On Day 30, 995 out of 1,000 agents sold simultaneously. Each independently read "SEC investigation" and reached the same conclusion. No coordination needed — the correlation was built into the model. This is the flash crash risk of AI-driven markets.
The stock rose 50% in 6 days before any news was injected. Pure momentum herding — trend followers bought, FOMO buyers piled in, and the cycle fed itself. The positive earnings on Day 10 arrived into a market already correcting.
Conservative "do-nothing" investors outperformed every active strategy. In a market full of AI agents creating artificial volatility, the optimal strategy was to mostly sit still and avoid the synchronized stampedes.
The market never stabilized. It oscillated between $94 and $150 for the entire 50 days, hitting the ±8% circuit breaker in most rounds. AI agents created a permanently unstable market — each crash triggered buying, each rally triggered selling.