I have to admit that this GME thing is really putting the financial world upside down, and it's quite amusing
Well it would be hard to prove "coordinate". Yeah sure people did collective buying but how can you prove it's coordinated? Did WSB personally go to the homes of the people who posted to make sure that they bought? To make sure the profit/loss statements that they provided were real? Did WSB make sure everybody hit "buy" at the same time? You can say all you want on a message board, at the end of the day unless those WSB guys are Professor Xavier who can really control people's thoughts, people still have the free will to do whatever they want no matter what a guy they've never met says on a social media message board that they can log out and close the screen on at any time.
coordination means having a chat room and discussing intentions to trade, and doing those trades and reporting back, which is what happened on redit I bet the Redit thread is going to get shutdown, the SEC lawyers drafting the C&D letter as we speak
How is this any different then let’s say a message board like elitetrader? Who have proffesional traders discussing ideas in journals on entry and exit points. .
if you are a registered professional working for an asset management firm and you are posting on ET, you have to report your "social media" activities to your compliance department if it involves any trading topics that violate certain internal policies in place. If you don't, you could get fired. If compliance didn't supervise you regarding those activities, they will be fined eventually for failing their supervision guidelines. The SEC is taking this shit very seriously, and they are watching. This is not the same SEC before Madoff.
I dont think DeepFuckingValue will be fined or arrested, he seemed to have a very deep value oriented reason to be in the stock. Also, he started lots of videos with a big disclaimer
I think the fact that he focused so much on GME wasnt some evil intention to generate a squeeze (even though, the squeeze was a small part of the thesis) but rather, it was because it was already his largest position when it was trading at $4. When it shot up, it really dominated his portfolio and he wanted to focus on that. Is this illegal in the US?