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- The post expresses concern about potential manipulation and misleading information on investment forums, particularly regarding specific stocks like PayPal, Adobe, and MSFT. It suggests that repeated promotion of certain stocks may be a tactic for others to exit their positions, highlighting the risks of blindly following online investment advice. This could lead to negative sentiment and potentially impact the performance of the mentioned stocks.
I think a lot are traps or just trying to get people to buy into stuff that someone needs to exit. Other people are selling and they aren’t all stupid, there is a reason they are selling. I’ve seen this with PayPal, adobe, and now msft. There are other stocks out there so why do the same ones get posted over and over? Like I saw so many posts about how someone HAD to buy trade desk or Mercado libre or gamb… There was absolutely nothing special about these stocks that made them more value than anything else. Literally all of them tanked hard. Yet no one said to buy noc when it went to 550 a share. Funny how that works