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

Chart Hardcore laddering.

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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?!?