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Re:A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet ... by bikingbismuth on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:02AM (#30178478)
As far as I understand it, the core aspect of an impending “MOASS” is that GME stock is still shorted > 100%, but SI is currently reported at around 15%[0].

[0]https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/GME/short-interest/

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Re:A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet ... by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:39AM (#30179073)
In other words, the canonical measure that represents the ratio of uncovered shorts to the float is ... wrong? There are people who are short, but are not short?
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Re:A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet ... by magic123_ on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:00AM (#30207545)
From what I got, the majority of the actual short would be hidden in some method of put-call options shenanigans (not sure what it is now, but there was at some point the equivalent of 2 times the float in $<2 puts a year out)
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