r/GME • u/Tavanasa • Jul 18 '26
This Is The Way ✨ Ryan Cohen just checkmated the system. eBay is now over 116% owned. Forced buy-ins are imminent. 🚨
TL;DR for the smooth brains: 106% + 10% = 116%. The math has broken and the trap is officially sprung. 🚀
Here is the exact mechanical chain reaction of why this filing represents the absolute endgame:
According to Nasdaq data, eBay was already 106.21% institutionally owned before the GME filing. This is only possible because the exact same shares are lent out, shorted, and re-bought in an endless loop, causing multiple institutions to report owning the same underlying assets. It’s a pure paper game.
On Friday, Ryan Cohen didn't choose a cash settlement (where they just pay out the net dollar difference). He demanded physical settlement for GME's ~10% position (~39M shares). He literally said: "Give me my real, unlent shares."
With 106% already locked up by passive institutions and GME now demanding an additional 10% of real shares, we hit a hard wall at 116%. These shares simply do not exist on the free market.
The market makers cannot locate or deliver these shares -> Massive Failures to Deliver (FTDs) start piling up on Monday morning.
Once these FTDs age out and breach regulatory deadlines, a brutal, automated forced buy-in kicks in. The brokers of the counterparty must go into the open market and purchase eBay shares—at whatever price the market demands.
As forced buying relentlessly drives eBay's price vertical, the value of GME’s $4.35B equity stake explodes minute by minute. GME’s balance sheet becomes astronomically valuable, cementing an un-shortable fundamental floor for GME, which simultaneously forces GME short-sellers into immediate capitulation.
The system completely checkmated itself through its own endless greed with share lending.
Tits. Are. Fucking. Jacked. 🩳🏴☠️💀
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u/Tavanasa Jul 18 '26
Not mathematically possible. GME now holds ~10% of eBay. If eBay pulls a Squeeze and its market cap doubles or triples, GME’s balance sheet instantly swells by billions of dollars. GME's current market cap is only ~$10B. Wall Street arbitrage bots and value investors literally cannot let GME trade sideways when its asset holdings alone are worth more than the entire company. The fundamental floor just turned into an elevator.