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The only way to make those stop losses on shorts pop the same way is to trade premarket and aftermarket with heavy pressure, there's no other way to trigger a squeeze the next day, during regular trading hours is impossible.
Really, there's no shares left to sell, who in his right mind sell at $4 and under ?
Over 8 Mil shares sold today, under 6 Mil bought with a HOD of $4.39 with little pressure and under 6 mil unaccounted for.
https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/NYSE/amc-entertainment-AMC/trades
When a CEO replies on Twitter " I will not sell anymore anytime soon" it means he has shares to sell, makes sense to you ?
Lastly, I’ve been AMC’s CEO for 7 years. About 2/3 of my total pay is in stock not cash. Well publicized in advance, I sold shares only once in those 7 years, a 65 day span Nov 21 to Jan 22. My stock sales ended a year ago. I will NOT sell any more any time soon. I ride with you.
— Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) January 2, 2023
I made my prediction last night that AMC will close at $4.40 today, we had a HOD of $4.39 at 10 AM only to be bombarded with dilution in less than an hour back to $3.89, it's obvious that Aron cannot be trusted even though he lied through his teeth in his last tweet that he won't sell any shares anytime soon.
He is devious and evil, anyone here still believes this sellout deserves their fate, as of now APE is at $1.20
Be a darling and tell us what do you see exactly, cause an Yes vote would definitely destroy shareholders,
4 am trading will tell us what insiders intend to do usually, which is bringing it down, but I think AMC will do fine, it can't go any lower from these levels, APE is sketchy and I won't make a prediction, but I expect AMC to close $4.40 tomorrow.
From what I read on social media, FB, WSB, Reddit, Stocktwits and Twitter many will drop APE and go back to AMC again.
Ken Griffin gave millions to politicians but there hasn't been a full list of the politicians he paid. Until now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/101qr80/ken_griffin_gave_millions_to_politicians_but/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Stupid are the shareholders following Adam off a cliff, the squeeze worked for both GME and AMC, but somewhere along the way they lost sight and spread out to MULN, APE, Tesla and BBBY, etc.... and now they are treated like a personal piggy bank by Adam.
Antara will sell their shares to a 3rd party as soon as the voting is over, since they are bound by a contract and have restrictions, therefore they will unload them all for a profit since they can legally do that as long as they do not sell on the open market prior to the date agreed upon.
This Hedge Fund is not here for the movement or to go against Citadel, they are all on the same side of the fence, they are here for profits, nothing more.
Aron could give a damn about selling APE shares to Antara for 66 cents, since the main goal was to buy himself votes prior to the proposal, money was never the target here, thus Antara Capital now solely controls more votes than APE shareholders combined, you guys have no idea who you're fiiing with, the Devil himself.
If anything...the reason he sold APE at the lowest price, so more shares could be sold at once to just one other corrupt Hedge Fund in order to grant himself as many votes as possible, the reason he brought APE shares so low in value,...get it now ?
Well...if you get it, then do something about it and vote against any proposals, from what I see now, a lot of big names seem to be linked to the AMC scam, and now it seems that AMC shareholders truly have all of them by the balls under the same net, close in and break them all at once, because once the stock begins to squeeze they will turn on each other and begin to close their short positions betraying whatever pact they have with one another, after all, their God is the Mighty Dollar and that is the only God they pray, worship and are loyal too.
Puzzle Solved: Who is Philip Lader? AMC Lead Director and Cleaner
Published December 30, 2022
The timing of the proposed APE conversion and AMC Reverse Stock Split couldn't have been coincidental. The FTX debacle and the AMC tokenized stock has shed light on the synthetic shorting of the stock and now they need a new plan. At first I was excited about this proposal now I am skeptical and will do the opposite of what Adam Aron and the board suggest. Philip Lader is the cleaner and he is a serious character with serious connections. This isn't a game.
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https://rumble.com/v2346wk-puzzle-solved-who-is-philip-lader-amc-lead-director-and-cleaner.html
Ken Griffin Tokenized AMC Scheme
https://rumble.com/v21z9o6-ken-griffin-behind-amc-and-gme-tokenized-ftx-coin-scam.-ape-conversion-and-.html
AMC Philip Lader
https://investor.amctheatres.com/governance/senior-officers-board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=3993089b-fa24-49f8-938f-9b6aef9b2bf7
SEC Philip Lader
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411579/000141157919000039/amc-20190709ex99105fbcb.htm
US Dept of State Philip Lader
https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/lader.html
The Credible Think Tank is Dead
https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/lader.html
Mary Lader
https://castbox.fm/episode/Mary-Catherine-Lader%2C-COO-of-Digital-Wealth-at-BlackRock-id5079-id129487031?country=us
New Renaissance
https://drchrisestout.medium.com/welcome-to-the-new-renaissance-with-ambassador-philip-lader-and-linda-lesourd-lader-301b07c8fc59
FTX Balance Sheet
https://www.ft.com/content/0c2a55b6-d34c-4685-8a8d-3c9628f1f185
Brett Harrison Citadel FTX
https://investorplace.com/2022/12/one-man-connects-ftx-citadel-and-the-crypto-market-crash/
Reddit: Digital AMC
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApesMonkeyAround/comments/r19luf/digital_assets_for_amc_a_discussion_and_recap_of/
Robert Maxwell Mossad
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ghislaine-maxwells-family-history-marked-by-scandal-secrecy-and-conspiracy/
Jeffrey Epstein Mossad
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-writer-who-broke-epstein-case-a-rumored-mossad-link-is-worth-digging-into/
Rothschild Covid Patent 2015
https://coercioncode.com/2021/07/07/rothschilds-patented-covid-19-all-planned-to-usher-in-the-new-world-order/
Hester Pierce Mercatus Center
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/nominee-to-oversee-wall-street-works-at-think-tank-dedicated-to-blocking-regulation/
Gary Gensler hid info about meetings with George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi from public
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-official-hid-info-meetings-george-soros-hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-public
As I mentioned, bankruptcy protects a company's assets and debtors can wipe their ass with promises made, they can never collect on debt owed.
Bankruptcy is not the death of a company and you all know that, that is why companies hardly ever want to be bought out during chapter 11/13, because that was their plan all along, to make out like bandits.
AMC will eventually be a business that will eventually fail, theaters are facing an inevitable death in the future in they do not adapt a new model such as 3d interaction or virtual world on that big screen of theirs, but money is what I invested and money is what I want in return, emotions do not belong in business, that is why Aron is not getting paid with emoji's but cold hard cash.
This is what I proposed to bring AMC and the shares in a better position long term.
Cancel your R/S proposal and the conversion, increase the APE dividend, sell the least profitable theaters or rent them out to venues and events like comedy shows and talent shows and we will see both shares increase 300% in one day, guaranteed.
— Rich Pinks (@RichPinks) January 2, 2023
I already know he's a crook and a greedy one at that, he expects all of us to be partners in AMC losses while his own pay increases, but God Forbid we are partners in profit.
1st of all none of us here contributed to the bad decisions he made to put the company in red, therefore, I and we, are not responsible for that.
I personally give 2 shits if AMC claims bankruptcy and as we all know that claim will only protect AMC from debtors, bankruptcy puts a company ahead, not as people think is Game Over, never that.....but what I give a damn about and what we all care about is stopping Citadel and Blackrock from shorting the American markets, as I see it is unpatriotic and could easily be declared as financial terrorism, as we took Melvin Capital out of business, and that's all I care about.
We all know Nokia, Blackberry, GameStop, Bed Bath and Beyond as well as AMC had a bleak chance to succeed, but we did not care about that, we knew that if we force the Hedge Funds to cover then these companies stood a chance to dilute at much higher PPS and claim their ability to restructure once again...that's all and nothing more.
We know his steps, he told us, sell cheap APE shares to a Hedge Fund, conversion and R/S, guess what ?, these steps do nothing to increase your wallet, they do exactly the opposite and you and all shareholders should also do the opposite of both his proposals, unless they want to cut the branch from underneath them,...simple.
This movement did not begin with the intent to pay $5 Bil in debt they accrued over the years, we are here to destroy Hedge fund companies, how did this become our responsibility all of a sudden ?
And that is how you know Aron could give 2 shits about Apes.
Funny how all of you say,..."Oh my God he is so right, the company needs to pay debtors therefore we should just donate to Aron cause he can spend my money better than I can ." Are you serious ?
If Aron allowed the squeeze to happen he could've diluted at $200 PPS like GME did, instead he is braindead, and I would not stand for it.
Citadel forced to squeeze could pay all the AMC debt, we do not have that kind of money combined, therefore all we did is the enforce a squeeze with buying pressure and as soon as Aron sees 1 cent in profit he dumps further to suppress the squeeze, now he thinks we should pay this debt, the audacity of this dude is astonishing.
I AM NOT YOUR PERSONAL BANK Aron, PLEASE GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS.
If all of you still want to see some type of squeeze it's simple, do exactly the opposite of AA's proposals, sell your APE buy AMC and vote against conversion and against R/S, AMC is not defunct or delinquent, there is absolutely no reason for a R/S.
The target was and still is AMC, not APE not Aron, he is on the Red Carpet with billionaires and none of you are invited, he could care less about any movement that would bankrupt the Boys in his Club.
Aron just infiltrated the movement and took over as a leader, that was never the plan, Wall Street Bets has been the leader, meaning US the people.
Before the movement AA was just sitting idle waiting for a slow death, Apes pulled the company out of mud and bankruptcy and all he did is to undermine us further, he needs to go on his merry way....he is the sole enemy of WSB and APES as of now.
What shares ? He got no shares left to sell, he last unloaded at $20 PPS.
It went up $2.17 at the high, look at the volume traded the very 1st and 2nd day after the news hit, if you think that was retail, think again, retail is broke, especially before Christmas and the end of the year, The Elite know how peasants function, they have your bank account.
320 Mil shares in 2 days, the 3rd day 80 mil shares more, I am sure they covered, none of you had that kind of money.
Retail trades 20 Mil the most on average.
Date Open High Low Close Change % Volume
Dec. 30, 2022
1.42 1.46 1.33 1.41
-4.08%
20,636,756
Dec. 29, 2022
1.40 1.59 1.35 1.47
1.38%
30,857,618
Dec. 28, 2022
1.70 1.85 1.40 1.45
-24.08%
53,759,231
Dec. 27, 2022
2.06 2.06 1.69 1.91
10.40%
82,169,501
Dec. 23, 2022
1.69 1.90 1.51 1.73
44.17%
149,791,773
Dec. 22, 2022
1.23 1.38 1.03 1.20
75.18%
180,271,162
https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/APE/historical-price-quotes
During the 3 days of heavy trading and the price spike for APE from 66 cents to over $2 just look at the volume in total, I am sure they have already covered those shares.
If any ape would've said 1 year ago that AA will dilute 110 million shares of AMC and insiders will sell over $850 mil shares worth of stock in total bringing AMC back under $4 from $70 while AA will get a $90 Mil salary, also that AA would issue some type of dividend in a form of stock just to keep to Apes quiet but continue to dilute that dividend all the way to 66 cents then proceed to sell shares to some Hedge Fund millions of shares worth at 66 cents then push the stock past $2 just to make the Hedge fund super rich in just 3 trading days followed by a conversion proposal and a Reverse Split, ..they would've been called CONSPIRACY THEORISTS,...well...there you have it....you just cannot make this shit up cause it is the reality we are living/
Twitter is getting heated, AA is Twitting more than Trump and he's getting corrected, he needs to get back in line and get with the schedule, people are not buying his BS anymore.
He already sold APE shares for $0.66 to Antara LMFAO, that tells you what he thinks APE shares are worth.
APE will never convert for AMC shares it is a financial and mathematical impossibility, therefore,,,even though you think you play such a major importance to the cause, you indirectly just strayed away from it and you no longer matter in this movement.
What Is Naked Short Selling, How Does It Work, and Is It Legal?
By ADAM HAYES Updated July 17, 2022
Reviewed by THOMAS BROCK
Fact checked by AMANDA JACKSON
Naked Shorting
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What Is Naked Shorting
Naked shorting is the illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. Ordinarily, traders must borrow a stock or determine that it can be borrowed before they sell it short. So naked shorting refers to short pressure on a stock that may be larger than the tradable shares in the market.
Despite being made illegal after the 2008–09 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Naked shorting is the now-illegal practice of selling short shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist.
Ordinarily, traders must first borrow a stock or determine that it can be borrowed before they sell it short.
Due to various loopholes in the rules, and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems, naked shorting continues to happen.
Although controversial, some believe naked shorting plays an important and positive market role in price discovery.
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Understanding Naked Shorting
Naked shorting takes place when investors sell shorts associated with shares that they do not possess and have not confirmed their ability to possess. If the trade associated with the short needs to take place in order to fulfill the obligations of the position, then the trade may fail to complete within the required clearing time because the seller does not actually have access to the shares. The technique has a very high risk level but has the potential to yield high rewards.
While no exact system of measurement exists, many systems point to the level of trades that fail to deliver from the seller to the buyer within the mandatory stock settlement period as evidence of naked shorting. Naked shorts are believed to represent a major portion of these failed trades.
The Impact of Naked Shorting
Naked shorting can affect the liquidity of a particular security within the marketplace. When a particular share is not readily available, naked short selling allows a person to participate even though they are unable to actually obtain a share. If additional investors become interested in the shares associated with the shorting, this can cause an increase in liquidity associated with the shares as demand within the marketplace increases.
Naked shorting was a focus of regulatory changes in 2008, in part as a reaction to the piling on of shorts on failing financial giants Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
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Regulations Regarding Naked Shorting
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) banned the practice of naked short selling in the United States in 2008 after the financial crisis. The ban applies to naked shorting only and not to other short-selling activities.
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Prior to this ban, the SEC amended Regulation SHO to limit possibilities for naked shorting by removing loopholes that existed for some brokers and dealers in 2007. Regulation SHO requires lists to be published that track stocks with unusually high trends in failing to deliver (FTD) shares.
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Naked Shorting as a Market Function
Some analysts point to the fact that naked shorting inadvertently might help markets stay in balance by allowing the negative sentiment to be reflected in certain stocks' prices. If a stock has a limited float and a large number of shares in friendly hands, then market signals can theoretically be delayed inevitably. Naked shorting forces a price drop even if shares aren't available, which can, in turn, result in some unloading of the actual shares to cut losses, allowing the market to find the right balance.
Examples of Naked Shorting
Per SEC regulations, participants in naked short selling activities can be charged with a crime. In fact, in 2014, two Florida State University professors were charged with using a naked short selling strategy in more than 20 companies to earn more than $400,000 in revenue.
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In 2018, there was widespread speculation that naked shorting was endemic in the cannabis sector as shares were highly sought after and thus limited, but short interest continued to grow regardless.
The only way to force an AMC squeeze is push the PPS premarket and aftermarket, during regular trading hours nobody has the buying power to push it high.
Shorts also have stop loss orders, and if that cannot be triggered then the squeeze will never happen.
The reason the stock keeps dropping is because Market Makers have access to stop loss orders for long positions and once that triggers it becomes a snowball effect caused by various orders at lower prices thus, we always close red.
It takes less buying power to push a stock Premarket and Afterhours.
APE will never be converted for AMC shares, for that to happen they would have to be in the same price range, APE will never see $4 but guess what ? AMC could easily see $1,30.
You all fell for Adam the crook once again, that is still a proposal that will never be approved by voters.
Buy AMC that is the real target and AMC is 21% shorted, APE is only 7% shorted, the squeeze is still about AMC 1st.
Time for AMC to break $4.20, keep pressure up, otherwise we cannot trigger any squeeze.
APE shares are garbage, AMC has been the target all along, you fell to the hat trick Adam imposed to distract everyone from the whole movement, AMC will have a squeeze and not APE, get in line soldier....APE was a distraction and it worked, reason for AMC's drop bellow $4.
Citadel and Adam delivered the biggest ass whooping to retail in the history of trading, expensive lesson indeed.
He'll maybe be nice enough and convert 1 APE and 1 AMC share for a ticket to view the movie The Biggest Short, Starring Adam Aron in partnership with Citadel for all AMC and APE investors.
I never thought I would see this stock so low, shameful.
AMC has become a Pump and Dump and it belongs on the OTC Markets.
Exactly. Apes got played like a violin and they swear Adam is their new Messiah.
AMC $3.94 pathetic, thank yours truly Adam Aron, AMC's worst enemy and vicious APE hunter.
The only thing you got wrong is.... everything, APE will not reach $4, AMC will be $1,50 and that is the match that Adam is looking for so after the split your 10 shares from 100 shares will be $15 each, just raising the ceiling a little higher to have room for shorting further.
What you missed also is that Aron should not have been a part from this movement at all, but yet he took over as the Leader and he destroyed the entire movement.
What you should do is use your voting power and take him off his Throne along with every Director of the board.
Is AMC Entertainment Stock Worth Taking Down Here?
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The world’s most prominent movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) stock has fallen (-67%) for the year, and its AMC Preferred Equity Units (NYSE: APE) shares have fallen over 90%. The meme stock craze of 2021, which includes the likes of GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) along with AMC stock, is all but a painful memory. The Company wasn’t able to capitalize on its short squeeze to make any dent in its debt load.
The U.S. Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) interest rate hikes have not helped AMC either as its interest on first-lien secured debt due in 2026 has risen from 3.10% at the beginning of the year to 5.76% by the end of its Q3.
While the reopening has brought movies goers into its theaters driven by blockbuster releases like The Batman and Black Adam from Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (NYSE: WBD) and Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA), the traffic is still down about a third from pre-pandemic levels. The Company has been able to expand to 950 theaters with 10,500 screens and plans to issue a credit card in Q1 2023 along with an AMC line of popcorn to hit grocery shelves.
The Company claims it will be a positive cash flow by the year's end with blockbuster releases in Q4 2022 that include Avatar 2 and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever from The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). It’s hoped that the experience will outstrip the convenience of streaming movies, especially as they get streamed even sooner.
The Last Man Standing Curse
While there is a halo effect for companies that are seen as “the last man standing,” but there is a risk of being obsolete as there’s usually a reason why the competition died out. The last man standing is a status that usually applies to companies in a dying industry, just like Blockbuster Video. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) saw the future in streaming video, and it was the nail in the coffin for Blockbuster.
The digital music migration has eliminated the CD music business and record stores. The migration to digital readers and tablets has nearly eliminated bookstores and printed newspapers. The COVID pandemic accelerated the migration to streaming movies which have permanently buried movie theaters. Best Buy Co. Inc (NYSE: BBY) is the last man standing for consumer electronics, but that has worked for them. Analysts from Loop to Citigroup have been cutting AMC price targets down to around $1, with Credit Suisse giving it a $0.95 price target as recently as Oct. 31, 2022.
Q3 Calm Before the Storm?
On November 8, 2022, AMC released its fiscal third-quarter 2022 results for September 2022. The Company reported an earnings-per-share (EPS) loss of (-$0.20), excluding non-recurring items versus consensus analyst estimates for a loss of (-$0.25), beating estimates by $0.05.
Revenues rose 26.9% year-over-year (YoY) to $968.4 million beating $960.97 million consensus analyst estimates. The Company still had $115 million in operating losses for a total (-$225 million) in quarterly losses. Total losses for 2022 was $700 million with (-$750 million) in total cash burn. The Company ended the quarter with $905.2 million in total assets of which includes $685 million in cash and cash equivalents. The company will have $1.6 billion at the end of 2021.
Fall of the APEs
AMC declared a dividend in the form of AMC Preferred Equity (APE) units that began trading on Aug. 22, 2022. The APE units' purpose was to sell them in the open market to raise cash to pay down its debt without further diluting the stock.
However, since it was basically like a stock split, it didn’t technically dilute the shares but definitely diluted the price. APE units were supposed to be used as currency to raise cash, but the Company has failed to raise enough cash as APE units fell from a high of $10.50 on Aug. 22, 2022, to $0.73 on Dec. 16, 2022. AMC shares fell from $13.09 to $5.31 in the same period. Price dilution, not share dilution, is what hurt investors the most.
Meanwhile, the Company barely raised any monies even to impact the interest payments on its massive $12 billion debt load comprised of $5.3 billion in debt, $4.43 billion in leases, and $2.6 billion in other debt. There are concerns for a capital raise in 2023, but chances are slim that shareholders would approve more dilution in either shares or price.
Amazon to the Rescue?
On Nov. 23, 2022, rumors spread that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) would spend $1 billion to produce 12 to 15 movies annually for movie theaters starting in 2023. This makes sense due to its history of spending heavily on original content, which includes nearly $13 billion in 2021 and $11 billion in 2020. It also acquired the iconic MGM Studios for $8.45 billion.
For years, there’s been speculation and wishful thinking that Amazon would be the proverbial white knight to rescue AMC Entertainment in an acquisition. Amazon does have over $58 billion in cash, and adding another $12 billion to its $164 billion in long-term debt would be a drop in the bucket. Its commitment to releasing theatrical motion pictures is keeping rumors alive that AMC could be a solid distribution channel to add to its eco-system. Time is on Amazon’s side, as the longer, it waits, the cheaper an acquisition would be if it were to happen.
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Is AMC Entertainment Stock Worth Taking Down Here?
Big Double Bottom Test
The weekly candlestick charts point out the critical double bottom test for AMC stock near $5. It’s last spike to $9.15 on Dec. 1, 2022, saw it plunged (-43%) to a low of $5.13 in two weeks. Tax-loss selling is inevitable heading into the end of the year as investors adjust portfolios to harvest losses. AMC shares once again approach the swing lows that held in April of 2021 and October of 2022. The weekly 20-period exponential moving average (MA) resistance continues to fall at $7.63 followed by the weekly 50-period MA resistance at $9.19. The weekly stochastic is stalling at the 20-band to either cross back down or form a mini pup back up. The weekly market structure low (MSL) triggers on a breakout through $6.80. Volume has been on the light side. Pullback support levels on a $5 breakdown sit at $4.52, $4.27, $3.27, $2.37, $1.98, and $1.30.
Antara can easily sell their shares to a 3rd party with no restrictions for higher than what they paid for, and that is how they can avoid holding, we do not know the details of the agreement and if that was ever mentioned in the contract. Trust no one.