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c_hawkthorne  ·  1180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk WSB, Gamestop and the rules of the game

WSB Ticker mentions

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ooli  ·  1180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

WSB subreddit is data mined by quantitative fund to try to get some value out of it.

On the day GME reached $100+, wsb was spammed by obvious bot about some other stocks ( NOK, BB, etc)

The community think that that originated from the shorts on GME (Melvin) trying to divert the attention away from GME.

I suspect, part of the spam bot come from basic users trying to influence the hivemind,

but also some Quant fund trying to feed false information to other quant fund.

I suspect, Quand fund use the tactic on all social plateform (hence the number of bot on twitter) not much to drive interest on a stock but to feed unusable noise to the concurrence

(but I have to admit I'm a bit paranoid, and of course really really retarded)

My point is.. half the mention of tickers on wsb are from bot! The problem is knowing which half

kleinbl00  ·  1179 days ago  ·  link  ·