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Old 01-31-2021, 01:39 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Xist: Where do you find these people? I don't watch videos with a thumbnail of people with their mouths hanging open. ......as a matter of policy.

This may be correct, it's poorly expressed.
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Someone commented: "The goal isn't to ride them into the ground from here, but to hold in order to force the short contracts to expire and make them pay through the nose to fulfill them."
It's known as a gamma squeeze. Buy and hold vs pump and dump.

Short positions have some upside, but the downside can be Biblical.

jakobnev: That was a good backgrounder. I'll watch big boss for a followup. Any explanation that doesn't include retards and autists is lacking.
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