{"id":106017,"date":"2021-02-01T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106017"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:43:10","slug":"gamestop-short-squeeze-losses-at-12-5-billion-ytd-ortex-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/gamestop-short-squeeze-losses-at-12-5-billion-ytd-ortex-data\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop short-squeeze losses at $12.5 billion YTD &#8211; Ortex data"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: People enter a GameStop store during &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; sales in Carle Place, New York November 25, 2011. REUTERS\/Shannon Stapleton\/File Photo<\/figcaption><p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Shorting shares in GameStop, the video game retailer at the centre of the ongoing retail trading frenzy, cost hedge funds a total $12.5 billion over January, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The losses were inflicted by small-time investors who piled into GameStop, pushing up the shares and forcing many hedge funds to buy them back to cover losses. GameStop shares are up 1600% year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Ortex data showed $5.9 billion worth of GameStop shares were out on loan as of Friday or 49% of the total freefloat.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, short-sellers booked $28 million loss on their bets against Cineworld. Almost 24% of its freefloat is on loan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-retail-trading-gamestop-losses\/gamestop-short-squeeze-losses-at-12-5-billion-ytd-ortex-data-idUSKBN2A12XA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: People enter a GameStop store during &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; sales in Carle Place, New York November 25, 2011. REUTERS\/Shannon Stapleton\/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Shorting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GameStop short-squeeze losses at $12.5 billion YTD - Ortex data - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/gamestop-short-squeeze-losses-at-12-5-billion-ytd-ortex-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GameStop short-squeeze losses at $12.5 billion YTD - Ortex data - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FILE PHOTO: People enter a GameStop store during &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; sales in Carle Place, New York November 25, 2011. 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