probably safer to buy put options than short the stock (shorting it exposes you to unbounded losses if the stock price rises), but as you say, you'd need to get

probably safer to buy put options than short the stock (shorting it exposes you to unbounded losses if the stock price rises), but as you say, you'd need to get the timing right. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSBC/options/ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSBC/options/ if they've got a decent QA process and they can't get the new system to actually work reliably there's a fair chance this project would get stuck in QA for a year or two, blocked from going live and cancelled, so it wouldn't cause catastrophic data loss, just reallocate a bunch of money from shareholders to contractors / employees / vendors. > microservice graph banks have graphs of macroservices.