THREAD: Do the people on Reddit's #WallStreetBets who are buying Gamestop, AMC, and other stocks have any legal liability to do so?
By buying up Gamestop and AMC stock, they caused the price to shoot way up in a short period of time.
So did they engage in "market manipulation," as some people on social media have claimed? Could they get in trouble with the SEC, which is "watching" the matter, or go to prison?
I've been discussing this with a friend who is a former SEC attorney, and this looks like something we've seen before.
Whether those people have liability turns on whether they make false or misleading statements.
If the argument is that the *trades themselves* are manipulation, that will be a very difficult claim to make.
Those claims are very challenging to make, and in this case, I don't see a viable claim **based solely on what the public knows now.**
But if this is really just a group of people who decided they want to buy a stock, it's not manipulation.
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A thread on getting intraday (any timeframe) data to excel without any coding. Limited to only last 60 days. Fetches from zerodha chart.
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1. Open the chart on zerodha web in chrome. Right click and select 'Inspect'. Click 'Network' as shown in this pic.
2. Right click on the last entry on the table you see and click 'copy as cURL (bash)'
3. Go to website https://t.co/f8rhwoGLUc and paste on the left box and click 'Run'
4. The output below candles written on right of box is the ohlc, volume and oi data. Copy and paste to excel.
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1. Open the chart on zerodha web in chrome. Right click and select 'Inspect'. Click 'Network' as shown in this pic.
2. Right click on the last entry on the table you see and click 'copy as cURL (bash)'
3. Go to website https://t.co/f8rhwoGLUc and paste on the left box and click 'Run'
4. The output below candles written on right of box is the ohlc, volume and oi data. Copy and paste to excel.
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Are these "golden tickets" going to lead to their ultimate undoing?
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