Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates?

Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by chvid on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:41PM (#22739412)

No.

Buy a house and some stocks in growth sectors.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by brobinson on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:36PM (#22740870)

Being long-only is great when everything is going up.

As for me, I like to hedge out the market and sector movements by being long/short (adjusted for beta) within a given sector. I only make money if my long outperforms my short. Trump tweets and other companies' earnings in the sector do not affect my P/L.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by Der_Einzige on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:18PM (#22739843)

No - You're wrong and the person you're replying to is right.

Futures are how you multiply your money with relatively low risk. Stocks are how you get 5% returns amortized YOY if you're lucky

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by oh_sigh on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:39PM (#22740127)

Why is there all this free money sitting in the futures market?

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by saiya-jin on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:31PM (#22740805)

Yeah I wonder why on earth is any professional trader doing anything else rather than methods described. Those amateurs, right? Money sitting there for free... give me a break.

I don't need to be a finance expert to know when somebody sells a snake oil - things that sound too good to be true most often are.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by brobinson on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:47PM (#22741011)

Cost of carry.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prosper under negative interest rates? by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:07PM (#22741229)

So then would it help to scale it or not?

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