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Let's get into the video today my friends we're giving you an update on ticker symbol, amc and for whatever reason i do not have this pulled up on my screen right now, but we will get that taken care of asap baby. So just give me one second to get this ready for you, as we were saying, ticker symbol, amc man, what a freaking day guys it was not bad. We ended up hitting a high of just about 9.50, starting to really squeeze up some solid price action. In comparison to gamestop, gamestop had a little more of a run, but this is not to be uh concerned with right.

I'm gon na update that later don't worry, but uh. We're focused here on amc gamestop, following a pretty similar trend line. However, amc breaking out of this little bit of a bleed that we saw here for a little while mirroring the nasdaq and some of the nasdaq correction we saw and the volume picked up today as well. So we're going to talk about quite a bit.

But what i want to focus on primarily, is this dtcc rule how this directly affects amc's price action? Why this is the best news that we could have possibly gotten for the stock. We're also going to look at uh how you can make sure that you don't miss out on this squeeze right, we're going to talk about how that squeeze works for a gamma squeeze a short squeeze, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera right. We can talk about some call options once we get back to the charts here in case you are new to the channel. This is your first amc, video, the whole nine yards and then uh we're look at the numbers as well, so the short interest numbers according to ortex according to fintel right, take pins with a grain of salt.

We know that that is kind of a sketchy, edgy sort of sort of play there, but uh regardless we're gon na finish off with the stock uh chart setup right, we're gon na look at how this is looking on the charts possible entry points exit points if You're looking to do so right, i am still rocking my shares in the stock. You can see that i've actually got 2050 shares at a dollar cost average of eight dollars and 62 cents right now. Absolutely loving life, i'm not planning on selling this anytime soon. So you can get that rumor off of stock with, so you can get that rumor off of twitter we're just gon na get to the video.

We got quite a bit to talk about so, as you can see before this uh started. I was watching my boy max anywho, we're gon na talk about the dtc rule right and there's quite a bit of uh. You know questions about this and i i get it so we're going to start off here. With this dtcc rule change, you got 10d.

You got the dtcc and you got hedgy. This is the battle of kong, vs god, who will come out on top? You already know the answer to that. My friends anyways. What's the bottom line here right, what does this mean? The dtcc wants hedgie to cough up shares and money which they can't why right we're going to talk about that, the ftds, the failure to livers guys.

I've talked about this on the channel a couple different times, but this is a very, very simple, uh breakdown. It's very easy to to comprehend, so you have failure to delivers, and what does this mean essentially right? This can be. This can be either you know malicious or by accident. So you could have right here.

This is hedgy hedgy, says: hey man, i'd like to purchase 100 shares of amc hedgie over here coughs up some cash. He sends it over to his uh, his not friend hedgie over here right so attend. He sends over some money to hedgie. Hedgie, says: okay.

In a malicious way, we're just gon na assume the worst here he's got shares for amc sitting right here, or maybe he doesn't right. He might not, but instead, let's just assume he doesn't, he sends over ious in its place. This shows up in intendi's bank account is a simple share of amc. So what happened right attendee over here coughed up his cash he sent over money he sent over money like he was supposed to do he's not in the wrong.

In fact, he's going to be sitting just fine, these ftd's, however, the failure to delivers is when they send over these ious, which appears as amc in intendi's brokerage account right, and he has no idea about it. So these guys are creating synthetic shares that shouldn't exist, and that is a failure to deliver. They aren't accounted for shares now. Why could this possibly happen right? It could be - and this is my hypothesis - you've got two different things.

You've got a naked shorting right, so shorting with shares that don't presently exist and b you've got call options. Call options can be written up pretty much infinitely and i think there are hedge funds. We've talked about this on the channel. Quite a bit.

My friends, there are hedge funds that are likely going long on this that are playing into the game institutions, the big banks right. You got big bank right here, bb we're gon na call. Her and big bank over here knows hey these uh clearing houses, which are maybe short on these positions. Maybe they're not right, they don't have the current collateral.

They don't have the other shares for amc to make this happen. So what are we gon na? Do? We are going to freaking burn these guys right. This is, this: is the uh. This is the hedge fund burning to the freaking ground right now and how do they do that? They write up call options right because you can get call options out the money for super cheap.

I mean if we come over here to amc right now. Look at these call options. You can see that a 20 call option is a 15 strike premium per share, which is only 15 bucks for a single share. Now, if you look out the 19th of march, which is the quadruple witching date right, what does this look like? You can get 32 cents lock it in 13 thousand total call options sitting right there on that date.

Fifty one thousand at the ten dollar strike for 116 bucks. So if those institutions want to play a little more safe, they can do that as well. Now, how does this matter right, so these synthetic shares that are being created, these failure to delivers, come from both of these things. Naked shorting, which is institutions that are creating counterfeit share synthetic shares in order to sort the stock and create um synthetic selling pressure right because it shifts the supply and demand line.

So if this is high, this is low right, high low. This is supply. This is demand when you shift supply over to the right. What happens? Is it ends up die all right? I got this backwards, my bad.

This is low and this is high. You end up shifting that supply line so that it diverges at a different point. With that demand line. It lowers the overall demand.

You've got higher supply, that's the basic fundamentals of supply and demand. High high demand, low demand that demand goes down. The more the supply increases, so that's not good, and what you have here is these institutions or retail investors. It could be a little bit of both.

I think most institutions recognize that these ftds are in play right now, so they're. Creating these call options. They're they're purchasing call options that can pretty much be written infinitely even above the total shares outstanding on this stock, which is around 370 million total shares right, which creates, in the short term a little bit of synthetic false selling pressure. So that's how that's happening and that's where these failure delivers are coming from right now, so we've got these ious we've got these synthetic shares and they typically have 21 days to to make this happen right.

So let's say they write up these ious. They don't have to respond to them even so much. They don't even have to somebody just respond to these on these ious and they can just keep playing it out for at least 21 days, and why would they maybe want to do that? Heavies are trying to save their. You already can see this they're big butts and why? Where would this come from? So an example, let's say: there's ten thousand call options at a strike price of seven dollars and the market value is at um.

Oh, i got this backwards, so it's gon na be seven dollars and five dollars right. So, let's say you've got call options expiring. A five dollar strike market value. It's at seven dollars.

Why would you pay and buy back the shares when you can run down the price now? What do i mean by this if they've got 21 days to cover their butts here right and currently the market value is sitting at seven dollars. You've got strike prices expiring at five dollars. Well, if they just wait a week right one single week and they can drive that price back down to that five dollar range, they can buy back. Those shares for a lot cheaper, a lot easier on the on the on the pockets for them, and they can maybe potentially find some people at that market.

Value. Who are scared, who are getting kind of beat down by the manipulation happening on the stock and take their shares from them because they know what's going on right? They know hey if we scare the retail investors the crap out of their money. We can just come up with these. These actual physical, tangible shares without having to worry about covering these ious and they've failed in doing so.

Dtcc noticed this and uh they are making some big changes. So what are these changes? Why? How does it help us out right? There are no bailouts for the bugatti and boys, i'm looking at you vlad i'm looking at you, you dead cat vlad's, a dead cat man, but amc nah nah, not a dead cat ious will be bought back, there's going to be a supply and demand shift right Because when you buy back these ious, these synthetic shares, you are decreasing. The total market float right, so there's going to be less shares available to the market. If there's supposed to be 370 million, but there's actually 420 million 420 a or 450 million right.

It could be either one of these it could. It could be more. Who knows, who knows, nobody can tell you the exact number of shares they're actually circulating, but that is a possibility and when they do this market count right. They count the total shares that are available.

That's really going to open some eyes as to what's actually going on here that supply and demand shift is going to happen just like we mentioned back here right. So when supply goes up, demand goes down. That is a it's. It's super super easy see.

This supply up demand down, that's just how it works and you're going to fix that issue. You're going to raise the demand back up by decreasing that supply naked shorts will have to cover with real shares and irus. Will be destroyed right so if they get busted on that naked shorts or synthetic shorts that aren't supposed to exist, they have to buy back those shares now because they have to destroy them and it could be right on the spot. We don't know exactly when that's going to happen, but this rule is in place now.

So that's going to play a big big piece in this margin. Calls are essentially what you're going to have happen here right so for a regular retail investor, or maybe an institutional investor right that has actual synthetic shares. If you hold the long position right, let's say that here's 10d right now it's andy and you know i can actually just call myself to andy, because this happened to me and i didn't even get a margin call. I just got my my stuff circ uh liquidated.

Let's say that i have you know 2500 total amc shares, which i did at one point right and that's worth about twenty thousand dollars, which it was at the time, maybe a little more than that. So this was at a markets, uh average price of maybe like thirteen dollars, something like that. Thirteen to fourteen dollars well prices all of a sudden six bucks and i didn't even get a margin call. I got my account liquidated burned.

All my shares got liquidated. I got sold out of my position because the institutions, these brokers, dtcc the clearinghouses, whoever it might have been needed to manage their risk, and that is the same exact thing. That's happening right now. With these institutional investors, they are managing risk for edgy hedges, getting his risk managed, because these these clearinghouses the dtcc they need to manage the amount of liquidation liquidity that they have on hand.

They don't want to get screwed by this. So that's where this comes into play. You can think of this, as a very very large scale margin call like hey either you come up with the money or you come up with the tangible, physical, real shares or bam. You're closing you can close out your position and we're gon na make sure that you buy them back at market value, whoever that ends up being and you're just gon na lose money later, whatever that ends up being big big big thing here day by day versus 21 days, so ftds they've got three freaking weeks.

These are trading days by the way, so that could end up being almost four full trading weeks, which would really add up when you look at the you know the price action here over the last month - not a lot happening here, pretty dead waiting for people to Get out of their positions to sell out, sell out, sell out. Never ever happened right that is going to change the game. It's going to be a day by day basis. These guys, who are holding short positions in the stock, could get a margin call essentially at any given time, and you can see the stock price go bam, and that is huge.

So that is a huge, huge thing that is going on right now. With these, these big changes, the dtcc rule that has been enacted with uh with the stock price, and i thought this is pretty interesting. It's a good thing to talk about, so what does this mean in apes language? The big boys basically sold the hedge funds that they are on their own told the hedge funds they're on their own. If they lose, they lose their bananas, no bail at this time for naughty bulgarian boy, and you see right there.

That's too easy! You want to check it out. There is a link you can just search up. Dtcc rule reddit you'll find it he's, got a link to the sec rule filings and you can read through that all that you want, but that is essentially what i grasped from that. Overall situation, so next we're going to get into the current short interest and the current short numbers on the stock.

Today is march 8th. We saw 19.1 million total short volume out of the overall market volume of 112 million volumes, starting to go back up again. That was 17 of the total market volume. There are currently 350 000 total short shares available.

Short borrow free rate just keeps on climbing baby. That's exactly what you like to see: that's 12.2, which is very very high, as this number continues to go up. That is just an added pressure that is being squeezed down on these short positions that are holding on the stock. So that's huge utilization as of this morning, 100 percent.

Oh absolutely insane guys! You see it right there before your eyes: 100 utilization. If you don't know what that means, this is referring to the ratio between the number of shares on loan across all standing loans in the wholesale market, and the number of shares available for lending and lending programs percent means that no shares have been borrowed or lent To these lending programs, 100 means that all shares available to borrow or land at a lending program have in fact been linked. So that's huge. That means that currently, at landing programs, there are zero available short shares to borrow days to cover has been continuing to go up, but keep in mind that this number is skewed.

This takes the short interest divided by the three month average volume, and that gives you the overall picture. But if you look at the average volume, we've seen right up until the last month and a half of trading very minuscule. So if you took that over a month and a half period, you're gon na have a much different number there, and you know that it's getting increasingly more difficult for the shorts to cover their positions profitably and they keep pointing it out. They keep waiting out they're playing with fire playing with fire right, but that's where this new rule comes into play because they can't keep playing these ftds these ious.

They can't keep playing these naked shorts. They can't keep playing the synthetic shares they're going to get recounted right. It's just a matter of time. My friends, nobody can tell the exact date, but what i can tell you is, i have never been more.

Certain of a squeeze potential in amc is definitely definitely there, so that is huge. That's a big big thing to keep in mind institutional ownership. On this 21.83 most recent buyer stepped in reporting date of march. 1St does not mean they bought it on a date right, but it does tell you that uh ubs asset management, america's incorporated, holds 51 000 total shares in this stock, something to keep the back of your mind.

These institutions, these hedge funds, whoever they might be, do not need to report when they have call options on a stock, and why am i mentioning that? Because i guarantee you all the call option activity that we're seeing on amc is not retail investors, there's no possible way. You look at march 19th in specific, and these call options have been here for a minute and i'm anticipating it's because of the quadruple witching right, which is that date in which you've got a bunch of different uh. Explorations are gon na be happening across the board. Four in particular right that are going to drive this price action, eight thousand twelve thousand seven, sixteen three, sixteen five, nine two: you guys can do the math eventually, but these are hundreds of thousands of call options that have been sitting here for a good minute and I think that is gon na be hedge funds or institutions, and that's big - that's a big deal, because there could be a lot more institutions that are holding the stock than you actually realize, or that are actually talkable about right.

So if we were to add all this up, i would anticipate it's somewhere. Between 250 000 300 000 total call options which would be 30 um, 30 million total shares that would pump into this stock if they expired in the money and regardless these, these clearinghouses need to delta hedge. For that they need to be able to have the collateral for that, and they might not even have it, which is where these ftd's these failures delivers. These ious keep coming into play because the majority of the overall float available for this stock is being held right.

So you just keep you see how all these dots connect - and it just keeps compounding this. This whole overall situation right now, guys, i'm not concerned with the overall market flow, and why do i bring this up right? So we're just look up. Market watch really quick and i can guarantee you one thing: you would not see these ftds. I know that the public float is 374 million.

Total shares right. You would not see these failures to delivers if they were able to come up with a collateral for these right. They would have they would. Maybe you would have seen that initially right a week over week over week over week, right a month straight a month and a half straight, having failure to deliver that tells you the whole freaking story.

You can read between the lines and see hey these guys. Do not have the collateral to make this stuff happen. It's huge! That's a big big big deal. So when people tell me public, float's, too high right, look at the failures of livers, don't even talk to me until i look at those failures, their livers, because that is what it is.

My friends, this is not a cat. It's not not a dick cat, not a cat, not a cat. I need to write a song. Anybody wants to write a song about that.

I'll. Tell you what you make me one happy chicken. So how will you get to lock in profits for the squeeze? I wrote up a little two. Two uh sentence, two cents piece here set a limit price.

This is big, make sure you don't set it too low. Of course, it's not financial advice. Do your own dd. Do you do your own thing right, but this is what i would personally do when shorts have to buy back shares.

They inevitably will they have to buy them back from you, ious will eventually be destroyed. What does this mean? This means that we decide the final share price and it depends on the people either buying or holding you'll know the squeeze of squares because it'll be explosive. Hundreds of percent - it's not gon na - be a jump up to nine dollars, not a jump up to ten dollars. That could honestly just be momentum that could be hyped that could just be pure volume, probably into a stock right.

So take that for what it is. But you're gon na know because it's gon na hop up hundreds of percent thousands of percent you're gon na see literally 500 million. Maybe a billion volume come into the stock again, because all these shares that were being counterfeited are finally going to come back into the market they're going to purchase back the real actual shares right. That's gon na be a big big big deal.

You got ta, buy and hold buy and or hold this limits. The amount of available shares to the market right, which means that there's less available from the public float for these hedge funds and institutions that went short to purchase back when they have to cover these ious. These these synthetic shares and amc is already one of the most health stocks in the stock market most held on robin hood, so the less that's available to the market, the more that the retail investor, the institutional investor who are long on this, get to control the Price, you guys get to choose what you sell this ad now. What do i mean by this? What's an example right, so if there are 370 million total shares available, we're just going to assume that uh, maybe there's 20 million circulating right.

Maybe this is day traders. It could be that simple, so we've got 350 million to work with. However, you've got over here, hedgy hedgy is holding you know, combined all these different short positions that are being held. Maybe let's say you know: 35 to 50 million, we'll roll 50 million.

That definitely seems possible right, and nobody knows i don't know this is off the top of my head - we're just saying a hypothetical here right. So if, let's say 20 million right, there's 20 million circulating somehow 20 million gets subtracted, so you've got somewhere between 15 to 35 million total shares. Well, if there are this, many shares being held 350 million right by institutional investors or retail investors that are long on this. You guys get to decide what they purchase these ads.

So if every single one of these people set their settlement price for a thousand dollars right hypothetically, this could actually happen. This could literally literally actually happen if everybody set their settlement for a thousand dollars. These guys, who had 15 to 35 million total short shares on the stock, would have absolutely no choice but to buy back at that thousand dollar mark now before you confidently you're, like ah trey, there's no way, there's that many there's no way, there's that many short Shares you know that are being traded on the market. We're being held right now check this out right.

We come back here to amc short interest. Today alone we saw 19 million. Today alone, we saw 19 million, and this is honestly, probably just retail investors or people scalping the stock. This doesn't even necessarily need to be the people that are holding this right.

You see the short share: availability. 350. 000. You see the overall uh utilization rate being a hundred percent.

That's huge! This is honestly a low ball guys. You know if you follow the channel for a while. You know that i always low ball everything. This is a low ball, 15 to 35 million.

Total short shares it could very easily be more than that. That's that's not even considering the these synthetics the ious right these ftds that they could very well be holding right now this. I would not be surprised in the least bit to see this be in the realm of 50 to 100 million. Total short shares, both naked and tangible short shares, there's a bunch of different ways this could play out, but uh.

I would not be surprised in the least bit to see that be the case. 50 to 100 million. Total short shares on amc so take that for what it is. That is how you can win this play right.

That's how you wouldn't miss the squeeze. You will know when it squeezes my friends and it's up to you when you decide to sell right, but that is how you see this hit a thousand dollars. It's honestly the most simple explanation on the planet, but what it requires is unified forces to step into the game and say hey. We are going to agree upon this right now.

It's how volkswagen squeeze was so successful because porsche and the german government there was just two entities that forced that squeeze, so they were able to discuss back and forth how they want to play that out, and i guarantee you they did. I guarantee you they did right, but it's more difficult for a group of investors, retail and institutionals, who are kind of scattered like this, with both gamestop and amc. It's really going to require a unification of a lot of people, and that is what it would take. 100, if you want to guarantee you see this hit a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars, i mean honestly, it could infinitely grow until people decided they, they were happy they're, that's that's as far as their greed will take them right and they step out of the Game, so that's how you make it happen, my friends! It's really that simple! Of course it's also not that simple, so i just want to walk you through that, so that refers to the gamma squeeze the the short squeeze right.

We've got. These call options that stack on top of each other, which which forces these clearing houses to delta hedge right they've got they create either synthetic shares or they purchase physical, tangible shares from the market most likely they're ious right, which is why we haven't seen a huge Drive in price action, which would be you know, a huge explanation - um and the short squeeze would bounce off of that so gamestop before it had that first short squeeze was a gamma squeeze. It started to run up right from that gamma squeeze call option stack, call option, stack short squeeze up to 500. Bucks drops back down short three establishing positions at the top and they're still holding amc.

The same thing i guarantee you. There were shorts at the 25 mark that said, screw you guys we're gon na piss on you we're gon na double down on our short positions here at 25 bucks, because we know that you can't keep playing this game. We know the stock is going to come back down in price and we're willing to look at our portfolios, because we know we're not going to get a margin call for probably 21 days. So you get the picture here right, these institutional investors, these headphones have a leg up, but not for much longer.

So that's what we're looking at right here. If you want to purchase, call options. What is the best thing that you can do right? I would suggest getting some out the money call options close to the strike price, so pay a little higher premium to lock in that security we're already at over nine dollars. So if you lock in a ten dollar strike right for that dollar, sixteen you put 116 bucks as of right now for that premium for one call option, there's pretty good chances.

You come out on top of that, of course, i'm not a financial advisor. Do your own dd, i'm not guaranteeing you anything, there's no way to know for sure. What happens? That's why call options are risky. I recommend you don't purchase them unless you are a pretty seasoned and uh veteran investor, but that's what i suggest that will contribute to the overall gamma squeeze that will add to these failures: to delivers.

It'll it'll basically entice these uh, these clearing houses and hedge funds, who who maybe already have some ftds to keep stacking them. So it's it's a way to play into our hand, my friends and that's we're looking at right there on all the recent news man. That was a lot of information. Oh, that you guys stuck around and watch all that if you did drop a like got.

Some cracking right here, i'm just hyped right now, guys it was a good day today was a good freaking day. So what are we looking at the 15ma starting to create some nice gap here between the 15 and the 200? They are hooking away from each other. Typically indicates an increasement in volatility to come, and this was a strong chart setup guys look at this retracement picture perfect. You can't beat that 38.2 retracement.

Anything over 50 is significant. That shows you that there's a lot of buying strength in the stock, which is huge, great volume. On the day today, we were looking at uh over 100 million - again 113 million, and we really do need to get back into that 450 million 500 million total shares. If we do want to see that squeeze potential start to come, because that is gon na force, these uh these shorts to cover their positions and it's gon na really crank down on those margin, calls that could be coming for these clearing houses or these uh.

These big institutionals or headphones that are playing with fire, so big big big deal on the one day, candle setup. What do we have gnarly cup gnarly handle? That is a dirty dirty, dirty, cuff and handle play right here guys. You cannot make this up and we got a george w. You already know what it is.

You already know what it is. It's so good. It's too easy um, and one thing that i do want to point out as well is when you look at the overall volume that comes into the stock. What's going to be important, you're going to know when these uh these ftd's, these ious are being covered because the volume will go insane, the volume you'll see this thing, drive off of low volume and it'll start pumping really really hard and they're gon na be people Out there that say: hey i'm happy with 20 bucks, i'm happy with 25 bucks, i'm selling out and it'll just keep driving up and up and up and up and up right.

So you get the picture here, guys that's what we're looking at on the charts. This is a dirty dirty set up. We got a george w foreman right here on the uh, the one the. I think this is our candles yeah.

On the one hour candle chart right. This is a one month. We've got a huge fat george w set up right now, and the level of resistance we're gon na be watching for is going to be right about here at about that 10 33 mark followed by this double top at about 10.93. I am anticipating when i see a test of that 11 mark by the end of the week.

Hold don't hold me to it right, but i'm telling you. This is every single day that passes this is getting closer and closer and closer to our time. My friends - and that is what i have for the video today if you enjoyed it, please drop a like and video help, support the channel and consider subscribing if you see more content like this. Lastly, i'm going to fill in the description box down below for weeble.

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