Human nature doesn't change!
I remember a South Beach trading institute doing this in 00-2005. The subs paid $900-$2,000 a month to get screwed by pre-bought shit they shorted and sold. Tokyo J did the same but on a much more tiny scale compared to these crooks.
Dan Dorf in the 80s or 90s?
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Ianthe Jeanne Dugan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 6, 2000; Page A01
NEW YORK, Jan. 5—In the brief history of online stock chat rooms, nobody has made more of a name than "Tokyo Joe."
“That question was answered today with a resounding "no" by stock regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against Park, alleging that he used his vast influence to pump up the price of stocks just before he sold them and lied to members about his performance. The SEC said Park made "substantial profits" but many of the trades involved low-priced stocks. While providing no estimate of Park's profits, the SEC provided examples of 10 cases in which he appeared to make profits totaling tens of thousands of dollars.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/06/070r-010600-idx.html
their problem was not being billionaires to garner support and getting called "smart"
Reminds me of the following quotes from Jesse Livermore which seems as applicable today as then:
"I learned early that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again. I've never forgotten that."
"The pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes."
These clowns got lucky that the pandemic came along and the Govt handed out a boat load of cash. This just proves the $ handout was a big mistake. People spent their 2 grand on penny stocks.
If you are in the stockmarket, you have complete and full control of where you invest or which stocks to trade. It is not the place for egotistical, little boys who want to play with the big boys (hedge funds, mutual funds, banks, brokers) who are all heavily capitalized and can withstand deep drawdowns to their capital that retail traders without even any semblance of risk management are trying to beat. You are delusional if you believe you will take the hedge funds monies as opposed to them taking all of your monies.