Thread by @live2beingu

#AMC #GME Good Evening Everyone, I hope and trust you all are well even after todays dip. It is hard to watch. But I'm hoping and expecting a rebound here shortly. Now before I go into what took place today. A general housekeeping rule if you will. 1) I'm not a financial

advisor. I simply provide/supply/explain the information as I see it. 2) Last night I was asked to perform an audit of the information that was provided across multiple platform in regards to the exempt shares owned and circulated by MM i.e. Citadel & Friends.

I will only say this once, work papers drive accounting spreadsheets and so if you don't have all or parts of the information it makes it hard to make a determination if there is some there there to the number or any number being used. I did my own DD and this is what I found.

I checked every day from January 1st to March 24th. Total the amounts and those that were reported yesterday were just a fraction of the overall total that I went through and calculated as the Short Shares per day of each month, I then went and calculated the short exempt shares

per month that were owned indirectly for AMC and GME. Additionally, the below numbers could continue to increase if I decide to add the 57 ETF's that have GME and 35 ETF's from AMC Stock.

Keep in mind this is only the data that has been reported by the exempt entities as they do not have to report the information if they do not want to which is why no one knows the real number except for the DTCC who is now running scared because they know the inevitable is

coming. So here are my findings you can accept it or leave it. But I always say you need to look at the information being provided and do your own DD. All numbers below are in the aggregate for each month

For March:
- AMC
- Current Short Interest: 415,304,182

- Current Exempt Interest: 14,918,817

- GME
- Current Short Interest: 128,824,823
- Current Exempt Interest: 4,937,188

For February
AMC -
- Current Short Interest: 808,520,269
- Current Exempt Interest: 30,147,451

GME:
- Current Short Interest: 175,629,890
- Current Exempt Interest: 7,126,621

For January:
AMC:
- Current Short Interest: 776,899,324
- Current Exempt Interest: 21,080,923

GME:
- Current Short Interest: 240,168,937
- Current Exempt Interest: 4,556,537

So what do the numbers above tell us other than what we already know. That during each month for both stocks they have borrowed and/or naked shorted at least this many shares each

month in the aggregate. For those worried about the Exempt interest let me drop some additional nos. the exempt interest makes up a % for for each stock per month: AMC 2.64% (Jan), 3.595% (Feb), 3.47% (March), GME 1.86% (Jan), 3.89% (Feb), 3.69%(March). What am I

driving at? Two things no one really knows how many exempt shares there are because Citadel and Friends do not have to report this information if they do not want to. Who has this information is the DTCC and they are not releasing it. This is why Alexis Goldstein was so adamant

during the hearing last week. Because she was the one stated that MM don't fill out their forms on a regular basis and they don't file the right forms due in part to the exempt status that they have.

I'm willing to bank on the fact that these rule changes are not just because they felt like it but they see what is happening and what may happen in the future. 2 The percentage of the total being reported in the aggregate do not account for more than 2 or 3% of the overall total

which is why I passed on this issue in the first place. To compare if 808M shares shorted in February and 30M of them were exempt... the 30M is a drop in the bucket and pales in comparison to the 808M shares shorted in the aggregate for February. Now granted this number

is perhaps bigger when you add in the ETF's that are associated with each stock and if I had time I would do a fancy pivot table but I still have to go to work. lol! Perhaps I'll wrap up it on the weekends.

In essence, this only confirms what we knew on this feed to be that the short interest is still double to what the data suggests on ortex and almost makes up the full free float for AMC in the aggregate. This could also explain why AMC shares being borrowed increased yesterday.

Hopefully you all can see and read that. But that those are the numbers from the combined exchanges as they are reported everyday at the end of the regular trading day. Now even though I look at these numbers I always keep in mind of the following:

It doesn't include: ETF's, Naked Shares, Non Reported Exempt Shares, nor does it cover settled trades that may have taken place today or throughout the last 90 days. The only true way of knowing is for the NSCC to release the information. I will always say that perhaps the input

is incorrect but based on the information available to me and provided from the site that is the data. Some of you all are now asking what is the Failed to Deliver Data...Those are the naked shorts that we talked about where the transaction hasn't been settled, that I also

mentioned in an earlier post today but I will cover it again in case you missed it. Naked short selling is selling short without borrowing the necessary securities to deliver the stock to the buyer, as a result this often leads to a fail to deliver. Because the seller has neither

neither borrowed the shares nor have they made an affirmative determination heat they can be borrowed. For MM this AFFIRMATIVE DETERMINATION optional and not required that is why they became market makers. Yes this includes Citadel and Friends.

So when you see the FTD's continue to rise or a report comes out that says the Failed to Deliver report is there and here is how many shares that failed to deliver and the price tag associated with it. As I reported last night. We won't know what March's FTD's are until March

31st as the numbers are reported at the end and middle for each month. So first half of march on March 30, Second half of March on April 15. As of February 26, 2021 the total amount of FTD's for AMC were 7,840,939 and a price point $68,019081.84; for GME the total was 1,402,157

with a total price of $141,699,138.36. See the chart with pictures below for complete FTD's for each day of the month. Now the blank spaces are weekends and holidays where no trading took place. This is just part 1 part 2 on the way.