Cuban used a synthetic hedge. "After we sold Broadcast.com, I hedged my stock with synthetic indexes, in case the market cratered in the six months before I co

Cuban used a synthetic hedge. "After we sold Broadcast.com, I hedged my stock with synthetic indexes, in case the market cratered in the six months before I could hedge my actual Yahoo shares. It cost me $20 million, but I protected what I had." http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/63/fasttalk.html http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/63/fasttalk.html So he effectively hedged out his dot-com-bubble risk, not his yahoo-is-relatively-speaking-a-turd risk.