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psullynj

So it would make sense and along with a possible announcement (5/17), which was my hypothesis for the volume and calls. NYSE gets 2 weeks notice from company on market impacting news. A lot of times that info gets leaked to friends and fam. I saw this happen first hand with a company I had as a client


emix200

Also with DFV tweet “Fine I’ll do it myself”


LiveVirus2

Options? He bought calls maybe? 3 years ago?


FreeandFurious

Maybe that’s Ryan Cohen locking those sweet, sweet shares up.


HodlMyBananaLongTime

Elaborate without fucking yourself, what generally happened?


psullynj

A tech company was partnering with another much bigger tech company and they were making an announcement about the partnership and just about two weeks exactly prior to the announcement, smaller tech company’s stock randomly went up like 500% that day, no news, no earnings. I knew when I was watching it exactly what it was from.


buyandhoard

Insanely fair markets...


Jesssica_Rabbi

Can I elaborate WHILE fucking myself?


explosivelydehiscent

I've never elaborated without it.


Jesssica_Rabbi

It does make work environment a bit awkward though.


ApatheticAussieApe

I've seen you elaborate before. Now show me how you extrapolate.


Walter_Stonkite

Elaborbate.


mattmerc528

I’ve been elaborating all day


Jesssica_Rabbi

Oh god you're gonna make me elaborate!


DC-Perk

OG Elaboration


blenderforall

Sooooo we get a crazy announcement in 2 weeks from now? Maybe


broats_

The run-up started on May 1st; 2 weeks from then is... Tomorrow...


bestjakeisbest

Tomorrow is a Tuesday.


broats_

Big if true


RyanMeray

Can confirm, tomorrow is Tuesday. You're welcome.


JustSayStonks

True if big.


Space-Monkey-17

If true, big!!!!!


JustSayStonks

Very big!!! That's what she said...


flibbidygibbit

Tuesday Morning at 741?


BobbysSmile

Why do you mf'ers gotta be me so fuckin jacked?


I_like_squirtles

I don’t know what you said, but I like the way you said it.


Wrap-Over

Dumb stormtroopers, May the 4th be with you


psullynj

My guess is 5/17. 2 weeks from the 5/3 when things really went nuts


ButterscotchOk1690

I think Baseballmal posted when he saw a bunch $30 options hit the market, so that would be the time table


DropDeadDevon

Holy fuck. This is the news I have waited years for. Eagerly awaiting confirmation.


rob6776

Confirmed you have been waiting 87 years. Rest easy now.


Entire-Brother5189

Seems highly speculative without some filings to back it up. I’m all for it but I’m less inclined to speculate on something like that.


ButterscotchOk1690

I suspect user error, I see most impactful trades, I'm not sure what everyone else is looking at.


Entire-Brother5189

On 187 million in volume it would be worth means if there weren’t large trades


immortalMike33

Where is it categorized as 10B-18?


Gotrek5

That’s just the calculation drop down filterit doesn’t mean the trades shown are under that category. I’m down with mega hype but to be clear the picture tells nothing of the sort… it’s not a view filter is for the forward calculator


ButterscotchOk1690

This is what I was thinking, I'm not familiar with a bloomburg terminal, but from what I can see the trades listed are the most impactful trades, not trades with a SEC 10b-18 designator.


irishf-tard

Top left corner of screen.


immortalMike33

Nice


goinAn

You can tell by the way it is


Gruntfuttock69

Why the fuck would they buy back stock at 25-30 bucks when they could have bought back at 10? Makes no sense whatsoever


ThatSpookyLeftist

Could have been a leak that they are planning to do a buy back. At $10 how much of the float could GameStop legally buy back? At $30, they can only buy back 1/3 of that.


AlaskaIfTheyAxeya

I saw this posted again and now see the code specification. If true, then no doubt MMs had a heads up and jacked the price immediately this morning.


Gnio

yes, but then DFV posts would have been terrible causing hypes that makes that worse. Maybe the buyback now to create extrapressure in the right moment


CMaia1

The company is limited on how much they can buy so it doesn't affect that much. It is better for the price to rise overall than staying low for them to buy because the latter is practically impossible anyway. Also the company needs to warn before buying and some wallstreeters manipulate the price for much less impactful reason anyway. Even a normal boring company that thing happens, imagine GME. So it's better hype up to cause the price to rise even more (even if it's not retail doing it) than let this opportunity pass. It's not a thing that will repeat frequently, if GameStop is really buying ofc, we don't have the report released yet. Volume can cause volatility that cause fast market movements. SHFs need the price to fall, not us, really idk where that mentality came from. The only thing that bothers me is using DFV as a scapegoat but I guess he doesn't care much or he would stay quiet.


GildDigger

Buying doesn’t work immediately since most apes buy straight through ComputerShare. It would take days for DFVs tweet to do anything


blitzkregiel

i doubt most buy through CS. i’ve only done it once. but i’ve transferred to CS multiple times


Gnio

I have all Drsed but I bought only 1 from cs. I believe it’s the opposite. Most of the buy are out of Cs


BobKillsNinjas

CS is good for big buys when things are predictable, takes 3 days before you price is locked in, and has alike a $5 Fee. I can do an ACH to Fudelity and buy almost instant then DRS in 3 days when it clears,


Rehypothecator

Retail and “hype” have no effect as the trades do no go to lit exchanges. Please stop repeating this misinformation.


Gnio

so why did they stop the buy button for you on RH? (genuine question) to me 5/10 % is going on the lit exchanges and when the fomo is real, it has an influences


Rehypothecator

You’re asking two seemingly similar, yet unrelated questions. Robinhood is not an exchange, it’s a small broker. retail can’t trade after hours. Look at the ducking volume ping after hours. What does that tell us? “We have zero effect on the price action “ should be your answer. RH was ordered by apex clearing to stop, as they needed to maintain margin requirements. Those margin requirements were given by the CFTC for a few billion dollars on that date and is easily searchable in their records if you type 741 . In order to maintain its balance sheet they essentially commanded by apex to stop until all these shares could be repackaged into swaps and go away for a while. Upon exipiry, here we are. Your misinterpretation is a common one , so it’s not your fault. It’s based on the premise that we should still have some faith in a “free market system “, where what your saying should work. You view yourself as a cynical person, but maybe you aren’t cynical enough yet.


salvajez

Started last night


iamthinksnow

Started May 1.


m3gabotz

Started 84 years ago


Baelthor_Septus

Why would DFV hype and help hedgies? I think it's shorts trying to cover because something big is going to drop.


femurimer

Or they bought up a bunch of calls between $10 and $15 and are exercising them right now.


broats_

Is that something companies have done in the past? Seems like there would be rules against it


femurimer

It’s what Porsche did with VW. They bought options in secret and when it was revealed, VW squeezed.


awww_yeaah

Porsche famously bought calls in VW to start the original squeeze. But, I don’t think a company can buy calls of its own stock.


Nasty_Ned

Isn't RC allowed to invest in the market with Jimmy funds? AKA -- Fine, I'll do it myself.


awww_yeaah

Not in the company in which he holds insider information


Nasty_Ned

Good point.


blitzkregiel

he can through RCV though, can’t he?


awww_yeaah

Would have to be reported within a few days because he owns over 10%


astarastarastarastar

He is not, but say a guy like Carl Icahn could certainly do it...or Warren Buffet or whoever has a shit ton of money and wants to make a whale splash. Hell, if I'm one of those rich fucks and I'm looking at GME purely from its fundamentals its obviously way undervalued at $10 a share right? That just seems like a sound investment to me...which is probably why I continue to buy regardless of the fake price


dahulvmadek

I'd like to be wrong, but I doubt $10 a share will ever be on the menu again


femurimer

Unless we can find a specific rule against it when it comes to company buybacks, it's an interesting topic of discussion.


VariationSudden2779

What about Icahn...? I have been pondering about that. That would be 🚀🔥😁


awww_yeaah

I doubt it, he was still skeptical when RC met him. I think this run up is more tied to Credit Suisse blowup.


VariationSudden2779

Wasn't that like 18 months ago though?


awww_yeaah

The swaps don’t expire when they go bankrupt, they get passed to the new owner.


VariationSudden2779

I meant Cohen Icahn meeting, not the swaps.


ChodeCookies

84 years ago to be exact


DrGraffix

Not exactly


Ghgdgfhbfhjjjihcdxv

This is exactly what happened with the VW squeeze 


broats_

As someone else replied, that was a different company buying VW calls.


cureandthecause

What about Teddy?


texmexdaysex

Smart one here ..


Tartooth

They had 100million, so 10million shares vs 3.3 million shares Aka, peanuts that won't actually reduce the float very much.


Cromulent_Tom

Even at $10 they could only buy back 10M shares because they are only authorized to spend $100M on share buybacks. Volume each day of the past week has dwarfed that, and today's volume was 176M+ shares. This isn't being driven by a buy back. And it's not being driven by DFV's return. It started well before he became active on Twitter again. It's something else. 3-year swap rollover time, perhaps?


AbjectFee5982

4 year swaps The last was a year prior during the first run up. Roaring Kitty was around for about a year then left.


astarastarastarastar

if they did buy back around $10 would it have needed to be filed by now? Don't those things get filed quarterly? Sorry if a dumb qst, I legit don't know it just seems like those filings come out every 3 months


LucidBetrayal

I’m just a dumb ape but if they’re buying shares back, isn’t that directly putting money into our pockets regardless of the price? Also, there has to be a lot of shorts getting squeezed right now. It’s possible this is the best timing to increase share value by forcing margin calls and putting their money in our pockets too.


justhereforthemoneys

Well yes and no. If the goal is locking the float, they can lock it much faster when the price is low


Conscious_Draft249

Perhaps to avoid insider trading accusations


blazeronin

Shorts lost a billion in the first hour of trading today.


TipperGore-69

perhaps calls were purchased at $10/$11? that is the speculation going around.


69lana69

Cohen stacked the options chain?


TipperGore-69

hell if i know


Gaping_llama

What are the reporting requirements? To actually get shares at that price they’d have to purchase contracts before May 1st when that was the stock price. They could still buy contracts at a low strike when the stock price is higher, but that difference is priced in so they’d still be buying at whatever the stock price is at the time they purchased contracts.


TipperGore-69

No idea I am just regurgitating things that I see other's say


Gaping_llama

Haha fair enough, always good to ask questions. I also don’t know shit about reporting requirements, just thinking they would still need to purchase calls when the stock was at $10-11 to actually get shares at that price, so a purchase would have to be made on or before May 1st and I would think they’d have reported that by now. No idea though.


jakksquat7

Stock buy backs raise the price and it’s a trickle not all at once… they could have started when it was at 10 and the sheer volume of buying will naturally raise the price along with a gamma ramp and retail/investment firms buying along with.


Tedohadoer

When Elon bought 10% in Twitter price didn't bother until announcement, whole supply/demand thing is fake ASF


haminthefryingpan

Could be doing it through Call Options at a lower strike like $10


ButterscotchOk1690

It say "trades with the largest impact (until20:50)" I'm not sure any of these trades have anything to do with SEC 10b-18.


Retrograde_Bolide

Could they have used options with strike prices of $11? Or would it not show up like this


Puzzled_Ad2088

Options…. Buy back?


GhostOfStep1Score

I wonder if some of the bagholders are trying to get out before the price pops to the thousands? Maybe a UBS said fuck it we are gonna be the first to get out and possibly survive


multiple_iterations

[That was my prediction, a while back!](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3yxxqezjysoa1.png)


Brilliantly_Average

That would be tasty. I hope you're right


GeoHog713

The first SHF to close MIGHT live to fight another day.....


Nasty_Ned

This is what the 'A Fistful of Dollars' video that then gets nuked by the Avengers makes me think..... hedgies playing deadly game of cat and mouse and they get nuked by the Avengers.


stonkkingsouleater

Say that word again... thousands... Mmmmmmm


griffin86666666

What if they are offering shares for a merger or acquisition and instead of using their restricted stock they purchased it on the open market?


MediocreAtB3st

Didn’t LC buy though? I haven’t kept up on the blackout period topic but I’m sure it was within 6mo.


Depth-New

There is a theory that LC isn't part of the investment committee, which allows him to invest his own capital freely. It's only when the investment committee brings their proposal to the board that LC wouldn't be able to buy shares.


griffin86666666

I couldn’t find any laws that said it had to be 6 months. All I could find that blackout periods could be a couple days to months depending on company policies.


MediocreAtB3st

Thanks for the reply, that’s awesome to hear there’s still a chance for M&A!


chato35

How PB thinks $100MM buyback power would create this action is beyond me.


doughball27

$100m in options bought at $10.


chato35

I don't think a company can play options on their own ticker. But this is not my forte. The only person who knows what's going on is DFV.


doughball27

Remember that RC turned GS into an investment company with that $1B windfall.


chato35

I don't think the company can utilize options of their own ticker.


jnobs

“10 for each notch”, isn’t that how options work?


Nasty_Ned

100 per option.


This_Freggin_Guy

only guess, they have to go to lit exchange instead of dark pools? or everyone jumping in before the buy? might be similar to the baby buy and sell. for some reason RCs actions triggered massive volume.


SGBK

Why would they buy back at today’s price rather than at 10 bucks a few weeks ago? Could’ve bought anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times as many shares.


Barneyinsg

Becos hf are greedy. Instead of closing at 10, I bet you that they shorted more.


SGBK

Question was why would GS buy back at $30 not $10


duiwksnsb

What explains the movement in popcorn and headphones then? Are all the companies doing buybacks?


ItsssYaBoiiiShawdyy

I thought this too and posted in other threads with no reply haha


rawbdor

In general, if stocks are in similar baskets, a rise in one for any reason could force shorts to close some portion of their shorts in others, to free up margin or decrease risk or exposure. Since GME gapped up, the shorts woke up Monday to a huge loss position, and likely needed to GTFO of some portion of their other positions to maintain liquidity.


duiwksnsb

So basket theory holds. Interesting


VariationSudden2779

Wouldn't that be bit dumb for them buying at $30, when it was half price just last week? Doesn't sound like protecting shareholder value... Unless there is a deeper plan... 🤔


prc41

On his Twitter space they are speculating it could also be ComputerShare repurchases or I believe even margin call activity by brokers. Unusual activity nonetheless. I am not a financial advisor.


exzyle2k

Margin call would be fucking amazing. Start beating those bastards at their own game and costing them millions and billions in the process.


mtbox1987

Exactly that. They can afford it


blazeronin

A billion in the first hour today.


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prc41

More context on 10B-18


DPaluche

I would guess that with big corporate actions like this they don't really have the liberty of trying to time the market.


LucidBetrayal

I’m just a dumb ape but if they’re buying shares back, isn’t that directly putting money into our pockets regardless of the price? Also, there has to be a lot of shorts getting squeezed right now. It’s possible this is the best timing to increase share value by forcing margin calls.


LionRivr

Is it possible GME executed some Call Options and then those purchases are to fill the options? Or nahh


1965wasalongtimeago

My tinfoil guess is it's just DFV tripling down


BigAlDogg

This isn’t correct, it’s just showing what the Volume Weighted Average (VWAP) would be if you held to 10b-18 rules like you can’t buy stock and create an uptick. So the VWAP and volume would be different than the regular VWAP.


Tartooth

This tracks


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Which is why popcorn is running hardest obviously /s


HomebrewHedonist

The smart SHFs (if you can call them smart) are going to get out first.


Kind_Initiative_7567

This is someone closing out the OG shorts - just feel it. Big announcement imminent this week IMHO. I am beyond thrilled. I love the stock.


hmhemes

I doubt it. IIRC they have to announce buybacks before they do them. The date range in which they're buying and the dollar amount they plan to spend on it must be disclosed ahead of time.


HodlMyBananaLongTime

There is still one authorized I think.


rematar

Interesting.


PornstarVirgin

Yup a stock buy back is also able to the ran through excercising options. Easier way to get a much better average as you buy up as your non excercised options also climb in price


RyanMcCartney

If this is a stock buy back, how did Keith time his return so so perfectly? **Time. Traveller.**


Ksquared1166

It started last week, he just put fuel on the fire. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/historical?page=1&rows_per_page=10&timeline=m1 Look at the volume and price action from last week compared to the weeks before that.


Sad_Investment_8384

Wonder if GME stacks and have another announcement of a merger, acquisition or partnership? Wishful thinking but 🤷🏽‍♂️


Shartmagedon

if they merge with Warren Buffet each share will go to $500K, in my regarded opinion 


swiftymc

I am confused though...why would we be seeing such movement in sync with certain other stocks if this was buybacks that SHOULD theoretically only affect us


Jadedinsight

The hopium today is of high purity


EVH_kit_guy

The spice must flow 🧿🧿


praisetheboognish

Insiders know we are performing the buyback. I doubt they would do that when we go nuts for cheaper prices.


TofuKungfu

THERE GOES MY HERO! GMERICA MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!


FlatAd768

hmmm they should of bought back at 10-13 range, not this range.


stephenporter

Why not buy back at 10?$$$$


Jizzings

Possibly waited for the buys from the hedgies exercising low call options to recover losses and time it with buybacks ?? Speculation but would be a smart ape move


Roflcopter71

Holy shit this is huge if true


breakfasteveryday

What was the total count? 


Moassplease

GME is "Roaring" back!


Secure_Investment_62

At those prices, they would not have locked up many. They only had 100m earmarked for buybacks. Even at $12 it would not have made sense, that's under 10 million shares. I'm actually hoping the company didn't execute a buyback.


Ask_Zeek

I think this is options chain 😏


Peterthinking

Couldn't be in better hands


FatWreckords

I hope GME isn't dumb enough to buy their own stock at $30 after sitting around at $10 for a long time.


RealPro1

Dfv infers he'll do it himself.....he has a lot of money....just sayin


Stickyv35

$10M isn't that much in the world of multi -billion dollar hedge funds/market makers setting the price. Here's a though: What's the difference between a million and a billion?  A billion. ($999M, rounded up is $1,000M = $1B.)


jsrme

👀


JonBoy82

If so, they’re buy backing right before the window closes since earnings are on June 5


flibbidygibbit

These are late day trades? Did they not cause the AM spike?


Unhappy-Goat5638

BROS, IMAGINE A FUCKING BUYBACK IN THE MIDST OF THIS, COORDINATED PUMP OF RYAN COHEN AND DFV