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WallStreetBets 行话指南 - 知乎首发于Cobo钱包切换模式写文章登录/注册WallStreetBets 行话指南Cobo钱包最近有一个叫 WallStreetBets(简称 WSB)的散户组织,在 GameStop(GME)濒临退市之际,凭借一套极具号召力的逼空方案,为 GME 股价一飞冲天点了导火索,WSB 也凭借这次世纪逼空大战出圈了。我们先来介绍下这个组织吧。WallStreetBets 中文译为“华尔街赌场”,是 2012 年 1 月在 reddit 上创建的一个分区,类似中国的股吧。成员许多都是千禧一代(可以理解为 80 后、90 后),他们很会玩梗,气氛很欢乐,经常有人发各种沙雕图,晒自己的仓位和盈亏,时不时也会有一些隐藏大佬跳出来做很详细、很专业的分析和投资科普。大家觉得自己不是韭菜,而是马上要飞上月球的宇航员。著名投资人、billionaire、Facebook 几位初创之一的 Chamath 对他们的评价是:“以我多年经验,WSB 上很多人做的研究一点都不比专业的对冲基金研究员差。”这样一群有组织、分析能力极强的民间高手,最近可是在投资市场上搅出不少风波,风波的中心就围绕着 GameStop 公司股票最近在 WallStreetBets 论坛,关于 GME 的帖子数压倒性地多有些人误以为近期的 GME 股价大涨事件是散户盲目团结推高股价,单纯把这个事件总结为散户对抗机构,其实是有点以偏概全,根据知乎上某亲历了整个事件的匿名用户透露:早在去年 7 月,WallStreetBets 社区就有一个 ID 名为 DeepFuxxxValue(简称 DFV)的人发现 GME 股票被严重过度做空,有轧空风险,所以他投了 5 万美元买入 GME 的股票和长期期权,当时 GME 股价只有 4 刀,社区里大部分人对 DFV 的观点都是持嘲笑的态度;后来随着 GME 不断走高,再加上 GME 内部改革、Citron 发布的做空视频论点缺乏说服力、主流媒体报道等各种原因,股价持续走高,WallStreetBets 每天都被 GME 的帖子刷屏,越来越多的人认为轧空的可能性越来越大,号召更多的人上车,并且坚定持有。在上个月 27 日~28 日,GME 股价一度冲上 470 刀,DFV 个人账户资产也从 5 万最高涨至近 5000 万,书写了一段“很离谱又很热血的故事”。WallStreetBets 不仅发掘、推动了美股 GME 的爆拉,而且一些社区成员还调头进币圈,上周狗狗币连续暴涨、比特币扭转弱势,WSB 社区成员也发挥了不少力量。如今的 WallStreetBets 已成为最热门的股票和期权交流社区之一,有着超高的人气,参与者超 750 万。很多人慕名而来,想挖掘财富密码,复制暴富故事。但是由于社区已有多年历史,早已形成了自己独立的文化,有很多独特的行话、术语,可能会让新手感到很困惑,所以,无论你是否已成为 WSB 的一员,或者正在考虑加入,都应该提前了解一些术语。WSB 社区行话[ 01 ] YOLO全称:You Only Live Once,你只活一次意思就是,人生只有一次,应该活在当下,大胆去做,“要堵就赌大的”、 “放手一博,假设没有明天”。币圈同义词:不要怂,一把梭;干就完了;赢了会所嫩模,输了下海干活[ 02 ] Diamond Hands 中文名:钻石手比喻坚定地持有某支股票,坚定到像钻石一样。如果你有一双「钻石手」,就表示你准备抱牢,不害怕任何风险、亏损,不卖,长期持有,一直等到目标点位为止,相信自己一定会坚持到获利。币圈同义词:HODL、囤币、长线布局[ 03 ] Paper Hands 中文名:纸手/厕纸手和「钻石手」相反,如果你是用「纸手」持有股票,就表示你可能忍受不了市况恶化的煎熬而早早结清出场,拿不到最大的利润。币圈同义词:拿不住、卖飞了、杀跌[ 04 ] DD全称:Double Down意为看好某支股票,“将所有的钱都花在桌上”,该股票是有前途的,会有可观的增值潜力;还有一层意思是「尽职调查」,对特定主题、股票或整个市场进行研究,长篇大论哪只股票是值得下注的目标,在 Wallstreetbets 上有很多 DD 帖。币圈同义词:币种推荐[ 05 ] Stonks 单词释义:Stocks(股票)这个单词的错误拼法谐音梗,在评论一项投资的财务损失时经常会用这个词,表达一种讽刺意味的幽默。Stonks 一词实际上起源于 Stonks Meme,这个 Meme 特征是一个秃头的动画人物,上身穿一件蓝色西服,俩胳膊抱胸前,眼神空洞,看上去好像他刚亏了很多钱似的。通常有人做了错误的决策后,加上这张图放一块儿看,那种装模作样的感觉一下子就出来了。币圈同义词:反指[ 06 ] BTFD全称:Buy the Fuxxx Dip,“买他妈的回调”交易员之间的一种戏谑,意思就是逢低买入,这其实就是克服人性的弱点,人的天性是买涨杀跌,越是大跌越不敢买,越是大涨,越是要买,然后大多数人成为了高点的接盘侠。克服人性,就一定要 BTFD,买跌杀涨。币圈同义词:抄底[ 07 ] Bagholder中文名:抱袋者指某个人持有特定的资产,一直贬值直到为零都不曾放手。有些厉害的投资人可以将股票卖在高点。但更多持股人不懂得及时止盈/止损,一直抱牢股票,眼睁睁看着股价一直跌下去,还抱着不放手,痴痴等待股价会涨回来,这就是所谓的「抱袋者」。一名 reddit 用户就说:“我宁愿当个科技股抱袋者,也不愿抱零售股。”币圈同义词:扛单[ 08 ] BECKY ‍♀️都市女性白领、女大学生喜欢的股票,比如 Lululemon、星巴克等。现在海外女性消费者已经颇具影响力,在 WSB 这样男性主导的论坛都有自己专属的一席之地 ,也许再过几年,女性也会形成一股强大的投资力量。中文同义词:她经济[ 09 ] 这个比较好理解,就是股价一飞冲天的意思,不用我多解释了吧。翻一下 WallStreetBets,会发现好多人都喜欢发帖子的时候加一堆火箭 ,表达自己的信念,对自己买的股票、证券未来能获得巨大的回报很有信心。比如像上图这种 DD 贴,长篇大论分析一堆,然后再加一堆火箭,就有自称 autist 的人回帖说:你写了这么多我一个字也没看进去。篇幅这么长,又打了这么多火箭,这股票一定不错,我 all in了。币圈同义词:To Da Moon[ 10 ] Tendies 中文名:鸡柳条在股市,Tendies 指的就是「获利」、「钱」。所以,若你见到某个有人发帖子说:抵押你的房子!让我们吃嫩鸡柳吧!后面再加一堆火箭,你就懂他在说什么了。以上列的都是一些 WSB 社区里比较有代表性的术语,不作任何投资建议,仅作为知识分享,希望可以对各位散户朋友们有所帮助。发布于 2021-02-01 15:31美股股票数字货币​赞同 35​​2 条评论​分享​喜欢​收藏​申请转载​文章被以下专栏收录Cobo钱包一站式数字资产存储与管

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A guide to the online subreddit communities moving markets

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Justin Hartwig

Updated June 17, 2021

Social platform and news aggregator Reddit made national headlines in early 2021 for its role in the volatile movement of “meme stocks” popular among its “subreddit” user communities like WallStreetBets. While some of the movement’s momentum tailed off in February, Reddit is back in the news just months later, as meme trading makes a comeback, and WallStreetBets isn’t the only one moving markets. Here are some of the most popular investing communities on Reddit, including a few you might not have heard of. 

r/wallstreetbets

The largest of Reddit’s investing communities, WallStreetBets (WSB) boasts 10.5 million members, with hundreds of thousands of self-dubbed “degenerates” (the community’s own name for its members) online at any given time. This forum formed the genesis of the meme stock community that dominated news coverage in January 2021. 

Key features of WSB’s culture are its vulgarities and memes. Over the years, the community has even established a distinctive lingo that sets it apart, bringing terms like “stonks” and “tendies” into popular lexicon. Its lively atmosphere is paired with a freewheeling approach to investing, living up to the “bets” in its name. As one highly-rated post put it, “The name of the subreddit is WallStreetBets. Not WallStreet-Long-Term-Holds.”

r/stocks

The second-largest subreddit community on investing, r/stocks’ 2.8 million members provide a more sober outlook on markets compared to WSB. The memes are nowhere to be found. There are no posts broadcasting gains or losses. Rather, users tend to provide analysis of companies, ask questions about dividends, or discuss the impact of broader economic conditions. The community on r/stocks offers a very different environment than the far more popular WSB, appealing to another type of Reddit investor.

r/investing

Similar to r/stocks, r/investing attracts a more serious audience than most investing forums associated with Reddit. Instead of memes, r/investing is a place for its 1.9 million members to discuss news and events relevant to investors. 

Although r/investing heavily resembles r/stocks, the former is broader in scope, with users discussing topics important to the economy as a whole. Analysis of a specific company’s financials is rare, with a broader focus and more emphasis on economic fundamentals. 

r/pennystocks

On r/pennystocks, “astronauts” (members) search for gains by investing in lesser-known companies in the hopes that they’ll make it “to the moon.” Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) are largely absent on r/pennystocks, but American Battery Metals Corp (ABML) was tipped for greatness. The stocks may be small, but the community isn’t, at 1.6 million members and counting. Like other investing communities, discussion threads center around stock analysis and company news, but r/pennystocks offers a more extensive focus on over-the-counter securities, such as ABML. 

r/robinhood

A haven for users of the popular online brokerage firm, r/robinhood claims 820,000 investors to its name. The most common topics on the forum are troubleshooting problems, and the community stands out for its utility in helping members navigate the platform. Memes and jokes about Robinhood and investing in general also characterize the site, but the forum’s attention to helping others make r/robinhood an essential tool for anyone with the app.

r/GME

The foremost internet community for those invested in video game retailer and meme stock posterchild GameStop (GME). Despite having fewer members than other popular forums—at 310,000, it’s less than half the size of r/robinhood—r/GME is highly active, with upwards of 20,000 users “holding the line” at any given time. Unsurprisingly, the community embraces the slang of WSB, but concentrates on one company. Its atmosphere is one of unbridled positivity. Members believe that a massive short squeeze lies on the horizon, and when the stock dips, announce GME is trading at a discount.

r/amcstock

Like r/GME, r/amcstock is a subreddit wholly devoted to a single stock. In this case, it’s fellow internet favorite AMC, the embattled theater chain. The two communities have a lot in common, with all the memes and the slang the internet can muster, and share the same target audience. After all, AMC was one of the companies championed in the retail trading frenzy earlier in 2021. With 324,000 members, and an astounding 60,000 surfing its page at times, r/amcstock is the place to be for internet investors with their eye on AMC.

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Omar couldn’t believe what was happening.

He should have been concentrating on the student he was tutoring in physics — a job he did during his free time while enrolled in a post-baccalaureate pre-med program — but Omar’s eyes kept darting back to the Robinhood app open on his phone.

 Omar had invested $6,000 in Beyond Meat options; in the days before that tutoring session he’d seen the value of that investment rocket up to almost $15,000. What he was witnessing now, though, felt like torture.

 Down $2,000.

 Down $3,000.

 By lunchtime, the stock options Omar had bought were down around $7,000 from their peak.

 Omar knew he should probably sell the options before they became worthless. But he followed the mantra of the place where he’d first learned about options trading, the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, and held on.

“It was diamond hands,” said Omar, using the site’s term for holding an option even after incurring extreme losses or gains. “It was like, all or nothing.”

 Within two days Omar had lost not only his gains but his entire initial investment. 

 Desperate to earn it back, Omar, 23 years old and the child of working-class immigrant parents, took the rest of the money he could scrounge up — cash from his tutoring gig, his stimulus check, a chunk of his freshly-deposited student loans that was supposed to pay for his living expenses (which were basically non-existent after he had moved home during the Covid-19 outbreak) — and poured all of it, $22,000, into his Robinhood account. Then he opened up WallStreetBets.

 I would not have traded options if I had not found WallStreetBets.”

"Omar," WallStreetBets user

 “I was really scared,” Omar told CNN Business in an interview in August. “All I wanted to do was just make my initial money back and pay it off.”

 By the end of the week, he had lost it all again.

 Omar, who spoke on the condition that he be referred to using a pseudonym out of concern over the legality of trading with money from his student loans, said that he blames himself for his losses but regrets ever stumbling upon one of Reddit’s most active communities.

 “I would not have traded options,” Omar admitted, “if I had not found WallStreetBets.”

This January, with WallStreetBets now an inescapable presence, Omar was back on the board. Back to trading.

Stock market meets internet fringe culture

This past week has been a banner one for Reddit’s island of misfit investors.

WallStreetBets exploded into the mainstream, moving from the front page of Reddit to the front page of the New York Times and nearly every other major news site. The subreddit’s short-squeeze of GameStop helped shoot up the price of the video game retailer’s stock a mind-boggling 1,700% from the beginning of January to Wednesday (before it fell again Thursday), captivating the minds and wallets of investors — both casual and institutional — and financial regulators.

But while millions are now discovering WallStreetBets for the first time, it has been building momentum throughout the pandemic. One can trace its epic rise to a perfect storm of favorable conditions: the exponential growth of the app Robinhood and its no-fee options trading, the extreme volatility Covid-19 brought to the markets, the stimulus checks mailed to millions of Americans, the lack of televised sports for much of the year, and the unwanted free time stuck at home the pandemic has forced on many people.

Describing itself as if “4chan found a Bloomberg terminal,” the forum’s giddy nihilism, inscrutable language and memes fueled a war on a perceived corrupted mainstream.

And it’s led WallStreetBets’ evolution into an unprecedented force of retail-investing financial radicalism, offering the allure of get-rich-quick gains to a rapidly expanding audience of millions. (5, at last count).

Many celebrated WallStreetBets’ war on GameStop short-sellers as a populist campaign against hedge-fund raiders looking to profit off the destruction of a well-known retail brand like GameStop. But unlike many other similar online communities, there is also a clear financial goal for the people in it.

“It’s a means to an end,” explained one of them, AJ Vanover.

At his retail job in a battery store in Missouri, Vanover makes around $35,000 a year. But on Wednesday, he found himself a paper millionaire. (His Robinhood account exceeded $1 million, according to screenshots he provided, but he hadn’t cashed out yet). For months, Vanover had been following GameStop as a “value play,” posting his thoughts on WallStreetBets along the way.

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This week, Vanover was off from work, quarantining after a coworker contracted Covid-19, but now thinks he won’t return to his old job. “I know I’m going to do two-weeks’ notice,” he said with a nervous laugh. “So, I’ll be nice about it.’ Vanover said he plans help his parents with their mortgage, and he intends to keep investing in options.

 ‘These guys can move markets’

Enter WallStreetBets for the first time and you’ll almost certainly be a bit lost.

The forum’s language can be difficult to understand, even for someone who knows typical Wall Street jargon. The vocabulary specific to the subreddit is extensive, and it will almost never be explained to a newbie earnestly asking for a term’s definition. Posters revel in their crudeness; homophobic epithets are tossed around as terms of affection.

The site is a chaotic mix of memes, screengrabs of wild losses and gains, the occasional “deep dive” into a stock, all unified under the guiding principle of betting as much money as you possibly can on the highest possible risks, generally short-term options trading. Trading individual stocks, as opposed to options, is generally taboo. There’s r/investing for you right down the corner, thank you very much.

But fringe online movements have shown that internet culture can lead to extreme behaviors, making radical ideas palatable for people raised on memes and 4chan in a way that they likely wouldn’t be, at least at first, if presented in a straightforward manner. In the case of WallStreetBets that extremism has a real financial impact.

“These guys can move markets,” said Jeremy Blackburn, an assistant professor of computer science at Binghamton University who studies extremist communities on the web.

“That’s a huge deal.”

Lana Swartz, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, describes the subreddit’s financial spin on the kind of nihilism seen on 4chan as the idea that its users should have a “relaxed” relationship with their money. She characterized the spirit this way: “Let it come. Let it go. Because the kind of secret that the elites know is that money is. B.S., and only by knowing that money is B.S. can you accumulate a lot of it, which should be your goal.”

It’s not even the ends that matter. It’s the means. It’s the fact that you’re placing this bet, that’s where the value in all this is. Sure, you may get money, or you may end up broke, but you played the game, and you did it in some crazy way.”

Jeremy Blackburn, assistant professor of computer science, Binghamton University

That ethos on WallStreetBets not only encourages risky trades, but also trading the entirety of your net worth or portfolio in a single risky trade — a financial move that would be sure to make any certified financial advisor bleed from their ears.  

“It’s not even the ends that matter. It’s the means. It’s the fact that you’re placing this bet, that’s where the value in all this is. Sure, you may get money, or you may end up broke, but you played the game, and you did it in some crazy way,” Blackburn said.

“It is a little bit scary, though, right? Because this is real money. And any time you are more interested in the game than the outcome, that can be incredibly dangerous.”

4Chan meets a Bloomberg terminal

WallStreetBets has long described itself as “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal.”

Look closer at communities like 4chan or 8kun, and WallStreetBets, and it’s not just a shared use of memes that link them.

One key element to 4chan is its opposition to mainstream “normie” culture, an idea that has broad applicability. For many on 4chan, normie culture is the popular kids in your high school. For WallStreetBets, the normie culture it stands in opposition to is one of “safe” mainstream investing: focusing on long-term gains, maxing out your 401(k)s, buying index funds; Suze Orman 101. “Boomer” advice, as users say.

On WallStreetBets, that’s all depicted as a sucker’s game.

“They don’t want to wait 20 years for their bets to pay off,” Blackburn said.

Swartz sees the cynicism surrounding long-term investment advice on WallStreetBets as an understandable reaction for a young generation that has witnessed two economic crises, the chaos of the Trump years, ever-growing inequality and the looming threat of catastrophic climate change.

“We’re living in a time of absolutely unprecedented uncertainty,” she said. “There really is no reason for anyone in their twenties to imagine that their 401(k) is going to pay off in 50, 60 years the way it did for their parents. And I’m not saying they shouldn’t believe it. I’m just saying they have good reason not to.”

The specter of the 2008 financial crisis, in particular, looms large over the community.

“I was in my early teens during the ’08 crisis,” wrote one user going by the handle ssauronn in a recent post celebrating the site’s apparent (albeit potentially fleeting) victory over hedge fund Melvin Capital, which, according to CNBC, closed out its position in GameStop this week after taking a huge loss. “When that crisis hit our family, we were able to keep our little house, but we lived off of pancake mix, and powdered milk, and beans and rice for a year.”

“Stop listening to the media that’s making us out to be market destroyers, and start rooting for us, because we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to punish the sort of people who caused so much pain and stress a decade ago, and we’re taking that opportunity.”

You can also spot a shared nihilism between 4chan and WallStreetBets in their casual and ironic references to suicide. On WallStreetBets, longing “$ROPE” is an inside joke for suicide, one that is almost always posted under a disastrous loss.

4chan, 8kun and WallStreetBets exalt a cartoonish version of autism both ironically and sincerely — “autists” is a term of pride on both sites — as a superpower of persistence that allows one to fully commit to a worldview leagues apart from the stifling conventional wisdom of the mainstream.

Stop listening to the media that’s making us out to be market destroyers, and start rooting for us, because we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to punish the sort of people who caused so much pain and stress a decade ago, and we’re taking that opportunity.”

WallStreetBets user

For political extremists a so-called “autist’s” powers can be a weapon to be deployed against enemies in destructive doxxing and harassment campaigns. At WallStreetBets, an “autist’s” power is displayed by committing to a trade with “diamond hands,” holding on and refusing to sell even after incurring extreme losses or gains with the goal of attaining ultimate profit.

However, there are key differences between WallStreetBets and sites like 4chan.

Unlike other fringe groups, WallStreetBets generally hasn’t doxxed its enemies, or brigaded others (when one subreddit aggressively posts on a rival subreddit), and while it has a long-standing rivalry with the staid r/investing — a subreddit so committed to its ideals of modesty and risk avoidance that it shuns individual stock picks — StockJock-e, a moderator for r/investing, politely downplayed the beef, calling it “facetious and exaggerated” in a message to CNN Business.

To Blackburn, who has focused his studies on toxic internet behaviors (“a**holes are my expertise,” he said), WallStreetBets is — by the low standards set by others — a relatively well-behaved online community. “It’s kind of not a bad behaving sub,” said Blackburn.

“Minus the fact that people are getting wrecked money-wise.” 

Making the big kill

To understand how risky the trading strategies employed on WallStreetBets are, it’s key to understand just how options trading works.

Instead of buying a stock, an options contract allows an investor to purchase the option of buying 100 shares of a stock at a set price in the future. As the expiration date of the contact draws closer, the valuation of the contract can swing rapidly, as it will become worthless to the buyer if it doesn’t hit its target price.

While options trading is risky — if you bet wrong you can be stuck with a literally worthless asset — it also allows for leveraged bets. The shorter the expiration date of an options contact, the riskier and more volatile it becomes.

“The nature of stock options convinces people to take a thousand dollars and turn it into a hundred thousand or in some cases, one million dollars,” said Jaime Rogozinski, who founded WallStreetBets in 2012 but was removed from the site by Reddit in April 2020. (Reddit says he was removed for profiting off the WallStreetBets brand, a claim he denies.) “You don’t feel bad for the person when they lose the thousand dollars.”

WallStreetBets rise hasn’t happened in a vacuum; it coincides with a broader boom in retail options trading.

“Retail option volumes are completely off the charts,” said hedge funder Benn Eifert of QVR Advisors, who described the volume as being “multiples of any prior record that we’ve ever seen.”

Aided by Robinhood, which revolutionized the ease and cost of trading options — and which reportedly profits more from them than regular stock trades — retail investors only have to answer a few short questions to gain access to a volatile world. (Although Robinhood makes this process easy, it cautions that options trading “entails significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors.”)

But if options trading is risky, and short-term options (“F.D’s,” short for “F****ts Delight” in WallStreetBets’ casually-flung homophobic lingo) are the single riskiest type of options, putting your entire life savings (“YOLOing”) into a short-term option is, from any “rational” financial perspective, complete madness.

It’s also so common on WallStreetBets that YOLOing has its own flair or tag, allowing you to search through the many, many people posting their life-savings-and-all trades.

“Generally, this kind of behavior tends to result in a loss of most or all of the money of the people involved,” said Eifert.

But of course, high-risk trades come with the tantalizing possibility of high rewards — rewards that inevitably find themselves on the front page of WallStreetBets.

Minhajul, 22, is a college student and part-time pharmacist, born in Bangladesh and raised in Queens, New York, who decided to put his stimulus check into Robinhood after seeing what he described as “insane” and “crazy” gains posted on WallStreetBets. Buying weekly options trades and reinvesting the entirety of his gains with each successful trade, Minhajul managed to spin his initial $1,200 investment into $280,000 in a delirious two-week period towards the end of July.

“I’m like, ‘Holy sh**… I’m rich,’” Minhajul, who did not want his full name printed, recalled in an interview.

On the night of July 30th, Minhajul couldn’t sleep — the possibilities now afforded to him by his newfound riches kept swimming his head: a new car, even a new house. But the next morning Minhajul found himself exhausted and passed out for a mid-morning nap. When he woke up, his portfolio had bled $220,000. By the end of the week, he was down to $8,000.

Minhajul said he was unfazed by the loss of his unrealized potential gains — to him he was playing with house money anyway — but others aren’t so lucky.

Loss porn and other rituals

Click on WallStreetBets’ extensive (and always expanding) “loss” section, and you’ll witness each of the five stages of grief warped through a funhouse mirror of online ironic detachment.

“Loss porn” is a staple on the site, one with its own rituals. One is expected to post their losses (or gains) with their positions and then face the peanut gallery. 

Rubbing salt in the wounds is common (“Does your sell button not work?”), as are crude comments about one’s “wife’s boyfriend.” Less prevalent, but still notable, are the genuine words of encouragement when one’s despair appears profound enough. 

“Lot of people asking if I’m okay. Honestly, not really. It’s going to take a long time to recover financially, and maybe even longer emotionally, knowing how much damage I’ve done to my own life in more ways than just the money,” said one Reddit user who claimed to have lost $28,000. 

“Your d*** still works…You’ll feel like s**t for a while, rightfully so, but set yourself a small goal and go achieve it,” counseled another. 

Scroll around Wallstreetbets long enough and you’ll inevitably find those in the throes of what can only be seen as a possible gambling addiction. 

One Reddit user posted a screenshot of a $134,000 loss titled “YOLO is a hell of a drug! Farewell boys,” describing themselves as a healthcare worker who had gambled away years of savings on YOLO trades. In the comments on their farewell post, they described the mindset that led them from being a “rational investor” to gambling their life savings on options trades. 

I went from a rational investor to some sick irrational desperate gambler.”

WallStreetBets user

“I just [wanted to] break even. If I break even I’ll stop. And you never do. Overly aggressive, over margined YOLO plays after that. I study and stared at the charts every trading day in day trading grandeur, thinking my probability has increased that much more from my first big win… Desperate option plays at the end.”

“I went from a rational investor to some sick irrational desperate gambler.”

Weeks after their “farewell,” they were back on the site. 

“No emergency fund. No retirement,” they wrote. “And lost my last check on a credit spread.”

A massive new audience

WallStreetBets’ burst into the mainstream has left it in uncharted territory.

There are the legal questions surrounding the site’s collective push to boost GameStop’s shares, with the SEC announcing in a statement that it is “aware of and actively monitoring” the volatility of the markets.

The White House and newly sworn-in Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are “monitoring” GameStop’s stock bonanza and WallStreetBets briefly went private on Wednesday, as the moderators made the site private to “ensure Reddit’s content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable.” On Thursday, Robinhood, the trading platform of choice on WallStreetBets, made a controversial move to limit trading on GameStop, AMC, Nokia and other stocks promoted on the subreddit.

Reddit said in a statement to CNN Business that its “site-wide policies prohibit posting illegal content or soliciting or facilitating illegal transactions. We will review and cooperate with valid law enforcement investigations or actions as needed.” 

And even if the forum survives scrutiny — whether regulatory, legal or from Reddit — it will have another issue to contend with. When part of the draw of a place online is the community, the shared language and jokes and memes, what happens when new people unfamiliar with any of that come suddenly flooding in? 

With WallStreetBets’ campaign against Melvin Capital now gracing the front pages of newspapers, those who have been burned by WallStreetBets’ advice in the past are finding the allure of striking it rich on weekly options trades hasn’t fully disappeared.

Omar, the pre-med student who lost tens of thousands of dollars on weekly options trades, told CNN Business that he is back on WallStreetBets, trying to recoup what he lost trading money from his student loans last year. He’d bought one GameStop option which shot up to $10,000 from $7,000 amid Wednesday’s rally.

“There is a pandemic. There is nothing to do. I can’t party. I can’t go outside, and the prospect of making a little money sounds really good,”Omar reasoned. “What’s not to like?”

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How Reddit posters made millions as Wall Street lost billions on GameStop's wild stock ride

By Stephen Gandel

Updated on: January 29, 2021 / 8:45 AM EST

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Robinhood resumes limited trading of GameStop

Robinhood resumes limited trading of GameStop stocks

15:02

A meteoric rise in the share price of GameStop has trained the eyes of stock market watchers on a fast-growing Reddit discussion board called Wallstreetbets, where it appears that 20-somethings armed with cheap and easy stock-trading apps like Robinhood, MooMoo and TradeStation are targeting stocks to soar and hedge funds for takedowns.The drama sent GameStop shares up nearly 2,000% at one point in less than a month. On Wednesday, the stock price of the troubled retailer of video games soared yet again, this time up more than $200, to surpass $350 a share. GameStop's stock price fell a bit closer to earth on Thursday, dropping by about a third, or about $115, to $235. But that's still up from the mere $14 a share GameStop had commanded in December.While GameStop shares have been a favorite of Wallstreetbets members, it's a money-losing company that has been closing stores amid years of slumping sales and been a target of hedge funds and so-called short-sellers who wager that the shares of particular companies will fall.

GameStop stock soars as online traders take on Wall Street funds

01:45

Wallstreetbets members have fought back by vowing never to sell, egging each other on with posts urging to buy more shares and attacking critics of their favorite stock. Andrew Left, a noted short-seller who had predicted GameStop's demise, last week stopped commenting on the company, saying his family had been threatened.

Now, Wallstreetbets members appear to be widening their aim to focus on other companies that, much like GameStop, the rest of Wall Street has left for dead. Shares of former phone maker Blackberry, LaCroix seltzer owner National Beverage and troubled movie chain AMC have also soared in January after mentions on the Reddit board. At a time when viral online movements are having a growing influence on real-world events, including the deadly storming of the Capitol on January 6, some are describing the Wallstreetbets saga as the stock market's conspiracy-peddling equivalent. Wallstreetbets is Occupy Wall Street meets QAnon, goes the thinking. Its posters talk about taking revenge on the hedge funds they insist have secretly controlled Wall Street and hail their recent triumphs as a win for the 99% over the wealthiest 1%.

"Hedge fund managers live in the past, and continue to look down upon the retail investors," wrote one Wallstreetbets commenter on Wednesday. "This is the world they want to live in. This was the past."Talk of overnight richesAdding to the interest: fantastic claims of overnight riches. One prominent Wallstreetbets member said he turned a $50,000 investment in GameStop into $22 million, mostly in the past few weeks, and that his GameStop fortune had soared to a mind-boggling $48 million as of Wednesday night. Kevin Roose, a New York Times reporter, tweeted on Monday about a chat on Wallstreetbets that included a "prepubescent kid" saying he had made $15,000 on GameStop that day by trading on his brother's investment app. It's all reminiscent of the day-trading boom in the late-1990s when many retail investors saw their portfolios soar but were ultimately wiped out by the dotcom bubble. Only this time it may involve young investors who weren't even born in the late 1990s.

We've been through a lot this year, but nothing emotionally prepared me for the prepubescent kid who announced in Valorant team chat that he made $15,000 today trading Gamestop on his brother's Robinhood account.— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) January 26, 2021

One caveat: Reddit, like other internet discussion boards, is an anonymous environment. That means it's virtually impossible to know whether the people chatting on Wallstreetbets are actually buying shares, who they are, if they are truly making money off their trades, or if they are even people and not bots programmed to pump up the trading talk. 

Some have called the clash over GameStop a classic fight between David and Goliath. But Wall Streeters, stock promoters and even CEOs have been known to talk up investments in internet discussion boards and other venues in decades past, so there is no way to know if this is actually a case of Main Street winning one over Wall Street. The following is what we do know about Wallstreetbets, GameStop's astounding rise, its "short squeeze" of hedge funds that had bet against the company's shares, and whether "meme stocks" are the new dotcom bubble.What's Wallstreetbets?Wallstreetbets is a fast-growing Reddit board with nearly 5 million followers, including at least 2 million new ones in the past 24 hours. Like at other internet discussion boards, users typically go by an online handle rather than their real names. Much of the discussion is about stocks —and it comes with plenty of attitude and tough talk. The Wallstreetbets board calls its followers "degenerates." Members are told to keep the discussion to stocks and away from politics, and to only brag about actual trades, not ones they wished they'd made. "Nobody gives a s**t about your preschool's trading competition," the board's rules state.Board members have also coined their own terms. "Tendies," for instance, are stock market profits. It appears to be short for chicken tenders, which one poster on the Reddit board calls a dish suitable for kings and financial oligarchs.  One of the most popular Wallstreetbets members posts by the name DeepF**kingValue. In mid-2019, the poster began promoting the idea that he was buying GameStop options that would pay off if the stock reached $8 by the end of January 2021. At the time, the stock was trading for just over $4 a share, and the options appeared to cost around $50,000. He regularly posts what appears to be an account statement, which as of Tuesday night showed those same options were worth just over $22 million and following Wednesday's huge rally hit $48 million.Wallstreetbets suddenly went private on Wednesday night after an explosion of social media and traditional media coverage of the GameStop phenomenon. So, too, did its discussion page on the communication app Discord, which said it had taken down the stock chatter because of "hateful" messages and not due to any proof of stock manipulation. 

Both Wallstreetbets' Reddit forum and Discord channel were available again as of Thursday morning, however. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian offered support on Thursday to the forum, describing the GameStop stock-trading frenzy driven by investors coordinating on Reddit as a turning point in the U.S. investing landscape.Why have shares of GameStop soared?Wallstreetbets may be one reason but it's not the only one. GameStop got its first mentions as a recommended investment on WallStreetbets back in mid-2019, long before the stock began rising. That suggests what is fueling the stock's stratospheric rise now isn't just the latest discussion board chatter. The recent run in GameStop's stock appears to have started shortly after Ryan Cohen, the co-founder of Chewy, joined the company's board. Cohen, whose investment firm has amassed a 10% stake in GameStop, wants the troubled retailer to focus more on online sales. The price of GameStop stock grew so much this week, the company with $5 billion in revenue briefly became the most valuable member of the Russell 1000 index of small-cap stocks, with a market value of nearly $30 billion at its peak on Thursday morning, more than the combined value of the Gap, Kohl's and Macy's. What's a "short-squeeze"?Another reason GameStop's shares are rising: Wall Street mechanics. Enter the short-squeeze explanation.When short-sellers bet a stock will decline, what they effectively do is sell shares they don't have, with the promise of delivering those shares to the buyer at a later date. That's where the term short-sale comes from. The problem is that if the stock goes up instead of down, short-sellers must quickly buy the shares they don't actually own to avoid further losses. If many short-sellers all think that a given stock will fall, as they were with GameStop, which hasn't turned a profit in three years, and the stock goes up, mayhem can ensue in the rush to buy shares. That's what appears to have happened this past week.

Still, the cheerleading from commenters on Wallstreetbets does seem to be playing an outsized role in GameStop's near-1,200% rise since January. What's more, some of the posters exhibit a fair amount of Wall Street savvy. GameStop was the most shorted stock on Wall Street in early January. Some of the Wallstreetbets posters seem to understand that targeting it, and buying up the stock as a group of individual traders all rowing in the same direction, would cause a short squeeze and the stock price to soar.Are shares of GameStop being manipulated?The coordinated buying effort has caused some to call GameStop's stock surge a case of market manipulation. But there isn't a lot of evidence of that.On Tuesday, Michael Burry, who became famous for predicting the 2008 housing bust (and was a central figure in Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short"), tweeted that while he's a believer in GameStop, even he thinks the huge rise in its stock price suggest something illegal is going on. "There should be legal and regulatory repercussions," Burry tweeted. "This is unnatural, insane, and dangerous."Hedge funds and other large institutional investors are not allowed to coordinate their stock purchases. But individual investors aren't subject to the same restrictions, and there don't seem to be rules barring them from discussing what stocks they like or don't like. So while seasoned traders like Burry and regulators might not like to see what is happening with GameStop, for now there doesn't seem to be a lot the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or anyone else could do about it.

Small investors turn GameStop into a Wall Street "David and Goliath" story

06:08

Still, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the Biden administration's economic team are "monitoring" the stock market activity, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday. And the SEC issued a statement that its market cops were aware of the recent swings in certain stocks and are working with other regulators to "assess the situation." 

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts weighed in via Twitter, vowing unnamed reforms and turning the criticism back on Wall Street's establishment, saying that "the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price."And on Thursday Robinhood, the popular no-cost trading app that has attracted a large audience of young customers, banned users from buying shares of GameStop, AMC, Blackberry and other stocks that appeared to have run up because of social media chatter. That was met with calls of a boycott of the service on Wallstreetbets.Also not happy: Democratic Congresswoman Alexandra Octavio Cortez. She said regulators should examine whether cutting off individual investors from buying more shares of GameStop — while the trading moves of hedge funds remand unrestricted — was fundamentally unfair.Are "meme stocks" the new stock market bubble?GameStop's stratospheric stock ascent arguably has entered the bubblesphere based on traditional Wall Street metrics. Sales are down by 30% at the company, which is in the process of closing 1,000 of its more than 5,000 stores. And that sales drop has happened during the pandemic, with people spending more on home entertainment, not less. Other Wallstreetbets stocks appear to be entering bubble territory as well. Shares of AMC rose $9 on Wednesday to nearly $15, and are now up 600% in the past month, despite the fact that most of AMC's movie theaters remain closed due to the pandemic and the company has been on the brink of bankruptcy. Things cooled somewhat Thursday, but the longer-term lesson seems clear, at least to investment pros."This is not the first time we have seen speculative bubbles," Thomas Gorman, a partner at law firm Dorsey & Whitney and an expert in securities law who spent seven years at the SEC, told CNBC on Wednesday. "It's just the latest."

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As Reddit finally files to go public, the company wrote in its S-1 filing that “meme stock” schemes on r/WallStreetBets could pose a risk to investors.

The subreddit r/WallStreetBets, a community of retail traders with 15 million members, describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” It’s most well known for coordinating a short squeeze on GameStop stock in 2021, a rebellious move that cost hedge funds billions of dollars. The stock was so volatile, jumping more than 600% within days, that trading was halted multiple times. Retail traders tried to replicate the GameStop saga by investing in other heavily shorted stocks like AMC and Bed, Bath & Beyond, solidifying this phenomenon of trading “meme stocks,” to mixed results.

In its S-1 filing, the company wrote: “Given the broad awareness and brand recognition of Reddit, including as a result of the popularity of r/wallstreetbets among retail investors, and the direct access by retail investors to broadly available trading platforms, the market price and trading volume of our Class A common stock could experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business or macroeconomic or industry fundamentals, which could cause you to lose all or part of your investment if you are unable to sell your shares at or above the initial offering price.”

For Redditors who treat retail investing like a form of internet trolling, Reddit’s IPO could be the ultimate meme. The company also wrote in its IPO filing that it will invite Reddit users and moderators to buy stock in its directed share program. This is a rare move that would let community members buy stock at the same price as institutional investors upon IPO. Participants will be granted priority based on their karma, which is a way of measuring community contributions on Reddit.

But yet another risk factor for investors is that Reddit “may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability in the future,” it writes in the S-1. Despite its prominence in internet culture, Reddit has failed to turn a profit. In 2023, Reddit incurred a net loss of $90.8 million, adding to the company’s cumulative deficit of $716.6 million.

Reddit files to go public at last

Redditors are already using r/place to address API controversy

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