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Herding by ‘Naive’ Robinhood Traders May Be Good Signal to Short

  • Research links intense buying by app users to negative returns
  • Academics suggest Robinhood interface adds to attention biases

    

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From buying the dip to surfing the tech surge with options, an investor following the Robinhood crowd this year would have a lot to feel good about.

Provided they didn’t follow too long, that is.