The drama between the redditors and Left reached a boiling point Friday, however, with Left claiming there had been attempts to hack into his Twitter account and also implying that his family had been somehow harassed. On Twitter he wrote: “We will no longer be commenting on GameStop, not because we do not believe our investment thesis but rather the angry mob who owns this stock has spent the past 48 hours committing multiple crimes that I will be turning over to the FBI, SEC, and other governmental agencies.”

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Left doesn’t exactly have a spotless track record himself. After a controversial report on a Chinese real estate developer in 2012 (short-sellers made a bundle while the company was left reeling), Left was ultimately banned from the Hong Kong financial market for allegedly making “false and/or misleading” statements. Earlier in his career, in 1994, he was also sanctioned by the National Futures Association, the self-regulatory body committed to overseeing the country’s derivatives market, as “part of a wider probe” into a firm he was employed with at the time.

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Markets Insider writes:

While it remains to be seen who will win out, some indicators have suggested the bulls’ party is ending. The Relative Strength Index for GameStop shares - a measure of the stock’s momentum - sat just below 80 following Thursday’s 10% climb. Readings above 70 suggest the stock is overbought, and the index hasn’t landed below that threshold since January 12.

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Right now, it’s not totally clear where the stock is headed.