Forget Bitcoin: 4 Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist Instead fool.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fool.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Author Bio
A Fool since 2010, and a graduate from UC San Diego with a B.A. in Economics, Sean specializes in the healthcare sector and investment planning. You ll often find him writing about Obamacare, marijuana, drug and device development, Social Security, taxes, retirement issues and general macroeconomic topics of interest. Follow @TMFUltraLong
In 2020, Wall Street and investors were taken on a historic roller-coaster ride. They navigated the quickest bear market decline of at least 30% in history, and then enjoyed the quickest bounce-back rally to fresh all-time highs on record.
What might surprise you is that this wild volatility has continued into 2021, albeit in a different form. Instead of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it s predominantly young retail investors on Reddit s WallStreetBets (WSB) chatroom and millennial Robinhood users causing Wall Street s wild swings.