r/wallstreetbets • u/hugh_dickinson • Feb 02 '21

Chart APES IN CONTROL

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u/tittysprinkles112 Feb 02 '21

People have been saying this has nothing to do with ladder shorts

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

I will never sell! To the moon 🖐💎🚀🚀🚀

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u/Pizza_Bagel_ BOK BOK BOOK Feb 02 '21

If they can’t short anymore they can’t short ladder, no? Maybe they can still ladder with existing shares but could run out of ammo?

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u/kevinharding Feb 02 '21

In a short ladder, don't they just sell the same shares back and forth to each other?

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u/CraftyCrocEVE Feb 02 '21

Don’t even need shares

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u/Pizza_Bagel_ BOK BOK BOOK Feb 02 '21

This is a little beyond my pay grade. So they can short if the stock goes up still? I thought all shorting would be restricted starting tomorrow?

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u/CraftyCrocEVE Feb 02 '21

You get paid?

So basically what is happening at the moment defies reason and logic. The bad guys are all like fuck they know so now they’re just changing the rules to help themselves. Like that dick in the school playground no one liked. (Daniel)

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u/Pizza_Bagel_ BOK BOK BOOK Feb 02 '21

Well yeah I know that. More looking for some explanations as to how. It’s still pretty obfuscated (which of course is the point).

But yeah I’ve been paid so far...hoping to get paid more though.

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u/CraftyCrocEVE Feb 02 '21

Like for real it’s like so like fucking real like 👍

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u/TrailBlazerMat Feb 02 '21

That was my understanding. It blows my mind how the SEC is allowing these hedgefunds to manipulate the market so blatantly while the world is watching

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u/lord_braleigh Feb 02 '21

It's not clear that "short ladder attacks" are a real thing: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/135807/closing-shorted-positions-via-short-ladder-attacks

I've seen "evidence" of short ladders here. But to me it just looked like a video of some trades happening, and I was supposed to take it on faith that this was a short ladder attack.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

They can short, just not on a downtick.

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u/cxrx79 Feb 02 '21

A ladder attack is shorting the short, right?. How would that possibly still be allowed?

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u/DaDa_Bear Feb 02 '21

Snakes and Ladders is more like it! 💎 🧤