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Re:Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation by roymurdock on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:01PM (#16362095)
I'm not talking about safe assets, I'm talking about what to buy now in advance of whatever crash is coming :)

For example leading up to the 2007 crash the pros that saw weakness in the mortgage market created and bought "credit default swaps" allowing them to bet against mortgage-based securities

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Re:Instacart has raised another $200M at a $4.2B valuation by lazerpants on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:15PM (#16362235)
Ah, well if you could go back in time to last week, you could have made a fortune with put options on VIX ETFs before some of them failed. Volatility being at such a tremendous low is definitely unusual and the possibility of ETF failures was baked in. Maybe in a few years we'll see a movie about people with foresight making money off of that event.
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