SEC Takes Aim at Retail Investors, Meme Stocks in New Video

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is used to going after insider traders, pump and dumpers, and fraudulent advisors. But yesterday, the federal regulatory agency went after a new group: retail investors.
The SEC posted a video on its YouTube channel encouraging retail investors (everyday people buying stocks) to do research before investing. The video is a 30-second clip, portraying a game show in which a contestant selects “Meme Stocks” and promptly loses his money and gets hit in the face with a pie.
A second contestant decides to do research before choosing which asset to invest in, leaving the first contestant asking, “Wait, we can do research?”…

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