/biz/ - Business & Finance

you know, i was thinking about this last night. i was wondering to myself: assuming everything we thought is right, why would longs want to play the... well, long game? why would they want it to go up almost boringly slow, just five dollars every day? is it that they're trying to rise the price 50 dollars but the shorts are fighting back every step of the way and turning that into five dollars?
and then it hit me. the slower the price climbs, the less of a pump and dump it seems. think about it. let's say you're some normie retail investor, or even some small tier CFO or whatever the fuck. after the last pump in january which dropped hundreds of dollars in days, would you want to jump in?
no. not unless the price for the latest climb was just slowly rising every day... five dollars at a time forever and ever with the occasional 20 dollar pump. slowly getting new supports. a green light across the red bay.
not to mention, let's say you did actually FOMO in but you're not some autist on /biz/ or reddit. what's gonna make you more likely to hold hard to the stock? if you'd been in it for weeks or even months? or if you'd been in it for three days and it suddenly rose 200 dollars and dropped 100?
i think this is part of the longs plan to accoomulate while also training people to hodl.