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Re:Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Inf... by 1-more on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:13PM (#21457331)
Also he picked his position because he thought apple was overvalued due to having too many female execs. Even if we concede his point, that should be priced into the stock already, no?
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Re:Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Inf... by pnako on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:49PM (#21457625)
It may be priced in the stock if other traders have the same logic.

If you think it's a good investment thesis, a better strategy would be to build a portfolio where you go long on a basket of stocks with "not too many female execs" and another, offsetting, short basket of stocks with "too many female execs". If you do that properly, you should be able to almost entirely eliminate market and industry risk and basically "amplify" your investment thesis.

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Re:Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Inf... by qeternity on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:22PM (#21459113)
This is what a hedge fund originally was (now usually referred to as long short equity funds). Relative value trading. A lost art in our current central bank driven markets.
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