5 Ultra-Popular Stocks to Avoid Like the Plague in February

We've turned the page on 2020, but that doesn't mean we left last year's volatility at the doorstep. If anything, Wall Street and investors have been made well aware of the uncertainty still plaguing the U.S. economy and equities over the past couple of weeks.

This historical volatility has been readily apparent in the so-called YOLO -- you only live once -- stocks or "Reddit-raid" companies. For more than a week now, we've watched retail investors on community chatrooms band together to seemingly manipulate heavily short-sold stocks in order to create an explosive short squeeze.

Suffice it to say, these are crazy times, and investors are witnessing some truly historic (and likely unsustainable) returns.

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