In January, Cohen joined the Gamestop board which helped to boost its share price from $19.95 to $39.12 in just 9 days.
An army of novice Reddit traders then flocked to Gamestop lifting its share price to nearly $350 after Elon Musk s Gamestonk tweet.
Attention then turned to other stocks that had fallen out of favour, like cinema chain AMC Entertainment and even Nokia at one point.
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Now the dust has settled, it seems those who bought at the peak in mid-January are nursing losses.
Gamestop is trading down nearly 50 per cent from its January highs, although it has soared 880 per cent in the year-to-date.
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“Here’s my strategy in a nutshell,” the man in the video says. “I see a stock going up and I buy it, and I just watch it until it stops going up, and then I sell it, and I do that over and over and that pays for our whole lifestyle.”
Sporting a baseball cap, Ohio State football sweater and a hearty ginger beard, he doesn’t exactly look like your average finance professional.
But he turned $400 into $14,000 in a month, apparently. In the next one, he turned less than $1,000 into $20,000. All through a strategy that seemingly boils down to little more than a game of pass the financial parcel.