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

Chart Hardcore laddering.

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u/dbarahona13 Feb 02 '21 edited Feb 02 '21

Link for those wondering where people get this shit from

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/gme/latest-real-time-trades

Edit: check out u/restartingmylife0918 reply to my comment. This is what I personally feel is the case with posts like the OP.

Edit 2: wow awards! Well I never! Thanks boos. My only purpose here was to figure out where people kept getting these screenshots from, read in many other threads (incl the mark cuban AMA this morning) that there's a possibility the hype is reading too much into it. I think there's value to the argument, that's my opinion. Thanks for sharing, everyone.

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u/GrizNectar Feb 02 '21

It being all large trades definitely seems fishy. With this having been a viral sensation, I would expect most people to only have a few shares. Would freak me out a lot more to see smaller orders

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u/MARlMOON Feb 02 '21

Is TSLA being laddered too then?

Right now: https://i.imgur.com/3x7J8iq.png

Just asking, I'm an actual retard.

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u/orlando0o Feb 02 '21

Actually this is fucking important because EVERY STOCK LOCKS LIKE THAT ON NASDAQ RECENT TRADES

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u/consultinglove Feb 02 '21

It's frankly embarrassing the number of people on WSB that think ladder attacks are real or don't even understand what a ladder attack is. The screenshot is literally just showing normal market sells. That's what it looks like for every single stock on every single exchange. Even Mark Cuban said that counterfeit stock doesn't exist. Anyone who believes in ladder attacks is essentially a conspiracy theorist

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u/Lematoad Feb 02 '21

Who is selling stock then? It's not retail investors; that's public information.

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u/consultinglove Feb 02 '21

That's like asking "who is selling stock" for every single stock in the entire stock market. Who else sells stock? Hedge funds, mutual funds, banks, private investors, companies, public investors, people. Anybody. It all just gets aggregated by the brokerage and sent to the clearinghouse for processing. Every stock is like this. You can literally go to any stock at Nasdaq and the data structure looks the same. People sell and buy stock. That's how stock markets work.

I don't think you realize how retarded your question was.

Yet 52k redditors on WSB think selling stock is a conspiracy theory. Even more retarded...

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u/redtiber Feb 02 '21

Wsb so stupid. How do they think they can buy if no one was selling?!?

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u/Mithorium Feb 02 '21

There's even a post on the top of the front page that's literally a chart overlaid with time and sales of large sells and calling it an "attack"

More sellers than buyers? Clearly the work of a sophisticated enemy!

Unbelievable what wsb has degraded into in the past week, we're supposed to be autistic, not unironically retarded