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Welcome!
This is a post containing some definitions and useful links for you (especially those new to the GME saga). I hope you find this useful. Please note this is a work in constant progress so please add stuff / write corrections in the comments which I will edit it in!
First off, here is a good summary of the story here.
Secondly, Here are some definitions of Key Lingo used (in alphabetical order):
Ape ( 🐒🦧🦍 ) / (Re)tard: A person who owns GME shares
Alpha Centuari / Andromeda: Exaggerated expression of 'moon'
Bananas ( 🍌 ): another term for GME stock in reference to the 'Ape' persona
Bots: autonomous programme (not real human) meant to infiltrate shareholders and distract them with other stocks or get them to sell
DD: Due Diligence or research piece
Diamond Hands (or 💎🙌, 💎👐 ): Shareholders that hold on to their shares through ups and downs without selling a single one
DFV: DeepFuckingValue, or Roaring Kitty, or Keith Gill, the OG who invested in GME stock focusing on its value and bringing attention to its shorting problem
DTCC (or its subsidiary NSCC): the clearance corporation (biggest player worth $63Trillion)
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - negative sentiment that is meant to discourage shareholders from buying / holding
FOMO: A fear of missing out trade occurs when you notice a sharp rally or slump in a stock, and the desire to join in on the price movement
GUH: a meme expression referring to a really big mistake in investment, this is derived from a famous incident explained here.
Hedgies: a term for Hedge Funds, mainly the 'bad guys' who have over-shorted GME (Melvin and Citadel are the main ones)
Moon / To The Moon / Mooning ( 🌕,🌝 ): reaching massive gains (highs), usually used to indicate the final destination of the investment
Paper Hands ( 🧻🙌, 🧻👐 ): People who choose to sell their shares too early for personal benefit
Rocket ( 🚀🚀🚀🚀 ): indication of the imminent massive increase in stock price (i.e. take off to the moon)
SEC: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the gov arm that is meant to monitor and govern the financial market in the US to protect investors and stop manipulation (so difficult to type this one without laughing)
Shill: somebody who has been paid off by the hedgies to infiltrate the shareholders and distract them and/or get them to sell
Shorts: usually refers to the institutions that decided to go short on GME
Smooth Brain: another expression for GME shareholder (re-tard), used also to express lower level of thinking and understanding ability
Stonks: internet slang for stocks, can sometimes be used as an ironic term to describe poor financial decision
Tendies: big gains / returns on investment
Wrinkley brain ( 🧠 ): used to express a higher level of thinking or understanding ability
Whale ( 🐋🐳 ): person or institute with very deep pockets, usually beneficial to shareholders
YOLO (or YOLO trade): is where you go all in hoping to make a substantial return
Thirdly, here are some definitions of key financial terms in alphabetical order (these are copied and pasted from investopedia because I am not an expert myself!
Call Options: financial contracts that give the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock, bond, commodity or other asset or instrument at a specified price within a specific time period. A call buyer profits when the underlying asset increases in price.
FTD (or Failure To Deliver): refers to a situation where one party in a trading contract (whether it's shares, futures, options, or forward contracts) does not deliver on their obligation. Such failures occur when a buyer (the party with a long position) does not have enough money to take delivery and pay for the transaction at settlement. A failure can also occur when the seller (the party with a short position) does not own all or any of the underlying assets required at settlement, and so cannot make the delivery.
Gamma Squeeze: a trading terminology that refers to massive call buying leading to higher stock prices, which leads to more call buying, a higher stock price and so on.
Long (or Long position): The term long position describes what an investor has purchased when they buy a security or derivative with the expectation that it will rise in value.
Market Makers (MM): Many market makers are often brokerage houses that provide trading services for investors in an effort to keep financial markets liquid. A market maker can also be an individual trader (known as a local), but due to the size of securities needed to facilitate the volume of purchases and sales, the vast majority of market makers work on behalf of large institutions.
Naked Short: the illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist.
Naked Calls: A naked call is an options strategy in which an investor writes (sells) call options on the open market without owning the underlying security.
Options: Options are financial instruments that are derivatives based on the value of underlying securities such as stocks. An options contract offers the buyer the opportunity to buy or sell---depending on the type of contract they hold---the underlying asset.
Put Options: A put option is a contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell--or sell short--a specified amount of an underlying security at a pre-determined price within a specified time frame. This pre-determined price that buyer of the put option can sell at is called the strike price.
Short squeeze: A short squeeze occurs when a stock or other asset jumps sharply higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses. Their scramble to buy only adds to the upward pressure on the stock's price.
Short (or Short position): A short, or a short position, is created when a trader sells a security first with the intention of repurchasing it or covering it later at a lower price. A trader may decide to short a security when she believes that the price of that security is likely to decrease in the near future.
Short Interest (or SI): Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short interest, which can be expressed as a number or percentage, is an indicator of market sentiment.
Finally, here are some key useful links to get you up to speed!
Daily recap before market opens
Daily collection of good research
Key reminder:
This subreddit is a place where GME shareholders come to discuss this stock which they like. This is not a place to organise or agree on certain actions as that is considered manipulation and against the law. Any form of opinion MUST be displayed as personal and to not be taken financial advice.