GameStop store in New York City.
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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.
Carl Davis, curator
February 17, 2021