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MEME LINGO MEANING MOVIE

In general, many of the meme stocks that saw sky-high stock prices in 2021 have come down quite a bit in 2022, sometimes to below where they started.

YOLO: "You only live once," so why not buy into a meme stock?.

To the moon: 🚀🌙 The idea that a stock will rise extraordinarily high, as if to the moon.

There are several claims for why this fast-food item is used for collecting profits.

Tendies: 🔥🍗 Short for chicken tenders, "tendies" refer to profits made in meme stocks.

Stonks: An ironic misspelling of the word “stocks.” This meme predates WallStreetBets and often depicts a crudely designed bald man in a suit staring blankly at an arrow pointing upward in price.

These are perceived as weak individuals without conviction who sell their shares too quickly.

Paper hands: 🧻🤲 This is a derogatory slur leveled against those who fail to maintain diamond hands.

Hold the line: a battle cry to encourage others to stand firm with diamond hands in the face of volatility.

FOMO: " Fear of missing out, " that if you don’t catch the meme stock wave, you’ll regret it.

Diamond hands: 💎🤲 This has come to mean holding onto a stock despite (even heavy) losses, confident that the price will soon increase.

BTFD: An acronym for "buy the f***ing dip." Buying the dips means going long on a stock after its price has declined in the near term and is meant to be repeated after each such drawdown.

MEME LINGO MEANING MOVIE

Some have attributed this to a meme related to the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but others have suggested that the label comes from the banding together of “dumb apes” to take on the Wall Street elite. Apes: 🦍 Members of the meme stock community.Indeed, as these became recognized meme stocks, members of r/wallstreetbets and similar outlets began to acknowledge the humor (for the “lulz”) of seeing such legacy companies emerge from the ashes in the stock market. Both stocks also saw their shares rapidly increase by multiples. ( AMC), the movie theater chain that saw flagging profits amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and Blackberry Limited ( BB), the outmoded smartphone maker. These included AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. WallStreetBets users quickly identified other downtrodden stocks with heavy short interest to boost.

While GameStop was the first successful meme stock, it was not the only one. This led to user outrage along with class action lawsuits as well as regulatory fines and restitution of approximately $70 million. In fact, Robinhood saw overwhelming trading volume in meme stocks at times, causing multiple trade delays, outages, and platform crashes. Meme stock activity was given a great boost from bored individuals stuck at home during COVID-19 lockdowns combined with zero-commission brokerage apps like Robinhood.