Should you take investment advice from WallStreetBets? A data-driven approach

T Buz, G de Melo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02728, 2021 - arxiv.org
Reddit's WallStreetBets (WSB) community has come to prominence in light of its notable role
in affecting the stock prices of what are now referred to as meme stocks. Yet very little is …

Comparing the empowerment dynamics of traditional media and social news sites: the case of GameStop

ML Ruiu, M Ragnedda - Digital Journalism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the GameStop episode by contextualising the discussion in the
structure-agency interplay to understand the role of social news sites in informing …

Social movements in contemporary political economy: Lessons from YOLO retail investors

M Novak - Activist Retail Investors and the Future of Financial …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter seeks to address the following question: To what extent does the retail trading
engagement with GameStop of early 2021 resemble a social movement? The chapter …

Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: The fear of stock market democracy

T Duterme - Economy and Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The GameStop saga aroused the emotion and indignation of a large part of the financial
community. This paper accounts for this reaction by exposing the conflict of expertise at the …

Dangerous play in an age of technofinance: From the GameStop Hunger Games to the Capitol Hill jamboree

M Haiven, AT Kingsmith… - … : Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - utpjournals.press
In this paper we explore one dimension of the contemporary cultural politics that gives rise to
reactionary formations and movements: the desire for a kind of dangerous play within a …

Unsupervised discovery of non-trivial similarities between online communities

A Israeli, S Cohen, O Tsur - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Language is used differently across communities. The differences may be
manifested in vocabulary, style, and semantics. These differences enable the exploration of …

Democratisation of retail trading: a data-driven comparison of Reddit's WallStreetBets to investment bank analysts

T Buz, G de Melo - Journal of Business Analytics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate whether WSB can provide valuable advice and possibly even outperform
financial institutions. In a data-driven study using more than 1.6 million WSB posts published …

Influence of Sensation Seeking and Life Satisfaction Expectancy on Stock Addiction Tendency: Moderating Effect of Distress Tolerance

M Son, GC Jeong - Behavioral sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a very low interest rate policy was economically applied in
Korea, and various investment activities through loans were activated. Real estate and stock …

Predicting the popularity of reddit posts with ai

J Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07380, 2021 - arxiv.org
Social media creates crucial mass changes, as popular posts and opinions cast a significant
influence on users' decisions and thought processes. For example, the recent Reddit …

[PDF][PDF] Piensijoittajien sekä virtuaaliyhteisöjen esiinmarssi rahoitusmarkkinoilla: case r/WallStreetBets

P Viljakainen - 2022 - trepo.tuni.fi
Piensijoittajien määrän ja osallisuuden kasvu on ollut havaittavissa jo pidempään
rahoitusmarkkinoilla. Tätä kasvua ovat selittäneet muun muassa kasvanut kiinnostus …