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[Link] I Lost $400,000, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
I was 26 and stupid. I had arrived in the U.S. when I was 18. I didn't have money and worked shitty jobs to get through college. I didn't go to a nice school, and I've worked in sales ever since I graduated. My first job paid me $40,000. Next one $50,000.
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[Link] Fed: Meme Stocks Might Blow Up U.S. Economy One Day
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Federal Reserve is worried that risk-taking online investors and social media echo chambers could lead to a “potentially destabilizing outcome.
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[Link] WallStreetBets Is All In on DWAC, the Company Behind Trump's New Media Empire
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
WallStreetBets goes MAGA over Digital World Acquisition Corp stock.
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[Link] SEC: GameStop Frenzy ‘Tested the Capacity and Resiliency’ of Stock Market
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
“At the same time, the trading in meme stocks during this time highlighted an important feature of United States securities markets in the 21st century: broad participation,” the report noted.
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[Link] Robinhood to Raise Billions From the Rich, Give None of It to the Poor
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Robinhood, the wildly popular stock-trading app that’s made it easy to throw fistfuls of money at meme stocks while also occasionally locking those users out of trades on a whim, is ready to cash in big time.
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[Link] Reddit army risks sparking a 'black swan event'
Read: 2/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Early on the morning of September 12, 2001, my home phone didn't stop ringing. I eventually picked it up and my panicked boss wanted me to come into work ASAP. I was a 'desk jockey' for a stockbroking firm and the phones were ringing off the hook.
[Link] What Exactly Is a Short Squeeze?
Read: 29/1/2021 www.kiplinger.com
And if you haven't been following GameStop, you should, purely for the entertainment value. They might very well make a movie about the trading action in that stock over the past few weeks.
[Link] Did Reddit Just, Uh, Save the Movie Theater Business?
Read: 29/1/2021 slate.com
Amidst all the wild news stories in the past few days of Reddit-inspired investors snapping up GameStop stock, hedge funds scurrying for cover, and trading platforms called “Robinhood” suddenly deciding that helping the poor steal from the rich is not their business model, there’s been a parti
[Link] How hedge funds are tracking Reddit posts to protect their portfolios after the Wall Street Bets crowd helped tank Melvin Capital's short positions
Read: 29/1/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Retail investors — especially from the subreddit Wall Street Bets — helped force one of the top-performing hedge funds of the past half-decade to secure billions in emergency funding from two ultracompetitive peers.
[Link] Analysis: Short sellers face derision, death threats and unexplained pizza
Read: 29/1/2021 www.reuters.com
Short sellers - contrarian investors who bet against rising stocks, such as Jim Chanos’ Kynikos Associates, Carson Block’s Muddy Waters Research and Andrew Left’s Citron Capital - have been called accurate forecasters of stock market returns by academics and market manipulators by critics.
[Link] Ignore The Populist GameStop Hype. Short Sellers Are Heroes
Read: 29/1/2021 www.forbes.com
Back around 2007, investor John Paulsen began to feel skeptical about the viability of mortgage securities. Though demand for them was much greater than supply, Paulsen sensed that lending standards had plummeted so far that loan delinquencies were set to surge.