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Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi... by ves on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:40PM (#21939546)
You absolutely can, because you have much less capital to deploy and no strings attached. The sorts of opportunities you’re looking for and they’re looking for can be totally disjoint. Some friends and I made a bit of easy money in college on very good derivatives trades that only existed at tiny volumes (low thousands).

There’s lots of good reasons to invest passively but being unable to compete with big funds isn’t necessarily one of them.

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Re:One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swi... by davidw on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:06PM (#21939815)
"Quarter of the world's supply..."

doesn't sound like the world of "tiny volumes", but something that moves pretty big markets, which is hardly an under-the-radar trade.

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