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Is GameStop’s share price up or down today?

GAMESTOP'S shares have continued to slump below $100 as of Thursday, February 4.

The gaming company's stock has plunge by more than 80 percent in less than a week, as the Reddit gang phenomenon seems to be cooling down.

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and other .

The stock was at an all-time-high of $483 after surging over 2000 percent last month.

GameStop shares surged 700 percent the week of January 25, after in a move that left major hedge funds reeling from billions of dollars in losses.

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has also continued to see a huge drop, with the movie-theater company falling by another 7.1 percent as of February 4.

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, on the website , banded together to "squeeze short-sellers," where the short sellers betting against GameStop are being forced to buy more GameStop stock to cover their losses.

That pushed the price up even more, which forces more short sellers to cover their losses, which pushes the price up even more.

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Some of the Reddit crowd believe that GameStop stock could reach into the thousands of dollars just because of this mechanism.

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The groups efforts drove the value of GameStop shares up by 1,529 percent from January 12 through January 29, and caused a threat for a number of hedge funds.

One such fund was , which lost more than 30% in the first few weeks of this year, at least partially due to its bet against GameStop.

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The losses forced the fund to take a $2.75 billion cash infusion from fellow hedge funds Citadel and Point72 Asset Management.

Reddit users managed to send GameStop's shares skyrocketing to over $400 a share last monthCredit: Reuters
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