One of his SPACs completed its merger with Virgin Galactic in October 2019, allowing Richard Branson's space tourism venture to become a publicly traded company. Now all of a sudden, retail can be on the same footing and they don't have to be the 'bag holder' to Wall Street."Ī veteran venture capitalist, Palihapitiya has had success lately sponsoring SPACs, blank-check special purpose acquisition companies. Palihapitiya said the best research on stocks done by retail investors inside wallstreetbets is nearly indistinguishable from the best research on Wall Street. I think they are as important as any hedge or collection of hedge funds."
There are 2.7 million people inside wallstreetbets. "What it proves is this retail phenomenon is here to stay. "Instead of having 'idea dinners' or quiet whispered conversations amongst hedge funds in the Hamptons these kids have the courage to do it transparently in a forum," he said. Palihapitiya said the craze around GameStop shares, and a few other stocks like AMC Entertainment, is much more than just a trading story, arguing it's a pushback against the establishment. They return the number of borrowed shares and lose the price difference. And that game came undone."Ī short squeeze happens when a stock with a large bloc of short sellers starts to increase in price, and shorts scramble to buy shares at the current higher prices to limit their losses.
But to a Wall Street mathematician, that's the game that's been played. "To a normal person that doesn't make any sense. He said hedge funds try to push stocks around all the time.Īllowing hedge funds to go short 140% of GameStop shares could be seen as irresponsible, he said. Palihapitiya dismissed Wall Street criticism about how individual investors are banding together on social media - particularly the wallstreetbets Reddit message board, and short-squeezing GameStop and a handful of other stocks like pros - as hypocritical. Wednesday on CNBC's "Fast Money: Halftime Report," Palihapitiya said, "I ended up closing out my position this morning, and I wanted to announce that I'm taking all the profits that I made plus my original position - I'm going to take $500,000 and I'm going to donate it." GameStop stock opened Wednesday at $354 per share, up more than 1,550% this year alone. The trader makes money when the stock rises above the strike price.
Calls are derivatives that give the buyer the right to purchase a stock at a set price. The CEO of Social Capital and former Facebook executive tweeted Tuesday that he bought $125,000 worth of February $115 GameStop call options after asking his followers on Twitter what to buy.
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