This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Kwember on 2025-01-27 16:15:38+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Xerio_the_Herio on 2025-01-27 15:56:12+00:00.

4 years ago today I bought my first share... @ $352.

I first heard about GME prob in Dec or early Jan. Alot of chatter from alot of people, not really fully understanding the thesis, players, or timeliness. There was just a handful of DDs in those early days. Something about a kitty spewing wild tinfoil.

I first saw some nice upward moves the early weeks of January and paid attention, each day getting more and more convinced something would happen.

Crazy talks of short interest, days to cover, not enough shares. I was close to jumping in. My plan was to invest a little, make a few thousand in a couple days and then jump out. In my mind, I was convinced I could turn a quick $50k when all things were done. And I would have been happy with that.

Mid Jan and towards the end of Jan, things got crazier day by day. There were days I almost pulled the trigger. I was so on the fence. I even remember talking to the wife and letting her know about this stock that might do some crazy things, explaining to her about synthetic shares, and all the illegal activities happening with this stock. Somehow explaining things strengthened my conviction.

Then the last week of the month, Jan 25th changed things for everyone, forever. Go look up that week... the week prior the prices jumped but then settled. It's like the engines were being primed. We were relatively flat, but hell broke loose starting the weekend into the Monday of Jan 25th.

I was watching the stock all day, charts, yt, all the streamers at that time. The question to me was how much to invest? I moved $10k into my brokerage account. Imagine wanting to buy but having to wait for funds to settle. That was me that week. And we all played the calculator game. How many shares could I buy? How high the price could go l? When would I be satisfied with my gains to sell?

Well, I jumped in with $10,000 at $352 on Wednesday ($88 today). The rocket had launched and I wanted on.

Jan 4 - Jan 13th roughly abt $5 a share.

Jan 14 - Jan 22 roughly abt $10 a share. The price had doubled.

Jan 25 - Jan 29 the squeeze closed at $120.75 ($483) on Thursday. We all know what happened next...

No the price did not continue to rocket. The opposite happened. The Buy button was turned off, Close positions only, fcukery everywhere. Our rocket ship came back down to Earth the following week. It was sobering for all of us, and we were left holding heavy bags.

But did I learn my lesson? Fcuk no. Great DD came out like rapid fire in those early months after the squeeze. I went all in in April and have slowly bought since then averaging down. I'm now at x,xxx shares with a cost basis of abt $35.

I'm holding for generational wealth. I know you are too. This is our once in a lifetime. The greatest wealth transfer in history. My conviction hasn't changed in 4 years. What once was supposed to be a quick play with a few thousands in gains, now has completely changed. I've been in it for 4 years and I'm here for real change. I want real transparency. I want free and fair markets. No more blatant FTD, dark pool abuse, naked short selling, kicking the fcuking can down the road, buying more days to survive shit that hedgies and market makers have been doing these past many years.

There are many whales who have tons more shares than I do. I see posts daily. I also see new apes buying their first share or happy they finally have xx shares. We are all in this play together to change lives, expose all the fraud and corruption happening in our financial markets. We want a better world for our family and children.

When this is all over, I believe we will make meaningful change for the better in the places we live and lives we touch.

Until then, we Hodl. We hodl the line my brothers and sisters. Our day is soon coming.

🔥 💥 🍻

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Imadeapromisemrfrodo on 2025-01-27 15:18:42+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Ttm-o on 2025-01-27 15:03:37+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/ISayBullish on 2025-01-27 15:26:20+00:00.

I saw my GME stack worth half a million USD at one point in May of ‘24. Wanna know what I felt?

Nothing

Why? Four years of my life DEDICATED to learning their corrupted systems. Four years of my life watching GameStop turn around. Four years of buy, DRS, hodl. Four years of understanding my investment.

Four. Fucking. Years.

I won’t get those four years back, but I will live them up when shorty has no other option but to CLOSE and buy shares at MY PRICE (it’s MUUUCH higher than the current price and the coked out ‘79 Super Bowl Steelers COMBINED)

I have always been, and I always will be, Bullish. There isn’t a FUCKING THING these morons on the opposite side of this trade can do to make me feel otherwise. I’ve seen it all. Distractions. FUD. Lies. Bot farms. 50%+ price drop in minutes. Straight up name calling. Wanna know what that does?

Not. A. Fucking. Thing.

There are ~200k hodlers who hold their shares in their names. Outside of their fraudulent system. I am absolutely THRILLED to watch these idiots have their own rigged game come crashing down on their sociopathic heads.

I am but a drop of water in a tsunami, and the tsunami gets bigger with each and every passing day.

Tick. Tock. Mother fuckers.

Bullish

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/orlando0o on 2025-01-27 15:22:37+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/WhatCanIMakeToday on 2025-01-27 15:06:09+00:00.

As the US central bank, the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) has been acting as the Lender Of Last Resort to the financial system by lending through their “discount window”. [Wikipedia, Federal Reserve Discount Window Lending]

One of the core responsibilities of central banks is to act as “lender of last resort” to the financial system. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has been operating as a lender of last resort through its “discount window” (DW) for more than a century. Historically, however, the DW has been plagued by stigma—banks’ reluctance to use the DW, even for benign reasons, out of concerns that it could be interpreted as a sign of financial weakness. [NY Fed: Can Discount Window Stigma Be Cured?]

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that if someone is borrowing from the Discount Window of the Lender of Last Resort, they’re probably having financial trouble as nobody else is willing to lend to them.  Which is why nobody wants to be seen as a broke ass scrub [YouTube] doing so…

[1]

Just as nobody wants to be seen going into a pawn shop, financial institutions don’t want to be seen borrowing emergency liquidity [SuperStonk: Let's Talk Liquidity] from the Fed’s discount window.  To avoid this problem of borrowers short of cash looking broke at the discount window, the Fed created a new option for emergency borrowing: Standing Repo Facility (SRF).

Additional Reasons for a Standing Repo Facility

Lending to Banks in Good Standing

There are several other reasons why introducing a standing repo facility makes sense. First, as discussed here, it is a way for the Fed to lend cash to banks that are in good standing and have high-quality Treasury securities as collateral but may find themselves short of cash. Importantly, this facility would not suffer from stigma problems that make the discount window an ineffective tool in these circumstances.

[Federal Reserve: Why the Fed Should Create a Standing Repo Facility]

So in July 2021, just 6 months after the GameStop Sneeze 🤧, the Fed created a new borrowing option for financial institutions short on cash to borrow money; and apparently anyone using this new borrowing option will not look like they’re desperate and in need of cash.  A “safe” side door to the same pawn shop.  The author of Central Banking 101, Joseph Wang, says “Another way to think about the SRF is as a type of Discount Window”.

[2]

Repos are different from the Reverse Repos (RRP) that this community has been tracking. (HUGE Thank You to the RRP apes!) and the Fed has a page about both Repo and Reverse Repo Agreements which links to the daily Fed reports on how much Repo Operations borrowing is accepted at their Standing Repo Facility.  (Similarly, the Reverse Repo Operations page tracked by this community is linked from there.)

The Repo Operations page has a convenient chart which shows us a quick overview of Repo usage where I selected the dates from before Sneeze (Nov 1, 2020) to Jan 17, 2025 (when I started drafting this post).  We can immediately see that repo wasn’t used much early on meaning there was not much emergency borrowing from the Fed, even around the Sneeze.  However, repo usage increases over time with borrowing from the lender of last resort happening more often and more regularly after March 2024. (Coincidentally right when the BTFP Not-A-Bailout Can Kicking Bailout [SuperStonk] expires? I think not!) Looks like one or more financial institutions started running out of cash around March 2024 and started borrowing emergency cash from the Lender of Last Resort (going through the side door instead of the front "discount window" door after the BTFP window closed).

Shortly after troubled financial institution(s) started relying upon the Lender of Last Resort, Roaring Kitty returned in May 2024.  

Idiosyncratic Systemic Risk

WHEN things happen can be very informative.  (The SEC redacting Failure To Deliver “FTD” data is a prime example. [SEC Strategically Failing To Deliver FTD Data, SEC Responds to FOIA Request saying they’re withholding data and that there’s no publicly available data missing.] THANK YOU FOIA APES!)

You may have noticed the $2.6 BILLION 😳 emergency borrowing spike on Sept 30, 2024, a very notable day.  On that day, Roaring Kitty “RK” (aka DeepFuckingValue and Keith Gill) proved that stock prices are fake and the stock market broken by rolling his 🐕 position into GME [SEC Filing for the sell; DD for the roll].  🤔

We can look closer at the time frame when RK returned to see if any of these bigger emergency borrowing spikes correlate with key events of the GME saga and FTD redactions. 

• May 9 is a pretty damn good start as that’s the day Roaring Kitty 👍 a tweet for the movie Run LOLa Run.  Two days later (e.g., on T2 settlement) GME ran, peaking at $64 intraday with a high close of $48.75 on May 14.
• May 16 is interesting as that’s right after GME was slammed down after spiking up to a May 14th high of $64.83.  Was $100M in emergency funding borrowed to push GME back down? 🤔 GME did a 45M ATM Offering the very next day (i.e., May 17) which suggests the possibility GameStop was asked to help smooth things out and banked $933M in the process.
• June 5 is interesting because two days prior BRKA glitched dropping from ~$618,000 to $185 which was followed the next day by a DTCC Bulletin on Unscheduled Closing in the event a former President needs mourning; and these events occurred in between Roaring Kitty’s YOLO posts (6/2, 6/3, and 6/6).  On June 7, GameStop did a 75M ATM Offering ending on June 11 which suggests the possibility GameStop was again asked to help smooth things out and banked $2.1 BILLION in the process.
• June 13 Deep Fucking Value posts another YOLO Update showing he’s acquired 4M more shares and, on the same day, $100M in emergency funding was borrowed.  (GME closed at $29.12 on June 13 where 4M ...

Content cut off. Read original on https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1ibb5yk/federal_reserve_is_backstopping_shorts_as_the/

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/rbr0714 on 2025-01-27 14:39:53+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Instinct--- on 2025-01-27 14:05:27+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Expensive-Two-8128 on 2025-01-27 14:04:25+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/doodaddy64 on 2025-01-27 14:02:18+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Freadom6 on 2025-01-27 13:38:12+00:00.

* Obligatory, I am not a financial advisor and this is not financial advice. Don't follow along blindly, do your own research and question everything, including my work. I manually pulled all of this information from Edgar. It is possible mistakes were made though I gave it my best effort to avoid any mistakes. I am going to attempt to keep this post to just the data and not speculate or dive much deeper. I will likely make additional posts covering additional information beyond what is shared here as it is a lot of data/information to go through.

TL;DRS

This is the 3rd update in the $GME holdings and $GME lending data of registered management investment companies (ETFs and mutual funds primarily) from their required quarterly portfolio holdings NPORT-P filings. In the prior posts we saw that securities lending is complex and has many risks particularly if borrowers were to default in the chain of returning the shares. The funds report their holdings of GME, the value of their shares, and the value they have on loan through the NPORT-P filings.

Using basic math, we can calculate the # of shares being lent by each fund.

(Value on loan/Value) = % value on loan.

% value on loan x Shares owned ~ Shares on loan🤓

Many of these funds lend to Prime Brokers and Market Makers (we can see exactly who the fund lends to which gives a good idea of who's borrowing $GME), who in turn either short sell or relend the securities to their hedgie buddies or counterparts for a higher interest rate than the fund charges for the initial lend, who then likely short. At some point the determination is made to "cellar box" a shorted company, and these parties then attempt to infiltrate the board of directors of the target to run the company into the ground from the inside out while the hedge funds and Primes run smear campaigns, naked short, spoof, and use other nefarious methods to ultimately drive the company into bankruptcy, but I digress, that's not part of this post... And this is not your normal target company.

From post 1 to 2 we saw a giant leap in securities lending from late 2021 to late 2022. Since late 2022, the funds have primarily recalled their lent shares and sold them off. I have not pinpointed when this began but will over the coming weeks and will share that information. However, several funds continue to lend more shares than they own, or nearly all of the shares they claim ownership of. Here is a graphic comparison of the data from post 1 to post 2 to post 3. The final column is the comparison since late 2022 to the latest filings this year which were filed from 10/2024 - 12/2024 and reporting for August - October of 2024.

Significant drop in the number of funds holding $GME, huge drop in funds lending out their $GME, same with funds lending more than 90% of their $GME...

This graphic shows that over 33M shares have been sold off by the funds since 2022 all while recalling 38M in shares that were previously lent out. Of the 17M still being held by the funds, only 31.6% is on loan versus 86% of 50M in late 2022.

We can also see that there are now only 4 funds with short positions versus 9 at the end of 2022. The Swaps and Total Return Swap Baskets have disappeared from the filings as well and were likely closed or shifted elsewhere.

With these giant drops in ownership and lending I honestly thought we would see higher price hikes by now. Then I remembered that derivatives move the market more than anything and $GME shorts are likely rehypothecated to kingdom come... So, it's worth taking all of this information with a grain of salt. I do find this drop in lending to be very bullish though. The less ownership of shares held within the funds, the less impact direct shorting of the funds themselves has, the less ability to get shares from creation/redemption of ETF shares, and less direct borrowing of shares from within the fund itself, as we see here.

Here are the funds estimated to be lending out the most $GME shares:

FUDelity Funds are currently estimated to be lending the most $GME shares. The 2nd column from the right lists the amount of shares estimated to be lent.

I've also included a column for the largest securities borrowers from many of these funds... They are the same names repeating over and over again so I really could have just filled out the first one or two and you would see enough to see who is likely borrowing shares of $GME to ultimately be sold short.

I wonder if Dimensional ETF will submit an amended NPORT-P tomorrow just as John Hancock Variable Trust did after my last post where I showed they were lending more $GME than they owned. I wonder if any of these guys below will?

Highest % of $GME Owned on Loan

The top 7 funds are lending more $GME than they own. This must be one of those free money glitches, right?

Here are the remaining funds that are lending out their $GME, from most to least (image 1 of the most lent shares is listed above):

Here are the Funds carrying short positions:

Idiots

Here are the Funds NOT lending their $GME:

TL;DR Since late 2022 'Funds' have recalled and sold off a lot of their $GME positions. I believe this to be bullish as shorted securities need to be borrowed from somewhere to begin the process of being shorted, and they have been recalled by most funds who were previously lending. The less ownership of shares held within the funds, the less impact direct shorting of the funds themselves has, the less ability to get shares from creation/redemption, and less direct borrowing of shares from within the fund itself, as we see here. What has caused these securities to be called back in? Time will tell.

Happy Sneeze-iversary!

Tanks fo reedin

💜

• Apologies for the small text. It is a lot of information on one spreadsheet. I have made it as easily readable as possible. You will need to pull the information yourself from Edgar to double check my work.

Links to previous posts:

NPORT Deep Dive I

NPORT Deep Dive II

Edit: grammar

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Top-Giraffe-6073 on 2025-01-27 13:25:31+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/FunkyChicken69 on 2025-01-27 12:39:56+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/headin2sound on 2025-01-27 12:10:29+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Pharago on 2025-01-27 11:43:15+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/fox050181 on 2025-01-27 11:34:42+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/The-BlackLotus on 2025-01-27 11:25:56+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/ManCakes89 on 2025-01-27 11:09:10+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/DogOnTheLeash on 2025-01-27 10:37:09+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Djtrickyyy on 2025-01-27 10:09:08+00:00.

Original Title: Superstonk buy and hodl GME > Market crashes > GME explodes in price > Superstonk buys and hodl the entire market > Superstonk investors become new Warren Buffett greatest investors of all time > Superstonk buy moon

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/xbmaxxx on 2025-01-27 08:15:40+00:00.

Given all the uncertainty of the carry trade impact on GME and beyond this week, wanted to bring up some old and relevant DD related to some recent findings. Barely having a wrinkle myself, I thought this was interesting, so thought I'd also share for you new smooth brains just in case you're not completely vegetable.

1. We recently learned about the DTCC's Ireland repository representing over 100+ quintillion in OTC derivative value. Yes, quintillion. Whatever that means:

2. In that discussion, you dumb apes showed lots of love to this comment of mine:

"Am merely smooth brained Jan 2021 OG ape, but, have earned a wrinkle or two. I think this is significant because all those OTC (dark pool) trades which drive the massive volume (likely fake volume fueled by ETF abuse to manipulate price) end up as FTDs on someone's books. This sub has talked about in the past DTCC's obligation warehouse, but as we all know, SHF and their conspirators really don't like blemishes on their books/balance sheets. Could Ireland be where the bodies/FTDs are buried? Need a more wrinkly brained ape to expand/poke holes in this theory. Not financial advice. Am ape with computer on the internet. Do not listen to me."

3. Tonight I saw this post by Kristen Shaughnessy (all credit to @kshaughnessy2) on Feb 2nd, 2024 referencing a video with a CEO named Jon Brda:

"Listen to the video below.

@johnbrda explains how FINRA makes short positions disappear. Also read his tweet below.

...they called me back a couple days later and said FINRA told us that two million shares that were short moved offshore and therefore they are out of the U.S. purview so they don't count them as short anymore. I said 'well that's the most insane thing I've ever heard in my life. Why would they not treat them as a short position when they know full well what happened to them?' And she couldn't explain it to me because she was the one saying that every single share is always accounted for.

Well this is hard core evidence that is absolutely not the truth

@johnbrda"

4. Being as smooth as I am, even since Jan 2021, I remembered that name. His name was John Brda. So like any 🙌💎🦍, I just kept mashing the search button on our mountain of DD. Lo and behold this thick, wrinkly stud of a post from three years ago (wish reddit showed actual posting dates, so assuming sometime in 22):

"How shorts disappear directly from the horses mouth."

That bulging post features a now-dead link to a Twitter spaces discussion that included John Brda. That wrinkly ape OP recalled:

"Early on there was discussion about short positions being moved offshore. We also have the Brazilian puts for GME. This ties right into that. We also hear John saying that NASDAQ is completely unable to track these offshore short shares that were moved."

5. Assuming that post was in 22, in the comments you regards saw the writing on the wall about CS's then yet-to-happen implosion arising from the Brazillian puts (Archegos' puts, right? Please correct me if wrong):

[Haywood_jablowmeeee]:"They were immediately moved to Credit Susie’s after they were found…. "

[deleted]: "Funny, now they’re insolvent"

Then a year later.....

"On 27 June 2023, UBS announced its intention to cut more than half of Credit Suisse's workforce. In July 2024, Credit Suisse (Schweiz) ceased to exist as a separate legal entity after fully being integrated into UBS Switzerland."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit/_Suisse#%3A%7E%3Atext=On+27+June+2023%2C+UBS%2Cbeing+integrated+into+UBS+Switzerland.

So here's my question resulting from all these connections about offshoring:

Was Credit Suisse the canary in the coal mine for a toxic position so bad, so nasty, and so much smaller than the amounts represented by DTCC Ireland repository? Presumably, some unknown percentage of those absurd numbers also represent fatally fucked positions held by some as-yet-to-fail others. And if so, r shorts fuk'd?

Not financial advice. Not quant. Am ape with computer on internet. Just making connections and showing big ape balls. Do not listen to me.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Chillax420x on 2025-01-27 02:44:40+00:00.

ITS TODAY. Fuck tomorrow, tomorrow never come. ITS TODAY.

People have been waiting, holding for this for so long. The electric car stock popped, the gpu stock popped, the dog co!n popped, the shtcoin too.

ITS THE GOOD PEOPLE'S TURN. ITS TODAY. If not today then after 12am it will become TODAY again. TODAY IT WILL HAPPEN.

TODAY MOASS WILL HAPPEN. TODAY WE WILL ALL MAKE IT. TODAY WE WILL ENJOY LIFE. TODAY WE WILL ALL BE FREED OF THIS SLAVERY HELL.

Thanks if you read up to this point. If you feel like this is one of those trash hype post I'm sorry I wasted your time, hope your life will become much better than mine.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/Droctagoner on 2025-01-27 09:27:33+00:00.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/j__walla on 2025-01-27 09:06:03+00:00.