Are we at a point where retail should try inverse socially-coordinated trading to pinch overly leveraged billionaires in hype-companies?
u/TravelNSee ·
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· June 16, 2026 at 02:20
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Probably going to get downvoted into Bolivia for this, but got to thinking that with things like SpaceX being clearly manipulated with artificial scarcity (low float and huge amounts of shares to someone like Musk being off the market), why are we not trying to short such a stock and make the uber-wealthy like him and Ron Barron capitulate to the downside by selling stock?
We all know that these billionaires are spending out the ass and avoid selling shares by issuance scams and borrowing against shares while trying to get retail traders to buy in at literal astronomical prices. So why wouldn't "A.pes" detest these folks and try to squeeze them out to make money for the little guy? It would seem far more righteous than pumping stocks with greater-fool-theory that mostly benefits the ultra rich when retail crab-bucket fights over low-float shares at wild prices.
Or is the concept of short selling too abhorrent for most folks to entertain? Curious about general opinion.