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Closing price of GameStop Corp. (GME) from December 28 to January 29[1]

In January 2021, a short squeeze of American retailer GameStop stock and

other securities took place on various stock exchanges, causing major financial
consequences for certain hedge funds. The short squeeze increased the stock price of
American video game retailer GameStop by almost 190 times from its record low to
nearly $500 per share on January 28, 2021, causing large losses for short sellers.
Approximately 140% of GameStop shares had been sold short, and the rush to buy
shares to cover those positions as the price rose caused the price to rise further. The
short squeeze was initially triggered by users of
the forum r/wallstreetbets on Reddit through commission-free trading apps such
as Robinhood and Webull.
On January 28, multiple brokerages, including Robinhood, halted the buying of
GameStop and other securities, later citing their inability to post sufficient collateral
at clearing houses to execute their client's orders. This decision attracted criticism and
accusations of market manipulation from prominent politicians and businesspeople from
across the political spectrum. Class-action lawsuits were filed against Robinhood in the
U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of
Illinois.
Apart from GameStop, many other heavily shorted securities saw increases in their
prices. In reaction to brokerages halting the buying of GameStop and other securities,
the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies also increased.

Contents

 1Background
o 1.1Short selling and short squeezes
o 1.2GameStop
o 1.3Possible causes
o 1.4r/wallstreetbets
 2Timeline
 3Impact on hedge funds
 4Link between Robinhood and Citadel Securities
 5Reactions
o 5.1Investigations
o 5.2Lawsuits
 6Other affected assets
o 6.1Stocks
o 6.2Cryptocurrencies
 7See also
 8References

Background[edit]
Short selling and short squeezes[edit]
See also: Short (finance) and Short squeeze

Short selling is a finance practice in which an investor, known as the short-seller,

borrows shares and immediately sells them, hoping to buy them back ("cover") later at a
lower price, return the borrowed shares (plus interest) to the lender and profit off the
difference. The practice carries an unlimited risk of losses, because there is no inherent
limit to how high a stock's price can rise. This is in contrast with taking a long position
(simply owning the stock), where the investor's loss is limited to the cost of their initial
investment (i.e. the loss can be at most 100%). For an example, if a short-seller borrows
shares at $20, and then covers at $50 (i.e. the stock rose 150%), they would have lost
$30 per share, representing a loss of 150%. [2][3]
Short sellers are exposed to a risk of short squeezing, which occurs when the shorted
stock jumps in value, due, for instance, to a sudden piece of favorable news. Short
sellers are then forced to buy back the stock they had initially sold, in an effort to keep
their losses from mounting. Purchasing the stock to cover their short positions raises the
value of the shorted stock, thus triggering more short sellers to cover their positions by
buying the stock. This can result in a cascade of stock purchases and an even bigger
jump of the share price.[4][5][6]
On January 22, 2021, approximately 140% of GameStop's float (the portion of shares of
a corporation that are in the hands of public investors) had been sold short, meaning
some shorted shares had been re-lent and shorted again. [7] Observers congregating
around r/wallstreetbets believed the company was being significantly undervalued, and
with such a large amount of the shares being short they could trigger a short squeeze,
by driving up the price to the point where short sellers had to capitulate and cover their
positions at tremendous losses.[6]
GameStop[edit]

A GameStop store in 2014

GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in

recent years due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the
economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which decreased the number of people
who shopped in person. As a result, GameStop's stock price declined, leading many
institutional investors to short sell the stock. However, in September 2020, Ryan
Cohen (the former CEO of online pet-food retailer Chewy) revealed a significant
investment in GameStop and joined the company's board, leading many to believe that
the stock was undervalued.[6]
Possible causes[edit]
See also: Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Causes of the Great Recession, and Economic impact
of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer spending in general was drastically lower.

There was also more money in the hands of investors as a result of historically low
interest rates and an inability to spend their money elsewhere. [8] Other suggested factors
included a culture of taking massive gambles on the stock market in the hopes of
making money quickly,[9] and even anger from some investors towards the Wall
Street hedge funds for their role in the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.[10][11][12][13]
r/wallstreetbets[edit]
Dude everyone thinks I'm crazy, and I think everyone else is crazy. I've dealt in deep value stocks for years but have
never endured bearish sentiment this heavy. I expect the narrative to shift in the second half of the year when
investors start looking for ways to play the console refresh and they begin to see what I see. I'll post the update
tomorrow as I always do after data readouts. It will be ugly, and everyone will mock me as usual, but I expect GME to
bounce back just as it did after the two previous earnings readouts.

u/deepfuckingvalue, January 2020.[14]

r/wallstreetbets is a Reddit community, or subreddit, known for high-risk stock

transactions.[15] Even before the squeeze, there had been interest in GameStop (ticker
symbol: GME) on r/wallstreetbets. One user, Keith Gill,[16][17][18] known on the site as
u/DeepFuckingValue[16] and on other social media accounts as "Roaring Kitty", [17] had
purchased around $53,000 in call options on GME in 2019 and saw his position rise to a
value of $48 million in January 2021.[11][19] Gill, a 34-year-old marketing professional
and Chartered Financial Analyst from Massachusetts, stated that he began investing in
GameStop during the summer of 2019, after believing the stock to be undervalued. Gill
shared his investment on r/wallstreetbets and provided regular updates on its
performance, including the times when the investment had plunged. Gill stated on
January 29 that he "thought this trade would be successful" but "never expected what
happened over the last week," adding that he planned to continue his YouTube channel
and potentially buy a house.[16]
On January 27, Mashable reported that the subreddit had broken pageview records due
to the short squeeze, receiving 73 million pageviews in 24 hours. [20]

Timeline[edit]
GameStop Corp. (GME) closing share price[21]

Change
Day Price (USD) Volume
Net %

January
19.94 +2.25 +12.72% 14,927,612
11

January
19.95 +0.01 +0.05% 7,060,665
12

January
31.40 +11.45 +57.39% 144,501,736
13

January
39.91 +8.51 +27.10% 93,717,410
14

January
35.50 −4.41 −11.05% 46,866,358
15

January
39.36 +3.86 +10.87% 74,721,924
19

January
39.12 −0.24 −0.61% 33,471,789
20

January
43.03 +3.91 +9.99% 57,079,754
21

January
65.01 +21.98 +51.08% 197,157,946
22

January
76.79 +11.78 +18.12% 177,874,000
25

January
147.98 +71.19 +92.71% 178,587,974
26
 January +199.5 +134.84
347.51 93,396,666
27 3 %

January −153.9
193.60 −44.29% 58,815,805
28 1

January +131.4
325.00 +67.87% 49,470,371
29 0

In January 2021, Reddit users on the r/wallstreetbets subreddit built the foundations for
a short squeeze on GameStop, pushing up the stock price significantly.[22] This occurred
shortly after a comment from Citron Research predicting the value of the stock would
decrease.[23] The stock price increased 1,500% by January 27 over the course of two
weeks, and its high volatility caused trading to be halted multiple times. [22][24]
In conjunction with the short squeeze, the resulting increase in options volume triggered
a gamma squeeze as a result of market makers needing to buy shares to hedge their
increasingly short exposure.[25] Basically, market makers seek to profit via arbitrage, by
ensuring the prices of stocks and options are linked, thereby keeping the
market efficient. One role of market makers is to write (i.e. create and sell) options to
investors seeking to buy them, and buy shares of the stock to maintain delta-
hedged position overall, thereby profiting off price discrepancies between the options
market and the stock market while remaining agnostic regarding price fluctuations.
After the GameStop stock closed up 92.7% on January 26, 2021, business
magnate Elon Musk tweeted "Gamestonk!!" along with a link to the r/wallstreetbets
subreddit.[26] A brief, sharp rise in the share price to over $200 followed Musk's tweet.
[27]
 As of January 28, 2021, the all-time highest intraday stock price for GameStop,
excluding extended-hours trading, is $483.00 (nearly 190 times the record low of $2.57).
[28]

On January 27, 2021, r/wallstreetbets triggered a short squeeze on AMC

Theatres (AMC), a company in a similar position to GameStop. [29] The value of AMC
Networks (AMCX) also increased significantly, which was believed to have happened
because of the stock's name being similar to AMC's.[30] Disruptions and restrictions
limiting trade have been reported on multiple brokerages such as Charles Schwab
Corporation, its subsidiary, TD Ameritrade, and Robinhood.[31][32] According to Bloomberg,
US trading volumes (by share count) on January 27 exceeded the peak set in October
2008 during the financial crisis, and was the third-highest in dollar terms within the last
13 years on record.[33]
On January 28, 2021, Robinhood halted purchases of GameStop, AMC
Theatres, BlackBerry Limited, Nokia Corporation, and other volatile stocks from its
trading platform; customers could no longer open new positions in the stock, although
they could still close them.[34] Other exchanges soon followed suit. Many traders were
furious, and called for class-action lawsuits in multiple popular Reddit posts. [35] After the
markets closed, Robinhood announced it would begin to allow "limited buys" of the
affected securities starting the following day, although it was unclear what "limited buys"
entailed.[36] Trading platforms such as UK-based Trading212 and Israel-
based eToro blocked buys of GameStop and other stock while continuing to allow sales.
[37]
 Webull halted buy orders for stocks affected by the squeeze, [38] and soon thereafter
allowed orders to continue.[39] Anthony Denier, the CEO of Webull, stated that increased
collateral requirements for their clearing house meant Webull themselves were
restricted from opening new positions. [40] Some users alleged that Robinhood was selling
shares without consent; Robinhood denied these allegations. [41]
Several brokerage firms, including Robinhood, stated on January 29 that the restrictions
were the result of clearing houses raising the required collateral required for executing
trades.[42][43][44] Because there is a lag between the moment when investors purchase a
security, and the moment cash and securities are actually exchanged, brokerage firms
have to post collateral at clearing houses to guarantee the proper settlement of their
client's orders.[43] Clearing houses include the Depository Trust & Clearing
Corporation (DTCC) for equities and the Options Clearing Corporation for options.
[42]
 Brokerage firms claimed that the increased collateral could not be provided in time,
and, as result, that trading had to be halted.[42][43][44] The DTCC, for instance, increased the
total industrywide collateral requirements from $26 billion to $33.5 billion, [45][46] noting that
the large trading volumes in specific stocks "generated substantial risk exposures at
firms that clear these trades [...] particularly if the clearing member or its clients are
predominantly on one side of the market". [46] On January 29, it was reported that
Robinhood had raised an additional $1 billion to protect the company from the financial
pressure placed by the increased interest in particular stocks and meet the collateral
requirements of clearing houses.[47][48]
As of January 29, 2021, Robinhood still imposes limits on the trading of GameStop,
AMC and Blackberry stocks.[46]

Impact on hedge funds[edit]

As of January 28, 2021, Melvin Capital, an investment fund shorting GameStop, had
lost 30 percent of its value since the start of the year. [49] Citadel LLC and firm partners
then invested $2 billion into Melvin, while Point72 Asset Management's investment
added $750 million, for a total investment of $2.75 billion, [50][51][52][53][54] before Melvin stated
to CNBC that they covered (closed) its position on January 26. The exact amount was
not disclosed.[55][56] Reportedly Citron Research, another hedge fund, had also shorted the
stock and claimed to have closed the position as a total loss. [12][57] According to Morgan
Stanley, a number of hedge funds covered their short positions and sold shares in their
portfolio to reduce leverage and market exposure, in some of the largest such actions
within 10 years.[58] On January 26, 2021, it was reported that short sellers lost a total of
$6 billion due to the squeeze.[59]
Losses on short positions in U.S. firms topped $70 billion. Ortex data showed that as of
January 27, there were loss-making short positions on more than 5,000 U.S. firms. [60]
Citron Research stated in an interview[61] held by its author and editor Andrew Left that
the company has covered the majority of its short positions in the range of $90s/share
at a loss of 100%, now having a small manageable position. Due to the enormous
losses, Left stated that Citron Research would discontinue offering short-sell analysis
after 20 years of service, and instead focus on "long side multibagger opportunities for
individual investors."[62] The Wall Street Journal reported Left being targeted online,
including an incident where Left's social media accounts were hacked to text his
children and used "threatening, profane and personal language". [63][64][65]

Link between Robinhood and Citadel Securities[edit]

See also: Citadel LLC §  Regulatory issues

Citadel's Chicago headquarters. Users alleged conflict of interest between the company and Robinhood.

Bloomberg previously reported that 40% of Robinhood's revenues were derived from
selling customer orders to market making (a.k.a. liquidity providing) firms
including Citadel Securities and Two Sigma Securities, in a practice known as payment
for order flow.[66] Citadel Securities is the sister company to Citadel LLC, which invested
along with Point72 Asset Management 2.75 billion into Melvin Capital. [50] As Robinhood
restricted trading of GameStop shares, thereby limiting the growth of the stock's value,
users alleged that Citadel Securities directed Robinhood to do so. Citadel Securities
stated that they did not instruct any brokerage to suspend or otherwise limit trading. [67][68][69]

Reactions[edit]
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called out the large investors and hedge funds who
were criticizing the rally, saying they "have treated the stock market like their own
personal casino while everyone else pays the price". [70] Warren also called on the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission to take a bigger stand, saying they must "act to
ensure that markets reflect real value, rather than the highly leveraged bets of wealthy
traders or those who seek to inflict financial damage on those traders" [71] and "to have a
healthy stock market, you've got to have a cop on the beat." [72] Similar sentiments were
expressed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY),[73] Senator Ted Cruz (R-
TX),[74] Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI),[75] Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA),
[76]
 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA),[77] CNN anchor Jake Tapper,[78] Fox
Business host Charles Payne,[79] conservative political commentators Rush Limbaugh,
[80]
 Ben Shapiro,[81] and Donald Trump Jr.,[82] and billionaire investors Mark
Cuban[83] and Chamath Palihapitiya.[84] Some lawmakers, such as Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz
and Ro Khanna (D-CA) also expressed frustration at Robinhood and others' decisions
to close individual trading of GameStop, among other stocks. [85] In an interview
with CNBC, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian compared the rally to Occupy Wall
Street, saying that "it's a chance for Joe and Jane America—the retail buyers of stock—
to flex back and push back on these hedge funds." [86]
Numerous journalists have also drawn comparison to the movement.[87][88][89] Elon
Musk also criticized the general practice of stock shorting, calling it a "scam". [90]
Disgruntled users review-bombed the Robinhood app on the Google Play Store after it
halted the trading of GameStop securities, pushing its ratings down to one star.
[91]
 However, Google deleted at least 100,000 such reviews, calling them "coordinated or
inorganic".[92] Protesters also showed up outside Robinhood headquarters in Menlo Park,
California, at the Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington,
D.C., and the New York Stock Exchange.[93]
Several celebrities and influencers also criticized Robinhood. OpenAI CEO Sam
Altman suggested the company change its name.[94] Chamath Palihapitiya, who passed
on early investment opportunities in Robinhood, opined that the founding co-
CEOs, Tenev and Bhatt, lacked integrity and urged his followers to
"#DeleteRobinhood".[95] Actor and rapper Ja Rule, who had used Robinhood since 2014,
said what the company did was "a fucking CRIME" [96] and called the situation "an
uprising".[97] Comedian and television host Jon Stewart, after joining Twitter, expressed
support for the movement in his first tweet. [98] YouTuber Philip DeFranco announced he
would be dropping his partnership with Robinhood, saying "Robinhood is never getting a
fucking spot on my show again regardless of the offer." [99] Barstool Sports founder David
Portnoy also criticized Robinhood for its lack of "free trading". [100] More generally, it was
recognized that Wall Street was now subject to the same populist vigor (afforded
by Internet connectivity) as the entertainment industry, politics, and so on. [101]
In an interview with CNBC, billionaire investor and hedge fund manager Leon
Cooperman, whose firm agreed to a $4.9 million insider trading settlement with the SEC
in May 2017,[102] angrily criticized the Reddit users' market behavior as a result of
the federal response to the pandemic and stated his opposition to capital gains tax
increases, saying "This fair share is a bullshit concept. It's just a way of attacking
wealthy people, and I think it's inappropriate ... We've all got to work together and pull
together."[103][104]
Investigations[edit]
On January 27, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen and others in the Biden administration were monitoring the
situation,[105] and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Congress will also
be reviewing it.[106] Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the Senate Banking
Committee would hold a hearing on the state of the stock market and the alleged
market manipulation surrounding the GameStop short squeeze. [107] Representative Byron
Donalds (R-FL) called for Congress to launch "an immediate investigation into Citadel,
L.L.C. and Robinhood".[108] Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced she will
convene a hearing in the Financial Services Committee.[109]
Various news media across the political spectrum have raised concern over
potential conflict of interest in regards to Yellen, because she had received $810,000
from Citadel after the end of her term as Chair of the Federal Reserve, as well as $7
million in total from various firms for public speaking appearances. [110][111][112]
On January 29, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was
reviewing the incident with the aims "to protect retail investors" [113] from "abusive or
manipulative trading activity"[114] and "to identify and pursue potential wrongdoing". [115]
Lawsuits[edit]
Class-action lawsuit against Robinhood filed in the United States District Court of Southern New York [116]

A Robinhood customer filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on January 28

for halting trading on GameStop.[117][118] The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York, claimed that Robinhood
"purposefully, willfully, and knowingly removing the stock 'GME' from its trading platform
in the midst of an unprecedented stock rise thereby deprived retail investors of the
ability to invest in the open-market and manipulating the open-market". [117][118]
Attorney General of New York Letitia James confirmed in a press release that her office
would look into the matter, saying "We are aware of concerns raised regarding activity
on the Robinhood app, including trading related to the GameStop stock". [119][120]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would also investigate the decision of
brokerages to limit the buying securities related to GameStop and other stocks, saying
that it "stinks of corruption." His investigation extends to 13 entities, including Discord,
Robinhood, the trading platforms Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade, and the hedge
fund Citadel Financial.[121]
A second class-action was filed in the Northern District of Illinois claiming the
Robinhood's decision to halt trades of BlackBerry, Nokia and AMC was made "to protect
institutional investment at the detriment of retail customers". [122][123][124]

Other affected assets[edit]

Stocks[edit]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Apart from GameStop, many other heavily shorted securities (as well as securities with
low short interest) saw increases in their prices:

Selected stocks experiencing sharp price increases

Security (symbol) Price high[a] Jan 22 % chg. Ref.

AMC Networks (AMCX) 59.83 49.38 21.2% [30]

 Selected stocks experiencing sharp price increases

Security (symbol) Price high[a] Jan 22 % chg. Ref.

AMC Theatres (AMC) 20.36 3.51 480.1% [125]

American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) 21.77 15.82 37.6% [126]

BB Liquidating Inc. (OTC Pink: BLIAQ) 0.24 0.10 140.0% [127]

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) 53.90 30.21 78.4% [128]

BlackBerry Limited (BB) 28.77 14.04 104.9% [129]

Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (BBW) 8.40 4.52 85.8% [130]

Eastman Kodak Company (KODK) 15.15 9.46 60.1% [131]

Express, Inc. (EXPR) 13.97 1.79 680.4% [129]

Fossil Group, Inc. (FOSL) 28.60 9.87 189.8% [132]

Genius Brands (GNUS) 3.36 1.57 114.0% [131]

iRobot Corporation (IRBT) 197.40 98.94 99.5% [133]

Koss Corporation (KOSS) 127.45 3.34 3,715.9% [134]

The Macerich Company (MAC) 25.99 14.58 78.3% [135]

 Selected stocks experiencing sharp price increases

Security (symbol) Price high[a] Jan 22 % chg. Ref.

Naked Brand Group (NAKD) 3.40 0.44 672.7% [136]

National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ) 196.43 98.44 99.5% [137]

Nokia Oyj (NOK) 9.79 4.20 133.1% [138]

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) 45.00 32.58 38.1% [131]

Siebert Financial (SIEB) 18.50 3.70 400% [139]

Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) 58.98 30.14 95.7% [140]

Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE) 59.43 34.28 73.4% [133]

a
 Prices may be higher during extended-hours trading.
GME Resources, an Australian mining company, saw their shares increase significantly
over 50% during intraday trading, closing with a 13.3% increase on January 28. This
was speculated to have occurred as a joke given the identical ticker symbols on
different exchanges.[141]
Amateur traders in Malaysia were inspired by the GameStop short squeeze to target
shares for Malaysian latex glove makers on Bursa Malaysia as a countermove against
the devaluation of the sector by institutional investors following the lifting of a ban on
short selling in the country earlier in January 2021. Top Glove, Hartalega
and Supermax respectively recorded increases in shares as high as 15%, 10% and
9.2% during intraday trading on January 29, before closing with increases of 8.5%,
5.4% and 3.7%. The rally call was reportedly organized from r/bursabets, a Malaysian
offshoot of r/wallstreetbets named after the Malaysian stock exchange. [142][143]
Cryptocurrencies[edit]
In reaction to brokerages halting the buying of GameStop and other securities, the total
market capitalization of cryptocurrencies increased to over $1 trillion as Dogecoin's
 value surged by 500%.[144] In addition, the price of Bitcoin, the world's largest
cryptocurrency, surged to more than $37,000 after Elon Musk endorsed it in his Twitter
bio, partially related to the surge of GameStop share price by Reddit users. [145]

See also[edit]

 Business portal

 Current events portal

 Internet portal

 Society portal

 Short squeeze
 Short-sell
 Reddit
 Economic bubble – Economic phenomenon of very high prices driven by speculation
 Greater fool theory – the price of an object is determined by the local and relative
demand of a specific consumer and not from intrinsic value
 Irrational exuberance – unfounded market optimism that lacks fundamental valuation
 Tulip mania – 17th-century economic bubble in the Netherlands
 Pump and dump – Form of securities fraud
 Speculation – Engaging in risky financial transactions

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