Is This the End of the Reddit Retail Investor Dream?

As GME plummets and traditional financial media turns its attention elsewhere, where does the retail trading insurgency go from here?

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As GME plummets and traditional financial media turns its attention elsewhere, where does the retail trading insurgency go from here?

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WallStreetBets is having a rough day. Its stocks are crashing. Champions from as recently as last week are selling out. More brokerage apps are turning off buying.

In this episode, NLW explores what it means for this set of assets and the larger shift in power from institutional to retail investors.

He argues, ultimately, that over the last year retail traders of the type led by WSB have established themselves as too powerful a force for the market to simply turn away from now.

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Intro song credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l0dfrp/the_tendieman_lyrics_and_video_by_uquigonshin

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Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.