I think the answer is in margin selling, and we are in the thick of it. The newbies only know that stocks go up. I suspect that many are thinly capitalized.
You are always looking for signs of a top. I think that Wednesday, when Barstool's Davey Day Trade put up a picture of the new millionaires that may have been it. Of course, I counseled taking something off the table, but that is forbidden in the newbie world.
The newbies cannot stem the decline and the "suits," as David Portnoy calls them, are so far away from where they would buy -- so many stocks trading at times sales when they would be expensive at times earnings, that you just can sit back and watch it fall to better levels.
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