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That’s really, really difficult. You’re relying on no one else figuring out what you’re doing and exploiting that knowledge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si
by barry-cotter 8y ago
That’s really, really difficult. You’re relying on no one else figuring out what you’re doing and exploiting that knowledge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
Silver Thursday was an event that occurred in the United States in the silver commodity markets on Thursday, March 27, 1980, following the Hunt brothers' attempt at cornering the silver market. A subsequent steep fall in silver prices led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
Porsche makes more VW stock available to desperate short-sellers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/29/vw-volkswagen-short-selling https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/29/vw-volkswag...
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIt seems that the Hunts were nobbled, the changes to the rules they were trading under, the federal reserve instructing banks not to lend them money, etc.? http://web.pdx.edu/~jjackson/HuntSilver.html http://web.pdx.edu/~jjackson/HuntSilver.html is a useful synopsis.