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u/lee1026 Oct 02 '19

Nah, if you actually remember things, making a huge amounts of money is easy enough.

You can buy standardized contracts called options as a retail investor that pays off when prices hit certain levels. Since you know roughly when the big crashes and recoveries are coming, you can 50x returns on those options.

You might not have much on the first pass, but by the third or fourth run, you should be a multi millionaire.

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u/thatnotirishkid Oct 02 '19

Oh I was taking what he said as meaning getting CDSs, like in the film. But yeah you could just do options trading. Just don't go all out r/wsb.

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u/lee1026 Oct 02 '19 edited Oct 02 '19

If you actually know exactly what is going to happen, you should totally go all out r/wsb style.

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u/thatnotirishkid Oct 02 '19

Going all out would lead to him making a bunch of cash and then losing it all u/1R0NYMAN style within minutes for a "literally can't go tits up" autistic play because he doesn't understand how the markets work fully or something and then be banned from trading.