[real-dino]

They don't tend to leave that lying round, so it's something of a Russell teapot, and none of the totals even from FINRA or Bloomberg terminals add up. There is zero transparency in any of this!

All short interest values are self reported, and all an FTD needs to disappear is a fresh short.

Again. That is part of the bet. If the bet fails, you are left with a profitable stock, as it does have solid fundamentals despite what MSM tells people.

It's the amount of times I've read articles telling me to 'Forget Gamespot', or suggesting other stocks that really convinced me. There is a solid effort to get people away from this stock and onto stuff like Silver, weed stocks. Anything but GME.

Maybe there's some serious bias confirmation going on in my head.

[bidirectional]

Well that's the only interesting part of this, everything else seems like elaborate fantasy without any proof of that core fact. I can come up with a billion 'interesting bets' based on some unsubstantiated thing happening.

I'm much more inclined to believe this is a massive coping strategy from people who bought in at the top of the GME hype and didn't get to see hedge funds shutter overnight a la 2008, as they had likely fantasised.

[exclusiv]

We already have a fallout in Archegos and Credit Suisse doing risky stuff (fraud TBD in court). With an exemption from the Fed on reserve levels over the last year, I'm betting those weren't isolated events and more banks have been very naughty.

Here's a documentary about naked short selling and failures to deliver if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpyhnmd-ZbU

Here's an economist, PhD and former DTC who authored "Naked, Short & Greedy" and has been trying to sound the alarm on naked shorts and phantom shares for decades: https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2020/03/how-phantom-shares-o...

From that article - "The world‘s biggest stock fraudster, Bernie Madoff, wrote from prison February 3, 2012, “It was perfectly proper to short [my clients’] securities or purchase those positions back from those clients or others with any profit or loss recorded on my books. … The point is that this was my practice prior to the time that I fell into my crime of staying Naked Short. The fact that the prosecutor and Trustee seemed clueless of this is why my frustration is so great.”

GameStop may have gone the way of Toys R Us and countless others.

The shares shorted don't align with what should have been available. You can tally up institutional ownership, make some guesses on retail and use the short numbers available from various sources. It doesn't add up. You can also look at SEC failures to deliver.

None of this sounds like an elaborate fantasy to me. The information is out there.

Now, will anything be fixed? Definitely not unless it's exposed. Kind of what this is all about.

[Traster]

> If the bet fails, you are left with a profitable stock, as it does have solid fundamentals

Could you explain to me what these fundamentals are?

[exclusiv]

Well it's wiping out debt and recently raised 550M+ in ATM offering. Close to $1B in cash. Removing underperforming locations as they have some favorable leases.

They have the known brand in a huge and growing industry.

They have a revenue sharing agreement on digital sales.

Will sell more PC gear and expand product selection. Invest in better customer support like Ryan Cohen did with Chewy.

On the financial side recently - "The gaming retailer's global e-commerce sales increased 175%, representing 34% of the company's total net revenue during the quarter. During the same period last year, e-commerce made up just 12% of total sales." [1]

So still a long way to go but people are mostly betting on Ryan Cohen, the team he's assembled and shifting to be more e-commerce heavy.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/tech/gamestop-earnings-q4-202...