# GameStop short squeeze
**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281
**Category:** Investing / Brokers
**Created:** [January 17, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281 "2021-01-17T11:46:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Goyero](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Goyero)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/149 "2021-01-27T19:22:17Z")
> [@nabalzbhf](#):
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> If you’re not doing options you’re not doing it the wsb way.
No idea about options, just thinking to buy the shares at good price in case AMC is the next.
is there anyone here who has already bought AMC shares or options?
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### Author:  [@clon](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/clon)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/150 "2021-01-27T19:30:40Z")
> [@Goyero](#):
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> is there anyone here who has already bought ACM
Yes, I bought 500 shares around 4-5$ - rethinking, what I’m going to do with them… same for NOK (what is the case here?) bought some 2023 options last fall - for a few cents, now trading at +4$ (and that was supposed to be a longer term thing 🤔 )
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/151 "2021-01-27T19:39:06Z")
Not sure I get it, [Maiden Lane Transactions - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Lane_Transactions) says it’s gone from the Fed’s balance sheet (it can be in a lot of other people balance sheet but that’s how banking works, right?). Or maybe now we’re talking about QE in general, no longer about bailouts? (afaik those are different things)
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### Author:  [@San\_Francisco](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/152 "2021-01-27T19:42:04Z")
> [@arthur](#):
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> How about multiple trade platforms barring people from buying and selling GME right now? IBKR wont let people buy and sell GME shares for example
Are you trying to buy on margin?
I read they only disabled trading for margin buyers.
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### Author:  [@agniles](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/agniles)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/153 "2021-01-27T20:06:55Z")
hmm maybe [https://www.flowbank.com/](https://www.flowbank.com/) ?
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### Author:  [@Zerte2](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Zerte2)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/154 "2021-01-27T20:22:31Z")
Yes and no: those are very different zoom levels of the same thing: the Fed’s balance sheet.
For those specific transactions (Maiden Lane) it looks neutral, but the money (and actually more) was lent elsewhere to the pool of funds for making other risky bets, actually with a limited risk, due to the implicit the Fed insurance.
A few quotes from a guy who knows very well the Fed _and_ Wall Street, about QE (in 2012):
> The market in most cases will cheer the Fed for doing more. **It will never be enough for the market.**
> I think the Fed is actually at a point of **encouraging risk-taking** , and that should give the Fed pause. **Investors really do understand now that it will be there to prevent serious losses.**
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/155 "2021-01-27T20:37:14Z")
Care to share the source? I like knowing people expertise (and whether they have heterodox views as I usually take those with a pinch of salt)
(Google was no help)
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### Author:  [@Zerte2](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Zerte2)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/156 "2021-01-27T20:50:04Z")
Yeah, perhaps you won’t like him: he is a libertarian crackpot who buries gold bars in a secret location in the Rocky Mountains and keeps frozen Bitcoins wallets somewhere else.
Just kidding (although I don’t actually know his hobbies).
His name is Jay Powell. You know this guy?
You find [here](https://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/mr-powell-markets-and-volatility.html) a larger portion of the previous quotes, and from there, if you want even more, a link to the full original document.
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### Author:  [@britbanker](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/britbanker)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/157 "2021-01-27T21:30:41Z")
He’s still in 😱😱💎💎💎🙌
[Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6ekdz/gme_yolo_update_jan_27_2021_guess_i_need_102/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
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### Author:  [@clon](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/clon)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/158 "2021-01-27T21:36:40Z")
… one bet, 90k → 48m 🚀
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### Author:  [@Zerte2](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Zerte2)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/159 "2021-01-27T22:16:12Z")
If he sells I guess he won’t post anymore for a very long while…
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### Author:  [@Zerte2](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Zerte2)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/160 "2021-01-27T22:26:19Z")
We seem to approach the “HODL!! DON’T DO PANIC SELLING!!” phase:
“HOLD GME!!! DO NOT PUSSY OUT!!! WE ARE GOING TO PLUT! 🚀🚀🚀🚀 IGNORE ALL OTHER STOCKS”
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### Author:  [@Tino](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Tino)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/161 "2021-01-27T22:28:32Z")
I managed to sell an option of GME for February this afternoon. Impossible on TD but in IB was possible.
With this volatility the prices paid are really high!
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/162 "2021-01-27T22:58:31Z")
There’s still some margin to reach BTC, now that GME is more like store of value than a stock 😃
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### Author:  [@San\_Francisco](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/163 "2021-01-27T23:07:26Z")
> [@britbanker](#):
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> He’s still in
With 13.8 million cash on the side, I’d probably stay in and enjoy that savage ride, too.
Heck, I’d [ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCm6gRHINqA) with seven digits just for the lolz and bragging rights!
_“How I lost more than a million in the stock market …in a month”._
On a more serious though: If he “prematurely” dropped out before Friday to cash in, wouldn’t that amount to something like treason on wsb? I’d honestly be a bit concerned for the guy/girl’s well-being.
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### Author:  [@SwissTeslaBull](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/SwissTeslaBull)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/164 "2021-01-27T23:47:41Z")
Reddit and discord deleted WSB
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### Author:  [@San\_Francisco](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/165 "2021-01-27T23:49:12Z")
_“The moderators in this community have set it to private”_
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### Author:  [@SwissTeslaBull](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/SwissTeslaBull)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/166 "2021-01-27T23:52:51Z")
> **[Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server, but new ones have sprung to life](https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253251/discord-bans-the-r-wallstreetbets-server)**
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> Discord says it did not ban the server due to financial fraud.
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### Author:  [@San\_Francisco](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/San_Francisco)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/167 "2021-01-28T00:50:00Z")
r/wallstreetbets/ is back on 🚀
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### Author:  [@Bojack](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Bojack)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/gamestop-short-squeeze/5281/168 "2021-01-28T05:58:39Z")
People get pulled into this game because it’s gambling. Many will probably suffer huge losses. That being said, it’s pathetic if censorship goes so far that it protects people from themselves.
I didn’t follow this madness, but browsing through this thread I saw so much knowledge that I’m missing (what is gamma squeeze). I’m just going to stick to conservative investing in assets with strong fundaments, like TSLA and BTC.
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