AMC: 'Record' Weekend Is Terrible News For The Stock

seekingalpha2021-07-02

Summary Attendance of 2 million is terrible for AMC. The company needs to more than double attendance to return to 2019 - when it still lost money. Someday shares will fall 90% from this point. ...

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yapyap168
2021-07-03
yapyap168
Crazy fellow we like the stock heee buy and hold... Heee who care about ur view lol
Jerrywong76
2021-07-03
Jerrywong76
Smart money versus dumb money. But dumbmoney was also the one who took out a London based hedge fund. Short it all you like but getting in the way of dumb money might not be the smartest decision you can make.
EunJung
2021-07-02
EunJung
Who need them to teach us n don’t us catch u secretly buying AMC stocks! Damn!
OlWestyWin
2021-07-02
OlWestyWin
just stfu lol
- JLWT:
  nice
- Honzell:
  O
- Munyee:
  wow
kelekele
2021-07-02
kelekele
too long didn't read... boo...
annyeonggg
2021-07-02
annyeonggg
Things don't always go short it goes long as well [得意] [得意] [得意]

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Short it all you like but getting in the way of dumb money might not be the smartest decision you can make.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/152050313","repostId":1121860286,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":156413562,"gmtCreate":1625233853156,"gmtModify":1703739024897,"author":{"id":"3577278557750697","authorId":"3577278557750697","name":"EunJung","avatar":"https://static.itradeup.com/news/3b410492ccfd257dbe126fb4de9dae77","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b073a07f77dbe6b3bec6b12311fde6bd","crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577278557750697","authorIdStr":"3577278557750697"},"htmlText":"Who need them to teach us n don’t us&nbsp;catch u secretly buying AMC stocks! Damn!&nbsp;","listText":"Who need them to teach us n don’t us&nbsp;catch u secretly buying AMC stocks! Damn!&nbsp;","text":"Who need them to teach us n don’t us catch u secretly buying AMC stocks! 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