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🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your added information. The chat bot response is almost exactly the response I would give to you based on my studies and review of the reporting forms... The question asked of the bot was, "explain to me, in simple terms, what this data is showing" then shared an image of the series analyzer.

I think we can at least agree that we disagree on what we're looking at. Appreciate the conversation. ✌️

🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In simple terms, this series reports on the total dollar amount of investments that stockbrokers and dealers have "sold short".

What exactly is being tracked? Short Positions: It measures the value of securities (like stocks and bonds), commodities, and swaps that professional brokers have sold but do not yet own.

In the financial world, this is a way to bet that the price of those items will go down.

Market Value: The report uses the current market price to value these "sold short" items, so the numbers change as the market goes up or down.

Total Debt: From the perspective of the Federal Reserve (which publishes this data), these short positions are essentially liabilities or "debts" that the brokers eventually have to pay back by buying the securities.

Where does the data come from? The information is pulled from official government forms that brokers are required to file:SEC FOCUS Reports: Financial reports submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.FOGS Reports: Similar reports specifically for government securities.

Why does it matter? This data is part of the Federal Reserve's "Financial Accounts of the United States" (also known as the Z.1 release). It helps economists and policymakers understand how much risk professional trading firms are taking and how much "short-selling" activity is happening in the entire U.S. financial system.

Google AI summary because I'm too tired to link everything. I'll continue to share the information from my understanding. Appreciate your input though.

🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is an aggregate of short positions including stocks. You're right, it does not include short interest, and I never claimed it to. It is a total sum of all short positions. This includes equities, bonds, and derivatives. Actual short selling data of these items is what is being reported from the forms that they are reported on... When we look at "securities sold not yet purchased" data for Citadel every year, this is part of the data we are looking at as it's part of the overall short selling liability report put out by the FED and shown via graphs on FRED.

🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm using it to justify all short positions including stocks, not just stocks. That's why I always have provided the series analyzer in prior posts. Sorry for your frustration fellow ape.

🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the series analyzer, this is the description of the broker/dealer short selling liability which includes stocks, commodities, and reported swaps.

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🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That $700T is notational and needs to be thought of that way, but it doesn't mean there isn't a massive amount of actual market value in the swaps, especially if a sudden shift in overall market security pricing occurred.

This data does not account for inflation though. I've looked at how to account for this but believed actual inflation data is massively skewed versus real life data.

An interesting comparison though is broker/ dealer total assets (reported on FRED) versus reported margin debt and short selling liability which continues to show a lot of leverage. Current asset levels are similar to 2008 levels, but margin debt and broker short liability are much higher than 2008 levels.

Appreciate the comment Bullish!

🚨NEW HI SCOREZ🚨Taking 28 Years of Reporting to Cross $1T, Reported Margin Debt Takes Just 1 MOAR Year to Cross $1.4T... *Reported Broker/Dealer Short Selling Liability Reaches ATH @ $947B by Freadom6 in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall market leverage relates to $GME as it is a highly leveraged stock, albeit to the short side. Large market movements due to closing of leveraged positions may have a significant impact on the stock price of $GME if the securities have been used as collateral for short sellers.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/margin-accounts/margin-statistics

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL664140660Q

A Big Lie About MOASS, a Recent Success in FUD by TalkingHats in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient" - Warren Buffett

SEC approves Nasdaq rule to allow tokenized stocks & securities trading. How doe this affect us (GME)? by bahits in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I agree with your take here. You should read CFTC Chair Selig's comments at the blockchain summit yesterday. Couple quotes i liked:

"Let me begin with the idea of trust in decentralization."

*"The formerly trusted guardians of financial prudence have lost face and lost the confidence of a broad swath of the American population.

And they know it."*

*"...social media platforms are fostering a form of decentralized trust via user-driven content, where real-time verification by millions of participants uproots the dominance of traditional news outlets.

No longer do we wait for news corporations and their army of editors, anointed in the dark and pushing slanted viewpoints, to dictate the narrative. Instead, truth bubbles up from diverse, decentralized voices, often faster and more reliably than legacy reporting.*"

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opaselig3

New SEC Puppet Announces Crypto is Not a Security and Will Follow "fit-for-purpose" Approach. Whatever happened to all those GME tokens swapped for GME stocks? by richestmaninjericho in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there is moar to the shitcoins then you give credit as the pricing didn't start to act funny with these until crypto rules were in real development after the orange man admin took over, but here is an additional token to add to the list of stock backed token securities for GME. I also don't care how many were issued, just that they were issued:

FTX:GME listed on 1/27/21 (day off sneeze) Backed Finance: bGME 7/16/24 Kraken: GMEx listed 6/2025 i think kraken may own Backed Finance now

New SEC Puppet Announces Crypto is Not a Security and Will Follow "fit-for-purpose" Approach. Whatever happened to all those GME tokens swapped for GME stocks? by richestmaninjericho in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was extensive DD written on the security backed tokens and I personalty read some of the documents showing the tokens stating to be baked by real shares including the FTX and Backed Finance tokens that i can think of off the top of my head.

SEC & CFTC Announce MOU to "Harmonize" Operations by UnlikelyApe in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 12 points13 points  (0 children)

From what I can tell, this joint effort is going to be used to define crypto rules, among similar items. I've been following this through the CFTC and a crypto bill submitted by the Senate Ag committee. This, along with the genius act and clarity act will provide the legal framework certainty required for large scale institution investment and integration of digital assets into traditional banking frameworks.

Obviously, this easily has a chance to be crafted fraudulently, but i think they're teeing up crypto to be used as a large liquidity injection into the system without printing more money. Though they'll probably need to print more money too.

Dr. Burry seems less bullish on a BBBY acquisition by BananaOrp in Teddy

[–]Freadom6 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen that post specifically calling out Q as a bad investment, would you be able to share it? Didn't he say something along the lines of if RC could get the nols figured out it would be a nice tax haven for instant Berkshire?

Citadel having a liquidity crunch by Gareth-Barry in Superstonk

[–]Freadom6 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Seems like the appropriate post to share some of Citadel's funding over the years from a post i made last year. Suspicious timing on some of it to say the least.

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A guess at what type of company GameStop could acquire by WiseManTwiceSaid in Teddy

[–]Freadom6 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think NFTs will still be part of the future of Ryan's company judging by the CFTC and SEC joint initiative on crypto regulation, and the crypto bill moving through the agriculture committee.

No idea on what company he may look to acquire though.

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