[easton]

This is not what happened, I don't know why people keep perpetuating it. The entire source of the "Melvin Capital has closed their positions" thing is an anchor on Squawk Box on Wednesday morning saying that he just got a call from Melvin's fund manager who said that Melvin closed. There hasn't been any other comment besides that one, which is why people think it may have been less than honest.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi...

[fractionalhare]

The more compelling reason to believe they didn't lie about it is because we haven't heard they went bankrupt yet. We probably would have heard that it happened by now, and they certainly would have been bankrupt if they didn't get out of GME in the $100s.

[imtringued]

If you are already out you don't have to tell anyone. You simply have exited the market and stopped caring.

[jerry1979]

Also, it seems like "close my position" could mean anything. Does that phrase have any specific legal meaning? For example, if I own 1 share of GME, then that is my "position". If I buy another share of GME, then I have a new position: 2 shares of GME. I "closed" my first position, and opened a new one.