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by Dylan16807 1560 days ago
> All of these involve finding more and more people to invest so that early investors can exit.

> No matter the scheme, you will always run out of greater fools, and so it must collapse eventually.

That depends on how you define "collapse". After a pump and dump, a stock might crash to zero, or settle back to where it was, or even settle back to a higher number than it was originally at. It doesn't require a particularly large supply of fools, and it only requires them for a small amount of time. And it doesn't have to move the stock price by a huge percentage either.