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Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything short of that is a rising tide that floats the enemy's boats as much as ours.

Edit: For a sense of scale, if about 204k of us bought 1 share, we'd have more than Iger (0.01%). If 146.3 million of us each bought 1 share, we'd surpass Vanguard (8%) as #1.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything short of that is a rising tide that floats the enemy's boats as much as ours.

Edit: For a sense of scale, if 204k of us bought 1 share, we'd have more than Iger (0.01%). If 146.3 million of us each bought 1 share, we'd surpass Vanguard (8%) as #1.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything short of that is a rising tide that floats the enemy's boats as much as ours.

Edit: For a sense of scale, if 204k of us bought 1 share, we'd have more than Iger (0.1%). If 146.3 million of us each bought 1 share, we'd surpass Vanguard (8%) as #1.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything short of that is a rising tide that floats the enemy's boats as much as ours.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything short of that is a rising tide that floats the enemy's boats as much as ours.

Worst case scenario, they get tons of shitposters who are now shareholders that they have to deal with. Best case scenario, they actually drop the woke shit and everybpdy gets rich.

No, worst case is that they take the increase in stock price to mean that everyone believes in their approach, they double down. We all make a profit, but at the cost of more woke shit.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares. Anything up to that though is just floating the enemy's boats.

Worst case scenario, they get tons of shitposters who are now shareholders that they have to deal with. Best case scenario, they actually drop the woke shit and everybpdy gets rich.

No, worst case is that they take the increase in stock price to mean that everyone believes in their approach, they double down. We all make a profit, but at the cost of more woke shit.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

What if, every time Disney takes a massive hit like this, a couple thousand people each buy a share, and then use that share to tell Disney to drop the woke shit?

Then we drive up the share price and turn a profit for all the companies like BlackRock with holdings. If we could get enough votes to do something, that would be fun but it would take a lot of shares.

Worst case scenario, they get tons of shitposters who are now shareholders that they have to deal with. Best case scenario, they actually drop the woke shit and everybpdy gets rich.

No, worst case is that they take the increase in stock price to mean that everyone believes in their approach, they double down. We all make a profit, but at the cost of more woke shit.

197 days ago
1 score
Reason: Original

Anyone think there could be a GameStop opportunity here?

Not the way you want it to. With GameStop, the market thought it was going to fail. That's why it was so heavily shorted. By raising the value, we forced shorts to buy stock to cover their position, which raised the value... which creates a loop.

To do similar to Disney, there would have to be significant short interest and then we would have to go long - we would have to help Disney to the detriment of the people expecting it to fail. We don't want to squeeze Disney shorts because our interests are aligned.

The opposite is a "long squeeze" which do exist, but only really happens on low liquidity stocks. Whereas shorts must cover by a certain time, longs can always just hold. So to do a long squeeze you have to drive the price so low so fast that even the people who want to hold feel pressured into selling. Much harder and would require all of us to short, which is much more dangerous and harder to pull off for the average retail investor.

197 days ago
1 score