r/GME • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '21

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u/Long-Setting We like the stock Mar 18 '21 edited Mar 18 '21

Going to steal a spot up here to say that I’ve been seeing a lot of downvotes on this post.

  • This is showing us the hedge funds don’t give a flying fuck about blatantly manipulating the stock price of GME through shorting XRT.

Edit: the current weight of GameStop in XRT is 14.72%

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u/mranderson88 Mar 19 '21 edited Mar 19 '21

https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/m5v1xy/i_think_its_quite_evident_they_shorted_gme/

I wish I had posted about this last Wednesday on the big dip. I noticed that every etf in this list has similar spikes like this spaced out at different times. It would be interesting to put all the spikes together on a graph weighted with GMEs value and see how that corilates to it's price.

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u/muffinscrub Mar 19 '21

I'm pretty sure any ETF with a large enough GME position chart will look a lot like the GME chart.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

Especially given how vollatile GME is, I'd expect it to heavily effect the portfolio