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[–] Firefly7@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even with everything tanking, it’s impressively bad investing to lose 100% of your investments on a <15% overall stock market downturn.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

give me enough leverage and I can accrue more debt than the world

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Ah that'll be it. They've gambled their entire portfolio (if you can even call it that) on a bunch of put options that suddenly became impossible to fill the moment the market rebounded. 5-dimensional chess move.