I mean, I get that, which is why my flair is paper trades only. I play with less than 1/100th probably of what I can afford can afford to lose and I’m not even a boomer. My first meme play was today and I almost had a heart attack that it worked and I’ll probably never play again.

That being said, what OP said is literally what people have been doing have been doing on the penny stocks board for years but now with large caps and options. All of the fall out, and what you say might or might not be true, retail is only 25% of the market right now, but people have been doing this on OTC for as long as I can remember, that’s all I was commenting on.