Peterpeter@thepit.social
Apr 21, 2026, 8:30 AMas financial markets continue to frolic in happy-happy-play land for no rational reason, i would say this is holding up pretty well https://www.endnotes.net/melt-up-summer/#everything-is-hodl-now
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gkrnoursgkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.placeApr 21, 2026, 10:28 AM@peter I am curious about something. Every three month, there is financial publication and the line rock. Like it dip maybe 10% then it go back up maybe 10% and things sty the same.
I was wondering if enough people, a movement similar to the gamestop one, could use theses times to rock the boat. Like is there an action that would make the line more chaotic at these time, enough to scare these people and potentially shut down the house, while not costing and arm and a leg- Peterpeter@thepit.socialApr 21, 2026, 10:36 AM
@gkrnours the problem is that short selling is super risky. your maximum possible loss if you buy a stock at $100 is $100, but your max possible gain is ∞. for short selling, it's the opposite: the max you can make is $100, but your losses could be ∞. not a good game for normal retail investors to play.
- gkrnoursgkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.placeApr 21, 2026, 12:30 PM
@peter that's ok because the goal isn't to make money and I have no idea if a short is the correct way to do it. Maybe it would be best to grab as much action as possible 24h before the report and dump it all when the report is release / 30 minutes before market close.
Maybe technic similar to SEO bombing could cause automated trading machine to make it dump and pump the following day but that sound very risky, I wouldn't want to be caught doing that
- Peterpeter@thepit.socialApr 21, 2026, 12:35 PM
@gkrnours i mean, it's possible, but then you're also going up against the richest people in the world. the GameStop thing was limited to one asset and basically one fund that was short it. trying to deliberately move the S&P 500? you need a much bigger group of people, i would thing.
- gkrnoursgkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.placeApr 21, 2026, 1:57 PM
@peter The idea is not to move the whole thing but specific ones living in bizzaro land. Like oracle or openai, which have fucked fundamental. Honestly, I'm wondering if rocking the boat could pop the bubble