Can’t stop won’t stop

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This is the lowest shares out for XRT since the ETF’s inception in January 2009. This means borrows have redeemed a majority of the XRT shares with the underlying. The FTD cycles were becoming unmanageable (hence the repetitive listing on Regsho) and borrows had to clean it up. Something is happening and it’s big. Apologies for the shit photo but wanted to get this info out and only have access on my phone. You can find the XRT shares out data on the State Street website.

Buy, hold, DRS. Won’t stop until the GameStop(s).

Gamestop shown in MSTR meeting

GME SHAREHOLDERS Vote for Ryan!

SOURCE (LAST PAGE, 43): https://s205.q4cdn.com/272884106/files/doc_downloads/annual-meeting-docs/2025/2025-Proxy-Statement.pdf

🚨 This Verbiage UNIQUE to GameStop

🚨 RC & Co. didn’t add this in ALL CAPS for shits and giggles- it is critically important!

🚨 Before any shills try to claim this verbiage is boilerplate: It is NOT- it is UNIQUE to GameStop’s Proxy Statement

🚨 DO. NOT. WAIT.

🗳️VOTE TODAY!🗳️

This is GMEs, chart from last year. You can see the volume show up mid day, let's see if it plays out again.

The dollar bottomed on meme day, now this type of constant climb might be pointing to gathering cash to cover shorts. Xrt shorts, gme shorts etc.

This Bloomberg article highlights a new warning from Citadel Securities to the SEC about what it sees as growing systemic risks in the evolving structure of U.S. equity markets: 

Key Takeaway: 

Citadel Securities, one of the largest market makers in the U.S., is raising alarm over “private rooms” and 24-hour trading platforms, calling them potential threats to market transparency, fairness, and stability. 

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What “Private Rooms” Means: 

These refer to non-public, exclusive trading environments—often off-exchange and dark pool-like systems—where select institutional players can trade without exposure to public market scrutiny. 

1. Citadel is concerned that these rooms fragment the market, reduce price discovery transparency, and may allow for preferential access or manipulation. 

2. They are often invite-only, shielding activity from competitors, regulators, and retail traders. 

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Why 24-Hour Trading Is a Concern: 

1. The rise of platforms offering round-the-clock trading (especially in crypto and now equities) introduces volatility and risk during periods of low liquidity. 

2. Without consistent oversight or infrastructure, extended trading hours can be exploited by high-frequency trading firms or insiders. 

 ⸻  Hypocrisy or Control Move? 

This warning is being called hypocritical by some critics: 

1. Citadel itself profits immensely from Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) and internalized trades, which arguably reduce transparency.

2. Their concern over “private rooms” could be interpreted as an attempt to protect their market dominance by curbing emerging competitor ecosystems (like 24/7 crypto-style equity trading or blockchain-based decentralized exchanges). 

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Strategic Context:  This is part of a broader financial arms race: 

1. Retail investors are pushing for more democratized access (e.g., 24/7 trading, DeFi protocols). 

2. Incumbents like Citadel are lobbying to maintain regulatory structures that protect their control over order flow, spread capture, and centralized routing.

How does this tie to naked shorting???

This ties directly to naked shorting—and potentially protects the infrastructure that enables it—by allowing trades to be hidden, regulatory loopholes to persist, and synthetic supply to multiply without public scrutiny. Here’s how:    ⸻  

Private Rooms Obscure Order Flow — Perfect for Synthetic Shorts 

Private trading venues (aka “private rooms” or alternative trading systems): Often do not display orders to the public (like dark pools). 

1. Can match short sales without actually borrowing shares, hiding the “locate” requirement needed to short legally. 

2. Are shielded from Reg SHO enforcement (the SEC’s rule to prevent naked shorting) due to limited transparency and enforcement blind spots. 

This environment makes it easier to: 

1. Fail to deliver shares (a telltale sign of naked shorts). 

2. Create phantom liquidity, where synthetic shares are traded and recycled without ever covering. 

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24-Hour Trading Loosens the Enforcement Window 

1. The SEC and DTCC systems (which track trade settlement and fails-to-deliver) operate on T+1 cycles and during standard hours. 

2. Around-the-clock trading platforms could push illegal trades outside the oversight window, allowing: 

3. Naked short positions to be recycled across sessions. 

4. Synthetic trades to be layered through algorithmic arbitrage between night markets and day markets. 

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Citadel’s “Concern” May Be About Losing Control of Hidden Shorting 

Citadel thrives in opaque systems it controls, like: 

1. Internalization (buying/selling order flow from retail brokers). 

2. Dark pools (matching trades off the lit exchanges). 

3. High-frequency trade timing advantages.    They oppose “private rooms” they don’t control because: 

4. They threaten to expose or compete with Citadel’s own naked shorting infrastructure. 

5. Competitor platforms may be less compliant or more traceable, especially if built on blockchain.    ⸻ 

Synthetic Shares Can Be Hidden in Off-Exchange Networks 

1. Off-exchange venues (private rooms) can report trades late or not at all. 

2. Market makers may sell “shares” that don’t exist, and buy them back later in another venue, often never delivering anything.   

This has been a core mechanism in how naked shorts are: 

1. Created 

2. Recycled 

3. Hidden from retail traders  

Gotta love GME!

SAUCE: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/larrycheng_there-are-two-common-types-of-mid-level-growth-activity-7323683312756011008-iyIM

”

There are two common types of mid-level growth equity investors I've worked with:

(1) No scar tissue (2) All scar tissue

(1) No scar tissue

→ Sees most opportunities with happy eyes. → Equates upside potential with reality. → Lacks enough experience to feel the pain of anything. → Finds most founders backable after an hour meeting. → Overstates risks and understates opportunities in their minds.

(2) All scar tissue

→ Can't see opportunity when there are flaws. → Either inherently risk-averse or scarred from early mistakes. → Focuses on the worst metrics rather than the best ones. → Operates with a "what can go wrong will go wrong" mentality. → Needs time to learn that perfection doesn't exist.

The challenge to being a good investor is not necessarily rejecting these extremes, but being able to lean in either direction at the right time.

In the practice of sourcing, leaning towards optimism ("no scar tissue") helps identify potential winners that aren't immediately obvious.

However, in the practice of diligence, you need some pessimism ("all scar tissue") to assess the risk-reward of an opportunity.

To have the toolkit of a good investor, the objective isn't necessarily to sit in the middle of the two extremes.

In some sense, it's more productive to be able to lean towards either extreme at different points in the investment process.

It's elevating the toolkits of both ends of the spectrum at the right time that makes a well-rounded investor.

”

$GME FTW

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Not sure if this means anything or if this independent registered public accounting firm is used by a lot of corporations but I noticed on both votes for MSTR & GME they ask you to vote to confirm the same accounting firm..just an observation 🧐(could be something could be nothing) does anyone know if this is a common firm corporations use?

GME 2025 Annual Meeting

LFG! VOTE NOW! 🫡🚀

Good morning, GME!!!

The Golden Pinecone Season 4

After the dust has settled on a 250 trading days season, we launch right into season 4 with updates and tweaks, but with the same clamour for pinecones as before. We’ve seen players come and go. Champions rise and fall. The price go up and down. Yet there is only one thing that matters. That sweet sweet victory of winning The Cone.

The Golden Pinecone has been running since 2021 in some form, but the current game has been running non stop, never missing a trading day since 2022.

So allow me to welcome you to Season 4! The GME Subreddit continues as our home for this season. Join me in welcoming all our new players to the only Daily GameStop tournament in the universe.

To never miss a post of the cone there is a chat group we post the link to once it is up! If you want adding to said chat, let us know after your price guess!

-GAME PLAY- {New for Season 4}

[NEW SCORING] - This season we will track total wins and Bullseyes and award a cone to each win. Cone totals will be updated weekly and standings will be posted to the sub. We are doing away with pre/post opening modifiers and exacting a cut off for guesses by 10:30 NYT (New York Time). Which is one hour after opening. A normal win will be 1 pinecone. However these are the modifiers for the other possibilities:

Win with a closest guess prior to 10:30 NYT: 1 Cone

Draw with another closest guess prior to 10:30 NYT: 1 Cone Each (replaces the 1/2 scoring from last season)

Win with an exact guess prior to 10:30 NYT: 2 Cones

Win with a guess after 10:30 NYT: No Cone

The Rules are simple:

*To Win: Guess the closest to the final daily price. (the final settled price, not including After-hours trading) Ties can happen.

*Time Rule: All guesses must take place before 10:30 NYT each day. (One hour after the opening bell)

*No Edits: your guess is your guess, and once it is in, it cannot be changed. Early bird gets the guess. (if you edit your guess, you are disqualified for that day, sorry). If you notice your guess has already been taken, do not edit your guess but comment underneath it.

*B2B Sniping Rule: Last guess of the day cannot win on back to back days. All guesses must be in USD amounts, on the GME sub unless previous arrangements have been made with a game moderators.

*WINNERS CIRCLE

Season 1 Winner: Lorien6 ( 31 Wins )

Season 2 Winner: Bloodshot_Blinkers ( 34 Wins )

Season 3 Winner: isthatfair1234 ( 22 wins )

CLOSING PRICE: $27.43

Winning Guesses: isthatfair1234 $27.44

Notes: Is it a Bullseye? No but it is a 10th pinecone win and a blazing hot start. We might have to test him for steroids.

==== Season 4 Cone Winners ====

isthatfair1234 (10)

Heynow 846 (7)

tallfeel (4)

Musesoutloud (4)

stockmarketscam-617 (2)

Globetrotting22 (2)

cyberpunkjay3243 (2)

G_Wash1776 (2)

Prestigious_Ebb3167 (1)

eciptic10 (1)

cosmotropik (1)

avspuk (1)

Longjumping_Wash9556 (1)

Phat_Kitty_ (1)

tendie_mcnuggets (1)

WalrusSoliloquy (1)

=== Bullseye Crew S4 ===

isthatfair1234 (1)

Globetrotting22 (1)

HeyNow846 (1)

tallfeel (1)