I genuinely appreciate and respect your advice. But I am truly retarded.
GME - should I short, and why can't I
- Thread starter Saltynuts
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keep in mind i am still sitting nicely on various GME put contracts i purchased on the way up...they wont print on the crash but will at the very least provide me with the capital to do it all over again with more experience, skill, courage, and conviction.
There is too much BS going on. Do you really believe rank amateur traders, legions of them can drive the stock prices on GME and AMC higher? No dummies. It is the big boys (mutual funds, hedge funds, brokers and banks) piled on seeing how many traders got suckered in. So, they drive prices higher by buying at higher prices. Most of their positions, they established during the accumulation phase at low prices. We have a huge mark up, a couple of hedge funds including, Steve Cohen got a temporary hit and everyone is rejoicing. Guess what? The big boys bailed out yesterday, shorted the market yesterday and now, making tons of monies on the way down as well. It is going down because there are no buyers paying those very high prices. It is hilarious alright but, guess who got skinned alive? It is the same legions of amateur traders who actually believed they hit the hedge funds hard. No dummies. You took the bait, hook line and sinker and now, you have huge losses and probably, margin calls on top of that.
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Ok let's do back of the napkin calc.
People claim there are millions of WSB redditors. WSB has 4.8M members, but obviously not all those participate. So let's say 1M, if you include their friends. And let's say each has on the average 2K to play with. That's $2B.
GME daily volume on the day of the start of the run (1/22) was around $10B. It is quite plausible that you can trigger such a melt-up with a concerted $2B injection.
What you can't do is sustain it with just those traders. So the trigger could have been WSB but the sustained momentum for the next 3 days was the rest of the market, retail and institutional.
People claim there are millions of WSB redditors. WSB has 4.8M members, but obviously not all those participate. So let's say 1M, if you include their friends. And let's say each has on the average 2K to play with. That's $2B.
GME daily volume on the day of the start of the run (1/22) was around $10B. It is quite plausible that you can trigger such a melt-up with a concerted $2B injection.
What you can't do is sustain it with just those traders. So the trigger could have been WSB but the sustained momentum for the next 3 days was the rest of the market, retail and institutional.
One of the best one liners I've heard is "everyone gets want they want from the stock market". If you consider yourself a loser, you will highly likely end up being one. Foster a mentality of a winner - consider yourself a winner, and act accordingly. Yeah, maybe the r-word is WSB code for winner, but a lot of (not all of) these people shit on risk management.
Robinhood has 13 million users, something like 46 percent own GME. The average RH account size is 1-5k
YES YOU CAN !
It is excellent for day trading due to its huge volatility and
volume.
There are trading opportunities to long and short it.
As usual, timing (when to enter a trade ) is very important.
BUT!!!
trade based on what you see on your chart!!!!
NOT!!!
What you see on Reddit !!!!
Unfortunately, many people don't know how to
trade based on the charts.
So they look at Reddit.
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It is excellent for day trading due to its huge volatility and
volume.
There are trading opportunities to long and short it.
As usual, timing (when to enter a trade ) is very important.
BUT!!!
trade based on what you see on your chart!!!!
NOT!!!
What you see on Reddit !!!!
Unfortunately, many people don't know how to
trade based on the charts.
So they look at Reddit.
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