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I love the idea but this also is just the further GME (GameStop) ification of the stock market no? Now we see what these exploitative insider jerks are up to... and we immediately follow suit & jack up the price of every trade they do automatically.

Inverse prisoners dilemna... rather than promote good cooperstive behavior, it promotes the bad behavior.

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I mean if you make money with this strategy, then the stocks bought were undervalued (overvalued) and by buying (shorting) them you pushed the price more to the stock‘s fair value. I really see no problem here.

So the tail wags the dog, eh? The perception of value is whats important? And if that perceptions leads one way we should reward the tail for wagging the dog? Everything about this viewpoint seems bass-akwards.

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