Author Archives: John P. Anderson

INSIDER TRADING AS A RESPONSE TO SOCIAL-MEDIA-DRIVEN TRADING

By | July 1, 2021

Expressive Trading and Markets The phenomenon of social-media-driven trading (SMD trading) entered the public consciousness earlier this year when GameStop’s stock price was driven up two orders of magnitude by a “hivemind” of individual investors coordinating their actions via social media. Some believe that GameStop’s price is artificially high and is destined to fall. Yet the stock prices of… Read More »