Feb 7, 2021
This week we follow up on or episode last week covering what the Gamestop short squeeze was all about. Are hedge funds naked shorting stocks? How margin accounts cause risk to brokerage firms like Robinhood. Why didn’t Gamestop do a secondary offering selling shares when the price was high? Why short sellers don’t ruin companies outright.
Naked Short Selling
Failure to Deliver Shares Reports FTD
Short Interest Reports
Secondary equity stock offerings
AMC convertible debt into shares
How margin accounts work and raise firm risk
How short sellers (or short squeezes) do and don’t affect the underlying companies
Synthetic short positions using options.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Gamestop Short Squeeze Wall Street Bets Explained https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/brokenpiechart/id/17756252
SEC Failure to Deliver Report https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm
Why Gamestop couldn’t do secondary offering at the high stock prices https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/05/why-gamestop-couldnt-take-this-golden-opportunity/
Explaining Delta and Gamma Options Squeeze Robinhood vs Softbank Whale https://brokenpiechart.libsyn.com/robinhood-option-traders-vs-the-softbank-whale
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