The mother and father meme stocks often move in tandem with one another, but this is ridiculous.
Shares in GameStop GME,
Both stocks fought off morning dives to flirt with ending the day in the green. AMC even had brief gains in the later hours of trading as the broader markets surged, ending with gains for the day, as investors turned optimistic about debt-ceiling negotiations.
Just as morning trading predicted however, the big meme winners on Wednesday were Palantir PLTR,
SmileDirect, which was the most trending name on investing social media for the day, capitalized on good news about its mobile SmileBus product. It also appeared to benefit from scuttlebutt on Reddit that hedge funds would fight back against any attempt to move SmileDirect above $6.50 a share.
That prediction proved to be an interesting one as a late push in the penultimate hour of trading saw the stock go volatile around the $6.50 mark before breaking through for good a half-hour before the closing bell.
SmileDirect closed at $6.75 on the day.
