What fueled January’s rally, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, was simply a high volume of new traders entering a buying frenzy. The Securities and Exchange Commission has released a hotly anticipated report on January’s trading frenzy that rocketed so-called meme stocks into the stratosphere. It dismisses conspiracy theories that swept social media to ostensibly explain the bizarre trading activity, choosing the most anodyne explanation instead: that what fueled the GameStop rally was nothing more than hundreds of thousands of new investors—at one point, reaching nearly 1 million per day—entering into a sudden feeding frenzy over these stocks.Read Full Story