From: https://www.reddit.com/r/DDintoGME/comments/q15jgb/the_algorithm_the_ouroboros_part_1_explaining_the/  Posted by u/PWNWTFBBQ

I am not a financial advisor. I am an engineer with a strong stats background. These are my thoughts and findings.

This entire theory stems around how the dividend was used to hide any price manipulation and other tomfuckery so we gotta start with defining the dates and shit.

When you check out dividends, it’ll have (4) different types of dates that surround it:

• Declaration / Announced Date

• Ex – Dividend

• Record Date

• Payable Date

Here is an example I pulled from the SEC website to describe these dates:

TLDR: GME gave a cash dividend from 2012 to 2019.

The table below lists the dates important to the dividend along with related values.

Sources:

· https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/dividend-history

· https://marketchameleon.com/Overview/GME/Dividends/

Here are the closing share price relative to the above listed dividend dates.

For a while, GME didn’t seem to announce when the dividend was going to happen until like 2015 so here is a zoomed in graph of that time period.

If we were to subset the data such that we only view the dates when these specific events occurred and graph them with their corresponding share price, we get the follow graph. Nothing really too interesting-ish.

However, Since the announcement dates didn’t begin until 2015, I went ahead and did some further isolation to focus on this time frame. What’s bonkers about this is the extremely high R^2 values comparing the share prices with the corresponding dates. I also added the surrounding share prices that weren’t part a dividend related date to show how linearly the share price was decreasing.

Despite how GME was a failing brick and mortar company, the dividend value increased despite how the share price was dropping. (This will be important for later. Not now, but later). Let’s quickly define the dividend yield and it’s relationship to the share price:

Here’s another way to look at the data showing the linearity of the dividend yield versus the share price further exemplifying how as time continued, the dividend yield increased.

While the argument can be made that an increase in dividend was made to increase the attractiveness to retail investors, I personally would argue against that solely due to the stupid fucking high amount of this fucking dividend.

Just to get a better comparison how fucking stupid high this dividend amount GME was pumping out at this time, here is a current list I quickly pulled when I googled “high dividend stock average.” The first link was from this article. Here is the first link that came up.

GME passed this list in like 2015 and almost even doubled it during 2018 / 2019. Now, that the dividend has been beaten to death,

As a sanity check, let’s do some basic investing learning just to cover our bases as to why other tickers could see the same thing. Pulling from investopedia detailing how dividends related to options volume:

The payment of dividends for a stock impacts how options for that stock are priced. Stocks generally fall by the amount of the dividend payment on the ex-dividend date (the first trading day where an upcoming dividend payment is not included in a stock’s price). This movement impacts the pricing of options. Call options are less expensive leading up to the ex-dividend date because of the expected fall in the price of the underlying stock.

At the same time, the price of put options increases due to the same expected drop. The mathematics of the pricing of options is important for investors to understand so they can make informed trading decisions.

The key take away is….

with a bunch of naked shorts that may or may not need to be “covered,” I would probably want to buy calls to to cover these naked shorts when they were the cheapest. (Un)fortunately, I’m just an asshole. So I, as a retail investor, don’t do that shit. Going back to the mathemagics and data…

GME is shorted to shit so I pulled the options data from market chameleon. That data only goes to like 2013Q3 to present so that’s what we’re going to see below.

Since the dividend seems fucky, I added those dates in as well to see what the fuck was going on. Immediately, one can see how the announcement date often has both the highest IV30 as well as the highest volume just overall during the this 2013Q3 to 2019Q1 – ish time period.

Let’s also add the overnight change because that was a significant variable I used to estimate August 24 mini squeeze so for more data dumping.

Let’s see how the daily options volume compares to daily trading volume. I even extended the time frame to mid-2020 for better comparison. Cool. Cool. Cool. Days with the most options volume are the same days with the highest trading volume.

From a DD I did a while I ago, I identified this dates as the most significant:

Joining those dates I was able to isolate with the first dividend table and calculating the net total days, we get!!!

Let’s make a graph of those net days

Many have stated that if we know this shit is going on, they can change the algo. I don’t think they can because of potential reasons that are not verified:

• The people that programmed this could be dead. Who knows how long this thing has been going on?

• They literally don’t even know how to. Since this is a black swan event and so many variables are going bonkers, there is no model to use to even know which variables to change.

• They potentially only have 1 shot at fixing the script. It’s done ok thus far so they let it keep doing what it’s been doing and pray for a bailout.

• The fear of making even the smallest mistake and causing a crash aka MOASS.

• GME experiences quarterly swings due to the IV30 values which were entered around a dividend that was previously given.

• Call options are bought around this time to make it appear as if the naked shorts are covered because call options are cheap AF.

• Although this dividend is no longer in play, the algorithm still is acting as if it is and thus we see mini squeezes around when a dividend would have been given out. This is why we see repeating dates.

• My current guess for the next mini squeeze is November 23, 2021 (11/23/21 — Fibonacci Sequence Day and also an almost numeric palindrome.)

TLDR: Taxes

• The share price is manipulated.

• Keep those hands diamond. Those balls titanium. And your butthole clenched.

• Hold the line.

• November 23, 2021.

Edit 1: I forgot to get into the sideways trading bit but I guess that for next time.

Edit 2: tweet

Edit 3: Removed duplicate text and fixed some typos

Edit 4: Change 11/23 to November 23, 2021.

Edit 5: Had to further explain why I don’t think why the algorithms can be changed.