BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Fact Finder]

It's possible.
Have you read the Gamestop story.

GameStop short squeeze - Wikipedia

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Now, I'm not sure how its possible to short more than 100% because there are many different explanations on the topic, but I think it has something to do with the situation where a share can be borrowed more than once and subsequently sold short twice !

Here is something to consider though:

"A short position in stocks is created by borrowing stock and then selling it on the market. Therefore, every short position actually results in creating two long positions. The first is the long position from whom the short borrows. The second is the long position created by the person who buys the stock from the short seller. So at any given time, short positions are always outnumbered by 2 to 1."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/armstrongeconomics-wp/2012/05/manual-models.pdf

In my own humble opinion, I consider the art of short selling as a dangerous occupation for those that partake, because subsequent squeezes can be utterly devastating for those holding a bag of shorts. A very clear example of what can happen was the left field Mercedes reveal. Have a look at the chart from Jan 4 to Jan 19, I think 71 cents to $2.34 in two weeks and the volumes were unbelievable, much higher than Fridays bloodbath. There will be another short squeeze at some point in the future as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow morning, and when it comes it'll make the January move look like a Teddy Bear's Picnic.

A single short position can be multiplied in theory to infinity.

I part explained this yesterday:

1. Short A approaches Institution B and borrows 12 million shares.

2. Short A approaches Institution C and sells the borrowed 12 million shares off market as a Cross Trade to Institution C.

3. Short D approaches Institution C and borrows those same 12 million shares.

4. Short D approaches Institution E and sells those 12 million shares off market in a cross trade to Institution E.

5. Short F approaches Institution E. and borrows those 12 million shares.

So at transaction 5. the original 12 million shares have opened 36 million short positions that need to be bought back.

This type of activity is what can create the necessity to manipulate inexperienced retail with fear into panicked selling to create sufficient liquidity to buy back positions without creating a squeeze.

This is where they join together with a common purpose to infiltrate social media, the press and the financial advice industry to scalp the unsuspecting retail holder.

I have said before in my opinion retail do not have what is necessary to play in the shark pool so the only way to survive is stay out of the water, do your own research, have a plan and let time in the market work it’s magic.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Sam]

I have been buying and not sold any.
If the price continues to fall I will buy more.
I believe in the Company and the product.
What other people do is their business.
GLTAH

Ditto hopalong, I like many people on this forum, are long term brainchip holders….. We have only just begun the brn journey, only just commercialised. If you are a long term holder you have no reason to panic, all this doom and gloom is really starting to wear thin. Sorry that the share price fell, buck up or move on, with all due respect think about the poor chaps that were caught up with the craziness in January. It’s funny, I bought back when brn was 4c now my average is slightly higher then the price closed today because I kept buying, buy on the ups and buy on the downs, buy when ever I have the cash available. I believe we are going to be massive peeps just need to be patient. Hope this helps. Like FF said, make a plan and stick to it, well he said something along those lines

 

[Straw]

A single short position can be multiplied in theory to infinity.

I part explained this yesterday:

1. Short A approaches Institution B and borrows 12 million shares.

2. Short A approaches Institution C and sells the borrowed 12 million shares off market as a Cross Trade to Institution C.

3. Short D approaches Institution C and borrows those same 12 million shares.

4. Short D approaches Institution E and sells those 12 million shares off market in a cross trade to Institution E.

5. Short F approaches Institution E. and borrows those 12 million shares.

So at transaction 5. the original 12 million shares have opened 36 million short positions that need to be bought back.

This type of activity is what can create the necessity to manipulate inexperienced retail with fear into panicked selling to create sufficient liquidity to buy back positions without creating a squeeze.

This is where they join together with a common purpose to infiltrate social media, the press and the financial advice industry to scalp the unsuspecting retail holder.

I have said before in my opinion retail do not have what is necessary to play in the shark pool so the only way to survive is stay out of the water, do your own research, have a plan and let time in the market work it’s magic.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I'll be standing on the side giggling inappropriately as they eat themselves alive.

I know that's not a nice sentiment but they aren't nice people and cause an enormous amount of harm to those not familiar with the hazards they create. It's predatory, poisonous and in my view, completely against what your standard unsophisticated (a high compliment if ever there was one) individual would expect the share market to be for.

 

[Izzzzzzzzzzy]

I am only paraphrasing and remembering a fact, before our run up to 2.30, one of the BRN employees stated to the public and the presentation/discussion was recorded in a video that we will be worth a few billion. Just something fun that I just remembered

 

[Deleted member 118]

Why does Brainchip use LDA instead of a cap raise?

 

[Labsy]

Ditto

Tritto

 

[Straw]

Why does Brainchip use LDA instead of a cap raise?

Certainty of funding over a relatively long period is my guess, regardless of the prevailing view of the company's prospects short term (manipulated or not).
I could be totally wrong.

 

[Deleted member 118]

Certainty of funding over a relatively long period is my guess, regardless of the prevailing view of the company's prospects short term (manipulated or not).
I could be totally wrong.

So what are the benefits apart from long term and every time LDA have cashed out it’s smashed the SP, so wouldn’t it have been easier just to cap raise?

 

[Fact Finder]

I am only paraphrasing and remembering a fact, before our run up to 2.30, one of the BRN employees stated to the public and the presentation/discussion was recorded in a video that we will be worth a few billion. Just something fun that I just remembered

Yes you are right that was Ken Scarince the Chief Financial Officer.

Since that presentation Peter van der Made said to one of the shareholders at the after 2022 AGM in Sydney get together when he said that ARM might acquire Brainchip Peter responded or we might acquire ARM.

On a serious further note the CEO Sean Hehir said in an interview following the AGM that the true value of Brainchip was multiples of the present value. (my paraphrase)

We are clearly not alone on our deluded island in our thinking that Brainchip is massively oversold.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Straw]

So what are the benefits apart from long term and every time LDA have cashed out it’s smashed the SP, so wouldn’t it have been easier just to cap raise?

The answer is I'm not totally sure.

I think there has been one instance of a very poor showing for a CR much earlier in the company's history (please correct me if this is wrong).
However I do feel a capital raise would have been appreciated by many. On the other hand it is set up in tranches so I'm guessing it spreads the pain a bit and brings a lesser dilution (or maybe that is just greater funding for the same shares which I guess amounts to a similar result) the further the company progresses in the eyes of the wider market.

As far as I can see it has largely been of benefit to the company and those with a med/long term view but that is an opinion only.

Anyhow I'm sure there are some welcome qualifications to be made from some more knowledgeable on the subject.

 

[FrederikSchack]

Yes, the logic fails because China is 99% unlikely to invade Taiwan for one simple reason that the media never mentions. China already promotes to its people that Taiwan is a province of Mainland China just like Hong Kong. So wouldn't it be strange to invade your own province? Like Australia invading Tasmania?

I guess they could create a narrative that they needed to use the military to go in, but invading is not in China's playbook. They are more likely to try and get politicians inside and turn the country around that way.
Our media and Western media in general is so full of shit, don't rely on it.

There are many scenarios, but from China´s perspective, it´s all about getting control over Taiwan and that´s going to affect chip supply. The US is trying to push China out of chip supply, to the degree where US citizens working in China have to stop working, so I think no matter how peaceful the takeover will be, there´s going to be payback to the US and possibly others. If China can manage to keep the delicate processes running, they´ll leverage it.

A military takeover is not unlikely, like a big military exercise around Taiwan suddenly and unexpectedly was reality. Furhter Xi has stated some time ago that China will be ready to invade Taiwan in I think it was 4 years, but after he became dictator for life he has promoted the idea even further.

But I get everyones point, it´s not as obvious to everybody

B.t.w. I´m fully aware about the mainstream media and I was saying this way before msm

 

[LongTermInvestor]

Thanks for your opinion, Brainchip is still a very good investment for me, I will take the chance, so I choose to buy at this price..

Yes, same here. I have got more on last Friday and today.
Thank you for the shorters for giving me the opportunity to purchase this at a 20-25% discount!

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

Yes, same here. I have got more on last Friday and today.
Thank you for the shorters for giving me the opportunity to purchase this at a 20-25% discount!

Indeed, and may they rot in hell.

 

[Straw]

Indeed, and may they rot in hell.

High frequency trading purgatory?
Eternally stuck at the very end, of the end, of the end of the wires connected to the ASX blood sucker box

 

[Mugen74]

 

[AusEire]

A single short position can be multiplied in theory to infinity.

I part explained this yesterday:

1. Short A approaches Institution B and borrows 12 million shares.

2. Short A approaches Institution C and sells the borrowed 12 million shares off market as a Cross Trade to Institution C.

3. Short D approaches Institution C and borrows those same 12 million shares.

4. Short D approaches Institution E and sells those 12 million shares off market in a cross trade to Institution E.

5. Short F approaches Institution E. and borrows those 12 million shares.

So at transaction 5. the original 12 million shares have opened 36 million short positions that need to be bought back.

This type of activity is what can create the necessity to manipulate inexperienced retail with fear into panicked selling to create sufficient liquidity to buy back positions without creating a squeeze.

This is where they join together with a common purpose to infiltrate social media, the press and the financial advice industry to scalp the unsuspecting retail holder.

I have said before in my opinion retail do not have what is necessary to play in the shark pool so the only way to survive is stay out of the water, do your own research, have a plan and let time in the market work it’s magic.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

This is why in my opinion shorting the market should be completely illegal.

For example if I rent a car from Hertz I cannot sell that car to someone else. So why is this scumbag activity allowed with shares?

It's fake sell volume. Don't forget that important fact.

Anyone that actively shorts the market (specifically individual companies and targeting retail investors) is a scumbag and I make absolutely no apologies for making that statement either.

 

[Straw]

...well maybe not but at least some very bad karma. Imploded schemes would be very satisfying.

 

[Food4 thought]

A single short position can be multiplied in theory to infinity.

I part explained this yesterday:

1. Short A approaches Institution B and borrows 12 million shares.

2. Short A approaches Institution C and sells the borrowed 12 million shares off market as a Cross Trade to Institution C.

3. Short D approaches Institution C and borrows those same 12 million shares.

4. Short D approaches Institution E and sells those 12 million shares off market in a cross trade to Institution E.

5. Short F approaches Institution E. and borrows those 12 million shares.

So at transaction 5. the original 12 million shares have opened 36 million short positions that need to be bought back.

This type of activity is what can create the necessity to manipulate inexperienced retail with fear into panicked selling to create sufficient liquidity to buy back positions without creating a squeeze.

This is where they join together with a common purpose to infiltrate social media, the press and the financial advice industry to scalp the unsuspecting retail holder.

I have said before in my opinion retail do not have what is necessary to play in the shark pool so the only way to survive is stay out of the water, do your own research, have a plan and let time in the market work it’s magic.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Charlie Munger says: 'you don’t make money when you buy a stock, you don’t make money when you sell a stock, you make money by being patient and you make money by waiting'. Waiting for the right pitch, and then waiting for that pitch to kind of mature and develop. The single most important skill set that you can bring to value investing is patience. You have to have a temperament where you're very happy watching paint dry. I would say that is the most difficult thing for investors and you can trade lot of IQ points for patience. You don’t need a lot of IQ points but you need a lot of patience. That’s the piece that usually gets missed." Mohnish Pabrai

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

...well at least some very bad karma. Imploded schemes would be very satisfying.

I may have let my passion momentarily overwhelm me and apologise if any have taken offence.
I will take advantage of their risk taking as it is the only way I have to make lemonade from their behaviour.
However, I would much prefer this manipulative crap didn't occur complicating our companies growth and applying this additional artificial pressure. Beyond the mere acquisition of wealth, which in my view may be regarded as secondary, our company is trying to add something of benefit to this world, and to the degree that they are successful, these shorter's are impeding that end.
The companies job, birthing this new and advantageous technology is already difficult enough, without this added complication merely to satisfy some low life's greed. It indeed would be apt for some news or announcement to drop out of the blue, (such as the Mercede's Benz blockbuster in January), right about now, catching them exposed and in a cascade heading in the other direction.
Would indeed be gratifying to see them hoisted upon the petard of their own making.
Other than that, like any other honest shareholder, I just want to see our Company grow, and my stake with it.
AKIDA BALLISTA
AKIDA EVERYWHERE
GLTAH

 

[Sirod69]

Here is something to think about!
Argo Ai shut down 4 days ago. Most news outlets headlines alluded to its demise as the end of self driving cars.
Ford was part owner of Argo and Ford is linked to BRN.
Could it be by dint of association that BRN was tainted with the same brush as Argo.
BRN's sell down has been extreme, unwavering and beyond rational.
If the above is correct, a possible press release by BRN distancing themselves from ARGO AI could be a master stroke.

I really think you are right:


"Last week, the story broke that Argo AI is shutting down:

The AV/robotaxi startup co-owned by Volkswagen and Ford will be partially resorbed into the two OEMs' ADAS teams, as both of them seemingly abandon their Level 4 efforts in favor of better L2/L3 systems for consumer vehicles.

Suddenly, a lot of voices in the industry dared utter the 'forbidden question' - is autonomous driving going to fail? Sort of yes, but also no. Let's dive into a number of news items from this month which are all very much connected to each other and to answering that question:....."

Autonomous Driving Stocks Decline, Argo AI shuts down, CARIAD Software Delays Porsche EV, Qualcomm Might Win Big In Vegas

Dear Reader, Last week, the story broke that Argo AI is shutting down: The AV/robotaxi startup co-owned by Volkswagen and Ford will be partially resorbed into the two OEMs' ADAS teams, as both of them seemingly abandon their Level 4 efforts in favor of better L2/L3 systems for consumer vehicles. Sud

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