The trolls of Wall Street : how the outcasts and insurgents are hacking the markets
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
332.63228/POPPER,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 332.63228/POPPER,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024]
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

341 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780063205864, 0063205866 :, 0063205866, 9780063205864
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction -- Occupy Reddit -- Barely staying alive -- The rise of Robinhood -- Becoming 4Chan -- Trolling for Trump -- The crypto threat -- Losing and learning -- Pandora's box opens -- The Gamma squeezes grow -- Crisis overload -- Davey daytrader -- Questions and moderation -- The GameStop gang -- A new level of trolling -- The big squeeze -- The center cannot hold -- Not going away -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Index

This dramatic story shows how two self-proclaimed "degenerates" made WallStreetBets, a subreddit focused only on risky financial trading, a cultural movement by harnessing the power of memes and trolling to create a new kind of online community, changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing and themselves