What do we know about meme stocks? A bibliometric and systematic review, current streams, developments, and directions for future research

H Nobanee, NOD Ellili - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
This study applies a bibliometric analysis of documents published in the Scopus database
on meme stocks to identify the basics of this field and to determine the main findings of …

[HTML][HTML] Robinhood, Reddit, and the news: The impact of traditional and social media on retail investor trading

M Münster, F Reichenbach, M Walther - Journal of Financial Markets, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the impact of social media posts and news articles on retail trading on Robinhood
by analyzing the net buying activity before and after a (social) media publication. Our …

YOLO publics: The potential for creative subversion of an online trading community

SN Just, LM Petersen - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Digitally mediated publics are often discussed in terms of extremism and radicalization, but it
remains possible that digital communication technologies can engender new connections …

[HTML][HTML] Retire or get retired: Stocks, memes, and desperation capitalism on r/WallStreetBets

A Nani, K McBride - Telematics and Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
There is growing discontent with the financial services industry. The roots of these feelings
are old but have expanded during the 2008 financial crisis and were enhanced by the …

Financial recommendations on Reddit, stock returns and cumulative prospect theory

F Reichenbach, M Walther - Digital Finance, 2023 - Springer
This study investigates stock recommendations from the three largest finance subreddits on
Reddit: wallstreetbets, investing and stocks. A simple strategy that buys recommended …

Trading as Gambling: Social Investing and Financial Risks on the r/WallStreetBets Subreddit

Y Kou, S Moradzadeh, X Gui - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Financial trading has become commonplace, involving the purchase and sale of securities
such as stocks and bonds. While HCI research has investigated people's financial literacy …

Highly Regarded Investors? Mining Predictive Value from the Collective Intelligence of Reddit's WallStreetBets

T Buz, M Schneider, LA Kaffee, G De Melo - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In 2021, the Reddit community of WallStreetBets (WSB) started making headlines in the
mainstream media as a source of risky investment ideas called YOLOs, and meme stocks …

Wisdom of the Crowds or Ignorance of the Masses? A data-driven guide to WSB

V Semenova, D Gorduza, W Wildi, X Dong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A trite yet fundamental question in economics is: What causes large asset price fluctuations?
A tenfold rise in the price of GameStop equity, between the 22nd and 28th of January 2021 …

LLMs Cannot (Yet) Match the Specificity and Simplicity of Online Communities in Long Form Question Answering

KF Kahl, T Buz, R Biswas… - Findings of the Association …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Retail investing is on the rise, and a growing number of users is relying on online finance
communities to educate themselves. However, recent years have positioned Large …

Attention Allocation of Investors on Social Media: The Role of Prospect Theory

F Reichenbach, M Walther - Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the attention allocation of investors on social media. Specifically, we
consider the role of cumulative prospect theory (CPT). Using data from the largest finance …