What is/R/stockmarket?
Welcome to /r/StockMarket! Our objective is to provide short and mid term trade ideas, market analysis & commentary for active traders and investors. Posts about equities, options, forex, futures, analyst upgrades & downgrades, technical and fundamental analysis, and the stock market in general are all welcome.
What is new stock market community?
NEW STOCK MARKET COMMUNITY! Short selling stock picks, news, and discussion. Short term, swing trades, and long term shorts. Whether you short stocks based on fundamental analysis or technical. All things shorting. 1. No spam and no fancy rules here but lets just keep the discussion to short selling.
What are the best short squeeze stocks to sell before Reddit?
Here are 7 short squeeze stocks to sell before Reddit traders cash out: Admittedly, AMC and GME have held onto most of their respective gains. Yet in the case of Clover, which zoomed from around $7.75 per share to as much as $28.85 per share in June. What’s it trading for today? Around $8.50 per share.
What would happen if there was No shorting of stocks?
Absence of shorting would cause prices to shoot up to ridiculous levels (like a runway reaction) and end up with bagholders, frequent fraud and much lower public confidence in the economy. Shorting does more to regulate the market than SEC (because shorters have clear personal incentive to bring an asset to reasonable price).
Is GME a meme stock?
GameStop (GME) - Get GameStop Corporation Report and AMC Entertainment (AMC) - Get AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. Class A Report are undeniably the top meme stocks on the stock market. But so far this year, both stocks have been on a losing streak. GME is down 40% year to date, while AMC has lost 56%.
What does meme stocks?
A meme stock is a share of a company that quickly jumps in price due to the attention of a dedicated online following. Meme stocks usually gain popularity through discussion threads on community forum sites such as Reddit and social media platforms. The first successful meme stock was GameStop Corp (GME)
Why are meme stocks called that?
What Is a Meme Stock? A meme stock refers to the shares of a company that have gained a cult-like following online and through social media platforms.
What is the Reddit short squeeze?
Short Squeeze - A short squeeze occurs when a stock or other asset jumps higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses.
What does Stonks mean in slang?
Stonk, a deliberate misspelling of stock (meaning “a share of the value of a company which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment”), was coined in a 2017 meme. The word is often used humorously on the internet to imply a vague understanding of financial transactions or poor financial decisions.
What are Reddit meme stocks?
“A meme stock's price may be based on internet popularity and social views, instead of a more traditional stock value, such as a company's performance,” the quiz explains.
Are meme stocks pump and dump?
Meme stocks are a phenomenon that will go down in history as one of the grandest, most dazzling, most media-savvy pump-and-dump schemes that peaked in January and early February of 2021 – yes that infamous February 2021, when the stock market came unglued beneath the surface.
Is plug a meme stock?
PLUGS' Strategic Raising of Capital Through Its Meme Stock Status.
Is meme an acronym?
Modelled on the form of the word gene, meme is a shortened form of Greek mimēma, meaning 'something imitated'.
What is Reddit shorting?
To short the stock, bears could borrow some shares—typically from a large money manager—and then sell them. Later they'd have to buy back the stock to return it to the owner. But if they were right and the shares fell, they could pocket the difference between the new price and the one they sold at.
Who shorted GameStop?
Melvin Capital, hedge fund torpedoed by the GameStop frenzy, is shutting down. The firm lost billions of dollars as it scrambled to cover its bets against the video game retailer that became a darling of retail traders. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Are short squeezes illegal?
Although some short squeezes may occur naturally in the market, a scheme to manipulate the price or availability of stock in order to cause a short squeeze is illegal.
Should you invest in meme stocks?
While some Reddit traders were able to make a lot of money in a short amount of time by buying and then selling AMC and/or GameStop at the exact right moment, investing in meme stocks is generally very risky. A meme stock's value is a result of its hype on social media and not necessarily the company's performance.
What is the best meme stock?
Some of these meme stocks might make waves due to their catalysts....The 7 Best Meme Stocks to Buy Now.SPCEVirgina Galactic$6.37AMCAMC Entertainment$10.87GMEGameStop$100.55BBBYBed Bath $ Beyond$8.36CLOVClover Health$2.57792 more rows•May 25, 2022
What is the meme stock craze?
The meme stock craze — which multiplied the value of beleaguered companies like GameStop (GME) and squeezed hedge funds that bet against them — became a symbol of the populist fight between small-time traders and Wall Street juggernauts.
How do you know if a stock is meme?
A meme stock is a stock that has seen an increase in volume not because of how well the company performs, but rather because of hype on social media and online forums like Reddit. For this reason, these stocks often become overvalued, seeing drastic price increases in just a short amount of time.
Chipotle to hike wages, debut referral bonuses in attempt to hire 20,000 workers
Chipotle said it will increase restaurant wages resulting in a $15 average hourly wage by the end of June, as it looks to bring on 20,000 workers.
It isn't just CNBC that changes their narrative to fit the market. This whole forum does the same thing
On a red week the forum is full of top posts that say "duh this was overdue to happen" followed by a green week where all the top posts say "duh this is the greatest bull run in history."
Just sold everything and went index fund..
I just sold all my tech/meme stocks and just went straight to index funds. Over the past few months of "investing" I realized volatility is not my friend. Maybe that is the wrong approach but I figured, I'll take the loss as a tax credit and just keep everything in VTI/SCHG and some dividend stocks.
Inflation explained like you're five
I started that as a comment but it became quite lengthy and I decided that it should be a separate post instead.
Short Squeeze Stocks to Sell: Vinco Ventures (BBIG)
Shares in Vinco Ventures have generated buzz several times this year. First, when the company announced plans to merge with digital media company Zash in January. Then again when the company hopped on the NFT (non-fungible tokens) bandwagon in late March.
Ocugen (OCGN)
As I put it on August 20, going long on Ocugen is an all or nothing wager you shouldn’t make. If this biotech company fails to bring its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin (developed by India-based Bharat Biotech) to North America, its shares are likely heading back to well under $1 per share. OCGN trades for around $7.66 per share today.
Senseonics (SENS)
SENS stock is one of those situations where the underlying business looks promising, but shares themselves do not appear to be a strong opportunity at today’s prices.
Support.com (SPRT)
Support.com stock made sense as a short-squeeze play a few weeks ago, when I last wrote about it. At the time, it was changing hands at around $8.15 per share.
Workhorse Group (WKHS)
As was the case last month, WKHS stock still has several tailwinds in its favor, including the possibility of winning its bid protest for the USPS vehicle contract, as well as the potential its HorseFly drone technology obtains Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval.
SCWorx (WORX)
Back in August, heavily-shorted WORX stock got squeezed to prices topping $5 per share. Since then, it’s pulled down to around $3 per share. But if you think this healthcare stock has room to make a trip back up to $5 per share, or higher? Think again.
Lightning eMotors (ZEV)
As of this writing, the squeeze on ZEV stock is still in full swing. Two major developments have sent shares from around $6.50 to as high as $17.36 per share. It’s since pulled back a bit, to around $9 per share, but ZEV is still up about 41% in the past month.
