Major props to @[email protected]! Just saw their comment in a superstonk post:

"This packet was written by DRS advocates (like myself) for Gary Gensler by request." https://www.whydrs.org/the-whydrs-information-packet

When normal, retail investors have to educate the head of the SEC about DRS... I dunno, Gary feigning ignorance about DRS months back in that one interview...

Further ruminating, using very conservative numbers.

Not even using 200,000 Computershare accounts. Say just 100,000 accounts.

Is it a stretch to say 100,000 accounts DRS 5 shares a month? 100,000 x 5 shares a month x 3 months = 1,500,000 a quarter

5 shares a month * $22 avg = $110 a month * 3 months = $330 a quarter

Or only 1 to 3 shares a month for 200,000 accounts:

• 1 share a month = 600,000 a quarter
• 2 shares a month = 1,200,000 a quarter
• 3 shares a month = 1,800,000 a quarter

August 15, 2023 SS post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/15s0c2e/happy_13f_filing_day_apologies_for_quality/ I haven't gone through the numbers on the screenshots, and I think someone mentioned one page was missing.

Old notes from DRSyourGME:

5/18/2023 numbers from lawsondt's compilation:

• Outstanding Shares: 304,717,030
• ETFs: 29,268,180
• MFs, Index Funds, Pension Funds, etc.: 35,394,217
• Other Institutional Ownership: 46,228,722
• Insiders: 38,482,026
• Insiders Stagnant: 13,961,696

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Then 6/13/2023 numbers after known adjustments:

• Outstanding Shares: 304,717,030 -> 304,751,243 Shares outstanding as of June 1, 2023 GameStop Form 10-Q
• ETFs: 29,268,180
• MFs, Index Funds, Pension Funds, etc.: 35,394,217
• Other Institutional Ownership: 46,228,722
• Insiders: 38,482,026 -> +10,000 +5,000 +190,638 +253,204 = 38,985,868
• Insiders Stagnant: 13,961,696

8/15/2023 look again for free float number:
Free float: 304,751,243 - 29,268,180 - 35,394,217 - 46,228,722 - 38,985,868 - 13,961,696 = 140,912,560

8/23/2023 Estimated DRS count: 77,089,291
8/23/2023 Estimated DRS count minus 1,270,566 Mainstar rugpull shares: 75,818,725

Note that DRSbot's developer is roid_rage_smurf rather than jonpro03.

Yeah, not sure if Lemmy has API or scripting capabilities to make it easy for DRSbot to tally.

There probably still is "something funny" going on. There is still the unexplained weird jumps up/down in DRS numbers since we first started:

I think we're still chipping away the last 2 quarters and this coming quarter. Without some whales adding a large chunk this quarter, it looks like averaging around 6,150 DRS a day.

And we had the Mainstar rug pull. Odd timing on that.

And many ETFs containing GME still getting smashed into the dirt with piles of FTDs.

A few redditors have noticed where users do a drsbot reset, their share count goes to 0, then they try to re-add their shares. But then no drsbot witnesses approve their shares. Or the person doesn't want to go through the approval process again. So we see share count go down like 34,000 or a few thousand shares, but then never get added back.

I manually fixed the #1 whale's 1.3 million share count. Then this past week started adding back the 34,000+ shares of another whale. I'm too lazy to go through every DRS post looking for discrepancies where smaller amounts of shares don't get added back. :\

Are you me? 😄 I was looking over the 10-Q (again) on Friday night. More of a "How is the stock price down 65% since stock split via dividend when all the SEC filing numbers are better than ever?"

We all know the answer, but I just have to remind myself.

The DRS count incrementing 76.0m > 76.26m > 76.6m seems "ok, no 'major' f--kery" but still a bit on the low side. Which partly leads to questioning if we are overestimating retail investor purchasing power and how many are DRS-ing in that timeframe.

Without access to the Computershare dashboard to see daily account and count changes, we're left in the dark guessing. Like the +4.2m for 3/22/2023 versus +.5m on 10/29/2022. One theory is "they" load up DRS accounts, then many months later drain shares to confuse retail.

Yeah, I wish the default Lemmy editor included tables like reddit's Fancy editor. I copy-paste from my reddit post (in Markdown mode) and it preserves the tables over in Lemmy.

6/5/23 to 6/30/23 - 240,514

7/1/23 to 7/29/23 - 119,783

Thank you, adding inflation for next week's post.

DRSbot witnessing is pretty much down to one reddit user now (shorthand we refer to as NoVac user).

DRSbot has been offline more than online the past 3 weeks. I manually track DRS posts during its offline time. From keeping an eye on DRS posts the past 3-4 months, nothing alarming jumps out.

Was discussing the DRS count f--kery tonight, and there isn't much reason to measure and estimate when "they" can consistently mess with the DRS numbers over the past 2 years.

I think a better gauge may be estimating money spent by retail purchasing GME per quarter. It was around $1.2 million average per 6 recurring Computershare buys per quarter. Then say a massively conservative $200k per other trading day. So:

If average $1.2 million spent per bi-weekly purchase, and say $14 a share, multiply by 6 for one GME quarter:

• 1,200,000 / 14 = 85,714 shares * 6 = 514,284 shares
• The 6 recurring buys alone should add 514,284 DRS shares.

Other 54 trading days:

• $200,000 / $14 a share = 14,285 shares a day
• 54 * 14,285 = 771,390 shares

Total:

514,284 + 771,390 = +1,285,674 DRS shares a quarter.

There, done. I don't have to look at another DRS post again, ever. :)

I've watched Richard Newton's youtube videos for a while. He's been very helpful explaining what's possibly happening via swaps, ETFs, OpEx, cycles, derivatives, etc. Also nice past videos explaining GameStop SEC filings, DRS, GameStop marketplace, former wallet, Loopring, ImmutableX, NFTs, ethereum, crypto, etc.

As a side note, even though Malwarebytes threw the warning and blocked whatever the lemmy.today call was. The Subscribe action went through and let me join The PPShow community.

Yeah, I should test it joining another lemmy.world community, but I barely use lemmy at the moment. Darn reddit addiction!

I visited https://lemmyverse.net/ that you mentioned and Malwarebytes started blocking lemmy.today, normalcity.life, so I stopped scrolling on their main page.

No, jonpro didn't update after May 19, 2023 or so. I don't think he was happy dealing with a certain sub's mods when his last post was deleted/redacted.

Running into same error uploading an image:

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Note that it's mostly DRSbot's data. I started spreadsheet tracking partly due to Whale #1's 1.2 million shares got lost in DRSbot's count. Due to Whale #1 moving his DRSbot post from GME Orphans to DRSyourGME, then DRSyourGME got nuked. And Whale #1 isn't much for technology so said "Forget it" to re-authenticating his now 1.3 million shares. He did add 2,000 more shares last quarter, so nice to know he's still in it.

Other reason was to try and see if something, anything jumped out with DRS numbers over time. The DRS numbers that GME declares in the SEC Forms seems correct. But over time the DRS number jumping all over the place seems odd. DRS timeline table: https://www.reddit.com/r/drsgme/comments/16m11vq/drs_numbers_timeline_updated_9182023/

Going on 3 years of the GME saga, and it's like wading through pea soup still.

Hey @[email protected] , Did you get any malware warning when clicking on the Subscribe button for The PPShow @ lemmy.world?

Probably just my Malwarebytes being picky:

• Potential threat blocked: The following website appears malicious: lemmy.today

Did a site scan online of lemmy.today via: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

Results:

Website Malware & Security

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Website Blacklist Status

• Domain clean by Google Safe Browsing
• Domain clean by McAfee
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Affected pages:

• https://lemmy.today/404javascript.js
• https://lemmy.today/404testpage4525d2fdc

Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:

• https://lemmy.today/404javascript.js
• https://lemmy.today/404testpage4525d2fdc

Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header.

Whois on lemmy.today:

Raw Whois Data

• Domain Name: lemmy.today
• Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
• Updated Date: 2023-06-11T15:11:22Z
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Check out TheUltimator5's posts on recurring buy fills: https://www.reddit.com/user/theultimator5/

I think 6days1week had the Computershare recurring buy dates marked on a calendar, or maybe TheUltimator5 mentions in one of his posts.

I used the most basic average $1.2 million buy every 2 weeks and used only $14 a share as an example. So 85,714 shares * 6 times a quarter = 514,284 shares from just recurring buys each quarter. Mileage will vary of course on GME share price at the time.

I think the DTCC side can see all broker transactions.

• Computershare's bi-weekly recurring and daily purchases go through a broker.
• Broker DRS transfers to Computershare notify the DTCC that a stock withdrawal is taking place.
• I think I saw a redditor mention a rule/agreement that the DTCC can ask to see a transfer agent's books at any time, too.

Sorry, don't have a source on that. Scrolled a million bananas on reddit this year and everything is a blur. :)

I'm assuming DTCC just watches Computershare's broker for Computershare's transactions. Doubt they would ever contact Computershare and leave a trail.