Matt's Weekly: Podcast with GameStop Stock Trader Trent Snyder

What's up everyone! If you haven't heard the stock market is going absolutely bananas. What started off with memes on the Reddit page r/WallStreetBets has turned into a full blown social movement with people around the world buying heavily shorted stocks to drive them higher.

While I could spend hours doing a write-up explaining what's going on, I thought it'd be much more valuable and interesting to let you hear directly from one of the millennials trading these stocks.

Trent Snyder is a 25 year old who started stock trading less than six months ago and has made tens of thousands of dollars trading GameStock in recent days.

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In this podcast episode from Wednesday (pre-Robinhood drama) we talk about:

• What motivated Trent to get involved
• Why the GameStock price is blowing through the roof (short squeeze)
• What's going on with subreddit WallStreetBets
• Why this is about far more than the money for some people, including Trent
• The societal implications of the retail trading movement
• What the exit might look like for these traders who have pulled off such an incredible short squeeze

The way media has traditionally worked is that journalists interview sources directly and then decide what makes the cut. But with raw unfiltered content like this, you decide what makes the cut inside your own mind. In effect you become the journalist. That's what my podcast The Matt Kreiser Show is all about, and that's what you'll see more of from me moving forward.