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0. Preface
Welcome. WELCOME. More patterns. More dates (T+21 dates).
Iām not a financial advisor - I donāt provide financial advice. Also, you must be pretty nuts to be listening to a Pomeranian.
I made a post before about the price entering the DANGER ZONE and thought it was above $160. Well, letās revisit that topic because of the interesting price movement we have been getting.
Somebody. PLEASE call Kenny. Marge? You there?
TLDR: Danger Zone part 2
The price floor continues to rise each T+21 cycle.
Price goes on a Crabby Move š¦on normal T+21 dates - floor rises about $30 each time.
Price goes on a Parabolic Move šbetween T+21 dates where major options come into play (January 15, April 16, July 16) - floor rises about $80 each time.
If the price pattern continues, we should see a $500 floor by January 2022.
Shorts havenāt covered. They post unrealized losses and unrealized gains to mess with you.
Retail average base cost is (probably) around $156.57. This is most likely the shorter average short price.
Shorts with an average price of $156.57 would experience 100% loss around $313.14. (Speculative based on data - the real cost could be around $350).
Shorters are terrified of $300+, thereās been a big battle here for a few days, hinting that small short positions are about to hit margin call territory (the Danger Zone).
The current price momentum in this gamma is much stronger than the previous two gammas of January and March. Theyāre trying desperately to not let it take off.
The moment one shorter falls, the dominos fall.
I like the stock. I also like you.Ā š
1. Ever-Rising Price Floor And Projection For The Next Few Cycles
Iāve been getting pinged a lot on the next T+21 dates and when the next possible parabolic move could be coming. You might say āPast performance is no guarantee of future resultsā and generally I would agree. But with T+21 consistently occurring and the parabolic moves so far looking like they were triggered by major option dates, Iād say itās a pretty good bet that past performance will guarantee future results.
Every 21 trading days a price spike occurs. Upon each spike, the clock resets to 0, and you count up 21 trading days following. Note that you must ignore holidays.
Major options dates appear to drive parabolic moves upward. āMajor datesā are the only option dates which were available early last year for the 2021 trading year.
January 15 ā> February 24 - March 10; Parabolic Move
April 16 ā> May 25 - June 9; Parabolic Move (Maybe more movement to come)
July 16 ā> August 24 - September 8; Parabolic Move (Projected)
I will say, the only thing that could make this crap the bed is ifĀ DTC-2021-009Ā somehow affects T+21. Guess weāll have to see what happens on June 24th, the next T+21. Iām thinking it does not, since T+21 is most likely not caused by a DTC rule, and therefore the DTC canāt mess with that timeframe.
On another note,Ā there is speculation that T+21 is not actually a thing. It could be due to other mechanics we donāt fully understand (T+35 rule or Net Capital for example).Ā That being said,Ā weāre consistently in this loop so far. So, for the sake of making it easy to understand the loop, I think itās safe to continue calling it T+21.
Without further ado, here you go! Projection of price movements with T+21 dates labeled for the next few months.
Price Projection Based On Rising Floor Every T+21 Days And Major Option Expirations
Itās a bit of a wild chart, so Iām sorry if itās cluttered. Iāve plotted with curvy lines the parabolic momentum that we see, and the crabby moves we get dependent on the different factors at play that cycle:
February 24 -> March 25: Parabolic Move š (January 15 options)
March 25 -> April 26: Crabby Move š¦
April 26 -> May 25: Crabby Move š¦
May 25 -> June 24: Parabolic Move š (April 16 options)
June 24 -> July 26: Crabby Move š¦
July 26 -> August 24: Crabby Move š¦
August 24 -> September 8: Parabolic Move š (July 16 options)
In the chart, thereās blue boxes starting at the floor of the previous cycle and ending at the floor of the next cycle. I drew them very roughly, so the numbers on the graph arenāt exact. Sorry. Iām moving a bit quick.
Youāll see that the floor has continued to rise. Although Iām sure many have already seen that from the exponential floor posts! This is expanding on those posts and is a visualization to show that the floor rises every T+21 day cycle. So far, it looks like it rises at a very nice rate, even with the crabby cycles:
Crabby Moves š¦ increase the floor roughly $30 each time.
Parabolic Moves š increase the floor roughly $80 each time.
If the patterns follow, we could see the following price floors. Note that between April 26 and May 25 that the price broke below the previous floor. Thatās ok and expected. They can short a hell of a lot more shares to try to pull the price down between these cycles, but the floor continues to rise upon each T+21 date, despite this trickery.
T+21 Date | Price Floor (Roughly) | $ Increase From Previous | % Increase From Previous (Rounded) |
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February 24 | $45 | - | - |
March 25 | $116 | $71 | 157% |
April 26 | $148 | $32 | 28% |
May 25 | $182 | $34 | 23% |
June 24 | $259 | $77 | 42% |
July 26 (Projected) | $289 | $30 | 12% |
August 24 (Projected) | $318 | $29 | 10% |
September 8 (Projected) | $396 | $78 | 25% |
After September 8 I donāt think weāll see another parabolic move for a while, since that would be due to the last āmajor option dateā of 2021 (July 16 options). The next āmajor option dateā would be for January 2022. But, if the pattern continues, then the price floor would be around $500 by January 2022. Ooftah. Think they could last that long?
2. Short Position āGainsā And āLossesā Are Unrealized. They Averaged Up.
I want to bring your attention to another matter that has popped up a lot, and thereās a lot of celebration around it. The articles about short sellers ālosingā billions of dollars in short positions on meme stocks. Horray!!! Shorts are bleeding money! Right? I donāt think so. Theyāre bleeding, but not for this reason.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/06/03/short-sellers-lose-almost-5-billion-in-one-day-on-meme-stocks.html#:~:text=CNBCās%20Kristina%20Partsinevelos%20reports%20on,investors%20push%20the%20names%20higher.
Iāve always thought these articles being posted were interestingā¦. almost as if they wanted to convey that the shorters ācoveredā. (A few small shorters, like new retail shorters, might have covered. But not the big ones).
Hint hint. They havenāt covered. They do not plan to cover. The margin call Thanos snap when they get liquidated will finally make them cover.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lawubt/hey_everyone_its_mark_cuban_jumping_on_to_do_an/
I always look back at the total PUT OI going on an absolute tear in January when they hid SI% and think to myself, āDamn. Thatās totallyĀ notĀ normal.ā
Take a look at this. PUT OI spikes to 2e6 OI =Ā 200m shares worth in PUTs.Ā These PUTs were spread far and wide to many options expiring from February 5 all the way to January 2023. What in the hell? Totally normal hedge move, yup. Totally normal.
CALL and PUT OI Comparison; Data from /u/yelyah2
Theyāre not covering. Theyāre hiding their shorts and trying everything they can to scare you off.
So in my eyes these articles are all bull. Especially this one from the start of March:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/melvin-capital-posts-return-of-more-than-20percent-in-february-sources-say.html
I remember getting pinged about this article and being told that Melvin won, shorters exited, blah blah blah, that was the FUD back then.
How could they possibly gain 20% in February after getting obliterated in January? Well⦠they, and other shorters, must have averaged up their short position price. Anyone who took advantage of the GME peak price in January was able to have a fun time with gains.
Short Position Unrealized Gains / Losses Based On Opening New Shorts
Their overall short position price went up, so they could post that they had returns/gains on that massive downward momentum in February. But these gains are all unrealized. They arenāt covering, theyāre just digging a deeper hole because thatās all they can do.
3. Average Retail Buy Price; Average Short Position Price
Itās an absolute WARZONE right now. The price is so desperately trying to go on a run upward.
Last week I was noticingĀ how similar this run was to February, and I was predicting that weād seeĀ another Gamma Neutral spikeĀ on June 4th.Ā BUT IT SPIKED UP TWO DAYS EARLIER THAN EXPECTED ON JUNE 2nd. [Data courtesy ofĀ /u/yelyah2]
That was a big, āWait. What?ā moment for me because it implied this gamma was ready to take off much sooner than the previous gamma run of February 24 - March 10. I should have noticed earlier at how much stronger this run was compared to the previous two gammas. Check out this comparison of the price hammers for January, March, and June gamma runs. Big shout out toĀ /u/sharp717Ā for identifyingĀ the similarities to the January run as well.
Price Momentum Being Contained. January, March, and June Gamma Squeezes
Thereās huuuuge momentum that they have been trying to contain ever since May 25th. The price has been swinging up and down massively each day in this parabolic cycleš.
Have they succeeded with suppressing the gamma squeeze? I mean, time will tell. June 9th is when I expected it to either start to go parabolic or be flash crashed down. But itās a goddamn battlefield right now! And this parabolic run is much different and stronger than the previous one. I personally think this run isnāt over with. Their attacks are weaker every time, and thereās so much strength still in this parabolic cycleš.
Thereās so much ammunition being thrown because it truly is getting close to margin call territory, and theyāre most likely hurting even more in captial from January 15 and April 16 options expiring.
Did I say margin call territory? I mean - the DANGER ZONE. Marge, call Kenny. Please.
Some big brain apes discussed this Webull chart and the implications of it relating to their āDanger Zone priceā. It truly is a goldmine. With how popular Webull is itās probably safe to use this as a baseline for retail (and indirectly a baseline for shorters).
Webull GME Statistics. Average share cost of $156.57
What is this telling us?
Each horizontal bar represents a cluster of cost basis for retail shares. For example you can see a huge cluster between $76.83 and $156.57. Thereās way more retail that own shares at that price point than anything above $302.56.
The red indicates that the shares owned above $302.56 (price point when this screenshot was captured) currently have unrealized losses. āTheyāre in the redā
Likewise, the green indicates that the shares owned below $302.56 currently have unrealized gains. āTheyāre in the greenā.
The blue price point of $156.57 is the average ownership price.
Seems fair.Ā We can most likely assume that retailās average base cost is around $156.57. Most retail probably started buying in around December, because thatās when the news of a GME short squeeze started to really take off. We can now indirectly say that this is also the average short position price.
GME wasĀ over 100% shortedĀ in December:
You have to have naked shorts to get over 100% in the first place.
OBV implies that barely anyone is selling.
This signifies a liquidity issue where synthetics are created, ever-increasing the SI%.
Any retail buy was most likely a new short position that was opened or a swap between paper hands and diamond hands.
Our dear shorties might have an average short position of around $156.57. Give or take a little bit.
If you have aĀ longĀ position that you opened up at $156.57, and the price goes down to $78.28, youāll be down 50%. If it continues down to $39.14, youāll be down 75%.
If you have aĀ shortĀ position that you opened up at $156.57, and the price goes up to $234.855, youāll be down 50% on margin. If it continues up to $313.14, youāll be down 100% on margin. BOOM. Marge starts calling.
Assumptions per a big brain ape who discussed this:
Generally the margin requirements on short positions is 100% cash value of the position
WeBull is a large enough broker to likely be considered a representative sample of all GME holders.
This is assuming the positions are unlevered - levering would reduce the margin call point.
This is assuming additional capital was not raised against the positions [Such as shill stock tickers pumped and dumped / Crypto / etc].
4. Danger Zone Part 2
They dun goofed. Their FUD attack today (which we expected) was fruitless. All their tricks have been found out lmao.
Guess what, Ken? Hereās my trick. Itās crayons showing the goddamnĀ Danger ZoneĀ youāre entering and so desperately trying to stay out of.
The new and improved danger zone is based on the average short price of $156.57 which would trigger 100% losses atĀ $313.14Ā assuming 100% margin requirements.
[Note: Speculative based on Webull data. This could very well be $350 or higher, but the battle at $300 signals that this is a very rough place for the shorters to be].
Danger Zone Visualization
Is this why thereās such a huge battle around $300 right now? And why the price is SEVERELY smacked down when it tries to reach above $350? Itās probably because this danger zone is when small HedgeFunds / shorters begin to fall, and itās getting so close to closing in the zone.
When one of the small shorters fall, it becomes a domino effect. Not only would they initiate buy pressure from covering their short positions, but the banks which are connected to the shorters might get upper-cut just enough toĀ also send the banks defaulting with the ICC.
This would then cascade to all the other shorters under that bank because their swaps with the bank for assets/liabilities to pump their balance sheets would get rug-pulled. Not just that⦠but everyone else on the brink of defaulting in the entire financial world connected to that bank would start to fall.
Youāve all seen the reverse repo market. Things are bad bad BAD in the market. The amount has already reached an all-time high above $500 Billion in aĀ non-quarter end. This is abnormal because quarter-ends are usually the time when banks would take advantage of the repo market to adjust their balance sheets.
Other than high levels immediately before a quarter-end, these levels of sustained reverse repo activity in excess of $300 Billion have not been seen since the Great Recession. -Ā Source
Everyone in the repo market is terrified of the 2008 bomb that wasnāt allowed to finish going off. Theyāre most likelyĀ colluding to prop each other upĀ because of the absolute insanity that could follow. Not just in the stock market. But the repo market, the crypto market, the treasury market, every market potentially.
Possible Collusion In Repo Market
But hey, all it takes is that one.
GME has to close just high enough for everything,Ā everything, to come crashing down.