Long $GME was a synthetic short Melvin position just until about Tuesday as of this week. It’s morphed into a short Robinhood position.
Exactly, it’s currently more like a macro knife fight, speculators vs speculators. Those citing revenue multiples, valuation, etc are either missing that or willfully omitting it.
Speculators are wagering to “break the Bank of Fraud”, whereby Robinhood = the Bank of Fraud, and $GME is the currency with which the battle is taking place.
Some are opining that the feds will rescue or bailout Robinhood. If they do, i fear that this would backfire in ways far worse than simply letting things be.
What disturbs me is that there are plenty of morons who seem to believe that Melvin was short 140% of $GME. I ran into the below false claim several times in just a matter minutes:
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Notable how 'Cham the scam' doesn't address inequality between ordinary income vs capital gain tax rates (don't get me started on the inequality versus HF/PE 'carry').
If you're serious, you address reducing ordinary income, or at least eliminating differences between these.
“Casino-like swings in stock prices of GameStop reflect wild levels of speculation that don’t help GameStop’s workers or customers and could lead to market instability.”
The inconvenient truth is that should GameStop issue capital, this false as it would help workers + customers
And actually, my assessment was way too conservative: actually, the skyrocketing stock price has given the business free publicity, which benefits the company, its employees, and customers. I think the $30 billion question is why the company hasn’t issued equity yet.
So as counterintuitive as it may seem, the massive losses for short sellers has benefited the company, and may permanently alter its trajectory in a manner that benefits employees and customers. We shall see.
I don’t personally know Melvin/Plotkin, and I don’t know if this is true, but if it is, it would partly explain why @StevenACohen2 backed him earlier this week. Not to mention that Plotkin probably made a lot of money for Cohen over the years.