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This is just the latest example of what has been happening since GameStop. It's a sign that institutional investors took the concept and have been applying it to different stock every few months since then, DWAC, UPST ect. It's not real, it shows the market has been totally gamed.

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GME's price rose to insane values because there wasn't enough shares in the market to satisfy all the short calls. This has nothing to do with NVIDIA's situation.

But what if you could achieve the same effect with a bunch of institutional money rushing in over a short period of time? The the first time it happened it might have been an accident, but as a regular occurrence its a sign of manipulation.

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If you have real data, reference that instead. It'd actually be useful.

It does have a definite whiff of a meme stock to it now. There were real things pushing it up, plus the sort of genuine hype you expect with big tech. But now everyone is talking about it it takes on a a life of its own, it's hype on top of hype and to a certain degree everyone knows it so now its just gambling on who can get out before it turns.

There is an aspect of this where it is natural, but given this happens every few months and the companies that it happens to don't really cohere or make sense makes to have valuations anywhere near what they achieve it seems like there is an artificial aspect to it to say the least.

It has been happening since well before GameStop. Think Dutch Tulip Mania, and literally thousands of examples since then. If anything the madness of crowds appears to be a regular occurrence in the market (or perhaps wherever money is involved and limited goods, like this recent Stanley Cup craziness, or Beanie Babies of yesteryear)

> It's not real, it shows the market has been totally gamed.

It's really crazy how things are moving since the end of lockdowns, more or less everybody agrees the economy is in a bad spot, layoffs, inflation, recession risks, fertility issues, climate change issues, energy issues, wars, people can't afford housing, the end of "cheap" money, &c. Meanwhile my stocks pumped 50% over 6 months for seemingly no reasons, more than half of my gains happened in the last year

idk what's cooking but I'm starting to smell smoke

I think it's not just the amount of inflow into a stock its the herding behavior and the speed that sets up these crazy unnatural movements. Most of these stocks are come back to Earth relatively quickly so they all leave at the same time too.

I wonder how much is due to the average joe getting into trading since it's becoming easier and easier to invest money and as it is it looks like free money.

It is retail investors, but to create the momentum that drives the frenzy you need a lot of cash rushing in at the same time. Like with GameStop it was all over the news, there just isn't the same level of media hype to cause the run up. I bet what tips it into a feeding frenzy is a massive institutional investor inflow which creates enough of an outsized move to then attract guppy retail investors who end up driving the craziness and holding the bag. It's part natural behavior, part manipulation.

At least with gamestop there was a large short position being called. Granted I know that was just the catalyst for meme stocks.

I'd be surprised to learn anyone has a large Nvidia short position. It's not absurd since it speculates on when the AI bubble will pop. I suppose that's really up to the fed.

I think you could probably create the same sort of hyperbolic moves if you rushed in a bunch of institutional money over a short period. Maybe the first time they discovered they could have this effect it was accident, not as a regular feature of the market.

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