GameStop, Short Selling and Schadenfreude

Why is it different when the elite manipulate the memes?

Shefali O'Hara
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readJan 28, 2021

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What is short selling? it is a trading strategy that capitalizes on the decline in the price of a stock or other type of investment.

Short sellers speculate that the price of said stock will go down. Shares of the stock in question are borrowed and must be redeemed by the…

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