The market is full of people trying to anticipate how other people are going to react and exploit that by getting there first.
There's a layer aimed at forecasting what that layer is going to do as well.
This was also on top of claims (Jan 2025) that Deepseek showed that "we don't actually need as much GPU, thus NVidia is less needed"; at least it was my impression this was one of the (now silly-seeming) reasons NVDA dropped then.
> I don't know if that's non-rational, or if people can't be expected to read the second sentence of an announcement before panicking.
These days you have AI bots doing sentiment based training.
If you ask me... all these excesses are a clear sign for one thing, we need to drastically rein in the stonk markets. The markets should serve us, not the other way around.
I don't know if that's non-rational, or if people can't be expected to read the second sentence of an announcement before panicking.