
GameStop store in New York City.
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(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Bubble Bobble: How Redditors Gamed GameStop's Stock
It sounds like something out of a Hollywood screenplay, and pretty soon it will be. An online trading forum leveraged social media to set up a "short squeeze" on troubled video game retailer GameStop. Here's how they pulled it off, who really profited, and how it could change online investments and day trading going forward.