To quote Keynes: "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."<br><br>KP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Jones Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morphy@alumni.caltech.edu">morphy@alumni.caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Shorting is not based on exact predictions at all. All you need to be<br>
right about is that the stock goes down at some point in the future.<br>
That's it. If the market is as irrational as you claim, it must<br>
eventually collapse. All irrationality must collide with reality<br>
sooner or later.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Eugen Leitl <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47:56AM +0200, Jones Murphy wrote:<br>
>> Why stock up on popcorn? Why not borrow stocks you believe to be<br>
><br>
> You are very easy to troll.<br>
><br>
>> overvalued, sell them at these inflated prices and make long term<br>
>> short bets, and profit from your wisdom and insight?<br>
><br>
> Because shorting is based on exact predictions. And markets<br>
> have remained irrational far beyond to make you lose your<br>
> shorts. But you know that, of course.<br>
><br>
> And of course there's the slight problem of cashing in the<br>
> plastic chips after Monte Carlo has closed its doors for good.<br>
><br>
> No, I don't own any physical metals.<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> extropy-chat mailing list<br>
> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>