GameStop was halted twice on Monday after the market opened and has slowly trended downward since.
The stock was forced to lose its momentum despite the heavy trading volume seen early in the trading day.
GameStop’s volume surged nearly 5 times its average trading volume on Monday but was prohibited from surging.
GME Stock Halt October 31, 2022.
Retail investors are calling S3 Partner’s announcement a setup, or trap to burn shareholders.
But Wall Street can easily create a big sell order in the market despite of heavy volume from retail, the question here is why not go long with them?
Last year, GameStop and AMC shareholders were able to inflict hedge funds who were betting against the two companies with billions of dollars in losses.
Are retail and hedge funds at war with one another?
It certainly seems so.
Is a GameStop Short Squeeze Likely?
Despite the market advantages financial institutions have over retail investors, large continuous volume over a period of weeks could trigger bigger price action for GME stock.
One-day rallies of heavy buying volume isn’t enough to combat market makers.
Like last year, it’s going to take continuous buying pressure to compound the momentum that will likely result in a GME short squeeze.
S3 Partners CEO Bob Sloan said in an interview with Yahoo Finance that if GME stock goes above $30, “you could see something parabolic”.
Yahoo Finance asks the CEO if there is enough short activity or short volume in GameStop’s float to cause something at scale like what we saw in the beginning of 2021.
Bob Sloan says that if you look at GME, there is still one to two billion short on the stock.
He then warns that if the stock goes past $30, it’s very likely we see some massive upside.
$GME is trading 9.56% higher following a statement from @S3Partners CEO Bob Sloan that if the stock goes above $30, ‘you could see something parabolic.' pic.twitter.com/mfzdAHZ1ax
S3 Partners CEO Bob Sloan says there’s a great probability of GME Stock going parabolic if it hits $30 per share due to the massive amount of short activity currently present.
S3 Partners provides data and predictive analytics.
The company also provides accurate and real-time short interest; logging how much is being borrowed or loaned in a float.
The high short interest in GameStop is what caused GME stock to skyrocket in late January of 2021.
Short sellers were forced to close their positions in GME stock when retail investors were able to push the stock price up as a collective.
The short covering further fueled the momentum and GameStop shares flew to nearly $400 per share.
AMC Entertainment had a similar occurrence when shares jumped from $2 per share to $20 per share.
In June, AMC rose again from $14 per share to its current all-time high of $72 per share.
Retail investors holding both stocks have been buying and holding for over a year now, anticipating even larger moves.
The proposal was on the table for months, but Dow Jones Newswire has officially confirmed it.
Shareholders have been waiting for this fundamental catalyst in hopes of scaring short sellers and finally creating a proper GME short squeeze.
But this is more than just a short squeeze catalyst.
If you’re a true believer of the company and in the innovation and future of where it’s going in the NFT space, now is the perfect time to look into owning a piece of the company.
It’s about to get pretty damn affordable.
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GameStop announces 4-1 stock split
GME 4-1 stock split explained
GameStop Corp. on Wednesday said its board approved and declared a four-for-one split.
It’s the first time GameStop has split the stock since 2007 making it the second time in history it happened.
GameStop had done a 2-1 stock split thirteen years ago.
So, what does a 4-1 stock split even mean?
It means that current GME shareholders will receive 4 shares of GME stock for every one share they currently hold.
If you’re holding 1 share of GameStop in your stock portfolio, you will receive 4 shares of GME stock.
Shareholders with 1,000 shares of GME stock will receive 4,000 shares.
However, this does not mean GameStop’s share price will quadruple in the process.
On the contrary, GameStop’s current share price will be divided by four.
The stock closed at $117.43 on Wednesday and has jumped more than 8% after hours.
What will GameStop shares be worth after the stock split?
Based on Wednesday’s number figure, GME stock will be worth approximately $29.35 after the split, making the stock much more affordable for the public to invest in.
GameStop stock split date
Investors who purchase GME stock before July 18 will receive the additional shares in GameStop’s 4-1 stock split.
Some investors might wonder, why is GameStop splitting its stock?
Often times when a stock’s share price has reached high levels, a company will issue a stock split to make it more affordable for the public to purchase.
We’ve seen this happen with Tesla (TSLA) and Apple (AAPL) in the past.
Amazon recently had a 20-1 stock split, making it extremely affordable to add AMZN stock to your portfolio.
Stock splits are a common way to attract more investors towards a growing company.
Are you a GME shareholder?
How many shares of GME stock will you own after the stock split?
Or are you a curious investor who is thinking of buying GME after the stock splits at a much more affordable price?
And lastly, will GameStop’s 4-1 stock split be a catalyst to finally squeeze short sellers from their positions?
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#1. Short interest
The short interest of a stock shows us the percent of a company’s float that is being shorted.
The reason AMC and GameStop were able to see price surges last year is because a small percent of short sellers closed out their positions in these stocks.
AMC’s short interest dropped from 20% to 14% when it had skyrocketed to $72 per share last year.
A short squeeze for HYMC seems unlikely at this low of a percentage – there are simply not enough short sellers to squeeze and create a big price runup.
SI goes up and goes down
If HYMC’s SI was to surge, then it increases the possibility to squeeze shorts at a high enough short interest percentage.
However, it’s important to look at how short interest moves.
I update AMC’s, GameStop’s, HYMC’s and many other stocks’ short interest daily here.
If HYMC’s short interest keeps going down, don’t expect a short squeeze from Hycroft any time soon.
Hypothetically speaking, if AMC or GameStop’s short interest drops by 5%, then you know there’s still ‘squeeze’ juice, leaving AMC and GME at 17% and 19%, respectively.
Keep an eye on the short interest, it’s important to identify how many shorts are still in the game as AMC and GME begin to move up again.
#2. Utilization falls
AMC’s and GameStop’s current utilization are both at 100.
The utilization is the number of all outstanding loans available for lending.
You will know a short squeeze is over when AMC’s or GameStop’s utilization falls extremely low, when there are almost no shares available to loan.
For example, Ford (F) has a utilization of 1.14.
Apple (AAPL) has a utilization of 0.06 and Tesla (TSLA) has a utilization of 3.76.
The utilization tells us how much lending is happening in a security to short it.
And as long as AMC and GameStop are being heavily shorted, both are a short squeeze play.
Keep an eye out on the utilization, updated every trading-day here.
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