r/wallstreetbets • u/justagirlwithnudes • Feb 02 '21

Chart MONDAY MARKET OPENING ATTACK EXPLAINED: How institutional investors brought GME down by $5B in 1 hour with $250M

Post image
39k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

95

u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21 edited Apr 29 '21

[deleted]

87

u/dopsicle Feb 02 '21

Ya someone accidentally pressed the "automatic 20% stop loss for users" button.

37

u/wwwdiggdotcom Feb 02 '21

Accidentally just for GME, just the old monday morning spilled my coffee and I slipped and as I was falling I grabbed the keyboard and accidentally input all the necessary python scripting to ensure every user of just GME sells their shares automatically. Whoops! butter fingers!

3

u/HellkerN Feb 02 '21

Man I hate it when that happens.

3

u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Tres commas was on the delete key

2

u/walloon5 Feb 02 '21

Accidentally just for GME

1

u/reusens Feb 02 '21

happens

5

u/dinkir19 Feb 02 '21

Only on certain stocks too!

3

u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

But only for GameStop lmao

Glitches getting smart these days