Reddit Becomes Must-Read for Wall Street Stock-Investing Crowd
- Professional investors turn to Reddit, Twitter to track retail
- Individual traders have become a sizable stock market force
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Are you young, newly rich from stock trading and ready to take the plunge in options? Wall Street is following your every move.
With the sway of stay-at-home traders growing and starting to eclipse other influences on equities, figuring out who is doing what among amateur stock dabblers has become a critical mission for big investors. They’re canvassing Reddit threads like r/wallstreetbets and picks at retail brokerages, plugging data into programs and trying to gain an edge.