thanks man . even though my step dad has been droning on and on about the stock market for the last 35 years i have retained none of it
the one thing I'll add is that while studying for the CFA examination back in the day, I learned that equity analysts have a worse record than almost any industry due to overconfidence and confirmation bias. it's a bunch if fucken know it alls on wall street who don't actually know shit lol
speculating can be fun, especially due to robinhood changing the industry
no transaction costs means there's a slightly better chance of beating the over market rate of return of a diversified buy and hold and reallocate among asset classes strategy
but look at gamestops long term price. it is welllll below current levels.
all day every day, anyone could have been buying shares, which would drive up the price. that includes Wallstreet traders whose job is to look for under valued companies as well as ordinary citizens investing their own money
but the demand for the stock was never there which is the stock wasn't gaining over time.
so why has it gone up now?
(1) no one understood the true value of the business until Joe rabbit figured it out
or
(2) it's true value was where it should have been. and now reddit has artificially buy up it's price so as to screw hedgefunds. meaning, these elevated prices won't hold forever
my instinct is the latter
short gamestop now!! hahah jk. I'll stop