Playing Robinhood: Jamming Wall Street with Dumb Money in the Great Short Squeeze
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DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2023.2196730
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the rhetorics of social and economic protest surrounding the 2021 short squeeze where swarms of gamers-made-investors used the popular trading app Robinhood to create artificial demands for shorted stocks such as… read more here.
Keywords: jamming wall; robinhood jamming; market; short squeeze ... See more keywords
Game Starts at GameStop: Characterizing the Collective Behaviors and Social Dynamics in the Short Squeeze Episode
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DOI: 10.1109/tcss.2021.3122260
Abstract: In January 2021, the users of subreddit r/wallstreetbets (WSB) triggered an unprecedented short squeeze by driving up GameStop’s stock price to an unimaginable high point. During the event, a large number of users participated in… read more here.
Keywords: behaviors social; stock price; social dynamics; collective behaviors ... See more keywords