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I'm not in favour of bans generally but there is a case for curtailing short selling at least in some cases. Examples:
- in smaller, less liquid stocks it's very easy for short sellers to employ trolls to spread disinformation, misinformation and innuendo. Yes, they're not supposed to manipulate the market but how good is enforcement? It's easier to destroy something than it is to build it.
- banks and financials. The edifice of our financial system is based on confidence. Short selling banks can destroy confidence and the short thesis becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I'm not sure I buy the idea that sophisticated investors successfully manage risk by shorting. There's very little empirical evidence that hedge funds outperform indices over the long run. For every Enron, there is a Tesla that the shorters get horribly wrong. But they still charge stupidly high fees.
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Nice to be up for the day!
Long, long way to go to realise true value.
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Hahahaha 20p prediction in short term.
See how desperate the shorters (or their minimum wage armchair trolls?) are.
This will recapture 34 today. And end the year at 75-100. Everything is set up beautifully for Christmas. Product, price, merchandising, stock control, literally everything is on point. Christmas trading will be key.
You'll be waiting for your 20 forever...
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No likelihood of any ESG fallout. Quite the reverse, draws much-needed attention to the huge undervaluation here. Will wake up institutional investors to potential opportunities.
Different ball game to when Boohoo was at c.400. Easier for shorters and lamestream media to have an impact then. At 30 they have no impact at all.
And BBC is hardly a paragon of virtue right now so easy to attack it.
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A revolution starts with a few voices. Note Sunday Times piece posted here. I will use other avenues, too.
This share is exceptionally undervalued and shorted like crazy. Unlike GameStop and AMC, we actually have an excellent underlying business and a solid balance sheet. When the short squeeze starts, it will be brutal.
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Remember GameStop and AMC.
We can actively destroy the shorters. I pledge to actively buy / trade the dips in addition to not selling a penny of my large holding. Please join me.
Let's see how the shorters like their balls in a vice.
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BBC is not exactly flavour of the month. If the journalist lied on her CV it may be a health and safety issue. She potential put the well-being of genuine workers at risk. Boohoo should legally pursue this while reiterating we provide thousands of good jobs and training to British workers that would otherwise go to a Uighur concentration camp run for Shein. And top it off by saying, we welcome the episode where the BBC reporter goes undercover in a Uighur concentration camp.
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The caterpillar has turned and will soon turn into a 10-bagging butterfly.
Don't worry about any hatchet job from the lamestream media. These unmerited attacks will only draw attention to what an amazingly undervalued company we own.
The shorters are petrified now and their methods will get uglier as they lose more and more money. Don't be put off by them.
For the first time in many years, i feel we are on point with product, price and merchandising.
This is gonna fly and you will remember this post.
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Today was just a minor tremor. Earthquake still to come.
When the real action starts, shorters will panic like gutter rats in a storm...
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The shorters will not have a comfortable weekend lol.
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...is officially under way...
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buy this ******* growth stock now before the real rise....
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i made a small fortune in this epic short squeeze (2020). it started when de la rue then the most shorted stock on the lse announced a significant contract win. the shares went ballistic. i bagged a gain of a 150% in days. as article below says shorters were "cremated". i like to think we retail investors partly made that short squeeze happen. we made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. ahh, those days lol!
https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/comment/2020/08/20/cash-in-on-de-la-rue-s-reversal/
when the shorts start to panic, a trickle soon becomes a torrent then the whole ******* house comes down.
the whole ******* house is about to come down for the shorters. the spark that lights the touchpaper may be minor. a surprise positive trading update, a rumour of takeover interest or just an epiphany that this share is grossly undervalued.
shorters are so exposed they look like kanye west's girlfriend. any spark will bring the ******* house down. let's make it happen!
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You know it's coming.
These shorter mofos are about to their balls handed to them on a plastic platter.
Buy, buy, buy....
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This is so cheap, it hurts lol.
Never been more confident about timing an investment. Yes, I bought way too early. But anyone buying or topping up now is getting absolutely insane value. This is going to make us so much money....
Have a lovely day everyone.
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Gross margins looking very strong - CHECK
Balance Sheet robust - CHECK
Inventory under control - CHECK
Seasonal ranges on point - CHECK
Merchandising very attractive - CHECK
Full throttle, Captain. Let her go....
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We are going to 100 this year on the back of resurgent Christmas trading. Then 300+ plus within 3 years.
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100 by year end is first target.
So exciting. A coiled spring that's about to snap shorters' heads off lol.
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I will have my near 10-bagger.
Market is mad. I am not :-)
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Just visit Boohoo.com and Debenhams.com
Way, way better than Shein, Temu and, frankly, ASOS.
This is gonna fly come Christmas. Mark my words.
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