• grooving@lemmy.studio
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    3 days ago

    It wasnt really a rally around them but against shadow markets over leveraging themselves. It could have been any company, but the data available was GameStop related.

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      3 days ago

      I think you’re sleeping on the nostalgia factor for a lot of old gamers who had enough cash for a bit of a “fuck you” purchase but not enough discipline to buy a rifle or enough education to know that Wall Street doesn’t lose money when you buy stocks.

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        2 days ago

        Wall Street doesn’t lose money when you buy stocks.

        Hedge funds lost a shitload though. Wallstreetbets basically engineered a short squeeze and a few hedge funds genuinely lost a ton of money covering shorts. Granted, a lot of those diamonds handers were left holding the bag, but the effect wasn’t insignificant.

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        2 days ago

        Ha you could be right. I don’t live in the states didn’t realize GameStop had nostalgia value.