
Mano Nousy
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On March 24, 2026, $GME released its earnings results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2025, covering the period ending January 31, 2026. TWO pieces of evidence, taken together, build a compelling and quite frankly, an obvious case FOR ME that Ryan Cohen and the Investment Committee are currently in possession of MNPI and cannot execute insider purchases of GME stock until that information is publicly disclosed. Reason One: The Charles Payne Cancellation On February 2, Fox Business anchor Charles Payne very publicly cancelled a scheduled live interview with Ryan Cohen, posting the following statement to X: "GameStop Development - I'm not going to interview Ryan Cohen today. Ryan is working on something monumental, and he would not be able to say much. We both agreed that 'I cannot answer that on advice of counsel' is the last thing anyone wants to hear. I'm on pins and needles like everyone else. Hope to have news and the interview soon." The phrase "I cannot answer that on advice of counsel" in a securities context has one specific meaning: an attorney has concluded that discussing a particular topic on live television would constitute a material disclosure of non-public information, violating Regulation FD, Rule 10b-5, or both. This is not the instruction given for speculative future plans. This is the instruction given when a transaction is sufficiently advanced that publicly discussing its details would trigger disclosure obligations or securities law liability. Ryan Cohen and the Investment Committee were effectively placed on a public communications hold by counsel, or that's what it seemed like to me anyway. Reason Two: The "Subsequent Event" Note On page 71 of the 10-K, under Note 20 "Subsequent Event," GameStop disclosed: "Subsequent to year end, the Company posted approximately $0.7 billion of cash into an account of the Company that is pledged as collateral for certain existing and potential cash or physically settled derivative transactions." This is not just collateral for the Bitcoin covered call strategy, as @ButtFarm69 so eloquently pointed out when the report was first released. The BTC covered calls were already collateralized with Bitcoin itself, specifically 4,709 of GME's 4,710 coins pledged directly to Coinbase Credit. Those options also matured on March 27, 2026, days after the 10-K was filed, making a fresh $700 million cash pledge for an expiring position economically irrational or at least somewhat excessive. The BTC position at year-end was worth approximately $368 million, and the scale alone rules out any exclusive connection to the CCs for me. What the language actually describes is the potential for a Total Return Swap (TRS) or equity swap structure with a prime broker, as originally explained to me by @101mob and then repeated by Gordon Haskett's event-driven analyst Don Bilson, who reviewed this disclosure and immediately called it a swap position signaling "deal prep in motion". How it works is GME posts cash as margin; the prime broker enters a TRS paying GME the total return on a notional equity position; the prime broker hedges by buying the actual shares of a target company in the open market. GME gains synthetic long economic exposure to the target without directly holding shares. The word "potential" in the note confirms this covers transactions not yet entered into, meaning the collateral infrastructure is being staged for future derivative positions, not just existing ones. Taken together, these two data points tell the same story. By February 2nd, counsel had placed Ryan Cohen on a communications hold in regards to the acquisition, if what Charles Payne stated coming from Ryan Cohen is to be believed as factual. Additionally but perhaps not separately, sometime after January 31, $700 million in cash was posted as collateral for derivative positions in what seems to be a synthetic equity stake in an acquisition target, and if it's not that it's for another leg of that CoinBase strategy that has also not yet been disclosed but is in motion. Ryan Cohen and the members of the Investment Committee are legally prohibited from purchasing shares of GME common stock under Rule 10b-5 if they are in possession of material, non-public information about a pending transaction that would be material to GME shareholders. As such, it's my personal opinion that until a transaction or the underlying information is publicly disclosed through a Form 8-K, a press release, or a different SEC filing, Ryan Cohen and the Investment Committee sit in a blackout window of their own making.












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