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r/wallstreetbets, also known as WallStreetBets or WSB, is a subreddit where participants discuss stock and option trading. It has become notable for its colorful and profane jargon, aggressive trading strategies, and for playing a major role in the GameStop short squeeze that caused losses for some US firms and short sellers in a few days in early 2021.
A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
Keith Gill. Keith Patrick Gill[ 1] (born 1986) is an American financial marketer and educator [ 2] and individual investor known for his posts on the subreddits r/wallstreetbets and r/SuperStonk. [ 3][ 4] His analyses of GameStop stock ( NYSE : GME) and details of his resulting investment gains—posted on Reddit under the username ...
Along with other social media users on the WallStreetBets subbredit, Gill helped catapult the stock to a split-adjusted intraday record of $120.75 in January 2021.
The founder of r/WallStreetBets, a reddit forum for retail traders to discuss stocks and options, had some advice for the community: The best financial education comes from the school of hard knocks.
By Medha Singh and Laura Matthews. (Reuters) -Shares of videogame retailer GameStop surged nearly 75% on Monday after "Roaring Kitty", an account associated with a social media finance influencer ...
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. [ 1] The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas ), and is the largest video game retailer worldwide. [ 2]
The filing even named one of its own communities—a subreddit called r/ wallstreetbets—as a risk to the IPO given the forum's "strong and atypical retail investor interest" in so-called 'meme ...