<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>3) Set up a mining camp, start extracting the easiest-to-extract</span><br><span>chunks, land them on Earth, and sell them to achieve first revenue.</span><br><span>Aggressively ignore the pundits who howl that the only profitable use</span><br><span>of resources in orbit must be in orbit, but who can't point to</span><br><span>specific buyers with nearly as much to spend as, say, the platinum</span><br><span>commodity market. Accept that first sales of these minerals will</span><br><span>start crashing the market; getting to first revenue ASAP is critical</span><br><span>to getting the funding to have gotten this far.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>One major problem with this: real world markets ate forward-looking. The prices for the commodities would likely crash beforehand based on the expectation of such sales. If traders expected the project to work -- and it's hard to see how they wouldn't unless you somehow keep the whole thing secret or most traders expect failure right until contracts are signed.<div><br></div><div>One way to mitigate this might be to set up futures or options contracts with the goal of profiting before things start to happen. But that puts you into a realm of very speculation trading that might not end up playing out as you believe.</div><div><br></div><div>Another is to try to stimulate demand. If a very rare commodity's supply increases hugely and demand stays the same, prices typically crash, but if the demand can go up that might play out another way.<br><br><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>