yeah it doesn't quite add up to me either. my mostly uneducated guess is that the wsb activity is a spark that triggers a positive feedback loop in some trading

yeah it doesn't quite add up to me either. my mostly uneducated guess is that the wsb activity is a spark that triggers a positive feedback loop in some trading algorithms. these algorithms must have some ability to filter out noise from low-information traders, but perhaps no one considered the possibility that a large group of people might make bad trades on purpose?