Introduction
The social media platform that the paper investigates.
The two main factors influencing investor behavior.
What is the influence of retail traders and social media?
The name of data the paper uses.
What is a high-frequency stock price data for GameStop (GME)?
The name of the hedge fund mentioned in the book.
What is Melvin Capital?
The year that the data was collected from.
What is 2021?
Where the discussion on the social media platform about the stock is held.
What is Wallstreetbets?
The way the platform is structured.
What is a thread?
The two types of approaches mentioned.
What is the lexical approach and the machine learning approach?
The specific effect caused by events mentioned in the study?
What is the growth of the decentralized financial system and technology and potential to destabilize financial markets?
The amount of social media comments used.
The analysis conducted by the researcher.
What is a sentiment analysis (VADER)?
The main effects showing from investors in the paper.
What is overconfidence, speculation, and change in sentiment?
The specific financial words excluded from the analysis.
What is bear or bull or diamond hands?
The frequencies of in relation to stock prices and trading volume.
What is 1-min, 5-min, 10-min, and 30-min?
The impact of average sentiments on GameStop's performance.
What is no impact?
The specific collection of words the paper used to analysis patterns.
What is a lexicon?
The reason social media is useful in trading.
What is forecasting stock market returns/knowing timing?
The specific valence score range used.
What is -4 meaning negative, 0 meaning neutral, and +4 meaning positive?
The effect of positive sentiments.
What are spikes in GameStop's interest and trading activity?
The final conclusion of the paper. (2 answers)
What is Reddit's role in propagating positive sentiments during upward market movements? What is Reddit's limitation in influencing markets during downward market trends?
The name of the factors in the relationship the paper analyzed.
The other social media platform mentioned.
What is twitter?
The advantages obtained when using the analysis mentioned.
What is focus on social media data, no training required, captures main meaning, and accessible?
The concluding idea gathered from the data.
What is the effect that Reddit discussions had a on market activity is tangible but limited to specific periods due to mitigating market downturns?
The main limitation of meme stocks.
What is losses in highly speculative market scenarios?