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Shorting involves finding someone willing to bet the opposite way. If you think a pattern is obvious, other people will too, and that will make options expensiv
by Jabbles 5y ago
Shorting involves finding someone willing to bet the opposite way. If you think a pattern is obvious, other people will too, and that will make options expensive, reducing your gains.
(In general.)
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoIf you can convince someone in Turkey to lend you money at a cheap rate, then you can pay it back later in inflated currency. Of course, banks generally jack up interest rates when inflation gets high, but sometimes they are forced not to (and it is usually the ruling class that is allowed to take advantage of those loans). In general, you can only make money on these things either via information asymmetry or flat out corruption.