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[soleman1] 04/1/2022 07:34

Wow the shorts are underwater and getting desperate here, let's hope it dips to save their blushes, or not.

[billionarebob] 04/1/2022 00:16

Let's hope 2022 starts the same as last year with another short squeeze.The 2021 year's drama began on Wall Street, where groups of retail traders teamed up through online forums to attempt one of the biggest short squeezes in market history.Organised through Reddit's Wall Street Bets group, they homed in on beaten-down stocks that hedge funds had shorted (by selling borrowed stock, planning to buy it back cheaper in future).In a frenzy that gripped Wall Street, the WSB army used two weapons to cut down the hedgies: call options – derivatives that gave the right to buy shares at a certain price – and memes, to fuel their orchestrated buying, as they tapped into public distaste for predatory speculators.The phenomenon started with GameStop, the US video game retailer, driving its share price up an astonishing 1,700% in a month, and briefly causing the markets to wobble as hedge funds ran up huge losses trying to buy borrowed stock back.But this squeeze was dramatically, and controversially, punctured after trading app Robinhood curbed share buying. It blamed demands from its clearing houses; r/wallstreetbets cried foul, although a lawsuit claiming a conspiracy with market-maker Citadel Securities was thrown out last month.The saga resulted in a new vocabulary entering the markets, with "diamond-handed" traders refusing to fold their positions, and others crying "yolo" (you only live once) as they embarked on risky but potentially lucrative trades.This GameStop frenzy was repeated with the cinema group AMC, the retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond and the car rental group Avis, flaring up several times in the year.These rallies ended in tears for some retail traders, who were left holding the bag as the meme stocks dropped back. But despite a tumble in late December, GameStop is still up 700% this year, with AMC about 1,200% higher.

[billionarebob] 03/1/2022 23:19

Alanthemoan have you seen the graph for the last month we over 30% up and a banging set of results is coming very soon. Would love it if Matt or SoftBank put a large buy order in to clear out all the shorts the price would rocket. Even a good RNS would do it. Gonna be an interesting day tomorrow so let's wait and see.

[alancapone] 03/1/2022 22:11

Shorts aren't taking this down, the muddled strategy, woeful revenues, and poor corporate governance is.

[alancapone] 03/1/2022 22:02

This is going down faster than a Thai bride in the morning. Fingers on the sell button at the ready.

[ny boy] 03/1/2022 15:55

Just accumulate and stay long this year imo

[bldm] 03/1/2022 15:02

Also, SoftBank investing in this is a massive red flag. SoftBank is a fraud.

[bldm] 03/1/2022 15:00

I mean if you look at the LinkedIn page of Neil Craven, the author of the story, it makes sense that he is very stupid. Studied geography at loughborough then some management BS at Nottingham uni then a gap for 4-5 years then surfaces as a journalist at a low rate institution then his career culminates at the mail on Sunday. Not exactly where I'd get my financial advice from but it's interesting to read what is written and compare to the price action.

[billionarebob] 03/1/2022 11:11

Below is a post from Indy on lse thg. Could this be a deliberate leak to counter the daily fail. Post from linked in! Ingenuity has real momentum behind it now!- Over 700 new hires- £lb investment commitment from SoftBank - Some mega client wins across; Beauty, FMCG and Retail, in the US, EMEA and APAC.- Record breaking results QoQ and a huge cyber weekend performance group wide.On top ofall that, we won Team ofthe Yearfor 2021 with a squad of people that didn't exist a year agolMy valuationl.2x2022 sales - 3.4bil1 + 300mill cash + lbillion valuation for Ingenuity : 4.7 billion : £3.5 per shareShorter's can continue to short, I'll be buying on the dips!

[leoneobull] 03/1/2022 06:09

Ive reread the THG MoS story. No mention of stock on loan being 7.85% end November or twice what they claim it is now, no referencea to adding up both declared and undeclared shorts, no reference to the share price having risen 20% during this period, or to new Ingenuity wins. In short, a dodgy piece of journalism that either suggests extreme laziness by author or something more corrupt.

[sentimentrule] 03/1/2022 03:51

Alancapone….we are unable to take your points seriously due to the bias you write with. You have a declared short position from 219 so are deep underwater. It seems you have a quote from an unknown person to help your personal position. Please share the link to the source so we can verify your statements to be true or false.

[blueflame] 02/1/2022 22:00

Let us hope THG's legal team start to look at fake news stories like this and start to take some real action. It would not be allowed in Germany and it is about time the FCA start to actually clean up the LSE before companies start listing in Frankfurt or elsewhere instead of London.

[billionarebob] 02/1/2022 21:51

From Mike Cosgrove on twitterMike Cosgrove@mikecosgroveThere's a high chance the @MailOnlinehas committed a crime here. Fake news that drives a short & distort is illegal under market manipulation rules. Shorts don't hold £110m in shorts they hold £33-£34m in shorts. Also shorts have NOT doubled in 2wks. @neilcraven1Sources Neil???They say IHS markit but there's no way in a million years can you guarantee the total number of shorts. I'm a trader and I can't, neither can Neil who's not a trader. Neil should read MAR 1.9 and MAR 1.6 of the FCA rule book

[alancapone] 02/1/2022 21:16

The safest short out there. Learn the difference between a bullish trend reversal and a pullback in a bear market. Bloodbath cometh!

[alancapone] 02/1/2022 21:15

Investment and trading expert Tom W provides a view: "Then to some corrupt journalism in the Mail on Sunday and why it makes me more bearish on The Hut Group (THG)."

[n5hav58] 02/1/2022 20:49

I understand the MOS article is somewhat misleading. Any thoughts on who might like to gain from such an article?

[dafad] 02/1/2022 19:27

I presume the Mail on Sunday will have paid irs markit for this info,why would
they do that?Most odd!!

By last Wednesday, the number of short positions had doubled in just 16 days to 4 per cent of the stock, according to data from research firm IHS Markit for The Mail on Sunday.