Mark80

As par for my investment course beyond mutual funds...I had some bitcoin when it was at $3.5k a few years ago. Man, am I dumb sometimes.

I thought this thread was going to be about hard hitting, defenses allowed to defend receivers without getting flags, etc. If it were, I would have agreed with you 100%.

Sure the defense played stellar, but Brady and the offense played just as stellar. 31 points through the first 3 quarters before they went into game management mode. KC wasn't stopping them at all. They very well may have won a shootout too.

Just got 3 more. Now have a whopping 7 total.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is not over yet.

What I'm saying is that CTE is the major contributor to suicides for former NFL players. CTE has been shown to lead to depressions, confusion, and other brain issues, right? I would like to see a study of suicide rates of former players without CTE damage compared to that of the general population. If it's higher (statistically significantly higher to show a correlation) then I can buy off on the "Oh it's so hard to adjust to normal life" talk track. I would venture to guess, yes guess as I have no idea, that it isn't and the issues of depression, suicide, psychosis, etc. are raised to a statistically significant amount only when CTE is involved as the catalyst. In no way am I an expert on the subject, but from my limited knowledge that is how I understand it. Please inform me otherwise if I'm wrong.

Hum...they won 5 games in 2019 when people thought they'd go 0-16. Last year they almost made the playoffs when most had them finishing last (or 3rd) in division pre-season. Unfortunately I think Flores knows what he is doing and has exceeded expectations each season. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here until he proves he doesn't deserve. This is the team we need to be worried about. Can't believe people are disregarding Tua so quickly after 1 season, one in which he probably wasn't 100% recovered from his hip injury. I kinda sorta remember JA not looking that great in a lot of his first seasons games. Yeah, I know, throwing strength yada yada yada, thats why he's compared to Brees a lot and he worked out OK.

He killed himself because of CTE, not because he couldn't adjust after the game but because his brain was so damaged that it was torturing his thoughts to the point he couldn't take it anymore.

In no way encouraged anyone to do anything. In fact, i specifically said I do not recommend getting involved. I'm just discussing the subject and offering my opinions on it same as everyone else.

I cannot lose because I look at it as a whole event. I already sold all my shares and bought back in with only $1k of the profits. I've already pocketed back my investments plus additional profits. So, I can't lose as I see it, only win less.

Except I already cashed out last week at $170 (when they fooled me with their shutting down of robinhood, discord, WSB for a few hours and associated price crash) when I bought in for $40 as I mentioned already in this thread. I just got back in with only $1k of the profits that I am holding. I, sir, cannot lose here at this point.

Hell no I am not sure. But I'm still holding. I'm wondering what the actual float numbers are to see if they changed significantly to alter the percentages or if there are ways to manipulate that data to show what they want. No doubt that if that is the actual number and all other things are the same, then it is not a good sign.

Also, all my Robinhood money settled yesterday and I started the transfer to my other accounts. I'll never again have that app on my phone. F* them and their BS.

To add that, the real mission is to have people buy and hold their stock until the shorts expire and they are required to buy shares that no one is selling causing the price to skyrocket, literally bankrupting the short sellers. They have continued to double down by shorting more and more. Eventually, the shorts won't be available either and, if people hold, they are F'd. Has nothing to do with Pump and Dump. Look at how few shares are actually trading. Retail investors are holding. Hedge funds are manipulating prices amongst themselves to try and drive it down 100 shares at a time. Im perfectly fine holding my shares for the rest of Gamestop's existence...or mine. But if it skyrockets into the 4 figures, we would have won and I'll get out then. Silver is a pump and dump, crypto currency talks are pump and dump, maybe even AMC and Blackberry, but not Gamestop IMO. Probably not. I'm comfortable losing 100% of what i put in. Still super high risk / high reward, but at under $200 right now it is tempting to throw a bit more at it.

No one on WSBs is on silver. False narrative to distract from the real mission at hand. Gamestop. Just more market manipulation through lies by the hedgies and their bought and paid for media stooges.

No, the back-up QB is not the most under-the-radar or enticing off-season story line. I could not care less who our backup QB is. If Josh goes down we are screwed, end of story. Do not waste valuable salary cap money on an expensive backup QB, especially when the Cap is projected to go down.

Because you aren't borrowing any money when you purchase a stock. You own it, you don't owe anything you have to pay back, thus limiting your risk significantly. I can see them being worried with an option that they wouldn't have the money to pay for them if the price crashed. I am not an option expert and if I am wrong please inform me as I like learning. Basically the opposite of shorting except instead of an unlimited ceiling of risk for shorters, there is a limit on floor risk since you can't go lower than $0. I think they are concerned with inability to cover the option losses if it crashes, no?

Restricting purchase of options is WAY different than restricting purchases of stock. I wouldn't have been upset if it was just the options, but it was flat out buying the stocks as well that was shut down which is complete and utter BS. If you are buying Robinhood's excuse that you mentioned and I saw their CEO give and don't think they were concerned with their eventual IPO and the backings of the Hedge funds around that and getting them mad, then I don't know what to tell you. To me, if I smell a rat, it's usually a F'n rat. They colluded with the Shorters to help them get out of it as much as possible. No doubt in my mind. And their business is toast after this clears because of it.

You, sir, are out of touch and ill informed. When this all started over a year ago there was plenty of due diligence documented as to why the company was worth more than then the sub $5 price it was selling at when it started. People stared getting on board for a long play. Hedgies will say their store revenues dropped, completely ignoring the closing of stores in over saturated markets which is a huge waste of money. Store revenue per store was actually up during Covid crisis, nonetheless. Shorters felt they could short because it is brick and mortar, its dying, etc. instead of seeing the big picture. So, they shorted and shorted and shorted hoping to force bankruptcy. Then, a few months ago they bring on board the Chewy CEO who basically took on and beat Amazon in the pet supply ecommerce space. By all accounts this man is an ecommerce genius. This also drove long term interest...yet the shorts continue to short the company. More and more common folk jumped in. Eventually, word got out at how screwed the shorters were and the stock price took off, not because of the fundamentals, but because of the potential squeeze. This is about taking advantage of those short sellers who left themselves out to dry when they tried to destroy another company (and, in turn, its employees). GameStop trading has less than 0.01% impact on the whole market. It will not have any impact whatsoever on the market as a whole. No one is going to lose 401ks over this unless they specifically put the money into the stock specifically. Lets be real and stop with the uniformed scare tactics. Any market impact will be minimal and short term. But hey, keep calling these retail investors "idiots" it has really worked out well so far for the professionals who are losing Billions daily on their genius play.

For the record...I couldn't resist getting back in yesterday after I was fooled by the clear concerted effort to manipulate the price down by the Shorters and sold original shares at $175 like an idiot. Took the profits from that sale and got back in at $240/share. We Won't be Fooled Again! Its over $1k per share or bust on these ones! Now, it's a matter of principle.

....and I got out at 175. bought @40, sold @175. Missed the big $400+ but still not a bad couple weeks! Be prepared for Robinhood to get destroyed over this. I'm taking all my money out as soon as possible. Also be prepared for it to go to over $1k tomorrow since I sold my shares!

Sorry, that language was a bit aggressive and misleading. I added an edit.

Robinhood now not allowing you to buy GME and many others. They are now restricting free individuals to do as they please to protect hedge fund managers under the disguise of protecting the people. This is the kind of deck that is stacked against every normal person in this country. Such a shame. Hope it still doesn't work but gets people more determined and Robinhood goes by by after this. What this means in layman's terms is that the only people who can buy stock now are major players ... aka ... the hedges that are shorted. If people hold they are still in big big trouble. LET ME EDIT THIS, THE BIG PLAYERS HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO BUY THAN RETAIL BUYERS NOW SINCE ROBINHOOD HAD A TON OF THESE ACCOUNTS NOW THEY HAVE TO OPEN NEW ACCOUNTS ELSEWHERE AND GET FUNDS INTO WHICH IS TIME CONSUMING IN A TIME CRITICAL PLAY. This is an epic event and I'm so happy to be part of it even if only for a minimal amount. The movie is gonna be great. Best decision you can make for this is a market index mutual fund. I like S&P personally but any are fine. Your money goes with the market. Expect 8-12% gains most years. Don't even have to do anything to it, they maintain it for you.

Another number I like ... is this in part caused by these shorters liquidating assets to get the cash they are going to need? Or, a part I don't like ... is this common folk liquidating assets to buy more of this or AMC or BB or whatever they are hoping will be the next GME? The market itself will be back in no time if this, in fact, having an impact in some way.

Indeed. I wouldn't recommend now because the potential for loss at $350 is just so much greater than it is if you got in at below $50. The stock isn't worthless. I would propose it was undervalued before this all happened and should be in the 10-15 range most likely when all is said and done. Going from 50 to 10 is a whole lot different than going from 350 to 10. I can still believe its going to 4 figures (or close to) and recommend not to buy as it is by no means any sort of certainty and the risk is too high at this buy-in price point IMO. Fundamentals are in no way part of this play. Its all about the squeeze 100% and that may never actually come. When I mentioned the numbers I was referring to the short numbers. But, if trends continue tomorrow and Friday, it COULD be up to $1000 by EOD Friday. COULD not will, COULD.