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Why do you try to get personal? As said before, I don't care about when to sell or buy, my financial interest in it is way too low too care about it. I just think it's interesting and try to learn from it ( that's the only reason why I even bought a little, to keep me interested).

What's your formula to state a lack of people holding vs. the amount of shorts that were outstanding?

I don't see how you can easily come to that conclusion with 139% shorts outstanding at a certain moment.

If the amount of shorts were lessened to 50%, which we'll know on 9 February i can agree.

But I can't know for sure now and i want to know with what logic "you can" be sure.

Edit: Yes, I'm suggesting that there are "possibly" still a large amount of shorts and that I can't know till 9 February to see what could happen.

If the amount of shorts is low, than GME will continue to drop to a normal value.

If it's high, it depends on when the shorts were initiated, so it's still unclear then.

There's just a higher possibility to dismiss a potential squeeze on the 9th of February.

So I'm looking for additional info why people can already dismiss this reasoning.

Edit 2: ( can't reply on your comment)

I agree, there's a lot of uncertainty in it... A lot of "unknowns" for now.

I'm just careful dismissing it as a pure meme though. Since I can't fully dismiss it as such and I'm open to additional info surrounding this ( hence my original question).



Sorry, didn't mean to make things personal.

I think we agree on where the uncertainty is, I just initially read you as saying you believed there was a definite ongoing squeeze, vs a possibility of continuing the play. And I just want to caution people against believing there's any sure things going on here; we don't have enough data in real enough time to know exactly. What we do have data on is that a LOT of shares are being sold every day, more than 100% of outstanding shares, so those could've been used to close out short positions, or they might not have been. And it could've been a few sellers selling a lot, or tons of sellers selling small amounts, etc. We can't know for now.




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