HC is an open chat forum about stocks. I have seen some fantastic group research, and also some nasty manipulation.
Every time you read something you have to ask, why is this poster telling me this? Are they a new trader looking for help? Are they benevolent? Or are they out to manipulate. This is dangerous territory, as reading any information can sow the seed for you to buy or sell, unless you have done your own extensive due diligence.
There are no need for groups. It is easy for one person to create multinics and create chat to ramp up or down a stock. They take up a position earlier and feed stock into any price rise or drop. With the correct trading platform, you don't need multi accounts, you just do a bit of bot trading to manipulate the price.
Ramping teams are often led by a captain. Any opposing view is slammed. Information fed out is often a combination of charting, fundamentals, "I phoned the company" etc.
Multinics are banned on HC when they are discovered.
There are many ways to skin a cat or turn a profit on the share market, and group trading would be one strategy.
