여기서 독창적이라 '착각'하는 사람이 너무 많다 😒

A focus group of one dosent off much insight

Yup, AI slop and manipulation. 

“Is this stock about to explode” [insert US mega cap that has doubled recently]

A lot of people don't know they are not smart. Due to either being overconfident or being clueless, they think what they say has value.

AI scraping news articles and rewriting it for reddit with engagement in mind. You don't notice it in WSB as 'engagement' is different there and rewards funny idiotic stuff/actually wild takes that don't come up in mainstream financial news.

It's always been like this, everyone is opinionated and believes that theirs is the correct view. I have noticed an uptick in AI slop tho

Welcome to Reddit

I mean originality is an illusion. Everyone is doing the same thing everyone has done for millennia.

Wsb is best sub for stocks, not even joking. r/stocks, same as r/valueinvesting is just some kind of circlejerks, amount of useful information is close to 0.

I have an impression that people here just hate to make money, at least based on daily posts.

Isn’t that what investment bankers do? Well, if the show Industry is anything to go by.

WSB does it too. In fact every investing related sub does it.

There are bag-holders everywhere and they all think that the $25million yearly sales values their company at $10 billion.

Welcome to the internet?

A lot of stock/investing forums (reddit and otherwise) are full of snake oil salesmen, gambling degens, and people that are deep deep in the red. These people all have no control over their lives and hope to use social media as a method in order to reclaim some semblance of control through manipulation.

They'll come on here pretending to have a novel or genuine viewpoint they want to share, and that viewpoint will just so happen to coincide with pumping some random no-name stock. The poster already has invested in that stock and they want to use reddit as a grassroots advertisement to pump it so that way they can sell it to another naive individual.

Traders are all backstabbers who only profit off of other people, while investors collectively grow together. Unfortunately, investors have no need to post daily while traders can't exist without a scalping effort. Ultimately, that means the trading bots, degens, and scalpers repeatedly drive home the same ideas over and over and over again in hopes to generate some form of predictability within a trading landscape that is mostly unpredictable.

Also, (non-sub specific) there are a lot of people in the world who all have the same thoughts but don't visit the sub enough to notice that their thoughts are commonly held/frequently posted.

I think stocks will either go higher or lower tomorrow

The most important instruments to watch right now are bond yields and DXY. DXY just broke out of long term resistance. If it can hold this zone we could see continuation to the downside. Credit spreads have been widening also, but are tightening today. 3 month treasury auction at 11:30 EST should give some info on bond direction. We could see a massive bond rally soon.

I have seen multiple posts in the last few days on all the investing subreddits, and they are all the same, and all would provide a link to a Reddit user’s page. The post would explain something along the lines of “my friend (Reddit user) has this crazy strategy where he invests $x every week no matter what… check out his page where he explains it more” Basically just describing dollar-cost averaging as if it was some revolutionary way to invest money. There were a ton of these posts all from different accounts (bots I’m sure).

I.......I'm just waiting for one of the OMG IT'S GONNA CRASH ANY DAY NOW!!!! theories to actually happen.

>I can’t be the only one to have noticed this.

Wanna know the fun part? You apparently still haven't noticed it's all AI.

One more step to enlightenment.

“Calls it is”
Real big brain stuff

Its a symptom of all social media. Likes, up votes and comments all supply a poster with a hit of dopamine.

If you were born before 2005, you remember how so many people wanted to be on TV. Being on tv, even if it was just a regional channel, meant people would see you and it was something to be proud of. Now everyone can have a taste of that level of attention and some even get seen by hundreds of people.

This is part of what makes social media so addictive. Its the combined hit of validation from a reward system, the inconsistency of how often those rewards come, and the chances of a high level of attention. Silicon valley has actually made a breakthrough by leveraging decades of psychology and neuroscience data to create the equivalent of a casino and camera crew that you can carry with you wherever you go.

Whether its just a remix of facts most of us know, or its a "hot take" that goes against the grain, its all motivated and reinforced by the same dopamine reward system.

This is part of the reason I say that any market analysis that ignores the role of social media and ease of access to investment is an incomplete analysis. Covid lock downs produced millions of new "dumb money" investors that most economists did not account for. These people are all buying and selling at the drop of a hat all around the world. Naturally all assumptions on how the market works based on previous information doesn't account for this. When stocks are low, millions of people who werent investors before, see it as a green flag to enter and buy stocks while they're "cheap". When the prices are high, millions feel like they dont want to miss out, motivated by tales of regular people getting a lot of money so its their chance to double down or stop hesitating. I think experts still dont fully grasp the gigantic impact social media is having on societies around the globe and on every aspect of human civilization.