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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by burger_moon on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @01:35PM (#9146307)
Without fact finding you end up with results like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lebed

Kid used message boards to pump and dump stocks until the SEC intervened.

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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by nosuchthing on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @04:02PM (#9147320)
Recent similar story of kid with penny stocks and internet hype: http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/3/7319277/whiz-kid-penny-sto...
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