Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by ra5 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:39PM (#22427642)

As a regular of WSB, this article is just absolutely absurd. Which I guess is the regular for Bloomberg these days (seemingly the Buzzfeed of business news it appears). All you'll find on WSB is a bunch of homophobic bored desk workers. The idea that subreddit of only a few thousand guys (mostly) with an extra $500 to blow on meme stocks can move a stock in _any_ significant way is laughable.

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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by omegaham on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:12AM (#22431009)

Yeah, I was under the impression that ~95% of posters on WSB don't actually day trade and are just there to meme and laugh at the trolling/idiocy. The other 5% are the fools YOLOing their college loans.

The charm of the subreddit is that it's hard to figure out who's who.

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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by tozeur on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#22428545)

I agree. I used to frequent it years ago and from what I can still it’s still mostly memes...

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