GameStop, Reddit, and Market Mania: What You Need to Know
- March 7, 2021
Over the course of 11 trading days from January 13 to January 28, 2021, the stock of GameStop, a struggling brick-and-mortar video game retailer, skyrocketed by more than 2,200% — creating a mix of excitement and concern throughout the financial world, as well as among many people who pay little attention to the stock market. The opposing forces of hedge fund managers covering their bets and individual investors using social media to buy large numbers of shares created a feeding frenzy that sent the stock to dizzying heights far beyond the fundamental value of the company.
Reddit is an online community with more than a million forums called subreddits in which members share information on a particular topic. Members of a subreddit dedicated to investing coalesced around a strategy to buy GameStop stock in order to push the price up and squeeze the hedge funds.
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