Monkey Explains Short Selling

...which means that approximately 140 percent of GameStop's shares were sold short, so when me and my internet friends drive the price up by buying shares and holding them, we force the hedge funds to start purchasing the shares again to make up for their losses, in a process called "covering". What's a short? ok so, imagine you are a monkey and you borrow six bananas, and then immediately sell them because

A blonde woman and a man wearing sunglasses sit among a crowd while a long explanation of GameStop short selling appears above them. The joke is that complicated financial terminology is humorously explained using a monkey borrowing and selling bananas, making the meme useful as a reaction to absurdly overcomplicated explanations. EN: A blonde woman and a man wearing sunglasses sit among a crowd while a long explanation of GameStop short selling appears above them. The joke is that complicated financial terminology is humorously explained using a monkey borrowing and selling bananas, making the meme useful as a reaction to absurdly overcomplicated explanations.

• @jeppa420 / 13052 2021-01-30