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  1. dreamboy3000

    dreamboy3000 Well-Known Member

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    The first link is to a series of tweets explaining #gme which is a big thing at the moment. The second link is to a lot of threads from people who have got involved in what's happened. It's making a lot of greedy hedge fund guys worrying about losing all their cash because they have behaved shady. This whole thing will be made in to a movie in years to come like Wolf Of Wall Street was.



    https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/

    https://inews.co.uk/news/business/g...-elon-musk-blackberry-rising-explained-846385
     
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    It's shitty if you have money in these hedge funds, but you shouldn't have money in them in the first place, what they do to make money is shitty and causes artificial problems with the market.
     
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    Good

    Short selling should be illegal
     
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    Anyone pay into a pension fund at work? Unless you really make an effort to find out, you have no idea whatsoever what they are investing in.
     
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    What's all this got to do with privet?
     
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    Robinhood and Melvin Capital (one of the affected hedge funds) are owned by the same corporation. The game is rigged.

    I’m loving this bit of class warfare though.

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    I bought some GME shares at the end of last week, it's been a wild ride so far.
     
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    I've just spend half an hour or so on Reddit so I now feel obliged to type the following....

    HOLD!!!!!

    DIAMOND HANDS!

    TO THE MOON!

    and of course... this is not financial guidance.
     
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    They don’t like it up em.
     
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    Amazing what ordinary folk can achieve when they work together.
     
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    The first class action complaint has been filed in New York.

    Accusing Robin Hood of purposefully, and willingly, removing the ability to buy GME stock and therefore stopping someone's earnings potential when they had no right to do so. I've been keeping an eye on Blackberry but was too late for AMC.
     
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    There's now reports that Robin Hood are selling your GME stock automatically without permission. It's one giant mess on Wall Street right now.

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    This wall street fuckery is uniting everyone. 4chan and reddit generally hate each other but are together on this, I even saw Ted Cruz endorse a tweet by AOC. Everyone is united in the fact that the rules shouldn't be changed just because the "wrong people" take the initiative. Surely this is the purest form of free market capitalism that the hedge funds love? **** them all, burn it down.

     
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    AOC, Donald Trump JR, Ted Cruz. United front on how shocking the handling of this has been.

    I can't get hold of any stock worth buying. Still sleeping on Blackberry at $15
     
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    Depends I suppose KT. On whether you’re on a final salary or Stakeholder. Final salary is based on wages. So you probably wouldn’t bother to find out and should be more secure given the fact the company should guarantee funds. but not always.
    Stakeholder on the stock market.
    I’m in a Stakeholder ( Suffered due to outsourcing from a final salary scheme) which has only recently recovered since the start of lockdowns. You can reduce the risk and chose which parts of the stock market to invest in if you wish.
    Coming close to retirement. Fingers crossed, it’ll be ok.
    What are you in mate as a matter of interest.?
     
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    This episode has the same look as the derivatives trading in sub-prime mortgages that led to the last financial crash. I was always taught that you'd want a good wodge and at least 15 different stocks before you invested directly.
     
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    was told of a new product bulmers were releasing that would send their shares up, invested a few quid, made a wedge then knock on door, big fine for in Cider trading:)
     
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    The lad who started it has made $50k into $50m
     
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