Melvin Capital sells out of GameStop

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by guru, Jan 27, 2021.

  1. cesfx

    cesfx

    spread between bid and ask was way tighter than spx atm, 0.10
     
    #31     Jan 27, 2021
  2. Should go short the nearterm vol curve
     
    #32     Jan 27, 2021
  3. cesfx

    cesfx

    my risk is defined and it's a lottery ticket.. if it drops in a week or a couple, I expect IV not to disappear. I might be wrong, but I have limited loss and exposition. I wouldn't sleep with gme unlimited exposure.
     
    #33     Jan 27, 2021
  4. nursebee

    nursebee

    Schwab no longer has shares to short
     
    #34     Jan 27, 2021
  5. Looking ahead in a few weeks, unless some crazy playboy like Musk appears to buy the company, those retail guys have to keep buying and holding to keep the level. They are here for fun and the headlines will have to dissipate over time. They then get bored and will move on. Even if they don't sell out en mass, the lack of buying gotta drop the quotes back down, some shorts covering and fun-again-mindset would create some cat jumps. Consensus is short delta but IV too rich to make it worthwhile, and shorting stocks will deprive sleep for at least a week. Should be spreading to short delta and not paying out much IV. Put spreads, 50delta long butterfly, diagonal spreading...
     
    #35     Jan 27, 2021
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  6. nursebee

    nursebee

    GME stuck halted!
     
    #36     Jan 27, 2021
  7. nursebee

    nursebee

    resumed after just a few minutes, this gonna be interesting to watch
     
    #37     Jan 27, 2021
  8. luisHK

    luisHK

    Holy f*ck, don t follow much single stocks anymore so late on the party, that's brutal
     
    #38     Jan 27, 2021
  9. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    Can someone explain it to me how is it physically possible to short something 140%?
     
    #39     Jan 27, 2021
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  10. physically? you mean short interest > 100%? simple, I own it and lend it to you to short (sell), then I buy it from you again and lend it to you again and I buy it again, a few rounds later, you are short 500 shares and I am long 600 shares, so short interest is 500% on the 100 shares out.
     
    #40     Jan 27, 2021