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Elon Musk tweet sends Signal up 1500%. It's the wrong stock

Elon Musk tweet sends Signal up 1500%. It's the wrong stock

A Tweet with over 300k likes led to millions of shares of Signal stock being exchanged. Issue is, Musk meant the app, not the healthcare co..

A Tweet with over 300k likes led to millions of shares of Signal stock being exchanged. Issue is, Musk meant the app, not the healthcare co..

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Think 2020’s stock market was irrational? Think again!

Welcome to 2021, home of 1500% gains because of a $200 billion businessman and a case of mistaken identity. Recent, but insane action occurred in the little known Texas-based healthcare technology provider Signal Advance (SIGL).

The company’s OTC shares were up 1,500% at one point early last week, just through a 24 hour period of trading. It brought the total market cap of Signal Advance from $7 million to over $100 million, just through a tweet and the wrong Signal.

Elon Musk, the now $200 billion man, has recently had some issues with Facebook’s WhatsApp, notably due to the app’s insane privacy requirements, now revealed by Apple’s new data guidelines. The app, which takes an incredible amount of your information, set off Musk’s tech savvy Twitter feed, instead recommending the privacy-savvy Signal app.

Signal collects no data from you or your phone, making it likely the most secure and privacy effective app on the entire market.

Through Elon’s recommendation to use Signal, some enthusiastic traders decided to invest in Signal, as if Elon recommends it, thou must purchase it.

The issue is that Signal isn’t a public company. They’re private in order to keep their unbiased privacy based focus, which means that several million dollars of capital was spent in a random company.

Through that odd case of mistaken identity, shares of Signal Advance gain 332% on Monday. That massive gain off of some random investors from an Elon Musk tweet show how reckless this market is, boosting some random, unassociated company with no connection to the Signal app, to way past an all time high.

Jim Reid, Deutsche Bank strategist had said

“In years to come we’ll know whether the 2020-21 period saw a historic asset price bubble the equivalent of say 1929 or 2000. If indeed it is eventually proved we were in one, one story that may capture attention is the move in Signal Advance.”

The interesting part is that the American Association of Individual Investors, the AAII, had numbers showing that the amount of bullishness, or positive buying, is at its 2nd highest level since January of 2018. It’s pushing euphoric levels higher than should even be possible, showing an incredible desire to buy, buy, buy.

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This still very weird event, is reminiscent of Twitter’s IPO, when a completely unrelated company surged over 1000%. Zoom’s IPO also had this weird occurrence, when stock in Zoom Technologies exploded as well.

Signal Advance keeps pushing however, with a 438% gain on Monday, with over 2 million shares traded. The shares, which were around 4-7 dollars previously, met highs of 71 dollars before settling at around 39 dollars.