> Retail investors putting money into the market _at all_ is a net win for wall street _every time_ imo.

This is what I think to myself everytime I see one of those Acorn ads.

What's the other side, though? Putting it into savings, at 0.5%? Forex?

The game is rigged against you, but you're still better off if you play.

Don't disagree with you - the markets are heavily balanced in favor of entrenched players who have informational, scale and timing advantages (ie wall street). I do think that there's something else at play here ... we will have to see what happens over the next couple of weeks as things shake out.

Also - Citron has already said that they will take this trade into account in how they allocate in the future. I don't think this will really change anything though.