Congressional Hearing On GameStop Ahead: What Investors Need To Know

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On Thursday, Congress is taking its first crack at sorting through the stock market drama surrounding Reddit’s WallStreetBets, the trading app Robinhood, hedge fund Citadel Securities and high-flying ...

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(NYSE: GME).\nWhat Happened? The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing on Thursday in which the CEOs of Reddit, Robinhood, Citadel Securities and Melvin Capital will testify about the circumstances surrounding extreme volatility in GameStop that led to Robinhood restricting buying in the stock.\nWallStreetBets poster and GameStop trader Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty, will also testify.\nWhy It’s Important: WallStreetBets users coordinated a massive pump-and-dump strategy targeting GameStop and other highly shorted stocks in January by leveraging the power of an option market gamma squeeze and a short squeeze.\nBy aggressively buying out-of-the-money call options and shares of the underlying stocks, these retail traders forced a positive feedback loop of buying volume from momentum traders, institutional hedging and hedge fund short covering. As a result, GameStop’s shares skyrocketed from under $20 to as high as $483 in a matter of days.\nLosses at Melvin Capital got so bad that the hedge fund required a $2-billion investment from Citadel, which also pays Robinhood for its order flow.\nRobinhood subsequently banned and restricted buying of GameStop, a decision that is now the subject of at least 30 user lawsuits. Robinhood said the decision to restrict trading was not influenced by Citadel or any other customer and was simply made to protect its users from potential losses.\nSince Robinhood first enacted the restrictions, GameStop’s share price has crashed back down to around $46.\nWhat To Watch For Thursday: Citadel founder Ken Griffin will likely face tough questioning on Thursday about Citadel’s roles as a hedge fund, a market maker and one of Robinhood’s largest customers. Citadel reportedly handled 27% of all the NYSE trades last year, generating $6.7 billion in revenue in the process. 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