NO FTD DATA FOR YOU! 🖕
Seriously, the SEC just released FTD data for the first half of January and it's rather light!
ChartExchange literally shows only 3 days of FTD data for the first half of January!
Count von Count: \"1... 2... 3... Ah Ah Ah!\"
Maybe it's a bug in ChartExchange? Let's do a "grep GME\|" on the SEC's FTD pipe ("|") delimited data file:
OK, maybe there were not many trading days in the first half of January?
Nope, the first half of January has 9 TRADING DAYS and 10 SETTLEMENT DAYS. (Jan 9 was weird because the markets were closed, thus not a trading day, but the DTCC kept settlement and clearing open that day so it counts as a settlement day but not a trading day.)
MORE THAN HALF THE DATA IS REDACTED!
Seriously, we only got 3 days of data out of 9 trading days or 10 settlement days.
And curiously, there's NO FTD DATA for any TRADE DATE after Jan 9. See Why Jan 9? WTF?
ICYMI, prior discussion on the SEC redacting FTD data:
- SEC Strategically Failing To Deliver FTD Data
- SEC Responds to FOIA Request saying they’re withholding data and that there’s no publicly available data missing
EDIT: GETS EVEN BETTER
Here's the FTDs for the Ryan Cohen's other company which delivers pet products which has FTDs reported on Settlement Date Jan 9! Nada for GME when a lot of timelines for share delivery landed (see Why Jan 9?)
On the day chosen to close markets so that DTCC settlement and clearing can operate in the dark without affecting market prices, the SEC has to redact and hide FTDs for GME because of foreseeable harm to their Wall Street friends. QED. 💥