2023-12-21
At the beginning of 2023, some might have thought that the retail hype was going to slow down as GameStop Corp. (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. both showcased wild and volatile rides, but mainly headed lower. However, as per our analytics, the retail crowd remained resilient and tried to find …
Read More2022-03-05
It is no surprise that the retail traders started to closely scrutinize what is going on in Ukraine. While retail investors show great concern about human suffering, they are also analysing how the war might impact their portfolio and what dangers and opportunities it could bring. Twitter was full of threads for the …
Read More2022-02-03
Retail Traders and Start of 2022 It has been an interesting start of the year for the meme-side of the market. Retailers started to grapple with something they have seen only occasionally before, drum roll, falling prices. January has been testing the bullishness of the usual subreddits from r/superstonk, r/amc/, …
Read More2022-01-07
What a year for retail investors! 2021 was a transformational year for the retail community over at r/wsb (wallstreetbets), Twitter and other social media channels. 2021 started with a bang as the whole GameStop saga achieved its peak around late January. From then on, it was a wild ride, with …
Read More2021-11-07
The trend of pushing companies onto the public market via a SPAC transaction does not seem to be dying out. There was a brief pause earlier this year in terms of investor optimism, but that did not stop the companies. 2021 is on track to become another record year for …
Read More2021-11-03
The relationship of the newly minted retailer traders and short-sellers was rocky from the beginning. It began with GME and AMC and continued with the retail traders focusing on short-squeezes. High short interest and short squeezes remained the main narrative in many popular retail stocks in 2021. The popular subreddit …
Read More2021-10-01
The third quarter of 2021 saw fewer short campaigns. We have seen 'only' 24 new activist shorts campaigns as opposed to the YTD average of 34 per quarter. However, the activists overall kept an impressive track record as many stocks plunged given weakness in some areas of the market. Wolfpack Research was author …
Read More2021-08-16
This week we have registered four new major activist shorts campaigns. Grizzly came out with another Chinese target, White Diamond wrote about an apparently unsuccessful tech company that is already down 25% since the report, and Boatman highlighted allegedly dubious land transactions by a crypto-related company. Also, the ultimate superstonk, AMC got in …
Read More2021-04-10
This week we have registered three new short campaigns and a number of follow-up reports. Perhaps the most interesting one was Hindenburg, who again aimed at a trendy and popular stock due to serious allegations of corporate misbehaviour. The short-seller is now the target of many retailers due to their …
Read More2021-03-08
This week we registered four new campaigns. The most impactful were so far, new from Muddy Waters and new from Mariner Research. The latter targeted an EV company which according to the activist, raises significant red flags. The stock is now down over 20%, but the report sees it as a potential zero. …
Read More2021-02-06
In this post, we look at the 10 best-performing stocks in the popular Robinhood's Top 100 Most Popular stocks list so far. As our business is tracking what the retail investors are talking about, the list is one of the channels we use to keep abreast of the developments in the …
Read More2021-01-09
At Breakout Point we are tracking retail popularity and sentiment by focusing on a number of different channels. One of the ways we keep a pulse of what the retail crowd is talking about is the leftover Robinhood data that are still public. We are diligently tracking for changes on …
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