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title: Meme Stocks and Individual Investor Trading: Evidence from Reddit Outages
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4629865/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4629865
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4629865
featured: 2023-11-15
citations: 1
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Meme Stocks and Individual Investor Trading: Evidence from Reddit Outages

The predictability of retail order imbalance on future returns for meme stocks increases during Reddit outages, indicating that intense discussions can disrupt individual investors' decisions.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4629865
- Identifier: SSRN 4629865
- Released: 2023-07-11
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 26 (2023-11-15): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-11-15/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 1
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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