Don’t trade where you tweet
Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions

Instant ability to trade tempts many to make bad decisions

But it relies on a host of rosy assumptions going in investors’ favour

Users trust it even less than they do mainstream news outlets

Markets have shrugged off everything from geopolitics to financial crises

Laws don’t work — transparency and technology are the answer

Watch individual stocks and sell if they are too aggressively valued