I was curious about your comment and ended up binge reading stuff about Pao. Based on what I've read, you are spot on.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Google for "cheap ssl" or "discount ssl", you will see them a lot. This is the Walmart of ssl.

It does not mean their certificates are not good, but buy a certificate from them and see the crappy online account management (a friggin popup that gets blocked by most browsers) and a flood of "special offers" in your inbox. Low-rent.

There is no way out with people like you. When you receive positive feedback you gloat, and when you get constructive criticism you get angry and mean. No wonder you think that everyone is a troll, you are forcing people into playing a negative role in your life.

If there is a beach or a river nearby you should go for a long introspective walk and reflect on what led you down this path of loneliness and fear. Embrace people, don't push them away!

I said it was a "good" point, not "awesome". That's your second factual error in this thread alone (the first one was about Uber).

So it appears you have to work on your reading skills as well as on your typing skills. Less uppercase and sarcasm, more fact checking. But don't give up - you've got some potential, with a bit of work you could get there. You're like an above-average tennis player, just before he started taking tennis lessons. Godspeed!
 

At first I almost made a serious reply to your post because you had good points. But the snarky tone and the uppercase words was just too annoying.

For the record, besides the way it was expressed, you made a good point when you said this:

Many large investment banks still rely on VAR indicators based on historical data; that's how they never understood their huge exposure during the subprime mortgage debacle. And many investors pick fund managers based on their past performance without analyzing their strategies. The past is always more convenient to look at.

Who is "us"? You and your imaginary broker that allows you to do short selling without a fat margin and that won't knock at your door the minute the stock price goes the other way?

What you describe is not a market crash, it's just a bad trend. Or an unusually depressed bear market.

In a market crash, the broker who shorted your stock goes bust and/or the other party goes bust and/or the company whose stock you own/shorted goes bust and the stock is worthless or unavailable to you, and your only solution is to join a class action suit or wait in line at the bankruptcy court with thousands of other creditors to get pennies on the c-note.

Ask anyone who had investments with Bear Stearns.

You should write a book about this. You could call it "Buy low, sell high, not the opposite". This would definitely be a checkout lane best seller at Wal-mart.

I don't believe you. Short positions are a bitch to get, on most self-directed accounts it's not even possible. You need a serious account with a fat margin and a good track record with a broker to get in that business. I don't even know you and I can tell that doing that on a lot of stocks is out of your reach.

That's also part of the battered wife syndrome.

The stock market is not a video game. For a stock to be sold there must be a real buyer. And guess what happens when a market is crashing? Lots of sellers, and no buyers. That's how you can tell that the market is crashing.

So how does your foolproof plan works? You will somehow know just before the market crash so you can sell everything, then buy it back at a huge discount because the market is dead? That's pure genius, you should send your resume to JP Morgan right away.

Get out of what? Uber is not publicly traded. Unless you happen to run a VC operation from your basement (which would require millions) there is no way you could have made money with that company.

Exactly.

If your time was precious, your company would hire a low-cost HR drone who could filter out resume with no C++ experience for a C++ programming position.

But already since you use C++ there's a case to be made that time is worth nothing in your company.

Just so we are clear: do you refer to some kind of fart, or to the lowest item in a stack of burps? Because if it's the later, I think a more sophisticated term would be "mezzanine burp".

Since you posted this on internet, maybe it's not true, which would mean that it's true, which would mean that it's not! *tilt*