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Why AMC, Clover, and Other Meme Stocks Tumbled On Wednesday<blockquote>为什么AMC、Clover和其他模因股票周三暴跌</blockquote>
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At some point, companies must prove their stock's value. And, at some point, people will want to take profits.","content":"<p>The notion that groups of individual investors can consistently organize efforts to push stock prices around is starting to crumble. At some point, companies must prove their stock's value. And, at some point, people will want to take profits.</p><p><blockquote>个人投资者群体可以始终如一地组织努力推动股价上涨的观念开始崩溃。在某些时候,公司必须证明其股票的价值。而且,在某些时候,人们会想要获利了结。</blockquote></p><p> <b>What happened</b></p><p><blockquote><b>发生了什么</b></blockquote></p><p> Shares of <b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>(NYSE:AMC),<b>Skillz</b>(NYSE:SKLZ), and <b>Tonix Pharmaceuticals</b>(NASDAQ:TNXP) fell 0.9%, 8.3%, and 4.2% as of closed on Wednesday, with the fickle meme stock trading crowd reversing recent bullishness. Leading the charge for today's rout, however, is <b>Clover Health Investments</b>(NASDAQ:CLOV), down 12.5%.</p><p><blockquote>本公司之股份<b>AMC院线控股</b>(纽约证券交易所代码:AMC),<b>斯基尔茨</b>(纽约证券交易所代码:SKLZ),以及<b>Tonix制药公司</b>(纳斯达克:TNXP)截至周三收盘分别下跌0.9%、8.3%和4.2%,善变的meme股票交易人群扭转了近期的看涨情绪。然而,导致今天溃败的是<b>三叶草健康投资</b>(纳斯达克:CLOV),下跌12.5%。</blockquote></p><p> <b>So what</b></p><p><blockquote><b>那又怎样</b></blockquote></p><p> If you're looking for the headlines behind the moves, don't bother. There aren't any.</p><p><blockquote>如果您正在寻找这些举措背后的头条新闻,请不要费心。没有。</blockquote></p><p> As has been the case for the past few months, traders looking for a speculative edge are simply gathering around these stocks in an effort to collectively create the price action they desire, often by creating memes regarding these companies. Such efforts cause incredible price volatility.</p><p><blockquote>正如过去几个月的情况一样,寻求投机优势的交易者只是聚集在这些股票周围,努力共同创造他们想要的价格走势,通常是通过创造有关这些公司的模因。这种努力会导致令人难以置信的价格波动。</blockquote></p><p> <p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3ba4680fa5e89ea08b364002d70d086f\" tg-width=\"2000\" tg-height=\"1201\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.</span></p><p><blockquote><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><span>图片来源:盖蒂图片社。</span></p></blockquote></p><p> Many of these names -- like Clover this week -- have also been recently targeted as short-squeeze candidates. That's not a terribly bad bet right now either, to be fair, in that more than 7% of the outstanding shares of the health insurance company are currently tied up in short trades. That's enough short positions to prospectively spark en masse buying that drives the price sharply higher,<i>if</i>those short-sellers start becoming unnerved by a bit of bullishness. Tuesday's 15% jump for Clover shares didn't do the trick, however, with most of that gain being given back today.</p><p><blockquote>其中许多名字——比如本周的Clover——最近也成为轧空候选者的目标。公平地说,目前这也不是一个非常糟糕的赌注,因为这家健康保险公司超过7%的已发行股票目前被空头交易所束缚。这足以引发大规模买盘,从而推动价格大幅走高,<i>如果</i>那些卖空者开始对一点看涨情绪感到不安。然而,Clover股价周二上涨15%并没有起到作用,大部分涨幅今天被回吐。</blockquote></p><p> Shares of movie theater chain AMC Entertainment aren't really helping the broader bullish effort either. While one would expect this king of all meme stocks to soar following reports of record-breaking Labor Day weekend box office ticket sales, a bit of Tuesday's near-9% gain from AMC shares is also unwinding with Wednesday's1% sell-off. While that's hardly a devastating setback, the failure to follow through on Tuesday's advance is telling in and of itself.</p><p><blockquote>连锁电影院AMC院线的股票也没有真正帮助更广泛的看涨努力。虽然人们预计这只模因股之王在劳动节周末票房销售破纪录的报道后将飙升,但AMC股价周二近9%的涨幅也随着周三1%的抛售而回落。虽然这算不上是一个毁灭性的挫折,但未能坚持周二的进展本身就很能说明问题。</blockquote></p><p> Of course, the broad market's sell-off today is also creating a headwind for these well-known meme stocks.</p><p><blockquote>当然,今天大盘的抛售也给这些知名模因股带来了阻力。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Now what</b></p><p><blockquote><b>现在怎么办</b></blockquote></p><p> The advent of meme stock mania (and in particular, organized efforts to spark short squeezes) comes as no real surprise. If you give enough people enough time and the means of doing so, it's reasonable to expect them to capitalize on an opportunity -- including one they must plan out on one of the internet's more popular message boards. A little success on this front early this year prompted the trading crowd to replicate the effort.</p><p><blockquote>模因股票狂热的出现(特别是有组织地引发轧空的努力)并不令人意外。如果你给足够多的人足够的时间和手段,期望他们利用一个机会是合理的——包括一个他们必须在互联网上更受欢迎的留言板上计划的机会。今年早些时候在这方面取得的一点成功促使交易人群复制了这一努力。</blockquote></p><p> Regardless of the strategy's previous effectiveness, however, meme stock mania is losing steam. Not only are hedge funds and other managed investment pools now shoring up their risk exposure to short squeezes, traders are also running out of stocks they can push around.</p><p><blockquote>然而,无论该策略之前的有效性如何,模因股票狂热正在失去动力。不仅对冲基金和其他管理投资池现在正在支撑其空头挤压的风险敞口,交易员也正在耗尽他们可以出售的股票。</blockquote></p><p> They're also running out of other buyers and bullish arguments.</p><p><blockquote>他们也没有其他买家和看涨论据。</blockquote></p><p> See, for most meme stocks to continue their rallies, new buyers must bring new money to the table to purchase shares from traders that have already scooped up the stock and are now looking to lock in a sizable profit. Enough people were willing to take such a swing early in the year when AMC was trading around $2 per share. Now that it's trading at more than $46 per share, however, would-be buyers are considerably less interested. Underscoring this idea is the fact that shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals and Clover Health have yet to respond to the same rally driving strategies that -- at least for a while -- buoyed AMC stock. In a similar vein, Skillz shares have also stopped responding to the bullish prompts that drove the stock from around $11 per share in November of last year to February's high in excess of $46. They're now back near $11, unable to keep a rally going.</p><p><blockquote>看,为了让大多数模因股票继续上涨,新买家必须带来新资金,从已经买入该股票并希望锁定可观利润的交易者那里购买股票。今年年初,当AMC的股价约为每股2美元时,有足够多的人愿意采取这样的举措。然而,现在它的交易价格超过每股46美元,潜在买家的兴趣大大降低。Tonix Pharmaceuticals和Clover Health的股价尚未对至少在一段时间内提振AMC股票的相同反弹驱动策略做出反应,这一事实凸显了这一想法。同样,Skillz的股价也不再对看涨提示做出反应,这些提示将该股从去年11月的每股11美元左右推高至2月份超过46美元的高点。它们现在回到了11美元附近,无法继续上涨。</blockquote></p><p> There's something of a litmus test for the entire meme stock movement due this afternoon. Another meme stock company,<b>GameStop</b>(NYSE:GME), is slated to report its fiscal second-quarter numbers after today's closing bell rings. The numbers are important. But even more important is whether or not the trading crowd relaying on the web's popular message boards will be able to convince others to start and sustain a rally from GameStop. If it can, other meme stocks like AMC and Clover will remain at least somewhat in play. If it can't, it may well be a sign that the underlying strategy of individual traders targeting one ticker at a time is no longer effective. This in turn may sour most of them from even trying to do so, continuing the conversion of many of these meme names back to more conventionally priced stocks.</p><p><blockquote>今天下午将对整个模因股票走势进行试金石测试。另一家模因股票公司,<b>游戏驿站</b>(纽约证券交易所股票代码:GME)定于今天收盘后公布第二财季数据。数字很重要。但更重要的是,在网络流行留言板上转发的交易人群是否能够说服其他人开始并维持游戏驿站的反弹。如果可以的话,AMC和Clover等其他模因股票至少仍将在一定程度上发挥作用。如果做不到,这很可能表明个人交易者一次针对一个股票的基本策略不再有效。这反过来可能会让他们中的大多数人甚至不敢尝试这样做,继续将许多这些模因名称转换回更传统定价的股票。</blockquote></p><p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why AMC, Clover, and Other Meme Stocks Tumbled On Wednesday<blockquote>为什么AMC、Clover和其他模因股票周三暴跌</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy AMC, Clover, and Other Meme Stocks Tumbled On Wednesday<blockquote>为什么AMC、Clover和其他模因股票周三暴跌</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">Motley Fool</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-09-09 14:29</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>The notion that groups of individual investors can consistently organize efforts to push stock prices around is starting to crumble. At some point, companies must prove their stock's value. And, at some point, people will want to take profits.</p><p><blockquote>个人投资者群体可以始终如一地组织努力推动股价上涨的观念开始崩溃。在某些时候,公司必须证明其股票的价值。而且,在某些时候,人们会想要获利了结。</blockquote></p><p> <b>What happened</b></p><p><blockquote><b>发生了什么</b></blockquote></p><p> Shares of <b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>(NYSE:AMC),<b>Skillz</b>(NYSE:SKLZ), and <b>Tonix Pharmaceuticals</b>(NASDAQ:TNXP) fell 0.9%, 8.3%, and 4.2% as of closed on Wednesday, with the fickle meme stock trading crowd reversing recent bullishness. Leading the charge for today's rout, however, is <b>Clover Health Investments</b>(NASDAQ:CLOV), down 12.5%.</p><p><blockquote>本公司之股份<b>AMC院线控股</b>(纽约证券交易所代码:AMC),<b>斯基尔茨</b>(纽约证券交易所代码:SKLZ),以及<b>Tonix制药公司</b>(纳斯达克:TNXP)截至周三收盘分别下跌0.9%、8.3%和4.2%,善变的meme股票交易人群扭转了近期的看涨情绪。然而,导致今天溃败的是<b>三叶草健康投资</b>(纳斯达克:CLOV),下跌12.5%。</blockquote></p><p> <b>So what</b></p><p><blockquote><b>那又怎样</b></blockquote></p><p> If you're looking for the headlines behind the moves, don't bother. There aren't any.</p><p><blockquote>如果您正在寻找这些举措背后的头条新闻,请不要费心。没有。</blockquote></p><p> As has been the case for the past few months, traders looking for a speculative edge are simply gathering around these stocks in an effort to collectively create the price action they desire, often by creating memes regarding these companies. Such efforts cause incredible price volatility.</p><p><blockquote>正如过去几个月的情况一样,寻求投机优势的交易者只是聚集在这些股票周围,努力共同创造他们想要的价格走势,通常是通过创造有关这些公司的模因。这种努力会导致令人难以置信的价格波动。</blockquote></p><p> <p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3ba4680fa5e89ea08b364002d70d086f\" tg-width=\"2000\" tg-height=\"1201\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.</span></p><p><blockquote><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><span>图片来源:盖蒂图片社。</span></p></blockquote></p><p> Many of these names -- like Clover this week -- have also been recently targeted as short-squeeze candidates. That's not a terribly bad bet right now either, to be fair, in that more than 7% of the outstanding shares of the health insurance company are currently tied up in short trades. That's enough short positions to prospectively spark en masse buying that drives the price sharply higher,<i>if</i>those short-sellers start becoming unnerved by a bit of bullishness. Tuesday's 15% jump for Clover shares didn't do the trick, however, with most of that gain being given back today.</p><p><blockquote>其中许多名字——比如本周的Clover——最近也成为轧空候选者的目标。公平地说,目前这也不是一个非常糟糕的赌注,因为这家健康保险公司超过7%的已发行股票目前被空头交易所束缚。这足以引发大规模买盘,从而推动价格大幅走高,<i>如果</i>那些卖空者开始对一点看涨情绪感到不安。然而,Clover股价周二上涨15%并没有起到作用,大部分涨幅今天被回吐。</blockquote></p><p> Shares of movie theater chain AMC Entertainment aren't really helping the broader bullish effort either. While one would expect this king of all meme stocks to soar following reports of record-breaking Labor Day weekend box office ticket sales, a bit of Tuesday's near-9% gain from AMC shares is also unwinding with Wednesday's1% sell-off. While that's hardly a devastating setback, the failure to follow through on Tuesday's advance is telling in and of itself.</p><p><blockquote>连锁电影院AMC院线的股票也没有真正帮助更广泛的看涨努力。虽然人们预计这只模因股之王在劳动节周末票房销售破纪录的报道后将飙升,但AMC股价周二近9%的涨幅也随着周三1%的抛售而回落。虽然这算不上是一个毁灭性的挫折,但未能坚持周二的进展本身就很能说明问题。</blockquote></p><p> Of course, the broad market's sell-off today is also creating a headwind for these well-known meme stocks.</p><p><blockquote>当然,今天大盘的抛售也给这些知名模因股带来了阻力。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Now what</b></p><p><blockquote><b>现在怎么办</b></blockquote></p><p> The advent of meme stock mania (and in particular, organized efforts to spark short squeezes) comes as no real surprise. If you give enough people enough time and the means of doing so, it's reasonable to expect them to capitalize on an opportunity -- including one they must plan out on one of the internet's more popular message boards. A little success on this front early this year prompted the trading crowd to replicate the effort.</p><p><blockquote>模因股票狂热的出现(特别是有组织地引发轧空的努力)并不令人意外。如果你给足够多的人足够的时间和手段,期望他们利用一个机会是合理的——包括一个他们必须在互联网上更受欢迎的留言板上计划的机会。今年早些时候在这方面取得的一点成功促使交易人群复制了这一努力。</blockquote></p><p> Regardless of the strategy's previous effectiveness, however, meme stock mania is losing steam. Not only are hedge funds and other managed investment pools now shoring up their risk exposure to short squeezes, traders are also running out of stocks they can push around.</p><p><blockquote>然而,无论该策略之前的有效性如何,模因股票狂热正在失去动力。不仅对冲基金和其他管理投资池现在正在支撑其空头挤压的风险敞口,交易员也正在耗尽他们可以出售的股票。</blockquote></p><p> They're also running out of other buyers and bullish arguments.</p><p><blockquote>他们也没有其他买家和看涨论据。</blockquote></p><p> See, for most meme stocks to continue their rallies, new buyers must bring new money to the table to purchase shares from traders that have already scooped up the stock and are now looking to lock in a sizable profit. Enough people were willing to take such a swing early in the year when AMC was trading around $2 per share. Now that it's trading at more than $46 per share, however, would-be buyers are considerably less interested. Underscoring this idea is the fact that shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals and Clover Health have yet to respond to the same rally driving strategies that -- at least for a while -- buoyed AMC stock. In a similar vein, Skillz shares have also stopped responding to the bullish prompts that drove the stock from around $11 per share in November of last year to February's high in excess of $46. They're now back near $11, unable to keep a rally going.</p><p><blockquote>看,为了让大多数模因股票继续上涨,新买家必须带来新资金,从已经买入该股票并希望锁定可观利润的交易者那里购买股票。今年年初,当AMC的股价约为每股2美元时,有足够多的人愿意采取这样的举措。然而,现在它的交易价格超过每股46美元,潜在买家的兴趣大大降低。Tonix Pharmaceuticals和Clover Health的股价尚未对至少在一段时间内提振AMC股票的相同反弹驱动策略做出反应,这一事实凸显了这一想法。同样,Skillz的股价也不再对看涨提示做出反应,这些提示将该股从去年11月的每股11美元左右推高至2月份超过46美元的高点。它们现在回到了11美元附近,无法继续上涨。</blockquote></p><p> There's something of a litmus test for the entire meme stock movement due this afternoon. Another meme stock company,<b>GameStop</b>(NYSE:GME), is slated to report its fiscal second-quarter numbers after today's closing bell rings. The numbers are important. But even more important is whether or not the trading crowd relaying on the web's popular message boards will be able to convince others to start and sustain a rally from GameStop. If it can, other meme stocks like AMC and Clover will remain at least somewhat in play. If it can't, it may well be a sign that the underlying strategy of individual traders targeting one ticker at a time is no longer effective. This in turn may sour most of them from even trying to do so, continuing the conversion of many of these meme names back to more conventionally priced stocks.</p><p><blockquote>今天下午将对整个模因股票走势进行试金石测试。另一家模因股票公司,<b>游戏驿站</b>(纽约证券交易所股票代码:GME)定于今天收盘后公布第二财季数据。数字很重要。但更重要的是,在网络流行留言板上转发的交易人群是否能够说服其他人开始并维持游戏驿站的反弹。如果可以的话,AMC和Clover等其他模因股票至少仍将在一定程度上发挥作用。如果做不到,这很可能表明个人交易者一次针对一个股票的基本策略不再有效。这反过来可能会让他们中的大多数人甚至不敢尝试这样做,继续将许多这些模因名称转换回更传统定价的股票。</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源:<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/08/why-amc-clover-and-other-meme-stocks-are-tumbling/\">Motley Fool</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验,我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CLOV":"Clover Health Corp","SKLZ":"Skillz Inc","TNXP":"Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Co","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/08/why-amc-clover-and-other-meme-stocks-are-tumbling/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174332657","content_text":"The notion that groups of individual investors can consistently organize efforts to push stock prices around is starting to crumble. At some point, companies must prove their stock's value. And, at some point, people will want to take profits.\nWhat happened\nShares of AMC Entertainment Holdings(NYSE:AMC),Skillz(NYSE:SKLZ), and Tonix Pharmaceuticals(NASDAQ:TNXP) fell 0.9%, 8.3%, and 4.2% as of closed on Wednesday, with the fickle meme stock trading crowd reversing recent bullishness. Leading the charge for today's rout, however, is Clover Health Investments(NASDAQ:CLOV), down 12.5%.\nSo what\nIf you're looking for the headlines behind the moves, don't bother. There aren't any.\nAs has been the case for the past few months, traders looking for a speculative edge are simply gathering around these stocks in an effort to collectively create the price action they desire, often by creating memes regarding these companies. Such efforts cause incredible price volatility.\nIMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.\nMany of these names -- like Clover this week -- have also been recently targeted as short-squeeze candidates. That's not a terribly bad bet right now either, to be fair, in that more than 7% of the outstanding shares of the health insurance company are currently tied up in short trades. That's enough short positions to prospectively spark en masse buying that drives the price sharply higher,ifthose short-sellers start becoming unnerved by a bit of bullishness. Tuesday's 15% jump for Clover shares didn't do the trick, however, with most of that gain being given back today.\nShares of movie theater chain AMC Entertainment aren't really helping the broader bullish effort either. While one would expect this king of all meme stocks to soar following reports of record-breaking Labor Day weekend box office ticket sales, a bit of Tuesday's near-9% gain from AMC shares is also unwinding with Wednesday's1% sell-off. While that's hardly a devastating setback, the failure to follow through on Tuesday's advance is telling in and of itself.\nOf course, the broad market's sell-off today is also creating a headwind for these well-known meme stocks.\nNow what\nThe advent of meme stock mania (and in particular, organized efforts to spark short squeezes) comes as no real surprise. If you give enough people enough time and the means of doing so, it's reasonable to expect them to capitalize on an opportunity -- including one they must plan out on one of the internet's more popular message boards. A little success on this front early this year prompted the trading crowd to replicate the effort.\nRegardless of the strategy's previous effectiveness, however, meme stock mania is losing steam. Not only are hedge funds and other managed investment pools now shoring up their risk exposure to short squeezes, traders are also running out of stocks they can push around.\nThey're also running out of other buyers and bullish arguments.\nSee, for most meme stocks to continue their rallies, new buyers must bring new money to the table to purchase shares from traders that have already scooped up the stock and are now looking to lock in a sizable profit. Enough people were willing to take such a swing early in the year when AMC was trading around $2 per share. Now that it's trading at more than $46 per share, however, would-be buyers are considerably less interested. Underscoring this idea is the fact that shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals and Clover Health have yet to respond to the same rally driving strategies that -- at least for a while -- buoyed AMC stock. In a similar vein, Skillz shares have also stopped responding to the bullish prompts that drove the stock from around $11 per share in November of last year to February's high in excess of $46. They're now back near $11, unable to keep a rally going.\nThere's something of a litmus test for the entire meme stock movement due this afternoon. Another meme stock company,GameStop(NYSE:GME), is slated to report its fiscal second-quarter numbers after today's closing bell rings. The numbers are important. But even more important is whether or not the trading crowd relaying on the web's popular message boards will be able to convince others to start and sustain a rally from GameStop. If it can, other meme stocks like AMC and Clover will remain at least somewhat in play. If it can't, it may well be a sign that the underlying strategy of individual traders targeting one ticker at a time is no longer effective. This in turn may sour most of them from even trying to do so, continuing the conversion of many of these meme names back to more conventionally priced stocks.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TNXP":0.9,"CLOV":0.9,"SKLZ":0.9,"AMC":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1199,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":1,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/881542123"}
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