The sober conclusion:<p>> That’s cool but it’s also a terrifying proof of concept. If pure collective will can create a valuable financial asset, without any reference to cash flows or fundamentals, then all you need is a collective and some will. Just hop on Reddit and create value out of nothing. If it works for Bitcoin, why not … anything? Why not Dogecoin? Why not Signal Advance? Tesla Inc.? GameStop?<p>And my idea for a weekend project, based on the paragraph below:<p>> We talked recently about how the stock of a micro-cap company called Signal Advance Inc., which shot up 5,100% after Elon Musk tweeted something about an <i>unrelated</i> app named Signal. The error, as it were, was quickly corrected: Lots of news stories, and a tweet from the “real” Signal, clarified that Musk was not talking about Signal Advance. The stock kept going up. (It’s <i>still</i> trading at roughly 10 times its pre-tweet price, weeks later.)<p>Has anyone created a news-skimming trading bot that does the equivalent of making trades based on typosquatting to buy call options on SIGL or ZOOM when the more famous companies show up in the news? I am disappointed I could only find one reference to Parler:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TSLAchooo/status/1348469953918345217" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TSLAchooo/status/1348469953918345217</a>