1/ The deeper i get into the #celShortSqueeze the more i'm convinced the derivatives market is a sandbox of manipulation for big $$. For anyone who's dropped a leveraged position & watched it carefully to avoid liquidation, study this image & try to imagine YOUR play. #celArmy 
2/ The placement of the liquidations make almost NO sense, not when you consider the adjacent time-frames. No sense at all. Nobody risks millions at the points you see the longs and shorts being created and tapping out. Let me tell you a story..
3/ Years ago i was fascinated with binary options, and grabbed an app that might let me play in that risky arena. I studied the trends for a long time, with a test account. My brain is wired to notice trends and abnormalities and i spotted a unique signature in an oil chart...
4/ Names do not matter, but i started to place test positions based on this signature. I racked up hundreds of thousands of $ a day, at will, when i noted the event in question. The amount i could make was only limited to the amount i risked. I watched & played this for a month.
5/ When i finally decided to risk real money, and flipped the app to my real account, and placed a few small positions in regular assets like BTC, USD etc, the app was happy to make or lose money. BUT.. and here is the kicker:
6/ When i placed a position in a non-signature moment in that oil asset, the app was happy to play. When i finally (and with much excitement) dropped a position at the moment of the signature event, the app fired up a bizarre error message and from that moment forward..
7/ The asset in question would not work for me, and was marked as "Not available for use" and the app graphics were way off. Seriously, just like that. I have designed iOS screens and i know when views are not fully baked. The change in the app was in a very beta state.
8/ I reset the app, wiped my phone of its data, and started over. The asset was back and available, and the shutdown repeated. I was able to use a test account to rack up a fortune, but as soon as i tried in my real account, boom, i got shut down, again.
9/ I am convinced that i tapped into a money laundering vehicle, and that the bizarre error message (i cannot remember it now) was a programmer's forgotten note reminding him or her to create a proper message for production. Apple's review process did NOT flag this.
10/ Why do i recount this now? We (the #celArmy) are wondering HOW shorts are closing out. I think frankly that most shorts are written on a napkin, sealed by handshake, & entered manually via a private laptop with only 1 or 2 people behind closed doors in a c-suite somewhere.
11/ The only thing making sense right now is that the private secret handshake to a deal pushed down from the shadows onto the flophair'd minion is being rendered moot incrementally via 'in plain sight' methods to avoid scrutiny.
12/ CAVEAT: I have no proof to validate my thoughts except for my past experience noted above, my years of designing systems, my creation of a budgeting system that managed $33B a year across a large provincial region, and my oddly-wired brain that senses patterns in chaos.
13/ Take my words and thoughts for what YOU think they are worth. James O'Keefe & Project Veritas needs to jump on this bandwagon and chase this group down. Surely somebody in the #celArmy has real-life contacts into PV, and can alert them to this entire shenanigan?
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