I don't know. Please don't comment. The more of you the better.

Ken has his market manipulation tactics; we have invisible ape technologies. (Please see attached images.)

Better quality of the last message:

I am going to take a step back from posting and have to think a bit about all of this. This is unprecedented and I am concerned for my well being. Sorry if I dissapoint anyone.

As stupid as it sounds, i feel like i have to clarify. I have NO INTENTIONS of harming myself or others! So whatever happens, I am mentally healthy and have no intentions of doing any of the things mentioned above.

Link to the Press Release on SEC's website:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-54

From the release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE2021-54

Washington D.C., March 29, 2021 —

The Securities and Exchange Commission awarded more than $500,000 to a whistleblower who raised concerns internally before submitting a tip to the Commission. The whistleblower's information and assistance allowed the Commission and another agency to quickly file actions, shutting down an ongoing fraudulent scheme.

The whistleblower's information prompted an internal investigation by the company, which then reported to an outside agency, which in turn provided the information to the SEC. Separately, the whistleblower also reported to the SEC within 120 days of reporting the violations internally to the company. Under the "safe harbor" provision of the SEC's whistleblower rules, the SEC treats the whistleblower's information as though it had been submitted to the SEC at the same time it was internally reported as long as the whistleblower also reports the information to the SEC within 120 days of the internal report.

EDIT: Credit to u/SurpriseNinja for suggesting this edit (and u/getoutside78 for pointing at it):

"The SEC has now awarded approximately $760 million to 145 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012"

If I read this correctly we had $560 million in whistleblower payouts between 2012 and 2020. We have "nearly $200 million in the first half of FY21"

EVERY UPVOTE/DOWNVOTE MATTERS! NO MORE LURKING! WE CANNOT LET THE SUB GET TAKEN OVER BY SHILLS!

THEY ARE ACTIVELY REPORTING AND DOWNVOTING POSTS

PROMOTE THE GOOD STUFF

DEMOTE THE BAD STUFF

I TRULY BELIEVE WE ARE IN THE HOMESTRETCH AND EVEN IF THEY TAKE R/GME DOWN IM HOLDING

COMMENT POSITIVITY! DOWNVOTE NEGATIVITY

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EDIT: HOLY CRAP THIS BLEW UP! THANKS GUYS LETS GET TO WORK

4/4/2021 EDIT: Just got done watching this review (2:09:37) from George Gammon and Meet Kevin. As pointed out by George, the link I posted below talking about the submitted repo amount was ONLY showing the NY Fed's total for that day. According to his own research, he suspects that $4 TRILLION is pumped through this market, EACH DAY.

4/1/2021 EDIT: GREAT NEWS APES! u/dontfightthevol has been reviewing my post and helping me address weaknesses! I take this as REALLY good news as we move another step closer to exposing the TRUTH. Furthermore, I am making updates that take speculative connections out of this post.

The first one being the WSJ article covering BlackRock, where the fed has tapped them to purchase bonds for the government. These bonds consist of mortgage backed securities and corporate bonds- NOT TREASURIES. While this does not destroy the concept within the post, it DOES remove a link between the speculative relationship of BlackRock and Citadel. Citadel is still shorting bonds, other hedge funds are shorting bonds, BlackRock just isn't buying treasuries from the government. There are plenty of other financial institutions lending out their treasury bonds.

We are still discussing the post and I will make updates as they are available.

STAY TUNED!

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TL;DR- Citadel and friends have shorted the treasury bond market to oblivion using the repo market. Citadel owns a company called Palafox Trading and uses them to EXCLUSIVELY short & trade treasury securities. Palafox manages one fund for Citadel - the Citadel Global Fixed Income Master Fund LTD. Total assets over $123 BILLION and 80% are owned by offshore investors in the Cayman Islands. Their reverse repo agreements are ENTIRELY rehypothecated and they CANNOT pay off their own repo agreements until someone pays them, first. The ENTIRE global financial economy is modeled after a fractional reserve system that is beginning to experience THE MOTHER OF ALL MARGIN CALLS.

THIS is why the DTC and FICC are requiring an increase in SLR deposits. The madness has officially come full circle.

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My fellow apes,

After writing Citadel Has No Clothes, I couldn't shake one MAJOR issue: why do they have a balance sheet full of financial derivatives instead of physical shares? Even Melvin keeps their derivative exposure to roughly 20%...(whalewisdom.com, Melvin Capital 13F - 2020)

The concept of a hedging instrument is to protect against price fluctuations. Hopefully you get it right and make a good prediction, but to have a portfolio with literally 80% derivatives.... absolute INSANITY.. it's is the complete OPPOSITE of what should happen.. so WHAT is going on?

Let's break this into 4 parts:

1. Repurchase & Reverse Repurchase agreements

2. Treasury Bonds

3. Palafox Trading

4. Short-seller Endgame

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Ok, 4 easy steps... as simple as possible.

Step 1: Repurchase & Reverse Repurchase agreements.

WTF are they?

A Repurchase Agreement is much like a loan. If you have a big juicy banana worth $1,000,000 and need some quick cash, a repo agreement might be right for you. Just take that banana to a pawn shop and pawn it for a few days, borrow some cash, and buy your banana back later (plus a few tendies in interest). This creates a liability for you because you have to buy it back, unless you want to default and lose your big, beautiful banana. Regardless, you either buy it back or lose it. A reverse repo is how the pawn shop would account for this transaction.

Why do they matter?

Repos and reverse repos are the LIFEBLOOD of global financial liquidity. They allow for SUPER FAST conversions from securities to cash. The repo agreement I just described is happening daily with hedge funds and commercial banks. EDIT: Inserting the quote from George Gammon: according to his calculations, the estimated total amount of repos are $4 TRILLION, DAILY. The NY Fed, alone, submitted $40.354 BILLION for repo agreements on (3/29). This amount represents the ONE DAY REPO due on 3/30. So yeah, SUPER short term loans- usually a few days. It's probably not a surprise that back in 2008 the go-to choice of collateral for repo agreements was mortgage backed securities..

Lehman Brothers went bankrupt because they fraudulently classified repo agreements as sales. You can do your own research on this, but I'll give you the quick n' dirty:

Lehman would go to a bank and ask for cash. The bank would ask for collateral in return and Lehman would offer mortgage backed securities (MBS). It's great having so many mortgages on your balance sheet, but WTF good does it do if you have to wait 30 YEARS for the cash.... So Lehman gave their collateral to the bank and recorded these loans as sales instead of payables, with no intention of buying them back. This EXTREMELY overstated their revenue. When the market started realizing how sh*tty these "AAA" securities actually were (thanks to Michael BRRRRRRRRy & friends), they were no longer accepted as collateral for repo loans. We all know what happened next.

The interest rate in 2008 on repos started climbing as the cost of borrowing money went through the roof. This happens because the collateral is no longer attractive compared to cash. My favorite bedtime story is how the Fed stepped in and bought all of the mean, toxic assets to save the US economy.. They literally paid Fannie & Freddie over $190 billion in bailouts..

A few years later, MF Global would suffer the same fate when their European repo exposure triggered a massive margin call. Their foreign exposure to repo agreements was nearly 4.5x their total equity.. Both Lehman and MF Global found themselves in a major liquidity conundrum and were forced into bankruptcy. Not to mention the other losses that were incurred by other financial institutions... check this list for bailout totals.

But.... did you know this happened AGAIN in 2019?

Instead of the gradual increase in rates, the damn thing spiked to 10% OVERNIGHT. This little blip almost ruined the whole show. It's a HUGE red flag because it shows how the system MUST remain in tight control: one slip and it's game over.

The reason for the spike was once again due to a lack of liquidity. The federal reserve stated there were two main catalysts (click the link): both of which removed the necessary funds that would have fueled the repo market the following day. Basically, their checking account was empty and their utility bill bounced.

It became apparent that ANOTHER infusion of cash was necessary to prevent the whole damn system from collapsing. The reason being: institutions did NOT have enough excess liquidity on hand. Financial institutions needed a fast replacement for the MBS, and J-POW had just the right thing.. $FED go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Step 2: Treasury Bonds

Ever heard of the bond market? Well it's the redheaded step-brother of the STONK market.

The US government sells you a treasury bond for $1,000 and promises to pay you interest depending on how long you hold it. Might be 1%, might be 3%; might be 3 months, might be 10 years. Regardless, the point is that purchasing the US Treasury bond, in conjunction with mortgage backed securities, allowed the fed to keep pumping unlimited liquid tendies into the repo market. Surely, liquidity won't be an issue anymore, right?

Now... take the repo scenario from the Lehman Brothers story, but instead of using ONLY mortgage backed securities, add in the US Treasury bond: primarily the 10-year. Note that MBS are still prevalent at 19.1% of all repo transactions, but the US Treasury bond now represents a whopping 67%.

For now, just know that the US Treasury has replaced the MBS as the dominant source of liquidity in the repo market.

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Step 3: Palafox Trading

Ever heard of Palafox Trading? Me either. It's pretty much meant to be that way.

Palafox Trading is a market maker for repurchase agreements. Initially, they appear to be an innocent trading company, but their financial statements revealed a little secret:

Are you KIDDING ME?... I should have known...

OF COURSE Citadel has their own private repo market..

Who else is in this cesspool?!

Everything rolls into the Citadel Global Fixed Income Master Fund... This controls $123,218,147,399 (THAT'S BILLION) in assets under management... I know offshore accounts are technically legal for hedge funds.... but when you look at the itemized holdings of these funds on Citadel's most recent form ADV, it gives me chills..

Form ADV page 105-106....

Ok... ok.... let me get this straight....

1. The repo market provides IMMEDIATE liquidity to hedge funds and other financial institutions

2. After the MBS collapse in 2008, the US Treasury replaced it as the liquid asset of choice

3. Citadel owns 100% of Palafox Trading which is a market maker for repo agreements

4. This market maker provides liquidity to the Global Fixed Income Master Fund LTD (GFIL) through Citadel Advisors

5. 80% of its $123,218,147,399 in assets under management belong to entities in the Cayman Islands

Ok.....I tore the bermuda, paradise, and panama papers apart and found that all of these funds boil down to just a few managers, but can't pin anything on them for money laundering... However, if there EVER were a case for it, I'd be extremely suspicious of this one...

The level of shade on all this is INCREDIBLE... There should be NO ROOM for a investment pool as big as Citadel to hide this sh*t.... absolutely ridiculous..

The fact that there is so much foreign influence over our bond & repo market, which controls the liquidity of our country, is VERY concerning..

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Step 4: Short-seller Endgame

Alright, I know this is a lot to take in..

I've been writing this post for a week, so reading it all at one time is probably going to make your head explode.. But now we can finally start putting all of this together.

Ok, remember how I explained that the repo rate started to rise in '08 because the collateral was no longer attractive compared to cash? That means there wasn't enough liquidity in the system. Well this time the OPPOSITE effect is happening. Ever since March 2020, the short-term lending rate (repo rate) has nearly dropped to 0.0%....

So the fed is printing free money, the repo market is lending free money, and there's basically NO difference between the collateral that's being lent and the cash that's being received.. With all this free money going around, it's no wonder why the price of the 10 year treasury has been declining.

In fact, hedge funds are SO confident that the 10 year treasury will continue to decline, that they've SHORTED THE 10-YEAR BOND MARKET. I'm not talking about speculative shorting, I mean shorting it to oblivion like they've shorted stocks.

Don't believe me?

Hedge funds like Citadel Advisors must first locate the treasury bond in order to swap them for cash in the repo market. It's extremely difficult to do this with the fed because they're tied up in government BS, so they locate a lender in the market. These consist of other commercial banks and hedge funds.

NOTE: I MADE A COMMENT ABOUT BLACKROCK SUPPLYING TREASURY BONDS AND THIS IS NOT TRUE. UPON FURTHER REVIEW ( CREDIT u/dontfightthevol ) THESE BONDS CONSIST OF MBS AND CORPORATE BONDS. WHILE THE US TREASURY DEPARTMENT IS INVOLVED, THEY ARE NOT SUPPLYING TREASURY BONDS.

So financial institutions keep treasuries on reserve for hedgies like Citadel to short. Citadel comes along and asks for the bond, they throw it into Palafox Trading and collect their cash. So what happens when they need to pay for their repo agreement? Surely to GOD there are enough bonds floating around, right? Not unless hedge funds like Citadel have shorted more bonds than there are available.

Here's the evidence.

There have been 3 instances over the past year where the repo rate dipped below the "failure" rate of -3.0%. On March 4th 2021, the repo rate hit -4.25% which means that investors were willing to PAY someone 4.25% interest to lend THEIR OWN MONEY in exchange for a 10 year treasury bond.

This is a major signal of a squeeze in the treasury market. It's MAJOR desperation to find bonds. With the federal reserve purchasing them monthly from the open market, it leaves room for a shortage when the repo call hits. If commercial banks and hedge funds haven't purchased more treasuries since first lending them out, short sellers simply cannot cover unless they go into the market and PAY the bond holder for their bond. It's literally the same story as all of the heavily shorted stocks.

Still not convinced?

At the end of 2020, Palafox Trading listed $31,257,102,000 (BILLION) in GROSS repo agreements. $30,576,918,000 (BILLION) were directly related to repurchasing treasury bonds....

But what about their Reverse Repurchase agreements? Don't they have assets to BUY treasury bonds?SURE.. Take a look..

SeE tHeRe? I tOlD yOu ThEy HaD iT cOvErEd..

Yeaaaah... now read the fine print.

So no, they don't have it covered. Why? Because our POS financial system allows for rehypothecation, that's why. It's a big fancy word for using amounts owed to you as collateral for another transaction. In the event that the party defaults, SO DO YOU.

This means that the securities which Palafox is waiting to receive, have ALREADY been pledged to pay off the bonds they currently OWE to someone else.

Does this sound familiar? Promising to repay something with something you don't already have? Basically you need to wait on Ted, to repay Steve, to repay Jan, to repay Mark, to repay you, so you can repay Fred, so Fred can.... Yeah, REAAAAL secure..

OH, and by the way, the problem is getting WORSE.

Here's Palafox's financial statements in 2018:

And 2019:

The amount in 2020 is STILL +100% greater than 2019, AFTER netting (which is even more bullsh*t).

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All of this made me wonder what the FICC's balance is for treasury deposits... For those of you that don't know, the FICC is a branch of the DTCC that deals with government securities.

Just like the updated DTC rule for supplemental liquidity deposits being calculated throughout the day, the FICC also calculates this amount as it relates to treasury securities multiple times throughout the day.

Would you be surprised that the FICC has $47,000,000,000 (BILLION) just in DEPOSITS for unsettled treasury bonds? $47,000,000,000!?!?!?

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW ASTRONOMICAL THE ACTUAL MARGIN MUST BE?!

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There is TOO much evidence, from TOO many separate events, pointing to the imminent default of something big. That's all this is going to take. When Ted can't repay Steve, it means the panic has already started. Just look at how easy it was for the repo rate to spike overnight in 2019..

We are already starting to see the consequences of the SLR update with Archegos, Nomura, and Credit Suisse. This is just a taste of what's to come.. and now we know the bond market represents an even BIGGER catalyst in triggering this event.. and it's happening already.

With that being said, things finally started to make sense... Citadel doesn't NEED shares if their investment strategy to go short on EVERYTHING instead of going long. Why bother owning shares? Financial institutions and other asset managers simply lend them to you when you need to pony up a margin call for stocks and bonds..

Their HFT systems allow them to manipulate the market in their favor so there's NO way they could fail.... unless.... a bunch of degenerates all decided to ignore taking profits...

But that would NEVER happen, right?

...wrong...

we just like the stonks

DIAMOND.F*CKING.HANDS

This is not financial advice

Link to new DD List

TL;DR: Citadel is naked shorting ETFs (Operational Shorting) containing GME to drive down the price, in the first drop in Feb they shorted XRT, and in the past week they have shorted the entire Russell 2000 (IWM). Read the whole thing to learn why this irresponsible action may lead to the crash of the ENTIRE MARKET.

Anatomy of a ETF Short Attack in Feb

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Proof of Citadel naked shorting since they are required to buy back NAKED ETF SHORTS TODAY driving up the price

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CLASS IS IN SESSION

Have you wondered recently with reported Short Interest of GME so low (26% of float according to MarketBeat), how has GME gone down more than 50% in the past 5 days with relatively low volume?

Are fellow apes and long whales selling? Answer: NO, look at the OBV

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Are Citadel and Friends shorting GME directly? YES, but that alone is not enough to drive down GME price drastically without significant increase in reported short interest.

Are Citadel and Friends hiding short interest thorough OTC (dark pools) and other shady options mechanisms? Likely yes, but will not explore in this post.

Are Citadel and Friends shorting ETFs directly that contain GME? YES, but that’s not the entire picture

Isn’t shorting an ETF that only contains 1-5% GME expensive and cost prohibitive?

NO, and here’s why.

Operational Shorting – Naked Shorting ETFs at a PROFIT for Citadel

What Is an ETF? An exchange traded fund (ETF) is like a basket of stocks that can be purchased or sold on an exchange like a single regular stock.

Rise of ETFs are concerning since they constitute a disproportionately high amount of US trading volume. 25% of all US equity trading volume, but only constitute 5% market cap.

Why is there such a high ETF trading volume? Answer: Its profitable for the APs

What is an AP? An authorized participant is an organization that has the right to create and redeem shares of an exchange traded fund (ETF) like big banks or market makers like Citadel

How does Citadel make money on selling / buying ETFs?

Arbitrage. The buying and selling of securities in different markets or forms in order to take advantage of the differing prices of the same asset.

Arbitrage Analogy:

Think of ETFs like XRT as a fruit basket, and the stocks they contain fruits. Say the XRT fruit basket was $6 and contained a banana (GME), orange, and apple. And individual bananas are $1, oranges are $2, and apples are $3. The total cost of buying the fruits individually is the NAV (net asset value) which in this case is also $6. Citadel can make their own fruit baskets by buying individual fruits but they wouldn’t make too much money since the price of the fruit basket are usually similar to the NAV. In recent years Citadel and other APs have found a much more profitable strategy – Operational Shorting.

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Operational Shorting Analogy:

Citadel has the ability to NAKED SELL nonexistent fruit baskets (XRT / IWM) at $6 but not deliver on them until 6 days later. Flooding the market with tons of promised fruit baskets can drive down the price of individual fruits (bananas went from $1 -> $0.5, oranges to $1.8, apples to $2.7), only to buy back the individual fruits 6 days later at a CHEAPER NAV and deliver those fruit baskets to you. That fruit basket that was delivered to buyers only cost Citadel (0.5 + 1.8 + 2.7 = $5) to make, netting them a cool $1 while also driving down the price of bananas by 50%.

Operational Shorting by Citadel

When faced with “excess buying” pressure for ETF shares, the AP/MM can sell shares “naked” and then locate or create the shares at a later time (up to T+6 for “bona fide” market making)

Market makers, often commercial banks or hedge funds, create ETFs for their issuers by buying the securities that the funds are supposed to represent. But they've discovered that they can make a predictable return by delaying the purchases and selling you nonexistent exchange-traded fund shares that they will create later. These transactions are a form of shorting – Operational Shorting as coined by Richard Evans, Professor at the Darden School of Business.

Okay.. What does this mean for GME?

Citadel is willing to NAKED SHORT ANY ETF containing GME, and by extension the ENTIRE MARKET (will show later) to drive down the price of GME.

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If Citadel Shorted ETFs to Drive Down GME Price, Why Did It Go Up Today?

SEC Rules that Citadel must deliver on naked ETF shorts by T+6 by buying back the underlying shares. Today lines up just under this restriction from the first time IWM was shorted on Mar 18.

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Should Operational Shorting Make Apes Scared?

Operational Shorting HAS NO PREDICTIVE VALUE ON THE PRICE OF UNDERLYING ASSETS 1 WEEK LATER. Unless apes scared and paper hand

Citadel MUST buy back the underlying stock on ETFs sold short at (T+6) WHICH MEANS IF YOU DON'T PAPER HAND THEY MIGHT HAVE TO BUY BACK GME AT A HIGHER PRICE THAN WHEN THEY STARTED SHORTING

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Conclusion

Findings from Evan’s paper on ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short-Selling or Operational Shorting?

If higher levels of FTDs spill over from one ETF to another within the same AP or across different APs with overlap in their ETF market making activities, operational shorting could increase financial instability. When we examine the impact of FTDs across different ETFs, we find evidence consistent with this contagion-like effect. Moreover, we also find that APs that are closer to their maximum regulatory leverage limit are more likely to operationally short. These results suggest ETF trading relies on an inter-connected network of liquidity providers which, at times, pursue positively correlated trading strategies that can be detrimental to the overall market.”

Additional Findings on Operational Shorting and Financial Linkages

• APs who are operationally short in one ETF, are more likely to be operationally short in other ETFs for which they serve as an AP (intra-AP linkage)

  • Proof in point: Citadel began shorting XRT to drive down the price of GME in Feb, and more recently have shorted IWM to drive down the price of GME again

• A given AP has higher operational shorting when other APs have higher levels of operational shorting (inter-AP linkage)

  • Higher operational shorting by Citadel linked to higher operational shorting by other APs

• Looking at regulatory constraints on AP leverage, we also find that the closer a firm is to its regulatory leverage limit, the higher levels of operational shorting. This is consistent with a contagion-like effect that could cause entire market instability.

CITADEL AND FRIENDS ARE FUCKED AND ON THE BRINK.

UPTICK IN RECENT ETF NAKED SHORTING SIGNALS THAT THEY ARE CLOSER TO THEIR REGULATORY LEVERAGE LIMITS.

EXPECT MORE NAKED SHORTING OF ETFS BUT THESE ADDITIONAL SHORTING MAY LEAD TO ENTIRE MARKET INSTABILITY

I WILL HOLD MY BANANAS TO THE MOON

Edit: To clarify, my summary is that naked shorting of ETFs is easy and profitable for the APs. And while operational shorting has no net effect on the NAV of all the stocks in an ETF, they have realized it is an effective way to drive and magnify the direction of a single stock in the ETF in the direction they want it to go via other methods like direct shorting of GME.

Translation: today's rise may have been premediated by the APs since they knew they had to cover from shorting IWM 5 days ago. Whether GME keeps rising after today no one can answer and specific dates don't matter since APs have multiple strategies to delay or shorten the delivery dates on shares sold short. THE most effective way for me to deal with APs who have become more and more leveraged is to just buy and hold. 💎 💎 💎

Edit 2: Typos

Edit 3: Remove call for upvote as mods requested

Edit 4: This is not investment advice, I just like the stock.

Sources:

Evans, Richard B. and Moussawi, Rabih and Pagano, Michael S. and Sedunov, John, ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short-Selling or Operational Shorting? (March 3, 2021). Darden Business School Working Paper No. 2961954, 2019 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2961954 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2961954

Richard Evans – Darden School of Business Slides on Operational Shorting

https://jacobslevycenter.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Evans-Slides.pdf

Youtube video of Evans giving a talk to Wharton’s on Operational Shorting

https://youtu.be/ncq35zrFCAg?t=1641

SEC Fail to Deliver Data

https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

Alright you cucks, listen up 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 (I'm not a financial advisor)

We all very well know what's going on and what's about to go down. Not only is the market being manipulated, but also this sub. They are about to start infiltrating with bullshit stocks and scare tactics but there's only on thing to remember :

WE 💎 ARE 🙌 NOT 💎 SELLING 🙌

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WE DONT UNDERSTAND WORDS. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS WHOLE MESSAGE IS BECAUSE IT ABSOLUTELY MEANS NOTHING. SO SUCK ON OUR APE NUTS YOU FUCKING SHILLS.

APE ONLY UNDERSTAND HOLD AND EMOJI

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I LOVE YOU ALL AND THE ENERGY WE HAVE! TRUE APES KNOW THAT REGARDLESS OF OUR MESSAGES AND POSTS, WE ARE SIMPLY GOING TO HOLD!

Please take care of yourselves and be prepared for a big ride tomorrow. Don't forget to drink water and eat on time. You are the definition of courage!

FUCKING SEE YA!

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Edit: my friends think I'm spreading "propaganda" and that many people will get fucked because of this post. But I didn't understand it because APE. NO. ENGLISH. 🦍🚀💎🙌

Q: What about today?! YOU SAID WE WILL GO TO THE MOON 10000000 %!!!!!!!A: https://twitter.com/HeyItsPixel1/status/1372996149825703939

Also: https://twitter.com/HeyItsPixel1/status/1372633163571281926

EDIT(3/5/21): Foreword to my edit: I still think, that the Squeeze happens in the timespan I stated (between march 15th and march 19th). I found a lot more catalysts, that I talked about in the livestreams I list down below. I am actually more confident than ever, that I was infact right with the date. I talk about the AI, even many more catalysts, that I didn't talk about here, the XRT and why it's not the dividens, but the rebalance that's important. If you want to know more about my thoughts on all of this and want a better explanation, I can recommend watching it.

I responded to a lot of questions and critique in 2 Livestreams on YouTube:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32f9CPxGW10&

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Vc-irYsL4&

I am going to finish my break and will respond to more questions regarding my thoughts and this DD in a Livestream or Video of my own!

More catalysts that I talked about in the Livestreams and that I am also going to talk about in my own Videos/Streams:

• EDIT 03/13: The State Street Global Advisors' SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) is rebalancing on March 19th (https://www.ft.com/content/3d9c8383-a083-44a3-9c7e-54bb36c95a51)

• EDIT 03/13: 401k's are moving out of Melvin March 18th (https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/m3qvol/melvin_capital_potentially_moving_investors/)

• 2. March 17 at 12:00 PM ET: The full Committee will convene for a virtual hearing entitled, “Game Stopped? Who Wins and Loses When Short Sellers, Social Media, and Retail Investors Collide, Part II.” https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407261

• 3. Ryan Cohen will become CEO at the end of march (probably march 25th)(theory)

• 4. Gamestop Shares callback early april (not confirmed yet!)

• 5. Maybe an emergency meeting, therefore another share callback (theory)

• 6. XRT Rebalance, they will probably throw out GME (theory, but that would force the shorts to cover all positions in XRT on that day)

• 7. Like I stated in my first DDs, there are whales going for the really long play, therefore there is a lot of buying pressure from even more sides now, causing the price to keep spiking up, that's what we are seeing at the moment

• 8. Option chains get more massive by every week, more and more options become ITM and cause little gamma squeezes almost every few days, until a big one comes and the rocket lifts off

• 9. Gamestop will probably acquire SLG (Super League Gaming)

TL;DR / TL;DW: We have around 12 - 15 catalysts for my predicted date. Making it almost impossible to weasle out and therefore making me more confident than ever in my theory.

PS: To all the people saying I went off reddit but kept giving youtube interviews to make money or to attention whore, here is my response (copied from my own comment): Hi. I just want to adress this, because I stumbled over that a lot today. I went on 2 Interviews (one was about 30 minutes long, the other one was about an hour long). Both of these interviews were SOLELY for answering questions regarding my DD. I don't want to plug anyones youtube stream. But I gave people 24hours to collect questions regarding my thoughts and they could ask me literally anything. I tried my best in that one hour interview and even doubled my time on that one (wanted to do 30 minutes initially). I only did the second interview because I felt like a lot of questions were asked within the first 24 hours and as I said, I wanted to answer as many as possible. I am in talk with one of the mods at the moment, because I want to adress the critique in a livestream or a youtube video. I am a slow and bad writer and can express my thoughts much quicker when I am talking. It's easier to add something to your thoughts and elaborate on some things further as well. So please. Give me around a week of a break and then I will answer every question in a stream or a video, that people want me to answer and those I am able to answer. If I am not able to answer a question, I am sorry, but I am not a messiah. I will add questions I am not able to answer to the stream or video as well. But as a PSA: Stop spreading fake information, that I went off reddit and went onto youtube to do a lot of videos or interviews. It was 1.5 hrs of answering questions surrounding the DD over the course of 2 days.

Feel free to gather some questions and I will look forward to answering them! Thank you guys and gals for all the support, kind messages and what not. I appreciate all the support!

Edit2: I accidentally deleted my whole post by adding the first edit, I tried to get it back up, but there might be something missing. If you find anything missing, please tell me. Thx!

Edit3: Because I hit the max. character limit for this post, I had to cut out rensoles foreword and add it here as a screenshot: https:/imgur.com/a/gx3GMst. (rensole helped me with the sources and proof reading. Thank you so much!)

DD Post:

I don’t even know how to start this. First of all, I want to add a really important disclaimer. The following DD presented is solely based on research, numbers and data available to the public. I tried to take every single factor out there into account. That doesn’t automatically mean, that all of the following has to become true. The following DD is what I THINK is going to happen. There is no guarantee and I am not taking any responsibility for any decisions people make after reading the DD. I let other people check my DD, double and triple read it myself, but there still might be some flaws in logic or errors. If you find any, CALL ME OUT on them! I will either correct or remove them, if there are any. As I said, multiple people proof read this, so there shouldn’t be any, but you never know. Now that we’ve got that sorted out, this is where the fun begins.

Queue Avengers Endgame Theme:

We have to start somewhere, so let’s start at some recent events. The first one: The crazy price run-up and the preparation of an options chain on February 24th. What exactly happened?

THE RABBIT HOLE PART I:

To know what happened, it is really important to know, that Gamestop was on the short sale restriction (SSR) list that day. But how did GME get on the SSR in the first place? This is where it’s beginning to sound like a conspiracy theory or a fucking masterplan made up by other hedge funds in order to bait out Citadel/Melvin.

Let’s take a look at the Data:

On February 23rd GME opened at $44.97. Within the first few seconds GME reached its Day High of $46,23. GME also reached its Day Low at 9:50AM. So within 20 minutes after the market opened, GME reached its high and its low for the whole day!

Nothing special, right? Wrong. The price drop to exactly $40 was created artificially by someone shorting 100,000 shares right at opening.

In addition to that, they set off a calculated sell and then closed their short position instantly after hitting the $40 mark. Buying back the shares to cover their position in addition to buying back in (propably by the same institution that shorted and sold off a couple of shares to drive the price down to $40) brought the price back to exactly $44,97 for a second. Notice anything? That is EXACTLY the opening price. So after that 35 minute span of shenanigans we were right back to the opening price and it was like nothing happened to the stock.

But something did happen. Something really important. That quick sell-off and shorting brought the price down by 10 %. That got GME on the SSR for the next day.

Conclusion: Someone got the price down by 10 % within a couple of minutes but the same someone got it instantly back up after that, making it seem, that their solely goal was to get GME on the SSR for the next day while trying to avoid a panic sell off by dropping the price too low. And that is really important now!

THE RABBIT HOLE PART II:

As I stated in my post on February 24th, I found out, that someone with large amounts of money set up the GME Stock for a Gamma Squeeze. How you may ask? I am gonna quote my own post here, so I don’t have to repeat myself:

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MY POST FROM 24THFEB:

So, we have a few hints that institutions jumped in for some fun.

• There are lot of buy orders with 3 to 4 decimals being made, driving the price up bit by bit. That kind of trading is not possible for retail. (https://imgur.com/a/26y2B8Z)

• Someone prepared Call-Chains to set up GME for a Gamma Squeeze, possibly starting the short squeeze (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/options?p=GME) (Also:https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/lq5tnh/gme_a_whale_is_setting_up_a_gamma_squeeze_this/)

• Hedgies shorted GME with 200,000 Shares. That didn't get the price back down to <$50. So what did they do? They shorted it again with 100,000 Shares. That eventually dropped the price to <$50 again. (https://iborrowdesk.com/report/GME) EDIT: They just shorted another 100,000! That makes 400,000 shares sold short today.

EDIT: ANOTHER FIND: Because GME is on the SSR today, they are not allowed to short on downticks. When GME hit it's 2nd low after reaching the $50 mark, someone shorted XRT with 100,000 shares on a downtick, thus working around the SSR and trying to destroy upward momentum again: https://iborrowdesk.com/report/XRT. Spoiler: It didn't work.

Guess which price would start the call chain? Correct: $50. So, Citadel and Friends and Institutions are battling around the $50 mark right now. Citadel and Friends don't want a gamma squeeze to take place again, so they keep shorting to keep it under $50. And someone with shitloads of money keeps buying and trying to drive the price above $50 before close, so the call chain starts rolling.

What supports me in my theory is: After the price dropped <$50, there was a battle around the $50 for quite some time, after that, the price has been going sideways for hours. Both sides are probably waiting for the other side to do something, in order to counter that with either more shorts, or a sudden jump in buy-volume. That's why no one is doing anything right now, because only the closing price and that we stay around $50 till then in order to close above $50 counts.

EDIT: ANOTHER HINT TO FURTHER SUPPORT MY THEORY: The $50 mark battle had insane volume. After HF shorted GME twice and UI battled around that price, the volume died down to 10 - 20 % of what it was around that mark (https://imgur.com/a/s5lY3Hr). For me it looks like they just tested each other to see how far the other party will go in order to reach their goal and are now waiting for what I wrote above.

TL;DR: Hedgies vs. unknown Institutions (UI). UI set everything up for a gamma squeeze and need the price to close above $50. HF know and don't want that to happen and keep shorting the shit out of GME to keep it below $50. Both sides waiting for the other one to do something. Battle will start shortly before the market closes. Just a theory, no advice, ape hoping for banana 🍌💎🤲

PSA: GME IS RESTRICTED FROM SHORTING ONLY ON DOWNTICKS! THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SHORT ON UPTICKS. (Short Sale Restriction List: ftp.nyxdata.com/NYSEGroupSSRCircuitBreakers/NYSEGroupSSRCircuitBreakers_2021/NYSEGroupSSRCircuitBreakers_202102/NYSEGroupSSRCircuitBreakers20210223.xls) Thanks to u/ HYPERLINK "https://www.reddit.com/u/designerinsider/"designerinsider for providing the list!

EDIT: IT DOES NOT MATTER FOR US IF WE CLOSE ABOVE OR BELOW $50! Just wanted to clarify. If we close above $50, that would be a huge win and an almost certain catalyst for a Gamma Squeeze, if they exercise their options. But what if we close below $50? Nothing changes. Diamonds Hands are really important atm and it's only a matter of time until that bubble pops.

EDIT2: FURTHER HINT SUPPORTING MY THEORY: THEY JUST BORROWED 1,000,000 (YES, 1 MILLION!) ADDITIONAL SHARES TO SHORT. THEY ARE PREPARING!

EDIT4: Seems like Institutions are baiting out the Hedgies right now, we broke $50 again! BUT BE CAREFUL! Hedgies borrowed 1,000,000 Shares in order to short the stock again and again. Our allies are propably trying to bait out those borrowed shares at the moment and the price will dip a few times and have huge volatility. If we don't have any huge dips today, that means the Hedgies didn't short their borrowed shares yet. Keep that in mind for the following days! They might accept their fate today and let it close above $50, but try to interrupt the upward momentum when those Calls become ITM and get exercised.

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Conclusion: An Institution (probably another hedge fund) set up an options chain ranging from $50 into the high hundreds. Well knowing that it will work, because Gamestop was only allowed to be shorted on upticks, because it was on the SSR that day! Why was it on the SSR? The same someone made sure it got there the day before. Because people were not selling GME and the volume was really low until then, they prepared to buy in shortly before the market closed, because it was easier to reach their price target with less capital when the volume is as low as it was that day. Citadel and Friends didn’t even try to fight back that evening. They probably knew who was behind it and knew what kind of money they are fighting against (Remember that battle mid-day at the $50 mark). They tested each other at that moment.

THE RABBIT HOLE PART III:

Okay, now we know that someone planned all this over the span of a week and the plan was executed perfectly working in, whoever planned its, favor. But why is someone planning all this and spending that much money on a gamma squeeze and then just forgets about it and doesn’t care what the price is the days after? Because now we get to the real shit that sounds like something out of a conspiracy or movie. Spoiler: Whoever set up the Gamma Squeeze set it up as a bait for Citadel and never cared about it actually happening or not. They just wanted it to make it look like they want a Gamma Squeeze to happen. Here is why:

On the 26th of February I posted an important post regarding the illegal naked shorting with counterfeit shares. Here is a link to the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lsvl8k/really_long_dd_and_analysis_what_happened/

On February 25th, there was a short volume of AT LEAST 33,000,000 to 51,000,000 Shares (highest report). Those were naked shorts being done with counterfeit shares. Brief explanation: Naked Short — This is an invention of the securities industry that is a license to create counterfeit shares. In the context of this document, a share created that has the effect of increasing the number of shares that are in the market place beyond the number issued by the company, is considered counterfeit. This is not a legal conclusion, since some shares we consider counterfeit are legal based upon today's rules. The alleged justification for naked shorting is to insure an orderly and smooth market, but all too often it is used to create a virtually unlimited supply of counterfeit shares, which leads to widespread stock manipulation – the lynchpin of this massive fraud.

Returning to our example, everything is the same except the part about borrowing the share from someone else's account: There is no borrowed share — instead a new one is created by either the broker dealer or the DTC. Without a borrowed share behind the short sale, a naked short is really a counterfeit share.

So, naked shorting is not always illegal. It is legal IF the market makers are able to deliver the shorted shares within a given time period. And now it gets really juicy.

Fails–to–Deliver — The process of creating shares via naked shorting creates an obvious imbalance in the market as the sell side is artificially increased with naked short shares or more accurately, counterfeit shares. Time limits are imposed that dictate how long the sold share can be naked. For a stock market investor or trader, that time limit is three days. According to SEC rules, if the broker dealer has not located a share to borrow, they are supposed to take cash in the short account and purchase a share in the open market. This is called a “buy–in,” and it is supposed to maintain the total number of shares in the market place equal to the number of shares the company has issued.

So, what we now know is, there was huge short volume on the 25th February, the biggest in the history of GME (let’s take the middle of the lowest and the highest report and we have a short volume of 42,000,000). Why? In order to stop the Gamma Rocket from lifting off and delaying the real short squeeze. Citadel and Friends naked shorted GME with about 33,000,000 to 51,000,000 shares that don’t exist, additional to the already existing short positions they have.

IN SHORT: Whoever planned all that knew, that Citadel and Friends were going to MASSIVELY overshort GME and it was prepared and planned to happen on that exact day. Whoever planned it, trapped Citadel and Friends into a corner of poor despair and desperation. But why on THAT EXACT DATE you may ask yourself now?

THE RABBIT HOLE PART IV:

Let’s get to the final and REALLY REALLY REALLY juicy stuff. Why was all this important? Why the bait setup? Why at that exact date? And to which date is everything pointing to?

What else do we need to know before we get to the juicy stuff? There are about 63 ETFs containing GME, that are massively shorted as well as the underlying GME stock itself. We only need to know about the one ETF that has almost 10 % of their Portfolio being GME for this. The biggest one there is: XRT. Why is XRT so interesting?

As of 25th of February XRT GME holdings increased from 3% yesterday to 10% today. (https://www.etfchannel.com/symbol/xrt/)

As of 26th of February, XRT is also the MOST HEAVILY SHORTED ETF IN THE WORLD with almost 200 % of their shares being sold short. (https://www.etfchannel.com/type/most-shorted-etfs/)

What does this tell us? XRT is the prime ETF used by Citadel and Friends to hide their real short positions from the public.

So, when is it going to happen? AT AROUND(!)FRIDAY, MARCH 19th 2021. Evidence to support that date and everything coming together:

First, we have to take a look at the basis of the current situation.

AS OF THE 23RD OF FEBRUARY, THE SHORT INTEREST WAS CALCULATED TO BE AT LEAST 430 %. THAT NUMBER BECOMES MUCH MUCH HIGHER IF WE TAKE THE SHORT ACTIVITY FROM 25TH AND 24TH INTO ACCOUNT!

23rdFeb Calculation:

Insider Ownership: 23,704,787

Institutions: 151,000,000

Funds: 40,000,000

Retail: 38,595,000

Total Owned: 253,299,787

Total Outstanding: 69,746,960

Percentage of ownership to outstanding: 363.17%

Estimated Synthetic Shares: 183,552,827

FINRA Short % of Float: 78.46%

Finviz Float: 50,650,000

Reported Shares Shorted: 35,538,624

Total Estimated Short (Synthetic + Reported)

219,091,451

Percentage of Shorts to the Float: 432.56%

Evidence to support March 19th 2021:

1. AI Prediction starts around that Date:

2. Remember the naked short activity on 24th and 25thFeb? Now It is really important to look at the date, when the biggest naked short activity happened and why it was so important to look at what naked shorting is and what the result of naked shorting is. Remember! Market makers have a special exemption that gives them 21 days to purchase actual shares after naked shorting. That's 33 – 51 million more purchases by? You guessed it. Friday March 19th from 25th February’s naked shorting alone and 12 million from 24th to be purchased one day prior.

3. March 19th is XRT rebalance day. XRT releases dividends every 3 months. Last one was December 21st,2020. Estimated next payout is around March 20th. By this time the shorts NEED to cover their GME shorts through XRT. (https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/funds-and-etfs/xrt/dividend-history) (Answered that in my Interview that I linked above, there is much more behind this and I explained it there!)

4. Massive option chains set up for 3/19 with volume so big, that only large Institutions who know what’s coming set it up.

As of the 26thFEB, XRT has 18,000 volume on 80$ Puts for 3/19. For comparison: The volume for 3/26 80$ puts is 142.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XRT/options?date=1616112000&p=XRT

XRT Puts for 3/19:

• 5,558 @ $45

• 14,394 @ $50

• 7,633 @ $55

• 29,787 @ $60

• 14,138 @ $65

• 32,919 @ $70

• 8,063 @ $75

• 17,853 @ $80

Further comparisons:

XRT Puts for 2/26: 2314 Puts at any strike on the chain combined.

XRT Puts for 3/5: 2139 Puts at any strike on the chain combined.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XRT/options?date=1614902400&p=XRT

Spy has puts at an insane volume (tens of thousands), for? 3/19.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/options?p=SPY HYPERLINK "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/options?p=SPY&date=1616112000"& HYPERLINK "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/options?p=SPY&date=1616112000"date=1616112000

GameStop has more than ten thousand of 800$ calls for? 3/19.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/options?p=GME&date=1616112000

VIX (SPY Volatility Index) has insane volume on calls two days prior (tens of thousands, even 100k) (Brief explanation to what the VIX is: VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options.)

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EVIX/options?date=1615939200 HYPERLINK

On 3/19/21 Put interest EXPLODES in contract numbers and volume! Only one week later, it goes back down to almost zero.

Facebook is the same.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/options?p=FB&date=1616112000

Coca Cola is the same.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KO/options?p=KO&date=1616112000

Starbucks is the same.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SBUX/options?p=SBUX&date=1616112000

Johnson and Johnson is the same.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JNJ/options?p=JNJ&date=1616112000

Market makers are hedging what they own with puts to save the value of their shares they currently own in case the market implodes. I'm marking my calendar... 3/19/21 is lining up perfectly to be the day the shit truly hits the fan for the market.

5. Quadruple Witching Day.

What Is Quadruple Witching? (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quadruplewitching.asp)

Quadruple witching refers to a date on which stock index futures, stock index options, stock options, and single stock futures expire simultaneously.

While stock options contracts and index options expire on the third Friday of every month, all four asset classes expire simultaneously on the third Friday of March (Which day was it again were talking about? Oh, right, Friday March 19th, the third Friday of the month), June, September, and December**. Quadruple witching days witness heavy trading volume, in part, due to the offsetting of existing futures and options contracts that are profitable.**

Quadruple witching is similar to the triple witching dates, when three out of the four markets expire at the same time, or double witching, when two markets out of the four markets expire at the same time. You should expect all kinds of fuckery on a quad witching date. GME mooning and crashing the rest of the market would certainly be appropriate for a quad witching date. (Quoting u/ Scfi4444)

6. Gamestop Q4 Earnings are released 4 (EDIT 03/14. Apparently the date moved up to 03/23, so it's 2 Business Days) Business Days after March 19th, that’ll be another catalyst to keep the flame going for a few days. Because Q4 is the the quarter, where retail makes their most revenue. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/earnings#:~:text=Earnings%20announcement*%20for%20GME%3A%20Mar%2025%2C%202021 HYPERLINK "https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/earnings"& HYPERLINK "https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/earnings"text=According%20to%20Zacks%20Investment%20Research,quarter%20last%20year%20was%20%241.27.

7. Market makers were so sure of GameStop’s bankruptcy, that they wrote lots of naked call options. A call option is a contract with the OPTION to buy a stock at a certain price in the future. Call options cost money (a premium) and they're pretty cheap. The contract specifies a strike price (at what stock price can you execute the contract) and is always higher than the current stock price.

Because of the massive violence inflicted on GME stock with the shorting, the sellers of the contracts were also sure that contracts with strike prices higher than let's say $20 COULD never be executed. They became greedy and reckless and decided to sell more contracts than they actually owned stock. In fact, they sold MILLIONS OF SHARES WORTH of contracts for which they don't and didn’t own stock.

This means that the buyer of the contract is able to request the stock for that contract from the seller. If you never had the stock to begin with, THATS A PROBLEM. If you sold this contract naked, now you have to go in the market to buy it AT ANY PRICE or risk massive fines and sanctions.

And at what day does the shit hit the fan again? Oh, right, a Friday. But not any day. It’s Friday, March 19th 2021.

MY Conclusion: The squeeze is inevitable. It got delayed many times, but no matter what data you look at, the outcome is always the same, everything points to this specific date. Also: Other Hedge funds smell blood. They can take out some of their biggest competitors as well as making billions and billions of dollars in the process. There couldn’t be a bigger win win situation for them, than this one. I think the squeeze is starting a few days, maybe even a week prior to March 19th. I think that it’ll start March 15th and build up all the way to March 19th, where the real rocket takes off. How long is it going to last? I don’t know, no one does. But I think it’s going to last for at least one week. Of course, it’s going to get more and more expensive to buy in over time, so you don’t want to miss out. As always: Buy and Hodl.

pixel out.

The general sentiment of GME has shifted to beyond bullish at this point.

We know they lost.

They know they lost.

Vast majority of this sub are probably balls deep in GME at this point. There's a ton of DD to confidently invest in the stock, but what does it matter if one has already bought all the shares they are capable of.

With all the evidence pointing to an inevitable squeeze I'm confident that they're afraid that it gets out. Right now everyone and their mother has probably heard of GME but all they hear is the bullshit from MSM. Now image if users of r/all were daily exposed to GME posts with headlines such as these.

(Just copied a couple random ones from the past week)

• This week, and why I am at $2,000,000 minimum. (Now $3mil)

• My Dad who was vehemently anti-GME in January bought his first share today!! The doubters are starting to believe!!! 💎🙌📈🚀

• 🚀Get Ready For The Biggest Short Squeeze Of Your Lifetime🚀

• 🚨IMPORTANT🚨 ALL apes need to read this to prepare for squeeze, or risk potentially losing profit!

At some point you'd have to check out what the fuck was going on with r/GME and slowly more and more people would understand. More people understanding means more upvotes, means spreading fastere, means more shares for retail untill they can't contain the buying power anymore and it moons.

This would also explain the mass reports of the famous apes among us. Those would be the people most likely to push us to the front page because they consistently get upvotes at a rate that almost ensures their posts going viral and hitting r/all.

Welp... Not like it matters. They're just buying more time for their bonuses to go through.

See you all on the moon. 🚀🚀🚀

Godspeed. 💎👐

PSA: IF YOU ARE A PAID SHILL, YOU ARE MAKING YOURSELF GUILTY OF MARKET MANIPULATION. YOU CAN WHISTE BLOW AND RECEIVE A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THAT. KEEP THAT IN MIND.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-266

https://www.sec.gov/page/whistleblower-100million

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Under almost every post and comment section I go to, there are brand new accounts with negative Karma talking about how I shouldn't be trusted, because my 99 % prediction didn't become true, or that I am a quote "agent saboteur" (best one yet lol.)

That's the kind of comments under every single post and comment at the moment. NOT EVERYONE OF THEM IS A PAID SHILL. Some of them are legit retarded and altough I retracted the 99 % bullshit immediatly after posting, talked about it in 3 interviews in 4 livestreams, comments, posts, Twitter and in the Endgame DD, they seem to have never received the message.

I. Why now?

This started immediately after I was unbanned. Why was that? Hedgies are scared, because March 19th was probably a date, where shit was destined to go down. They overshorted themselves, borrowing almost every single share in existence on March 19th and most of the effects are to be seen this week (ETF rebalances and Quad Witching). Warden and I were banned that day, my account kept getting mass reported after my unban and now there is a shilling campaign about how I shouldn't be trusted anymore, because I am a saboteur or a shill myself.

II. Why are they doing it?

They are scared that I and other researchers (like rensole, warden, iamnotafinancialadvisor) will find out and share new timespans, dates or set events, where shit could go down. Therefore they will try to discredit us (me specifically, because I was an easy target with the post), so no one will listen to us, we don't have a big voices in the sub anymore and we all get seperated and only follow the people and posts we trust/like. If they are able to destroy the trust in people, they won't be followed and listened to anymore, no matter how fundamental their research is.

TL;DR: FUD and shilling campaign is entering the next stage. Keep an eye out for people calling researchers saboteurs, shills and they shouldn't be trusted. Look at their accounts. Every single account i checked was brand new, revived (years old but started posting again) or simply never posted in stock-related subs and starts spamming them now.

Edit: I just read about all the messages people have been receiving from bots and shills. Seems like they entered the final stage.

Also: They are hiring Shills at the moment. They really are desperate.

PS: To all the people spamming the 99 % or hype thing and are not paid shills. You are not funny, just some annoying fuckwits. Here a are some of the examples, where I talked about it. So if you feel the need to keep talking about it or trying to get me mad at it, go ahead. Your lifes seem to be lacking hobbies.

1. https://twitter.com/HeyItsPixel1/status/1372633163571281926

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/ltkphc/my_response_some_thoughts_on_uheyitspixels/

3. https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/ltk830/lets_talk_my_thoughts_regarding_my_final_dd_right/

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/ltua0n/endgame_dd_how_last_weeks_actions_all_come/

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32f9CPxGW10&

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Vc-irYsL4&

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mqw4qXHU0Q&

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nCmx8I0bTk&t=14s

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZv6py5NUls&

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-ngMun4LE&t=1s

And more comments that I won't search up for you now. You have enough time to spam that under every comment, so you have enough time to search for yourself. Just wanted to clarify on that. Because I *wink wink* haven't talked about it yet. So if you feel the need to keep spamming that under every post or comment, go ahead. You are neither original nor funny.

Edit: To the people telling me: ThAt's WhAT YoU GeT fOr CalLiNg YouRseLf NoStRaDaMus!!!. I didn't. I adopted that name, because a lot of people called me that. I found it funny at first, after I adopted it, found it cringy and removed it. Read the comments under that post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/lrijdv/my_theory_for_todays_market_close_get_ready_for_a/

That's were the Nostradamus thing came from.

Edit2: All of my recent comments dropped from 10 - 20 upvotes to -5 - 0 within a second. Nothing shady going on here lol.

And donate their time, change the lives of themselves and their loved ones, make a change in the world for the better

So on and so fourth?

Oh and 🚀

Edit: I am upvoting each and every reply as I can, I want you to reach your dreams. Our dreams!

Edit 2: At the rate comments are arriving, I can't upvote everyone anymore! I may miss someone! But still thank you for sharing!

And yes this is my first submission , no I am not a shill karma farming. I have been a lurker in financial subreddits long before I got into gme.

Edit 3 : Shout out to /r/antiwork

Edit 4 : Holy crap. I left for a bit and came back to 20k upvotes and 3k+ comments . I shouldn't be surprised we all feel the same way, but wow! hlod!

Edit 5 never had a front page post before. If you're new to this whole ordeal, read the stickied threads at the top of this subreddit to get up to speed. If you're interested in buying shares find a broker (not Robinhood) to use to buy shares on the stock market. Not financial advise ! read the stickies!

EDIT: This is not financial advice. Everything disclosed in the post was done by myself, with public information. I came to my own conclusions, as should you.

TL;DR - Citadel Securities has been fined 58 times for violating FINRA, REGSHO & SEC regulations. Several instances are documented as 'willful' naked shorting. In Dec 2020 they reported an increase in their short position of 127.57% YOY, and I'm calling bullsh*t on their shenanigans.

I've been digging into the financial statements of Citadel Securities between 2018 and 2020. Primarily because Citadel Securities actually has a set of published financial statements as opposed to the 13Fs filed by Citadel Advisors.

First... Citadel is a conglomerate.. they have a hand in literally every pocket of the financial world. Citadel Advisors LLC is managing $384,926,232,238 in market securities as of December 2020...

Yes, seriously- $384,926,232,238

$295,347,948,000 of that is split into options (calls & puts), while $78,979,887,238 (20.52%) is allocated to actual, physical, shares (or so they say). The rest is convertible debt securities.

The value of those options can change dramatically in a short amount of time, so Citadel invests in several "trading practices" which allow them to stay ahead of the average 'Fidelity Active Trader Pro'. Robinhood actually sells this data (option price, expiration date, ticker symbol, everything) to Citadel from it's users. Those commission fees you're not paying for? yeah.... think again.. Check out Robinhoods 606 Form to see how much Citadel paid them in Q4 2020.. F*CK Robhinhood.

Anyway, another example is Citadel's high-frequency trading. They actually profit between the national ask-bid prices and scrape pennies off millions of transactions... I'm going to show you several instances where Citadel received a 'slap on the wrist' from FINRA for doing this, but not just yet.

Now.... the "totally, 100% legit, nothing-to-see-here, independent*"* branch of Citadel Advisors is Citadel Securities- the Market Maker Making Manipulated Markets. The whole purpose of the DTCC is to serve as an third party between brokers and customers (check out this video for more on DTCC corruption). I'll bring up the DTCC again, soon.

Anyway, Citadel Advisors uses their own subsidiary (Citadel Securities) to support their very "unique" style of trading. For some reason, the SEC and FINRA have allowed this, but not without citing them for 58 'REGULATORY EVENTS'.

So that got me thinking.... "WTF is Citadel actually putting out there for the public to see?" Truthfully, not much... a 12-page annual report called a 'statement of financial condition'.

Statement of Financial Condition in 2018.

The highlighted section above represents securities sold, but not yet purchased, at fair value for $22,357,000,000. This is a liability because Citadel is responsible for paying back the securities they borrowed and sold. If you're thinking "that sounds a lot like a short", you're correct. Citadel Securities shorted $22 big ones (that's billion) in 2018.

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Same story for 2019- but bigger: $25,270,000,000

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2020 starts to get REALLY interesting...

Throughout the COVID pandemic, we all heard the stories of brick-and-mortars going bankrupt. It was becoming VERY profitable to bet against the continuity of these companies, so big f*cks like Citadel decided to up their portfolio... by 127.57%.

That's right. Citadel Securities upped their short position to $57,506,000,000 in 2020.

We've all heard Jimmy Cramer's bedtime stories: "It's important to create a narrative in your favor so that your short position helps drive those businesses into bankruptcy." Personally, I'm convinced that most of the media hype throughout COVID was an example of this, but I digress.

EDIT: Credit to u/JohnnyGrey for the deeper-dive, here..

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Anyway, Citadel shorted another $32,236,000,000 in 2020 and rolled into 2021 with some PHAT $TACK$. Now it's time for a quick accounting lesson; this is where you're going to sh*ted the bed.

You see the highlighted section below? Citadel (and other companies reporting highly liquid securities) uses 'Fair Value' accounting to measure the amount that goes on their balance sheet (including liabilities like short positions). The cash that Citadel received (asset) was accounted for when the security was sold, but the liability (short) needs to be recorded at the CURRENT MARKET PRICE for those securities while they remain on the balance sheet..

At the end of 2020, the 'Fair Value' of their short positions were $57 billion.

At the end of 2021, however, Citadel will need to adjust the value of those liabilities to their CURRENT market value... Since we don't know the domestic allocation of their short portfolio, you can only imagine the sh*tsunami that's coming for them..

Take $GME for example....

We KNOW that Citadel "had" a short position in $GME along with Melvin Capital... Can you imagine the damage that r/wallstreetbets has done to the other stonks in their portfolio? If Melvin lost 53% in January from this, there's no telling what the current 'Fair Value' of those shorts are..

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I trust a wet fart more than Citadel, Melvin, and Point 72. Here's why.

This is a FINRA report published in early 2021. It cites 58 regulatory violations and 1 arbitration. After explaining how Ken Griffin basically controls the world through the tentacles of the Citadel octopus, it lists detailed cases and fines that were usually 'neither admitted or denied, but promptly paid' by Citadel Securities.

Let me shed some light on a FEW:

1. INACCURATE REPORTING OF SHORT SALE INDICATOR. FIRM ALSO FAILED TO HAVE A SUPERVISORY SYSTEM IN PLACE TO COMPLY WITH FINRA RULES REQUIRING USE OF SHORT SALE INDICATORS. DATE INITIATED 11/13/2020 - $180,000 FINE

2. TRADING AHEAD OF ACTIVE CUSTOMER ORDERS... IMPLEMENTED CONTROLS THAT REMOVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MOSTLY-LARGER CUSTOMER ORDERS FROM TRADING SYSTEM LOGICS... INTENTIONALLY CREATING DELAYS BETWEEN MARKET MAKERS' TRANSACTIONS WHILE THE UNRESPONSIVE PARTY UPDATED PRICE QUOTES.... NO SUPERVISORY SYSTEM IN PLACE TO PREVENT THIS. DATE INITIATED 7/16/2020 - $700,000 FINE

3. FAILED TO CLOSE OUT A FAILURE TO DELIVER POSITION; EFFECTED SHORT SALES. DATE INITIATED 2/14/2020 - $10,000 FINE

4. BETWEEN JUNE 12, 2013 - OCTOBER 17 2017 (YEAH, OVER 4 YEARS) THE FIRM PRINCIPALLY EXECUTED BETWEEN 248 AND 7,698 BUY ORDERS DURING A CIRCUIT BREAKER EVENT; FAILED TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN SUPERVISORY PROCEDURES TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE. INITIATED 1/22/2020 - $15,000 FINE

5. ON OR ABOUT 11/16/2017, CITADEL SECURITIES TENDERED 34,299 SHARES IN EXCESS OF IT'S NET LONG POSITION (naked short); DATE INITIATED 8/21/2019 - $30,000 FINE

6. CEASE AND DESIST ORDER ON 12/10/2018: FAILURE TO SUBMIT COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DATA TO COMMISSION BLUESHEET ("EBS") REQUESTS. (BASICALLY FAILED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF TRANSACTIONS TO THE SEC). BETWEEN NOV 2012 AND AUG 2016, CITADEL SECURITIES PROVIDED 2,774 EBS STATEMENTS, ALL OF WHICH CONTAINED DEFICIENT INFORMATION RESULTING IN INCORRECT TRADE EXECUTION TIME DATA ON 80 MILLION TRADES. DATE INITIATED 12/10/2018 - $3,500,000 FINE

7. TENDERED SHARES FOR THE PARTIAL TENDER OFFER IN EXCESS OF ITS NET LONG POSITION (more naked shorting); FAILED TO ESTABLISH SUPERVISORY PROCEDURES TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULES. INITIATED 3/22/2018 - $35,000 FINE

8. IN MORE THAN 200,000 INSTANCES BETWEEN JULY 2014 AND SEPTEMBER 2016, FIRM FAILED TO EXECUTE AND MAINTAIN CONTINUOUS, TWO-SIDED TRADING INTEREST WITHIN THE DESIGNATED PERCENTAGE (scraping pennies between bid-ask) ABOVE AND BELOW THE NATIONAL BEST BID OFFER.... INITIATED 10/13/2017 - $80,000 FINE

9. ANOTHER CEASE AND DESIST FOR MAJOR MARKET MANIPULATION BETWEEN 2007 - 2010. INITIATED 1/13/2017 - $22,668,268 FINE

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Quite frankly, I'm tired of typing them. There are STILL 49 violations, and most are BIG fines.

Naked shorts, failure to provide documentation to SEC, short selling on trade halts..... is this starting to sound familiar? When r/wallstreetbets started exposing the truth, they lost the advantage. Now that the DD is coming out about this sh*t, they're getting desperate.

Let's look at some recent events that occurred with trading halts in $GME. On March 10 2021 (Mar10 Day) we watched the stock rise until 12:30pm when an unbelievable drop triggered at least 4 circuit breaker events (probably more but I walked away for a bit).

Now... I do not believe retail traders did this.. most importantly, the market was totally frozen for the majority of that 25 minutes. Even if people were putting in orders to sell, there were just as many people trying to buy the dip.

The volume of shares flooding the market- at the same exact time- was premeditated. I can say that with confidence because several media outlets (mainly MarketWatch) published articles WHILE this was happening, after nearly a week of radio-silence. MarketWatch even predicted the decline of 40% before the entire drop had occurred. When Redditors reached out to ask WTF was going on, the authors set their Twitter accounts to private... slimy. as. f*ck.

"But wait.... didn't example # 4 say that Citadel was fined $15,000 for selling shorts during circuit breaker events!?"

Yup! and here are TWO more instances:

1. CITADEL SECURITIES LLC EFFECTED TRANSACTIONS DURING NUMEROUS TRADING HALTS..

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2: And another...

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Think Citadel is alone in all of this? Think again... It's actually been termed- "flash crash".

$12,500,000 fine for Merrill Lynch in 2016..

$7,000,000 for Goldman...

$12,000,000 for Knight Capital...

$5,000,000 for Latour Trading...

$2,440,000 for Wedbush...

PEAK-A-BOO, I SEE YOU! $4,000,000 for MORGAN STANLEY

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I can't tell who was responsible for the flash crash in $GME last Wednesday; I don't think anyone can. However, to suggest that it wasn't market manipulation is laughable. The media and hedge funds are tighter than your wife and her boyfriend, so spending time on this issue is a waste.

But what we can do is look at the steps they're taking to prepare for this sh*tsunami. So let's summarize everything up to this point, shall we?

1. Citadel has been cited for 58 separate incidents, several of which were for naked shorting and circuit breaker flash-crashes

2. The short shares reported on Citadel's balance sheet as of December 2020 were up 127% YOY

3. The price of several heavily-shorted stocks has skyrocketed since Jan 2021

4. Citadel uses 'Fair Value' accounting and needs to reconcile the value of their short positions to this new market price. The higher the price goes, the more expensive it becomes for them to HODL

We know that Citadel is on the hook for $57,000,000,000 in shorts, but at least they're HODLing onto some physical shares as assets, right?.... RIGHT??

This should soothe that smooth ape brain of yours...

"UHHHHHH ACTUALLY, THE DTCC & FRIENDS OWN OUR PHYSICAL SHARES".....

Well that's just terrific, because the DTCC just implemented SRCC 801 which means they DON'T have your f*cking shares... I've seriously never seen so much finger pointing and ass-covering in my LIFE....

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I know this post was long, but the story can't go untold.

The pressure being placed on hedge funds to deliver has never been higher and the sh*t storm of corruption is coming to a head. Unfortunately, the dirty tricks & FUD will continue until this boil ruptures. There are several catalysts coming up, but no one truly knows when the MOAB will blow.

However, desperate times call for desperate measures and we have never seen so much happening at once. For all of these reasons and more: Diamond. F*cking. Hands.

in case you missed it apes

Page 15 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001326380/000132638021000032/gme-20210130.htm

A “short squeeze” due to a sudden increase in demand for shares of our Class A Common Stock that largely exceeds supply has led to, and may continue to lead to, extreme price volatility in shares of our Class A Common Stock.

Investors may purchase shares of our Class A Common Stock to hedge existing exposure or to speculate on the price of our Class A Common Stock. Speculation on the price of our Class A Common Stock may involve long and short exposures. To the extent aggregate short exposure exceeds the number of shares of our Class A Common Stock available for purchase on the open market, investors with short exposure may have to pay a premium to repurchase shares of our Class A Common Stock for delivery to lenders of our Class A Common Stock. Those repurchases may in turn, dramatically increase the price of shares of our Class A Common Stock until additional shares of our Class A Common Stock are available for trading or borrowing. This is often referred to as a “short squeeze.”

EDIT - KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ME.

They recognise that

- shorting is over 100% of float

- It is continuing

- Shorts should expect to return to lenders - potentially paving way for a catalyst regarding shareholding meeting, voting, special dividend or other intervention forcing return to lenders

In my last post I suggested that using polls might be a way to outmaneuver shills. That is because unlike posts polls can’t be automatically downvoted, because they are unique each time and there is no down. Only A or B etc. So A doesn’t take away from B in polls, while a downvote reduces the number of upvotes. So polls generate transparency for apes. 🚀

To further my understanding I am once again asking for your intellectual support by answering the following question. It’ll help me differentiate how big the the difference is between people not upvoting the post after participating in the poll and actual shill-downvoting:

These highly-qualified women are hired to do a job. Some (maybe all) are likely reading this subreddit and your comments. Knock it off with the "does she need a boyfriend?" and "wow, what a cougar" BS. You apes making these comments are the reason women suffer in the workplace. Let's help create a RESPECTFUL environment for the women leading this company we love. Sexism has no place here.

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