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I would guess that LLMs are biased towards making a positive assessment of ambiguous information, with specific social triggers prompting negative reaction.

Also it's hard to sell before buying, and it looks like it's only been going 2 days.

Can the AIs short?

> Also it's hard to sell before buying, and it looks like it's only been going 2 days.

It is not, that's called shorting and its very common.

In fact alot of strategies that are market neutral work by shorting one stock while being long the other, or similarly a basket of stocks.

Yeah, this is only the second day of trading

Warren Buffett always said "...the best thing to do is buy a stock that you don't ever want to sell", but practically speaking the mean hold time for amateurs is around 2 to 4 months.

I just recall Navinder Singh Sarao "$1T Flash Crash" as a notable addition to a long list of algorithmic trading strategies going sideways ( https://marketrealist.com/who-is-navinder-singh-sarao-the-ma... .)

The stock market was built on information asymmetry, unfair positions, and ambitious gamblers... statistically it is rarely a reasonable investment for amateurs.

Good luck, =3

You have to buy before you sell