meme stocks
Reddit-hyped shares
Meme stocks are shares in companies that surge in price due to viral social media attention rather than traditional financial fundamentals.
The phenomenon emerged around 2021 when Reddit communities coordinated buying of struggling companies like GameStop and AMC, driving dramatic price spikes that confounded Wall Street analysts.
He lost his savings chasing meme stocks.
The term captures how internet culture can move markets.
Retail chain for consoles
- AMCTheater chain initials
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
- zeitgeistEra's dominant mentality
- underdogPresumed loser beforehand
Main Street · populist · movement · rebellion
Violent mental agitation
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- bubbleAir-filled film sphere
- euphoriaIntense emotional high
- buzzContinuous low drone
hysteria · fever · pump · diamond hands · to the moon · stonks · bandwagon · craze
Social news aggregator
- viralSpreading quickly online
- hashtagsMetadata labels for posts
- influencersPeople with online sway
- tweetsBrief social media posts
trending · engagement · threads · discussions · TikTok · YouTube · community · crowdsourced
Rapid price surge from covering
- retail investorsNon-institutional securities buyers
- sharesUnits of company ownership
- tradingExchanging for value
- portfolioCollected works or assets
brokerage · securities · equities · capitalization · bullish · bearish · valuation · holdings
Irregular change over time
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- turbulenceChaotic flow patterns
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- whipsawTwo-person timber cutter
erratic · unpredictable · rollercoaster · crash · surge · plunge · spike · correction
GameStop
Retail chain for consoles
- AMCTheater chain initials
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
- zeitgeistEra's dominant mentality
underdog · Main Street · populist · movement · rebellion
frenzy
Violent mental agitation
buzz · hysteria · fever · pump · diamond hands · to the moon · stonks · bandwagon · craze · exuberance
Social news aggregator
- viralSpreading quickly online
- hashtagsMetadata labels for posts
- influencersPeople with online sway
tweets · trending · engagement · threads · discussions · TikTok · YouTube · community · crowdsourced · collective action
short squeeze
Rapid price surge from covering
- retail investorsNon-institutional securities buyers
- sharesUnits of company ownership
- tradingExchanging for value
portfolio · brokerage · securities · equities · capitalization · bullish · bearish · valuation · holdings · stake
fluctuation
Irregular change over time
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- turbulenceChaotic flow patterns
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
whipsaw · erratic · unpredictable · rollercoaster · crash · surge · plunge · spike · correction · circuit breaker
- investing termsbonds, ETFs, gold, commodities, index funds
- 2020sCOVID-19, pandemic, vaccine, lockdown, January 6th
- investment pitfallsovertrading, panic selling, overleveraging, overconfidence, poor timing
- tradingbid, buy, ask, sell, trading
- money mistakesoverspending, impulse buying, gambling debt, debt spiral, no savings
- speculationconjecture, guess, guessing, speculation, hypothesis
meme stocksblue-chip stocks
Shares in stable corporations
defensive stocks · treasury bonds · money market funds · certificates of deposit · government securities
meme, stock, memes, stocks, memetic, stocked, stocking, stocker, stockist