
Ken Griffin on Unfettered Conversations with A and Z
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What Happened to Melvon Capital?
Melvon capital was short a variety of stocks that became of interest to rather sosavian, sophisticated retail investors who realized the amount of stock short was just disproportionately arge. And we saw this plaing out market place. We had the social media landscape with some very important influences really lit up on the story of game stop as being a stock to get along and to ride to. The melvin continued to cover their short very aggressively over probably the next forty eight hours, give or take. I can't remember the exact timing of this. But i'm pretty certain that by the time that robin hood stopped trading on the 20 eighth, melvin had already covered their short and
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