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I need an explanation; Robinhood & GameStock related

Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:50 am
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67515 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:50 am
Can someone in 150 words or less explain to me the whole Robinhood & Game Stop thing.....and do it like I'm 5.

TIA
Posted by LoneStar23
USA
Member since Aug 2019
5227 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:52 am to
Hedge fund bet against gamestop. Autists saw this and said lets buy a ton of gamestop stocks. Stonks went up. Good guys win

And then the news said:
This post was edited on 1/29/21 at 5:55 am
Posted by Bulldogblitz
In my house
Member since Dec 2018
26801 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:52 am to
Trading places.
Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
16184 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 5:59 am to
Hedge funds borrowed GameStop stock and sold it planning to buy it back at a lower price when it was due. Folks found out and bought it up forcing the price up knowing the hedge fund had to buy it back.

Instead of selling it high and buying it back low the hedge funds had to buy it really high thus losing money.
Posted by TurkeyBaconLeg
Houston
Member since Jul 2018
1704 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 6:03 am to
Posted by TigerDeBaiter
Member since Dec 2010
10268 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 6:41 am to


Collusion between hedge funds and brokerages. Also known as market manipulation.
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
57449 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 6:44 am to
1. so a bunch of REALLY rich chodes announced a “short” where they would sell burrowed game stock shares at price A to crash the price and then use funds to buy the stock back at a lower price B - pocketing the difference while returning the shares to the lender.

2. Some people on Reddit saw the announcement, and in a protest on Wall Street, they all got together and brought up TONs of stock (via RobinHood) driving the price of game stop stock “to the moon” (cryptocurrency tactic) - thereby leaving these Wall Street guys with their dicks in their hands losing tons of money because these Wall Street guys HAVE to buy back at the high stock value within a certain time to prevent screwing over the people who actually owned the original shares

3. Some powerful people (rumors the White House, itself) pressured Robin Hood to halt trading on that stock so the chodes could recoup losses - which is crazy illegal. RobinHood caved and halted trading.

4. All this proved game is rigged just like the election

TL;DR version: bunch of regular people used a slimey Wall Street trick against Wall Street so now Wall Street wants to take its ball and go home
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Posted by tjv305
Member since May 2015
12521 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 6:49 am to
Look up some videos . Tucker has a good one . Billionaires barrow stock they think will drop and sell it . Then buy it at a lower cost and give it back . Sometimes they will even use the media to help get people to panic making the stock drop faster . But this time they were beat at their own game .
Posted by Johnpettigrew
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2017
1633 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 8:23 am to
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive

This sub has it all for you
Posted by zatetic
Member since Nov 2015
5677 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 8:31 am to
There's a group of people who get kicked out of countries for constantly doing tomfoolery wherever they go.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
68447 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 10:26 am to

Posted by JOHNNY HUNGEE
Member since Jan 2021
129 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 10:47 am to
Can some one explain what an autist is like I’m 4 but sniffed paint.
Posted by Hidden Tiger
Member since Jun 2019
1111 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:07 am to
well honestly you are 5

you watch will ferrell level movies exclusively, sports, porn and you eat mainstream shite.

Posted by cwill
Member since Jan 2005
54753 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:08 am to
Posted by GeauxFightingTigers1
Member since Oct 2016
12574 posts
Posted on 1/29/21 at 11:29 am to
In theory, you could take down the whole global system by owning the remaining float.

The big guys don't like it as they have gentleman's agreements not go do this and the government doesn't like it because well it exposes the fraud and could bring down the whole system.

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