The sec yesterday released a video that is taking twitter by storm rightfully, so it's a very stupid video. The video is talking about meme stocks quote unquote and uh the risks that may be involved with buying selling being involved with meme stocks. Let's watch this video quick and let's tell you why this is the stupidest thing. I've ever seen welcome back brad, it's your investment i'll, take meme stocks, invest your investment julie, i'm gon na! Do some research first well played julie.

Hopefully we can do research. Investing is not a game always do your research before making an investment decision learn more at investor.gov before you invest investor.gov investing is not a game. You know. I find this to be probably the funniest sentence within this uh, this entire video, because you know, if investing isn't a game, i find it quite peculiar that the sec would refer to stocks as meme stocks in the first place see the first inherent problem is that Meme stocks is sort of a uh, a pinning name right.

It's meant to sort of demean those who invest into said companies, as, if said, companies don't serve a purpose. So here what i'm going to show you very simply put is employees that work for just as an example, gamestop and amc in 2022 you found that 12 000 people were 2021. 12 000 people were employed by gamestop. If you found 2021's data for amc, you saw 24 increase up to 31 198 people.

I don't think these people would argue their meme stocks. I don't think these people would argue that they're meme companies see if we even dig further. What you're gon na find is that these companies actually have a lot of liquidity, that back behind the industries that they're involved in here look at the nft space, which is something that gamestop is working their way into with their nft marketplace. You will find a 7200 percent increase in overall nft space growth, 340 million dollars in 2020 to 24.9 billion last year.

That is only 2021's data. Furthermore, we look into the film industry. The film industry you'll find is worth 42.5 billion dollars, there's obviously a lot of interest in films. I don't see anything, that's a meme about that.

I don't. I don't see anything. That's even remotely questionable about the validity behind this particular industry. No, i mean the money speaks for itself here.

Look at this! How much money is in the video game industry, which is something that gamestop is also partaking in? Oh, you will find it's about 18 billion dollars as of 2017 and, as we've seen, the gaming space has only grown with covid the pandemic and streaming mainstreaming sort of the idea behind video games themselves, giving quicker access than we've ever seen before to the possibility to Play whatever you'd like whenever you'd like it's, not a meme video games aren't mean nfts. Well, i don't personally like nfts, but the money speaks for itself and if these aren't a meme movies, aren't a meme these things all matter. So what i find to be the funniest about this video? Is they they rag on meme stocks, instead of actually looking at the core problems that maybe brought together investors to want to invest in quote, unquote, meme stocks or companies that have actual employees that have to pay actual level livable wages that have actual dollar signs? Behind the business that they run see what's the funniest thing is that all of these things were sort of probed by uh problems within the stock market, mechanics within the stock market. What's an idea at dinner right: this is something the sec should probably take interest in an idea dinner is when you have multiple hedge funds, institutions, banks, prime brokers, that come together to discuss stocks that they think are good, buys and good sells for retail that'd.

Be collusion but for a hedge fund for a bank this would be an idea dinner. It's just not i'm just sharing my opinion. Yeah. I got ta, i'm not telling you to buy this, i'm not trying to sell this, but i'm putting 10 billion dollars into it.

So if you want to make some money make some money, maybe this is something they should take interesting, maybe arbitrage arbitrage being the simultaneous purchase and sale the same asset in different markets in order to profit from tiny differences in the assets listed price, for instance, you Can buy something off exchange and sell it on exchange? If there is a slight differential between the bit and the ask which is the buy and the sell side of both of these stocks uh, the bid would be the cell that asked would be the buy. Maybe this is of interest, i don't know for some reason, it seems like arbitrage takes up a very large portion of the overall liquidity and volume that we send on any given day. Maybe they should look into this, maybe payment for order flow. Maybe the conflict of interest of of market makers paying out retail brokers and prime brokers a percentage cut of whatever their their clients pay for any sort of transaction sure you get free trading, but of course this creates a conflict of interest and a non-competitive market space.

In which you see a dominance of guess what market makers market makers highly imbalanced, you have non-competitive markets. Maybe they should look into this. Maybe they should look into why citadel handles 40 of all u.s listed retail volume? Maybe this monopolization of the market is perhaps why you see problems within these names like amc and gamestop and bed bath and beyond and sundial whatever may be the meme stocks. Maybe they look into this, maybe looking at off exchange trading, which has seen drastic drastic increases over the last couple of years, as you can see by this chart right here, looking back to october of 2019 up until only june 2020, what you will find is that You have seen an increase like you would not believe of off exchange trading.

You see right here, hmm, maybe look into this, maybe looking to re-hypothecation or the idea that you can borrow the same share two three four five six different times and have a short interest of a stock which is essentially to be thought of as the entirety of All existing shares shorted more than one time into the market, maybe rehypothecation maybe should get looked at. Maybe this makes some sense, maybe naked short selling, which they actually create. A share that should not exist in the first place, see the the problem that i'm facing here. What makes me the most sort of rattled by this is the sec is poking fun at retail investors and that meme stock says, if we don't have validity, is if we have not done research behind these names.

Do the people people like the reason people like amc and gamestop, and all these different names is because of exactly these problems? We've done the research we've looked at the problems. We've looked at the market, mechanics we've looked at the the fragility of the markets and we know without a shadow of a doubt that there are problems that need to be addressed that created these problems within these stocks in the first place to shift blame, because this Is how i view it it's to shift the plane back to retail and say hi, you stupid, ass peon, look at you buying the meme stock. What are you would you expect to lose money? You thought you're gon na make money. Of course, you're gon na lose money, it's a meme stock.

No, it's a real company. People like gamestop people, like amc people, invest in companies, they believe in and they invest in management they believe in and they invest in a future. They believe in and you all are a bunch of dumb chickens. That's what i got for this video catch.

You later much lovely taps, peace.