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Comment Re:a losing game (Score 1) 53

I don't think WSB is a good place to learn about hedge funds and short selling.

Naked short selling seem to be illegal in the USA and hence the other kind of short selling is borrowing someone's stock and then sell to someone else which doesn't increase the amount of stock.
But sure it resulted in one more stock being sold at a time when someone likely thought the odds was worse than for some other investments at-least and that someone is supposed to buy it back at some other time. If you think the market go by fundamentals and actual data and information then I feel that any downward pressure should increase others willingness to buy because it got cheaper but of course in the real world at some time scale people may be a bit of trend followers and trade out of price action. Anyways at that time when someone wanted to sell/short it it would seem to me like it's likely because they think the price is too high and then they buy back hopefully when it feels more worth buying which if it works if anything should help lower the swings in the market and make prices more accurate. Then again we have the trend followers and maybe participants willing to try to trick the market by driving price through specific price points and maybe you could collaborate with someone participating in an emission or something by driving the price down on small volume before or whatever and in the case of the short squeeze (but also possibly breaking specific price levels possibly simply to reverse your position and make money out of those driving volatility) likely rise price even further as you have to rush in and buy.

So maybe this wasn't a convincing argument and also I may not know what I'm talking about I'm just trying to explain it from my understanding and thought about it but they may be incorrect and I'm not a professional on the subject and may be wrong and you shouldn't base or do financial decisions out of what I just wrote. It may just have been waves in quantum fields creating space time which made up this message and nothing serious or thinking entity whatsoever. And I argue against myself I guess :D. The point is really that there's so many sour losers who sit on stick which goes down in price always whining about how it's only because of the short sellers and how it's manipulated and how long can they carry on and bla bla bla whereas I'd like to think people are smarter than that and that there's likely a reason for some things going up in price and others going down in price. But what do I know, the retard autist ape.

I assume some participants may try to drive those watching charts to act but I also assume that long term short sellers likely want to do it on fundamentals and as a long term participant I don't need to care for all the movements if I think it's cheap I could buy and if I think it's too expensive I could sell.

Not financial advice and I'm a nobody. I neither have a wife or is somebodies boyfriend. So in conclusion: Hedge funds and short selling may or may not or be both good and bad & evil. Glad we could clear that out!

Comment Re:Two problems. (Score 1) 37

Where did I say it affected the age?

I've never said whatever you interpreted it and are replying to.

What I am saying is that we can't see light which haven't reached us and the 93 billion light years across isn't the size of the universe it's the size of THE OBSERVABLE universe.

And that's very relevant because it seem weird to talk about 200 billion galaxies in a universe you don't know how large it is. I assume they mean 200 billion galaxies IN THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE. As the universe is expanding at distances far enough it will be expanding faster then the speed of light meaning that whatever the furthest away stuff which right now is capable to send light which will ever reach us will be too far away thereafter to be able to do that again. We can see light from places which by now is too far away to ever reach them even at the speed of light. The light from those places left them a long time ago in a smaller universe.

Comment Two problems. (Score 1) 37

Aren't we supposed to live in a (large?) cluster of galaxies within the or the second biggest void we know of? I assume that affect what you think of the rest of the universe if you don't take that into account because if you look nearby in that case it would seem denser than what it may be in general then again look a bit further and it wouldn't seem so.

Also this is just the observable universe, it's assumed to be like 93 billion light years across right? The problem is that we can't see stuff which would had taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach us if that's the age of it all. Less than that if photons wasn't a thing either. We are supposed to be pulled towards something likely outside of what we can see. Also the universe seem pretty much flat but it could be so fucking huge that the curve is so mild it pretty much looks flat when measured on a smaller scale. Like the parking lot outside looks pretty much flat but the earth isn't. (Sorry flat earthers!)

Comment Re: How is it measured (Score 1) 154

It's in the form of what? 1500 times earnings.

So actually mean the company will make like 100 million. Which may seem nice but the guy may have borrowed some too .. also the 100 million is actually made by other companies paying Tesla because politicians think people should drive electric cars. Or pretty much like that.

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