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I think you might need to explain to new trading friends that unless a stock is red hot and you can’t miss the buy before it goes up, never buy the ask. Always put limit orders at or just below the bid I can tell from the chart since you tweeted it many followers bought the ask
Which not only is buying the ask bad trading and will cause unnecessary losses, it can also alert MMs and they can start to play games. Stop loss raids, rug pulls, anything they can do to wipe out the retail traders they now know just bought in at the top.