stated that increased collateral requirements for their clearing house meant Webull themselves were restricted from opening new positions. [235] More generally, it was recognized that Wall Street was now subject to the same populist vigor (afforded by Internet connectivity) as the entertainment industry, politics, and so on. GameStop Canada. Tesla's . [236][additional citation(s) needed], However, investor Michael Burry, who had acquired a 3.3-percent stake in GameStop in 2019, criticized the short squeeze, stating that "there should be legal and regulatory repercussions", and adding "this is unnatural, insane, and dangerous". Several committee members expressed skepticism at the practice of payment for order flow and pressed Griffin and Tenev on the issue. GME Is GameStop's Short Squeeze Just Around The Corner? [62][61] Brokerage firms claimed that the increased collateral could not be provided in time, and, as a result, trading had to be halted. [263] Jaime Rogozinski, who founded r/wallstreetbets in 2012, sold off his life experience to RatPac Entertainment,[264] and a documentary based on the event, created by the studios XTR and The Optimist and partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign, is also in the works. In an "ask me anything session" on r/wallstreetbets, entrepreneur Mark Cuban also encouraged GameStop buyers to hold on to their stock if they were able to. [157] On February 1, the price of silver hit an eight-year high as GameStop shares continued their volatile tendency, with trading[which?] Several hedge funds even . [183], A Robinhood customer filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on January 28, 2021, for halting trading on GameStop. It was previously branded as Textalytics. Their Parents Are Worried", "Securities watchdog suspends trading for 15 stocks after 'suspicious social media activity', "Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds", "What is GameStop, where do the memes come in, and who is winning or losing? [48], On January 28, Robinhood halted purchases of GameStop, AMC Theatres, BlackBerry Limited, Nokia Corporation, and other volatile stocks from its trading platform; customers could no longer open new positions in the stock, although they could still close them. [177][178] On February 18, 2021, the committee, chaired by Representative Maxine Waters, held a remote hearing titled Game Stopped? [12] This occurred shortly after a comment from Citron Research predicting the value of the stock would decrease. [99][100], According to a report by Bloomberg, Andrew Left, an activist short seller and head of Citron Research, had also shorted the stock and claimed to have closed the position as a total loss. Top Glove, Hartalega and Supermax respectively recorded increases in shares as high as 15 percent, 10 percent and 9.2 percent during intraday trading on January 29, before closing with respective increases of 8.5 percent, 5.4 percent and 3.7 percent. On January 22, 2021, approximately 140 percent of GameStop's public float[a] had been sold short, meaning some shorted shares had been re-lent and shorted again. I'll post the update tomorrow as I always do after data readouts. A team of researchers has extensively analyzed discussions on /r/wallstreetbets from November 27, 2020 through February 3, 2021, finding that it took only a few dedicated individuals to trigger a behavioral cascade that resulted in an unprecedented short squeeze of GameStop's stock, driving the price up roughly 2,000% during that period.. He stated on January 29, 2021, after the GameStop short squeeze, that he "thought this trade would be successful" but "never expected what [had] happened over the last week", adding that he planned to continue his YouTube channel as Roaring Kitty and potentially buy a house. Gabe Plotkin of Melvin Capital hired security after facing anti-semitic slurs and threats. This squeeze led to the share price reaching an all-time intraday high of US$483 on January 28, 2021 on the NYSE. Jan. 22, 2021: GameStop surges 50% As the tug-of-war between the everyday investors and hedge funds heated up and support grew for GameStop on r/wallstreetbets, the stock skyrocketed more than 50% in the trading session on Jan. 22. [111] Three BlackBerry executives sold nearly $1.7 million of the company's stock, with one of the executives, Chief Financial Officer Steve Rai, selling all of his shares in the company excepting unvested employee stock options. They also questioned whether Robinhood was encouraging its customers to take excessive risks in order to generate a profit and whether it had the appropriate infrastructure and funding to handle influxes of new clients. Those include American Airlines and AMC-the latter of which has even been mentioned by Redditors. [173], Attorney General of New York Letitia James confirmed in a press release that her office would look into the matter, saying "We are aware of concerns raised regarding activity on the Robinhood app, including trading related to the GameStop stock". [121], The trading led to increase in the stock of the Koss Corporation, and by selling stock the executives and directors of the company were able to earn $45 million, which was greater than the company's valuation in 2020. [248], Following the decision by brokerage firm Robinhood to halt the buying of stocks affected by the short squeeze, users on Reddit and other social media called in question its relationship with Citadel Securities. [266] The documentary GameStop: Rise of the Players interviewed several of the r/wallstreetbets users and was released on January 28, 2022. As of Jan. 28, the companies with the highest short interest are: [159] Users on r/wallstreetbets deny involvement in the increasing price of silver, instead blaming the increase on institutions and hedge funds with positions in silver, such as Citadel, seeking to offset losses on GameStop. The GameStop short squeeze has now lasted far longer than we might expect. Main article: GameStop short squeeze On January 22, 2021, users of r/wallstreetbets initiated a short squeeze on GameStop, pushing their stock prices up significantly. [240] Google deleted at least 100,000 such reviews, calling them "coordinated or inorganic". Keith Gill, known by the Reddit username "DeepFuckingValue" and the YouTube and Twitter alias "Roaring Kitty",[15][16][17] purchased around $53,000 in call options on GameStop's stock in 2019 and saw his position rise to a value of $48 million by January 27, 2021. [179][180] Committee members also discussed increasing short-selling regulation. [179][180] Representatives focused their attention on Robinhood's role in the event, asking Tenev why the brokerage had limited the trading of some securities and if it had clearly communicated its business model to its customers. [95][96] For the month of February, Melvin posted a 22-percent gain, but it would need much more to break even from their earlier losses; they were reported to have suffered further losses during the GME's continued resurgence in May 2021. Is that you? Other investors held onto their long positions while the stock prices were declining rapidly, amid widespread calls on r/wallstreetbets to hang on to the failing shares. A Detailed Overview of the GameStop Short Squeeze February 25, 2022 A Detailed Overview of the GameStop Short Squeeze From January 4, 2021 to January 29, 2021, the GameStop Corp. (GME) stock rose from $17.25 to $325.00, which is almost a 1900% increase in valuation (Yahoo Finance, 2021). Dozens of class action lawsuits have been filed against Robinhood in U.S. courts, and the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a congressional hearing on the incident. [23] Restricting who can buy and sell is using a hammer on free markets", "It took less than a day for big tech, big government and the corporate media to spring into action and begin colluding to protect their hedge fund buddies on Wall Street. Many traders were furious, and called for class-action lawsuits in multiple popular Reddit posts. Short squeeze is a term used by market participants to refer to a phenomenon where short sellers in a stock who have placed their bets on a stock's fall, rush to hedge their positions or buy the stock in the event of an adverse price movement, in order to cover their losses. The typical short squeeze lasts one or perhaps two days, with the major price spikes often happening overnight.. 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Any number over 10% is relatively high, but it's nothing crazy for a company like GameStop that is struggling so badly. [153] In addition, the price of Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, increased 20 percent in value to more than $37,000 after Elon Musk endorsed it in his Twitter bio, partially related to the surge in the GameStop share price by Reddit users. r/wallstreetbets, cn c gi l WallStreetBets hoc WSB, l mt subreddit ni nhng ngi tham gia tho lun v giao dch c phiu v quyn chn.Trang subreddit ny tr nn ng ch v ngn ng tc tu, chin lc giao dch tch cc v vai tr trong t bn non c phiu GameStop m gy ra thit hi cho . [168] Senator Sherrod Brown announced that the Senate Banking Committee would hold a hearing on the state of the stock market and the alleged market manipulation surrounding the GameStop short squeeze. The unusually high price and volatility continued after the peak in late January. [66] However, on January 31, Robinhood announced it had removed several of these restrictions and would only limit the sale of eight securities. Short selling is a finance practice in which an investor, known as the short-seller, borrows shares and immediately sells them, hoping to buy them back later ("covering") at a lower price, return the borrowed shares (plus interest) to the lender and profit off the difference. [170], On January 29, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was reviewing the incident with the aims "to protect retail investors"[171] from "abusive or manipulative trading activity"[172] and "to identify and pursue potential wrongdoing". 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