Series

Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga

2022 · 2022

Three episodes on the squeeze, the broker that halted buying and the reason it did. The clearing and settlement question it raises is the one most candidates cannot answer.

• Markets
• Risk

1 idea from this series

• Case studyMarkets

  A short squeeze is a funding problem before it is a price problem

  Settlement takes days, and the collateral call arrives before the trade clears. That gap is where a squeeze does its damage.

  Any long/short, prime brokerage or market structure conversation that touches GameStop.