Hedge funds and those that short stocks are heavily regulated. Most importantly, shorting provides some balance to the market and expectations are known, and prices built in. It is expected, as part of the rules of engagement. Economists for decades now have said it is a healthy check-and-balance to a free market.
What happened on Reddit was a new phenomenon of massive market manipulation via social media. The market is NOT prepared for this kind of coordinated effort to manipulate stocks, nor are their rules to address it, nor are the massive price swings pre-baked into the market. This wasn't a few happy basement-dwelling millennials buying some lame Gamestop stocks, it was a grassroots movement to sabotage the ebb and flow of the base of our economy.
While perhaps nothing illegal actually happened, this is pretty unprecedented, and I am not in the "happy camp" that this chit show is happening.
But, you all keep high fiving. Reddit and Robinhood are liberal whorehouses. And that's where this all started.
That should tell you something.
Tell this to the fine folks of Sidney Nebraska, hedge funds wiped out prosperity in that town.
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
