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It wouldn't be any easier, because losing money & gaining money are actually the same thing- if you can predict which stocks will decrease, then you can short t
by fnbr 12y ago
It wouldn't be any easier, because losing money & gaining money are actually the same thing- if you can predict which stocks will decrease, then you can short those equities (essentially buying negative amounts of the stocks), and then make a profit equal to the amount of the decrease.
- dllthomas 12y agoNot so, because you can always transact to lose money. Just cross the market to buy, cross the market to sell what you just bought, as fast as you can. You can blow off an arbitrary amount of money in an arbitrarily short amount of time. It's basically true that you can't make money by picking losing stocks any easier.