“Cathie Wood is the opposite of a short seller — she’s a capital depleter. The amount of capital she’s evaporated in the world, how can people even suggest she’s successful? She’s successful at failing.”

Wood’s willingness to make such calls so far ahead of reality — and so out of step with Wall Street’s old guard — has earned her a rockstar reputation among stonks-obsessed retail investors, making her a mascot for buy-the-fucking-dip Robinhood traders, some of whom have dubbed her “Cathie Bae” on Reddit.

“I wouldn’t even put your money with Cathie Wood,” snipes Fraser Perring, a short-seller who founded Viceroy Research and is known for spotting massive fraud at the German company Wirecard well before the authorities did. “She is part of the problem.” As of recently, Perring is short ARKK. “Why wouldn’t you be?” he says.

"Performance is the only path to the table for women, and I'm not surprised that Cathie as a woman has made her mark by swinging for the fences in her own unique risk-calculated manner," she said. "Wall Street continues to be a men's club, and a large amount of business still happens down on the golf course and based on who you know."