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Comment by shawabawa3

> Short positions by the means of shorting ETFs containing GME are reported as ETF SI (and XRT, by the way, has 700% SI)

XRT only holds 0.71% GME shares, so seems like an extremely inefficient way of shorting it. The entire XRT short position is around 170k GME shares, or about 0.4% of the float

> Synthetic short positions (e.g. by the means of options) do not have to be reported and FINRA is only now 'considering' asking to report it

But put options don't get squeezed (call options may cause a gamma squeeze)

> Retail directly registered over 10% of available float (excl. insider shares) as of 3 months ago

What relevance does that have? There's still 90% of the float available to be lent with a short interest of just 15%

I still hold some GME shares leftover from last year but fully believe the short squeeze has happened and there's nothing but a collective delusion left

parent shawabawa3 4 years ago

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