If you hold stocks of 401k index funds or tech stocks, what I'm about to reveal about quantum computing stocks being heavily shorted while the Trump administration prepares to take equity stakes, well, it could either potentially multiply your outcomes and wealth, or it could leave you watching from the sidelines as the biggest potential short squeeze of 2025 and false. Here's what just happened. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Trump's commerce department is in talks to take equity stakes in quantum computing companies INQ, Reggetti, and D-Wave. These stocks have short interest above 20%, with INQ alone showing 62 million shares shorted. And when the US government becomes a shareholder, those shorts get obliterated. Now, Winston and I and Albert here, well, we predicted this exact scenario in my video on October 8th, which was, well, banned by YouTube for being dangerous. So let me be very clear here. While 14 days later, the Wall Street Journal reports the same thing I told you on the 8th. If you were lucky enough to watch that early, I'm not promising you any returns here. I'm saying to you, this is a risky investment. There is potential here with a lot of risk. This channel is not financial advice. I also don't get paid by companies or stocks or take any kind of affiliate money ever. It is an interesting coincidence, isn't it? Uh, you believe in coincidences, then well, I like, I uh I envy your innocence. My name is Felix Breen, that's Winston back there. That's Albert here. They're the research gang. And I used to be an investment banker, and I've been studying for years how Wall Street actually operates. I'm also the founder of the GOAT Academy, where we've taught over 20,000 students, and the co-founder of Tradevision.io, where we provide you with custom news and all the data that you need to know. So I'm dedicating my retirement to teaching regular investors, which is what I used to be, how to protect their wealth from the schemes and financial engineering out there. And for this video, I've analyzed every piece of data there is out there, the short interest data, studied historical patterns of what happens when the US government becomes a shareholder in heavily shorted companies. And with help from my research Hand Winston, who's um really into quantum, isn't he? Winston? Not much of a reaction there, but uh, you know, he's a he's a he's a good poker player. So I'm gonna break down today three critical things. First, why quantum computing stocks like Reggett, INQ, and D-Wave are sitting ducks with massive short interest. Second, how US government equity stakes, we're talking at least$10 million plus investment, could trigger a catastrophic short squeeze. And third, exactly how to position yourself before this value potentially explodes. So by the end, you'll understand precisely how to potentially capitalize on what could be the biggest forced short squeeze event we've seen in history. Let me show you the numbers that make this real. INQ has 62 million shares shorted right now. That's 20% of the stocks out there. Reggetti, ticker symbol RGTI, and D-Wave Quantum, same story. Short interest is around about 20%. And these are among the most shorted companies in the entire market. Now, here is what this means in practical terms. For every 100 shares of these quantum stocks that exist, 20 have been borrowed and sold by traders betting the price will fall. They're obligated to buy those shares back eventually. So that's 62 million shares just for INQ that must be repurchased at some point. And these are not giant companies, you see. Regetti is an$800 million business. And D-Wave is about a$1.8 billion business. That's pretty small by Wall Street standards. And it means that even small amounts of buying pressure could send the prices vertical. Could, not a guarantee. Want to be very clear on that, right? YouTube, you're listening. And when I say small amounts, I'm talking about the government coming in and taking an equity stake. Maybe just$10 million. That could do it. Because let me put this to perspective. That short interest represents billions of dollars in bets against these companies. When the shorts get squeezed, they don't have a choice. They have to buy at any price to close their position. We're talking about forced buying with unlimited loss potential for the shorts. Think about it like this: imagine you borrowed your neighbor's car, right? He's driving something that looks like a six-year-old's drawing, but then maybe he's a special sort of a fella. So you borrowed it. You then sold it. Yeah, and you promised to buy them another one later when car prices dropped. And then the government comes in and they announce that they're only going to be buying that specific model. And suddenly everybody wants one. Bit of a random acknowledgement, but you get the idea. The price goes to the roof, and you are now forced to buy back the car that you sold at, say, 10 times what you sold it for with money you don't have. That's potentially what could happen to these quantum shorts. They're trapped, and the government just announced they're cornering the market. Now, this isn't the first time we've seen the US government trigger massive short squeezes by taking equity stakes and beaten down heavily shorted stocks. Look at what happened to Intel in August 2025. Stock was down here at about$20-ish dollars, really, really, really beaten up. The government comes in, they take a 10% stake, and guess what? Intel stock was heavily shorted. And when that came in, guess what happened? Boom, right? The stock absolutely explodes. Somebody always knows before. And this isn't again not the first time. We also have MP materials, stock we covered quite a lot here. A rare earth producer. I called it buy here on the 28th of April on that one. Doesn't mean you should have bought it, but might not have been such a bad idea, right? Still have about 180%. You have about 260% there. The Department of Defense came in and they bought$400 million worth of stocks plus warrants for some more. So they put$400 million into this. That stock was literally left for dead by most investors. Short interest was massive. And what happens? Boom, you get this 200 plus percent gain here on the government equity stake and the short squeeze. Even better, lithium Americas. The energy department just took a 5% stake, gave them a$2 billion loans. And what happened? Well, whoops, right? Went up 200%. Now, if you lost half of that, you need to learn some risk management, which you can learn how. Start by watching a free masterclass I put out for you, teach you how to actually spot these patterns. FelixFriends.org slash get free is where you get your pause on that. And if you're starting to get interested in this and you're starting to think maybe quantum is something I should look at some more, I'm also going to give you a free research document. I'm going to put that into a private community where we can also post videos that can't possibly be removed by anybody. And you can get access to that at FelixFriends.org slash resource. Links also down below. Again, that's completely free. And the document, the research document, will be attached to this video in there. There's a video section in there. There's also a bunch of other workbooks and educational videos in there and access to my AI tool and everything else. But the government has a history now of investing in not your blue chip kind of Google type stocks, which is what we might have expected them to do, but in heavily shorted, very speculative names that Wall Street had basically written off. There's a pattern to this. Every single time the government takes an equity stake in a company, it sends a signal to the market. It says, this company is strategically important. We're backing it. We're shareholders now. And that signal causes institutional investors to reassess, but more importantly, it causes Schultz to panic. Even going back all the way to 1989, party like it's 1989, the Brady Plant, did something very similar with Latin American debt. The US government restructured the debt into bonds, provided backing, investors piled in, Schultz got destroyed. Today we're seeing the Trump industrial policy do exactly the same thing, potentially, with quantum computing stocks. These stocks were left for debt. They're potentially getting a federal stamp of approval and capital. Now, some people might say, hang on, Felix, can't the shorts just hold on and wait it out? No. Here is why none of the traditional shorts strategic, no. Here is why none of the traditional short strategies work in this scenario. Waiting it out, when the government announces an equity stake, institutional buying flatson, shorts pay interest every day they hold the position. With quantum stocks moving up maybe 50%, maybe 100% in a couple of days, that's catastrophic losses for the shorts. Could they short more to average down? Well, that would be doubling down and losing position. Wall Street doesn't really do that. That's mostly us retail loons. So if you're already trapped and you add more to it, you have even bigger losses. So hoping for bad news to save them, well, the government doesn't really take stakes in companies that they expect to fail. This is a strategic investment in quantum computing, a technology the US sees as critical for what? National security, defense, war, right? And competing with the adversaries out there. So it's a doom trap for shorts. So once the government announces these stakes, and they haven't yet, so it's entirely possible it won't happen. But if it does, there is no escape for these guys. They're locked in in a burning building, and there is really only one door out buying the stock at whatever the market demands. So what would be the um speculative thing to do here? Position yourself ahead of the government's official announcements. So we're in the talks phase now. That's always the first phase. Phase one is talks. Commerce department is negotiating with these companies. INQ, Righetti. I always thought that should be an Italian coffee company. And D-Wave. If and when those deals are finalized, the market's going to move violently. But the real skill isn't picking which quantum stock to buy, it's knowing when to sell. That's what separates the retail investor who gives back all their gains from professionals to lock in life-changing profits. And that's what I want you to learn. Start by watching the free masterclass at Felixfriends.org slash get free. All right, let me break this down on the blackboard here so you can see exactly how this short mechanism works, why these three specific quantum stocks are positioned for explosive moves. And most importantly, the selling rules, you need to lock in profits instead of just giving them all back like 99% of retail investors. So let me draw this out step by step so you really understand exactly how the chain reaction happens. So step one, we have our quantum stock. Let's use INQ because the name is nice and short. Over here, we have short sellers and they've borrowed 62 million shares, and they've sold those, say at eight or ten dollars. Their bet was that this price would go down to three dollars or five dollars. Now, someone's just stepped into this diagram of ours. We're gonna make them blue. It's the commerce department, and they've announced we're taking an equity stake. So you now get the government in here, and they're buying shares. Maybe it'll be Warren's convertible, preferred, or whatever, but they're basically buying shares. So the government becomes a direct shareholder, and what does that do? Well, that sends a massive signal to the market, and what happens? Everybody hears about it. You are hearing about it here first, but all these guys hear about it in the market, and the what are the signals they're sending out? Well, there are a couple of signals these guys are sending out. The first one is that quantum computing is now strategically important for the US. Second is it now has federal backing. So they're not going to fail. And the third step is that Wall Street, the institutions, will rush to publish research reports that tell you how wonderful quantum computing is. You don't have to wait for those guys. Read the research report I put out for you for free into the community. So what then happens is you now get other investors who shuddered at the thought of quantum investing. And what are they doing? They are all buying quantum stocks too. The institutions start buying it. Retail traders start to see it, they pile in. Always a little late, unless you're well informed. But remember these guys who sold these stocks at$8, these poor suckers? Well, say that stock price goes from eight to twelve or to fifteen dollars. Their losses are mounting because they sold at eight, they have to buy at 15 to close the position. So they have these huge, huge, huge, you know, 50% down, 80% down, maybe 100% down or more. There is no limit to the downside, by the way, for shorts. And these funds, these banks, these institutions, as most of the short money out there is institutional, they have rules. They have to close their positions. Well, they're going to get margin calls, in which case they have to close their positions. And what happens when these guys buy at$15? Price goes up even more. It goes from 15 to 17 or to 18 or to 19 or whatever. It just keeps going higher and higher. Maybe it'll go to 30 or to 40. You know, it can go to some crazy levels. We've seen it before. You look at INQ, it was trading at$84, right? So obviously my stock prices are a little off, but you you you you get the idea of the example, right? I just wanted to make it simple. This is one to ten. Albert just joined us by jumping over all the electrical equipment, which is always a good idea, Albert. So the crucial question is Albert just knock over. And more importantly, for you, if you are in on this, and I'm not saying you should, but if you do decide to go in on this, when do you sell? Most retail investors they hold through an entire squeeze and they give it all back. So the stock does this, right? They have 100% gains, and then the stock goes back down here and they still haven't sold, and now they've got minus 30%. Sound familiar? So what how do you do that? You set a stop, a trailing stop, or probably that's probably the easiest thing for you. Now, that's probably gonna have to be at something like 20% below the price. So this is a risky investment. If you make it too tight, you're gonna get knocked out on like day one or day two. So we need a little bit of wriggle room there, probably 20 or 30 percent. So you're taking a lot of risks if you buy quantum stocks. That's just the the the truth there. I mean, yeah, probably 30% is more like it. So, which of these quantum stocks is the one to potentially buy? Doesn't really help the writing when you chew the pen, Albert. So the first stock we have here is I and Q. Albert, please don't chew the pen. This is quite a big company for quantum standards. It's six billion dollars, shorted about 20%. Stocks had a massive run-up, then it got heavily shorted on the way down. And why INQ? It's the most established pure play quantum company. They have partnerships with Microsoft, with AWS, they do something called trapped iron quantum technology, different approach from their competitors. I'm not a quantum uh researcher, so don't ask me to explain that. And guess what? They actually have revenue, they actually have some money coming in. And the stock's given back about 35% of its gains from the top there. Now, because it's the largest of all the stocks we're looking at here, it needs more money than the other ones to get moved. So if you're looking for something really, really speculative, then maybe a reggetti computing ticker symbol RGTI is more interesting, also more risky. It's an$800 million market cap company, short of about the same. So it moves more potentially than a larger company, right? Pulled back pretty heavily here, too. Now their technology is different, it's superconducting quantum tech. I'm not gonna write that out the words too long, but it's different from INQ's trapped iron approach. And look, the government wants diversification, it has partnerships with NASA, Department of Energy. So it must be doing something, right? And they've announced a quantum computing cloud platform. They're based in the US, of course, in California. The smallest of the three players, and therefore, even a$10 million investment would equal a 1% stake, more or less, in the company. Our third stock here is D-Wave Quantum. QBTS is the ticker, sort of like the dark horse. It's a little bit bigger than the last one, 1.8 billion market cap, similarly shorted. It ran up a very impressive 500, 600%, still up about 300% from the beginning of the year, giving back up a lot of the gains because people don't know when to sell, heavily shorted. Why D-Wave? Well, again, it's a different architecture. So the government wants diversification to make sure they're investing in the right technology. This could be it. They've also been around longer than everybody else since 2007, and they already have a commercial quantum system deployed. They work with Lockheed Martin, they work with Google, and they work with the good folks at the Los Alamos National Lab. So they have some government connections too. So it's probably your balanced play in a sense, because they're not tiny, they're not huge. Uh, so you have still significant potential. Now, if only one of them gets a deal, likely all three of them will still move. You could also look at a quantum ETF, by the way. I'll try to put some of those into the research document that I'll put into FelixFrance.org slash resource uh so you have that option as well. So, what do we what do we do here? Well, I'm not telling you what to do. I never do. I never give you financial advice, I never tell you to act on anything particularly. I'm just giving you some interesting thoughts and ideas that you can make as the basis for your research, right? If you want to be responsible for your wins, you've got to be also responsible for your losses. So don't come back to me crying that this turned out to be a really high-risk thing, because it is a really high-risk thing and it may not happen. But we have a window here where we can position ourselves before everybody else knows about it. We can, of course, set ourselves some nice news alerts up on this. Trade Vision does that very well. Platform we built. So you can add this stock to your um your watch list. So you can make any. Do we have a quantum watch list? Actually, let's make one, Albert. Let's call it quantum. Click on that, and then you just click on the little plus symbol here, add qubit BTS to this watch list, and that's now done. And you can see it there. We can obviously also also add the other ones. And what you can do, what you can do if you click on account here, it's easy to do on the mobile app actually. You click on notifications, and you can find that watch list here. Just turn on the alerts, and now for your qubts, we can add the other ones in there, INQ and Regetti. We're now going to get notifications live on your phone, which will look like something like this. So these pop up on my phone, only for the stocks that you want, right? And it's tremendously helpful because, well, you hear stuff earlier, much, much earlier, right? So go into that in Trade Vision. There's another link for it down below as well. I think we've probably covered this enough to give those of you who have an interest in this the desire to look into it further. So I say there's a research doc for free at feedxfriends.org slash resources, resource, actually. And if you just want to learn like when are the right moments to buy stocks, when to sell stocks, there are rules for that. There are only three, and you can learn those again for free. Go to phelixfriends.org slash get free and watch that simple 15 minute video and you walk away with skills. And that's what this is all about better investing skills. You got some value out of this, see what Winston's doing and um tell a friend about it. All the best.