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by SpicyLemonZest 1968 days ago
Over 700 million shares were traded last week, so even if every WSB user bought 10 shares, that wouldn't account for close to a majority of the activity.
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Indeed, figures from citadel shows retail volumes at around 30%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...

Volume is meaningless, as the same share might be traded back and forth several times, e.g HFT or order flow buyers flipping stocks within microseconds.
Would HFT traders flip a stock 10 times among each other just to fulfill a single Redditor's buy order? (Honest question, I don't know enough about standard HFT practices to confidently guess.)