What's going on moon gang, i just had an absolutely insane few hours and i'm very very excited to make this video. In fact, i think it might be one of the most insightful videos i've made to date on this youtube channel. I will be doing my best to explain at least to my current understanding of what in the world is going on with amc, dark pools synthetic shares all these shorts um. I i honestly i'm very very excited to make this uh.

I came through some insane insights in the past couple hours, um, specifically a shout out to josh. I was speaking with him shout out to trey trades and i was, even speaking with someone who works at an exchange on wall street to get the bottom of all. This i'm very very excited to see what's going on, if you've been paying attention to gamestop amc, the hottest news lately is basically josh found this information of. What's going on on otc um, it's been the hot topic of kind of information related to amc, um.

There's a lot of confusion about this and i i think through talking to josh trey trades and my friend on who works at an exchange. I think maybe i'm not going to get this 100 accurate, but i think i could shed more light of the current situation. So this is a hot topic thing of what's going on with amc. What do these numbers mean and just like? What's going on with the shorts like there's just so much confusion to the stock market, and i think this video will honestly clear up a lot for you, so let's hop into it right here we have this thing from finra otc non-ats dated details.

We know it's for the stock amc we're seeing citadel securities we've heard about that. What in the world does this all possibly mean so from a high level? You have to understand off the bat. These total shares two billion. These total shares from citadel securities one billion those are not shares outstanding, they're, not short shares or anything.

That's just trading volume, as in from january of 2021. All the way up until march 1st citadel securities has facilitated the trade of 1 billion shares of buys and sells in total in the aggregate of amc. So before i get into that, let me explain high level if you remember this guy right here, pretty famous character when he was in his congressional meeting um. There was other people there.

We know the guy with the wife's boyfriend and the other important people. There were citadel securities and through that meeting i mean trust me when i came to this realization. It was like a mind-blowing moment. So citadel securities is what's referred to as a retail wholesaler for robinhood.

There's an agreement between the two that, if you're on robinhood and you're, buying or you're selling citadel securities right here, has the opportunity to fulfill that trait to find the buyer to find the seller. Before it kicks it off to an exchange, so if you're on robin hood, weeble blah blah blah all these other people there's a very good chance that it's not going to the nasdaq. It's not going to the new york stock exchange, those those exchanges uh, the high level name for all these are venues. Exchanges are venue all these guys that you see on this list right here are retail wholesalers they're just basically they're, not in exchange, but for the point of this conversation you can think of them as another exchange.

There's a third type referred to as dark pools. They uh they're, not as regulated uh and because of that their trading volume is very low, so we have three types of venues: dark pools which is not on the list right now. Uh exchanges such as the nasdaq new york stock exchange, iex, and the third thing right here is non-ats. Dark pools are referred to as alternative trading systems, so this just means non-alternative trading system, so basically dark pools, um or that's the other name for it.

Here's the opposite, both dark pools and non-atss. Those two are under the umbrella of otcs, as in not exchange, o2c means non-exchange for the purpose of this video there's two of those the thing that um, the other option is in exchange. All three of those are referred to as a venue. So basically, if you're on robinhood you're on weeble, there's a very good chance that your buy in your cell is not being fulfilled on an actual stock market exchange.

Good chance it's being fulfilled by citadel securities, or maybe one of the other ones on this list, two sigma james street blah blah blah, there's a whole host of them um. It is a pretty lucrative business, but that's for another video anyway, this. What you're seeing right here this is partly me, partly you partly a lot of other people. These are our trades when we're buying we're, are selling they're, facilitating it, and that's it right here.

These aren't shorts or anything like that. The total for amc across all these non-atc's aka non-dark pools are two billion trades. That's all it is it's trading volume. That's all it is for this conversation um.

I just wanted to clarify that we finally got to the bottom basically from the start of the year. Until march 1st uh citadel helped trade 3.6 billion trades, total trades of amc, which amounted to 1 billion shares. All it is, is share volume. It doesn't really tell you anything about the shorts um or anything like that.

So this brings us to the dd that josh actually posted so right here we have off the exchange short volume off the exchange on the exchange short volume. All that is is whenever you think on exchange think about the fact that the buyer, the sell the short or the cover is actually made literally on an exchange um. So once again, the nasdaq the new york stock exchange off the exchange. This is the buying the selling the shorting the covering on any basically any dark pool or any non-ats, as in non-dark pool.

So once again, i know you can directly short on robin hood, but if you could, that would be part of this short volume um. If you're buying, basically, if you're, watching this video there's a good chance, all of your buys and cells are technically off the exchange, also known as otc, and that's exactly this information we're seeing right here um. Once again, i talked with josh about this. I talked with trey trades about this and i talked with the guy who works at an exchange to try to get this all figured out.

These numbers right here, it's literally just a very, very fancy way of seeing trading volume. So where does that bring us now? Well, first of all citadel securities, obviously you heard that name. It came out of the government. They do have those rights with ramen.

This is us these numbers you're seeing right here. It's me: it's you! It's completely! Fine! It's it's really normal! This is just the reporting. So this brings up the big question of okay matt, we're not trading on a normal exchange. We, it are the stock market plumbing it's a very, very complex system and our trades are all going through this thing that you're telling me it's called non-ats.

What does that mean for really the reason you're watching this is like? Okay, i get we're not dealing with exchanges, we're not dealing with dark pools, we're dealing with this even weirder thing, but in the end i know you care about. What's going on? Is there going to be squeeze? Is there not going to be a squeeze? Well, if you have a bloomberg terminal, you will have the most up-to-date short interest so right here we can actually see and keep in mind please. This is actually outdated already, but amc you can get this on yahoo finance for free as of march 15th. The short interest percentage of the float is 11.02 and short percent of shares.

Outstanding remember, leaf free float or the float are. The shares that everyone can trade in the public while outstanding is all the shares, as in insiders and institutions as well. This number, the total of outstanding shares, will always be bigger than the free float, which means the percentage has to be less so. The short percent of the outstanding is 10.95 once again as i'm filming this, it is march 25th.

Technically, this date is already 10 days old, but uh once again getting this across there's in unless something has amazing has happened in the past couple days and some crazy stuff has happened. I'll give you that we'll take a look at charts in the sec. Second, there's a very good chance that the the short percentage that we're dealing with on amc - it's not there's a very, very good chance - it's not even exceeding 50 75 or 100 uh we're we're most likely. Nowhere close to above that, there's a good chance we're in this realm, i'm assuming it's changed a bit, but we're probably dealing with these numbers um.

So actually, let's go over and the other thing is the that we talk about is short shares available. As i'm filming this 3.4 million and as of yesterday, the short volume ratio, which is just the ratio of the short volume across all three venues. Exchanges, dark pools and non-dog pools all three of those venues: um the short volume has been 13 million. The total volume was 81, so the short volume ratio is 16 um.

The magnitude doesn't really matter that. Much to me, i like to see the trend. So, as you can see, with amc, it's kind of going up - uh, 14, 7, 17, 16., um slight uptrend. Here you can see the graph of what's going on.

You can basically just gives you that nice ratio breakdown of what's going on of the total shares traded and which of those were actually short trades on that specific day. So that's what's going on with amc, tons and tons of con of confusion. This is our current understanding of, what's going on, there's a good chance. Some aspect of this video isn't fully accurate every day, we're uncovering new information.

This is just your latest update. This number right here, total shares traded. It's a volume count for all of these non-dog pools, also non-exchanges from the start of the year. Until now, that's for amc, you can look it up on the friend website.

I will pin this below. You can look it up for gme you're, going to see similar things, but in the end, which i thought was cool, because it's the big connection to the like congressional hearing that we saw with this good. Looking guy roaring kitty, we know that robin hood deals with citadel securities they're, basically uh facilitating all the trades, but these trades these numbers. It's me, it's you um, it's not necessarily like short trades or anything like that.

So the big question honestly now is okay. Cool matt i get uh that we're not at some massive short. The big question is: can these things still squeeze uh high level? I'm gon na be as like direct as i possibly can? Yes, these stocks can still gain a considerable percentage. I mean, as i'm filming this amc had an amazing day in one day: amc gained 21.29 percent over the past month.

It's up 20 over the past three months, it's up 32. It clearly has a lot of range like it has a lot of volatility and that's why we're all in it we're in it, and we hope that it just shoots up a lot. We don't care why it shoots up. Obviously, we just want the stock to go higher and higher, and today's action alone proves that it still has capability of doing it um.

Obviously, the data is a little bit muddy. We don't really know what's going on with the shares. The short shares all that, in the end, look at the scoreboard. Amc is up 21 and today, if we look at it from this kind of lull in um, when was this february 19th until now, it's a 100, so any concept of like hey.

Can i make money on this? Can i still should i buy shares calls. I mean, obviously, i'm not a financial advisor, i'm just a fashionable guy in a doctor. Yes, this can easily still go higher. The proof is on the scoreboard.

It can easily go higher in terms of tomorrow. We are closing out the week. It is the final full training week of march for me personally, let's go over to this 30 minute chart um. We finally got a nice official technical trend line, breakout of amc.

The next thing i'm watching as long as we can retake 11 right now in post market, it's trending down a bit as long as we can stay above 11, i'm watching 11.85 and past that i'm watching 12.91. I am very, very bullish on this um. Obviously i still have all my amc shares all my amc calls. I have all my gme shares.

I have all my gme calls, i'm still betting, i'm putting my money where my mouth is tune into those live streams. You know when i make all my trades. I still have all my money quite a bit of my money, um involved with amc and gme. I'm still feeling very confident about this.

I'm just trying to spread accurate information about what that finro report says and in the end i just think it's a bit funny because, like all this off the exchange stuff and like we're the we're the people who's off the exchange, so i just thought that was A bit humorous humorous, but in the end, this is what i'm looking for tomorrow, i'm looking for us to hold 11 push 1185 and we get really lucky if there's a ton of buying power up to 1291. On the downside, the closest technical support is 10.50 and below that we have a nice region of support between 10 and 9.75. So obviously, all this thus far has been amc. You can do the exact same process.

You could check this out for gme. You can see how much we've been sharing or training um, and then you could come over here, like you could once again, i will pin this below, but for gme uh on today. Most recently, the short share is available. 150.

000. The short volume a little bit high 25 000.. This was for yesterday. I i like to see the trend um.

We are kind of trending upward. We saw 23 25 26 24 um, so obviously people are taking more shorts like relative. In that trend. That makes me feel good.

This one's a bit more outdated a month old on gm's numbers on yahoo finance um. Once again, you can get the most up-to-date numbers uh. Why is this? You can get the most up-to-date numbers if, like a bloomberg terminal, will give you like literally the the numbers you need, but as of roughly a month ago, the short interest of the float was 52 short. Interest of the shares outstanding is 20, so with that uh, obviously over the past month, these have very much change.

So i think that the amc numbers are most likely going to be closer to the current true value rather than the gme ones, but hey if you're watching this and you have a bloomberg terminal and you can send me a picture of the short interest of the Float for both amc and jimmy, i would really really appreciate that you would help the full community at large um, so that's all of gme's numbers and then finally, let's just take a look at its chart because similar to amc gme had a phenomenal day. Gamestop really kicked, but it gained 52, it's trading at 183, it's even higher in after hours over the past week, it's actually down 9 over the past month. It's up 100. Over the past three months.

It's up 844 um. As you can see here, the graph is actually looking very, very similar to uh amc's and let me just go over to the 30-minute chart to let you know what technical levels i am personally watching. I'm looking right now at a key technical support. I'm looking for gamestop to hold 185.

The next resistance is between 200 to 12, pass that 250 similar to amc. We have a nice downtrend line, technical breakout if, for some reason there isn't a bullish follow-through on this, the closest support is closer to like 150 to 158, which could also potentially align with this trendline, but that's the support and resistance, i'm watching for gamestop. So that's the big technical update overall wrap this up. This is a very dynamic situation.

The stock market plumbing is in insanely confusing. I i can almost guarantee i didn't nail every part of this video, i'm sure i accidentally said something incorrectly every day we are just progressing to uncover more information. The information we have no now is gamestop amc at phenomenal days. There's a good chance that this this squeeze isn't over the stocks going sky high, isn't over.

We just need more buying pressure in whatever form, but if you're checking this out, all you really need to know is this: is volume traded through citadel if you're using robinhood? If you're using weeble good chance, you're not actually cheating on it trading on an exchange, that's the highlight for this video um and for some reason i maybe said something contradictory or confusing. Please let me know i'm here. I just want to share what i know my knowledge if i said something wrong wrong, feel free to correct me: we're trying to spread the best and most accurate information as we possibly can, and when it comes down to it. The golden question is: can amc and gme go higher in my humble personal, non-financial advice opinion? Yes, i personally believe that both of these stocks have a decent percentage run, still left in them.

Once again, that's just my own humble opinion. I hope you enjoyed this video if you want to join up with the moon gang check out some of our monday to friday live streams or update videos like this one. All you have to do is hit that subscribe button and honestly, i don't ask this, but i just feel like this video was so important because i i think i'm clarifying a lot of confusing and kind of weird uh pieces of information about the stock market. If you could just help me out with that youtube algorithm, all that engagement, dropping a subscribe, dropping a like leaving comment, sharing it with a friend that would really help spread this overall um.

The otc thing we're trading on otc is not the biggest deal, but when it comes down to it, these guys can still definitively run. Obviously just my own opinion until i catch you next time from me chair and duck shirt. Best of luck in the market use space apes. You.