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They are all crying for the audience, the losers. But see how even WSB idiots could see this coming and they are making a lot of money on shorts. And the premi
by alecco 2y ago
They are all crying for the audience, the losers.
But see how even WSB idiots could see this coming and they are making a lot of money on shorts. And the premiums are sky high, meaning the big players are shorting like crazy. Easiest money to be made in decades for the Wall Street sharks.
- DeathArrow 2y agoThere is an unlimited amount of money you can lose when shorting stocks.
- solumunus 2y agoNot if you use put options like almost everyone. 99% of WSB are options trading.
- DeathArrow 2y agoThat is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling. I don't believe it's the case, but what if Trump and friends are just wishing to play the markets and he will back off with tarrifs? We will see a massive short squeeze and lots of people taking huge losses.
- optimiz3 2y ago> That is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling. Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process. Positive expectation properly and repeatedly executed over time is a business. Would you say a casino is gambling by offering table games to customers?
- ModernMech 2y ago> Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process. Most gamblers have a positive expectation and a process.
- ohgr 2y agoIt's not gambling capitalising on stupid people's response to stupid people. Watch the market open today :)
- franktankbank 2y agoBuying stocks expecting them to go up is also gambling. How many stocks pay decent dividend these days?
- HDThoreaun 2y agomost stocks pay dividends. The others tend to do buybacks. The only exceptions are recently IPOd companies. All the big tech companies are returning capital to shareholders.
- solumunus 2y agoShorting also isn't investing. Try and stay on topic.
- Whoppertime 2y agoHow prescient. Wednesday was this for quite a few people.
- ohgr 2y agoThat's exactly what I've been doing. It was a no brainer. Made enough in 2 days to buy me a new car.
- lordnacho 2y agoIt's not THAT easy. You don't know if there will be a u-turn. There's no logic at all to this administration, they could just announce the "Biden correction" is over and that the tariffs have now worked, plus the government is buying stocks. Any fantasy scenario is possible.
- ohgr 2y agoIf they do some corrections, the big guys will use it as a window to get rid of high risk investments onto smaller inexperienced investors riding the hype. That'll just blast the market further. The confidence is gone. The risk is high whatever happens. The lowest risk strategy is now betting on market failure.
- ffsm8 2y agoNotably, Warren Buffett essentially exited the stock market over the last few years because he believes all his investments were massively overvalued. That does paint a pretty grim picture wrt potential stock growth, if this finally triggers the correction back to a more sane stock price (last I read about it, you'd have to hold the stock for 65 years for the investment to break even). The current stock valuations are essentially based purely on the same mechanic that makes Ponzi schemes to successful... At least short term.
- ohgr 2y agoYeah exactly that with Buffet. He was dumping Apple recently as well as he knows it’s going to burn when the AI hype crashes.
- piva00 2y agoWhat I've been wondering since April 2nd is if this will be the nail in the coffin for the AI-hype bubble, everything is drying up very quickly, all those risky investments (hundreds of billions USD) in bullshit AI will be the first to completely go into the drain when everything else that is producing actual real value at present is going to the drain. This stupids-in-charge administration might just have brutally popped the AI bubble.
- vladimir-y 2y ago> They are all crying for the audience, the losers. There is an opinion that making them (a big business, and overseas players too), crying for audience is a way to make them loyal to a regime. So they come to the audience, they kiss the ring, they get some preference, and the regime becomes even stronger. I'd not name Trump crazy as some do, but simply a person presenting and promoting the interests of a certain entity. I won't name my guesses about the possible entity.
- weard_beard 2y agoI would love it if you would. I can't promise how it will be viewed in this space but I find the best way to educate myself is to be wrong on the internet. :)