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Hedge Fund VS An Army Of Amateur Investors

What happen to gamestop stocks?

What is gamestop?

Struggling financially video game company

Battle between an army of amateur investors and multi-billion-dollar hedge funds.

$13 billions Melvin Capital (Hedge Fund/ Short Seller)

WallStreetBets (Amature Investor)

What is short-seller and how do they make profit?

Borrow stocks from the Broker

Sell the stocks at current high market price

Buy the stocks at lower price

Return the shares back to the broker

WallStreetBet

Acting as a unison

8.7 Millions followers

Causing massive losses for short-sellers

To the moon

Robinhood market manipulation

Large Individual trader market

banned individual stock traders to buy GME and other booming stocks for a couple of days.

AMC, BlackBerry, American Airline, Bed bath and beyond, Nokia

Meme stock

Investors were blaming robinhood for market manipulation

Trying to protect hedge funds

Is the market really “FREE”?