monday morning rolls aroundand my friend, theo, he messaged me like,hey, man, i don t think gamestop isgoing to do anything more. i don t think anything sgoing to hire. i m just going to sell.i was like, don t sell, dude. you re an idiot.like don t sell. what the hell is wrongwith you? and he sold. literally, 10 minutes later,it starts going. reporter: stock for gamestopis up dramatically. reporter: it s been justswinging wildly. alvan chow:the week of the squeeze, i was describing itto my girlfriend as like i m in the nba finalsright now. i have to belike on all cylinders. like when i have to execute is probably the mostimportant week of my life. - i got my stimulus. [laughs] so i started throwingmy stimulus in it, and i m feeling cute,you know. then i mwatching the numbers and it just keeps,and i m like, huh. maybe this is something. reporter: gamestop is knownas the world s largest video game retailer. reporter:the stock is now at the center of a davidversus goliath story. shares ha
reporter: let s talk aboutanother company, jim, and that s gamestop.is it too late for gamestop? jim cramer:i hate these guys. i ve hated themfor a long time. can gamestop fail?i think it can. i think it canfall that much, and i wouldn t be around there trying to makesome money with it. matt kelly:i m really starting to doubt myself.i m really starting to doubt what i believedwas going to happen, and theprice is falling. - in the middle of january,my $30,000 investment had dropped downto around $5,000. it went down a lot, likebasically to $0. - there are a lot of people that are very bullishon this stock, and the idea is thatit s a turnaround play. - there are a lot of peoplethat were bullish about the housing marketin 2006, 2007. there were a lot of peoplethat were bullish about, you know, tulips backin the 1600s. i mean, just because alvan chow: i thought i wasjust going to lose it all and just have to start overand keep [laughs]