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by JustinAiken 1810 days ago
Other retail investors weren't the ones that disabled the buy button.

Of course artificially removing all demand is going to tank the price.

Retail got screwed, and it wasn't by retail.

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They disabled the buy button when GME was over 400. But now the buy button is back and you can get twice as many shares for the same money. Sounds like a bargain!
The price was going up by $10s of dollars per minute in January.

It was a short squeeze of unprecedented scale — the first widespread opportunity for wealth redistribution of its kind, thanks largely to social media.

Where “Occupy Wall Street” failed, “Liquidate Wall Street” was winning.

The hedge funds blatantly rigged the public trading system to avoid bankruptcy. I can’t believe so many people still defend them.