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Most people arrive here having watched thirty seconds of footage and nothing else. The video is the punchline. The thread is the setup, and it is still up on r/wallstreetbets where it belongs.
Read the original thread on r/wallstreetbets
Context for anyone who arrived through a chart. For about a week in late October 2019, a bug on a brokerage let people borrow against money they did not have, at a size the platform never meant to offer anybody. It was patched on November 7th. Everything since has been people doing the same thing the slow way, with their own money.
We are not reprinting any of it here. It is his, it is still up, and it should get the click instead of us.
Read it. Then open your own positions tab and read that with the same calm.
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u/margin_of_error · 4120 points ·
the comments on that thread are a time capsule. not one person in there knows what is about to happen, very much including the person typing.
u/oldschool_bagholder · 3308 points ·
nobody ever does. that is the whole mechanism.
u/theta_gang_victim · 3640 points ·
clicked through fully expecting to feel superior. did not.
u/DueDiligenceDan · 2980 points ·
the setup is always more instructive than the punchline, and the punchline is the only part anybody shares
u/GUH_Mod [M] · 2210 points ·
which is why it is pinned above the video and not below it.
u/StopLossSkipper · 2740 points ·
I have read this four times now and opened a position within an hour of each one
u/UtilityQuestionGuy · 1560 points ·
is the link the utility
u/GUH_Mod [M] · 3020 points ·
No. That one is just manners.