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It absolutely is. This is competition forcing entrenched companies to adapt and compete. Funds will have to compete by offering new financial products/models/of
by bern4444 6y ago
It absolutely is. This is competition forcing entrenched companies to adapt and compete. Funds will have to compete by offering new financial products/models/offerings/services etc.
The public now has access to information and means of trading at a level that was never before possible.
All the funds must be crazy upset since their once cornerd industry, gated by terminology, tools, information and institutional knowledge is suddenly far less valuable.
This at its core is exactly how a market should work. People made stupid trades, and a bunch of others figured it out and called them out. Perfect self regulating behavior but only possible due to the massive expansion of access to information and tooling by individuals.
What WSB and similar communities do is no different than a fund manager going on the news and stating their recent positions and reasoning.
- boring_twenties 6y agoYes, except the stated (and true) reasoning is "because fuck you, that's why."